ANNOUNCEMENTS

 R10 Newsletter

New Membership Development Grant from Region 10

Proposals are invited from IEEE Sections in Region 10 for funding to support membership development activities. The R10 Membership Development Grants/Incentives will provide support to following activities.

1. Membership promotion event: up to $500/event (new)

2. Membership publicity project:  up to $500/project (new)

3. Membership development tour:  up to $500/tour (new)

4. US$50 per new Student Branch formed (existing incentive)

5. US$50 per new Student Branch formed in previous year with 20 or more student members (existing incentive)

6. Incentive of US$250 to Section with the highest number and percentage increases in the grade Senior Member, Member and Student Member (existing incentive).

All proposals for the MD grants should be applied using the form available on the R10 webpage (Click here). R10 Membership Development Committee shall evaluate all the submitted MD proposals twice a year (June and September). Please send your proposals to IEEE Asia Pacific Operations Centre, Singapore by email: ieee.apo@ieee.org

It should be noted that the previous $1 per Student Grant has been replaced by the new grants as stated in items 1-3 above. It is planned to support about 35-55 MD activities per year in Region 10, subject to the number of applications and the available funding!

Professor Pingzhi Fan

R10 Membership Development Coordinator

CALL FOR PAPERS

• 4th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 12-14 December 2008. www.iciafs.org

• The 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP’08), Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 November 2008. http://iconip08.kedri.info

• The IEEE APCCAS 2008, the 9th biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, 30 November - 3 December, 2008, Macao, China http://apccas2008.umac.mo/

• The 2nd International Conference on Communications and Electronics, ICCE'08 (http://www.hut-icce.org/2008/). Hoi An, Vietnam, June 4 - 6, 2008.

• International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, Shanghai, China; July 7-9, 2008
  Web site: http://www.icalip2008.cn/ 

                   

                       

                 

Call for Region-10 Website Contest

The Region-10 Website Contest is yet another opportunity for student branches in the Asia Pacific region to interact and learn from one another. Motivation behind this yearly website competition is “Electronic communications among IEEE members has been one of the IEEE main concerns during the recent times and it is very important for the IEEE student branches to communicate with their student members and other branches in an electronic way to communicate quickly and save time”. Having a student branch website is a good tool to achieve this goal.

Judging Criteria, Guidelines and details about the R10 website contest can be found at IEEE website

http://ieee.org/web/membership/students/scholarshipsawardscontests/IEEE_Student_Branch_Web_Site_Contest.html

 or at IEEE R10 student activities page: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/Student_Activity/Student_Activity_Main.htm

1st Prize winner will automatically stand a chance for the IEEE Student Branch Web Site Contest organized by RAB.

At stage 1, each region holds its own regional Website contest. (This stage is the Region-10 Website Contest.)

At stage 2, all regions including Region-10 submit the top entry to the IEEE Student Branch Web Site Contest.

The Region-10 Website Contest is once again open for submission. The deadline is brought forward to 15th April 2008. Please submit "Request for Participation Form" from interested student branch by 30th March 2008.

R10 Website Contest Winning Categories includes:

·         1st Prize: US$500 + Certificate + Qualify for Inter-regional Website contest

·         2nd Prize: US$350 + Certificate

·         3rd Prize: US$200 + Certificate

·         Best New Comer Award: Certificate 

·         Merit Award (top 20% but subjected to change depending on participation): Certificate

Monetary awards for this contest come from Region-10.

Send your application forms to R10 Regional Student Representative (RSR) Om Perkash Batra at opbatra2kn@gmail.com with copy to R10 Student Activities Coordinator (SAC) Prof. Mini S. Thomas at mini@ieee.org.

Prof. Mini S. Thomas

IEEE Region 10 Student Activities Committee