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IEEE WIE and ComSoc WICE have organized a forum entitled Women in Engineering: The Journey Continues.

Date: June 14, 2021, 10:00-12:45 EDT (GMT-4)

This will be a free virtual event, but registration is required. I hope that many of you are able to attend this special event.

The event is taking place IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC )2021. The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) is one of the IEEE Communications Society’s two flagship conferences dedicated to driving innovation in nearly every aspect of communications. Each year, around 3,000 researchers submit proposals for paper presentations and program sessions to be held at the annual conference. After extensive peer review, the best of the proposals are selected for the conference program, which includes technical papers, tutorials, workshops and industry sessions designed specifically to advance technologies, systems and infrastructure that are continuing to reshape the world and provide all users with access to an unprecedented spectrum of high-speed, seamless and cost-effective global telecommunications services. More about the conference.

You are cordially invited to Webinar& Panel: “Future Trends In Sustainability AI in Renewables” co-organized by IEEE WIE Lebanon & Turkey Section Affinity Groups

Date: Friday, May 21, 2021

Time: 5 PM- 7 PM GMT+3 (10 AM -12 PM EDT)

Facebook Live @wielebanon & @IEEETurkeyWIE

To receive the event Zoom link, join the WhatsApp Group registration: https://forms.gle/RmPf9v3xcCRXfnzV9

Speakers:

Simay Akar, CCO & Co-founder, INNOSES & Chair IEEE WIE Turkey

Dr. Dima Fares, Associate Professor & Sustainability Consultant Lebanese University

Dilara Goker, R&D Projects Manager, REENGEN

Balsam Nehme, Head of Buildings Sustainability, Dar Al- Handasah Consultants

An interest in Educational Activities has been noticed in IEEE Region 8 WiE members, showcasing a high enthusiasm of the work being done and the progress that has been achieved. With the scope of providing and promoting the available opportunities to our members, IEEE Region 8 WiE organize a web-presentation on the newly launched STEM Portal by IEEE Educational Activities and its available resources – member benefits – growth potentials and more.

The STEM Portal is for IEEE Volunteers and serves as a resource for all things related to Pre-University STEM programs and activities. Is a source of already existing fascinating educational activities and programs for IEEE volunteers to engage with a spectrum of STEM resources. Not only that, but, STEM Portal provides you the unique opportunity to submit and share your own already designed, developed and applied educational programs and to share your best practises, by being visible and accessible to everyone.

Get inspired from others, and inspire with your actions.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

7:00 PM  |  (UTC+03:00) Athens, Bucharest  |  2 hrs

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About the Speaker

Stamatis Dragoumanos is a Software Engineer and Developer with specialization on Human-Computer Interaction in Virtual and Augmented Environments with almost 15 years of experience.

He has a deep knowledge on programming languages, 3D graphics design and development, game development and web application. He is also a Chemical Engineer and has MSc in Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has a 12 year experience in teaching programming languages, algorithms and data structures on a variety of student ages and education levels. Eight years of experience out of 12 are in pre-university students as an Educator in private primary schools and public high schools. He is certified a Soft Skill Trainer by Erasmus+ and certified Professional Scrum Master I by scrum.org. He is an inquiry based learning enthusiast and he strongly believes that soft skills development is one of the most important concepts that is missing in today’s Educational System.

He has participated in the forming and first steps of 4 startups and he is awarded by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry for one of them. His research interests are on Human Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality, and Education. He is currently the Past-Chair of IEEE Region 8 Professional and Educational Activities Subcommittee, Member of IEEE STEM Portal opCom, member of IEEE EAB Pre-University Education Coordination Committee and Co-founder and Editor of IEEE Region 8 Today.

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Philosophy has traditionally treated knowledge and justice as separate notions. Along the last 15 years or so, however, Miranda Fricker has been suggesting that they are not so separate, and that there are many ways in which questions of social identity and power impinge on our epistemic agency. One important case in point is what Miranda Fricker calls testimonial injustice. This distinctive kind of injustice occurs when a speaker S tells something to a hearer H, and H, due to an identity (e.g. racial or gender) prejudice, unduly deflates the level of credibility they give to S, thereby not taking what S is saying as seriously as it deserves to be taken. According to Fricker, when this happens S is wronged in her capacity as a giver of knowledge, and so is undermined in one capacity that is essential to human value.

The speaker will end up the talk with thoughts / open questions for the audience to elaborate and share possible strategies to react against this bias.

Speaker: Tommaso Piazza -University of Pavia

Moderator: Norma Anglani -University of Pavia

Topic: ILC Networking Event supported by R8, WiE AG Italy, WiE AG Turkey, WiE-PELS
Time: Apr 29, 2021 04:00 PM (CEST) | 07:00 AM (PDT)

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04:00-05:00PM (CEST), April 29th 2021

07:00-08:00AM (PDT), April 29th 2021 

How many times have you been to an IEEE conference and didn’t see someone like you speaking on a panel—demonstrating leadership, explaining technology, and engaging with the engineering community? For women, this is a common and frustrating occurrence.

Read the full article by Lisa Lazareck-Asunta at IEEE Spectrum

Call for Proposals: IEEE Region 8 WIE Awards  2020!

Download the Detailed Application Guidelines for the Region 8 Women in Engineering (WIE) awards and the Clementina Saduwa Award for the year 2020 and submit your application now!

Deadline: 1st February 2020
We look forward to receiving your applications!

Congratulations for the R8 WIE Awards 2019 Winners!

(Picture taken at the awards ceremony taking place at the IEEE WIE ILS Portugal 2019)

• Region 8 Women in Engineering Section Affinity Group of the Year Award goes to IEEE WIE UK and Ireland Affinity Group.
• Region 8 Women in Engineering Student Affinity Group of the Year Award goes to IEEE WIE ENIM Student Affinity Group, Tunisia WIE SB AG.
• Region 8 Outstanding Women in Engineering Section Volunteer Award goes to Ms. Randa Hammami from Tunisia.
• Region 8 Outstanding Women in Engineering Student Volunteer Award goes to Mr. Khoubeyb Layouni from Tunisia.
  Please have a look at the awards’ Guidelines and previous Recipients. For more information, please contact us by email ([email protected]), on Facebook, or Instagram!