R8 LM Activities 2024
IEEE Region 8 Life Members Committee 2023-2024
Chair:
Péter Magyar Germany Section
Corresponding Members:
Anthony C. Davies, UK & Ireland Section
Goce L. Arsov, North Macedonia Section
Rima Fathallah, Tunisia Section
Samir I. Shaheen, Egypt Section
Shmuel Auster, Israel Section
Life Member Award Program 2024
R8 Award Recipients
Region 8 LMAG Achievement Award
North Macedonia Section LMAG, Chair: Goce L. Arsov
Citation: For exceptional contribution to the IEEE community in North Macedonia
Region 8 Individual LM Service Award
Hugo F. Wyss, Life Fellow, Switzerland Section LMAG Chair
Citation: To recognize 20 years of promotion of IEEE activities in Region 8 and for major contributions to IEEE milestones and the history of Electrical Engineering
R8 LM Activities 2023
Life Member Award Program 2023
R8 Award Recipients
Region 8 LMAG Achievement Award
UK & Ireland Section LMAG, Charles W. Turner, Life Fellow, Chair 2022
Citation: For the motivation of Life Members and Students in IEEE activities by the planning and delivery of a comprehensive series of Milestone events and symposia
Region 8 Individual LM Service Award
Wim van Etten, Life Senior, Benelux Section LMAG,Chair 2022
Citation: Recognizing Wim van Etten’s leadership in establishing and driving the IEEE Benelux Life Member Affinity Group, culminating in three IEEE Milestones commemorating important historical developments in the Benelux
Hungary Section LMAG and R8 LMAG Group and R8 HA Committee Joint Meeting
Hosts
IEEE R8 Hungary Section LMAG
IEEE R8 History Activity Committee
IEEE R8 Life Members Committee
Venue:
Obuda University (OU), Budapest University of Technology and Economy (BUTE) and Budapest Public Transportation Company (BKV)
Date: December 5-6, 2023
Sponsors: OU, R8 MA, LMC, BKV
Technical Program
Dec 4 Welcome Dinner
Dec 5
09:00 -10:00 Opening Session (OU, R8. R8 MA)
10:00 -12:00 LMAG Session (R8 LM Committee and 10 R8 LMAGs)
13:00 -15:00 History Activity & Milestone Session (R8 HA Committee and 10 R8 LMAGs)
15:00 -17:00 Visit the University Research and Innovation Center of OU
17:00 Networking, Reception, Dinner
Dec 6
10:00 -11:00 Visit the Modular Hybrid Drive System Laboratory of BUTE
13:00 -14:00 Guided Tour in the Historical Ferenc Substation “Ferenc Áramátalakitó” of BKV
14:00 -15:30 Visit the 1st Hungarian Milesone in the Millenium Underground Railway Museum of BKV
19:00 Closing Social Event
Participants:
Hungary Section LMAG members (40 invited), Hosts representatives (~10), Local organizers (~10), R8 LMAG Chairs (10)
Registration:
Free of charge for registered participants
Preliminary registration closed on Oct 15, 2023
Final registration closed on Nov 10, 2023
Photo´s of the Meeting, taken by Luc Claesen, Benelux Section LMAG Chair
Science Award to Ulrich Reimers, Germany Section LMAG Chair
Science Award to Ulrich Reimers, Germany Section LMAG Chair
Prof. a. D. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Reimers, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany, Chair of the Germany Section LMAG received the Science Award for Information and Communication Technology from the VDE ITG “In recognition of his relevant pioneering achievements in the field of digital video broadcasting (DVB), which were recognized by the entire professional world, as well as for his scientific leadership in the merger of mobile communications and television and the resulting 5G broadcasting.”
Journal of LMAG Events
2023-02-28 GERMANY Section LMAG – Technical and Administrative Meeting 2023 Q1
Meeting Minutes
2023-05-30 GERMANY Section LMAG – Technical and Administrative Meeting 2023 Q2
2023-05-30_ Germany LMAG Meeting_Screenshot
2023-03-24 Informative Meeting on LMAG Petition Preparation in conjunction with the R8 Committee Meeting
Invitation
LMAG Petition Step by Step Training
Publications of R8 LMs
Newsletters:
- LMC Newsletter
- R8 News
- Post on the R8 LM website (see below)
Benelux Section LMAG
Bulgaria Section LMAG
Germany Section LMAG
Lebanon Section LMAG
North Macedonia Section LMAG
Switzerland Section LMAG
UK & Ireland Section LMAG
R8 LM Committee
- Cooperation and Support Published in R8 News, March 2023
- The current YPs are the future LMs – Mixed LM and YP Meeting in Prague, Published in R8 News, March 2023 & LMC Newsletter, April 2023
- Life members in R8 _ an Overview , Submitted to R8 News, May 2023
- Eleven new LMAGs in the largest LMAG regional group , LMC Newsletter submission, 2023-05-31
- Life Member Award Winners, R8 News submission, 2023-06-18
General Information
Website of the IEEE Life Members Committee
LMAG Funds
- Funding of activities is provided by Life Members Committee (LMC), Region 8 and IEEE Foundation
- A rebate of $200 to the Section is provided annually from IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board
- Groups that report at least two meetings annually will receive the $200 rebate. The rebate is increased to $275 for groups with six or more reports annually.
- Groups are authorized by the IEEE Life Members Committee an annual budget not exceeding $2,000 towards meetings or activities approved in advance by the Regional LM Coordinator. The funding will be provided upon actual expenses.
Approval and Reimbursing Process
- The funding request pre-approval of the R8 LM Coordinator by using the LMAG Fund Request Form _ Pre-approval Form
- Submission of expense report incl. the signed pre-approval form and invoices,
Types of activities of Life Member Affinity Groups
- Technical Lectures, joint activities with parent Section, visits to museums and technical sites, social gathering, luncheons
- Using existing groups’ experience, typical activities can range from: invited talks and seminars, technology-oriented meetings, history workshops and conferences, oral histories, and dialogue with other professional institutions, to initiating technical milestones, monitoring outside technical archives, museum projects, and social activities.
- In their Sections, LM Groups should cooperate with other Society chapters, affinity groups (YP and WIE) as well as with student branches – on common projects. They can work together in IEEE Foundation Grants Program, which are supported by LMC Life Members Committee. We encourage the forming of “History teams” to preserve the History of technological developments in which people participated through the use of the IEEE Global History Network (www.ieeeghn.org) and Engineering and Technology History Wiki – ethw.org
- For any advice or question, please contact Péter Magyar, IEEE Region 8 Life Members Coordinator
To form a new Affinity Group
- look at the full list of affinity groups above to see if you are already part of it
- find out if there is already an existing IEEE Section in your country – full list can be found here
- a petition to establish a LM Group requires the signature of 6 IEEE Members, including at least 2 Life Members
- if there is an IEEE Section in your country but not a LM AG, you are eligible to submit a petition – check the Guide to establish a new LMAG
Practical Advices in Administration and Holding Meetings
For finding the list of names of your LMAG members
- go to IEEE OU Analytics (login and password of member IEEE)
- choose “Memberships, subscriptions and more”
- under “Products” dropdown menu, choose only Life Members category and click apply
- see the “Details” tab
- the list of your members appears (you can export as table)
- you can also contact your Section or R8 Ad-hoc Subcommittee Chair Péter Magyar
For declaring the names of officers of your LMAG
- Go to https://officers.vtools.ieee.org
- If you are the present chair, you can add or change the officers by going to the concerned position, then go on “Add officer”. A window will be opened to asking you to give your N° of membership IEEE and the date of the start of your function. Go then on “Validate” and “Submit”
- If you are the new elected chair, go on “Chapter chair” and apply the same procedure..
For declaring your LMAG activities (event report)
- go to https://events.vtools.ieee.org/events/search
- login as IEEE member
- go to Event/Report Administration
- go to File >> Report for a Past Event
- OR go to Create an event
- two reports at least are required each year from any category (technical, professional, social, administrative)
For organizing elections
For sending a message by e-Notice
For reserving a teleconference on Webex
R8 LM Activities 2021-2022
R8 Life Members Subcommittee 2021-2022
LMAG development efforts
New LMAGs 2021-22
2021 Germany Section
2021 Czechoslovakia Section
2022 North Macedonia Section
2022 Jordan Section
2022 Turkey Section
2022 Poland Section
LMAG formation in progress, 2022
Russia Section
Finland Section
Life Member Awards 2022
LM Individual Service Award:
LMAG Achievement Award:
R8 Winners
Regional Life Member Individual Service Award 2022
Georgi Dimirovski, North Macedonia Section
Regional Life Member Affinity Group Achievement Award 2022
Germany Section LMAG, Chaired by Hagen Hultzsch
R8 Life Members Subcommittee Activity 2021-2022
LM Subcommittee Chair´s Report 2021-22
2022-12-30 R8 LM Subcommittee _ Closing Report
R8 LM Subcommittee Reports
2021-03-21 LifeMembers_116th R8C Meeting Online
2021-11-05 LifeMembers_117th R8C Meeting Frankfurt
2022-04-02 LifeMembers_118th R8C Meeting Warsaw
2022-09-21 LifeMembers_119th R8C Meeting Cairo
Article submissions – LM Newsletter, Dec 2022, printed issue
Switzerland Section LMAG is sponsoring and contributing to the extension of the ENTER National Museum of Consumer Electronics, opening in new premises by the end of 2023 in Derendingen
New LMAG in North Macedonia
Life Members at Region 8 Strategy Retreat 2022
Cooperation & Support – Important Components of the LM Activity in R8
R8 LMAG In-person Meeting Prague
Hosted by Czechoslovakia Section LMAG, Chair: Andre Sopczak
Venue: Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT), Czech Republic
Motto: The current YPs are the future LMs
Program:
26.10.2022
Arrival, Social Dinner
27.10.2022.
- Opening Session
- Opening Address, Peter Magyar, LM SC Chair
- Welcome Address, Matej Pacha, Czechoslovakia Section Chair
- Welcome Address and Introduction of CVUT, Andre Sopczak, Czechoslovakia Section LMAG Chair
- IEEE Session
- IEEE and IEEE Region 8 Update: an Overview, Magdalena Salazar Palma, R8 Past Director
- IEEE Region 8 Member Activities, Sara Barros, R8 VC Member Activities
- R8 LM Overview, Peter Magyar, LM SC Chair
- IEEE R8 History Activities Committee & IEEE Milestones, Martin J. Bastiaans, R8 HA Committee Chair, Representative of the Benelux Section LMAG
- France Section LMAG contribution to IEEE Milestone activities , Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Sorbonne University, France Section LMAG Chair on behalf of Victor Fouda Hanna, France Section LMAG Past Chair
- Activity highlights of the Hungary Section LMAG, Rudas J. Imre, Hungary Section LMAG Chair
- North Macedonia Milestone Experience, Goce Arsov, North Macedonia Section LMAG Chair
- North Macedonia – Milestone Proposal, Goce Arsov, North Macedonia Section LMAG Chair
- LMAG Technical Session
- Fuzzy Approaches to Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Sorbonne University, France Section LMAG Chair
- Finite-time-convergence Attitude Tracking Control for Rigid Spacecraft Using Chebyshev ANN and Fast-NTSM Manifold, Georgi Dimirovski, Cyril & Methodius University Skopje, North Macedonia Section LMAG Vice Chair
- Discussion
- Award Ceremony
- Awardee is Georgi Dimirovski, North Macedonia Section, R8 Winner of the IEEE Life Members Service Award 2022
- Award will be presented by Magdalena Salazar Palma, R8 Past Director & Sara Barros, R8 VC Members Activities & Goce Arsov, North Macedonia LMAG Chair & Peter Magyar, R8 LM Coordinator
- Lunch
- Group Picture
- YP Technical Session
- A Comparative Analysis of Using Distributed Ledger Technologies for Transactive Energy Systems, Kim Krawiec, IEEE YP, Dortmund University, Germany
- Validation of real-time simulation model of a three-phase active-front-end (AFE) rectifier, MD Moshiur Rahman Chowdhury, IEEE YP, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Utilization of Additive Manufacturing in Nuclear Power Industry, Stepan Jedlan, IEEE YP; Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- City Walk
- Social Dinner
27.10.2022
Departure
R8 Section Chairs and LM Subcommittee Joint Meeting, April 08, 2021
Date and Time:
Thursday, April 08, 17:00-18:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time, UTC+2).
Please use the time zone converter https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ to determine your local time.
Region 8 Section Chairs, Region 8 OpCom Members and LM AHC Members are kindly invited.
WebEx Meeting
Join from the meeting link: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?MTID=m00fb20576adbe7af296e2baad8d9c333
Join by meeting number (access code): 130 571 0190
Agenda:
- 17:00 Opening Address, Roll Call (Peter Magyar, LM AHC Chair)
- 17:05 LM Overview and R8 Opportunities (Peter Magyar, LM AHC Chair)
- 17:30:
- R8 Director´s Comment (Antonio Luque, R8 Director)
- R8 Vice Chair MA´s Comment (Sara Barros, R8 VC MA)
- Success Stories (Short reports of Organizers of new LMAGs)
- Andre Sopczak, Czechoslovakia Section
- TBD
- 17:45 Q&A Session (All participants, moderated by Vinko Lesic, R8 LM AHC Member)
- 18:00 End
Group photo of the participants at R8 Section Chairs and LM Subcommittee Joint Meeting, April 08, 2021
HA and LM Joint Committee Meeting, March 16, 2021
Date and Time:
Tuesday, March 16, 16:00-17:00 CET (Central European Time, UTC+1).
Please use the time zone converter https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ to determine your local time.
Agenda:
- 16:00 Opening Address (Peter Magyar, LM AHC Chair)
- 16:01 History Activities (Martin Bastiaans, HA AHC Chair)
- 16:15 History Activities & Life Members (Anthony C. Davies, LM AHC Corresponding Member, HA AHC Member)
- 16:20 LM AHC Introduction (P. Magyar)
- 16:30 What do we expect from the LMAGs and Sections (P. Magyar)
- 16:40 LMAG and LMC Connection (Charles W. Turner, LMC, LM AHC Ex-officio Member)
- 16:45 R8 LMAG Activity Highlights (Victor Fouad Hanna, LM AHC Past Chair, LM AHC Corresponding Member)
- 16:50 Connection to YPs and other Affinity Groups (Vinko Lesic, YP, LM AHC Corresponding Member)
- 16:55 Q&A Session (P. Magyar)
- 17:00 End
LMAG Chairs´ Meeting, February 23, 2021
Date and Time:
Tuesday, Feb 23, 17:00-18:00 CET (Central European Time, UTC+1) / 16:00-17:00 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+0).
Please use the time zone converter https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ to determine your local time.
Agenda:
- 17:00 Opening Address, Roll Call (Peter Magyar, LMAHC Chair, Germany Section)
- 17:05 LM Presentation (P. Magyar)
- 17:15 LMAG and LMC Connection (Charles W. Turner, LMC, LMAHC Ex-officio Member, UK & Ireland Section)
- 17:20 R8 LMAG Activity Highlights (Victor Fouad Hanna, LMAHC Past Chair, LMAHC Corresponding Member, France Section)
- 17:25 Connection to the History Committee (Anthony C. Davies, LMAHC Corresponding Member, France Section)
- 17:30 Connection to YPs and other Affinity Groups (Vinko Lesic, R8 YP, LMAHC Corresponding Member, Croatia Section)
- 17:35 What we expect from the LMAGs (P. Magyar)
- 17:45 Q&A Session (Moderator: Victor Fouad Hanna)
- 18:00 Closing Address (P. Magyar)
R8 Life Members Subcommittee 2019-2020
Chair: Victor Fouad Hanna, France Section
2020: Online LM CC Meeting
2019: Valencia, Spain, October 11, agenda:
- Welcome, Magdalena Salazar Palma, (R8 Director).
- Why Don’t Sections Give More Support to Life Members and LMAGs?, Charles Turner (Chair LMC)
- Report for R8 LMAGs Activities, Victor Fouad Hanna, R8 LMs Coordinator.
- Benelux LMAG report, Wim van Etten (Chair).
- Egypt LMAG report, Vice Chair.
- Coffee Break.
- Proposal for future, some projects for future implementation, Hugo Wyss, Switzerland LMAG Chair.
- France LMAG report, Jean Gabriel Remy, Officer .
- Hungary LMAG report, Imre J. Rudas (Chair).
- Italy LMAG report, Antonio Savini (Chair).
- Lunch (12h30 – 14h00).
- A Possible Development of IEEE Life Membership, Charles Turner (Chair LMC)
- FRANCE contribution to IEEE Milestones : A valuable task for Life Members, Jean Gabriel Remy.
- Lebanon LMAG report, Usamah O. Farrukh, (Chair).
- Slovenia LMAG report, Baldomir Zajc, (Chair).
- Coffee Break.
- Practical Advices in Administration and Holding Meetings, Victor Fouad Hanna, R8 LMs Coordinator.
- Spain LMAG report, Jesús “Fraile Ardanuy, (Spain Section Chair).
- Switzerland LMAG report, Hugo Wyss (Chair).
- United Kingdom and Ireland LMAG report, Charles Turner (Chair).
- Debate and Conclusions.
Notes from the meeting :
Charles Turner raised the question of the lack of support for Life member activities from the Section Committees. The two main problems were the poor state of Section websites and the low level of funding from the Section for LMAG activities. The increase of the Life member Fund budget to $90K this year is a bonus, but it was agreed that the Section Chairs need to be reminded about their responsibilities towards their Life members, especially if they have an LMAG.
Victor Fouad Hanna reviewed the status of LMAGs in Region 8. A new LMAG had been formed in Egypt this year and there were good prospects for more to be formed, especially in Poland and Sweden.
Wim van Etten reported that the Benelux Section had 115 active Life members, based on a recent survey. An EXCOM had been formed to manage the LMAG which had its own website, created using the IEEE template to be found at www.site(s).ieee.org/benelux.
Meetings were split between the Netherlands and Belgium and were open to all IEEE members. The average attendance was around 24.
An e-newsletter was sent to all LMAG members.
A Milestone ceremony to celebrate the first demonstration of WiFi would take place on October 29th at Nieuwegein, Holland.
Hugo Wyss reviewed the history of the Switzerland LMAG which had to deal with the two languages spoken in the country. He highlighted the production by Robert Weiss of a ‘tapestry’ of the history of computers. The poster would be translated from the German into French and English, and distributed to IEEE entities across the world, if funding could be secured. The LMAG worked closely with the. Section and a new Chair would be appointed shortly.
Jean Gabriel Remy reported on the Life member activities in France. The very successful technical tour held in Paris, Geneva, and Munich in 2015 had boosted LM activities in the France Section. New Milestone projects were being explored, such as the Transatlantic cable from France to Newfoundland, at an event being planned in Orleans.
Imre Rudas mentioned a strong link between the LMAG and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The relatively small number of Life members in the Section was a limiting factor.
Antonio Savini reported on the wide range of topics pursued by the Italy Section LMAG which had about 100 members. These included the history of technology, Milestone, joint meetings with the Switzerland LMAG, and a visit to the Museum of Technology in Pavia. Attracting members to meetings was a priority perhaps by introducing a social dimension, but more Life members were needed.
Usamah Farrukh reported that the Lebanon Section has only a small number of Life members but had managed to organise some successful events, including introducing robotics to schools.
Baldomir Zaic reported that there was a need to get an updated list of Life members and other retired or older members. Holding meetings via Webex would be helpful, as for other small LMAGs.
Conclusions
- The Life Member Coordinator should write to the Chair of every Section that has an LMAGA, asking them to increase financial support for their LMAG and to provide a webpage for Life member activities and news of events.
- A top priority is to facilitate the use of Webex for Life member meetings, to reduce the running costs and make it easier to connect members living away from the main urban centres.
- LMAGs should make greater use of the larger allocations for Life member activities, up to a maximum of $2,000 each year.
- LMAGs should encourage members to apply for the special projects grants available from the Life Member Fund and the IEEE Foundation.
Outlook:
- Increased collaboration between LMAGs and other IEEE Operation Units in their Sections is very important as the Section can make use of the knowledge and experience of Life Members and also from the more time that they can devote for IEEE Section activities.
- It is agreed that the inclusion of older members approaching LM status, together with retired members, would transform the viability of the smaller LMAGs.
- Resources from MGA (Life Member Committee and R8) are now reasonable to make and expand LMAGs activities.
- Sponsorship from industry and Government organizations could be available for certain types of projects.
Group picture of the latest in-presence LMAG meeting, Valencia, 2019
