electrical-engineers

"So far we have launched two satellites. The one launched in 2017 [suffered] an orbital failure. Last October, we launched another satellite. It is a HTS (high-throughput satellite) which will be used for broadband connectivity in Angola and Africa."

"Space technology can help in mapping and tracking United Nations' sustainable development goals such as zero poverty, zero hunger and improved quality of education."

"The opportunity is there, what lacks is the willingness to do it. There is a lot more discipline and constraint needed in manufacturing but in the long term, it is something that has rewards."

"This campaign is something where we applaud all the partners who have come together. As a country, the whole world is going global and digital. We cannot say, as Uganda, we are going to remain in our ways of hiding the money under the mattress or digging a hole to place the money because we live in a global world."

"I graduated from the University of Nairobi in 1974, with a Bachelor of Science, Honors degree, in Electrical Engineering; emerging as the first woman to attain an engineering degree in Uganda. My employment was mainly within Government, where I had the opportunity to train, acquire skills and gain experience in management and leadership. I am Registered Engineer and member of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers (UIPE) and served as a member of UIPE Executive Council for two years."

"When mothers are well off the entire society is well off."

"The same way we have crimes in the physical world, the cyber world is just getting bad manners and putting them in cyberspace. Can we say we turn a deaf ear? We can not."

"Knowledge is key in the proper regulation of the electricity subsector. I possess a mix of practical experience and technical knowledge to understand what goes into the proper operation and maintenance of the electricity subsector, coupled with leadership exposure and training to balance empathy and execution."

"Everybody is going digital because of the benefits. In terms of our work, yes, we are scared of what AI is becoming as we see the developments, but technology has penetrated every aspect of our lives and is supposed to make it better. Even in Uganda, we are saying we will not be left behind."

"Film speaks a universal language. It accords us a great opportunity to highlight our customs and tourism. UCC is proud to support the industry and is open to support any ventures in this direction."

"We can't make a Mercedes in Uganda but we can make something fit for our local market."

"My most memorable moment as a woman in this sector is marrying and raising six children without it impeding my professional and career growth. A proper balance between work and family."

"I am most proud of the fact that my work has contributed to the education (not training) of many students, at all levels. Through my classes, I have influenced the thinking styles of thousands of undergraduates."

"Scheme programming language demonstrates that a very small number of rules for forming expressions, with few restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most of the major programming paradigms in use today."

"The essential idea is best captured by the introductory paragraph of the foreword to the IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language:"

"I have been the PhD thesis supervisor of almost 50 wonderful graduate students. Many of them have become fine teachers. And ideas from my books have influenced some high-school curricula."

"I do not think that the impact of Scheme has sunk into the culture of computing even now. People make elaborate languages that provide shortcuts and “conveniences” that tend to hide the ideas in their programs, rather than expose them."

"Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary."

"So I wondered why I was getting these C’s. And I decided, maybe I need to move to a different English class. So I moved to a higher-level English class, and in that class the professor actually recognized my writing ability. From that point on, I got nothing but A’s in those English classes."

"When I came to the States in the fall of 1971, I started out at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania … I also thought about MIT, but at the time, I thought MIT was just for nerds."

"GTE Labs was really great. It was like Bell Labs; there was a lot of freedom to follow your interests"

"I got a wonderful education in Ghana … In high school, we used some of the same textbooks that I found were in use when I came to the US and I started my college education."

"And I was also interested in science, I was interested in engineering. My father was a civil engineer; he was one of the lead engineers on Ghana’s Volta River Dam, the hydroelectric project that provided electricity to Ghana as well as a couple of neighboring natio"

"my experience with computing started with work on memory. I always had a perspective on computers which is sort of a memory's eye view. I look for the memory and see what you have to connect around it. In my work for a master's degree I wanted to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the sensing signal coming out of core memory. In those days, the materials for making magnetic cores were very poor compared to what they finally evolved into."

"What was needed was a very square hysteresis loop, and they couldn't get that exactly. The signals coming from the selected core in the memory plane containing the bit that the computer was trying to read became corrupted with noise, and sometimes the signal could be noisy enough to cause an error. I had the idea of driving the Cartesian x and y axis grid lines of the core with currents of two different frequencies, and I chose 10 mhz and 10.5 mhz."

"The phrase "signal processing" was not used. But in fact, I was dealing with signals and determining what was happening with nonlinearity and mixing in the frequency domain. All these concepts were well understood."

"What was new was the way of putting this together to get information from a magnetic core in a memory plane. I was taking a graduate course called Sample Data Systems from Professor William Linvill. Today the same course might have two names."

"I need to get good advice to get good contracts so I am maximizing that revenue once it starts."

"We’re right at the start I don’t even have oil yet."

"The vision for UNOC is to have commercial interest across the value chain."

"There’s lots of good firms. But they come at a premium."

"The advisors are there."

"That’s why even the big 100-year-old international oil companies pay experts to negotiate for them."

"In high barrier to entry, high skill areas, generating as much revenue as possible for the country, and separated from regulating and licensing."

"I didn’t say to the bankers ,Oh yeah, great, I’ll sign up with you."

"I really enjoy the open debate, thinking, looking at things in other ways, getting other perspectives on things."

"I am going back to my central bank and my Ministry of Finance to make sure we are aligned."

"We’ve had more time to interact and discuss issues and come up with ideas."

"That was what I was hoping for and I am definitely getting that."

"In Uganda, my colleagues and I are dealing with operational issues related to the sector."

"I make will have a huge impact."

"UNOC has a critical role in building, empowering and supporting the local supply chain beyond the core oil and gas sector."

"You’re going through that and I could really bring my experience to what was happening but also gain insights on how to deal with things."

"I really understand and own the fact that I am profit-driven, not to the exclusion of the other functions a state oil company can deliver."

"I realized early on there was too many of them so I said."

"Having a framework to filter that through will help me engage some of the stakeholders who are focused on ideas."

"There are two sides to it, obviously the course itself, which you can see has been well thought-out in terms of the topics it covers; and then the people and the connections that you make and the learning from each other."

"Then there’s the debate."

"My fellow Ugandans, who I’d previously met in Uganda."

"It was interesting to have other people in my group saying."