JORDAN SECTION
Section History
During the IEEE workshop on Power Electronics held
at Jordan University during 18-20 May 1999, discussion took place
about forming a section for IEEE in Jordan.
A committee was formed to apply for formation of such section. The
committee was formed by
1) Professor Omar Asfar
2) Professor Mohammed Zeki Khedher
3) Dr. Abdullah Mehdi
4) Dr. Mohammed Abderrazaq
5) Dr Kamel Al-Tallaq
The committee communicated with IEEE headquarter and started the
procedure for applying for section establishment. Signature of 52
IEEE members were collected and formal application was sent to the
headquarter.
On 12 November 1999 the section was officially formed by the
headquarter
and Professor Mohammed Zeki Khedher was named as the Interim
chairman. The
Geocode for the section is R80079.
The news was mentioned in REGION 8 NEWS BULLETIN - JANUARY 2000.
A bank account was established and preparations took place for
performing
the first executive committee. Seed money for the section was
received from
the headquarter and first general meeting took place on 29th April
2000.
The first executive committee was established as follows:
Prof. Omar Asfar
Chairman
Dr. Mohammaed Abdelrazzaq Treasurer
Dr. Gheith Abandah
Secretary
By the end of 2001 the second executive committee was elected for two years term ending Dec. 31, 2003
Mohamed K Abdelazeez (chair) abdelazeez@ieee.org
Omar Asfar (past chair) orasfar@ieee.org
Ali H El-Mousa (vice-chair) a.elmousa@ieee.org
Hamed Nababteh (secretary) nababtehh@ieee.org
Eyad A Abu-Al-Feilat (treasurer) afeilat@yu.edu.jo
Mohammad Hamdan (Activity Secretary) hamdan@yu.edu.jo
Furthermore the section had appointed
Mohammad Hamdan
as student activities chair hamdan@yu.edu.joEng. Hamed Nababteh
as industry relations officer ( heading a committee consisting of himself and the two chapter chairmen) nababtehh@nepco.com.joDr. Mohammed Hawa
as GOLD representative (were he is in the process of forming an affinity group for GOLD) hawa@ju.edu.jo
Since the establishment of the IEEE Jordan Section we are trying to extend its activities to various sectors of engineering enterprises.
We do have a very ambitious objectives and everybody is trying to do his best to meet these objectives. IEEE membership in Jordan is a unique one. The ratio of IEEE students to full members is the highest in the whole world for any country. The students branches are active in all the universities where they exist and at region 8 level. The students hold activities in close contacts with the IEEE Jordan section. Hence the follow up of the student members to continue their membership after graduation needs a continued effort. This task will be carried out by the GOLD representative who was appointed earlier this year (May 2004). Jordan is also known by its large number of public and private universities. It is the highest in the whole region compared to the number of population. Nearly all these universities have electrical, electronic or computer engineering as well as computer science and information technology departments and in some of them information technology colleges. The Jordanian engineers in general do not work after graduation in Jordan only but spread all over the Arab countries and specially in the Gulf countries, USA, Canada and Western Europe.
Membership
The latest number of members of all grade is as follow
F: 1 , SM: 16 , LM:1 , M:84 , A:12 , S: 268
We feel we could do better than this and we will be trying with the help of IEEE to enlarge our membership.
left to right : EyadAbu_Al_Feilat,Ali El_mousa
, Hamed Nababteh , Mohamed Abdelazeez , Omar Asfar , Mohammad HamdanNew picture
