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Every year in early November the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board collects nominations for their different, very prestigious awards. This year two of these awards go to two GOLD members in IEEE Region 8:
The IEEE MGA GOLD Achievement Award goes to
Adrian Pais, Benelux Section “for extraordinary leadership and valuable contributions to the development of the IEEE GOLDRush newsletter.”
The IEEE MGA Achievement Award goes to
Ahmed Osama Mikkawi, Egypt Section “for his outstanding efforts in the GOLD and Women in Engineering programs for fostering inspiration among IEEE members.”
Congratulations to Adrian and Ahmed!
Check out the whole list of awardees at http://www.ieee.org/web/volunteers/mga/home/Awards/2008_MGA_Award_Recipents.html
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 16th International Conference on Telecommunications
Marrakech, Morocco, 25-27 May 2009
http://www.ict09.org/
Paper submission deadline: 19 December 2008
The 16th ICT will be held on 25-27 May 2009 in the city of Marrakech, Morocco: a land of culture and history. The conference will bring together distinguished individuals from academia and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in various fields of Telecommunications. The 16th ICT will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, technical presentations, and exhibition opportunities.
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EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education |
At the 2008 Educational Activities Board Awards Ceremony at New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA on 14th November, Kurt Richter, an Emeritus Professor of the Technical University of Vienna at Graz, Austria, and a former Director of IEEE Region 8, received the 2008 IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education.
The citation is "for outstanding contributions as a teacher and organiser of management and leadership continuing education programs for IEEE members in Region 8"
The photo shows (left to right) IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect Jozef Modelski, Kurt Richter, and IEEE President Lewis Terman, taken at the conclusion of the awards-ceremony.
Dr. Kurt Richter introduced Leadership and Management Workshops in Region 8, and taught many of them himself, in Sections throughout the Region. The workshops are primarily targeted at students, recent graduates and early-career engineers, and it is estimated that more than 1500 people from Region 8 have attended these workshops.
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In the recent IEEE elections, Prof. Roger Pollard, a former Chair of the UKRI Section and a long-term active member and former President of the IEEE Microwaves Theory and Techniques Society was elected by a large majority as Technical Activities Vice-President Elect for 2009. This is a very high-level position in IEEE, and the first time that it has been filled by a member from Region 8. Roger is Dean of Engineering at Leeds University in England, where he was previously Head of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
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Congratulations to Maurice Papo |
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The Annual IEEE Honors Ceremony was held in Québec City on 20th September 2008, at IEEE Sections Congress, before an audience which included IEEE members from all the 10 IEEE Regions and representatives from almost every IEEE Section. This was the first time that the Honors Ceremony had taken place at a Sections Congress, which brought this important and spectacular event to a much wider audience than usual.
Dr. Maurice Papo, from the France Section, a former Director of Region 8 received the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award (given for outstanding service to IEEE). Others honoured at the ceremony included Tim Berners-Lee who is credited with the initial ideas (while at CERN in Switzerland) from which the World Wide Web developed, and Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, who received the IEEE Medal of Honour, who has become a household name among technical people for the ‘Moore’s Law’ which in 1965 defined properties of the semiconductor industry which led to its universal impact on so much of all our lives today.
The photo shows Maurice Papo and his wife, just after the presentation of the Award.
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