Yearly Archives: 2012

IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress 2012, Madrid, Spain

 in Announcements and Updates

This year, Madrid was the host city of the 8th biannual IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress (SBC 2012), the flagship student and GOLD event in the region. Following on the footsteps of London (2008) and Leuven (2010), the 2012 edition had a special flavour to it, this being the 50th anniversary celebration of Region 8.

The congress managed to attract around 400 attendees (up from 215 just 4 years ago), 300 of which student members from all corners of Europe, Middle East and Africa. However, the list also included the Regional Student Representatives from Regions 2 and 10, as well as 24 attendees from Region 9. We were happy to welcome IEEE Past President Moshe Kam, IEEE President Gordon Day, IEEE President-Elect Peter Staecker and the entire Region 8 OpCom, as well as many other global IEEE volunteers and staff.

The already legendary multi-cultural evening once again lived up to its reputation. With participants from 53 different countries, the diversity was everywhere and, by some accounts, you could even call it overwhelming. Diversity could also be found in the congress program, with a mix of technical, non-technical and IEEE topics thrown in. The attendees had the opportunity to ask their questions to the next Region 8 Director in the Director-Elect Candidate debate, and to be rewarded for their volunteer efforts in the SAC/GOLD award session. Perhaps most important, though, were the ample opportunities for networking and exchange of experiences which took place around the clock.

Congratulations to the SBC Madrid team for an amazing event and thank you to those who attended. To all readers, hope to see you at the next one!

 

Jorge Miguel Soares
Region 8 Student Representative
[email protected]

IEEE R8 Contest Winners

 in News and Updates

Congratulations to all of the winners of our R8 contests. Keep up the good work!

 

IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

American University of Beirut (Libanon)
Alexandria Student Branch (Egypt)
Arab Academy for Science & Technology (Egypt)
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Cairo University Student Branch (Egypt)
German Jordanian University (Jordan)
University of Central Greece (Greece)

Winner to be sent to MGA competition: GJU

 

 

IEEE Student Branch Website Contest

25 submissions, 3 winners:

1st place: Instituto Superior Técnico Student Branch (Portugal)
2nd place: TEI Piraeus Student Branch (Greece)
3rd place: Pretoria Student Branch (South-Africa)

IEEE Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

Piotr Graca (Student Branch Opole, Poland)
Event:
3rd International Students Conference on Electrodynamics and
Mechatronics

 

 

IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award

The Region 8 submissions received a certificate:

Dr. Mohmed Khairy
Cairo University SB(Egypt)
Dr. Osama Abu Sharkh
Princess Sumaya University of Technology SB (Jordan)
Dr Mohammad Nazzal
German Jordanian University SB (Jordan)
Dr. Kakarountas Athanasios
University of Central Greece SB (Greece)

[IEEE R8 YP] Report from GOLD Track at SBC Madrid

 in YP News

Region 8 Committee would like to thanks to all participants of GOLD Track at SBC Madrid for a great job done during the workshops.

We would like to thank you for:

  • Surviving in the breath-taking heat in the lecture halls,
  • Waking up for the morning sessions,
  • Active attendance,
  • Your creative work during workshops,
  • Your feedback that will help us in improving the incoming events!

Job well done!

Report based on the feedback from the GOLD Track is available to download

Call for papers – Histelcon 2012 Pavia

 in News

HISTELCON 2012
The origins of electrotechnologies
5 – 7 September 2012
Pavia, Italy

HISTELCON 2012, the 3rd in its series (after HISTELCON 2008 in Paris and HISTELCON 2010 in Madrid), is organized by IEEE Italy Section, IEEE Region 8 and the Research Centre CIRSTE operating in the Museum of Electrical Technology at the University of Pavia, in conjunction with the ninth Historical Conference held by the IEEE History Committee and the IEEE History Center.

Conference objectives
HISTELCON 2012 aims to increase the understanding of the origins and of the early developments of electrical technologies – in particular of telecommunications.

  • Original and innovative contributions are invited in areas including, but not restricted to:
  • Origins and early developments of electro-technologies
  • Milestones in different fields of electro-technology, both early and modern
  • Scientists and Technologists involved in the above
  • Museum items and educational methods illustrating the above

Call for papers
Abstract Submission
Interested participants are invited to submit their abstracts for oral or poster presentations to the Conference Secretariat by electronically sending a 500 words abstract, written in English, with the title, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) in MS Word format. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Conference Technical Program Committee. Presented papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. For each presented paper or poster, one presenter will have to register for the Conference. Guidelines for preparation of papers and posters will be provided in due time.

Special Sessions and Panels
Proposals to organize a special session and/or a Discussion Panel on a specific subject (e.g. related to an IEEE Technical Society) are welcome. Special session presentation abstracts will be reviewed in a similar way to regular presentations. The duration of a session or a panel discussion will be 90 minutes.

 

More Information at the Official Website

IEEE Potentials Magazine needs your contributions!

 in _Archived

We need you Regional leaders to help us in preparing the Sep/Oct Potentials issue. Similar to the very excellent Region 8 news: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/news/issues/r8news_mar12.pdf (current issue) we will be having a page ofStudent News from round the world. Feel free to submit an item yourself or pass this on to your branches. I know we’ll get a submission from Region 8, but let’s try for all 10.

Our print ‘lead’ times are such that we need to receive your articles TWO MONTHS before the cover date. Potentials publishes bi-monthly so if you want to be in the Sep/Oct news page you will need to get us everything by July. We’re already past this deadline, but this being the first one we’ll have to take what we can get in the next two weeks and from now on just make sure you get items to us two-months before issue date. So for Nov/Dec, be sending things to us by the beginning of September.

Thanks,

Lise, Potentials Editor-in-Chief and Sachin Seth, Potentials Student-Editor

Guidelines (mostly stolen from R8 news):

Ideally your news should be between 150 and 250 words. That’s not very long – in most cases that’s only six or seven sentences! Here are some tips on how to keep your reports concise:

  • Always begin the article with your biggest news
  • Concentrate on your most successful recent events only
  • Include dates, locations and numbers of attendees
  • State the name of your Section / Chapter / Branch / conference clearly
  • Don’t waste words on non-essential detail (such as describing the menu for a dinner event)
  • Avoid long lists of  ‘thank you’s
  • In other words, just try to stick to key facts, and avoid exposition. Also be wary of redundant sentences such as “The lecture was     very well received by the audience” or “The students thanked Professor Xxxxxxx for taking the time to visit the faculty”. Readers
    will already assume that a lecture was well received (otherwise you wouldn’t be writing a report about it) and that guest speakers were thanked appropriately! Remember, you only have a limited word count,
    so make the most of it.

Photos and captions
Feel free to send in digital photos with your articles: we will make room for them wherever we can. Please write a caption for each picture you submit so that we know who or what it shows.

*File formats and submission
*Send your articles to us at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> by email. Try to write ‘Region 8 News
for Potentials’ or similar in the subject line. Articles should be attached to your email as a plain text file or in Microsoft Word format.

IEEE R8 Continuing Education (CE) Webinars on 3rd of July 2012

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Two webinars were organized on July 3, 2012. The organizing team was comprised by Saurabh Sinha, IEEE Region 8 Vice-Chair: Technical Activities and Niovi Pavlidou, IEEE R8 Lead Volunteer for CE (Educational Activities Subcommittee (EASC)). The events were technically supported by George Michael, Electronic Communications Coordinator, IEEE R8. The webinars were quite well disseminated through the e-Notice service and, by George Papadopoulos, through the R8 Continuing Education Forum email lists.

The first webinar, entitled “Fuzzy Logic Systems in Educational Assessment”, was intended to all members of IEEE Education Society in R8, to the Section Chairs of R8, and to Region 8 EA officers. Niovi Pavlidou welcomed the participants and introduced various subcommittees relating to technical activities, with emphasis on educational activities in Region 8. The central speaker of the webinar was Dr Riadh Besbes, an educational supervisor for secondary schools in Tunisia. After the presentation a questions and answers slot was offered to the participants.  The duration of the webinar was one hour, the lectures and discussion slots as a whole. The event was organized on WebEx facilities and the attendance was considered as moderate.

Some technical problems with the voice quality have been referred. A main problem to be noticed is the non-availability of toll-free telephone number provisions with some Region 8 countries (for example, Serbia and Montenegro) and the attendees from these areas who joined the session were disappointed. The VoIP connection will strongly improve the success of the seminars and this feedback has been coordinated with the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Information Management (MGA-IM) team by the continuing education coordination for Region 8.

The second webinar was supposed to start half an hour later. The title of the webinar was “Introduction to Electric Vehicles”, and the speaker was Vladimir Katic, IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section. It was intended for members of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) in Region 8, to the Section Chairs in Region 8 and to Region 8 EA officers. Though, even if the attendance was considered as satisfactory, the speaker was not able to use the toll-free phone line, because WebEx does not support it for Serbia & Montenegro.

After some efforts performed by the organizers and the speaker (including the use of other parallel platforms – Skype – in parallel to WebEx), Niovi Pavlidou apologized for the inconvenience, and closed the session promising that the VTS affiliated webinar will be offered again soon.

Prof. Niovi Pavlidou
IEEE R8 Lead Volunteer for Continuing Education
IEEE Greece Section Membership Development Officer

Region 8 Volunteer Award

 in Region 8 Volunteer Award
  1. Introduction
    The Region 8 Volunteer Award is introduced with the goal of encouraging all volunteers in the Region and of recognizing those volunteers who have made an outstanding contribution to a particular Region 8 Section.
    The Award is a Certificate.
  2. Title
    The scheme will be known as the IEEE Region 8 Volunteer Award.
  3. Eligibility
    The following are eligible as candidates for the Award:
    (a) An IEEE member of any membership grade (Student, Graduate Student, Associate, Member, Senior Member, Fellow, Life Fellow).
    (b) The candidate’s volunteer work is, or has been, on behalf of a Section. The candidate must have been active for at least 2 years in the Section and is not currently the Section Chairman.
    (c) The candidate receives no remuneration for his work for the Section except possibly expenses.
    (d) The members of the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee, the Past Region 8 Director or the Director-Elect and Region 8 Secretary are ineligible for the Award.
  4. Conditions for nomination
    (a) Nominations must be made on the Volunteer Award Nomination Form.
    (b) The Nomination Form must be completed by a proposer who is familiar with the work of the candidate and who is a paid-up IEEE member.
    (c) Nominations must be approved by the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the Section. The Chairman of the Section must sign the Nomination Form. Any member of the Section Execution Committee, including the Chairman, made be the proposer.
    (d) Nominations must be received by the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee through the Region 8 Awards Portal.
    (e) A Section may put forward only one candidate per year.
  5. Basis of adjudication
    The points which adjudicators will take into consideration include the following:
    (a) Length of service to the Section. (Note: it is not a condition that the candidate is working for the Section at the time he or she is nominated)
    (b) Whether a candidate has introduced new ideas or new developments which have benefited the Section.
    (c) Administrative ability.
    (d) Support for the work of other people who are serving the Section.
    (e) Furthering the work and promoting the objectives of the IEEE and Region 8 in general, and of the Section in particular, at Section, Chapter or Student Branch level, or in some other activity.
  6. Adjudication
    The adjudicators are the members of the Region 8 Awards and Recognition Subcommittee (Chairman, Region 8 Director, Region 8 Secretary, 3 Section Chairs, representative of the Student Activities Committee).
    The adjudicators’ decisions will be final.
    Nomination will be assessed by awarding the candidate up to 10 points for points 2 (b), (c) and (d) of the Nomination Form, taking into account the basis of adjudication set out in paragraph 5.

MGA Awards

 in Global Awards

The awards and recognition program of the Member and Geographic Activities Board (MGA) is designed to promote, recognize and reward excellence in the MGA operations and IEEE geographic unit activities (Regions, Councils and Areas, Sections, Chapters, Student Branches, and Student Branch Chapters).

Here, you can find more info on the various awards organized by the MGA Board.

2012, October – Tallinn

 in 2012-October - Tallinn

This page contains information about the 99th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held in Tallinn on 5-7 of October 2012.

IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting Tallinn Agenda Book

Presentations
IEEE R8 Tallinn Meeting - Saturday
IEEE R8 Tallinn Meeting - Sunday

Meeting Information
Agenda
Order of the Day
Travel Advisory for Tallinn
Information on Tallinn,  Tallinn City Map
R8 Agenda Item Template
Section Report Template

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Approved minutes from Berlin

 

OpCom Reports

Director (Marko Delimar)

Past-Director (Jozef Modelski)

Secretary (Costas Stasopoulos)

Treasurer (Brian Harrington)

V/C Member Activities (Ali El-Mousa)

V/C Student Activities (Elias Nassar)

V/C Technical Activities (Saurabh Sinha)

Subcommittee Reports

Awards & Recognition SubCommittee (A&RSC)

GOLD SubCommittee

Region 8 News

Chapter Coordination SubCommittee (ChCSC)

Industry Relations SubCommittee (IRSC)

Standards Coordinator

Conference Coordination SubCommittee

Jubilee Book Editorial Board Strategic Planning

Educational Activities SubCommittee (EASC)

Life Members Coordinator

Technical Publications Coordinator

Electronic Communications Coordinator (ECC) Membership Development SubCommittee (MDSC) Voluntary Contribution Fund Coordinator
Future Technical Directions Liaison Nominations & Appointment SubCommittee Women In Engineering Coordinator
Professional Activities SubCommitte (PASC)

Section Reports

Austria Section Germany Section Lithuania Section Saudi Arabia (East) Section
Bahrain Section Ghana Section Malta Section Saudi Arabia (West) Section
Belarus Section Greece Section Morocco Section Serbia And Montenegro Section
Benelux Section Hungary Section Nigeria Section Slovenia Section
Bosnia And Herzegovina Section Iceland Section Norway Section South Africa Section
Bulgaria Section Iran Section Oman Section Spain Section
Croatia Section Iraq Section Poland Section Sweden Section
Cyprus Section Israel Section Portugal Section Switzerland Section
Czechoslovakia Section Italy Section Qatar Section Tunisia Section
Denmark Section Jordan Section Republic Of Macedonia Section Turkey Section
Egypt Section Kenya Section Romania Section U.K.& Rep Of Ireland Section
Estonia Section Kuwait Section Russia Section Ukraine Section
Finland Section Latvia Section Russia (Northwest) Section United Arab Emirates Section
France Section Lebanon Section Russia (Siberia) Section Zambia Section

Reimbursement