IEEE Region 8 Student Activities Committee (R8 SAC)

Getting recognized for all your personal and your team’s efforts as IEEE volunteers is a great reward for all the energy and enthusiasm you put into your student branch day after day. We received many excellent submissions for this year’s region 8 awards. We have been quite busy evaluating them all and the decision in some categories was not easy at all. Congratulations to all the winners!

The results will also be published in the September issue of Region 8 News.

A new competition co-sponsored by IBM and IEEE provides teams of university students with an opportunity to bring some of the world's most compelling social and commercial challenges into the classroom.

The IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge: Student Projects Changing the World will debut in IEEE sections in Boston and the United Kingdom-Republic of Ireland during 2011, before being expanded worldwide next year. In the first-year pilot phase, up to three awards will be provided to each section to student teams that propose classroom projects derived from a menu of topics identified by the worldwide IBM Smarter Planet project that confront technology professionals, business leaders and policy-makers.

"Solutions for most Smarter Planet issues require technological expertise, an understanding of business and legal principles, and an appreciation for the social implications of innovation," says Wendy Murphy, Executive Program Manager, IBM Global University Programs. "By co-sponsoring this competition, we want to encourage students to work together in the kind of multi-disciplinary teams that have become a fixture in innovative organizations," she added.

Full details about application procedures and selection criteria are available at smarter planet challenge.

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society is replacing its traditional Predoctoral Fellowship with a new program called the Predoctoral Achievement Award. In the former program they provided money to the student’s Professor to be used for tuition support, but have found that this was generally not needed. In the new program they will provide a much smaller but still meaningful Honorarium to the student, and also cover the cost of the student’s attendance at ISSCC (travel, registration fee, and hotel, subject to certain limits).

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The IEEE is offering Grants to both students and faculty mentors to help with student design projects with an industry standards component. IEEE will publish the results as a Student Application Paper.

Requirements:

Student(s) beginning a design or development project will submit an Application and Abstract Summary describing the project, which includes:

1. Summarizing the project goal (i.e., what are you trying to build?)
2. Describing which standards are being considered to achieve the project goal?
3. Agreement to submit a final application paper for publication by the IEEE upon completion of the project
4. Statement of endorsement from a faculty mentor

Next application deadline: 15 June 2011

Find more info here