Event Programme

Speaker: Professor Tariq Durrani

Session Briefing: The talk will give a background to the IEEE and cover the recent development of IEEE activities, including identifying opportunities for student member participation in IEEE Educational Programs. This will be followed by a description of IEEE Initiatives that have had an impact worldwide.

Speaker: Dr. Konstantinos Karachalios

Session Briefing: IEEE's mission is to advance technology for humanity. To achieve this audacious goal in the era of the Global Knowledge Economy, it is very important to understand first what exactly is at stake and at which level. It may then emerge that there are critical challenges that in spite all good will and intentions cannot be solved by technology alone or where technology may even be part of the problem.

In particular, there is an urgent need to rethink our perception of and our relation to nature, whereas for certain fields we may need to re-examine the way we use the potential of our collective intelligence. Latter is producing knowledge, which is then transformed in information, whenever it is communicated. These processes are becoming increasingly important, as many people believe that we live now in an era where control over codified knowledge and information related to it is the most important strategic asset. Click here for more information

Speaker: Dr. Madjid Merabati

Session Briefing:Over the last few years computers and the way we use them have been evolving rapidly. Increasing performance, power and capacity has allowed the manipulation and storage of large quantities of multimedia data. Improved input and context devices, such as cameras, digital video recorders, and GPS modules have allowed an explosion of user generated content and effective recording of human digital memories. Ubiquitous wireless and mobile networking has provided the opportunity to share these memories, either with close friends and family, or as broadcasts across the Internet.

The potential now exists to capture, store and share practically everything a person sees and hears throughout their life, using a variety of devices. Yet while the physical capability has grown exponentially, the means to manage and use this rich media has not kept pace. The ability to manage this augmented media and recall it as multimedia memories remains a serious challenge. Click here for more information

Speaker: Professor Ali Hessami

Workshop Briefing: The workshop will involve a brief introduction followed by a group exercise on employing a novel creative technique to analyze a given problem that will be chosen by the attendees.

Speaker: Dr. Hazel Sales

Workshop Briefing: Few engineers realise what lies in store for them when they graduate and start work. For many, it is a shock to find themselves having to write in special ways, producing engineering texts that they have never come across before. You will learn about the documents that engineers have to write at work, and the ones that preoccupy them the most. You will also hear about engineers' special language use, including complex simplicity, persuading without being obvious about it, acronyms and other maddening aspects.

Speaker: Ms. Sabrina Wedderburn

Workshop Briefing: This interactive workshop aims to introduce you to how you can go about preparing for an interview, give you some useful information and a framework that you can use to practice and improve your performance.

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Byron

Workshop Briefing: In addition to a thorough knowledge of a specific scientific discipline, competence in creative and critical thinking and influence are the three most important transferable skills for equipping students with a flying start in any future career. Proficiency in these skills and the desire to continually improve through a growing self-awareness and understanding of others also provides the essential preparation for the development of tomorrow's leaders.

In this workshop we will explore what we mean by influence and how it underpins the skills for communication, presentation and negotiation. With simple paired and group exercises we will experience some of the techniques that can be later applied in everyday life to help nurture these skills as part of the preparation for the transition from higher education to professional employment.

Speaker: Mr. Andreas Koltes

Workshop Briefing: In this workshop we will look into strategies for running a student branch focussing on longer term sustainability. All too often, the activities of a student branch start to fade after a period of high activity as soon as the students initially driving the branch approach their graduation. We will explore how it is possible to develop a student branch into a stable community that is able to overcome the "chasm" of committee changes. Besides looking into strategies to mitigate this effect, we will also look into ways to organise marketing, fundraising and industrial contacts to support the long-term stability of the branch.

This workshop will be an interactive session providing a platform for the participants to develop and exchange ideas. It is mainly aimed at current and prospective student branch officers.

Speaker: Mr. Harry Eakins

Workshop Briefing: 3D printing and rapid prototyping has been around for a few decades now. It allows engineers and designers in almost every field tighten the design, test, improve loop so that they can create awesome things in shorter periods of time. The power of rapid prototyping, however, hasn't really been seen in the home or school environment... until now!

The RepRap is the machine responsible for the recent kick-starting of a huge open-source hardware movement and the rapid progress in personal desktop 3D printing we've seen over the past 2 years. The RepRap is a 3D printer, costing around £400, which prints solid 3D objects out of plastic. It's also special, in that it can print out the majority of its own parts! This means that if you have a printer, and your friends want one too, then you can print more than 50% of it for them. They just need to buy motors, metal bars (off the shelf) and the RepRap electronics before they too can start printing in 3D. In this workshop we will look at how the RepRap works, and the process of designing and printing your own objects. We will look at some of the things achievable with the RepRap printer, as well as what future versions might be capable of. For more information in the meantime, please check out the RepRap wiki here - https://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

Moderator: Ms. Salima Kaissi

Panelist: Dr. Marko Delimar

Panelist: Dr. Sean Mcloone

Panelist: Dr. Akram Alomainy

Panelist: Dr. Steve Nightingale

Speaker: Ms. Belen Albeza

Session Briefing:Closet Swap is a social web app targeted to teenagers to raise awareness on the topic of Sustainable Fashion. Closet Swap is "gamified" and is deeply integrated with Facebook. In the talk we'll see its main features and how and why we used Facebook API's to implement those features.