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Judging Panel met 25-27 May 2002 and Region 8 Students Sweep Top Prizes selected the top ten projects from this list Int’l Design Competition of twenty-five. The top ten teams were invited to pre- Computer Soc. International Design Romania’s Politehnica University of sent their projects in Washington, DC 21- Competition Bucharest beat out a field of undergradu- 23 June 2002. Copies of each team’s An international panel of experts has ates from 10 schools throughout the world PowerPoint presentation and Project report selected the winners of CSIDC 2002, in the CSIDC World Finals. The contest can be found at http://www.computer. the IEEE Computer Society 3rd began in October 2001 with entrants from org/csidc/2002PowerPoint Annual International Design Competition. about 75 universities. Substantial prizes were awarded, For this project, students had to use the Region eight teams swept the field, including US$ 15,000 first prize plus the Bluetooth radio-based, short-range, wire- winning four out of five top prizes and the team’s university will receive a $3,000 less-connectivity technology to design a top twenty-five projects were selected grant it can use for such purposes as special-purpose, potentially marketable based on their reports by fifteen scholarships, reimbursements to students system with social benefits. Submission Evaluation Teams. The who attend conferences, or laboratory equipment.

Farewell From Regional continued on page 5 Director “Enjoy your IEEE” Dear IEEE Member, My responsibility, as the regional direc- INSIDE y two-year term will be over tor, is not restricted to our region only: at the end of December; so being a member of the Board of Directors Farewell From the M it is time to say goodbye... of IEEE I had my share in overseeing the Regional Director 1 The responsibility for direction of all IEEE, in all aspects. This is Region 8 Students overseeing the smooth continuation of quite a challange and requires a lot of Sweep Top Prizes 1 IEEE services to all our care; by the way IEEE as Editor’s Ramblings 2 members in our region a whole is a 240 million has been a real chal- USDollar operation per IEEE Fellows Program 4 lenge. If every one of year, and 30 Directors News 5 you enjoy your IEEE on the IEEE board have membership, then I the ultimate responsibil- Chapter Coordination 6 would feel happy and ity for providing the Region 8 LEOS comfortable. With oversight. Chapters News 8 about 50,000 members I began my term in in our region IEEE January 2001 and there Reviews of Conferences 9 related interests of our is no doubt I enjoyed [email protected] 10 members is very every minute of it. But impressive. So, it is believe me, there were Chapter and Section News 12 quite likely that in addi- difficult times and IEEE Standards 17 tion to basics like the decisions, but this was Spectrum, you have expected as well. I do Student News 19 received many not intend to share the Transactions, participat- problems with you; ed in Conferences and Onural with Support Team rather, I will take this got other IEEE benefits. September 2002 continued on page 3

November 2002 Region 8 News 1 Editor’s REGION 8 CONTACTS HELP DESK MEMBERS Ramblings… Members, students, applicants may have all their questions answered by contacting the Help Desk volunteers/staff. Please use this service freely. Region 8 News is intended for every mem- Information on what, where, when, how regarding membership, payments, procedures. ber in our vast region which extends from- Jacques Kevers Andrej Zemva Iceland in the NorthEast,all Europe, “IEEE Brussels Office” Univ. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia IEEE European Operations Centre [email protected] Former Soviet Republics to the NorthWest, [email protected] Fax +38 661 126 4630 Or [email protected] Middle East, and all Africa. Some fifty Iiro Hartimo Fax +32 2 770 8505 thousand members receive this newsletter, HUT, Finland Ayhan Altintas [email protected] free as a member benefit in February, May, Bilkent University Fax + 35 89 460 224 Ankara, Turkey August, November. Jorge-Luis Sanchez-Ponz [email protected] Madrid, Spain Every member you read about in these Fax +90 312 266 4126 [email protected] pages is a volunteer (including me). We REGION 8 OPERATING COMMITTEE do it for fun and professional benefit, and See http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/committee/index.html for descriptions, by- our departing Region8 Director, Levent laws. E-mail addresses of Region 8 Committee Officers - 2002:

Onural invites you to become a volunteer Officers and Vice Chairs Appointed Members Standards Coordinator and to participate and enjoy your IEEE. Director Awards & Recognitions Ingo Ruesch Levent Onural Duncan Baker [email protected] Read how you can do this in his article [email protected] [email protected] Educational & starting on page one. Past-Director and V/C Section 99 and Acting Accreditation Activities The number of Student Conferences, Strategy Membership Develop- Simon Jones Rolf A Remshardt ment Coordinator [email protected] Competitions, and Workshops in Region8 [email protected] Jaafar Al-Ibrahim [email protected] Voluntary Contributions is increasing - read about them in Chapter Secretary Fund Coordinator and Student activities reports. Students in Charles Turner Conference Coordinator Zbynek Skvor [email protected] Tariq Durrani [email protected] Region 8 won seven out of eleven prizes in [email protected] the worldwide Computer Society Treasurer Student Representative Dr Hans J Schmitt Chapter Coordinator Giorgia German International Design Competition. Why [email protected] Jozef Modelski [email protected] [email protected] not enter CSID-2003? V/C Membership Activities “GOLD” Thank you to everyone who wrote Gerhard P Hancke Editor R8 News Jorge-Luis Sanchez-Ponz [email protected] Roland Saam [email protected] something for this issue, and to the photo- [email protected] V/C Student Activities Electronic Communications graphers for keeping us “in the picture”. Christian Borgert Industry Relations Coordinator Welcome to our new cartoon artist and fel- [email protected] Terje Gjengedal Jeremy Newberry Terje.Gjengedal@ [email protected] low engineer, Tayfun Akgul, author of “et V/C Technical Activities statkraft.no and Director-Elect cetera”. Anthony C. Davies Our August Photo Contest had a good [email protected] response with a First Prize winner and five R8 DEADLINES (NEWSLETTER SCHEDULE 2002) Honourable Mentions. The November Region 8 News is printed four times a year and distributed Photo Contest shows an important mea- with IEEE Spectrum. surement device, which was suggested by Please submit articles by e-mail to [email protected] in a the Director of Test Engineering from Ford file attachment in Text Format, Generic WordProcessor, Word, or Wordperfect, AND include with your submission Motor Company R&D in Europe. Why a short description of what, where, when together with the name of the text file and any photo files. not enter the contest? The deadlines for the Region8 News for 2002 are as I also need to hear from you, our read- Editor: follows: ers - so please write and tell me what you February 2003 Issue: 6 December 2002 Roland J. Saam May 2003 Issue: 6 March 2003 liked or did not like in R8News. Micros For Managers Ltd August 2003 Issue: 6 June 2003 149 Gloucester Road November 2003 Issue: 6 September 2003 Roland Saam London SW7 4TH Editor ENGLAND Acknowledgements Tel +44 20 7565 2111 Photo Contest: August 2002 BM Zurich Research; [email protected] Fax +44 20 7565 2114 November Ford Motor Company; Photos: IEMC-2002 E-mail [email protected] Gerald Anleitner; EED-2002 Nahel Amirah; Onural Support team: Kayacan.

2 Region 8 News November 2002 Jan Hlavic˘ka 1942 – 2002 Professor Jan Hlavic˘ka, aged 60, University in Prague (CTU) in 1984. death the Vice Chairman. He was the died on 6th of September 2002 As the first Dean of the Faculty after member of the Region 8 Membership after a serious illness. the year 1989 (1990 – 1994), he Activities Committee with responsibility Jan Hlavicka was one of the supported great changes in the struc- for the membership development. most distinguished experts in the ture and principles of education and He was also a member of the IEE, computer hardware in the Czech research towards a higher openness, New York Academy of Sciences, Republic. For a long time, he has self responsibility, and wide co- Chairman and member of IMEKO, chair- been active in the field of reliability Jan Hlavic˘ka operation at the international level. man and member of many program com- and testing of the digital circuits, As the Vice Rector of the CTU for mittees of international conferences, etc. where he received a world-wide reputation. International Relations in 1994 – 1997 he He was awarded by Silver Felber medal His professional life began at the supported the origin of curricula for for- from the CTU in 1996, IEEE Millenium Research Institute of Mathematical eign students and further broadening of medal from the IEEE in 2000, etc. Machines in Prague, where he participated international co-operation. He also founded He leaves wife Vlasta, daughter in the design of computers. Thanks to his the alumni association of the FEE-CTU in Zuzana with husband Terje and grand- professional qualities, personal charisma, Prague called ELEKTRA. children Adam and Jakob. In the minds of open mind and pedagogical talent, he Jan Hlavic˘ka was an IEEE member all us who knew him, his name will ever attracted many colleagues and students, since 1990. In 1998 – 2001 he became hold a honourable place. when he joined the Faculty of Electrical the Chairman of the Czechoslovakia Contributed by Jan Vobeck´y Engineering (FEE), Czech Technical Section IEEE and from 2002 till his Chairman, Czechoslovakia Section

Letter from Regional Director cont’d. from page 1 last opportunity to stress the importance of technical conferences. Content providers There is nothing wrong with local social volunteer activities and your direct partici- (authors of the articles), editors, reviewers events. Technical visits are also of interest. pation in various IEEE organizations. and conference organizers willingly volun- The best starting point is to learn who As many of you know, IEEE is a volunteer their time and services to achieve high are the key volunteers who manage the teer driven technical organization. It is a quality products we are familiar with; and Societies and your local Technical not-for-profit legal entity which operates since these people are highly qualified, the Chapters. Learn the name and contact info for the benefit of the public with all the market value of their services are also very of your local Section chair today. associated privilages as granted by the law. high. And, as IEEE members we get that The Presence of IEEE at a location Since it is incorporated in New York State, service essentially for free. nearby to you is essential to make those its governance and operations are regulated Considering the overall extent of ser- initial contacts. And that local contact is by US and New York State laws. Because vices, we are talking about tens of thou- there because some IEEE volunteers have it is a transnational organization with mem- sands of volunteers behind our quality already taken the initiative and formed bers and sections in almost every country products. Essentailly, what we are experi- those local Sections, Chapters and Student in the world, its operations are naturally encing is the synergy of a huge network of Branches. When planning local events you also subject to the laws of those countries technical people focused by the scope of need to meet and know members who are where IEEE operates. interests of IEEE. The expected true bene- close to you . You will be surprised with The overall structure and operation fit of getting associated is visibly there. the help you will get once you start. And modes are pretty complex. IEEE has been But still, maybe only five percent of the then, how about running for election to be very successful in maintaining and expand- 370.000 members actively volunteer their the next Chapter or Section Chair. ing its worldwide operations so far, and I efforts. Considering the outlined success, So, just start making those inital con- am sure it will continue to do so. The key this might be seen adequate. tacts and start contributing your share to element in this success is the volunteerism However, my strong personal belief is this excellent organization and its mem- which essentially characterizes IEEE. just the opposite: dreaming what it would bers. I assure you that you will find it also The benefits that IEEE gives to its be like when the other 95 percent also very rewarding to yourselves. Just send me members are pretty diverse, and the cost of starts contributing, I always feel that we an e-mail, and I will put you in touch with providing such services has been kept at are not achieving to the full potential. your local section chair. very reasonable levels; again the key con- Therefore, I would like to make a per- Enjoy your IEEE. ... tributor to this success is the volunteerism. sonal call to all our members to get Levent Onural We can look at the most precious ser- involved: think about organizing a local [email protected] vice (especially in Region 8) that IEEE conference or a seminar by inviting a provides: the technical publications and speaker on a technical topic of interest.

November 2002 Region 8 News 3 IEEE Fellows Program

An Introduction by made in this process for continuity, and appointment of new members to replace Duncan Baker those whose terms of office have expired. There are many colleagues in Region 8 who are The main task the Fellow Committee is worthy of nomination as Fellows of the IEEE. The to recommend candidates to the Board of nomination process is time consuming, and may take Directors, in accordance with the following several months to complete. The deadline of 15 criteria: March each year is quite strict. You must ensure that • Individual contributions as engineer original documentation with signatures reaches the scientist orginator, technical leader, or IEEE Fellow Committee on or before this date. If educator. you need guidance, or have any queries, please con- • Evaluation by the Society selected by tact me. I may be reached by e-mail at the nominator. [email protected], or by mail at Duncan Baker, PO Box 33406, Glenstantia, • Evidence of technical accomplish- 0010, South Africa. Fax: +27 12 348 5314. ment, such as publications (including internal company reports), patents, and peer recognition. Any Senior Member, who has been a mem- because of its proprietary nature, but has • Confidential opinions of references. ber of IEEE for at least 5 years in any tangible results in the form of products, • Service to other professional engineer- membership grade, and whose membership systems, and their applications, facilities, ing societies. fees are fully paid up, is eligible for nomi- or services created. • Total years in the profession. nation. Upon completing the nomination form, Each candidate is rated numerically on It is recommended that the process of the nominator must contact of least five the basis of these criteria. The numerical electing a colleague as an IEEE Fellow references capable of assessing the candi- scores are computationally normalized, and should start before the end of each year. date’s contributions. The references MUST candidates are then ranked. Using these Results only become generally known at be IEEE Fellows, except in Regions 8,9 rankings, and subject to Bylaws limitations the beginning of the year, one year later, and 10, where they may be Senior on the number of members that may be about 9-10 months after the closing date Members if there are not enough Fellows elected Fellows in any one year, the for nominations. The nomination process is in the area familiar with the candidate’s Committee prepares its final list of candi- begun by the nominator, who fills out the contribution. The references cannot be dates for submission to the Board of nomination form with details of the candi- members of the IEEE’s Board of Directors, Directors towards the end of each year. The date’s qualifications and achievements. The the Fellow Committee, the Society evaluat- Board acts upon those recommendations at nominator is also responsible for identify- ing committee, or the headquarters staff. its year-end meeting. ing the candidate’s outstanding achieve- The nominator’s final task is to choose If you wish to obtain a Fellow nomina- ments, the IEEE Fellows best qualified to one Society in the IEEE whose evaluating tion kit, send an e-mail to fellow- judge the candidate’s work, and the Society committee will assess the candidate’s tech- [email protected]. Include your name, street best able to support the nomination. Any nical qualifications and contributions. This address, City, State, Zip/Postal Code, member, either alone or assisted by others, choice should closely reflect the expertise Country, Telephone Number, and how may nominate a candidate. All exceptions of the candidate, who, however, need not many kits you would like to receive. are noted on the website, which may be be a member of the evaluating Society. The Follow the instructions in the kit carefully. accessed by “drilling down” at http://www. Society evaluating committee ranks each Every step MUST be complied with. All ieee.org/about/awards/. This site also candidate as: Extraordinarily Qualified, completed materials must be returned to allows access to information on a range of Highly Qualified, Qualified, Marginally the Fellow Committee IEEE, 445 Hoes Awards for which members may qualify. qualified, or Not Yet Qualified. Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, New Candidates may come from any field, All material is then forwarded in confi- Jersey 08855-1331, USA. including academia, government, and dence to the IEEE Fellow Committee. All Strict adherence to procedures is essen- industry. Whatever their careers, candidates members of the Fellow Committee are tial, otherwise, a candidate may be placed must have made an outstanding contribu- IEEE Fellows and selected so as to repre- at a serious disadvantage and possibly even tion to the electrical and electronics engi- sent each of the 10 IEEE Regions and to precluded from consideration. Please note neering profession. The IEEE Fellow have expertise in the technical areas repre- that only hard copy versions of all material, Committee and the IEEE Board of sented by the IEEE Societies. The IEEE with original signatures, will be accepted. Directors also seek to recognize practition- Board of Directors appoints the members Duncan Baker ers whose work cannot be published of the Fellow Committee. Provision is R8 Awards and Recognition Coordinator

4 Region 8 News November 2002 News FACTS in Power Fay honored at exclusive event where Engineering international leaders connect with 100 top Power Engineering Society’s FACTS innovators under age 35 award for 2002 was presented to Dr Arslan Erinmez, recently of the National Alexander Fay, Leader of the Alexander Fay applied knowledge- Grid Company, UK. Industrial IT Engineering Group at the based systems, a branch of Artificial The FACTS award is given to those ABB Corporate Research Center Intelligence, for capturing the know- who have made an outstanding contribu- Germany, was chosen as one of the how of industry experts for the engi- tion to the development of Flexible AC world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by neering of automation systems for Transmission Sytems. Dr. Erinmez was Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine power generation and the chemical instrumental in the use of static var of Innovation. The TR100, consists of industry. This can significantly reduce compensators and in other methods of 100 young individuals whose innova- plant engineering periods and down- maintaining a flexible power transmis- tive work in business and technology time and improve the quality and sion system in England and Wales after has a profound impact on today’s safety of the automation solutions. privatisation under any conditions of world. Nominees are recognized for Beyond these immediate benefits for power flow. their contribution in transforming the the involved companies, Fay’s innova- The award was presented by Dr John nature of technology in industries tion increases production quality, Estey, President of the Power such as biotechnology, computing, process and environment safety, and Engineering Society, at the Summer energy, medicine, manufacturing, protects human knowledge, the most Power Meeting in Chicago on July 23rd. nanotechnology, telecommunications important asset in a knowledge-ori- Contributed by: Michael Baker and transportation. ented society.

Region 8 Students Sweep Top Prizes cont’d. from page 1

The winners of Technology in Poland. CSIDC 2002 are: Team members: Michan Kowalski, Michan Rein, Nukasz Szajkowski, Bartosz Nowierski First Place “Politehnica” Mentor: Jan Kniat. University of Bucharest http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csidc/2002/ (Romania) A fascinating Bluetooth wireless system for comprehensive communication and accounting for vehicle related transactions BE Secure: Building Surveillance Equipment Romania team wins CSIDC first Place Third Place Slovak Team members: Vlad Panait, Mihai safest exit paths) and the outside parties University of Mircea, Tiberius Parcalabu (police or firemen service that can use the Technology in Bratislava Project mentor information for better rescue operations). Head of Computer Science and In case of a catastrophe even if a part of Mobile Sleep Laboratory: Body Engineering Dept: Nicolae Tapus the system is destroyed, the rest uses exist- Monitoring System with EEG ntapus@cs.pub.ro ing information to guide rescue operations. Sensors After the September 11th attack in New The intervention teams can create good Slovakia Team members: Peter Bls˘ták, Matúsˇ York City, people started considering and realistic emergency plans based on the Horváth, Peter Lacko, Marián Lekavy´ whether there are ways to help and inform information collected by the system. They Faculty mentors: Mária Bieliková, PhD., people in case of disasters, such that quick can also direct people to a new evacuation Tibor Krajc˘ovic˘, PhD. intervention at the affected area is possible mean available Sometimes, the reason for a patient staying with maximum effect. The proposed sys- in a hospital is to discover problems and tem is intended to operate for structures Second Place Poznan therefore the patient just has to be visited by a large number of people. University of Technology observed continually. We developed a low-priced wireless dis- (Poland) The goal of our work is to support treat- tributed system that collects data from dif- ing patients in their natural environment. ferent sensors and informs both the people CarTooth Project - Car Payment Body Monitoring System (BMS) controls inside (they are directed on the shortest Systems Poznan University of various sensors according to rules defined

November 2002 Region 8 News 5 by a doctor and therefore allows remote for the deaf. It uses the Bluetooth technolo- coustic signals without the need of carrying patient supervision. gy to 1)transmit standard messages or mes- along different devices. sages resulting from human voice and 2) to Fourth Place University receive messages and play them back in University of Karlsruhe of Virginia, USA Sign Language (as a movie) or in another (Germany) preferred language. Lifleine: Improved BLUEWAND A Versatile Remote Communication and Informatics Honorable Mention: Control and Pointing Device for Fire and Rescue Workers Aristotle University of A Bluewand is a specialized control device Thessaloniki (Greece) that acts as human computer interface Fifth Place University (HCI) to, e.g., earphone, mobile phone, of Siena (Italy) BlueSteth: A Bluetooth-based and PDA. Stethoscope for Healthcare and Blue Sign Translator: A Breakthro Educational Applications Yildiz Technical ugh in Personal Communication: Team members: Theodoros Zoumpoulidis, University (Turkey) University of Siena – Faculty of Konstantinos Panoulas, Ioannis Fotiou, Engineering Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Lecturer BlueSIGN Team members: Project Mentor Panagiotis Georgiadis (Head BlueSign enhances conventional road Bennati Paolo Capasso Tommaso of department Petros Dokopoulos, Professor) signs, billboards, and the like in a way that Giallombardo Francesco Maggio Emilio The system developed by our team, namely enables people to get detailed and person- Project mentor: Giorgi Roberto the BLUESTETH, is intended to be a solu- alized information "on-the-fly". Blue Sign Translator is an aid instrument tion for recording and transmitting bioa- CHAPTER COORDINATION From the Chapter Coordination Subcommittee Chair Jozef Modelski Motto: The local chapter activities are the Milan, September 22, 2002, in conjunc- must be submitted no later than 15 February. most important key to membership growth, tion with European Microwave Week I encourage all Section Chairs and the improvement of society image and realisa- • IE R8 Chapter Chairs Meeting in other officers to make their nominations as tion of globalisation process. Seville, November 6-7, 2002, in con- early as possible to give nominated Chapters It is my pleasure to inform you that dur- junction with the 28th Annual time for careful preparation of submissions. ing last few months three new Chapters Conference of the IEEE Industrial The Contest Jury consists of CCS mem- were formed. Electronics Society IECON’02 bers will judge on chapters on the basis of: • Magnetics Society Chapter: Romania Reports of September and November • Technical Activities: 30 points max Section — 6 May, 2002 meetings will be presented in the next • Educational Activities: 30 points max • Power Engineering Society Chapter: issue. • Membership Communication and Switzerland Section — 6 June, 2002 Last year R8 Committee had established Advancement: 20 points max • Computer Society Chapter: Greece in Region 8 the Chapter of the Year Contest. • Public Relation Activities: Section — 11 June, 2002. I kindly remind you that the second edition 10 points max We extend our best wishes for the suc- of the Contest (for year 2002) is announced • Additional: 10 points max cessful operation of these Chapters. in November 2002. Final results will be known in March Almost all Region 8 Chapters have their The chapters would be nominated in two 2003. The two winners (Chapter Chairs) Chapter Coordinators. The activities of the categories: Small and Middle Size Chapters will be invited for the official award cere- Chapter Coordinator include, among other and Big Size Chapters (>100 members). The mony, which will be held during the IEEE things, organising meetings of his Chapters Nomination Forms are distributed among R8 Committee Meeting, Spring 2003. Each Chairs at least once in 2÷3 years. This year the Section Chairs and Chapter Chapter will receive the plaque and financial we had three such events: Coordinators. prize of 1000 Euro as a support for Chapter • EMS R8 Chapter Chairs Workshop in The Nomination Form must be filled in activities. Oxford, August 18, 2002, in conjunc- and submitted to the Chair of the R8 Chapter I want to present Coordinators reports: tion with Annual International Coordination Subcommittee. It should IEEE Region 8 LEOS Chapters News pre- Engineering Management Conference review the Chapter’s performance in each pared by Sergei Malyshev and EMS Chapter IEMC 2002 area listed in the selection criteria below for Chairs Workshop in Cambridge prepared by • MTT R8 Chapter Chairs Meeting in the year covered by the award. The Forms Margaretha Eriksson.

6 Region 8 News November 2002 EMS Chapter Chairs at Workshop in Cambridge, UK By Margaretha Eriksson, R8 EMS Co-ordinator

The IEEE Engineering Management co-operation with the Institute of Electrical Chapter needs, co-operation and Society (EMS) directs its efforts toward Engineers (IEE) of UK, and its new support advancing the practice of engineering and Management Professional Network was During the final part of the workshop the technology management as a professional presented by Anthony Bainbridge. Chapter Chairs presented their individual discipline, encouraging theory development Charles Turner, the EMS chair of chapter’s activities and needs. This turned for managing organizations with a high UKRI, as well as R8 Secretary, gave a into a discussing on Chapter Best Practices. engineering or technical content, and pro- short lecture on IEEE’s Engineering Ethics moting high professional standards among Program. IEEE has an Ethics Committee One big family its members where engineers can turn in ethical issues Charles Rubenstein stated “Every chapter The Region8 Engineering Management to get advice and a second view. has a Mama — the Engineering Chapter Chairs Workshop was held at St After lunch R8 EMS Co-ordinator Management Society, and a Papa — the Johns College Sunday August 18, 2002, in Margaretha Eriksson and past R8 Director Section. There are Grandparents too — Cambridge, UK, in conjunction with the Kurt Richter presented samples from Region 8! First you ask your Mama for International Engineering Management IEEE’s Project Management and support, then your Papa, and if it doesn’t Conference, IEMC-2002. Leadership Training Programs. These pro- help, you ask your Grandparents! There were twelve Region 8 EMS grams have become an integral part of the The R8 Director, Levent Onural, confirmed Chapter Chairs, and visiting from R10 workshop program during the R8 Regional the generous support available to Chapters Akio Kameoka, EMS Japan Council, and conferences - Eurocon 2001, Melecon (but remember, you have to ask for it!) and Sam Ghosh, USA. 2002 and Africon 2002. stressed the need for a dialogue between the The workshop was led by Charles Rubenstein, EMS Vice-President Membership and Margaretha Eriksson, R8 EMS Chapter Co-ordinator. As a bonus and a token of appreciation the R8 Chapter Chairs were all invited to attend the IEMC-2002, which started directly after the workshop. The event was co-sponsored by IEEE Engineering Management Society, IEEE Foundation, IEEE Region 8 and IEE Management Professional Network.

Dinner and get together The EMS Chapter Chairs workshop started with an informal Welcome Dinner Saturday night in a very nice French Charles Rubenstein Member Relations VP hosted a meeting of Region 8 EMC CHapter Chairs restaurant in central Cambridge. The Chapter Chairs got to meet with each other, the EMS President 2002 Dennis Bodson, past EMS President Wade Shaw, Region 8 Director Levent Onural and Anthony Davies, Region 8 Director-elect.

A packed program On Sunday morning the Chapter Chairs workshop started with a great English breakfast in the Buttery of St Johns College. After formal greetings and introduction of attendees, Charles Rubenstein, EMS Vice- president Membership, presented the organi- sational structure of EMS and IEEE. Chapter Workshop leader Wade Shaw, EMS Past President Karl Arunski, Roger Manley, The Engineering Management Society’s Margaretha Eriksson, EMS Chapter Co-ordinator,and Gerhard Seiler

November 2002 Region 8 News 7 Chapter Chairs and the Section Chairs. (Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Hungary, • Antonio Fernandes, Portugal To conclude everybody found the work- Slovenia) • Antonie de Klerk, South Africa shop very successful, and wish this kind of • Vladimir Apanasovich, Belarus, • Lisbeth Crabo-Ljungman, Sweden Chapter Chair Workshops will become a Minsk/Poland • Ahmet Eryilmaz, Turkey tradition in Region 8! • Robert Beirwolf, Benelux • Charles Turner, United • Gerald Anleitner, Germany Kingdom/Republic of Ireland R8 Engineering Management • Israel Herzl, Israel Chapters Chairs • Corrado LoStorto, Central and South Good luck to all! • Bernd Kopacek, Austria Italy, and North Italy

IEEE Region 8 LEOS Chapters News By Sergei Malyshev, Region 8 LEOS Coordinator

LEOS is the IEEE Laser and Electro- Semiconductor Laser and Their Communication (IOOC’2003), Optics Society. The Field of Interest of the Application, May 20-22, 2002, Minsk. September 21-25, 2003, Rimini, Italy. Society is lasers, optical devices, optical • LEOS Benelux Workshop on Photonic • LEOS Annual Meeting, November 10- fibers, and associated lightwave technology Crystals, May 29, 2002, Ghent, 14, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland. and their applications in systems and sub- Belgium. • 3rd International Conference on systems in which quantum electronic • 4th International Workshop on Laser Quantum Electronics, November 13- devices are key elements. and Fiber-Optic Network Modelling 15, 2002, Minsk, Belarus. Region 8 has 18 LEOS Chapters and (LFNM’2002), June 3-5, 2002, • 10th IEEE International Symposium has attractive opportunities to form new Kharkov, Ukraine. on Electron Devices for Microwave ones, possibly in Lithuania, Hungary and • IEEE/LEOS Workshop on Fiber and and Optoelectronic Applications Czech Republic. The LEOS Chapters are Optical Passive Components (EDMO), 18-19 November 2002, in Belarus, Benelux, France, Germany, (WFOPC-2002), June 5-6, 2002, UMIST, Manchester, UK. Greece/ Bulgaria/ Rumania/ Yugoslavia, Glasgow, Scotland Israel, Italian, Moscow (Russia), • 3rd International Conference on “New More Student Chapters needed Novosibirsk (Russia), Poland, Scotland, developments in photodetection”, June One can see the great activity of the South Africa (Joint w/ED), Spain, St. 17-21, 2002, Beaune, France. Region 8 LEOS Chapters in organising Petersburg (Russia), Turkey, Ukraine (Joint • European Conference on Lasers and conferences and workshops . However, it is w/AP/AES/ED/MTT), UK/Republic of Electrooptics (CLEO/Europe 2003), necessary to note that now only one LEOS Ireland (Joint w/AP/ED/MTT) and June 23-27, 2003, Munich, Germany. Student Chapter has been formed in Novosibirsk State University (Russia, • European Quantum Electronics Novosibirsk State University (Russia). So Student Chapter). Conference (EQEC’2003), June 23- it may be one of the tasks for future activi- Most of the Chapters are very active in 27, 2003, Munich, Germany. ty of Region 8 LEOS Chapters. organising Chapter’s meetings, workshops, • Global Optical and Wireless Network The next R8 LEOS Chapter Chair and conferences. In 2002 many events Conference (GOWN’02), August 25- Meeting will be held in 22 June 2003, were held, with more planned for 2003 30, 2002, Miedzyzdroje, Poland. Munich, Germany in conjunction with with the support of the Region 8 LEOS • European Conference on Optical European Conference on Lasers and Chapters and more significant of them are Communications (ECOC’2002), Electrooptics (CLEO/Europe 2003) and presented below: September 8-12, 2002, Copenhagen, European Quantum Electronics Conference • All-Russian Student Conference Denmark. (EQEC’2003). During this meeting chapter (REEPE-2002), February 27, 2002. • 12 International Conference on chairs or chapter representatives will intro- • Joint Symposium on Opto- and Microwave and Telecommunication duce short reports about previous, current Microelectronic devices and circuits, Technology” (CriMiCo’2002), and planned chapter activities. R8 LEOS March 10-16, 2002, Stuttgart, September 9-12, 2002, Sevastopol, Chapter Chair Meeting attendees will have Germany. Ukraine. possibility to exchange new ideas and • 4th International Conference on • 29th European Conference on Optical information about IEEE LEO Society Transparent Optical Network Communication (ECOC’2003), activity. (ICTON-2002), April 21-25, 2002, September 21-23, 2003, Rimini, Italy. Sergei Malyshev, Warsaw, Poland. • 14th International Conference on Region 8 LEOS Coordinator, • 4th Belarus–Russian Workshop on Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre [email protected]

8 Region 8 News November 2002 Reviews of Conferences Held in Region 8

International Engineering Management Conference St John’s College Cambridge, UK 18-20 August 2002 IEMC 2002 was held in the beautiful university city of Cambridge, some 150 km North from London. It is the Annual International Conference of the Engineering Management Society Supporting organisations included British Telecom Exact Technologies, QSL Industrial & Technology Marketing, St. John’s College Cambridge University of Strathclyde, with Institution pants attended a full conference program and conversation and meeting people. of Electrical Engineers as technical co- chaired by Tariq S Durrani, of Univ. The Guest of Honour Professor John sponsor. In fact the IEE launched their Strathclyde. Five simultaneous technical O’Reilly, CEO of the UK Engineeering Management Professional Network Session streams plus two Interactive and Physical Sciences Research Council (MPN) initiative at the conference. MPN Poster Session streams continued through (similar to the American NSF ) and cur- and EMS will collaborate in exchanging the two days. The first day Keynote rent Deputy President of Institution of publications, developing new ideas jointly, address was given by Dr Lewis Terman, Electrical Engineers (GB) spoke on debating substantive management issues, President of the IBM Academy of opportunities and challenges facing man- risk sharing on conferences, etc., to the Technology, who spoke about innovation agers in science and engineering. benefit of members of both institutions as an integral culture at IBM as evidenced Distinguished guests of the Conference worldwide. About three hundred partici- by being the world’s leader in number of included Dr Dennis Bodson, EM Society US patents issued. President; Dr Larry Anderson, EMS Vice A Plenary Address by Sir John President (Conferences); Dr. Lew Terman, Chisholm, CEO of QinwtiQ Group, char- IEEE TAB past Chair; Sir Robin Saxby, acterised scientific innovation as the great President & CEO of ARM Holdings plc; driver of economic progress - The New and Chris Earnshaw, Chief Technology Alchemy, Creating Value for Science - . A Officer of British Telecom. splendid evening banquet was hosted in The pleasant weather, beautiful sur- the ancient and elegant dining hall of St roundings and substantial technical program Keynote Speakers: Dennis Bodson, Pres. John’s College. Everyone sat in long com- gave everyone the chance to walk, talk, and IEEE EM Society; Levent Onural, R8 munal oak tables in the stone Hall with exchange ideas, and build friendships. Director; Chris Earnshaw, Chief Tech. Officer British Telecom; Tariq Durrani, stained glass windows which was built in Roland Saam IEM Conf. Chair the 16th century, enjoying food and drink Editor, IEEE Region8 News a r e t e c

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Region 8 has many potential Historic Milestones. R8News_May 2002 issue page 4 explained the process and how to initiate a Milestone event in your section. Given the innovation in engineering everywhere in Region 8, why not identify a project that will bring publicity and recognition to your area? What value does this have for the IEEE Organizational Unit? The most important thing is increasing awareness, both by the organizational unit members and the public at large, of local heritage. Also, the documentation of the achievement helps to separate fact from local myth, and the Milestone process opens up channels of communication between the organizational unit and other civic organizations, typically a local historical society. Editor the first live television signal across the Atlantic from Europe to the USA, via TELSTAR. This Satellite Earth Station was Triple Milestone Slovak University of Technology in designed and built by the British Post Dedication-11 July 2002 Bratislava Office Engineering Department. Known as France, UK, Maine France ‘Arthur’ (of “Knights of the Round Table” On 11 July 1962 at the Radome in fame), its open-dish design became a First TransAtlantic Reception of Pleumeur-Bodou, France received the first model for satellite television earth stations Television Signal via Satellite transatlantic transmission of a TV signal throughout the world. TELSTAR I was launched from Cape from a twin station in Andover, Maine, USA In April 1961 a multi-national agree- Canaveral (now the Kennedy Space Center) via the TELSTAR satellite. The success of ments was signed for the project develop- on 10 July 1962. TELSTAR I was placed in TELSTAR and the earth stations, the first ment of two active, mobile telecommunica- an elliptical orbit (completed once every 2 built for active satellite communications, tions satellites, “TELSTAR” and “Relay.” hours and 37 minutes), rotating at a 45 illustrated the potential of a future world- Goonhilly-Downs is located at the degree angle above the Earth’s equator. wide satellite system to provide communi- Cornwall coast in England. The first satel- The maximum transmission time between cations between continents lite dish to be built on the site, Goonhilly Europe and the United States was 20 min- Research into ways of improving the 1, also known as Arthur, was a parabolic utes per pass. On 11 July 1962 the TEL- quality and quantity of intercontinental tele- design and weighs 1118 tons and was 85 STAR Satellite transmission was received phone lines had been an ongoing focus for feet in diameter. It set a world standard for in Pleumeur-Bodou, enabling the world’s a number of years. One of the first under- the open parabolic design of the dish. first satellite transmission of a short televi- water telephone cables, laid between France sion program from the United States. and the United States in 1956, provided an Telstar Facts: extremely limited capacity of only 36 The satellite was 34.5 inches in diameter channels. The transmission of televised It had 72 facets programming was non- • It weighed 170 pounds existent. Programs were recorded manu- • The metal framework was made of ally on a magnetic tape, and then dis- magnesium, the shell of aluminum, patched by airplane courier to its desti- coated with aluminum oxide sprayed nation studio, where is would be on by a plasma jet process. “replayed” in order to disseminate its contents to spectators. IEEE/ASCE Miestone 75 Years of Electrification UK of the Irish Free State Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall, England - July 2002 - IEEE UKRI Ardnacrusha Power Station, Section Shannon, Ireland, 29 July 2002 Radome in Pleumeur-Bodou On 11 July 1962 this site transmitted The Electricity Supply Board of Ireland’s

10 Region 8 News November 2002 welcome to members of the IEEE and that marked their return to the world stage their President Ray Findlay and to following the painful aftermath of the First Tom Jackson who is becoming World War. "We are at the cusp of a new President of ASCE who are celebrating business age where issues like sustainabili- their 150th year. The presentation of ty, integrity and responsibility cannot be both the International Milestone Award brought down to a pure economic equation. and the International Landmark Award The IEEE and ASME are complimented for their tremendous foresight with their Heritage Award Schemes to preserve the past for the future and so inspire Shannon Scheme for Electrificaton of a new generation of engineers, civil, Irish Free State in 1929 electrical and electronic to perhaps leave their mark on society. " (ESB’s) Shannon Hydro Electric Scheme received the IEEE International Milestone and Landmark Award to mark its 75th Anniversary. The awards ceremony at the gen- erating station in Ardnacrusha, Co Clare, Ireland, was presented jointly to the ESB and Siemens, (which Aerial view of Ardnacrusha Power Station (Photo Courtesy constructed it in 1927). by the IEEE ESB Archive). and the ASCE- American Society of Civil Engineers. The President of IEEE, Ray Findlay said It recognizes the scale of the project that at the time it was built, the Shannon and how it became a model for large-scale Scheme was one of the world’s largest civil electrification schemes worldwide. The and electrical engineering projects. It was a IEEE presented the Milestone Award; and major accomplishment for the Irish Free the American Society of Civil Engineers State and a major landmark in the history Presidential Address : President Raymond presented the Landmark Award. of its contractor Siemens A.G. Findlay IEEE delivers his address at the The chief executive of the ESB, Padraig "Today’s celebration is especially sig- Dedication Cermony in Ardnacrusha. McManus, said: "These awards are very nificant because it recognizes the impor- coveted and therefore it is a matter of great tance of the Shannon Scheme in two allied pride to the ESB and Siemens that we have engineering disciplines—electrical and The Plaque was unveiled. Bob Cullen, been selected for these particular honors. It civil engineering." Station Manager who read the citation is a huge tribute to the staff both past and The Managing Director of Siemens, "The Shannon Scheme was officially present in our organizations. The Shannon Richard Crowe said that the Shannon opened at Parteen Weir on 22 July 1929. Scheme is much more than a wonderful Scheme was for Siemens one major event One of the largest engineering projects of engineering breakthrough, it its day, it was successfully exe- is a realization of a dream, the cuted by Siemens to harness material legacy of a vision the Shannon River. It subse- and in some ways a monu- quently served as a model for ment to the pioneering spirit large-scale electrification pro- that built this nation. It incor- jects worldwide. Operated by porates brilliant conceptual the Electricity Supply Board of design; real professionalism Ireland, it had an immediate and dedication in terms of the impact on the social, economic execution of that design, hard and industrial development of and often painstaking work in Ireland and continues to supply the severest of conditions. significant power beyond the Visions and dreams are real- end of the 20th century." Unveiling the Plaque: Left to Right ; Tom Jackson Incoming President ized by extraordinary people Contributed by Tom Hammons ASCE, Raymond Findlay President IEEE, Michael Aherne Minister of who see beyond the usual State at the Department of Entreprise Trade and Employment, Padraig Chair Power Eng. Chapter, framework. McManus Chief Executive ESB, Richard Crowe MD Siemens Ireland UKRI He then extended a special Ltd. & Bob Cullen Station Manager Ardnacrusha & Lee Stations.

November 2002 Region 8 News 11 Chapter and Section News

10 years of the Czechoslovakia given on the subject “How to make a chapter activities. Region 8 News is Section IEEE Technical Presentation”. The students going to regularly follow up on their November 29, 2002 will see the celebra- expressed the areas of interest where IEEE progress. tion of the 10 years anniversary of the can and will contribute. Having been formed in Frankfurt Czechoslovakia Section IEEE. This event Following these meetings and with (Main) on March 23rd, the German chap- will be held at the Czech Technical the support of every University official, ter is a late arrival within EMS, but its University in Prague. the above student branches have estab- leadership team wants to make up for this The past chairmen of the CZECHO- lished local IEEE offices for Student by quickly turning it into an active and SLOVAKIA SECTION IEEE, meetings. exciting professional community. At MTT/AP/ED, CAS/COM, CS and C chap- IEMC 2002 in Cambridge, Region 8 News ters will receive the IEEE Wall Plaques and The new officers of the above talked to Gerald Anleitner (Chapter Chair) Officer Label pins to recognize their con- IEEE Student Branches are: and Dr. Gerhard Seiler (Chair of tribution to the activities of the Section. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Professional Activities) about the The important role of the IEEE will be Chairman Ilias Kitsas Chapter’s plans. promoted during the official program Vice-Chair Filippos Koravos Chapter work will initially be focussed including presentation of activities during Secretary Ioannis Fotiou on “activating” the existing EMS member- the last 10 years. The history of the IEEE Treasurer Konstantinos Panoulas ship in Germany with two broad initiatives: and Czechoslovakia Section IEEE will be Web-administrator Panagiotis • Getting to know members: Regular briefly reminded as well. This event will be Georgiadis chapter meetings every three months an opportunity to thank all local partners Student Counselor Professor S. Panas in a different region of Germany who supported the activities of the Section. (email: [email protected]) (Berlin and Hamburg have been first, Submitted by: Jan Vobecky University of Xanthi Munich and Düsseldorf are planned Czechoslovakia Section Chair Chairman Nikolaos Kavakiotis next) offer a convenient first network- [email protected] Vice-Chair Iakovos Kalergis ing opportunity for the regional mem- Secretary Elena Tsioliaridou bers, who will be invited to drop in. Greece Treasurer Ioannis Panapakidis • Involving members in joint profes- REGION 8 NEWS Student Counselor Professor A. sional work: As a platform for deep GREECE SECTION REPORT Safigiani (email: [email protected]) discussion, exchange of experiences 1. The 4th INFOCOM CONFERENCE National Technical University of and joint work, the chapter will organized by SMART PRESS S.A was Athens encourage and support the formation held on June the 17th. The session entitled President Kyriaki Levanti of special interest groups. Topics will “SCIENTIFIC SESSION” was sponsored Vice Presidents Alexandra Meliou have to emerge, but according to and organized by the IEEE Greece Giorgos Perdikomatis Seiler “Management of large software Section. Fifteen papers of the 4th Secretary Katerina Bougioura and electronics projects” and Generation Mobile Systems, New Treasurer Apostolos Fertis “Software Patents” already look likely Technologies on Wireless Networks and Public Relations Eirini Lerikou to reach critical mass. Wide Band Networks were presented and Webmasters Efthimios Kallos The next meeting will take place in more than 300 professionals attended this Alexandros Dimakis Munich on November 16th. Its profession- scientific session. Stefanos Evagelou al program on “Automotive embedded sys- 2. The major activity of the new offi- Student counselor Professor P. tems” directly targets a high interest topic cers of the Greece Section is to make an Maragos (email: [email protected]) for the region, with four upmarket car effort to strengthen the Student branches Future meetings are planned to take OEMs and many important suppliers being in Greece as well as to improve communi- place with all Universities in Greece. at home in southern Germany (Contact: cations with and between the Student Philip Constantinou [email protected]). branches. IEEE CHAIRMAN Anleitner thinks that about a year will For these reasons three meetings were GREECE SECTION be needed to “establish the basics”, before organized with the following Student further initiatives can be added to reach branches: Germany Starts NEW Eng. beyond the IEEE, both in terms of estab- • University of Thessaloniki on Management Society Chapter lishing an outside network or in order to 27/05/2002 Kickstarting Chapter Activities attract outside members. • University of Xanthi on 31/05/2002 The newly founded German Chapter of As a real life learning opportunity of • National Technical University of the Engineering Management Society starting a chapter, Region 8 News will reg- Athens on 04/06/2002 has defined an aggressive plan for form- ularly follow the progress of EMS During these meetings a seminar was ing an active community and starting Germany and keep you informed.

12 Region 8 News November 2002 REMINDER CALENDAR Workshops/ Conferences/ Symposia in Region 8

ITAB 2003 K-31, Moscow, 107031, Russia IFAC Conference on Analysis and "New Solutions for New Challenges". Phone: (7-095) 921-7108, Fax: (7-095) Design of Hybrid Systems 4th Annual IEEE EMBS 921-1639, E mail: [email protected] June 16-18, 2003 Special Topic Conference on Saint-Malo, Brittany, France Information Technology Applications IEEE and SPIE XIIth Symposium on Further information may be found on The in Biomedicine Photonics and Web Engineering conference Server: http://www.upelec-rennes. 24 - 26th April 2003 22-25 May 2003 fr/adhs03/ ICC, Birmingham (UK). Warsaw, Poland Technology advances, biomedical and IEEE Symposium for B.Sc., M.Sc., and The 4th IFAC Symposium on ROBUST health care applications Ph.D., students, GOLD members and CONTROL DESIGN http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/biocore/itab young researchers. Milan, Italy 2003/ The main aim of the Symposium is to June 25 - 27, 2003. build a nation wide debating forum for Contact Patrizio Colaneri at colaneri@elet. The 5th International Conference and young researchers and Ph.D. students with polimi.it for further details. Exhibition strong participation of experts and young DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING research fellows from abroad. Membership SYSID 2003 AND ITS APPLICATIONS of young scientists in IEEE (students and 13th IFAC Symposium on System March 12-14, 2003, GOLD members) and SPIE will be empha- Identification, Moscow, Russia sized during a special Society Evening and August 27-29, 2003, Submission deadlines – December 15, IEEE B-B-Q Reception. Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2002 - Abstracts of papers Please, consider participation of your Co-sponsored by IEEE Control Notification on acceptance - January 15, 2003 students and young fellows. Systems Society Abstracts and papers should be sent to the [email protected]; For more information see the symposium International Technical Program Committee: [email protected]; website: www.sysid2003.nl. Rogdestvenka st., 6/9/20,

IEEE Egypt Section Organizes or Mentors for the students teams. Oct.-Sept. 2002: Workshops for schools Volunteering Judges for the Egyptian FC and volunteers Future City Competition final will be Professors from the Egyptian Jan. 2003: FC competition started in Egypt 2002-2003. Engineering faculties. This year competi- schools Now entering its eleventh year in USA, tion will be held locally only. This Pilot Jul. 2003: The Egypt FC finals and awards Third Year in Japan and for the first time a Program will started in 10 Egyptian ceremony. Future City pilot competition in Egypt and schools. We are looking forward to extend IEEE members from Region 8 are in Region 8. Teams representing schools this competition the next year in more encouraged to join the FC finals in the next will present their vision of a city of the schools in Egypt and also hope to extended EED 2003, insha'allah. future and will compete for prizes and it to all Region 8 countries as well. recognition. Students will learn about dif- We sent a proposal to the National Yasser Tawfik ferent engineering fields, concepts and also Engineering Week Committee in USA to Pre-College Programs coordinator learn Personal skills like Teamwork, let the winners from each country compete Egypt Sec Student Activities Creativity, time management and more. in an international finals next year. The FC Committee Many IEEE volunteers in Egypt have competition in Egypt will take the follow- [email protected] joined the FC pilot program as organizers ing track: +20 12 444 7767

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November 2002 Region 8 News 13 More than 500 attend the first Egyptian Engineering Day, EED’2002 CONRAD Hotel, Cairo, EGYPT July 27th, 2002

The main goal of EED is to present gradu- Quality ation projects and start a real program Standards. toward cooperation between industry and • Data university. On the other hand, EED is a Networks very good way to spread new technologies presented by between students in order to get initiative Nortel ideas. Networks. We started at early morning (7 o’clock) • New techniques in VLSI and with preparation of exhibition hall. The FPGA Technology presented by program began with welcoming speech by Mentor Graphics. Prof. Sameer Shaheen, EGYPT Section The exhibition ended at 5:00 pm. Vice Chair and Dr. Khaled Elmetwaly, Then all participants moved to EGYPT GOLD Chair. Then, The Idea and another hall to attend a workshop to a program overview of EED was presented discuss the “Cooperation between by Nahel. After that, the exhibition was industry & university in EGYPT” opened to all visitors and students. and “Electronic Industries in Fab- A series of presentations started in par- Less world”. The discussion was allel with the exhibition as follows: moderated by Hany Elhak one of • Software development presented by active IEEE GOLD member in IBM and RAYA. Egypt. Finally, The EED was ended • GIS presented by OPENSOFT and by some notes and comments from

14 Region 8 News November 2002 Mohammad Aboud. encourages us to organize more events col- EGYPT and IEEE EGYPT Section. The EED organized by a subcommittee lecting the academic and the industrial The EED website contain new ideas and of Egyptian Student Branches Committee society in Egypt. To get benefits and profit proposed solutions for industry, for (ESB) and 545 participants attend the to both sides through directing University Community and governments. Projects events: 84% EE student, 0.8 % non EE research toward solving industry problems, were demonstrated for education processes, Student, 14.% company representatives, participate in the development process and for Medical projects, and more….. and 0.7 % press and media. meet community needs. Hoping all these Please visit the website for all projects There was a recognized participation efforts leads to develop our society. abstracts and contact information: from Egyptian women engineers and stu- Thanks and appreciations to everyone www.EED.SBC2002.ORG dents. 37% of the total participants was who helped make this event happen, partic- Report contributed by women engineers and students. ularly: Modern Technology Supply and Nahel M. Amirah This success we met in EED’2002 Engineering Company, Mentor Graphics [email protected]

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CSIDC 2003 40 Lenin avenue, Tomsk, 634050, Russia Computer Society Student International Phone: +7-3822-233077. Fax: +7-3822- Design Competition 223262 E-mail: [email protected] Call for Participation: http://me.tusur.ru/~tieee

The theme of this year’s CSIDC is Added Value: Turning THE 2003 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYM- Computers Into Systems. POSIUMON ELECTROMAGNETIC COM- Computer Society volunteers and staff are working together to make possible the second PATIBILITY annual Computer Society International Design Competition. EMC-2003 CSIDC seeks members and nonmembers alike to contribute their professional exper- Istanbul Hilton Hotel, tise while serving as a project evaluator. Read the Call for Participation to learn more. Istanbul, Turkey, http://computer.org/CSIDC May 11-16, 2003 The IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition aims to Dear colleagues and fellow EMC engineers, advance excellence in education by having student teams design and Hello from Turkey, implement computer-based solutions to real-world problems. Now in We take great pleasure in inviting you to its third year, the CSIDC rewards many months of student-led com- participate in the 2003 IEEE International puter design projects with thousands of dollars in cash awards and Symposium on EMC, which will be held financial aid to the host schools. The top ten teams, based on written with the cooperation of our colleagues in reports, meet face to face in Washington, DC, to demonstrate a Turkey, at the Hilton Hotel in Istanbul, working prototype of a device that could be marketed to fill a soci- Turkey on May 11–16, 2003. etal need. The symposium will provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of new developments in the field of electromagnetic compatibility and related topics. Web site at All Electric Combat Vehicle The conference is organized by the http://www.ortra.com/emc2003. 5TH Int’lAECV Conference Tomsk Chapter & Student Branch of the 2 - 5 June 2003 Institute of Electrical and Electronics TECHNICAL EXHIBITION Angers, FRANCE Engineers – IEEE, Tomsk State University We expect exciting new product launches AECV Conference 2003 of Control Systems and Radioelectronics and exhibitor events during the Symposium. Attention : Mr. Bruno Carrier-Marquis (TUCSR) by decision of Russian Federation Do not miss this unique opportunity! Route de Laval BP 36 Ministry of Education, with support and 49460 MONTREUIL JUIGNE assistance of the Siberian IEEE Chapters, SYMPOSIUM SECRETARIAT: FRANCE Russian Foundation for Basic Research Web site: http://www.ortra.com. Looking Phone : +33 2 41 93 67 93 (RFBR), with technical co-sponsorship of forward to welcoming you in Istanbul, Fax : +33 2 41 93 66 81 the IEEE Communications Society. Best Regards E-mail : bruno.carrier- The conference sections: Elya B. Joffe [email protected] • Methods of computing and applied Symposium Chairman mathematics in communications. ICIP-2003 SIBCON-2003 • Mathematical simulation and modeling IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE Siberian Conference on in modern technologies of control and 2003 International Conference on Control & Communications information processing. Image Processing Tomsk, Russia, October 1-2, 2003 • Control systems and related problems. September 14-17, 2003 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR • Crypto protection of communications. Barcelona, Spain PAPERS • Official languages are English and CALL FOR PAPERS The IEEE-Siberian conference SIBCON- Russian The International Conference on Image 2003 is aimed to offers opportunities to Organizing Committee accepts the pro- Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE learn and share information on the latest posals for the short courses on the confer- Signal Processing Society, is the premier advance in communication systems develop- ence themes till May 30, 2003. forum for the presentation of technological ment and creation. It is to be held in Tomsk, Dr. O.V. Stoukatch, advances and research results in the fields of Russian Federation, on October 1-2, 2003. TUCSR, theoretical, experimental, and applied image

16 Region 8 News November 2002 and video processing. before December 10, 2002. Details of submissions and all informa- ICIP-2003, the tenth in the series that has FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: tion concerning abstract preparation for been held annually since 1994, will bring http://www.icip2003.org IDAACS’2003 can be found at the web site together leading engineers and scientists in http://www.idaacs.ssft.net image processing from around the world. IEEE Second International Workshop Dates: Abstract submission 15 Jan 2003 Research frontiers in fields ranging from tra- on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Notification of acceptance 01 March ditional image processing applications to Advanced Computing Systems: 2003 evolving multimedia and video technologies Technology and Applications All correspondence should be directed to: are regularly advanced by results first report- IDAACS’2003 Prof. Anatoly Sachenko ed in ICIP technical sessions. SEPTEMBER 8 - 10, 2003, Director of Institute of Computer Summary (to be received by): January LVIV, UKRAINE Information Technologies 10, 2003 The main goal of the IDAACS’2003 is to Ternopil Academy of National Acceptance: April 10, 2003 provide a forum for high quality reports on Economy the state-of-the-art Theory, Technology and 3 Peremoga Square, PROPOSALS FOR TUTORIALS Applications of Intelligent Data 46004 Ternopil, Ukraine AND SPECIAL SESSIONS Acquisition and Advanced Computer Phone: +380 (352) 33-0830, 33-2026 Tutorials will be held on Sunday, Systems as used in measurement, automa- Fax: +380 (352) 33-0024 (24 hrs) September 14, 2003. Proposals should be tion, and scientific research, in industry E-mail: [email protected] submitted to Fernando Pereira ([email protected]) and business. Http://www.idaacs.ssft.net/

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IEEEStandards ness of companies incorporating them. dards-setting environment. Association Today, the IEEE-SA serves global In the IEEE-SA, the much respected In the last edition of industry with an established portfolio of standards-setting process offers to its the IEEE Region 8 standards programs and products. members the unique opportunity to take news there was a Moreover, the IEEE-SA works to part in shaping the direction of technolo- report on the impor- enhance the acceptance and use of its gy and its use by developing in-demand tant contribution of standards in today’s dynamic market- standards. IEEE standards in Ingo Ruesch place. It continues to broaden the scope promoting new tech- of the documents and products to meet Getting Involved nologies and world trade. There was also new technologies and to respond to There are hundreds of groups that are a plea to all Region 8 members to sup- industry needs. And it is through strong developing standards in the IEEE-SA. In port the standardisation activities of the technical diversity and devoted work of addition, there are groups studying the IEEE Standardisation Association its membership that the IEEE Standards technological and market need for stan- (IEEE-SA). Program thrives. dards. If you are interested in getting involved, please visit About the IEEE-SA Think Standards. Think IEEE http://grouper.ieee.org/ groups/index.html The IEEE-SA has been setting standards The cornerstone of the IEEE-SA is its to get connected to groups in which you for electro- and info-technologies for established standards development program are interested or email over a century. IEEE standards are the – a program that offers balance, openness, [email protected]. strategic tools that foster quality design due process and consensus and serves to Detailed information about IEEE-SA and manufacture , safeguard against ensure the technical integrity of its stan- individual or corporate (organisations) electrical hazards, facilitate trade, dards. The IEEE-SA’s strength is provided membership is found at http://standards. improve transportation and progress by the dedicated efforts of volunteers lend- ieee.org/sa-mem/ index.html or email ieee- global communications. They play a ing their technical expertise and innova- [email protected]. central role in research and development tion, coupled with the IEEE-SA’s ability to Contributed by Ingo Ruesch, and product development across indus- keep pace with the changing landscape of Standards Coordinator Region 8 try sectors – adding to the competitive- business, technology and the overall stan- [email protected]

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The Answer to scanning probe microscopy techniques that (currently) a slow process to manipulate August Photo revolutionized the world of the numbers on the nanoscale abacus, its level nanosciences by making it possible to of miniaturization is undeniable: hundreds Quiz: Is This The “see” molecules and even atoms. of buckyball rows could fit neatly in a World’s Smallest The image shows a series of STM space the width of a typical feature on a Abacus? images showing the numbers 0 through 10 Pentium chip. represented by single carbon-60 molecules Answer: Yes, it is. James K. Gimzewski, (buckyballs) on a copper surface. The top The Winner of the August Photo leader of the nanoscience project at the row shows zero, with no molecules at the Quiz Zurich Research Laboratory, appears in the end of the row, and the successive rows The Winner of the 2001 edition of the Guinness Book of provide representations of the numbers 1- August Photo Quiz is Records for an unusual discovery, that of 10, with the appropriate numbers of mole- Eduardo Bayón Perales, the smallest calculator. It is in fact a “sim- cules at the end of each row. Although it is student member, student ple” abacus, the ten beads of which each branch Universidad de have a diameter of less than 1 nanometer Zaragoza Spain (0.000000001 meter). http://www.cps.unizar. James Gimzewski is one of the best- es/neocom. Eduardo is known scientists in the world of treasurer of the IEEE student branch of the nanoscience. He has received many telecommunications faculty of the awards, including the 1997 Feynman Prize University of Zaragoza, Spain. for his experimental research in the field of Honorable Mention and thank you for nanotechnology. He is currently Professor entering the August Contest go to Patrick of Chemistry at the University of Lemli, Michele Amoretti, Kiran Hiremath, California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before and Roger Pollard who all gave correct that, he was a group leader at the IBM identification of the nano object. research laboratories in R?schlikon near Acknowledgement and thanks to IBM Zurich for more than 18 years. He was inti- Zurich Research Laboratories for the R&D mately involved in the development of and photograph of this fascinating object.

November photo quiz: What is this, where was it developed, how, where and why is it used? Some hints: It is a piece of Information Technology which measures events in a European Research and Development Laboratory. Correct answers will be judged on complete- ness, accuracy, and quality of identification given in the answer. The Prize is winner’s choice of any item from the IEEE-On-Line Store up to value of US$35. Decision of judges is final. Answers by post or e-mail to The Editor Region 8 News (details on page 2) [email protected], before deadline 1 December 2002.

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Alexandria Univ. SB, Egypt “Future City competition” was the title members, 5 faculty members, over 70 “Business skills for engineers of the seminar introduced by Eng. Yasser intending SB members and about 6 intend- workshop” 6-7 September, Tawfik, GOLD member, who explained the ing faculty members, the IEEE in FUTO is 2002 Future City Competition & his suggestions really set to participate fully in the profi- Alex. SB and Egypt GOLD held a work- to organize it in Egypt. ciency of networking the world. shop for the first business skills for engi- The last activity was a competition Due to the vacation of the school for its neers in the Arab Academy for Science & between the groups where each group has second semester break, no activity was Technology (AAST), Alexandria, Egypt . to innovate a product, plan for its market- held until Tuesday 30th April 2002, when a 6-7 September 2002. ing & customer presentation. The academy technical evening was held in the computer labs were used for that purpose. University’s Engineering Workshop III. 1st Day: The presentations were evaluated by the Kudos to our well deserving student The workshop began with the students reg- jury who chose a public GSM phone as the guest speakers who spoke on the following istering during the opening reception & winner . topics: they were divided into six groups where Attendance certificates were handed to Ogbu Ikechukwu — Network Security the organizers gave a brief summary about all the students at the end of the day. That Onwuka Nnaemeka — Data Security the 2 days program. day was the most interesting one where Nemi George — Introduction to Eng. Khaled Kamel, gave a lecture enti- students gathered & competed through a Computer Telephony: Interoperability/ tled “Team Work”. friendly and fun atmosphere which paved Integration. “Creativity” a very interesting subject the way for future engineers to start their that attracted large attendance was present- practical life in a co-operative & effective IEEE DAY AT THE FUTO SB ed by Dr. Hassan El Fedawy, Faculty of attitude. 13th September 2002 Fine Arts. Special thanks to Dr. M. El-Banna for With a keynote address by the branch Eng. Kais Badran, GOLD member, his efforts, and to all the organizers who counselor, an address by the branch chair, a gave a session about Marketing & its made this event possible. presentation by the branch secretary on the importance for today’s world engineers. Rania Sleem, Alex. SB. IEEE and its membership benefits, paper Market research was the subject that [email protected] presentations by two students, articulate Miss Saima Jafri, Marketing Dept., Al- advisory remarks from the immediate past Watanya Company, talked about in her lec- Report from Jordan SB chair, and a technically oriented closing ture where the attendance benefited a lot Fifth Anniversary of Uni. address by the head of department of from her experience. Jordan SB Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the Last lecture of the day was by Mr. This Month, The IEEE Student Branch at FUTO SB marked its IEEE day on 13th Vikas Bahinipati, Maastricht School of The University of Jordan will enter its fifth September 2002. Management., Netherlands, in “Global year as a student branch in Region 8. Remarkably, the presentations were Marketing”. The lecturer explained the It has a new counselor, Dr. Ali El- technically fascinating, the past chair’s main concepts of the issue aided with live Mousa ([email protected]) who acts also remarks were noth- examples. as Vice-chair for the Jordan Section. ing short of a Reporter: grand oratorical 2nd Day: Chairman of the University of Jordan piece, while the EEE Dr. Mohamed El-Banna, Alex. Subsection Student Branch heads address was a natural student advisor gave a brief summary Hani Suwwan drive to encourage about IEEE aiming mainly at the non-IEEE [email protected] professionaL thinking members. amongst the inert-disciplinary “Branding & advertising” was the fol- FUTO SB audience. lowing issue presented by Eng. Kais Federal University of Onye Okechukwu E., Badran featuring the latest techniques used Technology Owerri Branch Chair in that subject. Ahukannah Edward N., Eng.Nahel Amira, student representa- Student Branch Branch Secretary tive, gave a session about the leadership The 2001/2002 academic session Engr. where the attendants enjoyed having some has been fruitful for the IEEE, Michael C.Ndinechi, self-tests during the session. FUTO SB. With over 50 student Branch Counselor

19 Region 8 News November 2002 IEEE Region 8 Region 8 Slovenia Section EUROCONEUROCON 20032003 General Chairman Baldomir Zajc University of Ljubljana The International Conference on Faculty of Electrical Engineering COMPUTER AS A TOOL Trzus ˘ ˘ka 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel: +386 1 4768 349 Ljubljana, Slovenia Fax: +386 1 4264 630 E-mail: [email protected] September 22 – 24, 2003

Vice Chairmen Sas˘a Divjak Call for Papers Jurij Tasic˘ Andrej Z˘emva The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON conference was re-established in July 2001 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Our Objectives are to present a rich Technical Programme togeth- IEEE R8 Conference Coordinator er with a large variety of extra educational activities, a better overview of IEEE activities, Tariq Durrani and gain practical benefits from IEEE services. Professionals in our Region could meet more often and develop better contacts. IEEE Slovenia Section Sas˘a Divjak IEEE Slovenia Section is organizing EUROCON 2003 in September 2003 in Electrotechnical Society of Slovenia Ljubljana, Slovenia. The venue of the Conference, Ljubljana, belongs to the most progres- Marko Jagodic˘ sive region of Central and Eastern Europe. The conference is supported by several respected universities, promising strong publicity and therefore high participation for the event. Technical Program Committee Jurij Tasic˘ Slovenia Videoconferences, invited lectures, presentations and tutorials will be held in conjunction Peter Farkas˘ Slovakia to the basic scientific program. Presentations will be in English language. Fabio Tosato Italy Giuseppe Buja Italy Alexander Szabo Croatia Cover Theme: Computer as a Tool Michael Muhr Austria The scope of the event includes, but is not limited to: Felix Breitenecker Austria Kurt Richter Austria • computer-aided design • electronics • telecommunications Tadej Bajd Slovenia • automatic control • simulation and modeling Ivan Rozman Slovenia • computer and information science Graeme Wilkinson UK • artificial intelligence • pattern recognition • biomedical engineering Hari Bali UK • power engineering • measurements • education Wieslaw Kuzmicz Poland

Supporting Universities and Institutions Tutorials University of Ljubljana Slovenia University of Trieste Italy CoLoS — Conceptual Learning of Science — held at the same time in Ljubljana University of Padova Italy —will bring together several research teams. The project aims to promote the development University of Zagreb Croatia of innovative teaching methods and understanding of fundamental concepts in science and University of Maribor Slovenia technology. They will present some of their results also to the participants of EUROCON Technical University of Graz Austria 2003 on September 21, 2003. Technical University of Vienna Austria University of Bratislava Slovakia Kingston University London UK Invited lectures and tutorials will be presented outside Ljubljana, where partici- IEEE Region 8 pants can enjoy the beautiful Alpine and Adriatic areas of Slovenia and their wonderful IEEE Slovenia Section food. Together with high technical achievement we would like to treat all participants as IEEE Croatia Section our valued guests. Electrotechnical Society of Slovenia Society of Engineers of Slovenia Important Dates Submission of extended abstracts or full papers March 23, 2003 Acceptance notification May 18, 2003 Submission of camera ready papers June 22, 2003 Call for Registration July 20, 2003 For the latest information, please visit http://www.eurocon2003.si/

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