Yearly Archives: 2018

The new initiative IEEE Region 8 Today calls for contributors

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

It has been noticed that great work that is being done around IEEE Region 8 in all Sections, Societies and Affinity Groups, stays mostly local since there is a lack of sharing this information around the IEEE Region 8 Members. At the same time very interesting news Regarding IEEE, Global technological breakthroughs and initiatives are not shared widely to our members. Aiming in decreasing this, a new initiative called “IEEE Region 8 Today” has been created.  It is a portal focused on IEEE Region 8 achievements, science and innovation, coming directly by IEEE Region 8 members.

This is a Call for Contributors, for the IEEE Region 8 Today  initiative which aims to be the voice of the IEEE R8 members.

A Contributor has the following very important role:

  • He or she is the one that creates the new content for the News Portal.
  • He or she is the contact person for all local members with the News Portal.
  • He or she is the one that collects the local news, translates them (if needed), and commits them to the platform.

The following skills are required and will be taken into account for the application evaluation:

  • Excellent use of English
  • Advanced writing skills (we need samples of your work and past experience)

The following skills are desired and will be taken into account for application evaluation:

  • Experience in wordpress article authoring
  • Support by local Section (Recommendation letter)
  • Enhanced communication skills

If you are interested in making your Section and Local Activities further known, then, you can apply to become an IEEE Region 8 Today Contributor, and have a chance to be the voice of your Section!

We need:

  • A brief CV
  • A letter describing why we should pick you as a contributor
  • Samples of your published  articles
  • Recommendation letters

The above data will only be used for application evaluation and will not be shared.

Please send us your application by email at [email protected]

 

 

 

IEEE Region 8 – call for nominations

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The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Subcommittee is soliciting nominations for the following leadership positions:

  • IEEE Region 8 2019-2020 Secretary (two year commitment)
  • IEEE Region 8 2019-2020 Treasurer (two year commitment)
  • IEEE Region 8 2019 Vice Chair, Member Activities (one year commitment)
  • IEEE Region 8 2019 Vice Chair, Student Activities (one year commitment)
  • IEEE Region 8 2019 Vice Chair, Technical Activities (one year commitment)

The Region 8 N&A Subcommittee is also soliciting nominations for the members of the 2019-2020 IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee. Candidates must fulfill one of the following criteria at the time of their election (see the Region 8 Operations Manual, section R8-6.1.2):

  • be a Section Chair in office
  • have been a Section Chair within the past 3 years
  • have been a Section Chair and currently holding an elected or appointed position of the R8 Committee.

Please submit your suggestions/nominations by filling the IEEE Region 8 Nomination form (available at the IEEE Region 8 website in the ‘Documents’ section) and sending it to Costas Stasopoulos, Chair of the IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee, at [email protected] by 1 July 2018.

These IEEE Region 8 officers and the members of the IEEE Region 8 N&A Subcommittee will be elected at the Region 8 Committee meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, in October 2018. The Region 8 Committee members and all the nominees will be informed about the recommended slate of candidates for officers 5-6 weeks prior to the meeting.

For all further details, including petition processes, please refer to the IEEE Region 8 Bylaws and the IEEE Region 8 Operations Manual (available at the IEEE Region 8 website in the ‘Documents’ section), in particular the sections and R8-3.1.5-7 in the Bylaws, and the sections R8-4.4-6 ‘Secretary, Treasurer and Vice Chairs’ and R8-5 ‘Elections and appointments procedures’ in the Operations Manual.

Costas Stasopoulos,
Chair, IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee

SPC Contest 2018 Results

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The Oral Presentations  for the five finalists of the SPC 2018 were held on May 2 at Melecon 2018 at Marrakesh, Morocco.

The marks of the oral presentation, (max 30) were added to the marks from the assessment of the written paper (max 70) to give the final result. The first three prizes have also a financial reward of US$800, US$500 and US$200 respectively awarded from the IEEE Life Member Fund

First Prize

Ahmed Abdelraouf Mohamed, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport Cairo SB, Egypt, with the paper , “A Multi-Objective Distributed Generation Allocation and Sizing using Swarm Intelligence Based Algorithms”

 

Second Prize

Benjamin Chiêm, Université Catholique de Louvain SB, Belgium, with the paper, “Supervised classification of structural brain networks reveals gender differences”

 

Third Prize

Marko Mihajlovic and  Nikola Popovic, University of Niš SB, Serbia, with the paper, “Fooling a neural network with common adversarial noise”

 

Congratulations to the three winners, but also to the other two finalists

Nima Taghipour Bazargani, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran SB, Iran, with the paper, ” A Novel Approach for Probabilistic Hurricane Resiliency Assessment of an Active Distribution System Using Point Estimate Method”

Yazan Qiblawey with co-authors Ruslan Abu Sneineh, Majd Ahmed Abduljabbar and Yousef Jamal Orabi, Qatar University, Doha  SB, Qatar, with the paper, “Design and Implementation of Autonomous Surface Vehicle”

 

The SPC 2019 will be announced soon, and Student Branch Counsellors should start looking for the best student to send in a paper to the contest.

 

2018 Clementina Saduwa Award Recipient

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Dr. Ana Katalinic Mucalo was born in 1980 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1999 she started her studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, where she graduated in 2005 and obtained her PhD degree in 2013.

Since graduation, she has been with the Radiocommunications Department at the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) as a senior Expert for Microwave and Satellite Networks, dealing mostly with frequency planning and interference analysis of fixed point-to-point and satellite links, as well as with cross-border coordination for fixed networks. She has been actively engaged in several working groups within the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), namely the working group SE (Spectrum Engineering), which deals with compatibility studies and development of sharing criteria between different radiocommunications services and provides technical background for ECC decisions and recommendations, as well as the project team SE19, which deals with fixed services. She was the head of the Commission for development of the Strategy for the transition of Digital Terrestrial Television to DVB-T2 system and allocation of the Second Digital Dividend, appointed by Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure. She made considerable contribution on national legislation for fixed service, and supported the implementation of new programs and infrastructure transformation from European Union pre-accession funds as part of the Project Implementation Unit within HAKOM.

She has published 30 scientific and technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. She participated as a researcher in the European Union funded project for wireless communications COST2100 and IC1004.

She is an active IEEE member and has served in several volunteering positions: R8 Professional Activities Subcommittee Chair 2015-2016, R8 Young Professionals Subcommittee member 2013-2014, Croatia Section GOLD Affinity Group (AG) Chair 2010-2012, and Croatia Section secretary 2013-2016. She currently serves as the Croatia Section Vice-chair.

2018-October – Belgrade

 in 2018-October - Belgrade
This page contains information about the 111th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held in Belgrade on 20-21 of October 2018.

OpCom Reports

Director (Margaretha Eriksson) Director-Elect (Magdalena Salazar Palma)
Past-Director (Costas Stasopoulos) Secretary (Jan Verveckken)
Treasurer (Ralph Kennel) V/C Member Activities (Antonio Luque)
V/C Student Activities (Efthymia Arvaniti) V/C Technical Activities (Christopher James)

Subcommittee Reports

Action for Industry (AfI) History Activities Coordinator (HA) Region 8 News (R8News)
Africa Area (AA) Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee (HuA) Section Vitality Coordinator (SVC)
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 Today (Region8Today) 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

Order of the day – Belgrade

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Friday, 19 October 2018
Time Duration # Type Item Presenter
16:00 2:00:00 Registration open
18:00 0:30:00 Director’s Address Erikson
18:30 0:30:00 Serbia Section presentation Markovic
19:00 0:45:00 Technical Presentation: Tesla and Pupin Heritage Kočović
19:45 0:15:00 Welcome Reception
20:00 2:00:00 Welcome Dinner and Awards Ceremony – Dress Code: Business Casual
22:00 Dinner Ends

Saturday, 20 October 2018
Time Duration # Type Item Presenter
6:30 1:30:00 0 Breakfast Breakfast
8:00 0:05:00 100 Procedural Call to Order Eriksson
8:05 0:15:00 101 Procedural Roll Call and Introduction of New Officers Verveckken
8:20 0:05:00 102 Procedural Welcome by Serbia Section Markovic
8:25 0:05:00 103 Procedural Introductory Remarks Eriksson
8:30 0:05:00 104 Action Approval of the Agenda Eriksson
8:35 0:05:00 105 Action Approval of the Consent Agenda Eriksson
8:40 0:40:00 106 Address IEEE Region 8 Director’s Address Eriksson
9:20 0:20:00 107 Discussion Africa Council: A lasting step to an invigorating future, next steps Chukwudebe
9:40 0:15:00 108 Discussion Section’s financial health and reporting, rebates Jazstrebski
9:55 0:05:00 109 Procedural Discussion Themes Verveckken
10:00 0:20:00 Coffee Break
10:20 0:40:00 110 Workshop Workshop 1: Section’s Dashboard Szabo, Luque
11:00 0:20:00 111 Discussion Member Activities Results Luque
11:20 0:20:00 112 Discussion Young Professionals and MGA plans Barros
11:40 1:00:00 Lunch
12:40 0:20:00 201 Discussion Technical Activities Results James
13:00 0:40:00 202 Discussion Technical Sponsorship – Financial Sponsorship of Conferences Salazar Palma, Nagy
13:40 0:20:00 Coffee Break
14:00 0:50:00 203 Workshop Workshop 2: Section Business Model Canvas El Dalal
14:50 0:05:00 204 Social Group photo Verveckken
14:55 0:40:00 205 Discussion Presentation of Election candidates Stasopoulos
15:35 0:30:00 206 Discussion Executive session: Discussion on Election candidates Stasopoulos
16:05 0:20:00 207 Discussion Executive session: Voting Stasopoulos
16:25 0:05:00 208 Discussion Presentation of election results Stasopoulos
16:30 0:00:00 209 Discussion Recess Eriksson
17:50 0:10:00 Social Meeting Point for Bus: Outside Hotel
18:00 1:15:00 Social Bus Drive through Belgrade
19:15 2:45:00 Social Cruise and Dinner on Boat, Club Kej
22:00 0:10:00 Social Bus Drive to Hotel
22:10 0:10:00 Social Bus Drive to Hotel

Sunday, 21 October 2018
Time Duration # Type Item Presenter
6:30 1:30:00 0 Breakfast Breakfast, at your own leisure, in the hotel breakfast area
8:00 0:05:00 300 Procedural Call to Order and Roll Call Eriksson
8:05 0:20:00 301 Discussion Student Activities Committee report Arvaniti
8:25 0:40:00 302 Discussion Communication Strategy, Region 8 Today Luque, Dragoumanos
9:05 0:30:00 303 Discussion Treasurer’s Report Kennel
9:35 0:20:00 304 Discussion External Auditors report Taylor
9:55 0:35:00 305 Discussion R8 Budget, priorities, decisions, Open discussion
10:30 0:20:00 Social Coffee Break
10:50 0:15:00 307 Discussion Upcoming Flagship Conferences Nagy
11:05 0:20:00 308 Discussion IEEE and Industry Milojicic
11:25 0:25:00 309 Discussion IEEE Vienna Office Neppel
11:50 0:40:00 310 Discussion Motions, presentation, discussion, voting Stasopoulos
12:30 0:30:00 311 Discussion New Business All
13:00 0:05:00 312 Discussion Next R8 Meeting Attard
13:05 0:20:00 313 Discussion Welcome from the incoming Region Director Salazar Palma
13:25 0:05:00 314 Discussion Closing Remarks leaving past Region Director Stasopoulos
13:30 0:10:00 315 Discussion Closing Remarks leaving Region Director Eriksson
13:40 0:05:00 316 Info Adjournment Eriksson
13:45 1:00:00 Social Lunch

Consent Agenda
501 Action Approval of the minutes of the 110th Region 8 Committee meeting
502 Report Reports

IEEE Region 8 Awards – Winners Annoucement

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The Region 8 Awards & Recognition Subcommittee has the pleasure to announce the winners of following R8 Awards:

The 2017 Region 8 Volunteer Award: Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia Section)

The 2017 Region 8 Outstanding Section Awards:
– Small: Bosnia and Herzegovina Section
– Medium: Poland Section
– Large: Greece Section

The 2017 Region 8 Chapter of the Year Award:
– Large: Power and Energy Society Chapter – Croatia Section

The 2017 Region 8 Student Branch Chapter of the Year Award: University of Cyprus Student Branch

The 2018 Clementina Saduwa Award (Women in Engineering): Ana Katalinic Mucalo

The 2018 Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award: Ahmed Aboelsaoud

The 2018 Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award: Israel Young Professionals Affinity Group

Congratulations !