- Report from the UKRI Section Annual General Meeting

- Region 8 holds its largest-ever meeting in Berlin

- IEEE Society Chapters

- IEEE’s new webinar and web-conferencing service

Member News

- New Senior Members

- Commemorating Sir Charles Kuen Kao

- Membership Renewals

Events

- R2i Electronics conference

- UKCI2012 and CFP

- SWICOM 2012

- ARSR 2012 Manchester

- 2012 IEEE TTM Symposium

- CIS2012

- IEEE HISTELCON 2012

- ENERGYCON 2012

- IEEE GreenCom12

 

Report from the UKRI Section Annual General Meeting

The UKRI AGM took place on the 22nd March 2012. Various matters were discussed, among which: 50th anniversary of the IEEE Region 8, outcome of the recent UKRI Elections, budget, Student Branch and Chapter awards. To read the detailed report, please visit:

UKRI AGM 2012

 

Region 8 holds its largest-ever meeting in Berlin

The 56 Sections and 4 sub-Sections of Region 8 met in Berlin, 31st March-1st April, to celebrate the start of the 50th Anniversary Year of the founding of the Region in 1962-63.

The IEEE President and CEO, Gordon Day, and the Chief Executive, Jim Prendergast, gave presentations on the current status of IEEE and the plans for the future. They reported that the total membership now exceeds 420,000 – thanks mainly to the continuing growth in Regions 8 and 10. The candidates for 2013 President-Elect, Tariq Durrani of Strathclyde University, Scotland, and Roberto de Marca of the Catholic University, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, both addressed the meeting. The IEEE Larry K Wilson Transnational Award was presented to Roland Saam (UKRI Section) for his outstanding service to IEEE as Editor of Region 8 News.

 

IEEE Society Chapters

Are you a member of one or more IEEE Technical Societies? In the UKRI Section there are over 30 Chapters that provide a local focus for technical activities. Chapters are always looking for speakers and volunteers to help organise meetings. You can find contact details for each Chapter on the UKRI website, including news of events and technical meetings that might be of interest to you:

UKRI Chapters page

 

IEEE’s new webinar and web-conferencing service

IEEE has a new service (WebEx) for providing webinars and web-conferencing. Any IEEE entity, such as a Section, Chapter, Affinity Group, or Student Branch, can use this service, which is ideal for delivering a lecture to a remote audience or making it available online.

 

New Senior Members

Congratulations to the newly elevated members:

George Goussetis, William Harwin, Jun Liang, Mazin Musa, Luis Ochoa and Ian Phillips.

 

Commemorating Sir Charles Kuen Kao

On the 20th March 2012 a commemorative plaque was dedicated in Harlow to IEEE Life Fellow Sir Charles Kuen Kao, 2009 Physics Nobel Prize winner for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication. Full details and photos can be found at:

UKRI Sir Kao commemoration

 

Membership Renewals

Although the total membership of the UKRI Section exceeded 11,000 last year, this year’s figure is showing a fall because many members have not renewed before the February deadline. In order to continue to receive the full benefits of membership, please make sure that you renew as soon as possible. Any comments or complaints about membership should be sent to Adam Jastrzebski: a.k.jastrzebski@ieee.org

IEEE Membership Renewal

 

R2i Electronics conference – Connecting Research to Industry

A one-day electronics workshop will be held on the 19th June 2012 at the Henry Ford College, Loughborough, and will showcase the best of the UK’s academic electronics research projects and capability to industrial manufacturing, research and development companies. The event aims to bridge the gap between the two sectors, allowing organisations, to: – Showcase innovative electronics research and highlight its potential value to UK industry – Identify resources or competence in specific areas – Find specialists to support further or related research – Bridge skills gaps by discovering graduates to employ, second or sponsor.

This event will provide a platform for IEEE Students to present their research in front of an audience of academics and industrialists, and to network with industrialists who may be interested in supporting the transfer of viable Research into Industry. Industry Members of IEEE are encouraged to attend the event, which provides an excellent opportunity to hear of recent innovations, and to network with other industrialists with common interests. For full details and to register, please visit the event webpage:

R2i – Connecting Research to Industry

 

UKCI2012 and CFP

The 12th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012) will take place at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) on 5-7th September 2012. Paper submission is open until the 15th May. Please see the event website for CFP, programme and registration details:

UKCI2012 website

 

SWICOM 2012

The First International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications (SWICOM 2012) sponsored by Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC), will take place on 24th May at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK. For full details, please visit:

SWICOM homepage

 

ARSR 2012 Manchester

The first Conference on Applied Radio Systems Research (ARSR) for Postgraduate Students and Young Researchers will be held on the 29-30th of May 2012 in Manchester. Registration is free to Students, Research Associates and Assistants, and Early Career Researchers; for other participants there will be a delegate fee. Please check the conference webpage for further details:

ARSR Conference website

 

2012 IEEE TTM Symposium

The IEEE Technology Time Machine (TTM) symposium of future technologies will cover a selected set of emerging technologies and will be held in Dresden, Germany, 23-25th May. For further details, please visit:

IEEE TTM Symposium website

 

CIS2012

The UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics organises the international Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems CIS2012, held on 23rd and 24th August at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Information may be obtained from the conference website and also by contacting: Dr Abdur Rahman (0035361202067,abdur.rahman@ul.ie) or Dr Zakia Rahman (0035361202205, zakia.rahman@ul.ie).

CIS2012 conference website

 

IEEE HISTELCON 2012

The HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference, organised by the IEEE Italy Section, IEEE Region 8 and the Research Centre CIRSTE, will take place in Pavia, Italy, 5th to 9th September. Full details can be found on the event webpage:

HISTELCON 2012

 

ENERGYCON 2012

The 2nd IEEE International Energy Conference and Exhibition will take place in Florence, Italy, 9-12th September. For details please visit:

ENERGYCON 2012 homepage

 

IEEE GreenCom12

The 2nd IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications, 25-28th September. Full details can be found at:

IEEE GreenCom12 homepage

This newsletter is sent to all UKRI members with a valid e-mail address. If you have problems viewing this webpage please email webmaster-ukri@ieee.org

The IEEE UK&RI Section is privileged to have been invited to participate in the commemoration on 20 March 2012 of Sir Charles Kuen Kao by his colleagues and the civic authorities with dedicated plaques at Harlow. Charles Kao brought distinction upon himself and our nation by conceiving viable optical transmission along glass fibres. It was his conception and dedication in the face of much scepticism that led to the demonstration and subsequent proving of optical transmission through glass fibres and to invent in 1966 ‘Optical Fibre for transmission of Light-waves’. His achievements at Standard Telephone Laboratories (STL) in Harlow resulted in October 2009 the Nobel Prize in Physics “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication”. Today, high-speed broadband would not be possible without his achievements. IEEE is proud to have amongst its members our IEEE Life Fellow Charles Kuen Kao.

The ceremony on 20 March included the unveiling of a bronze plaque at Harlow College by Mr Chen Futao Minister Counsellor for Science and Technology at the Chinese Embassy. The unveiling was preceded by commemorative speeches by Ian Vance, the last MD of STL, and by the Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University. Previously, Charles Kao’s achievements were also commemorated by the Harlow civic authority with a traditional blue plaque.

Anniversary:

Nihal Sinnadurai opened the afternoon session by welcoming Arthur P Cable one of the founders of the UK&RI section. UK&RI Section was founded in 1962 as a Section of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) shortly before it became the IEEE. He also and thanked Tony Davies, Brian Harrington and Charles Turner who has provided information on aspects of history of the IEEE here. Nihal spoke about the anniversary which coincides this year with the IEEE Region 8 50th anniversary. A Brief History of UK&RI Section has been compiled. This includes an interview of Arthur Cable who had participated in the founding meeting in 1962.

Elections:

Nihal reported on the officer election which involved both online – supervised and assisted by IEEE HQ and postal balloting which had been subcontracted to an external firm. The two successful candidates were introduced as Steve Nightingale the Vice-Chair (and Chair-elect) and Mona Ghassemian the Secretary. Mona takes office at the close of the meeting on 22nd March. He thanked Kang Li for his years of service and commitment to stay in post until this AGM and meetings. The past Chair Christopher James also received thanks for his service over the past two years.

Treasurer’s Report:

Nick Wright reported on the budget and stated that the financial situation with the section is healthy. He reported on the website expenditure and pointed out the 50th anniversary of the section this year. He stated that a budget has been created to provide for a number of Chapter and Section events planned for 2012. Because of the various planned events, the budget will be tight for the coming year. The Report was proposed and adopted.

Awards:

Student Branch Counsellor:

The Student Activities Chair, Andreas Koltes, described the IEEE Region 8 Outstanding Student Branch Counsellor award award. This programme is held annually and consists of two rounds; regional level and international level.  Last year on the regional level, Mona Ghassemian, was selected as one of the two joint winners of the Region 8 from University of Greenwich. The student branch at the University of Greenwich was established in October 2010 and, with Mona’s guidance and supervision, became one of the most active student branches in Section in less than a year. Mona acknowledged the support from her students and other student branch officers as well as the support and guidance received from the region as well as the section which resulted in the recognitions. She added that this is the second award received this year and hoped to keep the same level of quality in their branch.

Best Large Chapter:

The UK&RI  Computational Intelligence Chapter has received the IEEE Region 8 award for the best large chapter of the year award. The award was made at the Region 8 meeting in Berlin on 1st April 2012.

• Mike Tompsett wins the IEEE Edison Medal

Member News

• 2012 Membership renewal
• New Senior Members
• Member benefits bulletin
• Complimentary online tutorial

Events

• ENERGYCON 2012 and CFP
• SWICOM 2012 and CFP
• UKCI2012 and CFP
• Future Leaders seminar series
• ARSR 2012 Manchester
• EES-UETP Course
• 2012 IEEE TTM Symposium
• ADHOC-NOW 2012
• CIS2012
• IEEE GreenCom12

Students

• IEEE Students Awards: application deadline
• Postgraduate Magnetism Techniques workshop
• Student Branch Chair Meeting report

Dr Tompsett, who designed and built the first digital camera, is awarded the 2012 IEEE Edison Medal. In 2011, he was also presented at the White House with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honour given by the United States government to engineers and inventors. Our congratulations on winning the awards!

2012 Membership Renewal

The IEEE annual membership is coming up soon. If you haven’t renewed yet, you can also do it online. Please check the following page:

IEEE Membership Renewal

New Senior Members

Congratulations to the newly elevated members:

Rebecca Todd, Emilio Bravi, Zia Emin, David Enright, Des Howlett, Richard Langley, Shujun Li, Xuerong Mao, Oskar Mencer, Paul Mitcheson, George Pavlou, Mark Plumbley, Nasir Rajpoot, Jack Rowley, Daniel Rueckert, Gareth Taylor, Anthony Totterdell, Charalampos Tsimenidis, Vladan Velisavljevic and Yue Wang.

IEEE Member Benefits Bulletin

Six new titles were added to the eBook Classics for the 2012 membership year; the full list can be found at IEEE eBook Classic webpage (look on the right for the link: “View the complete list of eBook Classic titles”). IEEE members now have access to more than 250 eBooks from the IEEE Press collection through IEEE Xplore, at no additional cost.

To find out the full range of benefits available this month to the IEEE Members please visit:

IEEE Member Benefits webpage

Complimentary Online Tutorial

From the IEEE Communications Society a free access (for a limited time only) online tutorial on Radio Access and Network Technologies Beyond 4G. An expert industry panel discusses LTE and IMT-Advanced system design, evaluation and testing for major international mobile communications manufactures and operators. To register, please go to:

Tutorial Registration page

ENERGYCON 2012 and CFP

The 2nd IEEE International Energy Conference and Exhibition will take place in Florence, Italy on 9-12 September 2012. ENERGYCON is an international forum for the exchange of ideas and innovative technologies on Sustainable Generation, Distribution, Conversion and Utilisation of Energy. It is also the premier medium for the application of Electronics, Instrumentation and Information Communication Technology in the Energy Industry at large.

Call for Papers, reporting original and novel research results on all above topics, in standard IEEE two-column format by 15 April 2012. Contributions from industry are more than welcome. Upon acceptance, final papers are required by 1 July 2012.

For details please visit:

ENERGYCON 2012 homepage

SWICOM 2012 and CFP

The First International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications (SWICOM 2012) sponsored by Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC), will take place on 24th May at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.

Prospective authors are invited to submit short two-page papers including results, figures and references. Formatting and templates are available at the workshop webpage. Submission deadline: 13 April. For full details, please visit:

SWICOM homepage and CFP

UKCI2012 and CFP

The 12th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012) will take place at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) on 5-7th September 2012. UKCI 2012 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE and supported by UKRI section of CIS IEEE. IEEE will publish the Workshop Proceedings. Participation in a competition and the best paper award are available (see website for more details).

Paper submission is now open. Submission deadline for full original papers is May 1, 2012. Submission deadline for work-in-progress papers (rapid communications) is August 15, 2012. Please see the event website for more info:

UKCI2012 website

Future Leaders seminar series

The last seminar in the Future Leaders series will be: “A Career in Electronic, Mechanical and Software Engineering”. It will take place on 26th April, 15:00-16:00, at the University of Greenwich, Greenwich Maritime Campus – SL103, Stephen Lawrence Building. The speaker Dr Steve Nightingale (Dip EE, PhD, Ceng, FIET, Csci, Cphys, FinstP FIEEE) is Chief Consultant, Electronic Design, at Cobham Technical Services and has over 35 years experience in the modelling, design and manufacture of electronic circuits and systems.

Previous seminars included talks by:

Prof. Charles Turner, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Telecommunications Research, King’s College London, on “Development of Leadership Skills”;

Rod Pugh, Managing Director, First Cyber Security Limited, on “Authenticating and Policing the Internet for Consumer Confidence and Security”.

Full details on the series, as well as videos and slides, can be found at:

Future Leaders series webpage

ARSR 2012 Manchester

The first Conference on Applied Radio Systems Research (ARSR) for Postgraduate Students and Young Researchers will be held on the 29-30th of May 2012 in Manchester. ARSR2012 offers technical sessions, workshops, short courses and industrial exhibits. The conference will focus on advances in the applications of Radio Frequency (RF) technologies and provide a unique forum to discuss applied research activities and advances in the field.

Registration is free to UG and PG Students, Research Associates and Assistants, and Early Career Researchers. For other participants there will be a delegate fee. Please check the conference webpage for further details:

ARSR Conference website

EES-UETP Course

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) are organizing a Course entitled “Optimization and Simulation Methods for Large Power Systems”, to be held in NTUA, Athens, Greece, from Wednesday May 2 (9:00 am) to Friday May 4 (5:30 pm), 2012.

This course is organized within the framework of EES-UETP Consortium. More information can be found at:

EES-UETP Optimisation and Simulation Methods for Large Power Systems

2012 IEEE TTM Symposium

The IEEE Technology Time Machine (TTM) is the second organized Symposium of future technologies and will cover in a tutorial way a selected set of potentially high impact emerging technologies, their current state of maturity and scenarios for the future. It will be held in Dresden, Germany, 23-25 May 2012. For further details, please visit:

IEEE TTM Symposium website

ADHOC-NOW 2012

The Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) event serves as a forum for interesting discussions about ongoing research and new contributions in wireless and mobile computing. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. The eleventh edition of this series will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, 9-11^th July 2012.

To see the programme and registration, please visit:

ADHOC-NOW website

CIS2012

The UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics organises the international conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems CIS2012, held on August 23 and 24, 2012 at the University of Limerick, Ireland. The goal of CIS2012 is to bring together international experts and researchers from different disciplines to present new research findings, to discuss the state of the art and to provide perspective work with respect to the conference scope.

The University of Limerick campus is located 5km from Limerick City and 20km from Shannon International Airport. Adjacent to the University is the National Technology Park, Ireland’s first science/technology park, which is home to over 80 organizations employing almost 3,000 people. More information about CIS2012 may be obtained from the conference website and also by contacting: Dr Abdur Rahman (0035361202067, abdur.rahman@ul.ie) or Dr Zakia Rahman (0035361202205, zakia.rahman@ul.ie).

CIS2012 conference website

IEEE GreenCom12

The 2nd IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications, 25-28th September, covers a wide range of green communications including energy efficiency of communications as well as communications technologies for other green solutions such as smart grids, green buildings, and green logistics.

The conference will not only discuss latest research results in saving energy with green communications technology, but also continue IEEE ComSoc’s leadership in green conferences with very low CO2 emissions that are conducted on a single track entirely online without requiring participants to travel. Full details can be found at:

IEEE GreenCom12 homepage

IEEE Student Awards: Application Deadline

We know you are all putting a lot of time and efforts in making your branch activities to what they are: now is the time to get awarded for your efforts! Similarly to last year, all deadlines for the upcoming awards have been grouped together on April 15. Please send in your submissions for the awards according to the rules and contest guidelines at the IEEE website: Exemplary Student Branch Award, Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award, Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award, and Student Branch Website Contest.

For more IEEE student news, information and advice, please visit:

IEEE R8 Student Activities Committee

Postgraduate Magnetism Techniques workshop

The Postgraduate Workshop in Magnetism, run jointly by the UKRI IEEE Magnetics Society and the Institute of Physics Magnetism Group, will be held on 16th and 17th April at the University of York.

The workshop provides introductory training in the key experimental and theoretical techniques used in magnetic research, and is aimed at postgraduate students and research fellows new to magnetic research. For further details, visit:

PG Magnetism workshop page

Student Brach Chair Meeting report

The 3rd Student Branch Chair Meeting was held on 29th February, hosted by the student branch at the University of Southampton. The meeting provided a platform for the student branch leaders to share ideas and experiences as well as to distribute recent information about student activities taking place in the rest of the IEEE. Since the introduction of the biannual SBCMs, this meeting saw by far the highest number of attendees with 24 participants coming from the majority of active student branches, the Section Committee, as well as the Region 8 Student Activities Committee.

In conjunction with the meeting, the IEEE UKRI Student Awards Ceremony was held presenting several awards to student branches and individuals that were granted in the previous year. Prof. Lajos Hanzo gave an IEEE public distinguished lecture titled “Wireless Myths, Realities and Futures”.

University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW 

13h15 – 13h30 IEEE UK&RI Annual General Meeting

AGM Agenda:

Chairman’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Any Other Business

13h30 – 14h30 Distinguished Keynote Lecture

‘Demystifying Standards’

David Law, Distinguished Engineer, Hewlett Packard, IEEE Region 8 Standards Co-ordinator

We believe this lecture is valuable to those developing products and services. The lecture is a public lecture open to all.

It is only through the use of standards that the requirements of interconnectivity and interoperability can be assured. It is only through the application of standards that the credibility of new products and new markets can be verified. In summary standards fuel the development and implementation of technologies that influence and transform the way we live, work and communicate.

Standards are published documents that establish specifications and procedures designed to ensure the reliability of the materials, products, methods, and/or services people use every day. Standards address a range of issues, including but not limited to various protocols to help ensure product functionality and compatibility, facilitate interoperability and support consumer safety and public health.

Standards form the fundamental building blocks for product development by establishing consistent protocols that can be universally understood and adopted. This helps fuel compatibility and interoperability and simplifies product development, and speeds time-to-market. Standards also make it easier to understand and compare competing products. As standards are globally adopted and applied in many markets, they also fuel international trade.

David Law is a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Networking and has worked on the specification and development of Ethernet products since 1989. Throughout that time he has been a member of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group where he has held a number of leadership positions. He served as the Vice-Chair of IEEE 802.3 from 1996 to 2008 and in 2008 was elected to Chair of IEEE 802.3. David has been a member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board since 2005, has served as the Chair of IEEE-SA Standards Board Review Committee (RevCom) since 2008 and is also served as the 2010-2011 Chair of the IEEE Standards Education Committee. In 2000 he received the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion for ‘leadership and technical contributions to Ethernet networking standards’ and in 2009 he received the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board Distinguished Service award ‘For long term service to improve the operation and integrity of IEEE-SA governance’.

As previously notified, the election is in full swing.
We need your judgement and preferences for Vice Chair
(who will also be Chair-Elect), and Secretary.

Thank you to those who have already voted.

If you have not voted yet, please navigate to https://voting.vtools.ieee.org to vote.
Login to the IEEE website using your username and password and go to the voting page.
Please read the candidate profiles and follow the instructions to make your choices.
Please do vote. We need your active participation. The deadline for voting is 21st February 2012.

Together with the newly elected officers we will work to add value in
UK and Ireland to your membership.

Please remember to renew your membership and continue to benefit from being a
member of the World’s largest technological institute.

Kind Regards
Nihal Sinnadurai
Chair, UK&RI Section

John, has been recently considered as one of the “15 Most Influential People in Energy” in the USA.

- February 15th, Edinburgh: PES Distinguished Lecture on “Smart Grid: Concepts, Standards, Deployments and Lessons Learned” by John McDonald (GE Digital Energy, USA)
  More info and registration: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/10481

- February 16th, Belfast: PES Distinguished Lecture on “Smart Grid: Concepts, Standards, Deployments and Lessons Learned” by John McDonald (GE Digital Energy, USA)
  More info and registration: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/10483

News Items

• Message from the Section Chair, Nihal Sinnadurai
• 2012 EMBS Awards: Call for Nominations
• Elections for Section Vice-Chair and Section Secretary
• IEEE Global History Network
• Awards

Events

• 8th Global Marathon: women in engineering and technology
• UKRI Section/Chapters meeting
• IEEE-PES Distinguished Lectures on Smart Grids
• 2012 International Workshop on Femtocells
• 13th Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN 2012)
• Microwave Metamaterials and Their Applications meeting

Students

• IEEE UK&RI Student Branch Chair Meeting Spring 2012

Message from the Section Chair, Nihal Sinnadurai

Our team for 2012 is committed to serve the members. We are planning a number of activities including networking events involving industry, academia and students. A number of Distinguished Lectures will also be given. A date for your diary is the Annual General Meeting, which will be held on 22nd March at 13h15 at the University of Westminster in London. The Distinguished Lecture on ‘Industry Standards and Technical Organisation’ at 13h30 on 22nd March will be by David Law, the IEEE Region 8 Standards Co-ordinator. Admission to the lecture is free because we are keen to encourage participation by members from industry and academia.

Please remember to renew your membership urgently at www.ieee.org/renew. We, the volunteers, will work to serve to add value to your membership. Please write to me to let me know what events you believe will be of interest and will serve the members.

During the year ahead in we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of UK&RI Section. We intend to roll out our celebration across UK and Ireland.

2012 EMBS Awards – Call for Nominations

EMBS sponsors twelve (12) Awards of member recognition for technical and professional excellence, service to the society, local activities, publications and student papers. Nominations for these awards are accepted annually in February, Award Recipients are announced in May and the awards are presented at the Society’s Annual International Conference in August. Nominations and Selection are made according to the EMBS Awards Nomination and Selection Procedures.

Individual Awards – Deadline 10 February 2012:

• Early Career Achievement Award
• Academic Career Achievement Award
• Professional Career Achievement Award
• Service Award
• Technical Awards

Chapter Awards – Deadline 15 March 2012:

• Outstanding Performance Award for a Student Chapter or Club
• Best New Student Chapter or Club
• Outstanding Chapter Award
• Best New Chapter Award

Nominations for EMBS Awards must be submitted electronically at the EMBS. For further information and to nominate candidates, please visit:

EMBS Society Awards

Elections for Section Vice-Chair and Section Secretary

This year there will be elections for the posts of Section Vice-Chair and Section Secretary, for which we have an excellent slate of candidates. Their election statements can be viewed at the UKRI Section website.

Please make sure that you vote before the February 21st deadline. To vote electronically please go to:

http://voting.vtools.ieee.org

IEEE Global History Network

The IEEE Global History Network (GHN) is a record of electro-technology history contributed by IEEE members. The IEEE History Center, located at Rutgers University in New Jersey, collects oral histories relevant to IEEE’s technical interests, and also awards Milestone plaques to commemorate outstanding achievements in the field.

The Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) in the UKRI Section is currently working on several Milestone proposals, including one recognising the pioneering work of John Logie Baird in producing the first commercial television broadcast system. Any members with a special interest in, or personal knowledge of, Baird’s work are invited to contact LMAG through its Chair, Roland Saam: r.saam@ieee.org.

IEEE GHN homepage

Awards

There are many awards available within IEEE. The details of eligibility and deadlines can be viewed on various IEEE websites, including for example: the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB). In all cases, a nominator must be found, together with a number of supporting references.

8^th Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology

The 8th Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology is an annual worldwide forum connecting professional women, college students and girls for virtual and in-person conversations about education and careers in engineering and technology.

For four hours each day over a six-day period, engineers from North and South America, China, India, the Middle East, Africa, the U.K. and Europe will discuss critical topics of the profession—from how to engage girls and young women to consider engineering careers, advice on career paths and achieving life-work balance, to the benefits of networking and much more.

To learn more about the Global Marathon visit:

8th Global Marathon website

UKRI Section/Chapters meeting

The next biannual UKRI Section/Chapters meeting will be held on March 22nd at the University of Westminster. The UKRI Section AGM will take place at 13:00 to be followed by a public lecture. Further details will be provided next month. If you have any issues that you want to have discussed at these meetings please contact the Section Chair at: sinnadurai@aol.com by March 1st.

IEEE-PES Distinguished Lectures on Smart Grids

PES Distinguished Lecture on “Smart Grid: Concepts, Standards, Deployments and Lessons Learned” by John McDonald (GE Digital Energy, USA).

February 14th, Manchester. Info and registration

February 15th, Edinburgh. Info and registration

February 16th, Belfast. Info and registration

2012 International Workshop on Femtocells

The 2012 International Workshop on Femtocells will be held on 13-14 February at the Guy’s Campus of King’s College London. Registration and lunch/coffee are free of charge.

Details of the venue and the workshop program can be found at: Femtocells and HetNets Workshop website or from xiaoli.chu@kcl.ac.uk.

13^th Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN 2012)

The 13th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks will take place in London, 20-23 September.

Authors are invited to submit research contributions or experience reports not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of the conference will be published in Springer CCIS Series. Papers should concentrate on the application rather than just the algorithm or the theory. All application areas are relevant. The deadline for paper submission is 31st March 2012. Proposals for Workshops or 90-minute tutorials are also invited on topics within the conference area. Full CFP is here.

For details about the conference and registration, please visit:

EANN 2012

Microwave Metamaterials and Their Applications

An IET meeting on ‘Microwave Metamaterials and Their Applications’ will be held on 22nd February, 2-5pm at the London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road Campus. Admission is free.

IEEE UK&RI Student Branch Chair Meeting Spring 2012

This year’s spring SBCM will take place on 29th February, 9am – 4pm, and will be hosted by the Student Branch at the University of Southampton. After the meeting from 4pm, there will be a student awards ceremony to formally hand out several awards to student branches and individuals that were achieved during 2011.

 
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