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IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2024

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Get ready for an unparalleled tech experience at the IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2024, happening in the dynamic city of Grenoble, France, from July 15th to July 19th! Check the Congress website https://grenoble-2024.ieeer8syp.org/ and monitor social media to stay updated.

The IEEE R8 Students & Young Professionals Congress, or simply R8 SYP Congress, is one of the most famous and important events in Region 8. It is held every 2 years and brings together students and young professionals in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) from all sections in Region 8. It is an excellent opportunity for IEEE members to network and develop their technical and cross-disciplinary skills.

During the Congress, a wide variety of workshops and conferences are organized, dealing with exciting and up-to-the-minute technical subjects. At the same time, the conference offers training workshops on soft skills, essential for teamwork. In addition to this training program, social activities are planned to enable participants to exchange ideas and experience a wide range of cultures.

In its 14th edition, this biennial event is the largest gathering of students and young professionals in Region 8, attracting bright minds from diverse Sections worldwide. The congress is a melting pot of innovation, fostering engineering sense and capabilities, and providing a global platform for networking with industry leaders.

IEEE Fellow Elevation Process

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IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. IEEE Region 8 is keen on increasing the number of IEEE Fellow nominations and encourages Senior or Life Senior Members to examine the elevation process and pre-requisites available at IEEE Fellow Program Website.

 

Towards the goal of increasing the number of nominations for IEEE Fellow status, IEEE Region 8 has formed a dedicated Ad-hoc committee Fellow Members Search, currently chaired by Maria Teresa Correia de Barros (contact). The Ad-hoc has coordinated with Dr. Don Tan, Chair of the IEEE Fellow Committee 2023-2024, to organize an online presentation on the IEEE Fellow program process and best practices entitled “Towards the Fellow Grade”. It was held on 1-Dec-2023 and attended by nearly 160 participants, with a long Q&A part at the end. You can find the video and corresponding slides below, together with topic abstract and speaker’s biography.

Slides from the IEEE Fellow elevation process presentation are available here:

Slides – Don Tan – Towards the Fellow Grade

When these slides are used for presentations, please give credit to the IEEE Fellow Committee and Dr. Don Tan, IEEE Fellow Committee Chair 2023-2024, for having them prepared and made available.

Video on IEEE Fellow elevation process available here:

Video Recording – Don Tan – Towards the Fellow Grade

 

 

 

Abstract: IEEE fellow grade is a prestigious recognition by the Institute to a single individual for his or her technical accomplishments in impacting society at large. It is highly sought-after across the globe. How do you answer the question then: Am I qualified to be considered for an IEEE fellow? What is the best way to prepare a nomination package? This talk by Dr. Don Tan will provide a unique perspective from an IEEE Fellow Committee Chair’s viewpoint. It tries to demystify the fellow nomination and evaluation process. This is part of a continued effort to help increase the nomination pool size each year, particularly from underrepresented geographic areas, such as Region 9, African Council, Eastern Europe, Pacific Inlanders, etc. and underrepresented technical disciplines, such as industry, standards, education, etc. Topics include: 1) IEEE membership grades, 2) Relevant membership statistics, 3) Find a mentor/sponsor, 4) Judging yourself, 5) Importance of your nomination package, and 6) Reference resources.

 

Biography: Dr. Tan is with NGSS, where he served to executive level as Distinguished Engineer, Fellow, Chief Engineer-Power Conversion, program manager, department manager, and center director (acting). Don earned his PhD from Caltech and is an IEEE fellow. Well-recognized as a visionary leader in ultra-efficient power conversion and electronic energy systems, he has pioneered breakthrough innovations with high impact industry firsts and record performances that “significantly enhance our national security.” Recent launch of JWST Space Telescope represents human’s most power telescope for a historical mission. His suite of the world-class electronics performed flawlessly for JWST on orbit, one million miles sway, with record-breaking performances.

Don has delivered 70+ keynotes/invited global presentations. He is, among others, Chair, IEEE Fellow Committee, IEEE Board of Directors, Vice Chair, Industry Engagement Committee and Immediate Past Steering Committee Chair, IEEE PELS/PES eGrid. He was Director, IEEE Board of Directors, PELS Long Range Planning Committee Chair, Nomination Committee Chair, PELS President, Editor-in-Chief (Founding) for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, General Conference Chair for APEC, Vice President-Operations, Guest Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Fellow Committee, Vice President-Meetings, IEEE Chair for IEEE/Google Little Box Challenge (awarded $1M cash prize), and IEEE/DoD Working Group Chair, developed IEEE/ANSI stds 1515/1573. He also serves on many national and international award, review and selection committees.

IEEE Senior Member Elevation Process

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Senior member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply. IEEE members can self-nominate, or be nominated, for Senior Member grade. To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must:

  • Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields
  • Have experience reflecting professional maturity
  • Have been in professional practice for at least 10 years (with some credit for certain degrees)
  • Show significant performance over a period of at least 5 of their years in professional practice

IEEE Region 8 is highly encouraging applications already from our Young Professional members who fulfill the above criteria and inviting everyone to learn more about the process at IEEE Senior Member Website. To facilitate the number of applications, IEEE Region 8 has formed a dedicated Ad-hoc committee Senior Members Search, currently chaired by Dusanka Boskovic (contact).

Standards Coordination

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Current Team

 


Mona Ghassemian (UK&Ireland), Chair
Tuncer Baykas (Turkey), Past Chair
Shmuel Auster (Israel)

David Law (UK&Ireland)

Region 8 Coordination for Standards

Overview

The IEEE R8 Standards Coordination committee arranges standards speakers as a service to support IEEE R8 Sections, Chapters, Student Branches and Conferences with high qualified industry professionals and standards development experts on various aspects of standardization. Standards speakers are organised not only to benefit the IEEE R8 Sections, Chapters, Student Branches and Conferences, they can also be effective in generating interest in membership.

Topic areas can include Aerospace Electronics, Antennas and Propagation, Batteries, Communications, Computer Technology, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Green and Clean Technology, Healthcare IT, Industry Applications, Instrumentation and Measurement, Nuclear Power, Power and Energy, Smart Grid, Software and Systems Engineering, Transportation, Wired and Wireless Communications as well standard development in general. If you are interested in an area not listed, it is possible that a standards speaker can be identified.

Standards speakers for events and conferences

A standards speaker may be arranged to provide a keynote address in relation to a particular standard, technical area of standardization or standardization in general. Alternatively, a standards speaker can provide a presentation(s) or tutorial(s) on a particular standard, area of standardization, or standardization in general. Finally, multiple speakers may be arranged to provide an entire standards track, again in relation to a particular standard, area of standardization, or standardization in general. In some cases, it may be possible that the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will have an interest in providing a standard at the event or conference.

Standards Section, Chapter and student branch events

A speaker may be arranged for a Section, Chapter and student branch events to speak about a particular standard, technical area of standardization or standardization in general.

Alternatively, a standard workshop may be arranged for a Section, Chapter or student branch on ‘Demystifying Standards’. Such a workshop covers the value of standards in general, as well as specific technical topics geared to audience interest and is presented by standards speaker(s). Such a workshop can be customised to be as short as a couple of presentations, to an all-day immersion into particular standards series or topic. Such events are suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and can be customised for educators or industry professionals in engineering, computing, technology and business fields.

In addition there is the potential that an IEEE Section, Chapter and student branch may be able to host the Standards Game. While the Standards Game is being sold as a product, there is the opportunity to run it for sections and student branches at no cost with a qualified volunteer(s) serving as facilitators. The Standards Game does not require technical knowledge and is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, and industry professionals in engineering, computing, and technology and business fields. To run the Standards Game successfully there is a requirement for a minimum number of committed attendees in excess of 25.

Standards events

A Section may partner with the IEEE R8 Standards Coordination committee, and potentially with the IEEE-SA, to stage a public standards event such as a Standards Workshop or Standards Summit to engage with industry or government. An important component in making such an event feasible is having local section members that can help facilitate outreach to local industry or government.

Financial support

To support the activities of the IEEE R8 Sections, Chapters, Student Branches and Conferences, the IEEE R8 Standards Coordinator committee can reimburse the travel costs of each standards speaker up to a normal limit of $250 per speaker per engagement. In exceptional circumstances, for example, the need for intercontinental travel, a high amount may be available. In all circumstances, any financial support is subject to agreement and program budget constraints. Before making any travel arrangements a standards speaker shall first obtain approval for his or her travel budget from the IEEE R8 Standards Coordinator.

Sharing of expenses between the benefiting Section, Chapter Student Branch or Conference is expected. For example, a benefiting Section, Chapter Student Branch or Conference can arrange the meeting space as well as audio-visual equipment such as a projector and screen. In addition, they could provide refreshment at the event, local transportation for the standards speaker and meals and accommodation if necessary. In addition, a benefiting Conference is expected to waive any registration fee for the standards speaker(s) if the standards speaker(s) only attends the portion of the conference necessary to provide the standards event.

It is recommended that on an expensive trip, the inviting entity works with the standards speaker(s) to arrange for multiple opportunities. As an example, when an event will involve a standards speaker travelling intercontinentally, addition events in the same city, country, or nearby countries, should be arranged to occur at the same time.

Requesting a standards speaker

In order to evaluate a request for a standards speaker please send a request to IEEE R8 Standards Coordinator. Please include as much information about the request as possible, but at a minimum please provide the following. Please request a speaker with as much advanced notice as possible, all request will receive an initial response within ten working days.

  • Name of requesting IEEE R8 Sections, Chapters, Student Branches and Conferences

— [           ]

  • Type of request (please select from below)

— [ ] Track for event or conference

— [ ] Speaker(s) for event or conference

— [ ] Section, Chapter, Student Branch event

— [ ] Speaker(s) for webinar

— [ ] Standards Game

— [ ] Other, please explain

  • The topic speaker will present

— [           ]

  • Date, time, and location of the engagement.

— Date: [  /  /    ]

— Time: From [  :  ] to [  :  ]

— Location [    ]

  • Audience

— Estimated audience size: [  ]

— Expect audience type (engineers? students?)

About the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is a globally recognized standards-setting body which develops consensus standards through an open process that brings diverse parts of an industry together. These standards set specifications and procedures to ensure that products and services are fit for their purpose and perform as intended. The IEEE-SA has a portfolio of more than 870 completed standards and more than 400 standards in development. Over 15,000 IEEE members worldwide belong to IEEE-SA and voluntarily participate in standards activities. For further information on IEEE-SA, see the Standards Association website.

If you wish to learn more about the development of IEEE Standards, visit the IEEE Standards Development website. Here you can find out about the standards process, how to join IEEE-Standards Association, training material, a standards companion, standards and operation manuals, and FAQs. Even if you are unable to attend IEEE standards development meetings in person many Working Groups operate website and email reflectors where their activities can be followed. Please see the list of Working Group Areas.

IEEE Connecting Experts webinars by IEEE Young Professionals – December 2020

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To close the year with IEEE Connecting Experts program, we are bringing you five webinars in December on the topics of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Soft skills. Over the year, we have held altogether 43 webinars with over 20.000 views and we are bringing you this edition together with IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, IEEE Croatia Section and IEEE Region 8 Entrepreneurship Initiative.

 

 

For IEEE members who would like to actively participate in the sessions by providing text, voice or video comments and questions during discussions, you can join Webex calls. For this, please register your e-mail within the following form (you may use IEEE login as well) and you will receive tailored details for each upcoming webinar few days before. You can also find this option in the IEEE Connecting Experts Calendar that is regularly updated with Webex registration details together with events, topic and speaker descriptions.

 

For all others who are interested, we are regularly live streaming the sessions on our Facebook page and Youtube channel so feel free to share info with all of your friends and colleagues. You can also see find the previous talk recordings there (check both added videos and live streams).

 

Remain healthy and safe,

IEEE Region 8 Young Professionals

IEEE Connecting Experts webinars by IEEE Young Professionals – November 2020

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After a short break and focus on R8 Virtual SYP Congress, we are now bringing you three webinars in November on topics of Technology. We have grown together in the virtual world of 2020 and now we welcome IEEE Young Professionals Italy with their great initiative on starting whole new workshop – IEEE WSAIM.

 

 

For IEEE members who would like to actively participate in the sessions by providing text, voice or video comments and questions during discussions, you can join Webex calls. For this, please register your e-mail within the following form (you may use IEEE login as well) and you will receive tailored details for each upcoming webinar few days before. You can also find this option in the IEEE Connecting Experts Calendar that is regularly updated with Webex registration details together with events, topic and speaker descriptions.

 

For all others who are interested, we are regularly live streaming the sessions on our Facebook page and Youtube channel so feel free to share info with all of your friends and colleagues. You can also see find the previous talk recordings there (check both added videos and live streams).

 

Remain healthy and safe,

IEEE Region 8 Young Professionals

IEEE Connecting Experts – Goutam Chattopadhyay from NASA’s JPL: “Are We Alone?”

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Robotics missions such as Voyager, which continues to go beyond our solar system, missions to Mars and other planets, exploring the stars and galaxies for astrophysics missions, exploring and answering the question, “are we alone in this universe?” has been the driving force for NASA scientists for more than six decades.

 

We are addressing The Question from the technical perspective by bringing you a webinar that will present the latest research carried out at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, entitled:

“Are We Alone? NASA Technologies to Find Life Beyond Earth and Answers to Other Science Questions”,

by Prof. Goutam Chattopadhyay, PhD, a Senior Scientist at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor at the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology.

The webinar is starting on September 23 at 16:10 UTC as part of IEEE Young Professionals track at IEEE Region 8 Virtual Student and Young Professional Congress 2020 and will be streamed on our Facebook page. The talk is co-organized with IEEE Microwaves Theory and Techniques Society Young Professionals.

If you wish to take an active participation in this session and the whole Congress, please register here: https://forms.gle/pj6mN3NiBwCxzvPcA – free and open. You can check the full Congress schedule at https://www.r8syp.com/vsyp-program.

Young Professionals Track at IEEE Region 8 Virtual Student and Young Professionals Congress 2020

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IEEE Region 8 Virtual Student and Young Professionals Congress (R8 vSYP) will be held during September 14th – 26th 2020 with three hours of daily content, and in total of more than 40 hours of keynote talks, addresses from IEEE officials, workshops and awards, supported by in-person or hybrid form of local meetings and presentations in countries throughout R8, which will be broadcasted for everyone as part of the program. Some of the content are speeches of IEEE President Elect Susan “Kathy” Land, IEEE Region 8 Director Magdalena Salazar Palma, technical presentation “Are We Alone?” by Goutam Chattopadhyay, a senior scientist from NASA JPL, finals of the IEEE Region 8 Entrepreneurship Initiative, and many more.

 

The Congress is a virtual substitute of the regular bi-annual IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress that gathers over 400 people from whole IEEE Region 8. Following the same spirit, the R8 vSYP will involve a series of plenary sessions, workshops, competitions, social activities, and many more – through separate Student, Young Professional and Women in Engineering tracks. It follows a good practice of virtual conferences, summits, and other business events, while striving to imbue the tailored focus for our students and young professionals. This implies learning from experts, learning from each other, learning both about the technology and cultures, strong networking, getting feedback from our volunteers to steer Region 8 and the whole IEEE, and of course, doing it all while having fun along the way!

 

Detailed program can be found at the official Congress website https://www.r8syp.com/vsyp-program and registration can be made over the registration link: https://tinyurl.com/y28ounyo, for both IEEE and non-IEEE members. Registration is free but the number of attendees is limited – so hurry up and save your spot.

 

Young Professionals Track program

Young Professionals Track at IEEE Region 8 Virtual Student and Young Professionals Congress 2020

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IEEE Region 8 Virtual Student and Young Professionals Congress (R8 vSYP) will be held during September 14th – 26th 2020 with three hours of daily content, and in total of more than 40 hours of keynote talks, addresses from IEEE officials, workshops and awards, supported by in-person or hybrid form of local meetings and presentations in countries throughout R8, which will be broadcasted for everyone as part of the program. Some of the content are speeches of IEEE President Elect Susan “Kathy” Land, IEEE Region 8 Director Magdalena Salazar Palma, technical presentation “Are We Alone?” by senior scientist from NASA JPL Goutama Chattopadhyay, finals of the IEEE Region 8 Entrepreneurship Initiative, and many more.

 

The Congress is a virtual substitute of the regular bi-annual IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress that gathers over 400 people from whole IEEE Region 8. Following the same spirit, the R8 vSYP will involve a series of plenary sessions, workshops, competitions, social activities, and many more – through separate Student, Young Professional and Women in Engineering tracks. It follows a good practice of virtual conferences, summits, and other business events, while striving to imbue the tailored focus for our students and young professionals. This implies learning from experts, learning from each other, learning both about the technology and cultures, strong networking, getting feedback from our volunteers to steer Region 8 and the whole IEEE, and of course, doing it all while having fun along the way!

 

Detailed program can be found at the official Congress website https://www.r8syp.com/vsyp-program and registration can be made over the registration link: https://tinyurl.com/y28ounyo, for both IEEE and non-IEEE members. Registration is free but number of attendees is limited so hurry up and save your spot.

 

Young Professionals Track schedule

Hackathon “Ethical dilemmas in AI – Engineering the way out”

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IEEE and the Association of Nordic Engineers (ANE), in collaboration with DataEthics.eu and the University of Copenhagen, are co-organizing the Hackathon “Ethical dilemmas in AI – Engineering the way out”, which will take place on-line on 3-4 September 2020 from 09:00 to 12:00. From IEEE side, the event is sponsored by the European Public Policy Committee and the Standards Association, and supported by the Vienna Office.

 

The hackathon, which will feature the participation of ca. 50 experts (25 from IEEE and 25 from ANE), will explore the gaps between existing guidelines and recommendations for addressing ethical issues with respect to AI technologies and the realities experienced by engineers in practice.

 

During the hackathon you will:

  • Work with professionals from the Nordic and other countries to collaboratively develop best practices and recommendations for engineers to navigate the application of new AI technologies,

  • Share own experiences and expertise, evaluate and discuss current challenges with respect to AI technologies,

  • Expand your network and exchange experiences with peers from the Nordic countries and beyond.

 

Find more information in the AI hackathon prospectus. Young Professionals are welcome to apply.