Monthly Archives: September 2013

IEEE-X Academic UK&RI 2013

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The IEEE Student Branch of Bath organized the IEEE UK&RI Sectional Student Branch Congress 2013, held in Bath, from 6th to 8th of September. The aim of the congress was to present the innovative projects of IEEE, discuss all the activities performed by the student branches, and exchange ideas and knowledge.

IEEE-X Academic UK&RI 2013

Rui Costa, founder and coordinator of the IEEE-X Academic project and member of the Region 8  Educational Activities Committee participated in the congress presenting the IEEE-X Academic project, that will create an innovative useful educational resource, motivating Student Branches from UK&RI to participate in the project. An audience of almost 60 individuals attended the presentation, that focused on the advantages of this new educational resource for students as well as the role that IEEE and its Student Branches can have in the process, introducing for the first time in UK&RI Section the IEEE-X Academic project.

Several students showed great interest and a nice conversation about the project started during the Congress. This presentation marked the beginning of the work towards developing the IEEE-X Academic in UK&RI Section.

Rui Costa

Region 8 Student Enterprise Award, Region 8 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award Recognition Program and finally the Darrel Chong Student Activity Award.

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We are proud to announce the further award recipients of Region 8 Student Enterprise Award, Region 8 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award Recognition Program and finally the Darrel Chong Student Activity Award. Congratulations ! We will inform you how you will obtain the certificates.

Region 8 Student Enterprise Award
Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic – Offline Virtual Engineering Library
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Symbiosis Alzheimer’s Support
University of Ibadan – Design & implementation of a finger – pring based/password enabled access control unit for Halls of residence kitchenette
Ecole Nat’l D’Ingenierus De Sfax – Unique Note
Cairo University – Youth Development Camp
University of Osijek – IEEEMADC – Mobile Applications Development Contest
Nat’l Tec Univ of Ukraine –Kyiv Poly Inst – Intelligent Predictive Control System for Stepper Motors in Industrial Application & Educational Laboratories
American University of Beirut – AAHA: Arduino/Android Home Automation
University of Salento – A wireless power transmission system for biomedical applications
Region 8 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award Recognition Program
Athanasios Kakarountas- University of Central Greece
Bernhard Jakoby- Johannes Kepler University Linz
Wladyslaw Grabinski- Ecole Polytech Federal Lausanne-Epf
Charalampos Patrikakis- Technological Education Institute of Piraeus SB
Chimezie Eguzo- Akanu Ibian Federal Polytechnic
Dr. Dharmasa- Caledonian College of Engineering
Dr. Geoff Merrett- University of Southampton
The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award – Region 8
Gold:
Univ of Patras (Greece)
Silver:
NTUA (Greece)
Univ Of Skopje (Republic of Macedonia)
National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS)(Tunisia)
Bronze:
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, (Egypt)
Arab Academy for Science and Technology – Alexandria (Egypt)
National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
Ibra College of Technology (Oman)
IEEE Opole Student Branch (Poland)
University of Ljubljana Student Branch (Slovenia)
Technical University of Madrid (ETSIT-UPM) (Spain)
National Engineering School of Sfax (Tunisia)
YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IEEE (Turkey)

IEEEmadC – Mobile Applications Development Contest!

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IEEEmadC

February – June 2016

http://ieeemadc.org/

https://www.facebook.com/IEEEmadC

Description

IEEEmadC (Mobile Application Development Contest) is a student contest focused on developing mobile applications. In this contest, teams of up to three students are invited to devise and create mobile applications that will benefit IEEE in the terms stated in the “Application focus areas” chapter of this document. This contest was created to provide IEEE students with additional competitive activities in the scope of computer science. By competing, students would focus on developing their technical and social (team) skills, since the prizes are arranged in a way to encourage teamwork. IEEEmadC is giving Student Branches an additional way for attracting the students to join IEEE since only active student members of IEEE are eligible to compete.

Eligibility

Students are invited to compete individual or in teams of up to three IEEE student members. Any undergraduate, graduate or phd student with an active IEEE membership can compete. Multiple teams can be formed at the same university (same IEEE Student Branch). Each team can submit up to 3 different applications. One student can be part of 2 different teams (i.e. one designer can create design for two different teams). Teams must adhere to the deadline timetable defined on this page, or else their submissions will be invalid. Teams must not accept or use any help from people not in their team. Usage of free and/or open source Internet resources is allowed, but plagiarism and cheating is not.

Registration

In registration period Students can register their teams and submit their ideas for the idea stage. Teams do not need to submit any working application in this stage, only description of the application they would be working on.

Scoring criteria

Every application is evaluated in 4 categories with certain number of points for each category. Final score is consisted by sum of all points from every category.

Category Points % (of final score) Explanation
UI Design: 0-30 30% judges assign points in range 0-30
User Experience (UX): 0-20 20% judges assign points in range 0-20
Usefulness: 0-20 20% judges assign points in range 0-20
Availability: 5-30 30% (from 0 to 15) + (n*5);
n is number of supported platforms (max 3)

Selection and Notification of winners

Winners are selected exclusively on the basis of overall score obtained from each judge during the evaluation phase. The scores from each of the categories are summed to obtain the overall score. Winners will be additionally notified by email before the public release of the contest results. All winners will be awarded with smartphone, tablet or money prize.

Winners Categories

Team Winner:

Best team application will be selected based on the best overall score from the all scoring categories mentioned above. This is the IEEEmadC most prestigious award.

Best Design Winner:

In this category judges are focused on overall design of the mobile application UI (User Interface). Winner application will be one that will get best score in UI Design category.

Highest Popularity App:

All submitted applications will be presented on IEEEmadC Facebook pagewith screenshot and video that shows functionality of the application. The application that gets the highest number of likes on Facebook page will be the winner application. Anyone can like the applications.

Computer Society Winner:

This is special category for the IEEE Computer Society members. Winner team members must be Computer Society student members and they will be selected by Computer Society representatives. Since this is the special category all teams (including the winner teams from three categories above) have chances to win it.

Contact and submission procedures

For any questions about this competition, please send us an email or contact us on our Facebook page. Take time to like and track us on Facebook, since it will be the main communication channel for the news related to competition. In order to participate in contest students need to register in our official submission platform. During the idea stage students will submit their ideas about mobile applications that they would like to develop. All ideas will be evaluated within few days from submission and if accepted participants can start with the app development. For the final application submission, teams will be required to send us the following:

  • Screenshots of the working application (minimum 4)
  • Link to the short video showing feature of the application (max 3min)
  • Application installaton files (.apk, .ipa, .xap…)
  • Short description of usefulness and technical approach and tools used while developing the application (450 words max)
  • Link to the online repository(s) of the application (if the code is published online)

Agreement to the official rules

By participating in this contest, participants agree to abide by the terms and conditions as established by IEEE. IEEE reserves the right to qualify all submissions and to reject any submissions that do not meet the requirements for participation as established by IEEE.

International Conference on Computing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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(26-28th August 2013, Corinthia Hotel, Sudan Section)

RESEARCH MAKES A DIFFERENCE

The IEEE-Sudan Subsection has held its first conference, the International Conference on Computing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, during the period 26-28th August 2013, at Corinthia Hotel. The conference was technically co-sponsored by IEEE Region-8 , the University of Khartoum, Sudan University of Science and Technology and Eljazera University. It was supported by the Ministry of Science and Communications and the National Telecommunications Corporation. The conference was hailed a huge success by the organizers and attendees. It has attracted papers from 28 countries other than Sudan. A total of 341 papers were submitted and 138 were accepted.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Minster of Science and Communications, Dr. Eisa Bashari, the State Minster of Communications, the Chancellors of many Sudanese Universities or their representatives, deans of faculties of engineering and computer science of many universities, representatives of the industry.

The conference proceedings were attended by 500 delegates, from academia, researchers, postgraduate students and many undergraduates too.

The organizers are grateful to the 90 volunteers who worked day and night to make this conference the huge success it was. The conference has generated interest in research and publications.

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A number of Sudanese universities and research institutes have already shown interest in organizing conferences and requested the IEEE-Sudan to co-sponsor their conferences.

We are grateful to the following keynote speakers:

  • Professor Narayan Chandra Debnath, USA
  • Dr. Fanny Klett, Germany, Region-8
  • Prof. Dr. Hinghung Anthony Chan, USA

The conference event was reported on Sudan TV, Sudan Radio and various other local newspapers and media channels.

I am including a summary of the icceee13 Conference statistics  and the icceee13 Program .

Dr. Sharief F. Babiker
IEEE-Sudan Subsection Chair
Chairman, ICCEEE
University of Khartoum

Middle East Student Branch Congress

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American University of Beirut, Lebanon

MESBC - June 2013 - At the opening Ceremony

The IEEE – AUB Student Branch in Lebanon had the honor of hosting the third IEEE Middle East Student Branch Congress (MEBSC) between May 28th and June 1st, 2013 on the American University of Beirut’s (AUB) campus. Attendees and speakers, from Cyprus, Egypt, France, Jordan, Palestine, Poland, Sudan, Turkey, and Tunisia came to be part of this conference. The opening ceremony was addressed first by AUB’s Provost Dr. Ahmad Dallal followed by Dean Makram Suidan, Dean of the faculty of Engineering and Architecture at AUB, succeeded by Dr. Ghassan Shaban, IEEE Lebanon Chair. IEEE Region 8 representatives gave a few words as well: Ms. Simay Akar, R8 Student Chapter coordinator, Mr. Muhammad Mustafa, TISP Global Team member, and Mr. Maciej Borowka, EPICS Global Team member. The opening ceremony ended with a speech by Mr. Yahia Sinno, MESBC committee Chair. The congress held several technical, professional, and IEEE workshops and lectures. In addition, participants attended many activities including an icebreaker barbecue and sightseeing of Beirut and Jeita grotto. At the Gala dinner, the name of the rally paper, FM TV competition and the traditional Delegation of Aspiration (DOA) competition were announced. The winning student branch of the DOA is An-Najah Student Branch (Palestine) and it will be hosting the next MESBC 2015.

MESBC - June 2013 - Logo

Below is the list of lectures, plenary sessions, and workshops that were given during the MESBC 2013:

 

Thursday 30 May 2013
Type Title Speaker Speaker Affiliation
Plenary Session Entrepreneurship Dr. Tarek Kettaneh American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Plenary Session IEEE Day Ms. Simay Akar IEEE R8 Student Chapters Coordinator, Turkey
Workshop Arabic Text Mining Mr. Jad Makhlouta American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Workshop Laughter Yoga Ms. Sabine Jizi Laughter Yoga Teacher and Leader, Lebanon
Workshop WIE Ms. Simay Akar IEEE R8 Student Chapters Coordinator, Turkey
Workshop TISP Mr. Muhamad Mustafa IEEE TISP Global Team Member, Jordan
Lecture EPICS in IEEE Mr. Maciej Borwka IEEE EPICS Global Team Member, Poland
Lecture How to find an online job in 10 simple steps Mr. Mohammad Hijazi Online Collaborative, Lebanon
Lecture Integration of RES in Power Systems Dr.Imad Mougharbel Lebanese University, Lebanon
Lecture Internet Security Mr. Khodor Hamandi American University of Beirut, Lebanon

 

Friday 31 May 2013
Type Title Speaker Speaker Affiliation
Plenary Session History of IEEE Mr. Costas Stasopoulos IEEE R8 Director-Elect, Cyprus
Workshop Unleash the speaker within you Mr. Hani Mashnouk& Mr. Mostafa Tamimi Toastmasters, Lebanon
Workshop Mobile Applications development Mr. Elie Nasr FOO, Lebanon
Workshop Make my Day with Your True Colors Ms. Pamela Doumit Marketing and Media Advisor, Lebanon
Lecture Imitating Nature to overcome medical and biological challenges Dr.Hala Zreiqat The University of Sydney, Australia
Lecture IEEE Region 8 student branch activities unchained Mr. Maciej Borowka IEEE EPICS Global Team Member, Poland
Lecture Future Trends in communications Dr. Youssef Nasser American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Lecture Discover GOLD Mr. Marc Chedid IEEE GOLD Affinity Group, Lebanon

 

MESBC - June 2013 - At the Gala Dinner