IEEE UKRI SBCM 2012

IEEE UKRI

SBCM 2012

Sohaib Qamar SheikhIEEE R8 SAC Committee Member

University of Westminster31/10/2012

Team

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Stats

As of July 2012: Students: 9269Graduate Students: 11570Total: 20839Branch count: 410+Student Branch Chapter count: 80+

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Programs

Student Paper Contest50th Anniversary Celebration ContestTwin Student BranchAwards

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Student Paper ContestSPC 2013 was announced in May 2012

Up to now SPC 2013 calls were twice sent to all Student Branches and SB Chapters

Section Chairs, SSRs and SSACs were further asked to promote SPC within SBs

SB papers deadline is December 15, 2012.

An international Jury will anonymously review SB papers and select five best papers for R8 Oral Finals.

SPC Oral Finals 2013 will be organized at EUROCON 2013 Conference, July 2013, Zagreb, Croatia.

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50th Anniversary Celebration Contest

Region 8 is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year and the R8 SAC team would like to give out student branches the opportunity to organize events to commemorate this anniversary and win prizes while doing it!

How to be involved in the 50th Anniversary Contest?Two different Category:

1) Video Contest ( Prize 600/300 Dollar)2) Photo Contest ( Prize: 400/200 Dollar )

Application will be open between 31.11.2012 -06.01.2013 23.59 UTC.

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Twin Student Branch

Technical/Administrative/Fun way to collaborate and exchange information between two student branches

Already 26 Student Branches from 18 sections have been registered

To signup, email us at r8sac@ieee.org

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Twin Student Branch

ENSI (Tunisia Section) and Alex ( Egypt Section)University Of Zagreb (Croatia Section) and Universty of Macedonia (Macedonia

Section)Telecom-Bretagne ( France Section) and American University of Beirut (Lebanon

Section)St Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI (Russia Northwest Section) and

Dogus University (Turkey Section)University of Graz (Austria Section) and Lljubljana (Slovenia Section)Misr University for Science & Technology /MUST (Egypt Section) and

Technological Education Institute of Piraeus /TEI Piraeus (Greece Section)ITU (Turkey Section) and IST (Portugal Section)Bilkent Universty and Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis/ Sub'Com

(Tunisia Section)IEEE AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland Section) and Technical

University of Madrid (Spain Section)

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Student Branch and GOLD Congress 2012

467 attendees (A new record)293 students45 GOLD members53 countries5 day program

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Video

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Xtreme 6.0

24 hour programming competition1700+ teams

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Awards

IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch AwardIEEE Region 8 Student Branch Website ContestIEEE Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities AwardIEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award

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Contact Us

Email: r8sac@ieee.org

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IEEE EPICS

Engineering projects for social developmentUniversity students + High school students + NGOWe provide seed money!

UK Project: F1 student car improvement, Brunel University and Slough & Eton College.

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IEEE EPICS Sample Projects

Namibia Mobile Science lab for High School in Rural AreaUS $ 5,625, Polytechnic of Namibia

Uganda Kyambogo University And Agha Khan Poverty Reduction And Environmental Conservation Through Solar Powered SolutionsUS $ 5,000, Kyambogo University (KYU)

Zambia OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) implementation in ChikankataUS $ 5,000, University of Zambia (UNZA)

Air-quality microsensors for Earth ObservationsUS $ 9,300, University of Pretoria (UP)

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Thank you

email: sohaibqamer@ieee.org

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