Monthly Archives: January 2014

2014 Presidents’ Change the World Competition

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The IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition recognizes and rewards students who identify a real-world problem and apply engineering, science, computing, and leadership skills to solve it. The contest offers students the perfect opportunity to have their ingenuity and enthusiasm for engineering and technology recognized by prestigious IEEE members around the globe.
The registration will be open until January 31

If you are interested in the 2014 Presidents’ Change the World Competition, please visit the website: http://bit.ly/18LF41Y 

R8 Students Awards & Contests 2014

 in Old Contests

StepsToSuccess

Attention IEEE Students!! Nominations for Student Activities Awards are now open! Be sure to nominate your Student Branch for a project, your Counselor for recognition, and a very special student volunteer for any of these awards! More information you can find here: https://ieeer8.org/category/student-activities/awards-and-contests/sa-awards/ as well as http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/awards/student_branch_awards.html .

Committee in 2014

 in History

The IEEE Region 8 Committee consists of:

  • Section representatives
  • Operating Committee
  • Appointed Members

Section Representatives

In the IEEE Region 8 Committee, Sections are represented by their Chairs. Section Chairs may appoint an alternate representative to the Region 8 Committee. The most recent list of Region 8 Sections and their representatives to the Region 8 Committee may be found here.

Operating Committee (OpCom)

Appointed members

Ad-hoc members

Sub Committees

Awards & Recognition Subcommittee

Chapter Coordination Subcommittee

  • Elya Joffe (Israel) – Chair
  • Simay Akar (Turkey) – Student Branch Chapters
  • Members appointed by Societies/Councils

Conference Coordination Subcommittee

Educational Activities Subcommittee

Young Professionals Subcommittee

Industry Relations Subcommittee

Membership Development Subcommittee

Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee

Professional Activities Subcommittee

Strategic Planning Subcommittee

Student Activities Subcommittee

Women in Engineering Coordinator

Committee and Contacts

 in Committee
The IEEE Region 8 Committee consists of:

  • Section representatives
  • Operating Committee
  • Appointed Members

Section Representatives

In the IEEE Region 8 Committee, Sections are represented by their Chairs. Section Chairs may appoint an alternate representative to the Region 8 Committee. The most recent list of Region 8 Sections and their representatives to the Region 8 Committee may be found here.

 

Operating Committee (OpCom)

 

Zone Representative: Habib Kammoun (Tunisia)
Africa Council Chair: Isaac A. Adekanye (Nigeria)
R8 representative in Africa Council: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)

 

Appointed members

Appointed Ad-hoc members

 

Committees

 

Action for Industry (AfI) Committee

  • Toni Mattila (Finland) (Chair)
  • John Matogo (Kenya)
  • Nihel ben Youssef (Tunisia)
  • Sohaib Qamar Sheikh (UK&Ireland)
  • Cosmin Moisa (Romania)
  • Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus)
  • Stamatis Dragoumanos (Greece)
  • Serge Dos Santos (France)
  • Mohammad Galal (Egypt)

Awards & Recognition Committee

  • Antonio Luque (Spain) (Chair)
  • Peter Nagy (Hungary)
  • Ali Alfaily (Kuwait)
  • Ala Chalghaf (Tunisia)
  • Filippo Sanfilippo (Norway)
  • Vera Markovic (Serbia)
  • Ana Madureira (Portugal)
  • George Papadimitriou (Greece)

Chapter Coordination Committee

  • Anna Litvinenko (Latvia) (Chair)
  • Muhammad Al-Barham (Jordan)
  • Filippo Sanfilippo (Norway)
  • Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia)
  • Matej Pacha (Czechoslovakia)
  • Izet Kale (UK & Ireland )
  • Atif Iqbal (Qatar)
  • Adel M. Alimi (Tunisia)
  • Mohamed Ali Zormati (Tunisia)

Conference Coordination Committee

  • Tiziana Tambosso (Italy) (Chair)
  • Abdellah Kouzou (Algeria)
  • Shaun Kaplan (Germany)
  • Habib Kammoun (Tunisia)
  • Nadezda Kunicina (Latvia)
  • Robert Bierwolf (Benelux)
  • Sergio Rapuano (Italy)
  • Pascal Lorenz (France)
  • Antonio Luque (Spain)
  • Peter Nagy (Hungary)
  • Paul Cunningham (UK and Ireland)
  • Aleksandar Mastilovic (Serbia)
  • Katerina Papanikolaou (Cyprus)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

  • Gheith Abandah (Jordan) (Chair)
  • Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Adeel Sultan (UAE)
  • Alex Böhm (Germany)
  • Simay Akar (Turkey)
  • Patience Obehi Enahoro (Nigeria)

Entrepreneurship Committee

  • Rawane El-jamal (Lebanon) (Chair)
  • Mohamad Zidan (Jordan)
  • Ayat Amr (UAE)
  • Rosa Maria Delgado (Switzerland)
  • Khaled Zamzam (Egypt)
  • Umar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
  • Hend Kmiha (Tunisia)
  • Conrad Attard (Malta)
  • Mohamed El Dallal (Egypt)
  • Marco Giordani (Italy)
  • Cynthia Chepchirchir (Kenya)

Finance Committee

  • Adam Jastrzebski (UK & Ireland) (Chair)
  • Pascal Lorenz (France) (Assistant Treasurer)
  • Andreas Koltes (Germany) (Assistant Treasurer)
  • Vincenzo Piuri (Italy)
  • Antonio Luque (Spain)
  • Mohamed Neji (Tunisia)

History Activities (HA) Committee

  • Martin Bastiaans (Benelux) (Chair)
  • Tony Davies (UK & Ireland)
  • Antonio Savini (Italy)
  • Ievgen Pichkaliov (Ukraine)
  • Sergei Prokhorov (Russia)
  • Stefano Selleri (Italy)
  • Ahmed Zobaa (UK & Ireland)
  • Mathini Sellathurai (UK & Ireland)

Humanitarian Activities (HuAC) Committee

  • Theodoros Panagiotis Chatzinikolaou (Greece) (Chair)
  • Abdullateef Aliyu (Nigeria)
  • Lavender Ndunya (Kenya)
  • George Papadimitriou (Switzerland)
  • Lucija Brezočnik (Slovenia)
  • Nour Sbaoulji (Tunisia)
  • Omar Salameh (Jordan)
  • Neemat Awadelkarim (Sudan)
  • Herbert Lwanga (Uganda)
  • Simay Akar (Turkey)
  • Miriam Cunningham (UK&Ireland)
  • Magdalena Salazar-Palma (Spain)
  • Mohamed Essaaidi (Morocco)
  • Maxwell Addison (Ghana)

Life members (LM) Committee

  • Peter Magyar (Germany) (Chair)
  • Tony Davies (UK & Ireland)
  • Goce Arsov (North Macedonia)
  • Rima Fathallah (Tunisia)
  • Shmuel Auster (Israel)

Membership Development Committee

  • Mariya Antyufeyeva (Ukraine) (Chair)
  • Sara Barros (Benelux)
  • Mohab Mangoud (Bahrain)
  • Fairouz Fattoum (Tunisia)
  • Marc Lethiecq (France)
  • Mohamed Sief Mahmoud (Egypt)
  • Pawel Prajzendanc (Poland)
  • Farzaneh Abdollahi (Iran)
  • Grigore Stamatescu (Romania)
  • Ievgen Pichkaliov (Ukraine)

Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee

  • Antonio Luque (Spain) (Chair)
  • Vincenzo Piuri (Italy)
  • Mike Hinchey (UK&Ireland)
  • Vincent Egessa (Kenya)
  • Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia)

Professional and Educational Activities Committee

  • Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) (Chair)
  • Conrad Attard (Malta)
  • Dalius Navakauskas (Lithuania )
  • Ana Margarida Trigo (Portugal)
  • Mistura Muibi Tijani (Nigeria)
  • Hadi Kanaan (Lebanon)
  • Natalia Piaseczna (Poland)
  • Filippo Sanfilippo (Norway)

Publications and Communications Committee

  • Adeel Sultan (United Arab Emirates) (Chair)
  • George Michael (Cyprus)
  • Mohamed Hatem Abdulkader (Egypt)
  • Mohammad Hossein Babaee (Portugal)
  • Nick Wainwright (UK & Ireland)
  • Constandinos Mavromoustakis (Cyprus)
  • Fatma Zamil (Jordan) (Region 8 Today EiC)
  • Maja Matijasevic (Croatia) (Region 8 News EiC)

Strategic Planning Committee

  • Antonio Luque (Spain) (Chair)
  • Mike Hinchey (UK & Ireland)
  • Habib Kammoun (Tunisia)
  • Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
  • Sohaib Qamer Sheikh (UK & Ireland)
  • Ievgen Pichkaliov (Ukraine)
  • Sally Musonye (Kenya)

Student Activities Committee

  • Abdullateef Aliyu (Nigeria) (Chair)
  • Simay Akar (Turkey)
  • Khaldoun Taktak (Tunisia)
  • Ahmed Abouelnour (Egypt)
  • Fay Majid (Sudan)
  • Vera Markovic (Serbia)
  • Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Maciej Borowka (Poland)
  • Cybele Ghanem (Lebanon)

Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee

  • Wafa Ben-Hmida (UK & Ireland) (Chair)
  • Maria-Alexandra Paun (Switzerland)
  • Ana Margarida Trigo (Portugal)
  • Hazar Al Mhaseess (Jordan)
  • Sally Musonye (Kenya)
  • Efthymia Arvaniti (Austria)
  • Ala Chalghaf (Tunisia)
  • Amany Alshawi (Saudi Arabia)
  • Larissa Abi (Lebanon)
  • Roua Touihri (France)
  • Jani Dugonik (Slovenia)
  • Emtiez Akermi (Tunisia)
  • Bouchaala Baya (Tunisia)

Young Professionals Committee

  • Ines Inacio (Benelux) (Chair)
  • Ali Alfayly (Kuwait)
  • Seif Elhajjem (Tunisia)
  • Georgia Saridaki (Greece)
  • Mistura Muibideen (Nigeria)
  • Wadee HajAli (Palestine)
  • Barbara Vujkov (Serbia)
  • Almedin Kavaz (Switzerland)
  • Ahsan Qamer (Germany)
  • Zillah Nangobi (Uganda)
  • Mohamed Saeed Darweesh (Egypt)
  • Agnieszka Zagozdzinska-Bochenek (Switzerland)

 

Ad hoc Committees

 

Alternate membership payments (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Nadine Abbas (Lebanon) (Chair)
  • Andreas Koltes (Germany)
  • George Eduful (Ghana)
  • Hassene Seddik (Tunisia)
  • Ariel Phiri (Zambia)

Careers New Initiative (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Mohamed Amin (Egypt) (Chair)
  • Andreas Neumeier (Germany)
  • Haya Youssef (UK & Ireland)

Climate Change (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Paul Cunningham (UK & Ireland) (Chair)
  • René Garello (France)
  • Cybele Ghanam (Lebanon)
  • Maurine Chepkemoi (Kenya)
  • Aoife M. Foley (UK & Ireland)

Continu>Ed (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Vincenzo Kaabunga (Uganda) (Chair)
  • Khaled Moktar (Egypt)
  • Jospeh Mutale (Zambia)
  • Miriam Eduful (Ghana)
  • Esther Muchiri (Kenya)

Cooperation with IEEE S/TCs and National Associations (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Peter Nagy (Hungary) (Chair)
  • Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia)
  • Reinhard Moeller (Germany)
  • Shahid Mumtaz (Portugal)
  • Igor Kuzle (Croatia)
  • Erol Gelenbe (UK & Ireland )
  • Gloria Chukwudebe (Nigeria)
  • Bruno Meyer (France)
  • Mariusz Malinowski (Poland)
  • Bochra Boudriga (Tunisia)

Cross-section Technical Cooperation (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Nadezhda Kunicina (Latvia) (Chair)
  • Ahmed Zobaa (UK & Ireland )
  • Muhammad Al-Barham (Jordan)
  • Esther Muchiri (Kenya)

Educational Infrastructures (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Albert Lysko (South Africa) (Chair)
  • Murielle lacombled (France)
  • Ali Alfayly (Kuwait)
  • Neecharl Ramprosand (Mauritius)
  • Barbara Vujkov (Serbia)
  • Igor Matias (Switzerland)
  • Sohaib Qamer (UK&Ireland)
  • Ala’ Khalifah (Jordan)
  • Aleksei Tepljakov (Estonia)

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Samarth Deo (Sweden) (Chair)
  • Ana Cigaran (Germany)
  • Abdulla Al-Kaff (Spain)
  • Resala Abdulla Aladraj (Bahrain)
  • Zoubida Alaoui Mdaghri (Morocco)
  • Lucija Brezocnik (Slovenia)

Electronic Communications (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • George Michael (Cyprus) (Chair)
  • Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus)
  • Nick Wainwright (UK & Ireland) (R8 web adhoc)
  • Mohammad Hossein Babaee (Portugal) (Social Media)
  • Mohamed Hatem Abdulkader (Egypt) (SAC-ECC)
  • Constandinos Mavromoustakis (Cyprus) (New Social Media adhoc)
  • Peter Nagy (Hungary) (exofficio MGA-IT)

Fellow Members Search (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Maria Teresa Correia de Barros (Portugal) (Chair)
  • Okyay Kaynak (Turkey)
  • Maria Pia Fanti (Italy)
  • Tariq Durrani (UK&Ireland)
  • Davor Bonefacic (Croatia)
  • Victor Fouad-Hanna (France)

IEEE Milestones Awareness (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Claire Lajoie-Mazenc (France) (Chair)
  • Adam Dabrowski (Poland)
  • Stanimir Valtchev (Portugal)
  • Levente Kovacs (Hungary)
  • Neecharl Ramprosand (Mauritius)

New Social Media (Ad Hoc Committee)

R8 Advisory (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Vincenzo Piuri (Italy) (Chair)
  • Antonio Luque (Spain)
  • Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain)
  • Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus)
  • Martin Bastiaans (Benelux)
  • Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
  • Mike Hinchey (UK&Ireland)
  • Habib Kammoun (Tunisia)
  • Bruno Meyer (France)

Region 8 News

  • Maja Matijasevic (Croatia) (EiC)
  • Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
  • Basant Kumar (Oman)
  • Ahmad Taher Azar (Saudi Arabia)
  • Nick Wainwright (UK & Ireland)

Region 8 Today (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Fatma Zamil (Jordan) (EiC)
  • Mohammad Hailat (Spain)
  • Abdullah Hassan (Saudi Arabia)

SAC Contests, Awards and Recognitions (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Vera Markovic (Serbia) (Chair)
  • Lee Crudgington (UK&Ireland)
  • Millicent Kwangari (South Africa)
  • Haris Capelj (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
  • Matteo Bruno Lodi (Italy)
  • Rim Chihi (Tunisia)
  • Abdelrahman Mohammed (Egypt)
  • Yahya Al Belushi (Oman)
  • Raja Boussada (Tunisia)

SAC Electronic Communications (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Fay Majid (Sudan) (Chair)
  • Stefan Momyr (North Macedonia)
  • Sahar Youssef (Tunisia)
  • Mohammed Hatem (Egypt)

SAC Training and Leadership Support (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Khaldoun Taktak (Tunisia) (Chair)
  • Krishna Ajith (UAE)
  • Alkiviadis Michalitsis (Greece)
  • Eldar Sabanovic (Lituania)
  • Andre Cakici (Turkey)
  • Larissa Abi (Lebanon)
  • Mohamed Ali Zormati (Tunisia)
  • Gina Carrillo (Norway)

SAC New Initiatives (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Vildana Hrnjić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Chair)
  • Soula Vasiliki-Seie (Greece)
  • Abdulhameed Raji (UK & Ireland)
  • Martyna Borak (Poland)
  • Igor Matias (Switzerland)
  • Rastko Zeljkovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Youcef Islem Malk (Algeria)
  • Rhoda Akello (Kenya)

Sections Congress Coordination

Social Media (Ad Hoc Committee)

Sections Vitality and Development

  • Ana Maria Madureira (‎Portugal) (Region Vitality Coordinator)
  • Ahmed Hassan Yousef (Egypt)
  • Catarina Silva (Portugal)
  • Andreas Koltes (Germany)
  • Sanja Lazarova-Molnar (Denmark)
  • Isabelle Kandagor (Kenya)
  • Conrad Attard (Malta)
  • Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia)
  • Martin Bastiaans (Benelux)
  • Matej Zajc (Slovenia)

Secretariat (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia) (Chair)
  • Martin Bastiaans (Benelux)
  • Aniko Szakal (Hungary) (Assistant Secretary)
  • George Michael (Cyprus)
  • Maria Efthymiou (Cyprus)

Senior Members Search (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Dusanka Boskovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) (Chair)
  • John Funso-Adebayo (Nigeria)
  • Mohammad Salah (Jordan)
  • Catarina Silva (Portugal)
  • Assem Nasser (Morocco)
  • Lucian Toma (Romania)

Standards Coordination Committee

  • Mona Ghassemian (UK&Ireland) (Chair)
  • Tuncer Baykas (Turkey)
  • Shmuel Auster (Israel)
  • David Law (UK&Ireland)
  • Maria-Alexandra Paun (Switzerland)
  • Shahid Mumtaz (Portugal)
  • Vikass Monebhurrun (France)
  • Albena Moveska (Bulgaria)
  • Clara Napel (Austria)

Subsections Strategic Development (Ad Hoc Committee)

Territories in crisis (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Almedin Kavaz (Switzerland) (Chair)
  • Amira Tmar (Tunisia)
  • Badr Eddine El Mohajir (Morocco)
  • Marek Jasinski (Poland)
  • Rastko Zeljkovic (Bosnia ed Erzegovina)
  • Isil Kalafat Kizilkaya (UK&Ireland)

Volunteer Pipeline (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain) (Chair)
  • Patience Obehi Enahoro (Nigeria)
  • Enrique Romero Cadaval (Spain)
  • Marek Jasinski (Poland)
  • Sara Barros (Benelux)

Web (Ad Hoc Committee)

  • Nick Wainwright (UK & Ireland) (Chair)
  • Anish Mohanan Sudhamani (Germany)
  • Periklis Chatzimisios (Greece)
  • Murat Yazici (Turkey)