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Upcoming Conferences
FIE 2008 will be held in Saratoga Springs,
New York USA from 22-25 October 2008.
FIE 2009 will be held in San Antonio, Texas USA specific dates will be forthcoming.
Society Officers
Joseph Hughes President Georgia Inst. of Tech. USA jhughes@ece.gatech.edu
Susan Lord Vice President Univ. of San Diego USA slord@sandiego.edu
Tony Mitchell Secretary North Carolina State Univ. USA slord@sandiego.edu
James Sluss Treasurer Univ. of Oklahoma USA sluss@ou.edu
David Kerns Sr. Past President Olin College of Engr. USA david.kerns@olin.edu
Daniel Litynski Jr. Past President Western Michigan Univ. USA dan.litynski@wmich.edu
News&Notes Editorial Staff
Rob Reilly Editor reilly@media.mit.edu
Burks Oakley II Associate Editor University of Illinois USA oakley@uillinois.edu
Martin Llamas-Nistal Associate Editor University of Vigo, Spain martin@uvigo.es
Administrivia
This publication is a service of the IEEE Education Society. It is published approximately bi-monthly. If you would
like a news item or photo placed in News & Notes, send it to:
Rob Reilly, Editor (r.reilly@ieee.org).
the next 50 years for the Education Society
will be
as bold and innovative as our first 50. We have been fortunate to have always had bold and dynamic leaders, that is our
greatest resource! —Joseph L.A. Hughes, EdSoc President
During the Education Society's gala 50th
Anniversary celebration, (photo to the left) 2007 IEEE President Leah Jamieson (center), who is also an EdSoc member,
chatted with two distinguished IEEE leaders Oliver Ban the Director of the EdSoc's China Development Project and with Rosanna Chan
(right) the Chair of the EdSoc's Hong Kong Chapter. (Photo to the right) The Editor in Chief of the Education Society
peer-reviewed journal for student papers, The IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering
Education Magazine (MEEM), Emmanuel
Gonzalez (Republic of the Philippine Islands) attended the various events at the 50th Anniversary celebration in Milwaukee.
Professor Saliah Hassane Leads Development Effort in Niger
Professor Hamadou
Saliah Hassane organized a tour of several African countries for the purpose of developing engineering education at the
college and pre-college level.
The tour started on November 22, 2007 with a warm welcome from the organizing committee in Niamey, Niger. Professor Saliah Hassane efforts are funded by the IEEE Foundation and by the IEEE Education Society.
Leading the Niger organizing committee was Dr. Zeinabou Mindaoudou, Eng. & Researcher at Radio Isotope
Institute Research Center of University Abdou Moumouni Dioffo (UAMD) of Niamey, Niger.
Several activities took place during his stay in Niamey.
"Professor Saliah Hassane has proven to be a energetic leader in the EdSoc's efforts
to expand engineering education programs in Africa." —Trond Clausen, Vice Chair, EdSoc Chapters
Committee
In the framework of the 1st AFRA International Conference on ICT for Teaching and Learning in
Nuclear Science and Technology, held in Niamey in late November 2007, Prof. Hamadou Saliah Hassane (above left photo,
right most person), proudly stands
with Dr. Amadou Hama Maiga (above left photo,
left most person), Associate Professor at Gaston Berger University, St-Louis, in Senegal and
Dr. Almoustapha Aboubacar (above left photo, center person), Chair of Department of Physics at University Abdou Moumouni Dioffo of Niamey.
Both were taught as Master of Science Students by Professor Saliah Hassane in 1985 at University of Niamey in Niger.
In the above right-most photo fom left to right are some of the attendees: Aminame Abdoussamed Yacine, Leila Yacouba,
Binta Modi Maiguizo, Nana Barira Laminou Zabeirou, Aminatou Issa Sidikou Harouna; (in the back row from left to right)
Hassane Amadou,
Mathurin Nerguidima, Idrissou Bello Rafiou, Farissatou Hassane Laminou, Hadiara Mounkaila Idé, Bassira Mahaman,
Abdoulaye Saliah Hassane, Rackia Kaffa, and Wahid Bannour
"funding from the IEEE Foundation and the EdSoc has proven to be an invaluable support for our project in Africa."
—Professor Hamadou Saliah Hassane
In the photo above to the left, Mr. Wahid Bannour, a world renown engineering educator from Tunisia, presents his
paper entitled: "Modeling Online Laboratory: the case of an implementation of remote practical work on a Digital Signal
Processing Kit."
In the photo above in the center, Mrs. Rackia Kaffa (in the red smock), a teacher at EAMAC, an Aerospace and Meteorology
African Engineering School, supervising a motor assembly activity by young secondary school students interested in Science and
Engineering.
In the photo above to the right, Professor Saliah Hassane presents his talk on "The Relevance of Online Laboratories
for Africa."
Under the leadership of IEEE leader Professor Andy Fan at the University of Macau, another Education Society chapter
has been born. There is a tremendous synergy between this new chapter and the EdSoc chapter in Hong Kong. In June 2007
there was a planning meeting in Macau to discuss the possibilities and future directions for the new chapter.
In the photo to the left are a number of IEEE leaders from Macau; from left to right: Dr. Kong, Dr. Zhang, Dr. Sze,
Dr. Reilly, Dr. Fan, Dr. Hwong, Dr. Tse, Dr. Chan.
In the photo to the right, Professor Rosanna Chan, Chair of the EdSoc Hong Kong Chapter (left), Rob Reilly
Chair of the EdSoc Chapters Committee (center), and Professor Andy Fan, Chair of the EdSoc Macau Chapter.
Saudi Arabia Chapter Expands:
Includes All GCC Sections
Under the leadership of Dr. Bakr Hassan (right) the EdSoc's Saudi Arabia Chapter has
been expanded to include all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates). Each GCC
country is also an IEEE Section. Thus the new Gulf EdSoc Chapter contains 7 Sections (Note: Saudi Arabia has two IEEE
Sections both are now part of the new chapter)
The IEEE Saudi Arabia Education Society Chapter has been selected as the 2006 Best Small and Mid-sized Chapter in
IEEE Region 8,
which consists of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Under the leadership of a number of IEEE and Education Society
leaders in the Middle East met in Bahrain to select board members for the new structure of this GCC-wide chapter. The
plan is to have at least one board member from each of the constituent. At the present time Dr. Bakr Hassan is the
interim Chair, but will soon announce the permanent Executive Committee.
The IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM) is a publication of the IEEE Education
Society. MEEM Editor in Chief, Emmanuel Gonzalez has announced that the December issue is available on line at:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/meem
The IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM) is published quarterly under the IEEE
Education Society Student Activities Committee (EdSocSAC) whose primary objective is to facilitate the publication
of students papers, and also of educators, whose works can influence the scientific preparation of pre-college
students as well as young educators..
Colombia Chapter Grows via Efforts of Dynamic Chair
"Carlos Rueda Artunduaga has been the driving force behind the creation of the Colombia
chapter and a number of other EdSoc initiatives in Region 9." —Manuel Castro, Vice Chair, EdSoc Chapters
Committee
Eng. Carlos Rueda Artunduaga, the Chair of the EdSoc Colombia Chapter has been a bold
dynamic leader. His efforts has results in the formation of the Colombia Chapter and the establishment of
Education Society initiatives in other South American IEEE Sections. Under his leadership the Colombia has seen a dramatic
growth in EdSoc members and in programs for those members.
In the top photo, some members of EdSoc Colombia Chapter Committee pose after a meeting. Mr. Alejandro Rincon
(Student Member - Webmaster), Miss Estefania Cubaque (Student Representative), Eng. Carlos Rueda Artunduaga
(Senior Member - Chapter Chair), Eng. German Cabuya (Senior Member - Chapter Vice Chair), Eng. Julian Duarte
(Member - Activities Coordinator), Eng. Felipe Garcia (Graduate Student Member - Secretary)
In the middle photo taken during the Education in XXI Century conference, in Bogota, Colombia, are members of Education Society Colombia
Chapter, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano Student Branch, and Dr. Carlos Eduardo Maldonado (second from the right), Lecturer.
The bottom photo captures the presentation of the prestigious EdSoc Outstanding Chapter Leadership Award at the
presentation ceremony at CERMA 2007 Mexico. Making the award presentation were Eng. Enrique Alvarez, IEEE
Region 9 Director 2008-2009, award recipient Eng. Carlos Rueda Artunduaga (Region 9 EdSoc Coordinator and
Colombia Chapter Chair), Eng. Jonathan Villanuevam, Region 9 Student Representative, and Eng. Tania Quiel,
Region 9 Director 2009-2010.
EdSoc Membership Development Committee Chair in Iran
"EdSoc's Membership development is functioning very well. We are only of a handful of Societies in IEEE
that are growing in membership over the past few years." —Joseph L.A. Hughes, EdSoc President
Professor Hossein Mousavinezhad (right-hand person in the photo ot the left), EdSoc Membership Development Committee Chair and Van Valkenburg Award
Chair, travelled to India, the United Arab Emirates and Iran in July-August, 2007. In
India he attended the International Conference on Global Software
Development Conference in Coimbatore and delivered a 4-day workshop
on Digital Signal Processing, he also gave a talk in Kerala Section
(for more details see the article in The Interface, November
2007). In
Tehran, Iran, he visited Dr. Hashem Oraee (left in the picture), Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sharif University. Hashem is
very active in IEEE and helped organizing the first IEEE
International Electro/Information Technology Conference in June
2000, Chicago. Dr. Oraee has been a visiting Professor at WPI.
The Nordic Chapter of the IEEE Education Society in cooperation with the Helsinki University of
Technology, Finland, the ReflekTori (an
acronym for Reflection (of course) and "tori"= town square") workshop was arranged at the
university's campus on December 3-4, 2007.
There was incredible attendance; 198 people attended this event. Even more encouraging was the fact that approximately
50% of the attendees were truly young people; graduate students, young professionals, and others.
This turned-out to be a major event for the Nordic Chapter and for Helsinki University.
In the photo above to the left: Education Society Chapter Chair Mats Daniels (left) with Lauri Malme, the Workshop Chair
chat during a break in the program. In the photo above
to the right is Ari Korhonen, a Board Member of the Nordic EdSoc Chapter. All the attendees had great praise for Professor Malme's efforts.
"During the planning stage of this trip, one of our goals was to establish one EdSoc chapter and
build others from that base. But we
had such strong support, it seems that we will have chapters in all the Sections that
we visited!"
--Oliver Ban, Director, EdSoc Chapters Committee China Initiative
There were a large number of professors and students who attended the chapter organizational
meeting during a scheduled visit with IEEE Education Society leaders and students in Tianjin.
Shown outside the new administration center on the campus of
Xian Union College in Xian, Junfeng Liu, Headmaster, Rob Reilly (center), and Oliver Ban
During the China Development Project (photo to the left) Rob Reilly
(left), met with the Shenzhen Alex Connector Co. Ltd. Chairman and CEO Shaofeng Li (center) and General
Manager Frank Li (right).
The EdSoc's China Development Committee will be actively working with all the
local IEEE leaders, and
future IEEE leaders. We have assisted in EdSoc chapters in Xian, Chengdu, Harbin and Beijing. We are looking forward
to further development in these
new chapters. We have plans to visit all IEEE Section Chairs in China in January 2008 and again in July 2008.
Oliver Ban, Director, EdSoc Chapters
Committee China Initiative states that: "our
only regret was that we could not visit Shanghai, Wuhan and
Nanjing but we will see IEEE leaders in those areas in January and July of 2008!"
"We will returning to various Chinese locations throughout 2008 to work with local leaders to
build the Education Society activities."
In Fall 2007 the chapter members developed a four week E-learning course “Modern Strategies of Corporate
Management in Telecommunications” and launched this October. The course is delivered exclusively through the
Internet using the facilities provided by the DL Centre of the Siberian State University of Telecommunications
and Information Sciences. “Modern Strategies of Corporate Management in Telecommunications” attracted high level
managers from the leading Russian telecommunication operators who are interested in the issues of planning, analysis,
control and accounts in the company and in updating and strengthening their knowledge in corporate management.
In June 2007 the chapter members took part in academic mobility and visited two European partner universities.
These visits were very fruitful. The chapter members took active part in discussing such burning issues as: development of
a new joint Master curriculum in Telecommunication Informatics, difference and convergence of European and Russian training
methodologies, improvement of the international ‘transparency’ and fair academic and professional recognition of
qualifications, the use of ECTS credit system, development of DL and E-learning.
"the Siberia EdSoc Chapter has been an exemplar of maximizing local expertise." —Rob
Reilly, Chair, Chapters Committee.
In the above left photo, Natalia A. Chupakhina (with large red scarf), IEEE Member, Chapter Secretary,
Professor Boris I. Krouk (to Natalia's right), IEEE Senior Member, the Siberia EdSoc Chapter Chair, and IEEE Member
Rector Sergey Sitnikov (to Natalia's left) pose with workshop attendees.
In the photo (above right), Professor Boris I. Krouk (center), IEEE Senior Member, the EdSoc Siberia Chapter Chair; and Professor
Viatcheslav
Shuvalov (right), IEEE Senior Member presents a workshop attendee with a certificate.
"The IEEE Hong Kong Section and the Education Society Chapter officials have a great depth of knowledge and will be a
great asset for development of other chapters in the area!" --Manuel Castro, Vice Chair, EdSoc Chapters Committee
In the photo above to the left, from left to right: Professor P. C. Wong, Professor, Dept of Information Engineering,
The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Dr. Oliver Ban, the Director of the EdSoc's China Development Project, Professor Peter T. S. Yum,
Dean of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Rob Reilly, Chair of the EdSoc Chapters Committee,
Professor Raymond Yeung, Professor of Information Engineering, Dept of Information
Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
In the photo aove to the right are two other EdSoc leaders that attended the meeting in Macau. EdSoc's Hong Kong Chapter
Chair, Professor Rosanna Chan (left), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and (right) K.P. Mark, the Vice Chair of the
Hong Kong Chapter.
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IEEE REGION 8 SIBIRCON 2008
International Conference on
"Computational Technologies in Electrical and Electronics Engineering"
Novosibirsk Scientific Centre, Novosibirsk, Russia
July 21–25, 2008
Bill Sayle has been the Editor of The Interface since 1996. He has stepped-down as Editor; this
is his last issue! During his 11 year tenure, Bill Sayle has provided exemplary
leadership, which has guided this publication to it's current stature. Education Society President Joseph L.A. Hughes notes that
"the Society will greatly miss Bill's expertise and leadership; he has
also been an exceptional role model for many of our aspiring IEEE leaders over the years."
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