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IEEE R8 Continuing Education (CE) Webinar in May 2013

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Two webinars were organized in May 2013 by the IEEE R8 Educational Activities Sub-Committee (EASC) Continuing Education (CE), Niovi Pavlidou, Coordinator, and George Papadopoulos, Volunteer.

The first webinar entitled “Industrial automation” was organized on May 9, 2013. The webinar was intended to all members of the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society, Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and Industry Applications Society (IAS) members in Region 8. The webinar was quite well disseminated, resulting to 32 registrations. The event was organized on the WebEx facilities and the attendance was considered as satisfactory with about 35 participants taking place. Niovi Pavlidou welcomed the participants and introduced various subcommittees relating to technical activities, with emphasis on educational activities in R8. The central speaker of the webinar was Kevit Desai, Centurion Systems, Nairobi, Kenya. The webinar was technically hosted by George Papadopoulos.

The second webinar entitled “Computer in Parallel” was organized on May 16, 2013. The target audience was all members of the IEEE Computer Society members in Region 8. This webinar, which was generally considered as the most successful of the webinar series performed so far by the IEEE R8 CE, had 177 registrations, resulting to about 50 attendees. Niovi Pavlidou opened the session, with Nikos Pitsianis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, following with his presentation. The webinar was technically hosted by George Papadopoulos.

The events were recorded on the WebEx platform and are available to everyone for free in the website of IEEE R8 EASC https://ieeer8.org/category/continuing-education-works/ce-webinars/. Stay tuned to our future events.

George Papadopoulos, IEEE R8 Volunteer for Educational Activities
Niovi Pavlidou, IEEE R8 Coordinator for Educational Activities

[IEEE R8 YP] Successful Student Branch and GOLD Congress 2012

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At the end of July, Madrid was the proud host of Region 8 SBC. The local organising committee, together with SAC and YP committees, prepared a great program during which attendees learned and acquired new technical and soft skills.
The Congress was divided in several tracks –Student, YP, Professional Activities, and plenary sessions – so every attendee was able to find something interesting. It was four very intense and demanding days where students, aside learning, had a change to network among each other. Several social events served perfectly as a platform to exchange views and ideas between attendees.
Read Full Article: R8 GOLD in Madrid, Spain
Regards,
R8 YP Committee

[IEEE R8 YP] Region 8 Student Branch Congress 2012 in Madrid, Spain

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This year, at the end of July, Madrid was a proud host of the Region 8 Student Branch Congress. The local organizing committee, together with SAC and YP committees, prepared a great program where attendees learned much and acquired new technical and soft skills. The Congress was divided into several tracks: Student, YP, Professional Activities, and plenary sessions; so every attendee was able to find something interesting.

Full article: R8 GOLD in Madrid

Regards,

R8 YP Committee

YP Operation Manual

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Operational ManualThe IEEE R8 YP committee 2013 has compiled a concise operation guide for the new YP Affinity Groups to start their IEEE and YP activities. It guides you on how to report new Affinity Group officers, activities reporting, publishing, YP awards & recognitions, recommendations and the R8 YP Team.

This operation guide will assist you in your role and responsibilities to understand the working of a YP Affinity Group. It contains information on IEEE’s YP program, tools to help you in your role, and best practices to promote YP.

Download the electronic version of The Region 8 YP Operational Manual

 

Regards,

R8 YP 2013

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Kenya Section (EPICS) Empowering the visually impaired

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On 13th February, IEEE Kenya officially launched its EPICS project to provide access for visually impaired persons to educational content on mobile devices with the signing of an MoU between IEEE Kenya, Automated Systems Research and the Kenya Society for the Blind.

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Left to right: Juliana Kivasu- CEO, Kenya Society for the Blind; Vincent Kaabunga –
Chair, IEEE Kenya; Moses Gichanga – CEO, Automated Systems Research

Under the EPICS project, five IEEE student branch members will work under the supervision of ASR to implement an automated system that will enable  visually impaired persons to access SMS and email-based content using low cost mobile phones. Additionally, eight visually impaired pre-university students from the Kenya Integrated Education Programme will also participate in the project.

The project is also being supported by SAMSUNG under their initiative to develop local content for the mobile platform.

It is envisaged that the system will ultimately become a revenue generation source for the society when the service is made available to the general public.

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Photos of IEEE President Peter W. Staecker with Dr. Imaana Kibaaya Laibuta, who is blind and is serves as a Commisioner at the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution.

2013 Clementina Saduwa Award Winner

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The winner of 2013 Clementina Saduwa award is Professor Fatma E. Z. Abou-Chadi from Mansoura University from the Egypt Section, for her professional and personal achievements.

Who is Clementina Saduwa? 

Clementina Saduwa was a tireless and extremely effective volunteer student leader a few years back, when the IEEE Nigeria Section was being revived, and she went on to become the first ever IEEE Region 8 Women In Engineering (WIE) Coordinator. In January 2007, she was killed in a random act of violence and leaves behind her husband and young daughter. She was 29 years old. To honor her rule and work throughout the years, WIE has named the award for the recognition of women engineer in Region 8 who, through their engineering and career achievements, have demonstrated noteworthy support for women in the profession and have established a benchmark of engineering excellence after her name

Objectives of the Award:

Objectives of the Award is to recognize a women engineer in Region 8 who, through her engineering and career achievements, has demonstrated noteworthy support for women in the profession and have established a benchmark of engineering.

The final decision of a committee composed of 4 past and present members of the IEEE WIE R8 committee members, was based on various aspects, including CV, personal statement, level of difficulties in achieving a professional career, reference letters, level of involvement of referees.

In the photo, from left to right: Martin Bastiaans (IEEE Region 8 Director), Joyce Mwangama (IEEE Region 8 WIE Coordinator), Fatma Abou-Chadi (Award recipient), Peter Staecker (IEEE President and CEO 2013)

2013 IEEE Fellows from Region 8

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In 2013, a total of 70 Region 8 members were elevated to the higly prestigious IEEE Fellow grade. The IEEE Fellow grade 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.

On behalf of Region 8, we would like to congratulate the newly elected IEEE Fellow members with this outstanding professional achievement.

The full list of all Region 8 members in the IEEE Fellow Class 2013 can be found here.

WIE @ LYIT 2013

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WIE@LYIT presents Selected Topics in Enterprise Applications Development

19th June  2013, 1-30-4pm in Letterkenny Institute of Technology

 

Guest speakers include Dr. David Dampier on Security in Large Scale Applications, Ms Mary Tuite on Experiences with Mainframe Application Analysis for the Banking Sector and Ms. Sharon Greene on Quality Assurance in the Enterprise.

 

The event is free to attend but registration is required to aid with catering. This event provides a forum for discussion and networking on technical topics in enterprise scale networking. As a secondary but essential element the event aims to encourage more women to progress in the field through support and advice from others.

 

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