AESA Northeastern Section

Mark your calendars! AESA-NE is excited to invite you to A Midsummer’s Night Mentoring Mixer, hosted alongside ABU, ABA, and AHPO. This Armenian professional and mentoring forum will be held on Wednesday, July 21st at 7:30 PM EDT at Mykonos Bleu Rooftop in New York. Tickets are $30 for students and $55 for all other attendees. Drinks and snacks will be provided. You must be 21+ to attend. We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Register now at unitedaio.org by Thursday, June 3rd at 11:59 PM PDT!

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AESA is hiring! Please help spread the word by sharing To apply, please email your resume and cover letter/short bio to [email protected]. * Please indicate that you are applying for the Fundraising Director position in your email * AESA is looking to fill the new Fundraising & Development Director role. The Fundraising Director will work closely and transparently with AESA leadership, be in charge of planning, executing and overseeing all fundraising activities, and must hav...e certain qualifications and experience to be eligible. This is the only paid position currently offered by AESA, as all leadership works on a volunteer-basis, and payment will be commission-based. Please review the full job listing at the following link, or through the link in @aesa_hq Instagram bio: https://mcusercontent.com//Fundraising_and_Development_Dir We look forward to receiving your applications for this very important role! #AESA #fundraising #hiring #Armenia #Armenians #STEM #development #engineers #director

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The United AIO proposal submission deadline has been EXTENDED. Submissions will now be accepted for the conference through MAY 22ND. Proposals submitted after the deadline will not be considered for presentation at the June 5th conference, but will still be published on our website for all participants to see. Submit your proposal by registering at unitedaio.org and logging into our site unitedaio.org/login. Read more below

Joining us on Sunday, May 9th at 12 PM PST will be Dr. Peter L. Bishay for our next webinar, "Development of New Prosthetic Arm Designs." The Zoom invite has been emailed to all membersDM us if you haven’t received it! Webinars such as these are available for AESA members only. Please sign up for membership at aesa.org if you are interested in joining our webinars! Abstract: In this presentation, innovative designs of prosthetic arms that were developed in the last four ye...ars at CSUN will be presented. This includes (1) MataPro-1: a biomimetic prosthetic arm actuated using shape memory alloy (SMA) wire actuators, (2) MataPro-2: a lightweight prosthetic arm with an innovative locking and SMA stroke-amplification system, and (3) Hercules-1: a reliable prosthetic arm with wrist rotation and tactile feedback system. About the Speaker: Dr. Peter Bishay received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2014. He joined California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in Fall 2015 and established the Computational Mechanics and Smart Structures Laboratory. He published more than 30 research papers at reputable journals and conference proceedings covering different computational mechanics, composite and smart structures, aerospace structures and engineering education topics. He founded two new research-based senior design projects at CSUN, namely Smart Morphing Wing and Smart Prosthetics. He taught various undergraduate and graduate courses as an instructor in four different Universities in New Jersey, Washington, and California. He supervised nine Master students in the last five years. He served as a technical reviewer for over twenty journals in the last five years. Dr. Bishay is the recipient of the "Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award" (2017) and the "Future Technology Leader Award" (2018) from The Engineer's Council. In 2020, he received an early promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at CSUN.

Members, mark your calendars! AESA’s next lecture will be on Sunday, February 21 at 10 AM PST, featuring the president of the AESA Northeast chapter. Members have been sent the Zoom meeting information via email. If you have not received the webinar link, please message us via social media or email [email protected]. Webinars such as these are available for AESA members only. Please sign up for membership if you are interested in joining our webinars!We will hold a Q&A sess...ion at the end of the webinar. Abstract: - Current tactics used by adversaries - Where AI & ML can be used by both adversaries and defense - The importance of Security Frameworks and how to practically implement them to protect businesses - Hacking demo About the Speaker: As the son of a mainframe programmer, Raffi Jamgotchian has been around computers since the age of seven. Raffi joined and then later ran a successful Bulletin Board Service (BBS) out of his bedroom while in High School prior to attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and receiving a BS in Computer and Systems Engineering. Raffi joined a control systems manufacturer and helped implement some of the largest distance learning and conference systems in the United States. In 1995, Raffi joined as a general IT technician and scriptwriter for a mid-tier investment firm, and eventually was the Director of IT Infrastructure for the New York region. During his tenure at that investment firm, he served as an advisor for emerging technology investments and managed many of the large-scale IT integration projects including the first cybersecurity teams. During this time, Raffi obtained an MBA in Information Systems. In the fall of 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis, Raffi and his wife Aline formed Triada Networks to service small investment firms that were now cropping up. Raffi holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2005 and is a member of the US Secret Service Cyber Fraud Task Force and FBI’s Infragard. Raffi also participates as the VP of CompTIA’s Cybersecurity Community Leadership Council and their Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO)

AESA Members, mark your calendars! Make sure to attend our fascinating lecture on "Helping Hands: Producing Innovative, Affordable 3D Prosthetics in Armenia" on Sunday, January 31st at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST. Read more below!

Mark your calendars for this fascinating lecture!

Share and spread the word! Refer Armenian students and professionals to AESA, get involved, start a chapter in your region/country/university, and more! We invite ALL Armenian professionals, not only engineers and scientists, to join our network. Sign up for membership at www.aesa.org and refer your peers, friends and family to do so as well. Help us expand our network of Armenian professionals to advance our vision for STEM development in Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora. W...e hope to reach 1000 members by the end of 2021, and it is only through your continued support that we can build our network and make our vision for Armenia a reality. Find out more at www.aesa.org or email [email protected]. #Armenia #Artsakh #ArmeniaStrong #Diaspora #ArmenianDiaspora #STEM #Tech #Technology #Engineering #Engineers #Science #STEAM #Education #ScienceOlympiad #AESA #Gyumri #Mathematics #Research #Network #Professional #Networking #nonprofit

Mark your calendars, members! This Sunday, Jan. 10 at 10 AM PST/1 PM EST: