RAS Member Luncheons at IROS 2015

RAS Women in Engineering Leadership (WIE) Luncheon

Tuesday, September 29 - 12:50-14:00 – Hall 6

The Women in Engineering (WIE) luncheon provides an opportunity for all the female and male professionals who are interested in women engineering education to discuss the subjects of career path, career/family choices, and other topics.

There is a $5 USD registration fee to attend. Space is limited and first come, first served, so advanced registration is suggested. Register here: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1757793

RAS Joint Lunch with Leaders and Young Professionals Luncheon

Wednesday, September 30 - 12:50-14:00 – Hall 6

There is a $5 USD registration fee to attend each luncheon. Space is limited and first come, first served, so advanced registration is suggested. Register here: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1757793 

This year's joint Lunch with Leaders and Young Professionals event aims at introducing the RAS Young Reviewer Program (YRP), a new initiative to provide the IEEE RAS students with sound practices in peer reviewing of scientific papers. This event hosts the RAS community's distinguished leaders:  

Raja Chatila, Alessandro De Luca, Ron Lumia, Kevin Lynch, Allison Okamura, David Orin, Stefano Stramigioli, Satoshi Tadokoro, Tony Maciejewski, Jing Xiao, Fumihito Arai, Oussama Khatib, 

and three invited speakers:

Nancy Amato, Seth Hutchinson, Wolfram Burgard,

 to introduce and openly discuss the most salient challenges in peer reviewing of the scientific papers. This will be followed by general discussions, offering multiple perspectives from leaders of the RAS about what it takes to be a leader in our profession.

ABOUT THE YOUNG REVIEWER PROGRAM (YRP)

The Young Reviewer Program (YRP) aims at introducing Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) students and young professionals to sound practices in peer reviewing of scientific papers. To achieve this objective, student YRP members will be supervised by Senior Reviewers (SR) in regular RAS review procedures. In addition to such a mentor-mentee relationship, YR members will have the opportunity of attending webinars and online tutorials to further explore and improve their writing and reviewing skills. Once a certain level of expertise is achieved, the YR will graduate with an overall qualification grade. 

It is important to note here that within the YRP, the timing and the quality of the review to be delivered to the Associate Editors (AE), will be monitored and certified by the SRs. In addition, YRP will apply multiple safeguards to maintain confidentiality in the peer review process. 

To join the Young Reviewer Program, please register at https://parasol.tamu.edu/ieee/ras-yrp 

YRP Committee:

Arash Ajoudani (), Tamás Haidegger () and Seth Hutchinson ()