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The first meeting of the Region’s 8 Operating Committee was held on the 24-26th January in Qatar. Beside the discussions on the future directions of R8 strategic activities and the details of the R8 Committee meeting agenda in Venice, OpCom members had meetings with the Qatar Section officers and local engineers community.
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Although the Section is quite “young”, has been in existence for only 5 years, it has been developing and expanding very dynamically. Section Chair Yacob Almulla and Secretary Tariq Masood had prepared an impressive itinerary which, on the first day, included the meeting with a few presentations demonstrating the Section’s activity, technical presentations by several Gulf leaders on the general area of energy on the second day, and a visit at Qatar Petroleum on the last day.
Jozef Modelski
Region 8 Director
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The first meeting of the Region’s 8 Operating Committee was held on the 24-26th January in Qatar. Beside the discussions on the future directions of R8 strategic activities and the details of the R8 Committee meeting agenda in Venice, OpCom members had meetings with the Qatar Section officers and local engineers community.
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Although the Section is quite “young”, has been in existence for only 5 years, it has been developing and expanding very dynamically. Section Chair Yacob Almulla and Secretary Tariq Masood had prepared an impressive itinerary which, on the first day, included the meeting with a few presentations demonstrating the Section’s activity, technical presentations by several Gulf leaders on the general area of energy on the second day, and a visit at Qatar Petroleum on the last day.
Jozef Modelski
Region 8 Director
[singlepic id=1287 w=89 h=125 float=left] For details, please visit the >Technical Activities > Chapters website .
The Nomination Form can be downloaded here:
R8 Chapter of the Year 2008 Award Nomination Form__2009-01-08
Section Chairs are kindly requested to submit the completed Nomination Form before the specified due date of February 15th, 2009.
Colleagues who are going to submit an Award Nomination but can not meet the deadline of Feb 15 are kindly requested to indicate it in a formless email to [email protected]
Final date of extended submission: February 20, 2009.
[singlepic id=1286 w=104 h=138 float=left] With the arrival of 2009, comes a transition of the Region’s Management and on this occasion, I would like thank the entire outgoing R8 Directory for their contribution and involvement, especially the Past Director Jean-Gabriel Remy and our OpCom members who ended their terms of office, in particular Baldomir Zajc, Martin Baastians, and George Paunovic, but also all outgoing Coordinators and Section Chairs. At the same time, I would like to welcome on board the members of our newManagement. For a complete list of 2009 Directory please look up the Committee fold.
It is one of the most enjoyable pieces of news to be spread at the beginning of the New Year. The most telling evidence behind our Region’s achievements and its high status in the Institute are our Fellow members. It is my unconcealed pleasure to congratulate all of the 63 newly elevated IEEE Region 8 Fellows, which is definitely a record-breaking number, on receiving this most acclaimed Institutes’ title (see www.ieee.org/fellows). Coming from various environments, they are its scientific leaders, missionaries and pioneers. Therefore, I would like to strongly encourage our younger members to follow those prominent examples, so as to contribute to the Institute’s strength and enhancement.
Jozef Modelski, R8 Director
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Kuwait Section
Mohsen Guizani Israel Section Ron Kimmel Germany Section Georg Boeck Aleksander Braginski Manfred Depenbrock Gerhard Fettweis Wolfgang Heinrich Uwe Helmke Arne Jacob Ludger Klinkenbusch Rudolf Koch Ralf Koetter Klaus Petermann Peter Vary Wolfram Wellssow Hans-JoachimWunderlich |
Italy Section
Roberto Battiti Pasquale Daponte Paolo Fiorini Andrea Lacaita Matteo Pastorino Dario Petri Sebastiano Serpico Enrico Zanoni Qatar Section Mohamed Alouini Russia (Siberia) Section Nikolai Voropai Spain Section Francisco Ares Juan Martin-Sanchez Switzerland Section Helmut Boelcskei Dragan Damjanovic Jean-Pierre Hubaux Peter Steimer |
Turkey Section
Levent Gurel Levent Sevgi UK & RI Section Bashir Al-Hashimi Alessandro Astolfi Sheng Chen Alan Clements Rodney Coates Martin Dawson Orla Feely Nicholas Jennings Emil Levi Wayne Luk Steve Young Zi-Qiang Zhu Ukraine Section Konstantin Lukin Felix Yanovsky |
[singlepic id=1285 w=150 h=125 float=left] Region 8 Committee members Marko Delimar (2009 IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect) and Saurabh Sinha (2009 IEEE South Africa Section Chair) were featured in the December Issue of The Institute (print and online version) in an article‘Meet The Volunteers Driving Membership Recruitment’‘. For more information please follow this link.
Every year in early November the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board collects nominations for their different, very prestigious awards. This year two of these awards go to two GOLD members in IEEE Region 8:
[singlepic id=1283 w=70 h=77 float=left] The IEEE MGA GOLD Achievement Award goes to
Adrian Pais, Benelux Section “for extraordinary leadership and valuable contributions to the development of the IEEE GOLDRush newsletter.”
[singlepic id=1284 w=70 h=91 float=right] The IEEE MGA Achievement Award goes to
Ahmed Osama Mikkawi, Egypt Section “for his outstanding efforts in the GOLD and Women in Engineering programs for fostering inspiration among IEEE members.”
Congratulations to Adrian and Ahmed!
Check out the whole list of awardees at
http://www.ieee.org/web/volunteers/mga/home/Awards/2008_MGA_Award_Recipents.html
[singlepic id=1282 w= h= float=left] 16th International Conference on Telecommunications
Marrakech, Morocco, 25-27 May 2009
http://www.ict09.org/
Paper submission deadline: 19 December 2008
The 16th ICT will be held on 25-27 May 2009 in the city of Marrakech, Morocco: a land of culture and history. The conference will bring together distinguished individuals from academia and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in various fields of Telecommunications. The 16th ICT will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, technical presentations, and exhibition opportunities.
In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in integrating stand-alone wireless networks with infrastructured wireless networks to create more adaptable and robust communications systems. Moreover, the world of telecommunications is continuously adopting new Internet technologies, and there has been a trend towards decentralized and self-organizing network architectures. Security of communications systems becomes of paramount importance in these contexts.
ICT’09 Technical Programme will reflect on such trends.
[singlepic id=1281 w= h= float=left] At the 2008 Educational Activities Board Awards Ceremony at New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA on 14th November, Kurt Richter, an Emeritus Professor of the Technical University of Vienna at Graz, Austria, and a former Director of IEEE Region 8, received the 2008 IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education.
The citation is “for outstanding contributions as a teacher and organiser of management and leadership continuing education programs for IEEE members in Region 8”
The photo shows (left to right) IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect Jozef Modelski, Kurt Richter, and IEEE President Lewis Terman, taken at the conclusion of the awards-ceremony.
Dr. Kurt Richter introduced Leadership and Management Workshops in Region 8, and taught many of them himself, in Sections throughout the Region. The workshops are primarily targeted at students, recent graduates and early-career engineers, and it is estimated that more than 1500 people from Region 8 have attended these workshops.
