Yearly Archives: 2017

IEEE Region 8 Young Professionals Awards

 in Awards / YP News

Yep, it’s that time of the year again: awards season is here! And as an active Young Professionals volunteer, you should keep your eye on these two:

  • IEEE Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award
  • IEEE Region 8 Young Professional Exceptional Volunteer Award

The submission form is filled online, through FluidReview platform, which can be reached via the following link: http://ieee-r8.fluidreview.com/.

 

The nominations deadline for both the R8 Young Professionals Awards is the 15th of June. All nominations submitted after this date will not be taken into consideration.

 

We advise you to start preparing the required nomination materials as soon as possible, since it usually takes longer than expected. The vTools activity reports are required and fundamental during the winner’s selection process, so make sure all your activities are submitted in the vTools platform through L31 reports by the time you apply.

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT NO NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL!

All nominations must be submitted through the FluidReview platform.

 

The full eligibility criteria and required documents for the nominations are described below.

 

Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award

Nomination period is open until the 15th of June 2019.

Description:

To recognize Young Professionals Affinity Groups (AG) within Region 8 for their efforts, successes and achievements in carrying out the mission of IEEE YP and the aims of IEEE in Region 8 within their Section during the calendar year of 2018. Recognition will be given to the Young Professionals AG that displayed the most successful maintenance of ongoing efforts, as well as the development and implementation of new programs. These activities shall leave an important imprint on the Section and on Region 8. The winning AG will receive a certificate providing the citation for the award and a cash prize of $400 granted by the R8 YP Subcommittee to the corresponding Young Professionals AG.

Eligibility criteria:

  • The Young Professionals AG must have at least 20 Young Professionals members;
  • All activities from 2018 must be submitted correctly to vTools on the form of L31 reports by the time of the application;
  • The Young Professionals AG must not have received another IEEE award in the past 12 months;
  • The $400 prize must be used to support local Young Professionals activities;
  • Affinity Groups which have been awarded the Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group award in the past 5 years (for years of 2013-2017) are not eligible to participate (Nigeria, UAE, Sweden, Jordan and Israel).

Nomination process:

Proposals for nominations of a Young Professionals AG for this award will be made by the Section and supported by 1 letter of endorsement by the Section Chair or another member of the Section’s Executive Committee. Alternatively, a Young Professionals Chair can also nominate a Young Professionals AG, provided that his/her nomination is endorsed by at least 1 other Young Professionals member and preferably also by a member of the Executive Committee of the Section. The documents needed to create a nomination are:

  1. Nomination letter from Section Chair or another member of the Section’s Executive Committee OR nomination letter from the Young Professionals AG chair and another Young Professionals AG member and a member of the Section’s Executive Committee;

[REQUIRED – PDF document submitted through the FluidReview nomination document upload]

  1. Motivation letter from Young Professionals AG chair;

[REQUIRED – PDF document submitted through the FluidReview nomination document upload]

  1. Link to Young Professionals AG website or Facebook page, or other online platform;

[Strongly recommended – use field provided in FluidReview nomination form]

  1. Photo report, videos, and other supporting materials to demonstrate the activities and initiatives of the Young Professionals AG during 2018.

[REQUIRED if no link to a website or online platform is provided (see previous point); it can be submitted as optional extra material even if link to website/online platform is provided – can be provided either as a website link using the field provided in the FluidReview nomination form OR as a PDF document attached to the nomination]

Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award

Nomination period is closed by the 15th of June 2019.

Description:

To recognize a volunteer within Region 8 for his/her dedication towards the mission of IEEE Young Professionals. The recognition will be given to a devoted Young Professional member that presents the most successful maintenance of ongoing efforts, leadership skills, and remarkable development and implementation of new ideas and programs within the last year. These activities shall have an important impact on the Section and on Region 8 Young Professional community, and other IEEE members. The winner will receive an award and diploma providing the citation for the award granted by the Region 8 Young Professionals Subcommittee.

Eligibility criteria:

  • The volunteer must not have received another IEEE award in the past 12 months;
  • The candidate’s Affinity Group must not have been awarded with the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in the previous year;
  • The Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award nominee cannot belong to an Young Professionals Affinity Group nominated to the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in the same year;
  • The volunteer must be a Young Professional member of an active Young Professionals Affinity Group in good standing, i.e. with all the required reporting up to date and elections in order;
  • Members of Region 8 Young Professionals Subcommittee are not eligible to be nominated;
  • Self nominations are not allowed.

Nomination process:

  1. Endorsement letter from Section Chair or other member of the Section’s Executive Committee or the Young Professionals AG chair;

[REQUIRED – PDF document submitted through the FluidReview nomination document upload]

  1. Letter containing short summary of the nominee’s efforts and accomplishments, their impact and results in improving the IEEE and Young Professionals community in their Young Professionals AG and Section.

 

All nominations for both awards must be submitted through the FluidReview online platform:

http://ieee-r8.fluidreview.com/

Questions are to be submitted to

R8 Young Professionals Subcommittee  < [email protected] >

Award Selection Committee

IEEE R8 Young Professionals Subcommittee

IEEE R8 Membership Activities Vice-Chair

IEEE R8 Awards Coordinator

IEEE R8 Director

The evolution of television from Baird to the digital age

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This event will be a ‘celebration’ of the first public demonstration of television in January 1926 at 22 Frith Street London by John Logie Baird, which was attended by some 40 members of the Royal Institution (RIGB). A formal unveiling of an IEEE History Milestone Plaque to mark this achievement will take place at the Bar-Italia coffee shop in Frith Street on 26th January 2017, which is where the 1926 demonstration took place. The event at RIGB on 27th January will cover all of Baird’s TV inventions, setting them into the context of prior and subsequent TV inventions and developments.

Event is free to attend but by invitation only, with sponsorship including the IEEE Life Members Affinity Group, and IEEE Broadcast Technology, Consumer Electronics and Communications Societies.. Anyone is welcome to come to Frith Street to watch the unveiling on the previous day, expected to be at about 1400.

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Date and Time
Friday, 27 January 2017
10:15 – 16:30 GMT

Location
Royal Institution of Great Britain, London.
21 Albemarle Street.
London
W1S 4BS
United Kingdom
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4th IEEE Tunisian Students and Young Professionals Congress (TSYP) 2016: The biggest SYP attracting 550 IEEE members!

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Under the patronage of the IEEE Tunisia section < www.ieee.tn >, the IEEE ULT Student Branch had the honor to organize the 4th IEEE Tunisian Students and Young Professionals Congress (TSYP) on December 18-20, 2016 in the Medina Congress center < www.medinaevents.com >, Yassmine Hammamet, Tunisia.

Website: http://tsyp.ieee.tn

As always, the IEEE Tunisian SYP congress continued to attract more and more IEEE members. During 3 days, about 550 IEEE engineering students from 20 Tunisian public schools and private universities as well as IEEE young professionals gather together to learn further details about the IEEE technical, professional, and education benefits; and to discuss the future engineering challenges. The congress attracts also IEEE members from Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt representing the student branches in their sections.

The purpose of the congress is also to help undergraduate/graduate students and young professionals gain further insight, enabling exchange of knowledge and skills. The congress is the unique event which brings all IEEE student branches in Tunisia to interact, to collaborate, and to increase effective networking.

In the opening ceremony, welcome speeches were addressed by:

  • Mr. Habib M. Kammoun, IEEE Tunisia section chair < www.ieee.tn >, who presented the IEEE and the IEEE geographic and technical units, their benefits and especially the student transition & elevation benefits, as well as the main IEEE activities organized at the international level, at the region 8 level, and at the national level.
  • Mr. Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed, CEO of Poulina Group Holding < www.poulinagroupholding.com >, who presented the venue (Medina congress center < www.medinaevents.com >) as one of more than 100 national and international companies in different engineering fields. Mr. Abdelwaheb announced that all his companies are open especially to IEEE members for internships and job offers.
  • Mr. Sadok Belaid, President of the Private University of Tunis (ULT) < www.ult-tunisie.com >, who presented the university and his active students organizers of the congress.
  • Mr. Salmen Ajili, CEO of Primatec < www.primatec.tn >, who presented the company which provides customized, innovative and cost efficient IT solutions to automotive industry around the world; in partnership with Technical Engineering in Germany; for manufacturers like Lear, BMW, Valeo, Continental, Bosh.

The program included the following professional and technical talks presented by highly qualified national and international speakers:

  • “Me, my life, and my career”, by Nadhem Bardaa, IEEE R8 Professional Speaker, CEO of NTraining, Tunisia
  • “What the CEO want?”, by Hedi Gaaya, CEO of Grands Moulins du Cap Bon, Tunisia
  • “Cloud Computing”, by Mohamed Ali Chouchane, CEO of Cloud Temple, Tunisia
  • “Laboratory Experimentation and Real-Time Computing: Hands-on Experience”, by Ahmed Rubaai, IEEE Fellow, Prof. at Howard University USA, IAS Publications department chair
  • “Who is Who, or Can Be, in “ICT Education”?”, by Edmundo Tovar Caro, IEEE Education Society, Vice President of Educational Activities, Distinguished Lecturer, Spain
  • “How can biosensor design be adapted to specific compound detection?”, by Yasmine Soussi, Prof. at ULT, Tunisia
  • “Unleashing the power of Internet of Things: challenges and key technology enablers”, by Bechir Hamdaoui, Prof. at Oregon State University USA, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
  • “Communication process”, by Eya Mahjoubi Chahed, Prof. at Polytech Sousse University, Tunisia
  • “Women in Engineering WIE” workshop, by IEEE WIE Tunisia affinity group officers
  • “IEEE Humanitarian activities”, by IEEE SIGHT Tunisia group officers < www.sight.ieee.tn >
  • “I have a Project”, by the Education foundation for Job EFE-Tunisia officers, entrepreneurship program in partnership with the US Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
  • “Abweb project”, by Amira Haddad Gharbi, Arab World Internet Institute < www.abweb.ngo >

The program also included the annual award ceremony gala dinner of the IEEE Tunisia section. The A&R committee presented the following winners:

  • Outstanding Student Branch Award: ISSAT Sousse Student Branch
  • Outstanding Student Branch Chapter Award: PES Student chapter in ENIM
  • Outstanding WIE Student Affinity Group Award: ISSAT Sousse WIE student affinity group
  • Outstanding IEEE Student Publication Award:
    • Randa Hammami for her paper “A Novel Approach for Semantic Web Service Discovery” published in the 2016 IEEE 25th International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE); and
    • Naima Chouikhi for her paper “A Hybrid Approach Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for Echo State Network Initialization” published in the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)
  • Outstanding IEEE Publication Award: Prof. Farouk Kamoun for his paper “Analysis of Shared Finite Storage in a Computer Network Node Environment Under General Traffic Conditions” published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications on 1980

The awards ceremony was also an occasion to present the IEEE loyal pins and certificates to recognize our members who have over 20 years of IEEE memberships. < www.ieee.tn/loyal-members/ >

Furthermore, an SB contest was organized to select the SB organizer of the next edition: In the first day, 18 student branches organized booths to present their activities to the participants as well as the invited speakers and to the section officers. In the second day, the SB prepared and presented their first drafts of projects to be improved and submitted later to the IEEE Foundation. Based on the SB activities and the proposed projects, the IEEE Tunisia section officers selected 3 SB finalists (ENIT, INSAT, ENIS) in order to present in the 3rd day their plan to organize the 5th TSYP on 17-19 December 2017. After the presentations of the SB finalists, a debate was organized and the participants were able to ask several questions to the finalists. Then, each SB vote for one of the SB finalists and the winner was the SB of the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS). Congratulations!

We trust all speakers and participants had an amazing time! Gratitude was expressed to our IEEE partners: Region 8, Industry Applications Society, Computer Society, Communications Society, Education Society, the IEEE Tunisian subunits (chapters, YP and WIE affinity groups); and our main partners: Private University of Tunis (ULT) and Primatec; and our venue: Medina congress center.

Photos:

Photos 1-2: Welcome Speech by Mr. Abdelwaheb Ben Ayed during the opening session

Photo 3: Welcome Speech by Habib M. Kammoun, IEEE Tunisia section chair

Photos 4-6: Participants in the opening session

Photos 7-9: IEEE Tunisia section Awards ceremony gala dinner with Tunisian show

Photo 10: INSAT student branch presenting the next 2017 IEEE ME-SYP

Photos 11-12: SB student branches presenting their IEEE activities

Photo 13: Participants enjoying one of the professional session

Photo 14: Networking of participants during the coffee break

Photo 15: A certificate of appreciation to the congress’ organizers “ULT Student Branch”

Photo 16: Group photo of participants

Photo 17: The SB finalists during the debate

Photos 18-19: Announcement of the vote results and the SB organizer of the next edition

Photo 20: IEEE WIE members enjoying the congress

Photos 21-22: Networking between the Egyptian, Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian participants

 

Committee in 2017

 in History

he 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

Action for Industry Team

Awards & Recognition Subcommittee

Chapter Coordination Subcommittee

Conference Coordination Subcommittee

Educational Activities Subcommittee

Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee

Membership Development Subcommittee

Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee

Professional Activities Subcommittee

Strategic Planning Subcommittee

Student Activities Subcommittee

Women in Engineering Coordinator

Young Professionals Subcommittee

Africa Area (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

Region Vitality Coordination (Ad Hoc Subcommittee)

History Activities

Life members