Awards

The Region 8 Awards & Recognition Subcommittee has the pleasure to announce the winners of following R8 Awards:

• 2023 Region 8 Student Branch SIGHT of the Year Award: ESSTHS Student Branch SIGHT (Tunisia Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Outstanding Section SIGHT of the Year Award: Kenya Section SIGHT.

• 2023 Region 8 Women in Engineering Student Affinity Group of the Year Award: ENET’Com Student WIE Affinity Group (Tunisia Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Women in Engineering Section Affinity Group of the Year Award: IEEE Jordan Section WIE Affinity Group.

• 2023 Region 8 Outstanding Women in Engineering Student Volunteer Award: Jointly awarded to Baya Bouchaala (Tunisia Section) and Roshan Mohyeldeen Ahmed (Egypt Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Outstanding Women in Engineering Section Volunteer Award: Annabel Latham (UK & Ireland Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Young Professionals Affinity Group of the Year Award: Egypt YP Affinity Group.

• 2023 Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award: Mustafa Aqrabawe (Jordan Section), for outstanding dedication and effort on carrying out the mission of IEEE Young Professionals.

• 2023 Region 8 Student Branch Chapter of the Year (Small) Award: IEEE Ss Cyril & Methodius University SSCS Student Branch Chapter (North Macedonia Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Student Branch Chapter of the Year (Medium) Award: IEEE Yarmouk University Computer Society Chapter (Jordan Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Student Branch Chapter of the Year (Large) Award: IEEE ENISo IAS Student Branch Chapter (Tunisia Section).

• 2023 Region 8 Chapter of the Year (Small) Award: IEEE Education Society Tunisia Chapter.

• 2023 Region 8 Chapter of the Year (Medium) Award: IEEE Electron Devices Society Spain Chapter.

• 2023 Region 8 Chapter of the Year (Large) Award: IEEE Industry Applications Society Tunisia Chapter.

• 2023 Region 8 Outstanding Large Section Award: IEEE Egypt Section.

• 2023 Region 8 Volunteer Award, which awards a Region or Section volunteer based on their exceptional work and dedication to IEEE, Region 8 or Section: Catarina Silva (Portugal Section).

• 2023 Clementina Saduwa Award was established as a tribute to Clementina Saduwa, a dedicated, tireless student leader and extremely effective volunteer for IEEE who passed away in January 2007. This award is given to a female professional in IEEE’s fields of interest based on her career achievements and recognizes outstanding women engineers who, through their engineering and career achievements, have demonstrated noteworthy support for women in the profession and have established a record of excellence: Simay Akar (Turkey Section).