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Participants will receive a practical introduction to CubeSat design, prototyping, subsystem integration, and testing. Live demonstrations will cover the e-CubeSat development process, from concept development and hardware assembly through integration and testing. The program also presents AI and VR applications for CubeSats, along with digital twin environments that allow users to interact with virtual satellite systems. Demonstrations of the A3Sat system and emulator will address challenges that students and educators face when developing CubeSats and preparing them to meet space compliance requirements.
This program brings together the IEEE North Jersey Section, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Young Professionals, local IEEE Student Branches and Chapters, and the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey. Snap Circuits kits will be introduced for permanent use at the GSNNJ DreamLab in Paramus. A practical instructor training activity will help Girl Scout troop leaders and IEEE volunteers practice circuit concepts and learn how to use the equipment and lesson plans in future STEM programs for students from kindergarten through grade 12.
Participants will build five Python modules using the open source Strands Agents framework and locally hosted Ollama language models. Scenarios involving housing instability, medication access, and crisis response will guide the development of a multiagent pipeline for intake, triage, specialist dispatch, and continuing care. The exercises demonstrate three forms of human oversight: an interrupt for human review, an escalation gate for critical safety decisions, and collaborative editing that records human accountability. The discussion also covers data minimization, explainability, and the right to opt out.
Participants will learn how agentic AI systems plan, use external tools, execute workflows with several steps, observe results, and revise their actions. The program introduces the Plan, Act, Observe, and Reflect reasoning cycle, followed by a multiagent architecture exercise based on challenges from participants’ fields. A guided cloud activity will demonstrate how to assemble a working agent pipeline without requiring local setup or an advanced background in machine learning. Governance, auditability, and responsible deployment will also be discussed.
Presenter: Djibril Ndoye, Business Transformation Director, Pegasystems Inc.
Using Pega GenAI Blueprint™, participants will explore how mission objectives can be converted into structured workflows for CubeSat design and operations. Examples include mission planning, payload operations, satellite task scheduling, ground station coordination, and anomaly response. The program combines an introduction to intelligent workflow systems with demonstrations and guided exercises in which participants create workflows for small satellite scenarios. It also addresses intelligent automation, collaboration between people and AI, model driven engineering, and design tradeoffs across engineering, operations, and data analysis.
Presenter: Dr. Nirmala Shenoy, Professor and Director of the Lab for Networking and Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
AI workloads place new demands on the Internet, data centers, and wireless ad hoc networks. Distributed training, inference, autonomous systems, robotics, and edge intelligence require high bandwidth, low latency, frequent synchronization, and reliable communication among many systems. The program examines congestion, protocol complexity, failure recovery, energy use, mobility, intermittent connectivity, and security. It also considers topology aware forwarding, simpler network architectures, support for collective communication, programmable data planes, edge intelligence, and closer coordination between physical layer capabilities and higher layer network design.
Participants will receive an engaging, hands-on introduction to making equations and technical expressions easier to read, speak, understand, and use across people and machines. Through short films, expert talks, and discussions, they will also explore the legacy of Alexander Graham Bell, Lewis H. Latimer, and Bell Labs innovations and their connections to today’s AI, communications, and emerging technologies.