Dear ASEI Members;

The National Board of ASEI needs to conduct its 2019 election to fill the Board of Directors. Hence, the purpose of this communication is to request nominations from the membership or the ASEI National Board of Directors.
You can self-nominate or nominate someone else for the Board position. If nominating someone else, please get concurrence from your nominee before submitting the nomination.
To be eligible to become a board member, the person must be an ASEI paid member in good standing for one year, actively participated in ASEI activities, or must have exhibited leadership qualities from experiences that would add significant value to the board. The nominee must be ready and willing to participate in all (or almost all) board meetings and contribute by participating in ASEI activities including membership of various action committees of ASEI.

Please click the following link to submit your nomination:
http://www.123formbuilder.com/form-3198459/asei-national-board-nomination-2019

A federal agency has rolled out some information regarding this and its a good news for H1B visa holders.
Check out the link for more info,
https://m.hindustantimes.com/world-news/how-new-us-visa-rule-starting-next-week-will-impact-h-1b-holders/story-BdWq6oHqzIw19AlLL8nPJP_amp.html

A federal agency has rolled out some information regarding this and its a good news for H1B visa holders.
Check out the link for more info,
https://m.hindustantimes.com/world-news/how-new-us-visa-rule-starting-next-week-will-impact-h-1b-holders/story-BdWq6oHqzIw19AlLL8nPJP_amp.html

When you want to search for something, your instincts take you to the Google search bar on your browser but did you know Google is amongst the top-three cloud providers in the world? Building on its technical chops that made its search engine ubiquitous, it has been offering cloud services for the past 10 years. Google had carved out a niche for itself, working with startups and smaller companies in its early days. However, it's now a serious contender for enterprise clientele, with a big data and machine learning background to bolster its product catalog.
At their flagship conference in San Francisco Google Cloud Next18 that spanned last week (July 24-26th 2018), Google proudly showcased its new tools, technologies customer successes, spotlights, new partnerships, and more to build out its ecosystem. Google has long seen success in its AI and machine learning efforts, and now it is fully realizing their potential among enterprise customers and developers. The company’s 100+ announcements at the conference touched on three key themes: Artificial intelligence (AI), developers, and unified cloud.
ASEI Silicon Valley President Piyush Malik, who serves in key leadership role at a silicon valley headquartered startup SpringML, participated in the conference and shared his thoughts with the attendees. SpringML is a rapidly growing Premier partner to Google Cloud for Machine Learning and Data Analytics. His talk was based on their offerings in the domain of Predictive maintenance using Google Cloud IOT and Machine Learning and successful implementations at clients. While painting a picture of need for maintenance of industrial assets and machines of all kinds across industries, using research and studies from industry bodies and leading analysts, he proved how maintaining equipment based on predictive algorithms is better than time based approach hitherto followed in preventive maintenance. Using the concept of “remaining usable life” (RUL) of sensor enabled components of heavy equipment, most of which are interconnected in today’s world of IOT, he demonstrated that applying machine learning techniques and algorithms can lead to savings and productivity gains. The SpringML demo combined with client testimonial from Mike Branch, VP of Analytics at Geotab delivered a very powerful message home.. very true to the theme of the conference “ Made Here Together”


Overall, Google Cloud Next ‘18 was an incredible experience! From fantastic keynotes and fireside chats to GO-JEK CTO Ajey Gore appearing on-stage on a scooter to listening to Target CIO Mike McNamara over 25000 attendees had an inspiring, educational and entertaining week at this conference. There were more than 290 customer speakers sharing their stories of business transformation in the cloud and taking part in hundreds of breakout sessions.Here are some of the glimpses:

When you want to search for something, your instincts take you to the Google search bar on your browser but did you know Google is amongst the top-three cloud providers in the world? Building on its technical chops that made its search engine ubiquitous, it has been offering cloud services for the past 10 years. Google had carved out a niche for itself, working with startups and smaller companies in its early days. However, it's now a serious contender for enterprise clientele, with a big data and machine learning background to bolster its product catalog.
At their flagship conference in San Francisco Google Cloud Next18 that spanned last week (July 24-26th 2018), Google proudly showcased its new tools, technologies customer successes, spotlights, new partnerships, and more to build out its ecosystem. Google has long seen success in its AI and machine learning efforts, and now it is fully realizing their potential among enterprise customers and developers. The company’s 100+ announcements at the conference touched on three key themes: Artificial intelligence (AI), developers, and unified cloud.
ASEI Silicon Valley President Piyush Malik, who serves in key leadership role at a silicon valley headquartered startup SpringML, participated in the conference and shared his thoughts with the attendees. SpringML is a rapidly growing Premier partner to Google Cloud for Machine Learning and Data Analytics. His talk was based on their offerings in the domain of Predictive maintenance using Google Cloud IOT and Machine Learning and successful implementations at clients. While painting a picture of need for maintenance of industrial assets and machines of all kinds across industries, using research and studies from industry bodies and leading analysts, he proved how maintaining equipment based on predictive algorithms is better than time-based approach hitherto followed in preventive maintenance. Using the concept of “remaining usable life” (RUL) of sensor-enabled components of heavy equipment, most of which are interconnected in today’s world of IOT, he demonstrated that applying machine learning techniques and algorithms can lead to savings and productivity gains. The SpringML demo combined with client testimonial from Mike Branch, VP of Analytics at Geotab delivered a very powerful message home.. very true to the theme of the conference “ Made Here Together”
Overall, Google Cloud Next ‘18 was an incredible experience! From fantastic keynotes and fireside chats to GO-JEK CTO Ajey Gore appearing on-stage on a scooter to listening to Target CIO Mike McNamara over 25000 attendees had an inspiring, educational and entertaining week at this conference. There were more than 290 customer speakers sharing their stories of business transformation in the cloud and taking part in hundreds of breakout sessions

We would be pleased and honored if you would consent to be a speaker in one of the above technical tracks. Please visit our convention website at http://aseiseattle.org/ technical-program/ to get more details about the above technical tracks. You can also submit your abstract at this website. The deadline to submit your abstract is July 15 th 2018.

We would be pleased and honored if you would consent to be a speaker in one of the above technical tracks. Please visit our convention website at http://aseiseattle.org/ technical-program/ to get more details about the above technical tracks. You can also submit your abstract at this website. The deadline to submit your abstract is July 15 th 2018.

Two autonomous vehicles have been introduced in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. They are now ready to pick up the students from the North campus Research complex. Researchers do believe that these vehicles can have the potential for an accident-free future.
Click the link below to know more,
https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/washtenaw-county/driverless-shuttles-introduced-at-university-of-michigan

You are invited to be a technical speaker for 33rd ASEI National Convention Inspiring Future Engineers, focusing on the STEM and how engineering can change the world! Please click for more detail and to submit your application by June 15th, 2018.
http://aseiseattle.org/technical-program/

You are invited to be a technical speaker for 33rd ASEI National Convention Inspiring Future Engineers, focusing on the STEM and how engineering can change the world! Please click for more detail and to submit your application by June 15th, 2018.
http://aseiseattle.org/technical-program/

Thanks again to our Founding Members & Friends of ASEI San Diego for your support. We had a great start yesterday @ Launch of San Diego Chapter of ASEI. Thanks to FBI Special Agent Udell Hardy, for a great talk on Cybersecurity Tips For Your Business & Patrick Henry, CEO QuestFusion to talk about How To Successfully Build And Run A Fundable Startup! #ASEISanDiego

A group of 130 US lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to grant work authorization to certain dependent spouses of non-immigrant workers holding H1-b visas. They mentioned that many of them would be on the path to permanent residency and rescinding this rule would hurt the economy of the US.
To know more, please click the link given below
https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/130-us-congressmen-urge-trump-to-allow-work-permits-for-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-1853439

A group of 130 US lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to grant work authorization to certain dependent spouses of non-immigrant workers holding H1-b visas. They mentioned that many of them would be on the path to permanent residency and rescinding this rule would hurt the economy of the US.
To know more, please click the link given below
https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/130-us-congressmen-urge-trump-to-allow-work-permits-for-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-1853439

Artificial Intelligence is the hot topic in the market right now. Tech giants like Google, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have invested over 20 billion in 2016. The details of making money through AI involves making chip, enabling algorithms and corporate users of AI.
This following article provides insights on various ways of monetization of AI.
https://towardsdatascience.com/who-is-going-to-make-money-in-ai-part-i-77a2f30b8cef

An initiative taken to benefit foster children

Everyone would have grown up watching Star-Trek or Star war which is a result of Science fiction. The power of Artificial Intelligence and advances in technology have made our lives interesting. People are using the benefits of AI in the form of a smartphone or home-based device voice assistant like Alexa, Google home. To know more about how AI is being used in today's world, please have a look at the post written by Piyush Malik, who has been involved with AESI for a long time.
https://medium.com/@pmalik1/ai-for-humanity-7f85e1661a0a

It's very confusing when it comes to writing a resume.We come across different opinions about what should be put on a resume and what should not be. This article gives us a clear idea on how to make a resume effective and the points that should be kept in mind.
Read more to understand the tricks and tips of writing an impressive resume.
https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-write-a-resume-that-stands-out

There have many been restrictions involved while working on OPT and STEM extension OPT.According to the USCIS, students are not supposed to work through the third party client sites and must work onsite at the employer's workplace in order to have the STEM extension.
More information in the link below
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/uscis-restricts-third-party-placement-stem-opt-students.aspx

It's very confusing when it comes to writing a resume.We come across different opinions about what should be put on a resume and what should not be. This article gives us a clear idea on how to make a resume effective and the points that should be kept in mind.
Read more to understand the tricks and tips of writing an impressive resume.
https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-write-a-resume-that-stands-out

Hello fellow ASEI members,

We are reaching out to you today to ask for your support in sponsoring an engineering undergrad/graduate student paper/presentation competition at the University of Maryland. We are keen to help our young talent find opportunities, gain experience and feel prepared to make strong strides in their career of choice.

We have already secured the premises at the University of Maryland with help from the Engineering Department and we are looking for judges to help judge the competition on May 5th from 10am-2pm. We are accepting abstracts now through next week and will reach back out to students to schedule their presentations.

We are also looking for some financial help to raise funds for the awards we plan to hand out. We are looking for a modest amount of funds (~$1000) to hold the competition. We are purposely keeping things modest to allow the full extent of the funds to go directly to award winners. Therefore, we are asking for your contributions - no matter how small - to help us in our efforts. We also encourage you to join us during the event itself as audience to encourage our young presenters.

ASEI has a strong history of supporting our young students in their quest for establishing solid careers. We have a 30+ year legacy that needs to be preserved for future generations. Please help us to keep the organization vital and active. Please read through the flyer that the student chapter of ASEI-UMD created (attached) and please donate whatever amount you feel you can to the link below. The national ASEI Board is also helping us to promote this event and to collecting funding. All sponsors who donate will be listed in our event brochure. If you are interested in a corporate donation, please respond to this email in addition to your donation and send us your logo so that we can include it and offer some brand recognition for your support.

Link to Donate:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=MZEGLYV2QCKBC

Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!

Aastha Verma
ASEI-NCC President 2018

The ASEI Seattle Chapter is hosting the ASEI 33rd Annual Convention. This event is being co-hosted by the STEM Thinkers non-profit organization.

The event will be held in Seattle WA area which is home to Boeing, Amazon, Microsoft, T-Mobile...just to name a few amazing companies!

On April 8th 2018, 14 students were recognized for demonstrated innovation and engineering talent while still in high school. EACH OF THEM were awarded a certificate of merit and membership to ASEI silicon valley chapter. This opens their door to opportunities for learning, scholarship, internship and access to the broader ASEI membership base for mentoring, networking and future jobs. Kudos to all winners.

ASEI Silicon Valley Sponsored Essay Contest during the IBM Filed trip + "Job Shadowing day" . The Winners won gift cards and a certificate of achievement to commemorate the event.