ONLINE TRAINING PREPARES ENGINEERS FOR THE CLASSROOM - Explore the newly inaugurated Pre-College Engineer Training (PET) website. PET offers specific plans and step by step procedures to prepare engineers to serve as resources to pre-college educators, both in and out of the classroom. It addresses the growing world wide problem of technological illiteracy and enables engineers to contribute to its solution.

KEEPING UP WITH STANDARDS - To assist members in keeping abreast of IEEE Standards Activities, a list has been compiled of new, revised and withdrawn standards and standards projects, listed by the sponsoring IEEE Society, that have been recently approved by the IEEE-SA Standards Board. Visit standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/bdapp.html. A more detailed account of the recommendations from the IEEE-SA Standards Board New Standards Committee (NesCom) and Review Committee (RevCom) has also been posted.

IEEE PRESS OFFERS NEW BOOK ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS -The Disappearance of Telecommunications, a new book by IEEE Press, explains how the world of telecommunications will become seamlessly embedded in an expanded number of everyday products and services. Written by Roberto Saracco, Jeffrey R. Harrow and Robert Weihmayer, this book examines how the evolution of technology, services and culture will shape the future. Visit the IEEE Online Catalog & Store at shop.ieee.org/store/.