Yearly Archives: 2019

IEEE R8 Student & Young Professional Congress History

 in Student Congresses (SYPs/SBCs)

 

It is important to note that prior to the Student Branch (and GOLD) Congresses, (annual) Transnational Student Meetings were organized where representatives of Region 8 Student Branches met. For instance, in the Netherlands (1985), Finland (1986), Switzerland (1987), Belgium (1988: over 40 students from Benelux, Denmark, UK, Finland, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the USA), Portugal (1989), the Netherlands (1991: 76 students from 12 countries) and Turkey (1992: over 45 students from 16 countries). Especially at the early student meetings, the oral finals of the Student Paper Contest were held at these meetings.

 

After the change of ‘IEEE GOLD’ into ‘IEEE Young Professionals,’ the name of the congress became ‘Student and
Young Professional Congress.’

 

 

1998 | Istanbul, Turkey, 10–13 August 1998
2000 | Eindhoven, Netherlands, 14–19 May 2000
2002 | Cairo, Egypt, 1–5 May 2002
2004 | Passau, Germany, 4–7 September 2004
2006 | Paris, France, 30 August – 3 September 2006
2008 | London, United Kingdom, 28–31 August 2008
2010 | Leuven, Belgium, 4–8 August 2010
2012 | Madrid, Spain, 25–29 July 2012
2014 | Kraków, Poland, 6–10 August 2014
2016 | Regensburg, Germany, 17–21 August 2016
2018 | Porto, Portugal, 22–25 July 2018

 

To Be Announced

 

2020|  Gothenburg, Sweden, July / August 

 

Holding an SYP Congress (Student and Young Professional Congress) is an amusing yet tricky job. To make it to a really good event, whether it’s a sectional, cross-sectional or regional congress, there are many important details that need to be attentively put into consideration. In the attached link you can find the SYP manual, prepared and updated from the field experience of regional SYP congress organizers. Please follow the link.

Cross-Sectional Student & Young Professional Congress History

 in Student Congresses (SYPs/SBCs)

 

It is important to note that prior to the Student Branch (and GOLD) Congresses, (annual) Transnational Student Meetings were organized where representatives of Region 8 Student Branches met. For instance, in the Netherlands (1985), Finland (1986), Switzerland (1987), Belgium (1988: over 40 students from Benelux, Denmark, UK, Finland, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the USA), Portugal (1989), the Netherlands (1991: 76 students from 12 countries) and Turkey (1992: over 45 students from 16 countries). Especially at the early student meetings, the oral finals of the Student Paper Contest were held at these meetings.

 

After the change of ‘IEEE GOLD’ into ‘IEEE Young Professionals,’ the name of the congress became ‘Student and
Young Professional Congress.’

 

2009 | Middle East Amman, Jordan, 11–14 May 2009
2009 | Iberian Lisbon, Portugal, 9–11 October 2009
2011 | Iberian Madrid, Spain, 11–13 March 2011
2011 | Middle East Doha, Qatar, 15–18 March 2011
2011 | Central European Linz, Austria, 13–15 May 2011
2012 | Hellenic Patras, Greece, 14–16 December 2012
2013 | Iberian Porto, Portugal, 15–17 March 2013
2013 | Central European Opole, Poland, 13–15 May 2013
2013 | Middle East Beirut, Lebanon, 28 May – 1 June 2013
2013 | Hellenic Nicosia, Cyprus, 1–3 November 2013
2015 | Iberian Alcalá de Henares / Madrid, Spain, 23–25 April 2015
2015 | Central European Zagreb, Croatia, 8–10 May 2015
2015 | West European Eindhoven, Netherlands, 20–24 May 2015
2015 | Middle East Amman, Jordan, 4–7 August 2015
2015 | Hellenic Thessaloniki, Greece, 30 October – 1 November 2015
2015 | Nordic Stockholm, Sweden, 6–8 November 2015
2017 | Gulf Cooperation Council Manama, Bahrain, 7–8 May 2017
2017 | Central European Lviv, Ukraine, 30 June – 2 July 2017
2017 | Middle East Gammarth, Tunisia, 1–4 August 2017
2017 | Africa Abuja, Nigeria, 8–10 September 2017
2017 | Nordic Vilnius, Lithuania, 20–22 October 2017
2017 | Hellenic Athens, Greece, 3–5 November 2017
2017 | West European Valencia, Spain, 16–18 November 2017
2017 | East Africa Kampala, Uganda, 23–24 November 2017
2019 | Gulf Cooperation Council Kuwait, Kuwait, 19–20 April 2019
2019 | Central European Novi Sad, Serbia, 2–4 July 2019
2019 | West European Glasgow, UK, 19–21 September 2019

2019 | Nordic Stockholm, Sweden / Helsinki, Finland, 25–27 October 2019
2019 | Hellenic, Xanthi, Greece, 8–10 November 2019

 

 

To Be Announced

 

2019 |  South Africa SYP, East Africa SYP, West Africa SYP

before 15th of December

 

 

Holding an SYP Congress and (Student and Young Professional Cross-Sectional) is an amusing yet tricky job. To make it to a really good event, whether it’s a sectional, cross-sectional or regional congress, there are many important details that need to be attentively put into consideration. In the attached link you can find the SYP manual, prepared and updated from the field experience of regional SYP congress organizers. Please follow the link.

Call for Student Awards 2020

 in News and Updates

 

 

 

Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize, annually, in each Region of the IEEE, the Student member most responsible for an extraordinary accomplishment associated with Student Activities. The value of a Student member who shows a pattern of dedication and ongoing service to a Student Branch/Student Branch Chapter is certainly recognized. The award is designed to reward a particular event, program, or product of IEEE Student Activities. It is sponsored by the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board.

 

IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

The purpose of this award is to provide public recognition of exemplary IEEE Student Branch operations.

 

IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Branch Chapter Advisor Award

Aware of the unusual and dedicated efforts of Student Branch Counselors and Branch Chapter Advisors, the Regional and Technical Activities Boards sponsor a cash award to each of the approximately ten outstanding Counselors and Advisors around the world. Winners will be those individuals who, through their work as Counselors and Advisors, exemplify the Institute’s commitment to the educational, personal, professional, and technical development of students in IEEE related fields of interest.

 

The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award

The purpose of this recognition system serves to change the mindset of our student groups from being number-driven to becoming value-driven and to acknowledge exemplary student activities around the world. The goal is to improve the quality of activities and to foster knowledge sharing among students. Ultimately, the initiative is targeted at improving student-membership growth. This will encourage and motivate students to continue to innovate and implement meaningful ideas.

 

Global IEEE Student Branch Website Contest

The purpose of this award is to recognize, annually, the most outstanding student group responsible for the development of excellent IEEE Student Branch Website for its members.

 

Deadline:

1st of February, 2020

More information:

 

https://www.ieee.org/membership/students/branch-awards.html

Second Call for IEEE R8 SPC2020

 in SPC 2020

 

 

Dear Student Branch Counsellors

 

This is a short reminder that the participation to SPC2020 should be well in hand to choose the students that participate from your Student Branch. The students having the best five papers will give a presentation at MELECON 2020 in Palermo, Italy in June 2020 with expenses covered by IEEER8. There are awards of $800, $500 and $200 for the first, second and third classified respectively.

All information on SPC Rules is contained on the website.

 

If you need any further information please contact us on [email protected]. The closing date for submission is December 1, 2019.

 

IEEE R8 SAC

TISP Week 2019 – Call for Participation

 in Announcements

In the past three years, over 2,000 teachers have been trained in 30 IEEE Sections in IEEE Region 8 and Region 10 during the TISP week. We are pleased to announce that organization of TISP Week will be continued in 2019.

 

It is a great pleasure to announce that Region 8, Region 9 and Region 10 are joining forces to organize a significant educational event spreading across 5 continents: Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, Latin America.

 

The Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) enables IEEE volunteers to share their technical expertise and demonstrate the application of engineering concepts to support the teaching and learning of science, mathematics, and technology disciplines. IEEE offers training workshops for its members on how to facilitate in-service programs for local teachers in order to help them with hands-on engineering lessons to their students. These lesson plans are aligned with education standards and they can easily be used in the classroom.

 

The TISP week is a program to facilitate the conduct teacher training workshops in multiple Sections in the Region 8, Region 9 and Region 10 within the last week of October 2019. (In order to accommodate local schedule or requirements and subject to approval by the Regional Educational Activities Coordinator, some workshops may also be held outside the TISP week dates. These workshops will still be considered as part of the TISP week program.)

 

This will showcase the incredible work being done by our education activities volunteers throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia. The objective is to train teachers to deliver Inquiry Based Science Education sessions and help the training of volunteers in the local sections. The workshops also help the local volunteers in delivering public services.

 

We would like to invite your Section to organize a workshop for school teachers during this TISP week.

 

The following rules for organizing a workshop as part of the TISP week:

 

  1. It is preferred to have a minimum of 30 school teachers to be trained.
  2. The event will last a minimum of half, or a maximum of two days long.
  3. As much as possible, the event dates should fall within the TISP week.
  4. Local Sections or other sponsoring units are expected to fund the organization of the event. IEEE EAB will reimburse only the lesson plan materials*. The maximum funding amount to be provided is up to USD 250 per workshop and it will be reimbursed after submission of the reimbursement form with evidence of the expenses such as copies of receipts.
  1. A member of the local organizing committee will participate in monthly TISP week organizing committee online calls.

 

Regional Educational Activities Coordinator  will help your local organizing committee plan an effective agenda for the workshop.

 

Information on the TISP resources in the website: http://tispweek.ieee.org which you are strongly  encouraged to visit.

 

Please let us know if you would like to participate in this meaningful event and organize a TISP workshop. To do so, please submit the application form at

https://forms.gle/JpYkRqMawu2hjhPY6  by 30th of September, 2019.

 

We will also need an endorsement letter or email by your Section’s Chair that the Section agrees to cover balance of workshop expenses, (except the lesson plan materials*).

 

For further details and questions don’t hesitate to contact [email protected]

 

 

 

*Lesson plan materials are the materials described in the lesson plan’s pdf you will implement in the workshop plus the printouts of the pdf, student worksheet and educator feedback forms. Any other expenses such as traveling, posters, promotional materials, coffee break, lunches, gifts etc. will not be covered.

New IEEE Milestones in Region 8

 in News 2019

 

IEEE History Milestone to be unveiled in GLASGOW, Scotland.

On 17th September 2019, an IEEE History Milestone will be unveiled in the Hunterian, which is a museum on the campus of the University of Glasgow.

The Milestone is to recognise the work done on the standardisation of the unit of electrical resistance (the Ohm).

 

 

Prior to this work, there were many conflicting and confusing electrical units and systems, some of which persistied in use for many years.

 

The unveiling ceremony will be followed by a Technical Symposium during the afternoon in the nearby James Watt building.

 

A.C. Davies

 

 

 

Salva’s Electric Telegraph, Barcelona

 in News 2019

 

New IEEE History Milestone in Barcelona

A new kind of electric telegraph was reported to the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences in 1804 by the Spaniard Francisco Salvá Campillo. The Milestone dedication ceremony took place on 2019 May 15 in the current location of that Royal Academy, in coincidence with the celebration of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.
 
The electric telegraph of Salvá was described in detail in a hand-written report read in front of the Barcelona Royal Academy members on 22 February 1804. That report is preserved in the Academy archives. In his report, Salvá suggest to “make the electricity be able to talk in order to transmit intelligence at a distance”. To meet that goal, the inventor arranged a modern communication system by following what later was known as the Shannon Model. That is to say, by using a transmitter made up with a Volta’s pile, a multiple communication channel set up with a number of wired cables, and a receiver based on Nicholson and Carlyle’s discovery of the electrolytic decomposition of water.
 
Salvá did not have the opportunity or the resources to complete construction of his invention and he just could carry out some partial physical demonstrations about the feasibility of his telegraph. In spite of that, his ideas inspired the telegraph proposed five years later by the German Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring to the Munich Academy of Sciences, and were described in a document more than 30 years ahead Cooke and Wheatstone’s, and Morse and Vail’s telegraphs.
 
The unveiling ceremony of the Milestone plaque in Barcelona collected more than 100 people coming from different Academies and Universities from Spain. It was presided over by the Chair of the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mr. Joan Jofré and the Director of the IEEE Spain Section, Mr. Jesús Fraile. On behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors and the IEEE Region 8, Mr. Martin Baastians, past IEEE Vice President for Member and Geographic Activities and past Director of IEEE Region 8, attended the event.
 
Firstly, Mr. Joan Jofré and Mr. Jesús Fraile, introduced the activities of the Barcelona Royal Academy and of the IEEE Spain Section, respectively. Next, Prof. Sánchez Miñana addressed the audience speaking about the life and work of Salvá, and finally, Prof. Pérez Yuste, talked about the electric telegraph of Salvá and about the process to come up with this Milestone. Prof. Pérez Yuste, IEEE Senior Member and Professor at Technical University of Madrid,  jointly with the doctorate candidate Ms. Begoña Villanueva, did the investigation and submission of the nomination required to get this Milestone approved.
 
After the speeches, all attendees moved to the entrance hall of the Academy to see the unveiling of the Milestone plaque. The citation shown is as follows: 
 
On 22 February 1804, Francisco Salvá Campillo reported to the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences, in Spain, a new kind of electric telegraph. He proposed a new method of telegraphy by combining the generation of an electric current using the recently-invented voltaic pile with detection by water electrolysis. Salvá’s report described the elements required and how they should be arranged to convey information at a distance
 

More information about this Milestone and about Salvá and his electric telegraph can be found in the following two websites:
 
Application and discussion forum about the Milestone:
http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Salva%27s_Electric_Telegraph,_1804
 
Journal paper on Salvá and his electric telegraph:

Francisco Salva‘s Electric Telegraph, Proceedings of the IEEE, ( Volume: 98 , Issue: 11 , Nov. 2010 )
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5605308

History Activities in Glasgow Updated Again

 in News 2019

The details about HISTELCON2019 to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, on 18-19th September 2019 at Strathclyde University Technology and Innovation Cenre, are now available on the conference website: www.histelcon2019.org.

There are a number of other IEEE events in Glasgow during that week including a History Milestone Unveiling at the Hunterian, which is a museum on the University of Glasgow campus and this will be followed by a free-to-attend technical symposium from 1500 to 1700.  All of this is on 17th September 2019.

IEEE History Milestone about the Standardisation of the Unit of Electrical Resistance (the OHM)

This new IEEE History Milestone to recognises the work done to standardise the unit of electrical resistance.  At the time, there were many incompatible and differing standards and selecting a single reproducible one was of great important for the successful design and operation of undersea communications cables.  The availability of fast communications by cable between continents had a huge social impact, and led to the development of better and faster communications between the peoples of the world, with a huge impact on the lives of most people.

The afternoon technical symposium requires advance registration in order to estimate numbers.  The link to register is:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-standardisation-of-electrical-measurement-units-tickets-60370453652

The symposium will take place in the James Watt South building, University of Glasgow (A1 on Campus Map), in Room 526.

 

Chair: Mike Hinchey (IEEE UK&I Section Chair)

  • Prof Peter Grant, Emeritus Regius Professor of Engineering and John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, “Early electrical resistance standards”
  • Prof Jan-Theodoor Janssen, Research Director, National Physical Laboratory, UK, “Evolution of the measurement of the Ohm over the last century”
  • Don Wright, Past President IEEE Standards Association and from Standards Strategies, Louisville, Kentucky “Changes in International Standardization over the last decade”

Closing remarks: Prof Charles Turner (formerly Siemens Professor of Electrical Engineering at King’s College London).

 

More details about this Milestone can be read at the ETHW website:

http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org/Milestone-Proposal:Standardisation_of_the_OHM

Tony Davies

2019 July 28th, updated 2019 Aug 18th

 

Student Paper Contest 2019 – Final Results

 in Hall of Fame / SPC 2019

 

The oral presentations of the finalists took place during EUROCON2019 at NoviSad, Serbia between July 1 and July 3.
The jury members were Prof Anastas Mishev, Prof Vera Markovic and Prof Paul Micallef.
Here are the results.

  • FIRST PRIZE and award of $800
    Ariane de Vroede, KULeuven SB
    “A 94 GHz Voltage-Boosted Energy Harvester in 45 nm CMOS Achieving a Peak Efficiency of 21.2% at – 8.5dBm Input Power”.
  • SECOND PRIZE and award of $500
    S. Akhavan, M. Kamarei, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, University of Tehran SB
    “Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Absence Epileptic Seizures Using Depth Recordings”.
  • THIRD PRIZE and award of $200
    Gabriele Mosaico, Matteo Saviozzi, University of Genova SB
    “A hybrid methodology for the day-ahead PV forecasting exploiting a Clear Sky Model or Artificial Neural Networks”.

The student branch of the winner – KULeuven SB – also gets the ‘Dick Poortvliet Award’ of $250.

 

IEEE Region 8 Student Branch Website Contest 2019

 in Old Contests

 

Dear IEEE Student Members,

We hope you’ve had a productive and enjoyable university semester as members of your IEEE Student Branches.

We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming IEEE Region 8 Student Branch Website Contest. While social media is usually the primary platform to advertise student branch events, to reach out to all potential members a functional and up-to-date website is essential. Maintaining a website is also a fantastic way to practice your web design skills and looks great on any student portfolio!

Each year we celebrate the top three student branch websites in Region 8, the winner of this award can then proceed to compete globally for some fantastic prizes!

Websites are evaluated on five separate criteria, including Content, Navigation, Originality, Presentation, Portability and Load time.If are a member of an IEEE Student Branch which has a fantastic website worthy of an award, please submit your entries via this online form.

Full details on this award can be found on the IEEE MGA Awards Website.

  • Please note: The nomination deadline is 15th July 2019.

Should you have any questions regarding the application process, or concerning general Student Branch matters, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best Regards,

 

Lee Crudgington

Awards and Contests

IEEE Region 8 Student Activities Committee.