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What is your favorite Eta Kappa Nu memory?
My favorite HKN memory has to be spending my
summer downtime in the Beta Epsilon office with
other members who were on-campus during the
summer. The small group of members who were
around, mostly grad students, helped each other
with technical roadblocks, played Xbox on the office
couch, went on impromptu road trips for dinner, and
brought in discounted grocery-store baked goods
to share. My second favorite memory might be a
vigorous debate on whether it takes more energy to
launch a particular pop singer into the sun or out of
the solar system, complete with whiteboard diagrams
and orbital mechanics equations.
Why do you support IEEE-HKN?
I support IEEE-HKN because IEEE-HKN was a major
part of my undergraduate and graduate careers. I met
many of my closest friends to this day through HKN.
I learned a lot about different ECE/CS subfields from
other HKN members and gained an appreciation
for the interesting aspects of fields as diverse as
computer vision, control systems, and non-destructive
measurement. I still don't understand MOSFETs
despite trying several times, not for a lack of generous
discussion from fellow members.
What are the greatest opportunities for IEEE-HKN
over the next three years?
An opportunity with great potential for IEEE-HKN is
building increased chapter support programs. One
aspect of this is financial, but there is much more
that IEEE-HKN could do to support chapters at scale.
Chapters generally operate in a silo, but many are
physically quite close to other chapters. It's currently
a question of how much effort individual officers
want to put into developing relationships outside
of campus. The sense of community within IEEEHKN
could be strengthened by expanding programs
to connect chapters as institutions instead of just
between individual officers. Financial support would
help free up bandwidth for chapters, especially
smaller ones. I stay involved and donate to help build
this sense of community for student members to feel
a greater sense of IEEE-HKN as a whole.
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James Webb Telescope Issue

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