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2012 CALL for NOMINATIONS

(1)  R8 OpCom Members

The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) SubCommittee is soliciting nominations for the following leadership positions:

  • R8 2013-2014 Secretary  (two years commitment)
  • R8 2013-2014 Treasurer  (two years commitment)
  • R8 2013 Vice Chair, Member Activities  (one year commitment)
  • R8 2013 Vice Chair, Student Activities  (one year commitment)
  • R8 2013 Vice Chair, Technical Activities  (one year commitment)

A description of the positions and expectations is available in:

  • IEEE REGION 8 OPERATIONS MANUAL – pp. R8-4.4, R8-4.5, R8-4.6
  • IEEE REGION 8 BYLAWS – pp. R8-3.1.5, R8-3.1.6,  R8-3.1.7

 

(2)  R8 N&A SubCommittee Members

The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) SubCommittee is soliciting nominations for:

Three new members (term 2013-2014)
of the R8 Nominations and Appointments SubCommittee (two years commitment)

Candidates must fulfill one of the following criteria at the time of their election:

  • be a Section Chair in office
  • have been a Section Chair within the past 3 years
  • have been a Section Chair and currently holding an elected or appointed position of the R8 Committee.

 

Please submit your proposals with short biography of candidate (please use the R8 template – available here)  to Jozef Modelski, Chair of the N&A SubCommittee at j.modelski@ire.pw.edu.pl

The deadline to submit nominations – 15 July 2012

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IEEE 98th Region 8 meeting in Berlin, Germany

On 31 March – 1 April 2012, the 98th IEEE Region 8 Committee meeting took place in Berlin Germany. One hundred and eighty people attended the meeting and participated in the workshops, the subcommittee meetings, the main Region 8 meeting and the social events. The scope of the workshops was the following:

1- Identify the top two good and two bad section practices that sections in Region 8 are engaged in.

2- How do sections perceive member engagement and what are the top two best practices or activities and how do they pursue that? Also try to find the bad or negative issues related to this.

3- Discuss issues to do with the public visibility of IEEE within the sections and what activities and practices can be done to enhance it.

You can take a look at the presentations during the meeting and a summary of the results of the workshops here.

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The date of the event coincided with the Regions’ 50th anniversary which was celebrated at the Berlin Technological museum. A 50 year anniversary banner was presented by IEEE president Gordon Day to Region 8 director, Marko Delimar, right after the keynote address by VDE President Alf Henryk Wulf. VDE, the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies, one of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe with more than 34,000 members. A 50 year anniversary banner was also presented to UK&RI Section chair Nihal Sinnadurai and a 25 year anniversary banner to UAE Section chair Maryam Ali Al Thani. During the meeting the very prestigious Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award was presented by IEEE president Gordon Day to Roland J. Saam, U.K. & Rep. of Ireland Section, for exemplary service and significant contributions over many years, particularly developing and maintaining the distinctive IEEE Region 8 News, which fosters collaboration and engagement across three continents.

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IEEE VT & AES Joint Greece Chapter Organizes Final/Diploma Thesis Competition (Academic Years 2009 – 2011)

The IEEE VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter has organized a Final/Diploma Thesis Competition (Academic Years 2009 – 2011) in the scientific field of “Advanced Wireless Communication Systems” with great success. There were 19 submissions from institutes all over Greece. The submissions were performed to a server host provided and supported by the International Hellenic University (IHU). Each Thesis was evaluated by 3 independent reviewers, and they all admitted the level of the participations was high. The 8 submissions with the highest score, coming from 5 different universities, were qualified to the second-final round. The final round reviewing process was performed by the Scientific Committee of the Competition.

The final round presentations and the awards ceremony took place on February 17th 2012, with about 60-65 alternating participants, students and academics, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), which provided the room. Two of the final round participants were not able to attend, so they provided a video-presentation and connected through skype for the questions section.

The winner of the Competition, Kampianakis Eleftherios, coming from the Technical University of Crete, was awarded with an iPhone 4 offered by the sponsor of the event Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A. Also, gifts and certificates of participation were distributed to the participants of the Competition.

The final round presentations and the awards ceremony was live broadcasted and is available in the website of the Chapter (http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/events/eventsen67.html). The symposium was very successful receiving congratulations and enthusiasm from all the participants of the event, the students-candidates and their Thesis supervisors.

The great success of the event has motivated the Chapter Committee to organize the Final/Diploma Thesis Competition every year. Stay tuned with our events at http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/.

Dr. George Papadopoulos

Secretary & Webmaster,

VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter

Dr. Athanasios Iossifides

Chair of the Competition and IEEE Liaison,

VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter

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Student and GOLD Congress 2012 – Madrid

We are pleased to announce you the 2012 edition of the Region 8 Student Branch & GOLD Congress. This year’s edition will be organized by the Student Branch of the Technical University of Madrid, in Madrid on 25-29 July 2012.

We would like to invite you to participate in this unique event where GOLDies from all over Region 8 will share their knowledge. The SBC is organized biannually, so don’t miss the chance to meet all the other active GOLD Affinity Groups and Student Branches of Europe, Middle East and Africa, to learn useful skills for your volunteers and get to talk about your activities, ideas and issues with the Region 8 GOLD Committee and with senior IEEE officers such as the IEEE President and the IEEE Region 8 Director!

The Region 8 GOLD Committee funds the registration fee for one representative per Region 8 GOLD Affinity Group in good standing. The funding covers a regular IEEE Student/GOLD Member registration fee, including meals and accommodation for the duration of the congress. It does not cover flights to and from the congress or local transportation, which your IEEE Section is expected to help with.

The funding criteria for R8 GOLD Support are:

  • Only 1 volunteer per GOLD Affinity Group is eligible for funding. Please make sure that only one request for funding is submitted for your Affinity Group.
  • This volunteer has to be active in the AG and has not yet attended a previous edition of the Region 8 Student Branch & GOLD Congress. The volunteer has to prove that he/she is an active volunteer (e.g. by specifying his/her volunteering position and/or which GOLD activities he/she has volunteered on in the AG).
  • The yearly reporting of your AG must be up-to-date, i.e. the 2011 activities report has already been submitted to the R8 GOLD Committee (at the latest by March 29, 2012). There is an exception for recently formed GOLD AGs: if you are a member of a recently formed GOLD AG and this AG did not have activities in 2011, you are also eligible for funding and you are encouraged to submit your funding form.

If you (the GOLD Chair) have already attended a previous edition of the SBC, please encourage another active volunteer of your AG to attend this year’s edition of the SBC. An additional email to announce the SBC will be sent out very soon to all GOLDies of Region 8.

 

The funding applications will close on April 30. Make sure an active volunteer of your AG has applied before this deadline.

 

More information on the funding criteria and the funding application can be found here:

www.sbcmadrid.es/event-register/gold-funding/

 

In case you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the R8 GOLD Committee at r8gold@ieee.org

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2012 Student Awards – April 15 is Deadline Day

We know you are all putting a lot of time and efforts in making your branch activities to what they are. With Deadline Day coming up, now is the time to get awarded for your efforts!

Similarly to last year, all deadlines for the upcoming awards have been grouped together on April 15, Deadline Day! Please send in your submissions for the following awards according to the rules and contest guidelines at the IEEE website:

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50th Anniversary Celebration Contest

Region 8 is celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary this year and the R8 SAC team would like to give the opportunity to SB’s to organized events to commemorate this anniversary and win prizes!

It’s simple to participate. Just organize an event to celebrate this occasion and upload the pictures of that event on the 50th Anniversary Celebration Contest facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/R8AnniversaryContest) with the name of your SB. The competition has officially started and will end on 30 April, 2013. This gives you a whole year to win the prizes!

Prizes:

1st Prize: 700 USD

2nd Prize: 500 USD

3rd Prize: 300 USD

These prizes will be given to the OU’s (branch, branch chapter, affinity group, etc) of the winning entries.

Along with the cash prizes, R8 SAC will send a surprise package to the winning OU as well :)

If you need ideas for the event then you may look the following website: http://www.ieeeday.org/local-event/. IEEE Day team have given some excellent suggestions for events on this page.

If you have any questions then please feel free to email us at r8sac@ieee.org

Let the celebrations begin!

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R8News Back Issues

IEEE Region8 Newsletter archive

Here you can download previous editions of Region 8 News dating back to 2002.

Most recent back issues

Click on the hyperlink icon to download the previous issue of Region 8 News. If you want to read the current issue, click here instead.

Vol 14 No 4 – December 2011

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Tips for Contributors

Tips for contributors

We welcome your contributions to Region 8 News. Use the information on this page to help you prepare and submit articles for inclusion in the newsletter.

Section / Chapter / Branch / conference reports

These reports are the lifeblood of Region 8 News, keeping members all over the Region up to date with what you’re up to. However, to make sure we can fit all the reports into each issue, they need to be brief and to the point.

An ideal Section / Chapter/ Branch report should be between 150 and 250 words. That’s not very long – in most cases that’s only six or seven sentences! Here are some tips on how to keep your reports concise:

  • Always begin the article with your biggest news
  • Concentrate on your most successful recent events only
  • Include dates, locations and numbers of attendees
  • State the name of your Section / Chapter / Branch / conference clearly
  • Don’t waste words on non-essential detail (such as describing the menu for a dinner event)
  • Avoid long lists of ‘thank you’s

In other words, just try to stick to key facts, and avoid exposition. Also be wary of redundant sentences such as “The lecture was very well received by the audience” or “The students thanked Professor Xxxxxxx for taking the time to visit the faculty”. Readers will already assume that a lecture was well received (otherwise you wouldn’t be writing a report about it) and that guest speakers were thanked appropriately! Remember, you only have a limited word count, so make the most of it.

Opinion articles and more

We welcome articles on just about any subject you think might be of interest to IEEE members, including opinion pieces, topical discussions, and book reviews. You might even like to challenge readers with a quiz. Feel free to discuss your idea with the editors before you start writing.

Remember that Region 8 News has limited space, so don’t try to write more than 300 or 400 words for a special article like this. In a newsletter you can dispense with essay style – no need for introductions and conclusions. Instead, get right to the point and say what you want to say.

Photos and captions

Feel free to send in digital photos with your articles: we will make room for them in the newsletter wherever we can. Please write a caption for each picture you submit so that we know who or what it shows.

Images captured by digital cameras rated as 3 megapixels or higher should be fine. Use the highest resolution and lowest compression settings on your camera. Low-quality photos such as those captured by most mobile phones do not reproduce well in print, so we may not be able to use them. For the same reason, we can’t make use of low-resolution images taken from websites.

File formats and submission

Send your articles to the editors by email, ensuring that you write ‘Region 8 News’ or ‘R8 News’ in the subject line. Articles should be attached to your email as a plain text file or in Microsoft Word format.

Digital photos should be supplied in JPG (or JPEG) format, and sent by email along with your articles. If your picture files are very big, contact the editor for details on how to submit them by FTP instead. Do not embed your images into Microsoft Word or PowerPoint documents.

Copy deadlines

The best way of ensuring your reports and articles are timely is to plan ahead according to our copy deadlines. Region 8 News is a quarterly publication, so missing an issue deadline will set you back three months! Also note that our print ‘lead’ times are such that we need to receive your articles TWO MONTHS before the cover date.

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Region 8 News

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Welcome to the Region 8 News

Region 8 News is published quarterly by the Region 8 committee of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). It is distributed free with IEEE Spectrum and The Institute to more than 50,000 IEEE members in the Region. R8news is produced by volunteers: the Editor Roland J. Saam and Zhijia Huang with contribution from all our members all over our region.

What’s online

These Web pages are intended as an adjunct to the regular printed edition of the newsletter. On these pages, you will find items related to or referred back from recent issues, and full-length versions of articles that may have been abridged in print. You can also download the latest issue “Current Issue Page” in Adobe PDF format, as well as several years of back-issues.

The current issue is March 2012 and it is available for download now!

Write for us

We encourage IEEE members in Region 8 to contribute letters, branch reports, conference notices and other articles for publishing in the newsletter. Our tips for contributors page gives advice on how to write articles for Region 8 News, along with technical information on the file formats we can accept and how to submit them to us.

You can get in touch with the editors at any time. And you should use the email r8newsATieee.org for submitting your articles. Please remember to put ‘Region 8 News’ or ‘R8 News’ in your email subject line.

Editor: Roland Saam (r.saamATieee.org)
Editor: Zhijia Huang (zhijia.huangATieee.org)

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Current Issue March 2012

Region 8 News – March 2012 [Vol 15 No 1]

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Jubilee year is the perfect opportunity to volunteer

CELEBRATE Region 8′s jubilee: 50 years ago, the Institute of Radio Engineers Region 9 incorporated Europe with some of Africa. In January 1963, the IEEE was formed by a merger of IRE with AIEE, and so Europe, Middle East and most of Africa became IEEE Region 8.

This is a big opportunity for us to tell the world what IEEE is and what our members do for the world. Youngsters need to learn that engineering is a good profession that can build better lives, bringing electricity, radio and products into the world.

The idea of a professional organisation still suggests scholars and publications for research, and we have that with IEEE Technical Activities. We also have a very strong Educational Activities board pushing quality and innovation for instruction and education.

But every member is also included in a social network that we call Member and Geographical Activities. This gives you the possibility of engaging with others who share some of your interests, not only technical but social. You can volunteer. Reading these pages you can see the fun and learning that goes on through activities organised by fellow members who give some time to volunteer their skills and talents.

To Remember

A long-time friend who I met through volunteering for IEEE, Roger Pollard, died recently, and his tribute can be read on page 2. He contributed many ideas to IEEE Region 8 News and discussed many issues. He was a strong candidate in the recent IEEE 2012 president-elect poll. We’ll miss him.

Roland Saam
IEEE Region8 News Editor

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