What is IEEE? {IEEE-ZC}

This presentation was conducted to make IEEE ZC members know exactly what IEEE is.

1. What is IEEE? Vision and Objectives 15/12/2015 Mohamed Elsayed Vice Chairperson of IEEE ZC

2. isn't a student activity in your university , it's a professional organization!

3. IEEE, pronounced " Eye-triple-E ," stands for The I nstitute of E lectrical and E lectronics E ngineers

4. Mission and Vision: Mission Statement: IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity . Vision Statement: IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities .

5. Number of members .. 922 student branch chapters of IEEE technical societies ; 440affinity groups Young Professionals ( YP ) Women in Engineering ( WIE )

6. Remember the difference between a Volunteer and a Member !

7. Quick Facts More than 2,500 student branches at colleges and universities in 80 countries ; More than 900 student branch chapters of IEEE technical societies ; Has more than 1,600 standards 30 % of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields Database of more than 3 million documents with titles and abstracts in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library with more than 7 million downloads each month . Sponsors more than 1,600 conferences in 91 countries while attracting more than 480,000 conference attendees

8. IEEE Societies .. and much more ..

9. Most Famous Standards IEEE 802.15.1 IEEE 802.11

10. As an IEEE Member .. Email Alias: [email protected] IEEE Discounts IEEE Career Alert 299 eBooks from the IEEE Press IEEE Potentials Magazine IEEE Spectrum Magazine myIEEE IEEE.tv MemberNet ResumeLab MentorCenter -You can access a beautiful file by AlexSB ..

11. IEEE Membership: For Undergraduate or graduate students. Students can join online with a credit card. IEEE members are engineers, scientists, and allied professionals whose technical interests are rooted in electrical and computer sciences, engineering, and related disciplines

12. Join Now! www . ieee.org

13. IEEE’s 10 Regions of the World IEEE is divided into different categories according to geographical regions, technical aspects, and expertise.

14. Terms to know .. Student Branch – Core unit of Section and Section responsibility. Student Branch Chapter – IEEE Student members within a Section that have formed a technical society group (similar but not equivalent to a chapter in a section) Student Branch Mentor – A non-academic member of the Section who provides member of the Section consultation to a student branch Student Branch Counselors (Advisors) – A faculty member who works in an advisory capacity to the student branch

15. IEEE Egypt Section Founded in 1955 More than 2000 Student/Graduate Student Members

16. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

17. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

18. Affinity group: Women in Engineering IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists and inspiring girls around the world to follow their academic interests to a career in engineering.

19. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

20. Affinity group: Young Professionals The IEEE Egypt YP is an IEEE affinity group that resembles the Young Professionals from all related engineering fields. IEEE Egypt YP was founded in 2002, with a Focus on the Industry-University Link, SMEs and human & entrepreneurial development in the engineering field .

21. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

22. The Egyptian Engineering Day The Egyptian Engineering Day is the biggest annual summit for students and engineers. Every year around 150 - 200 projects participate in the EED trying to implement solutions for the most serious problems in Egypt.

23. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

24. Made In Egypt The objective of the event aiming to providing undergraduate students with an opportunity to connect with the real-world by bridging the gap between the academic track and the industrial track and to help undergraduate students to pick a graduation project’s idea that meets the Egyptian market needs.

25. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

26. Future City With target on young students in their early educational stages, the Future City competition comes into action. Aiming to raise the engineering sense in the young students and raising team work skills among them, the FC program tries to fulfill these goals through the program different aspects.

27. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

28. IEEE Egypt Section Technical  Chapters : IEEE Egypt Section has about 14 technical chapters whose main function is holding annual or bi-annual conferences for engineering technical fields for postgraduate engineers to be updated with the latest engineering accomplishments and to publish papers to be judged by Egyptian and non-Egyptian juries. Moreover, organizing seminars & technical workshops .

29. Egypt’s section Hierarchy: Egypt Section Student Branches Affinity Group Chapter Activities Zewail City Young Professionals WIE Industry University Link MIE EED Precollege Programs Future City BUE CUSB AlexSB MUST … RAS Computer Society Chapter …

30. Society chapter: RAS Disseminate the robotics and automation knowledge to students, researchers and engineers through promoting and sponsoring scientific activities in the area of robotics and automation .

31. Student Award s

32. Why awards or recognition? Someone deserves it for their effort. To mark someone as a future Leader. For others to receive stimulus into helping.

33. Student Enterprise Award The IEEE Student Enterprise Award provides financial help to Student members who are looking to implement an idea for a project. It enables IEEE Student members to work with others on an engineering project, while simultaneously strengthening Student Branch programs . –Cairo University

34. Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award To qualify for the award, a Student Branch must conform to IEEE bylaws, have a active program, and support IEEE goals. Awards will be presented to those Student Branches that are found to be operated in a manner consistent with the goals of IEEE . –Arab Academy for Science & Technology –Alexandria University –Cairo University

35. Darrel Chong Student Activity Award The goal is to improve the quality of activities, and to foster knowledge sharing among students. Ultimately, the initiative is targeted at improving student-membership growth. This will encourage and motivate students to continue to innovate and implement meaningful ideas. –Arab Academy for Science & Technology ( Cairo) –Arab Academy for Science & Technology (Alexandria)

36. WEBSITE CONTEST All IEEE Student Branches and Branch chapters are eligible for the Student Branch Web Site contest. Each Student Branch may enter at most one Web site, regardless of the number of Branch chapters present . AlexSB was the winner for 2015

37. IEEE day Number of attendees for this day was around 270 person Get motivated and motivate IEEE members around you to celebrate IEEE Day! Discover your IEEE enthusiasm and share with others !

38. How can I prepare myself for IEEEXtreme? Hacker Rank Website has many problems for IEEEXtreme to participate. You can access them from here IEEEXtreme .. Code = Power! It’s an international programming competition!

39. The IEEE DIY Project The IEEE DIY* Project is a challenge to you—IEEE community member—to showcase the great tech projects you are working on. Whether it is robotics, wearable technology, software, hardware, or an alternative energy device, if your project solves complex problems and has applications in the real world we want to see it! *DIY stands for “Do it yourself”

40. IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest All IEEE Region 8 Student Branches (SBs) are invited to participate in IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2016.

41. How could I get IEEE updates? Egypt section Newsletter goals: Keep all IEEE volunteers and members updated with the current and upcoming activities/events. Record the sections achievements so that we would grape all papers in order to apply for awards. A channel to post announcements for new competitions, positions, scholarships, jobs etc… Always visit and

42. Ericsson Innovation Awards As part of IEEE industry collaboration with Ericsson , IEEE Egypt Section introduced the  Annual Ericsson Innovation Awards (EIA) . Ericsson strongly believes that everyone has the capacity to come up with a transformational idea. First place team will win 25,000 EUROS

43. Some Student Branches’ work

44. IEEE CUSB received a Certificate of Appreciation from ‪ICECS ‬ for the branch efforts in organizing the conference. The ICECS is International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems that was held this year in Egypt.

45. Any Questions ? Thanks!