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Contact: Chris McManes WISE Engineering Students Spend Summer Interning at IEEE-USA WASHINGTON (20 June 2001) - For the 10th consecutive year, the IEEE is pleased to participate in the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program. Each summer, WISE brings 14-16 outstanding engineering students to Washington, D.C., for 10 weeks to learn how engineers influence public policy on complex technological issues. Each WISE intern is sponsored by an engineering society, and must prepare and present a paper on a current and topical engineering-related public-policy issue. This year, the IEEE is sponsoring three electrical engineering students, whose internships run from 29 May to 3 August. Working at IEEE-USA this summer are: Matthew Bright (Plymouth, Mich. / Plymouth-Salem High '98), a junior at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, majoring in electrical engineering. Bright hopes to evaluate federal policies and programs designed to help bridge the "Digital Divide" in Internet services. Rick Cordaro (Des Moines, Iowa / Dowling '98), a third-year student in a 5-year program at Iowa State University in Des Moines majoring in electrical engineering, with a minor in math and entrepreneurial studies. He is interested in U.S. energy policy and issues related to the reliability of the U.S. electric supply. Brent Rowe (Rocky Mount, N.C. / Rocky Mount '98), a junior at North Carolina State University in Raleigh with a double major in electrical engineering and economics. Rowe will be exploring proposals for allocation of spectrum for third-generation (3G) wireless technologies. Ron Hira, IEEE-USA R&D Policy Committee Vice Chair, is the Faculty-Member-in-Residence for this year's 15 WISE students. An assistant research engineer at the George Mason University School of Public Policy, Hira is working on his Ph.D. at the Fairfax, Va., school. For more information on the WISE program, visit http://www.wise-intern.org/. IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 230,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. For more information, visit us online at http://www.ieeeusa.org.
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