Monthly Archives: November 2022


IEEE WIE Africa joins in the global WIE@25 celebrations!

WIE section Chairs across the continent have collaboratively put together again a second exciting end-of-the-year event where leaders from Africa will give presentations and talks under the topic ” Reflecting on our lives as women in the STEM career”. In addition to that, winners from the student writing competition will be announced!

 

This second celebration will be on Saturday 10th December 2022 at 11:00 A.M EAT.

So, what are you waiting for? It promises to be epic, register now:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuduCgqDMsE9QbN2e6_VTbLx5GqQ9dXGL6


Pre-University Educational Activities are changing the game for Girls in STEM

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Portugal Affinity Group and its Student Branch from Instituto Superior de Lisboa, WIE-IST, are co-organizing a series of webinars, as a hybrid event, free of charge.

 

You can now fill in the form below to register for the second webinar!

 

Title: Pre-University Educational Activities are changing the game for Girls in STEM
Date & Time: Nov 30, 2022 5:00 PM UTC+0 (Lisbon time)
Local: Online
Speaker: Stamatis Dragoumanos

 

About this webinar Stereotyping is an operation of the human mind which is established to process information more quickly. It is a skill and a curse that is being developed while we grow up and it depends on our experiences and the environment we grow up in. STEM education and especially student-centric collaborative educational methods motivate young students to question stereotypes, express their creativity freely and value each other not by their sex or color but by their kindness, their will to collaborate, and their personality. Pre-University Educational Activities encourage young students to go through that process and exploration providing aftermath of refreshing results to observe!

 

Stamatis Dragoumanos is a Software Engineer and Software Developer. He has a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering and Informatics and an MSc in Computer Science and Technology from University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department. He also has a B.Eng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras Chemical Engineering Department and an MSc in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the National Technical University of Athens, Chemical Engineering Department.
 
He has 16 years of working experience in software development and he is currently working as a Software architect in the Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”. He also has 12 years of experience in teaching programming languages, algorithms, and data structures on a variety of student ages and education levels. He is an inquiry-based learning enthusiast and he strongly believes that soft skills development is one of the most important concepts that are missing in today’s Educational System. He is a certified Soft Skill Trainer by Erasmus+ and a certified Professional Scrum Master by scrum.org. Stamatis is the 2022 recipient of the IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement in Outreach and Informal Education Award and is currently serving as a volunteer in the following committees:
– IEEE EAB PreUniversity Education Coordination Committee, member
– IEEE Potentials Magazine Editorial Board, member
– IEEE The Institute Magazine Editorial Advisory Board, member
– IEEE Region 8 Professional and Educational Activities Committee, member

 

Register HERE

The Role of Data and Computer Science in the Training of Young Engineers

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Portugal Affinity Group and its Student Branch from Instituto Superior de Lisboa, WIE-IST, are co-organizing a series of webinars, as a hybrid event, free of charge.

 

You can now fill in the form below to register for the first webinar!

 

Topic: Data Science’s importance for young women
Title: The Role of Data and Computer Science in the Training of Young Engineers
Date & Time: Nov 22, 2022 12:30 PM GMT (Lisbon)
Local: Online or presential at IST Campus Alameda
Speaker: Cláudia Antunes

 

Cláudia Antunes is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa. She is PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering by the same university. Her research interests are in the area of Data Science, in particular to what concerns to the usage of knowledge domain and the exploration of the temporality to enrich the classification task. She has more than seventy papers published in journals and international conferences, and has supervised more than thirty Master thesis and a few PhDs. She has been lecturing data science courses for twenty years, both in graduation and post-graduation programs.

 

Register HERE

IEEE R8 WiE in IEEE R8 Committee Meeting in Cairo, Egypt

On October 15th 2022, during IEEE R8 Committee Meeting in Cairo, Egypt, Dr. Maria-Alexandra Paun, Chair of R8 WIE Committee, presented the activities of her amazing team for the promotion of women in engineering at Region 8 level.

 

As she finishes her term at the end of the year, the take-away message and key word of two-year activity of R8 WIE team is the visibility we gained as speakers at various international and R8 flagship IEEE conferences. We emphasize the importance of being technical speakers and have such interventions, on top of our other current activities.

A big thank you to the whole team at R8 WIE! You have been really amazing!

 

 


Ambassador Program – 2022 IEEE International Humanitarian Technologies Conference (IHTC)

The IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference is a Multi-Regional Conference Series rotating between R7 (Canada), R8 (Africa, Europe, and Middle East), and R9 (Latin America and Caribbean).This interdisciplinary conference series focuses on showcasing challenges, success stories, lessons learnt, case studies and technological innovation related to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ICT4D and the application of Humanitarian Technologies (including Disaster Relief and Disaster Recovery) and facilitating engagement of stakeholders from the public, private, education and research and societal sectors around the world. We place a particular emphasis on facilitating participation by key stakeholder groups from low and lower middle-income countries as well as low resource communities.

IEEE IHTC organizing Committee is pleased to open a call for ambassadors for the year 2022.

The responsibilities of an ambassador are as follows:
1. Awareness of IEEE IHTC in the community.
2. Promote the video contest.
3. Urge your Institutions/Friends to participate in Conference

Perks of being an ambassador
1. Chance to work with IHTC conference committee.
2. Electronic certificate on completion of conference.
3. Free access to the IHTC sessions/activities.
If you are interested to register yourself as ambassador:  https://ihtc2022.ieee.ca/ambassador-program/

Deadline to submit the ambassador application: 20th November 2022