Lydia Powers is the ninth winner of the IEI scholarship essay contest

I’ve always enjoyed math and science, but I also want a career where I can apply my passion for languages.

SAN DIEGO (PRWEB)
July 04, 2021

Ivey Engineering, Inc., (IEI), an engineering consulting firm, is pleased to announce that Lydia Powers of Swartz Creek, Michigan, is the winner of the 2021 $1,000 scholarship essay contest. Currently a senior at the University of Michigan-Flint, Powers is a mechanical engineering major with a minor in Mandarin Chinese.

Originally an architecture major, Powers changed her major after realizing engineering would be a better fit for her desired career goals. “I’ve always enjoyed math and science, but I also want a career where I can apply my passion for languages,” said Powers.

She currently works as a co-op student at an automobile supplier company, which works with a branch in China. “I would like to continue working at the company and use my degree to design and test automobile parts,” explained Powers. “My goal is also to travel to China for testing and to contribute to cross-cultural communication.”

Powers competed with more than 100 other college students from the United States. Applicants were required to write an 800- to 1,000-word essay on one of several topics and were judged for creativity and originality.

Powers’ winning essay discusses five types of plumbing jobs that homeowners should leave to a professional plumber. One type of job she says a homeowner shouldn’t attempt is unclogging sewer backups.

“Although many DIY sites suggest using a drain cleaner or even Coca Cola to clear your pipes, these can actually lead to more damage by corroding them,” Powers explained in her essay. “In the case of a sewer backup, you should call a professional who has the necessary skills, tools, and PPE to safely take care of the situation,” she said.

“Lydia wrote a well organized and impressively written essay,” said Bill Ivey, vice-president of IEI. “And you can tell she did some research. Her essay dived deep into some of the plumbing repairs that homeowners should never attempt on their own,” he added.

For Powers, a college education provides more than just a degree. “It gives me the opportunity to learn something that I am passionate about and would not otherwise be able to learn on my own,” she said.

“We’re excited to see where Lydia will go with her engineering degree and wish her the best in her career goals,” said Ivey.

Overall, the IEI scholarship program, which began in 2017, has awarded $9,000 to university students of diverse majors. Any potential or current college or university undergraduate student within the United States is able to apply for the scholarship. The next deadline for essay submissions is May 1, 2022. For contest requirements or for more information about the scholarship, visit IEI’s scholarship web page.

About Ivey Engineering

IEI is an expert witness and building systems consulting firm in San Diego, California. Established in 1994, IEI services clients in over 30 states. IEI’s consultants have experience in the design, construction, service and repair of HVAC, plumbing and fire protection systems, as well as energy-efficiency related issues. To read more about Ivey Engineering and its consulting services, visit the company’s website.

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Alcatraz AI to Showcase Facial Authentication Access Control Solutions at ISC WEST 2021

“We have changed the way that companies use access control systems and mitigate tailgating, by providing a facial authentication solution that makes accurate, quick, and powerful decisions at the edge,” said Tina D’Agostin, CEO of Alcatraz AI.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (PRWEB)
July 01, 2021

Alcatraz AI, a developer of frictionless access control technology, will showcase its biometric and tailgating solutions at ISC West 2021 (Booth 11074). The security conference will be held July 19 to July 21 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Powered by machine learning, Alcatraz’s Rock operates autonomously to recognize your face as your credential, creating a seamless interaction between the individual and the Rock. The innovative technology solves the challenge of securing buildings and minimizing friction without impeding the movement of people, which is especially useful as employees return to the office.

Alcatraz AI’s technology relies on 3D sensors and deep neural networks to authenticate users in real-time, creating a touchless access experience. The Rock can be paired with any badge reader to create a multi-factor solution for higher security areas.The Alcatraz AI technology is built to work anywhere – in data centers, healthcare facilities, schools and universities, financial institutions, stadiums and more.

Another unique feature of the Alcatraz solution is its ability to effectively mitigate tailgating by detecting breaches in real-time, and then preventing it. The solution can be configured to send an alert to the access control system (ACS) when an unauthorized user follows an authenticated user through a door. Alcatraz provides data on tailgating hotspots to support employers’ policy and stop breaches to ultimately modify physical security and access control.

The Alcatraz AI technology is also ONVIF® compliant with Profile S and Profile T for IP-based advanced video streaming capabilities. The Alcatraz Rock is designed to give security teams the best viewing angle of who is accessing a space by providing a door level perspective of anyone entering.

“We have changed the way that companies use access control systems and mitigate tailgating, by providing a facial authentication solution that makes accurate, quick, and powerful decisions at the edge,” said Tina D’Agostin, CEO of Alcatraz AI. “We look forward to showcasing all of the unique capabilities of the Alcatraz access control technology to ISC West attendees.”

About Alcatraz AI

Alcatraz AI transforms access control by leveraging artificial intelligence and analytics to make powerful decisions at the edge, where your face becomes your credential. Alcatraz’s facial authentication technology and intelligent tailgating detection enable enterprises to innovate and future-proof their security strategy. Our state-of-the-art product, the Rock, is designed to be easy to deploy on any access control system, providing an enterprise-grade security solution to protect businesses, people and assets. Visit http://www.alcatraz.ai/ for more information and follow the company’s updates on LinkedIn.

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Gamma Technologies Acquires PowerForge

We continue to invest and expand GT-SUITE to meet the emerging needs of a rapidly transforming industry that has set aggressive goals towards a more sustainable future.

WESTMONT, Ill. (PRWEB)
July 01, 2021

Gamma Technologies (GT), a global leader and innovator in multi-physics system simulation software, announced today that it has acquired Power Design Technologies SAS (PDT) of Toulouse, France, pioneers in engineering software for power electronics and makers of PowerForge, an innovative SaaS offering for power converter design. PowerForge complements and extends GT’s product and technology portfolio and facilitates the industry transition towards an electrified future.

As the world races towards net-zero emissions, high-efficiency electric power conversion is becoming increasingly important. The trend calls for cutting-edge power electronics designs based on the latest semiconductor materials and topologies. This creates a significant challenge, since the traditional approaches to power converter design cannot keep up with the pace of innovation, the growing complexity and exponential growth in the number of design solutions.

PowerForge offers a unique platform for efficient power converter design early in the product development cycle across numerous industries, including aerospace, automotive and power generation. Featuring a built-in database of semiconductor devices, a fast solver and a multi-parameter benchmarking utility, PowerForge empowers engineers with the ability to predictively select and compare various power converter topologies, material technologies (e.g. SiC, GaN) and modulation strategies, to deliver the optimum solution in terms of power loss, electrical waveforms, size, weight and cost.

With PowerForge, GT-SUITE’s capabilities now span the predictive simulation of battery, motors and power electronics within its unified multi-physics and multi-scale environment.

“We continue to invest and expand GT-SUITE to meet the emerging needs of a rapidly transforming industry that has set aggressive goals towards a more sustainable future,” said Dimple Shah, CEO of Gamma Technologies. “The talented PDT team has built a visionary product that, together with GT-SUITE, offers state of the art technologies to address the critical systems of electrified mobility applications. On behalf of the GT user community, we welcome PDT to join us in our exciting journey ahead.”

“PowerForge offers customers fast and accurate power converter benchmarking that is easy-to-use and is already well respected within the power electronics community,” remarked Nicolas Videau, CEO of PDT. “We are thrilled to join and co-innovate with the GT team to deliver differentiated and impactful technologies for the ever-growing field of power electronics.”

About Gamma Technologies

GT develops and licenses GT-SUITE, a leading multi-physics CAE simulation software. GT-SUITE includes a complete library of physics-based modeling templates covering fluid flow, thermal systems, mechanics, electrics, magnetics, chemistry and controls. It supports the entire development cycle from concept to validation. GT-SUITE applications include a wide variety of engineering systems such as conventional and hybrid vehicles, powertrains, engines, motors, compressors, catalysts, acoustics, cooling, thermal management, HVAC, hydraulics, lubrication, multi-body mechanics and much more.

GT also develops AutoLion, the leading lithium-ion battery simulation software used by battery suppliers and OEMs for both 1D and 3D battery analysis and design. It is a predictive, physics-based simulation tool that models battery electrochemical processes. The integration of AutoLion and PowerForge into GT-SUITE further enhances this leading platform for full xEV analysis.

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Recognized as an ‘Established IoT Solutions Provider’ in the Zinnov Zones Ratings 2020

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRWEB)
June 30, 2021

VOLANSYS, a leading engineering services & solutions provider has been recognized as an ‘Established Solutions Provider’ for IoT technology services in the Zinnov Zones 2020 E R&D services report.

Zinnov published this industry benchmarking report after completing a comprehensive assessment of 50 global service providers across 25 verticals and micro-verticals for their E R&D capabilities. Engineering service providers were evaluated based on more than 30 parameters and sub-parameters to help them make informed decisions for strategic initiatives.

The report also recognized VOLANSYS as an ‘Expansive and Emerging player’ for their capabilities in AI engineering and made impressive gains across Digital Engineering, Enterprise software, Automotive, Semiconductor, Aerospace, Industrial, Medical devices and overall E R&D services, according to the report.

“We are pleased to see VOLANSYS positioning as an ‘Established Player’ in the IoT services recognized by Zinnov. The company has also made progressive gains across AI engineering and various industries in the ratings. This recognition reinforces our commitment to building capabilities in IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and other digital technologies to provide more value to our clients across various domains,” said Bhavin Shah, Founder, EVP Sales & Marketing, VOLANSYS.

Zinnov, which is a global research, consulting & advisory company assesses the global technology service providers’ prowess and scalability across ER&D, IoT, Media & Technology, Digital Services and RPA. Their preeminent rating provides a holistic 360-degree assessment of the companies’ engineering, IT, digital disruption, and business operations to help business leaders achieve higher throughput, innovation, and productivity for their engineering and R&D-led product and service initiatives.

About VOLANSYS

“VOLANSYS is a Silicon Valley based product engineering, digital engineering and quality engineering services company offering embedded, hardware & software engineering, mobility, internet of things, cloud computing, DevOps, machine learning and manufacturing from concept to roll-out. Since 2008, VOLANSYS has been helping enterprises and OEMs worldwide to engineer smart connected products and applications at faster time to market and lower cost of ownership across multiple industrial domains. Our OEM solutions include CENTAURI 200 IoT Gateway, IoTify cloud framework and HomeBridge. VOLANSYS is headquartered in India along with offices in North America.”

About Zinnov

Founded in 2002, Zinnov is a global management and strategy consulting firm, with a presence in Santa Clara, Houston, Bangalore, and Gurgaon. Over the past 17 years, Zinnov has successfully consulted with over 250+ Fortune 500 customers to develop actionable insights that help them in their transformation journeys. With its team of experienced professionals and research teams, Zinnov serves clients from across software, semiconductor, consumer electronics, travel and hospitality, automotive, storage, telecom & networking, healthcare, banking, financial services, and retail verticals. For more information, visit https://zinnov.com/

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Cybersecurity culture by industry, department and organization size

If employees aren’t engaged in security training and best practices, it limits the security team’s ability to effectively mitigate security threats. Understanding where your security culture is today is an essential first step to build an effective cybersecurity strategy.

MADISON, Wis. (PRWEB)
June 29, 2021

Infosec, the leading cybersecurity education company, today released findings from its new research report, Cybersecurity Culture – Quantified. Designed to assess employee perceptions and sentiments towards cybersecurity best practices and policies, the study revealed a significant variation of security culture by industry, department and organization size.

A strong cybersecurity culture, an organization’s collective awareness, attitudes and behaviors toward security, is based on employees willingly embracing security best practices both professionally and personally. Accordingly, ISACA and CMMI Institute research has shown organizations with strong cybersecurity cultures experience increased visibility into potential threats, reduced cyber incidents and greater post-attack resilience among other measurable benefits.

However, cybersecurity culture has historically been seen as an abstract concept and difficult to quantify. To help overcome this challenge, Infosec developed a framework and survey to classify cybersecurity culture and systematically measure results, allowing organizations to turn this important security variable into a data-driven element in their cybersecurity strategy.

“Our goal with this study was to understand the current state of security culture and uncover employee sentiments impacting security behaviors. The results show employee beliefs toward cybersecurity vary widely, which can have a major impact on an organization’s security posture.” said Jack Koziol, CEO and founder at Infosec. “If employees aren’t engaged in security training and best practices, it limits the security team’s ability to effectively mitigate security threats. Understanding where your security culture is today is an essential first step to build an effective cybersecurity strategy.”

Quantifying the Current State of Security Culture

To conduct the study, Infosec surveyed over 1,000 professionals across dozens of industries to measure employee attitudes and perceptions towards cybersecurity and the organization’s security practices among five cybersecurity culture domains (Confidence, Engagement, Outcomes, Responsibility, Trust).

Results revealed unique cultural strengths and weaknesses based on respondents’ organization size, department and industry. Large organizations with 50,000+ employees, IT and security departments, and law firms and legal services reported the strongest cybersecurity cultures, and small organizations with less than 100 employees, distribution departments and agriculture reported the weakest cybersecurity cultures.

Other key findings on employee attitudes and perceptions around cybersecurity include:

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      74% believe a cybersecurity issue would be taken very or extremely seriously if reported at their workplace
•     66% believe they would face very or extremely serious consequences if they caused a cybersecurity incident at their workplace
•     23% feel complying with their organization’s cybersecurity policies and best practices interferes with their ability to do their job very often or extremely often

Organizations of all sizes can use the findings included in this report as a reference point for their own cybersecurity culture or to focus their efforts on specific departments or cybersecurity culture domains. The study follows Infosec’s recent launch of their Infosec IQ Cybersecurity Culture Survey that allows security awareness and training managers to analyze and measure employee attitudes and perceptions towards security practices, policies and training strategies.

To read the full Cybersecurity Culture—Quantified report, click here.

About Infosec

Infosec is the leading cybersecurity education company helping IT and security professionals advance their careers and empowering employees to be cyber-safe at work and home. Its mission is to equip individuals and organizations with the knowledge and skills to confidently outsmart cybercrime. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent and teams, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness and phishing training. Follow Infosec on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Infosec’s Resources Blog for the latest news, or visit infosecinstitute.com for more information.

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iPost Enterprise – Finally, a platform that was built for marketers by marketers” The easiest, most flexible and dynamic marketing automation solution for your email and mobile needs.

“We are so impressed with the toolset that iPost offers franchise marketers and consultants, and their commitment to this ever-growing industry makes them an ideal Elite Member for the IFPG,” Red Boswell, President of IFPG.

SAN MATEO, Calif. (PRWEB)
June 29, 2021

iPost, an enterprise email marketing and automation provider is honored to announce that it has become an Elite Member of the International Franchise Professionals Group (IFPG), the world’s largest & most respected franchise consultant organization.

“iPost’s commitment to the franchise community made IFPG the ideal association to partner with,” says Skip O’Neill, iPost VP. “Helping franchisors to improve their efficiencies and customer communications aligns with our easy to use solution and multi-tier account structure.”

The amount of change that has happened in recent years around digital marketing is astronomical. Those franchises that offer the most relevant, targeted email content to their subscribers and prospects will not only gain efficiencies but increase ROI and awareness in a digital channel that boasts an already impressive return.

“We are so impressed with the toolset that iPost offers franchise marketers and consultants, and their commitment to this ever-growing industry makes them an ideal Elite Member for the IFPG,” says Red Boswell, President of IFPG.

Franchises must build and protect their brands while at the same time providing franchisees with the tools they need to market their businesses—tools like email. The iPost platform lets the franchise control their brand and content while empowering franchisees to use email marketing through subaccounts.

iPost puts the power of email marketing into the hands of the franchise through multi-tiered accounts that eliminate fragmentation, allow for collaboration among all tiers of the franchise model, and enable franchisees to access and use their data and content. Yet franchises maintain ultimate control; They can regulate the look and feel of each email sent, lock and unlock content as needed, or push content to subaccounts with one stroke. It is the best of both worlds – empowering the franchisee while protecting the franchise.

“Now, through our elite membership in the IFPG, we are excited to help both the franchisor and franchisee with their email marketing initiatives that we are offering a free, no-obligation program for all IFPG members called eValuate,” says O’Neill. Find out more about eValuate at: https://www.ipost.com/evaluate/

About iPost

iPost is an enterprise omnichannel marketing automation platform that helps enterprise marketers build integrated, highly personalized, real-time messaging experiences across any digital and offline channel. Featuring clients across retail, entertainment, gaming, travel, restaurant, and publishing industries. iPost has amassed hundreds of clients sending massive volumes of highly personalized email every month through the platform. Learn more at http://www.ipost.com.

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