Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit
On 27 November the eyes of the tech world will focus on Warsaw, which will host an international congress for women in technology, the “Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit.” The biggest event in Europe intended for women in the IT and TECH industry will be…
Meet the winner of The first edition of the IEEE Region 8 Women in Engineering Awards!
Read a special interview of IEEE Region 8 Outstanding WIE Student Affinity Group of the Year Award winner: WIE Yeditepe University AG, Turkey. A group of passionate, dedicated and talented members who were never afraid to put all their hearts and souls into their WIE…
IEEE European Public Policy Committee calls for new working group (WG) members.
In a previous article, Marko Delimar, the chair of IEEE European Public Policy Committee (EPPC) noted that, the EPPC expands the dialogue between the European engineering community and European public authorities to enable technologists to more easily share their expertise and concerns and to enable European institutions and…
Are presentation skills important for an Engineer?
Enkeleda Bocaj, the winner of the Area Final (Greece) competition of the IET Present Around The World, shares with us her experience. It is widely known, how important it is to have enhanced presentation skills in our workplace. However, we don’t really understand that, until…
Portuguese Researchers Win the Modern Heuristic Optimization competition organized by the IEEE
The Portuguese science and research community shows the World the excellent quality of the Portuguese scientists and engineers. Leonel Carvalho an IEEE Affiliate member and Vladimiro Miranda an IEEE Fellow member, of the IEEE Portugal Section, both researchers of the Institute for Systems and Computing…
A SYP 2018 Review
6:00 o clock on a Wednesday morning in Athens Airport. I was so excited to fly to Porto in order to share my experiences and knowledge with IEEE Students and Young Professionals from all over Region 8. You see, this year, the funded participants of…
Georgios Kakouliadis: a Greek IEEE Student Member accepted at the Apple’s iOS developer academy
Georgios Kakouliadis, a student of the “Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering” in the University of the Aegean – Samos (Greece), and an IEEE Student Member for the last 2 years, of the IEEE Aegean University Student Branch, has been accepted at the Apple’s…
IEEE European Public Policy Committee
In 2001 the IEEE Board of Directors made a strategic decision to make IEEE a truly international society. As a result of this Region 8 derived one of the primary priorities in 2011: “Cooperation with European Institutions and Agencies”. Like on the level of Region…
A conversation with the candidates for IEEE R8 Director-Elect (Part B)
This is the second part of the conversation with the two IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect candidates Antonio Luque and Rafal Sliz . In this part a few very interesting questions are answered by the two candidates that, we believe, will help you decide who to vote for. (You can…
A conversation with the candidates for IEEE R8 Director-Elect (Part A)
The elections for the next IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect are approaching. To help you decide who to choose we interviewed the candidates: Rafal Sliz and Antonio Luque. They shared their vision about IEEE Region 8’s future and also aspects of their background that make them…
The Benefits of IEEE Student Membership
Few days ago, my undergraduate students who were with me got excited in my lab because to them a great thing had happened. We tested an intelligent Sweeping Robot. The device has three functions, tracking, obstacle avoidance and automatic sweeping. We were able to use…
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