Monthly Archives: December 2015

Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award winners 2015

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We are proud to present this year’s winners for the Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award! This year, the Award goes to:

  • Vinko Lesic, for his continuous dedication, enthusiasm, and hard work for IEEE as a whole and Young Professionals especially. His efforts are illustrated through his numerous contributions in various teams and committees at Section level, and all the programs and events organized as Young Professionals Croatia Affinity Group Chair, which include the signature Elevate program, where student members are introduced to Young Professionals and membership after graduation, workshops, lectures and presence in a variety of fairs and conferences to promote Young Professionals, organizing this year’s Central European Students and Young Professionals congress, in addition to bridging the gap between students and Young Professionals, and industry and academia.
  • Samarth Deo, for his continuous efforts and dedication in promoting Young Professionals in his Section, and working to bring together students, Young Professionals and WiE, in his roles in the Section’s executive committee and as past Young Professionals Sweden Affinity Group Chair, as well as organizing the first edition of the Nordic Students and Young Professionals Congress.

An honorable mention is awarded to Eddy Deeb, for his efforts, enthusiasm and hard work to revive the Young Professionals Lebanon Affinity Group, and the events he and his team have organized this year.

Finally, we would like to praise all the nominees we have had for all their dedication and work! We had lots of nominations which have made the selection process very difficult. We consider ourselves very lucky to be part of a Region that has so many outstanding volunteers, from each of its corners. Our warmest congratulations to Vinko, Samarth and Eddy, and we look forward to receiving many more remarkable nominations next year!

Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award 2015

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We are very happy to announce that the Region 8 Young Professionals Subcommittee has selected the UAE Young Professionals Affinity Group as the winner of the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award for its activities during 2014. Congratulations to the entire UAE YP team! Their efforts and dedication to the IEEE YP causes have made them stand out, and we are glad to acknowledge their successful initiatives.

We would also like to congratulate the other AGs who have submitted a nomination, for their activities and motivation! It makes us very happy to see the ongoing deep commitment of the Regional YP teams. We would like to wish the best of luck to all of them in their future activities and hopefully we will see many more nominations next year!

Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering 2016 (AFTMME-16) Call for Papers

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AFTMME is the flagship conference of India that is being organized every year starting 2012. It has become a regular forum for researchers, students, and engineers to present and exchange ideas in latest technological advancements and innovations.

In previous years, AFTMME was organized at I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandha. This year, it is a honor to state that Baba Farid College of Engineering and Technology, Bathinda, Punjab, India is going to organize the 4th International Conference AFTMME-16 under the aegis of ‘Society of Materials and Mechanical Engineers’ (SOMME) on 25-27 February, 2016.

Please send your abstract by email to [email protected] no later than January 1, 2016. More information may be found on www.bfcet.com 

IEEE Oman Forges a Sustainable Industry-Academe Linkage

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MUSCAT, Oman – Believing that local companies can get involved in education and close the gap between the needs of industries and the skills of graduates, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IIEE) – Oman section gathered together administrators of universities and colleges as well as business executives and industry leaders on 1st December 2015 to discuss how “to scale-up and institutionalize” an industry-academe linkage.

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This activity was co-organized by IEEE Oman with the Oman Society of Engineers (OSE) and the Military Technological College (MTC), who hosted and took the lead role in facilitating the preparations and organizations of the event. In general, the event seek to establish the foundation of an interactive forum between industry and academia through a more concrete approach in exchanging opinions, sharing ideas, discussing real world problems, and exploring ways to utilize the advantages of multidisciplinary engagement to enrich research, innovation and development (RID) in the Sultanate.

The one-day event was packed with series of presentations from the industry sector, poster presentation and interactive session with the representative from the academe. Experts from the Oman Drydock, Oman Railways, Oman Power and Water Procurement Company, Glass Point, and the Research Council clearly manifested the need for a greater and more appropriate industry involvement in the education system. Furthermore, they suggested that clearly defined human resource requirements in industry road maps, more one-to-one partnerships among colleges, universities and companies, more effective on-the-job training (OJT) and internship programs, collaboration on research innovation and the development of students’ general competencies are key to achieving global competitiveness.

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The academe-industry day concluded with high hopes that partnership and the corresponding collaboration between the academe and industry can bring about the kind of education that will drive inclusive and sustainable growth and development in Oman.

By: Engr. Arnold N. Santos
Secretary, IEEE Oman

2016-March – Monaco

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This page contains information about the 106th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held at the Fairmont Monte Carlo in Monaco on 19-20 of March 2016.

Agenda Book
Visa Information
 Monte Carlo, Monaco - Travel Advisory

New National Society Agreement Process [PPT]
New National Society Agreement Process Presentation Material

Saturday Presentations
Sunday Presentations

OpCom Reports

Director (Costas Stasopoulos) Director-Elect (Margaretha Eriksson)
Past-Director  (Martin Bastiaans) Secretary (Christian Schmid)
Treasurer  (Brian Harrington) V/C Member Activities (Dusanka Boskovic)
V/C Student Activities (Mona Ghassemian) V/C Technical Activities  (Igor Kuzle)

 

Subcommittee Reports

Action for Industry  (AfI) History Activities Coordinator (HA) Region Vitality Coordinator (RVC)
Awards & Recognition Subcommittee (A&RSC) Life Member Coordinator (LM) Standards Coordinator   (StC)
Chapter Coordination Subcommittee  (ChCSC) Membership Development Subcommittee  (MDSC) Strategic Planning
Conference Coordination SubCommittee  (CoCSC) Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee Voluntary Contribution Fund Coordinator (VCF)
Educational Activities SubCommittee (EASC) Professional Activities Subcommittee  (PASC) Women in Engineering Coordinator  (WIE)
Electronic Communications Coordinator  (ECC) Region 8 News (R8News) Young Professionals Subcommittee (YP)

 

Section Reports

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

Reimbursement

Meeting Schedule

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106th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting Overview
(subject to change)
  Friday Saturday Sunday
  Room1 (Naïade D) Room 2 (Naïade B/C) Room 3 (Mistrau) Room 4 (Room 3239) Main room Main room
8:00-8:30   All R8 Committee and Subcommittee
members (except Section Chairs)		     R8 Meeting  
8:30-9:00 R8 Meeting
9:00-10:00 Young Professionals
 New Volunteer Orientation Humanitarian Activities
 Membership Development
10:00-11:00
11:00-12:00 Students Activities
 Educational Activities Awards and Recognition
12:00-13:00 Professional Activities
13:00-14:00 Lunch Lunch
14:00-15:00 SYP Congress 2016
Student Activities and
Young Professionals		 Action for Industry Conference Coordination Chapter Coordination Presentations / Parallel Tracks Lunch
15:00-16:00  
16:00-17:00   Strategic Planning
17:00-18:00      
18:00-18:30 Coffee Break
18:30-20:00 France Section Presentation and Technical Lecture
(Naïade B/C/D)		 Networking Dinner
at the Café de Paris
Meeting Point Hotel Lobby
20:00-20:30 Cocktail Reception
20:30-22:30 Awards Dinner (Companions Welcome)

Order of the day

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Friday, 18 March 2016
18:00 0:30:00 Registration
18:30 0:45:00 France Section presentation Amara
19:15 0:45:00 Technical Lecture, Title TBD Olivier Wenden / Philippe Mondiell
20:00 0:30:00 Cocktail Reception
20:30 2:00:00 Dinner and Award Ceremony – Dress code: Formal Delimar
Saturday, 19 March 2016
8:00 0:05:00 100 Procedural Call to order Stasopoulos
8:05 0:15:00 101 Procedural Roll call and Introduction of new officers Schmid
8:20 0:05:00 102 Procedural Welcome by France Section Amara
8:25 0:05:00 103 Procedural Introductory remarks Stasopoulos/Schmid
8:30 0:05:00 104 Action Approval of the Agenda Stasopoulos
8:35 0:05:00 105 Action Approval of the Consent agenda Stasopoulos
8:40 0:35:00 106 Discussion IEEE Region 8 Director’s address Stasopoulos
9:15 0:20:00 107 Discussion IEEE President’s’ address Shoop
9:35 0:20:00 108 Discussion IEEE Executive Director’s address Prendergast
9:55 0:20:00 Procedural Break
10:15 0:30:00 109 Discussion Global Public Policy Day
10:45 0:10:00 110 Discussion Nominations & Appointments Bastiaans
10:55 0:40:00 111 Discussion Student Activities report Ghassemian
11:35 0:05:00 112 Discussion IEEE Region 8 SYP Congress Arvaniti/Ghassemian
11:40 0:20:00 113 Discussion MGA Chair’s address Wong
12:00 0:20:00 114 Discussion MGA Managing Director’s address Jankowski
12:20 0:40:00 115 Discussion Technical Activities report Kuzle
13:00 0:05:00 116 Discussion Presentations – Interactive Session Instructions Stasopoulos/Schmid
13:05 0:01:00 117 Procedural Recess Stasopoulos
13:06 0:04:00 118 Social Group photo
13:10 1:00:00 Social Lunch
14:10 0:05:00 200 Procedural Call to order Stasopoulos
14:15 2:30:00 201 Discussion Presentations / Parallel Tracks All
16:45 0:05:00 202 Procedural Recess Stasopoulos
18:30 1:00:00 Social Short walk (5 min) to the restaurant, Meeting point: Hotel lobby
18:50 0:45:00 Social Cocktail Reception at the Café de Paris
19:35 2:30:00 Social Dinner at the Café de Paris
Sunday, 20 March 2016
8:30 0:05:00 300 Procedural Call to order and roll call Stasopoulos/Schmid
8:35 0:45:00 301 Discussion President-Elect candidates’ debate Costa/Reder/Jefferies
9:20 0:05:00 302 Discussion Secretary’s report Schmid
9:25 0:20:00 303 Discussion Treasurer’s report Harrington
9:45 0:40:00 304 Discussion Member Activities report Boskovic
10:25 0:15:00 305 Discussion Awards & Recognitions Delimar
10:40 0:30:00 Procedural Break
11:10 0:05:00 306 Discussion Tab Piuri
11:15 0:15:00 307 Discussion Section development and vitality Szabo
11:30 1:00:00 308 Discussion IEEE in 2030 Shoop/Michel/Bartleson
12:30 0:20:00 309 Discussion Legal Issues Lach
12:50 0:20:00 310 Discussion Future Conferences (Energycon, Melecon, GCC) Kuzle
13:10 0:15:00 311 Info Sections Congress 2017 Delimar
13:25 0:05:00 312 Info Next Region 8 Committee Meeting Schmid/Madureira
13:30 0:20:00 313 Action Motions Stasopoulos
13:50 0:10:00 314 Info New business All
14:00 0:05:00 315 Action Adjournment Stasopoulos
14:05 1:00:00 316 Social Lunch
Parallel Tracks (Saturday, 19 March 2016, 14:15-16:45)
Time Duration Track 1 Track 2
Topic Presenter Topic Presenter
14:15 0:40:00 IEEE Africa Kaabunga IEEE Europe Delimar, Day, Mancarella, Mynster
14:55 0:05:00 Break
15:00 0:40:00 Humanitarian Activities / SIGHT Kulkarni, Jacob IEEE Region 10, Best Practices and Ways to Cooperate Kappagantu
15:40 0:05:00 Break
15:45 0:40:00 New National Society Agreement Process Kaplan IEEE Student and Young Professional Congress Arvaniti, Dinka, Webert, Stieglmaier

MCBS hosts Oman National Robotics Challenge

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MUSCAT, Oman. Seven teams from different colleges and universities in the Sultanate competed in this year’s Oman Robotics Challenge (ORC 2015). The event was held at the Modern College of Business and Science last November 30th under the sponsorship and direct supervision of the officers and representatives from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Oman Section.

ORC 2015 aims to inspire creativity and encourage team spirit, as young Omani students are given the opportunity to solve problems, transform abstract concepts to practical resolutions and strategies and compete in an environment different from the usual.

The challenge consists of 6 rounds and a two-hour window time is allocated for participants to build, program and test their robots before starting the actual competition. Hybrid-programmed and remote-controlled robots should be designed using both open source and commercial platforms. The robots should be able to move and carry light objects and autonomously drive them through different types of terrains and obstacles.

After the grueling rounds, the team from Sultan Qaboos University was declared winner by the panel of expert jurors both from academe and industry.

The winning team and coach received 400 USD cash prize, plaque and certificates of participation, round-trip airfare and hotel accommodation to Holiday Inn Downtown in Kuwait, where the GCC Robotics Final Round is slated to be held on 12th December 2015.

  • By Engr. Arnold N. Santos
    Secretary, IEEE Oman