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After Five


	February 2010 From Engineer to Manager: Tips You Need to Know Are you dreading the possibility of having management duties added to your job responsibilities this year?
	February 2010 Progress Made in Developing Technologies for Three Humanitarian Challenges IEEE members, technologists, and others from 15 countries have begun working on technical solutions to three challenges facing developing countries.
	February 2010 New Effort Focuses on First-Year Members Joining any organization can be difficult. Remember your first days as a new employee? You probably felt a bit overwhelmed, and you might even have reconsidered your decision. New IEEE members often feel the same way.
	February 2010 IEEE Foundation Awards Grants, Establishes Three Funds The IEEE Foundation awarded grants to seven educational, humanitarian, historical preservation, and peer recognition programs.
	February 2010 Giving Babies a Better Chance Premature babies require constant monitoring to survive, and it's a challenge for doctors to analyze the massive amounts of data on their vital signs.
	February 2010 Introducing Gandhian Engineering Do you need to sacrifice quality or features to produce an inexpensive product? Should only the world's richest people be able to afford the newest technologies?
	February 2010 - Education Program Helps Engineers Master Technical English Having a successful engineering career in a global economy often means mastering the technical English terms and phrases specific to the field. But for those living in countries where learning English is not required, that can be a challenge.


	February 2010 IEEE Xplore Adds IBM Journal Articles Thanks to IEEE?s recent agreement to publish more than 5000 archival articles from IBM journals, the IEEE Xplore digital library will soon have a wider selection of technical articles on computer hardware, software, and information systems.
	February 2010 Recipients of the 2010 Medals and Awards The IEEE has announced the recipients of the 2010 IEEE medals, service awards, honorary membership, corporate recognitions, technical field awards, and prize paper. The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors.
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February 2010
Power Engineers Look to Make the Grid Smarter, More Secure
The electric power industry is tasked with an enormous job. Managing the infrastructure needed to ensure that the lights come on every time we flip the switch—the power-generation facilities, the long-distance transmission lines, the substations, and the local distribution cables that bring electricity to homes and businesses—has become increasingly complex.