Monthly Archives: April 2012

IEEE VT & AES Joint Greece Chapter Organizes Final/Diploma Thesis Competition (Academic Years 2009 – 2011)

The IEEE VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter has organized a Final/Diploma Thesis Competition (Academic Years 2009 – 2011) in the scientific field of “Advanced Wireless Communication Systems” with great success. There were 19 submissions from institutes all over Greece. The submissions were performed to a server host provided and supported by the International Hellenic University (IHU). Each Thesis was evaluated by 3 independent reviewers, and they all admitted the level of the participations was high. The 8 submissions with the highest score, coming from 5 different universities, were qualified to the second-final round. The final round reviewing process was performed by the Scientific Committee of the Competition.

The final round presentations and the awards ceremony took place on February 17^th 2012, with about 60-65 alternating participants, students and academics, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), which provided the room. Two of the final round participants were not able to attend, so they provided a video-presentation and connected through skype for the questions section.

The winner of the Competition, Kampianakis Eleftherios, coming from the Technical University of Crete, was awarded with an iPhone 4 offered by the sponsor of the event Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A. Also, gifts and certificates of participation were distributed to the participants of the Competition.

The final round presentations and the awards ceremony was live broadcasted and is available in the website of the Chapter (http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/events/eventsen67.html). The symposium was very successful receiving congratulations and enthusiasm from all the participants of the event, the students-candidates and their Thesis supervisors.

The great success of the event has motivated the Chapter Committee to organize the Final/Diploma Thesis Competition every year. Stay tuned with our events at http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/.

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Dr. George Papadopoulos

Secretary & Webmaster,

VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter

Dr. Athanasios Iossifides

Chair of the Competition and IEEE Liaison,

VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter

Awards & Recognitions Committee (ARC-8)

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Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden) – Chair – Ex-Oficcio
Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) – Past Chair
Jaafar M. Al Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia)
Igor Kuzle (Croatia)
Athanasios Skodras (Greece)

Responsibilities of the Region 8 ARC
The Region 8 Awards and Recognition Sub-Committee is responsible for informing the Sections and Chapters of the IEEE awards program. In particular, the Sub-Committee is responsible for the administration of the Region 8 awards and recognition program. It aims to make all members in the region aware of the awards available, and to encourage them to nominate candidates from their Sections, Chapters, etc. The Sub-Committee is required to follow the procedures defined in the Rehion 8 Operations Manual before an award is made. It also liaises with the Student Activities Committee (SAC) and the Chapter Co-ordination Sub-Committee in regard to the awards administered separately by them.

2012 CALL for NOMINATIONS

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(1) R8 OpCom Members

The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) SubCommittee is soliciting nominations for the following leadership positions:

R8 2013-2014 Secretary (two years commitment)
R8 2013-2014 Treasurer (two years commitment)
R8 2013 Vice Chair, Member Activities (one year commitment)
R8 2013 Vice Chair, Student Activities (one year commitment)
R8 2013 Vice Chair, Technical Activities (one year commitment)

A description of the positions and expectations is available in:

IEEE REGION 8 OPERATIONS MANUAL – pp. R8-4.4, R8-4.5, R8-4.6
IEEE REGION 8 BYLAWS – pp. R8-3.1.5, R8-3.1.6, R8-3.1.7

(2) R8 N&A SubCommittee Members

The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) SubCommittee is soliciting nominations for:

Three new members (term 2013-2014)
of the R8 Nominations and Appointments SubCommittee (two years commitment)

Candidates must fulfill one of the following criteria at the time of their election:

be a Section Chair in office
have been a Section Chair within the past 3 years
have been a Section Chair and currently holding an elected or appointed position of the R8 Committee.

Please submit your proposals with short biography of candidate (please use the R8 template – available IEEE R8 Biography Blank ) to Jozef Modelski, Chair of the N&A SubCommittee at [email protected]

The deadline to submit nominations – 15 July 2012

Student and GOLD Congress 2012 – Madrid

in YP News

We are pleased to announce you the 2012 edition of the Region 8 Student Branch & GOLD Congress. This year’s edition will be organized by the Student Branch of the Technical University of Madrid, in Madrid on 25-29 July 2012.

We would like to invite you to participate in this unique event where GOLDies from all over Region 8 will share their knowledge. The SBC is organized biannually, so don’t miss the chance to meet all the other active GOLD Affinity Groups and Student Branches of Europe, Middle East and Africa, to learn useful skills for your volunteers and get to talk about your activities, ideas and issues with the Region 8 GOLD Committee and with senior IEEE officers such as the IEEE President and the IEEE Region 8 Director!

The Region 8 GOLD Committee funds the registration fee for one representative per Region 8 GOLD Affinity Group in good standing. The funding covers a regular IEEE Student/GOLD Member registration fee, including meals and accommodation for the duration of the congress. It does not cover flights to and from the congress or local transportation, which your IEEE Section is expected to help with.

The funding criteria for R8 GOLD Support are:

Only 1 volunteer per GOLD Affinity Group is eligible for funding. Please make sure that only one request for funding is submitted for your Affinity Group.
This volunteer has to be active in the AG and has not yet attended a previous edition of the Region 8 Student Branch & GOLD Congress. The volunteer has to prove that he/she is an active volunteer (e.g. by specifying his/her volunteering position and/or which GOLD activities he/she has volunteered on in the AG).
The yearly reporting of your AG must be up-to-date, i.e. the 2011 activities report has already been submitted to the R8 GOLD Committee (at the latest by March 29, 2012). There is an exception for recently formed GOLD AGs: if you are a member of a recently formed GOLD AG and this AG did not have activities in 2011, you are also eligible for funding and you are encouraged to submit your funding form.

If you (the GOLD Chair) have already attended a previous edition of the SBC, please encourage another active volunteer of your AG to attend this year’s edition of the SBC. An additional email to announce the SBC will be sent out very soon to all GOLDies of Region 8.

The funding applications will close on April 30. Make sure an active volunteer of your AG has applied before this deadline.

More information on the funding criteria and the funding application can be found here:

www.sbcmadrid.es/event-register/gold-funding/

In case you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the R8 GOLD Committee at [email protected]

IEEE 98th Region 8 meeting in Berlin, Germany

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On 31 March – 1 April 2012, the 98^th IEEE Region 8 Committee meeting took place in Berlin Germany. One hundred and eighty people attended the meeting and participated in the workshops, the subcommittee meetings, the main Region 8 meeting and the social events. The scope of the workshops was the following:

1- Identify the top two good and two bad section practices that sections in Region 8 are engaged in.

2- How do sections perceive member engagement and what are the top two best practices or activities and how do they pursue that? Also try to find the bad or negative issues related to this.

3- Discuss issues to do with the public visibility of IEEE within the sections and what activities and practices can be done to enhance it.

You can take a look at the presentations during the meeting and a summary of the results of the workshops here.

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The date of the event coincided with the Regions’ 50^th anniversary which was celebrated at the Berlin Technological museum. A 50 year anniversary banner was presented by IEEE president Gordon Day to Region 8 director, Marko Delimar, right after the keynote address by VDE President Alf Henryk Wulf. VDE, the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies, one of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe with more than 34,000 members. A 50 year anniversary banner was also presented to UK&RI Section chair Nihal Sinnadurai and a 25 year anniversary banner to UAE Section chair Maryam Ali Al Thani. During the meeting the very prestigious Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award was presented by IEEE president Gordon Day to Roland J. Saam, U.K. & Rep. of Ireland Section, for exemplary service and significant contributions over many years, particularly developing and maintaining the distinctive IEEE Region 8 News, which fosters collaboration and engagement across three continents.

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50th Anniversary Celebration Contest

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Region 8 is celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary this year and the R8 SAC team would like to give the opportunity to SB’s to organized events to commemorate this anniversary and win prizes!

It’s simple to participate. Just organize an event to celebrate this occasion and upload the pictures of that event on the 50th Anniversary Celebration Contest facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/R8AnniversaryContest) with the name of your SB. The competition has officially started and will end on 30 April, 2013. This gives you a whole year to win the prizes!

Prizes:

1st Prize: 700 USD

2nd Prize: 500 USD

3rd Prize: 300 USD

These prizes will be given to the OU’s (branch, branch chapter, affinity group, etc) of the winning entries.

Along with the cash prizes, R8 SAC will send a surprise package to the winning OU as well 🙂

If you need ideas for the event then you may look the following website: http://www.ieeeday.org/local-event/. IEEE Day team have given some excellent suggestions for events on this page.

If you have any questions then please feel free to email us at [email protected]

Let the celebrations begin!

2023 Editorial Team

in IEEE Region 8 News

The Editorial Team welcomes reports, stories and general content, including photos, which can be emailed to [email protected] or submitted via online form. Our tips for contributors provide some guidelines on how to write articles for IEEE Region 8 News, along with details regarding text, artwork, and image formats.

Editor-in-Chief	Associate Editor	Associate Editor	Associate Editor

Maja Matijašević (Croatia Section)	Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden Section)	Basant Kumar (Oman Section)	Ahmad Taher Azar (Egypt Section)

Want to write for R8 News? Here’s how…

in IEEE Region 8 News / Tips for contributors

We welcome your contributions to IEEE Region 8 News. Use the information on this page to help you prepare and submit articles for inclusion in the newsletter.

Section / Chapter / Branch / Affinity Group activity reports

These reports are the lifeblood of IEEE Region 8 News, keeping members all over the Region up to date with what you’re up to. However, to make sure we can fit all the reports into each issue, it helps if they are brief and to the point.

Typical articles in this category include: news items, conference announcements and reports, awards recognitions, and summaries of events and activities. Photos are highly encouraged.

Word count:

Announcements referring to future events should be brief, no more than 200 words.
Reports on past events should be between 200 and 400 words. That’s not very long – in many cases that’s only a few sentences!

Here are some tips on how to keep your reports concise:

Always begin the article with your biggest news
Write like a news reporter: who / what / where / when / why / how
Concentrate on your most successful recent events only
For an event, include dates, location and number of attendees
State the name of your Section / Chapter / Branch
State the name(s) of the author(s), state their volunteering title or role in the activity/event
Don’t waste words on off-topic detail (such as the gala dinner menu)
Avoid long lists of ‘thank you’s
Include links (URLs) to additional information, as needed.

In other words, just try to stick to key facts, and avoid exposition. Also be wary of redundant sentences such as “The workshop was well received” (if the lecture had been badly received, you wouldn’t be writing about it) or “The attendees thanked Professor X” (readers will already take this for granted). Remember, you only have a limited word count, so make the most of it.

Opinion articles and more

We welcome articles on just about any subject you think might be of interest to IEEE members, including opinion pieces, topical discussions, and book reviews. You might even like to challenge readers with a quiz. Feel free to discuss your idea with the editors before you start writing.

Remember that IEEE Region 8 News has limited space, so don’t try to write more than 600 words for a special article like this. In a newsletter, you can dispense with essay style – no need for introductions and conclusions. Instead, get right to the point and say what you want to say.

Photos and captions

We welcome your photos and will make room for them in the newsletter wherever we can.

Photos taken with smartphones are great. Get in close to your subject matter and the results will be perfect.
Don’t try to downsample, enhance or correct your images: a clean original always produces the best results!
Please don’t superimpose logos and timestamps: we may not be able to use such photos.
Write a caption for each image so that we know who or what they show.
Remember to state the photographers’ names for acknowledgement purposes.

The submitted photos, images, or graphics may be edited or resized for placement.

File formats and submission

By using your GoogleApps@IEEE account (available to members at no additional cost), you may submit your article through the IEEE R8 Publications & Communications (PnC) Contribution Submission Form. Please mark “Region 8 News” when asked about “Targeted domain for Content/Information publishing”.

Alternatively, send your articles directly to R8 News Editors at [email protected]. You can attach documents in any text format (docx, rtf, txt) or just paste your text into the email message body. Photos and images should be sent as attachments. If you are concerned about attaching lots of high-resolution pictures, share them with us via a Google Drive folder, Dropbox, or alike, or, use a free file transfer service such as WeTransfer.

Please do not embed your photos into PDF files, though – this nearly always has the effect of converting, downsampling and blurring them. Photos embedded into Word docx files is usually fine.

Copy deadlines

The best way of ensuring your reports and articles are timely is to plan ahead according to our copy deadlines. Region 8 News is a quarterly publication, so missing an issue deadline will set you back three months! Also note that our print ‘lead’ times are such that we need to receive your articles TWO MONTHS before the cover date, due to printing and distribution to all members around Region 8!

Copy deadline	*Issue cover date*
15 October 2023	December 2023 issue
* * * 2024 * * *	* * * 2024 * * *
15 January 2024	March 2024 issue
15 April 2024	June 2024 issue
15 July 2024	September 2024 issue

Authorization

By submitting a contribution/article to the IEEE Region 8 Newsletter, you are agreeing that the content submitted will be publicly available, and you are authorizing the IEEE Region 8 to edit and publish the submitted content while crediting all the authors of the text and images.

Please note that the Editorial team may not be able to publish all submitted content or may publish it in a future newsletter issue, instead of the current one.

GDPR

By submitting a contribution/article to the IEEE Region 8 Newsletter, you are agreeing with IEEE GDPR policy and giving permission to IEEE to publish the names of all the authors of text and images.

SAMIEEE Training Invitation

in Electronic Communications Coordinator / SAMIEEE

IEEE recently launched the new IEEE Business Platform (IBP). The final phase of the IBP launch is to upgrade SAMIEEE. The new version of SAMIEEE will be available on 16 April 2012.

With this upgrade, some of the SAMIEEE menus and options will change, but much of the basic functionality will remain the same. See a presentation on what’s coming with the SAMIEEE upgrade on the SAMIEEE web page at http://www.ieee.org/samieee.

In order to prepare you for this upgrade, we will be offering training for all users. Training will be offered in two ways:
– Online, instructor led, training using web conferences (1 hour)
– Online video tutorials (Available 16 April 2012)

The dates for the initial web conferences are listed below and are targeted to existing users transitioning to the new version. Web conference details are attached at the bottom of this message.

Training Dates
– Tuesday 10 April 2012, 10:00 am EDT, UTC/GMT -4 hours
– Wednesday 11 April 2012, 10:00 am EDT, UTC/GMT -4 hours
– Thursday 12 April 2012, 10:00 am EDT, UTC/GMT -4 hours

Mark your calendars! To be sure you arrive at the correct time, please refer to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ for time zone questions.

More classes will be offered during the weeks of 16 and 23 April and will include classes for new users. A schedule will be posted to the SAMIEEE web page shortly.

Please note the current version of SAMIEEE will continue to be available until 16 April. However, the data has not been refreshed since 28 March. Data will not be refreshed until the update is complete on 16 April and the new version is launched.

Newsletter archive

in Back Issues / IEEE Region 8 News

Here you can download previous editions of Region 8 News dating back to 2002. Issue older than that have been preserved thanks to the efforts of the History Activities Committee. They are available here.

Click on the issue to download the previous issue of Region 8 News. If you want to read the current issue, click here instead.