Potentials Magazine provides 140,000 undergraduate and graduate students members of IEEE with a publication to address global issues, technology trends, and career development topics.

Bi-monthly publication focuses on educational and industry themes such as:

• Careers/graduate Education
• Internet of Things
• Smart Cities
• Drone Technology
• Student and YP Entrepreneurship

IEEE Potentials Magazine is a publication dedicated to undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals. IEEE Potentials explores career strategies, the latest in research, and important technical developments. Through its articles, it also relates theories to practical applications, highlights technology’s global impact, and generates international forums that foster the sharing of diverse ideas about the profession.

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of up to 4,000 words. Articles should be aimed at a student audience and should not represent original research. The Potentials style requires no abstract, no citations from within the main text and minimal equations, but liberal use of relevant, captioned illustrations and photographs is encouraged.

For more information, refer to the Magazine’s Information for Authors. Articles for consideration should be uploaded to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pot-ieee .

Theme Issue: Careers and Graduate Education

Release: September/October 2021

Lead Editors: Cátia Bandeiras — catiafmb@ieee.org
Jacquelyn Adams — jacquelyn.r.adams@gmail.com

The annual theme issue of Careers and Graduate Education will be focused on a prominent effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for advancing remote work, education, and career development. Authors are encouraged to discuss technology for remote work and education and how their workplaces or classrooms adapted to the constraints posed by social distancing. Topics include but are not limited to:

■ Technologies for remote work and education
■ Long-distance laboratories
■ Platforms for continuous education
■ Changes in job market dynamics
■ Conducting grad school research in a remote environment
■ Time and project management
■ Organization of online events
■ Job interviewing and job onboarding remotely
■ Various IEEE resources for grad students and young professionals

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of up to 4,000 words. Articles should be aimed at a student audience and should not include original research. IEEE Potentials style requires no abstract, no citations within the main text, and minimal equations but the use of relevant, captioned illustrations and photographs is encouraged. For more information, refer to the magazine’s information for authors. Articles for consideration should be uploaded to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pot-ieee.

Theme Issue: Science Fiction or Fact?

Release: November/December 2021

Lead Editors: Christopher James – c.j.james@ieee.org
Syrine Ferjaoui – syrine.ferjaoui.eng@ieee.org
Catia Bandeiras – catiafmb@ieee.org

IEEE Potentials is the IEEE’s global magazine for students, with a circulation of 140,000. The theme issue, “Science Fiction or Fact,” will explore various breakthroughs inspired by science fiction and cover real innovations in science and technology influenced by the futuristic concepts presented in science-fiction novels and movies. Authors are encouraged the discuss the scientific facts behind elements such as time travel, teleportation, telepathy, superintelligent computers and robots, parallel universes, and space travel, among others, while using concepts suitable for a student audience. Topics include but are not limited to:

■ Medical advancements
■ Artificial intelligence and data science
■ Augmented and/or virtual reality
■ 3D printing
■ Transportation
■ Extra-human abilities
■ Robotics
■ Other (lasers, jet pack, landspeeder, etc.)

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of up to 4,000 words. Articles should be aimed at a student audience and should not include original research. IEEE Potentials style requires no abstract, no citations within the main text, and minimal equations but the use of relevant, captioned illustrations and photographs is encouraged. For more information, refer to the magazine’s information for authors. Articles for consideration should be uploaded to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pot-ieee.

Theme Issue: Drone Technology

Release: January/February 2022

Lead Editors: Vaughan Clarkson — v.clarkson@ieee.org
Felipe Gonzalez — felipe.gonzalez@qut.edu.au

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also commonly known as drones, are reshaping our world: from traffic surveillance to crop monitoring photography to parcel delivery. The best is yet to come, however. Drone technology is advancing on all fronts to have more endurance, longer range, wider application, and more capability while becoming safer than ever. In this theme issue, these breakthroughs will be explained to our student audience by the leading  researchers and practitioners.

Topics include but are not limited to:

■ Sensors for UAVs
■ Autonomy
■ Navigation, path-planning, and on-board decision making
■ Standards
■ Mechanical design
■ Counter-drone technology
■ Legal and regulatory aspects
■ Networking and coordination (“swarming”)
■ UAV-based change detection
■ Sense and avoid
■ UAV onboard data storage, transmission, and retrieval
■ UAV applications including traffic management, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and search and rescue

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of up to 4,000 words. Articles should be aimed at a student audience and should not include original research. IEEE Potentials style requires no abstract, no citations within the main text, and minimal equations but the use of relevant, captioned illustrations and photographs is encouraged. For more information, refer to the magazine’s information for authors. Articles for consideration should be uploaded to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pot-ieee.