IEEEDuino is a student-focused hardware contest to inspire student members in Europe, Middle East, and Africa to design, build, test, and demonstrate an innovative project on an Arduino microcontroller. Innovators, makers, and developers across the region, an opportunity to take part in a hardware design and build competition and compete against others in IEEE Region 8 and win great prizes for both winning and participating!
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The final part of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest (Oral Finals) was held within the frame of the TELSIKS 2021 conference, at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia on 21 October 2021. The format of the Oral Finals was hybrid, and we managed in this difficult time of the pandemic to gather most of the finalists and jury members to participate in person. On the other hand, the hybrid form allowed those who could not travel to participate in the event online. The marks of the oral presentation in the final part (max 30) were added to the marks from the assessment of the written paper in the first part of the contest (max 70) to give the final result.
Members of the international jury who assessed the oral presentations were Prof. Paul Micallef from Malta, Prof. Mike Hinchey from Ireland, and Prof. Vera Markovic (also the SPC coordinator) from Serbia. In addition to them, Prof. Giambattista Gruosso from Italy also contributed to the work of the jury in the first part of the contest. Theodoros Chatzinikolaou, R8 Regional Student Representative attended the Oral Finals in person as well. The R8 SAC Chair, Simay Akar, participated in the event online.
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Olivier Leblanc1, Loïc Tadrist2, Nicolas Moreau1, Boris Brun1, Tristan Gilet2, Benoît Hackens1
1 UC Louvain SB, 2 University of Liege, Belgium
“An affordable pedagogical setup for wave-particule duality and applications to chaotic stadium cavity” |
In addition, the student branch of the winner, UC Louvain SB, gets an award of $250.
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Eva Boneš, Matija Marolt
University of Ljubljana SB, Slovenia
“Automatic segmentation of the Golgi apparatus in volumetric data with approximate labels” |
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Yazan Alnajjar, Jinane Mounsef
University of Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai SB, UAE
“Next-Generation Network Intrusion Detection System (NG-NIDS)” |
| Damjan Denić, Predrag Aleksov, Igor Vučković
University of Niš SB, Serbia
“Object recognition with machine learning for people with visual impairment” |
| Salma Moufid, Fatima Zahra Lachgar, Chaimae El Ainzroudi, Anass Ait Ben El Arbi
Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs SB, Morocco
“Improving Steganography using Image Compression JPEG” |
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and two other finalists!
This hybrid event provided an opportunity for students to get together and to feel the atmosphere of an international conference. In addition to the conference organizers, the local student branch (SB Nis, chaired by Milos Marjanovic) was co-hosting finalists and the R8 student representative during their stay. They got acquainted with the activities of the SB Nis and spent pleasant moments together with SB Nis representatives during their free time.
The social program included also a sightseeing tour and a nice conference dinner with live music. During the dinner, an award ceremony for SPC finalists was held.
From left to right: Damjan Denic, Igor Vuckovic, Vera Markovic, Predrag Aleksov, Eva Bones, Paul Micaleff, Olivier Leblanc, Milos Marjanovic, and Theodoros Chatzinikolaou
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When? October 25th, 2021
Who? Eszter Lukacs, Simay Akar, Vera Markovic
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When? October 5th, 2021
Who? Simay Akar, Vera Markovic
What? This is a historical milestone for IEEE members worldwide because it refers to the first time when engineers worldwide and IEEE members gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884.SPC is a competition that allows students to create and share their papers, involving themselves in an environment conducive to personal leadership and the development of their scientific/technical activity.
We would like to invite proposals to host the upcoming IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2022.
The Region 8 SYP Congress is the biggest IEEE event for students and young professionals in Region 8. 400+ members from across the region come together for five days to enhance their knowledge, expand their network, develop skills, socialise with others from a variety of cultural backgrounds and have a lot of fun!
Many students regard the SYP Congress as the highlight of their IEEE experience, so if you would like to host this prestigious event in your University in summer 2022, submit a proposal to us now!
To nominate your IEEE Student Branch to host the next SYP Congress, you must submit a proposal document to us, explaining how your IEEE team will facilitate this event and some ideas for the event programme. Suggestions for a well-prepared proposal include:
For full details and advice on how to organize a Student and Young Professional Congress in your University, please download and read The SYP Congress Manual.
The nomination is a multi-stage process.
First, a two page proposal shall be submitted to us, before 21st of September 2021. This proposal should include essential items such as: the date, location, team members, why you should be selected, student branch background and experience, ideas for the program, etc. Based on this first stage proposal, we will provide valuable feedback and suggestions for the next phase. This stage is mandatory to submit your final proposal.
Please submit the first proposal with the subject: “IEEE R8 SYP First Proposal-<Name of SB>” to [email protected].
The final proposal shall be submitted by 30 September 2021. This proposal should be less than 25 pages in length, and will be used to fully evaluate the ability of the candidates to host the IEEE R8 SYP Congress 2022. The final decision regarding the host of SYP Congress will be announced in mid-October prior to the Region 8 Autumn Meeting.
Please submit your proposal with the subject: “IEEE R8 SYP Final Proposal-<Name of SB>” to [email protected].
The Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress has been hosted in a wide variety of Sections in the past. We equally welcome applications from new and previous hosting countries, so start your application now to bring the SYP 2022 to your members!
When? August 29th, 2021
Who? Hossam Ali, Elizabeth Johnston, Simay Akar, Reiron Lopes, Jennifer Dela Cruz
What? Leading, Empowering and Engaging Future Leaders of IEEE: Student Activities Vitality Panel co-organized by IEEE Region 6-8-9-10 Student Activities Committees.
