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CONTENTS
1. STUDENT ACTIVITIES 4
LATEX Workshop 4
IIUI Student Branch, Islamabad Section 4
Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense 5
Get Going Of Industry Application Society In North South University 5
EPICS in IEEE 6
7th National First Lego League (FLL) Championship 7
Annual Engineering Project Exhibition ‘2018 (AEPEX'18) IEEE UCE&T Islamia University Bahawalpur 7
Annual General Meeting 2018 8
Orientation & Counselling Sessions 8
IEEE Summer Internship Program 2018 9
IEEE PES PCB Workshop 9
International Conference on Material Science and Semiconductor Devices 2018 10
Telenor Seminar 10
Programmer Of The Semester 11
IEEE DAY at CUI 11
Workshop On VLSI Design 12
CODIGO-the ultimate programming challenge 12
IEEE AIUB Student BranchIEEE Bangladesh Section 13
IEEE IUB Student Branch organized one the biggest tech extravaganzas of 2018 in Bangladesh 14
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congress 14
World Blockchain Hackathon 15
The Ultimate Innovator Hunt for IEEE SS12 Innovation challenge and Maker Fair 2018 15
Independence Day Photo and Video Competition 16
Artificial Intelligence Day 2018 Celebration 16
IEEE DAY 2018 + INSIGHT 18 + World's Teachers Day 17
O'WEEK 2018 17
IEEE WIE Affinity Group UET Taxila Independence Day Essay Writing Competition 18
Awareness Session on IEEE 18
Huge Success Of Computer Society Comsats Islamabad 19
Dawn Of IEEE Embs In Comsats Islamabad 20

2. SECTION ACTIVITIES 21
SYWL Networking Gathering and Cooking for IEEE Day Celebration in Tokyo 21

3. YOUNG PROFESSIONALS ACTIVITIES 22

Special Young Professionals Session in COMPSAC 2018 22

4. WOMEN IN ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES 23

IEEE WIE STEM Activity 23
WIE - Women as Entrepreneur 23
Flag Giving Ceremony 23
Report of IEEE WIE ILS 2018, KOCHI 24
IEEE COMSATS Student Branch Award Distribution Ceremony 25
IEEE WIE Star 25

5. HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES 26
Breath Clean 26
The First Monash-Petrosains Gerontechnology Challenge 2018 26

6. SPECIAL NEWS 27
IEEE SS12 International Project Competition And Maker Fair 2018 27

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7. SPECIAL EDITION - IEEE REGION 10 STUDENTS / YOUNG PROFESSIONALS / WOMEN IN
ENGINEERING / LIFE MEMBER (SYWL) CONGRESS 2018 29

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1. STUDENT ACTIVITIES

LATEX Workshop
Abdul Wadood, General Secretary
IEEE PIEAS Student Branch, IEEE Islamabad Section

Organizing different tectonic

technical workshops is the
premier identity of IEEE PIEAS
Student Branch. Over many
years IEEE PIEAS SB have
organized many significant
workshops on the softwares
that are considered to be the
substantial backbone of
engineering. Workshops on
MATLAB, LaTeX, AutoCAD,
Solid Edge and many other
softwares were robustly
formulated. This year Latex
Workshop was held with the
main aim of apprising the students with the software. LaTeX is basically a document preparation system
used for the communication and publication of scientific documents. This workshop served as a learning
tool and astronomically enhanced the professional development of the participants. It provided
opportunity to IEEE members to learn a new software for their reports. Students specially of final year
found it very applicative.

IIUI Student Branch, Islamabad Section

Ahmad Mujtaba, General Secretary

Celebration of IEEE Day

IEEE International Islamic University branch organized a celebration ceremony for IEEE Day'18. The
ceremony consisted of an IEEE Introductory Seminar, a cake cutting ceremony, and tech talks. The
participants were briefed about IEEE scope, its membership, benefits, IEEE societies, and awards.

Seminar on “United Nations & Sustainable Development Goals for

Engineer”

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IEEE IIUI Student Branch organized a
seminar for faculty members and
especially for the students who are
about to graduate. Prof. Dr. Shahbaz
Khan an official member of United
Nations and Head of Department
NUST, along with his team delivered
this seminar.
The aim of this seminar is to aware
young mind with the sustainable
development goals and to develop
solutions for the critical problems with the professionals. The seminar highlights the nationwide
problems of Pakistan and the human development of terrorism affected areas such as AJK, FATA etc.

Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

Asad Ullah Khalid, Chair
IEEE UoK SB, IEEE Karachi Section

IEEE UoK SB pulled of a successful, one-

month long course on a much ignored
but an important topic in Pakistan,
‘Business Intelligence’! Mr. Sehan
Ahmed mentored 30 participants on BI
for the first time ever in UoK. The session
started with an introductory seminar
which was open for all, and then it
continued with the history and basics of
Business Intelligence. The students were
introduced to the five core components
that make up BI, they were briefed why
Business Intelligence is important to
them, who uses it and why. Qlik Sense;
one of the best BI tools in the market, was used all through the course as the basic tool to implement
BI, data manipulation and individual projects were allotted to all the participants. One of the students
were also awarded first prize who came up with the best Business Intelligence project among all.

Get Going Of Industry Application Society In North South University

Farhat Tasnim Progga, Secretary,
IEEE NSU SB IAS Chapter, IEEE Bangladesh Section

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In our SB, Industry Application Society
is a new bee. Though it's the beginning
of this chapter but we have done two
significant events by the month August
& September which were held to fulfill
both the IEEE mission vision and
student benefits.
For this, we organized a seminar talk on
Securing Critical Infrastructure where
the speaker was Dr. Mohammad M R
Chowdhury who is currently working as
a Senior Engineer in Oslo. A brief talk
was given by the honorable speaker
regarding Critical Infrastructure which
refers to systems, facilities,
technologies, networks.
After that event we had arranged a MS
Alumni Reunion of our Dept. Of
Electrical & Computer Engineering, NSU
collaborating with the Department on
September for building network
between the Graduate and
Undergraduate students so that they
can discuss about their career opportunities which has made the event lively.

EPICS in IEEE
Haris Ali, Vice Chairperson
IEEE Student Branch UET Taxila, IEEE Islamabad Section

EPICS in IEEE empowers

students to apply technical
knowledge to implement
solutions for unique
community challenges. EPICS in
IEEE not only assists
communities in achieving their
specific local community
improvement goals but also
encourages students to pursue
engineering for community
improvement as a career. IEEE
Student Branch UET Taxila
arranged a practical demonstration on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) in which
the pre-university students were demonstrated with scientific to get a better idea of the concept behind
it.

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7th National First Lego League (FLL) Championship
Izma Naveed, Vice chair
WIE, Islamabad Section

Success does not come from one

little thing, it is the accumulation of
all the small steps that pave way to
the final step of glorious victory. It is
through sheer hard work,
determination and dedication that
leads us to the final moment.

The teams who participated in 7th

National First Lego League (FLL)
championship showed great
prowess in robotics at a very young
age. They displayed an astounding
level of understanding of the field
and showcased amazing skills. Such young minds have proved that boundaries exist only within our
minds and nothing is impossible with sincere hard work and effort.

Annual Engineering Project Exhibition ‘2018 (AEPEX'18) IEEE UCE&T

Islamia University Bahawalpur
Mahnoor Baloch, Vice Chair
Society/ Student Branch Chapter, IEEE Lahore Section

AEPEX is a
Calendar/Signature
event of IEEE UCET
IUB held every year
where students of all
the engineering
disciplines of UCET,
show their four
years learning
experience through
the projects. Some
of the projects were
ICT funded including
Sign Recognition for
Deaf and Dumb
people using
Android App, self-
transforming mobile robot, Multilingual System for Robotic Application, Railway Track Security through
GSM, Fully automated Solar Grass Cutter, Electrical Energy Efficient Utilization of Commercial Buildings,
Design of Smart Road-Lights and auto traffic signal controller with emergency override, Design and
Implementation Monitoring of Intelligent Monitoring Systems for diverse application using plug and
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play wireless sensor network node, Design of a focused beam relectarray antenna, Design of Intelligent
Fire Monitoring system using WSN and Fuzzy Logics. Principal UCE&T Delegations from PTCL & WAPDA
and Senior Faculty members viewed the projects. The event was attended by hundreds of people.

Annual General Meeting 2018

Mohsin Sameer, Treasurer
IEEE Student Branch UET Taxila, IEEE Islamabad Section
IEEE Student Branch UET Taxila
arranged an annual general
meeting for the year 2017-18. The
event started off with the recitation
from the verses of Quran Majeed,
followed by the formal
announcement of the Branch
Officials for the year 2018-19.
Afterwards, the cabinet took oath
in the betterment of the society.
The shields were distributed among
the senior session as the token of
appreciation for their volunteering
services during their program
duration. The meeting also included the oath taking ceremony of the heads and co-heads of the student
branch.

Orientation & Counselling Sessions

Muhammad Nauman Khan, Chairperson
IEEE COMSATS WAH Student Branch, Islamabad

IEEE COMSATS Wah SB

arranged two
orientation and
counselling seminars on
3rd September and 10th
September 2018 to
provide counselling to
new comer students of
Electrical Engineering
Department. In these
seminars, Counsellor
IEEE COMSATS Wah SB
Dr. Nadia Nawaz and
Chairperson IEEE
COMSATS Wah SB Muhammad Nauman Khan informed the students about the department and
university policies as well as the basic objectives of IEEE SB. Students were briefed about the basic vision
of IEEE i.e to provide access to latest technological advancements in the world. Furthermore, the new
comer students were informed about different scholarships for which they can apply after membership.

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These sessions proved to be a successful event as students were highly inspired by the vision of IEEE
and they showed keen interest in the membership drive followed by these sessions.

IEEE Summer Internship Program 2018

Jawad Zaheer, Chairperson, IEEE RAS CUI
IEEE COMSATS University Islamabad Student Branch, IEEE Islamabad Section
Over a course of six weeks, IEEE RAS
COMSATS University Islamabad successfully
organized a Summer Internship Program. The
internees were taught skills like Graphic
Designing using Adobe Photoshop and
Illustrator, the internees were also taught
Web Development which included topics like
Basic Html Styling and basic idea of
responsive layouts.
In the beginning out of 104 applicants, only
47 were selected on the basis of an interview.
To get the internship certificates internee
must have eighty percent 80% attendance
and performance in the tasks given during the
span of 6 weeks.
At the end of six weeks only 27 internees
were given certificates in a ceremony.

IEEE PES PCB Workshop

Marriam Siddiqui, Vice Chair, Student Branch
IEEE COMSATS Islamabad Student Branch, IEEE Islamabad Section

IEEE PES conducted a PCB

Designing workshop at basic
level for beginners interested in
learning about PCB design and
fabrication. Mostly students
from first semester participated
in the workshop. Software was
provided to all participants so
they can come prepared for a
hands-on experience. Students
were guided all about basics of
software. Next they were taught
how to design a PCB layout.
More information was provided
about preparing the PCB hardware at last. Certificates were distributed among all participants.

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International Conference on Material Science and Semiconductor
Devices 2018
Mohsina Sultana, Newsletter Editor
IEEE Student Branch University of Dhaka, IEEE Bangladesh Section
Dept. of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering,
University of Dhaka, along
withIEEE Student Branch
University of Dhaka and FAB
Lab DU organized a twodays
international conference on
Material Science and
Semiconductor Devices form
7th to 8th September , 2018. .
On the opening day, two
keynote speakers and three
invited speakers delivered
talks on various aspects of
material science and
semiconductor devices in three sessions, along with contributed sessions from authors. On the last day
of the conference, two keynote speakers and three invited speakers delivered talks on various aspects
of material science and semiconductor devices in three sessions, along with contributed sessions from
authors. There was also a tutorial session on non-linear optics. Poster presentations were held and best
oral presentation and best poster awards were handed out to deserving authors.

Telenor Seminar
Muhammad Burhan, Chair CS Chapter
IEEE PIEAS Student Branch, IEEE Islamabad Section
Telenor (R&D) is bringing an opportunity to join students, entrepreneurs and technologist on single
platform to bring ascent in
Telecom industry. IEEE PIEAS
CS benignantly welcomed
Telenor team at PIEAS to give
some information about
Telenor Hackathon
Competition. The students
were briefed about revolution
in Telecom Industry and also
about their flagship program.
It was an hour-long seminar
for the whole Computer
Science and Electrical
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coding skills to the world. The main motive of IEEE PIEAS CS chapter behind this seminar was to breach-
up the gap between academia and industry and to gear up students for post academic life.

Programmer Of The Semester

Muhammad Ammar, Chairperson
IEEE CS COMSATS Wah Chapter, Islamabad

IEEE Computer Society COMSATS Wah organized Programmer Of

The Semester Competition in collaboration with Computer Science
Department COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus on 4th
October 2018. Basically it was a 3 hour programming competition
which was aimed to hunt the talented students by encouraging their
programming skills. In this competition, students were given a fixed
set of real world problems and they were given a stipulated time to
solve these problems. With their extraordinary talent, most of the
teams were able to solve these problems within due time. Nearly 15
teams participated in this programming competition. On this
occasion, HOD Computer Science Department encouraged the
efforts of IEEE CS COMSATS Wah for organizing this competition.

IEEE DAY at CUI

Muhammad Umair Abdullah, Director Liaison
IEEE COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad Section

IEEE DAY was celebrated on 2nd October 2018 at IEEE-CUI,SB with full zeal and zest focusing on its
theme i.e. "Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow". An astonishing event that was held to
celebrate this day focuses on the motivation and coordination among IEEE community so that different
set of minds join together to collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow.
Hundreds of
volunteers
participated to make
this event successful.
During this event their
were different
motivational sessions
to develop an urge
among our members
to work for the cause
of IEEE,ice breaking
ceremony,sessions on the benefits of joining IEEE and award ceremony takes place.At the end cake
cutting ceremony takes place and we accomplish our cause of promoting IEEE.

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Workshop On VLSI Design
Ojas Balsotra, Vice Chair
Chapter, Bombay Section

We conducted this
workshop on VLSI
Design at MGMCET. It
provided technical
skill trainings in VLSI,
industry exposure in
VLSI and all-round
career growth for
students in VLSI. Main
goals of workshop
were Designing a VLSI
product, About VLSI, Better understanding of Timing analysis, Running LTSpice ( Software ) simulations
by students and
testing circuit made by students itself, Fabrication process using Lambda rule, Design rules for scaling,
designing universal gates in Microwind ( Software) . The intended audience are :- Students.
Students of Second year, Third Year, Final Year EXTC & BIOMEDICAL attended the lecture. The event
also comprised of interactive question and answer session. The workshop session was designed to bring
out the creativity and knowledge on VLSI.

CODIGO-the ultimate programming challenge

Osama Naeem, General Secretary
IEEE Student Branch, UET Taxila (STB60871), IEEE Islamabad Section

IEEE Student Branch

UET Taxila arranged
CODIGO- an online 24-
hours C++
programming
competition, in which
the students were
allowed to compete
from their comfort
places. The problem
statements were
distributed and
solutions were
collected via online
forum. The solutions

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were evaluated on the basis of working, optimization and approach used to solve the provided problem
statements.

IEEE AIUB Student BranchIEEE Bangladesh Section

Rafid Azad, Publications Coordinator
IEEE AIUB Student Branch, IEEE Bangladesh Section

IEEE AIUB Student Branch organized a workshop on “IEEEmadC & Mobile

Application Development”
On 26th September 2018, IEEE AIUB Student Branch in association with Computer Society AIUB Student
Branch Chapter successfully organized a workshop titled IEEEmadC & Mobile Application Development.
The workshop focused on the importance of android applications in this modern era and the skills and
techniques required for developing them. Talks on the elevation of the use of android phones along
with a rise of applications were discussed. Furthermore, the procedures and judging aspects of the
mobile application development contest were looked into. Emphasis was put on the procedures for
developing an android application. Students from different departments took part in the workshop. The
event also comprised of interactive question and answer session.

IEEE AIUB Student Branch organized a workshop titled “Dare to Lead”

On 26th July 2018, IEEE AIUB Student Branch in collaboration with IEEE IAS AIUB Student Branch
Chapter and in
association with
Bangladesh Youth
Leadership Center
(BYLC) organized a
workshop titled Dare
to lead. The workshop
focused on the
essential leadership
skills needed during
student life to excel
and have a better
career in the future.
Talks were provided
on the importance of
skills and the
consequences of
lacking skills when working under a team. Further talks were also provided discussing the concept of a
leader and leadership along with discussions on the importance of learning a role and importance of
professional etiquette. Students from different departments attended the workshop. The event also
comprised of interactive question and answer session.

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IEEE IUB Student Branch organized one the biggest tech
extravaganzas of 2018 in Bangladesh
Rashid Ahmed Rifat, Chair
IEEE IUB Student Branch, IEEE Bangladesh Section
Makers’ Mania, one of the biggest tech events in Bangladesh was held on 22nd and 23rd September
2018, organized by IEEE IUB Student Branch in coordination with School of Engineering and Computer
Sciences- Independent University, Bangladesh.
FAB LAB IUB sponsored the event which gave a
platform to the students to compete amongst
the tech enthusiasts and join in the biggest
tech showdown of 2018. The event combined
a series of various segments namely RC Mud
Track Racing, LFR Competition , QuadCopter
Racing, Battlebot, Project Showcase, Rubik's
Cube and Programming Contest.
600 participants from schools, colleges and
universities participated in Makers’ Mania. The
champions of each segment were awarded to
inspire them more towards innovation. The collective work of IEEE IUB Student Branch, IEEE IAS IUB
Student Branch Chapter, WIE Affinity Group, IEEE IUB Computer Society SB Chapter and the
collaboration of Project BE gave the event shape and made it a success.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Congress

Raunak Gupta, Branch Counselor,
IEEE Student Branch Quantum School of Technology, Roorkee, UP Section

Mr. Suresh Yaram was the keynote speaker for the inaugural session. He delivered his keynote address
on “How AI/ML is helping the
Insurance Industry globally
and significant use cases”. He
shared his industrial
experience among the
participants.
First participants presentation
session was conducted after
the inaugural session. The top
three presentations during this
session were “Multi-purpose
Drone and local GPS using ML”
by Mr. Devashish Patel and
group from Ahmedabad
University, Ahmedabad,
“Technology and Human Brain – A Deadly Combination” by Mr. Pranav Agarwal from Rajkiya
Engineering College, Mainpuri and “Impact of Automation in Automobile Industry” by Mr. Sahil Kumar
from Quantum School of Technology, Roorkee.
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The second keynote address was delivered by Dr. Rahul Kala on “Mobile Robotics – From School
Projects to Real life”. He addressed the various issues involved in the robotics such as trajectory
planning, kinematics etc. during his address.

World Blockchain Hackathon

Rizwan Nayeem, Head Documentation
IEEE VCE Student Branch, IEEE Hyderabad Section
Vaagdevi College Of Engineering Student Branch and IEEE Computer Society Chapter Hyderabad Section
in collaboration with GeeksUp conducted
“World Blockchain Hackathon” with a
Theme ‘'Building a Decentralised Application
to solve Society & Community problems”.
The aim of the event was to provide
students a platform to realise solutions using
Blockchain Technology.
There were about 1500+ participants pan
India &overseas who were divided into 300+
teams each with 5 members. All the teams
came up with 300+ problem statements &
solutions which can be solved using
Blockchain technology. This Hackathon
helped the students to expand their horizon,
brainstorm and unravel a solution for the
community problems.For next few months
WBH Top Groups will be working on their
Solution under the mentorship of GeeksUp
and other industry experts.Hackathon concluded with successful participation of 1500+ students across
the globe to mark the excellence of collective knowledge can make bright minds work together.

The Ultimate Innovator Hunt for IEEE SS12 Innovation challenge and
Maker Fair 2018
Shaila Alam Urmi, Secretary
IEEE WIE Student Branch Affinity Group,RUET, Bangladesh Section

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With the association of Dept. of ECE, IEEE RUET Student Branch hosted the contest “The Ultimate
Innovator Hunt” on 13th July, 2018 with 60 participants. Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal sir, Prof. Dr.
Ajay Krishno Sarkar sir
and Ms. Tasnim Binte
Shawkat madam were
the honorable judges ,
they examined the
projects and imparted
suggestions for the
better modifications of
their projects. Prof. Dr.
Md. Nazrul Islam
Mondal sir took a
session also (technical
talk) on “FPGA
Applications in
Education”. Meanwhile
Prof. Ramalatha
Marimuthu, SS12 chair
delivered her valuable speech for the contestants through online. The name of the four selected teams
were declared after this segment who were going to take part in the SS12 Innovation challenge and
Maker Fair 2018’s “Maker Fair” track in Colombo, Sri Lanka on September, 2018.
The champion and first runner-up team were given 15k and 5k BDT respectively for further
encouragement.

Independence Day Photo and Video Competition

Shoaib Sabbir, Treasurer
IEEE PES Chapter UET Taxila, IEEE Islamabad Section

IEEE PES Chapter UET Taxila arranged a photo and short video competition
on the occasion of Independence Day. The theme of the competition was
"How are you contributing towards the betterment to Pakistan?" The aim
of the event was to encourage and appreciate the public toward a good
cause.

Artificial Intelligence Day 2018 Celebration

Shreya Gosrani, Chairperson, IEEE WIE SAKEC
IEEE Student Branch of Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College STB 61051, IEEE Bombay Section

On 1st September 2018, IEEE SAKEC in association with Aegis School of Data Science celebrated Artificial
Intelligence Day.

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The session was an initiative to create awareness about Artificial Intelligence. 8 proficient speakers,
with a genuine approach to present AI
and its necessities were present. Dr.
Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Dean, Aegis School
of Data Science gave a keynote session on
AI. The session proceeded with
demystifying AI by Bhupesh Daheria, CEO,
Aegis School of Data Science. The key
highlight of the session was “LYNX”, a
humanoid robot. A Job Recommender
System was being illustrated as an
example to showcase AI products.
Introduction to NL Generator was given
by Vivek Mishra & Dr. Soudip Roy
Choudhary, Director and Chief Data
Scientist. A detailed overview of
Computer Vision was explained by Dr.
Shamshuddin. The event ended with a
vote of thanks conveyed by Dr. Vinit
Kotak, Vice Chair, IEEE Bombay Section.
Event Coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFa3LSACpTU

IEEE DAY 2018 + INSIGHT 18 + World's Teachers Day

Tahir Khan, Joint Secretary
IEEE PIEAS Student Branch, IEEE Islamabad Section

IEEE PIEAS student branch connects the engineers from all over the Pakistan on a single platform
offering opportunities
to pursue their
interests and excel in
their engineering
careers.IEEE PIEAS
Student Branch
celebrated the IEEE
Insight on 5th
October,2018. IEEE Day Insight theme was “ Celebrating the International IEEE and Teacher's day”. The
aim of this Insight was to give a head-start to the freshmen students and provide them with a starting
scaffold to bring forward their ideas and talents. Speakers and ambassadors from Islamabad Section
honored the event with their presence and shared their precious insights to encourage the students.
The event was a monumental success to say at the least by the end of which students were solicitous
to become astir member of society and work for better tomorrow.

O'WEEK 2018
Yousma Yousaf, Head WIE Internal Affairs
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IEEE PIEAS Student Branch, IEEE Islamabad Section

It is a very senescent custom to warmly and

jocosely welcome the freshmen batch to the
respective university. This year like always,
IEEE PIEAS Student Branch came forward
with the advent of new way to welcome the
freshmen by organizing seven day
orientation crammed with technical events
and fun activities. Such activities and events
prepare and mold their minds for the
preliminary of a new journey and to abet
understanding to the new environment.
Events that were held comprises of quizzes,
scavenger hunt, minute to win and many
other technical and non technical activities.
IEEE PIEAS SB ensured that these memories
of interaction between the freshmen and
student branch comprises of everlasting
beatitude and whenever they walk through
our gates they leave learning something new.

IEEE WIE Affinity Group UET Taxila Independence Day Essay Writing
Competition
Zara Ahmad, General Secretary
IEEE WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Islamabad Section

IEEE WIE AG UET Taxila arranged an online

essay writing competition. The main aim of the
conduction of such competition was to test the
writing skills as well as spreading a message of
love, enthusiasm and zeal among the students
and recognition of the sacrifice by the people
of the country.

Awareness Session on IEEE

Saeed Rehman, Member

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STB17241 - COMSATS Institute of Information Tech Islamabad, Islamabad Section

IEEE student branch

organized an awareness
session for the new
students to create
awareness of the values
and future benefits of IEEE
in their respective domain
of studies and how can
they learn and polish their
skills via this amazing
platform. Waleed bin Nasir
was the main speaker who
entertained the audience
with full determination. the
session was a complete
success as most of the students were official members by the end of the day.

Huge Success Of Computer Society Comsats Islamabad

Sardar Danial Nasir, Vice-Chairperson
Computer Society, Islamabad Section

The Computer Society chapter Comsats Islamabad was initiated in August 2018 and within only two
months the chapter
has reached 33 official
members . The
chapter's success is
the result of
perfection, hard work,
learning from failure,
and persistence .The
key factor was the
perfectly guided
Recruitment Drive
which paved the path
for the nourishment of
the chapter . The
chapter has
successfully able to
arrange regular events on weekly basis . In this spam of time , the chapter has successfully arranged a
IEEEmadC awareness session, IEEE Xtreme awareness session , Android Workshop , Orientation
Ceremony and IEEE Day Celebrations . Due to it's paced growth in such small period , the branch has
praised and acknowledged the efforts and progress shown by the CS members .

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Dawn Of IEEE Embs In Comsats Islamabad
Saeed Ur Rehman, Member
IEEE EMBS, Islamabad section

The IEEE comsats conducted its awareness

campaign in the Bioscience Department of
COMSATS Islamabad on 2nd September 2018
it was one of the fundamental sessions as it
portrayed the crucial rubrics and guidelines to
the new members and volunteers discussing
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBS) as a potential technical chapter of IEEE
to the students. Students were encouraged to
participate in the upcoming events and were
explained how Biology is linked with
Engineering and how can Biology students
make a global difference. The Executive
Committee was very thorough and precise in laying down the key points essential to the attendees. In
this way, everyone present was able to choose this chapter with a forethought or Deviate, if they may.
All the queries were retorted with meticulous responses and the procedures were elucidated and
clarified. At the end of the session, all the attendees were satisfied to their cores.

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2. SECTION ACTIVITIES

SYWL Networking Gathering and Cooking for IEEE Day Celebration in

Tokyo
Emi Yano, Past Chair
IEEE Japan Council WIE, Japan Council
IEEE Day is celebrated
worldwide to commemorate
the first time in history when
engineers worldwide and IEEE
members gathered to share
their technical ideas in 1884.
Tokyo Section Young
Professionals and Japan
Council WIE organized "SYWL
Networking Gathering and
Cooking for IEEE Day
Celebration in Tokyo" on 1st
October.
Students, Young
Professionals, WIE and Life
members enjoyed discussion
for "Leveraging Technology
for a Better Tomorrow". It encouraged the spread of cross-generation and cross-technical fields
communications throughout IEEE members in Tokyo Section.

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3. YOUNG PROFESSIONALS ACTIVITIES

Special Young Professionals Session in COMPSAC 2018

Mayumi Suzuki, Tokyo YP Chair
Tokyo YP, Tokyo

Tokyo YP held " COMPSAC2018 Special Young Professionals Session " co-organized by COMPSAC2018
at Tokyo, Japan on July 25th.
COMPSAC2018 is the 42nd IEEE
international conference of
Computer Society. The purpose
is to help Young Professionals
understand the unique value
and opportunities that IEEE and
Society membership and
volunteerism provide for their
career development. The
number of attendees were
almost 100.
First, Ms. Suzuki who was Tokyo
YP current representative
introduced Tokyo YP activities.
Then, we started panel
discussion with moderator, Dr.
Fujii, and 4 panelists, Dr. Metra,
Dr. Kasahara, Dr. Milojicic and
Dr. Walz. They were successive
Computer Society President.
They gave us excellent
messages with reference to their lives. For example, of their message “never gave up and you should
keep challenge” and “do not restrict yourself” and so on.
We were so encouraged by interaction with Computer Society presidents and YP, and this event ended
successfully.

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4. WOMEN IN ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES

IEEE WIE STEM Activity

Nida Khalid, Academics Coordinator
IEEE WIE AG UET Taxila, IEEE Islamabad Section

IEEE WIE Affinity Group UET Taxila

visited UET Taxila residential
colony school and arranged an
activity to promote science and
encourage the young students to
pursue engineering as their career.
The representative from the
society practically demonstrated
the students a part of their
theoretical course content.

WIE - Women as Entrepreneur

Dr. Nithyavathy N, IEEE Student Branch Counselor, Associate Professor
Mechatronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Madras Section

WIE - Women as Entrepreneurs explores the ways in which entrepreneurship acts to shape self-identity
for women and validate their
identities in a patriarchal
society. Differing from existing
past outcomes which focuses
on the antecedents of
entrepreneurship for women
and their performing
outcomes, Women as
Entrepreneurs questions
whether entrepreneurship is
simply about exploiting a business opportunity for profitability. Asserting that both work and societal
environments have an impact on an entrepreneur’s self-identity, this event demonstrates ways in which
self-conceptual thinking influences the relationship with their work in terms of motivation, effort,
growth and performance.

Flag Giving Ceremony

Hira Sajid, Member
SBA17241 - COMSATS Inst of Information Tech-Islamabad, WIE, Islamabad section

On 2nd October, Flag giving Ceremony took place in an event of IEEE day organized by IEEE COMSATS

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University Islamabad. In this event,
flags were handed over to the
chairs of Student Branch and
multiple
chapters present in IEEE COMSATS
Islamabad as a token of passage of
command. These flags were not
just a symbol for different chapters
but also a sign of pride,
determination and enthusiasm. It
was a
positive affirmation of loyalty and
commitment towards the
responsibility they had been given.
These
chapters include Robotics and
Automation Society (RAS), Computer Society (CS), Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) , Power and Energy Society (PES) ,Technology and Engineering
Management Society (TEMS) and Women in Engineering Society (WIE). Chair of every chapter along
with their members were really overwhelmed by this token of appreciation and passage of command.
They were highly determined tograb opportunities and achievements for their chapters.

Report of IEEE WIE ILS 2018, KOCHI

Mini Ulanat, Chair
WIE IEEE Kerala Section

IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit Kochi 2018, hosted by WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Kerala Section
was inaugurated on 7th September
2018 by Ms.Soumini Jain, the Hon.
Mayor of Cochin Corporation, marking
a milestone for IEEE Kerala Section WIE.
Prof. Lillykutty Jacob, the General Chair,
welcomed the chief guest, the 30-odd
eminent speakers, 150+ delegates and
other invited participants. She
acknowledged the tremendous support
from various sponsors for the
successful execution of the event: UST
Global, GE, Cochin Shipyard, CISCO,
Allianz, Kerala Startup Mission, NeSTIT,
and the IEEE Societies – IAS, PES, APS, and CS. She also specially mentioned the appreciation for IAS
sponsoring 38 student delegates including their stay. The two-day Summit was the meeting point of
researchers, engineers, students, academicians, practitioners, industrialists and the government
officials who set out to explore the possibility of inviting more women into leadership positions, by
learning from accomplished professionals.

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IEEE COMSATS Student Branch Award Distribution Ceremony
Muhammad Waleed Bin Nasir, chairperson
STB17241 - COMSATS Institute of Information Tech Islamabad, Islamabad section

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;

they are the charming gardeners who make our souls
blossom. Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates
appreciation and gratitude. I think for any
relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving
communication, appreciation, and
understanding.IEEE comsats wie organizes an award
distribution ceremony for their dedicated volunteers
and members.They give awards on different
categories based on the early performance of the
members.

IEEE WIE Star

Rafid Azad, Publications Coordinator
IEEE AIUB Student Branch, IEEE Bangladesh Section

On 29th July 2018, IEEE AIUB Student Branch WIE Affinity Group in association with IEEE AIUB Student
Branch successfully
organized an outreach
program titled “WIE
STAR” at Kuril- Kuratali
Ideal High School. The
IEEE Student-Teacher
and Research
Engineer/Scientist
(STAR) Program was
developed to address
the growing concern
that, at a young age,
girls are discouraged
from careers in
mathematics, science, and engineering. The event solely focused on improving the perception of the
field of engineering, motivating more girls to pursue an engineering career, as well as promoting the
endless possibilities that can result from considering engineering as a possible career option. Students
from class 6 to 10 participated in this outreach program. The day-long program consisted of
motivational speech, engineering project showcase, talk on IEEE and IEEE WIE Affinity Group and
interactive quiz & games session.

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5. HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES

Breath Clean
Muhammad Waleed Bin Nasir, Chairperson
STB17241 - COMSATS Institute of Information Tech Islamabad, Islamabad section

With the aim to clean air and provide healthy environment

IEEE comsats Islamabad student branch takes part in tree
plantation drive .More than 100 dedicated volunteers take
part in this event.They planted more than 2000 trees in a
single day .Moreover they are also taking care of these trees
per week .

The First Monash-Petrosains

Gerontechnology Challenge 2018
Rajendran Parthiban, Secretary
IEEE TEMS, Malaysia

On 5 May 2018, the Design

Thinking Workshop was hosted
by Petrosains as part of the 4th
Monash-Petrosains
Gerontechnology Challenge
2018, which is held in an effort
to encourage younger people
to expend their creativity,
expertise or technological
knowledge with the hopes of
producing innovative solutions
to address the needs of older
people. The event was co-
sponsored by Monash
University Malaysia and the
Malaysian Chapter of the
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers’ Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS).
Ten teams were selected from 35 applications. After the workshop, they interacted with their mentors,
who were from various walks of life, consisting of engineers, lecturers and inventors, to develop their
ideas further. Finally, the contestants pitched their revised ideas to the audience. They will receive
funding to develop these ideas into prototypes.

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6. SPECIAL NEWS

IEEE SS12 International Project Competition And Maker Fair 2018

Ramalatha Marimuthu
Professor, Department of ECE, KCT

The fourth edition of SS12 ASIA: AGE OF INNOVATION 2018, a Coding and Making Challenge organized
by Madras IEEE Education Society, was hosted in NSBM (National School of Business Management)
GreenUniversity Town, Homagama,Colombo, Sri Lanka by IEEE Sri Lanka section on 8th and 9th of

September 2018 in partnership withUniversities and leading technology industry companies across Asia
Pacific, UAE, Africa and Afganisthan. The challenge is conducted annually to recognize the best social
innovation application and this year the theme given was:
‘EMPATHY TO ENGINEERING: SOLUTIONS FOR MACROISSUES’
The domains selected were the areas covered by UN Sustainable Development Goals addressing the
issues like Poverty and Famine, Disaster Management and first aid, Special Needs, Women Safety,
Healthcare, Illiteracy and so on.The two days marked a high quality tech time for all the people
concerned and the event ended with the promise of the next edition of the event being hosted by
Stamford University, Thailand.

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IEEE SS12 Project Exhibits Junior Einstein

Maker Fair Women Junior Einsteins

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7. SPECIAL EDITION - IEEE REGION 10 STUDENTS / YOUNG
PROFESSIONALS / WOMEN IN ENGINEERING / LIFE
MEMBER (SYWL) CONGRESS 2018

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 WELCOME MESSAGE and performance of participants from many
countries. 50 Sections sent their delegates to this
REGION 10 DIRECTOR Congress for 4 days program and I appreciate IEEE
leaders from United States, Europe, Canada and
Region10 Executive Committee members. Special
thanks for our IEEE president Jim Jefferies and the
Government of Indonesia and Udayana University
as well as IEEE Indonesia Section.

This big event is not possible without devoted

volunteers and I’d like thank the organizing
Committee of this Congress. They are Deepak
Mathur, Nia Kurnianingsih, Ford Gaol as the
General Co-Chairs; Pasan Pethiyagode, Gamantyo
Hendrantoro, Endang Widjiati of the Program Co-
Chairs and Rajesh Ingle, Nivas Ravichandran,
Prof. Kukjin Chun
Tomonori Aoyama and Jing dong, IEEE Singapore
IEEE Region 10 Director office, and Fitri Yuli of Indonesia Section Chair. I
also appreciate 16 sponsors for this Congress
As the IEEE Region10 Director, it is my honor to including ORACLE Academy, IEEE YP, HAC, PES,
congratulate a very successful 2018 Region10 IAS, COMSOC, Collabratec, iCon+, IEEE EAB, R10
SYWL Congress on Student, Young Professional, Strategic Planning, R10 Industry Relations, R10
Women in Engineering and Life members in Bali in Individual Benefits & Services, R10 Educational
August 2018. Activities, Udayana University, Student Branch
Udayana University, and WIE Udayana University.
This Congress is a biannual event and we had over
300 participants this year thanks to the organizing I really hope all of the participants would bring
committee. The objective of this Congress is to unforgettable memory home.
provide a platform for IEEE volunteers from
different Sections for networking and sharing
experiences as well as to train the volunteers
about IEEE activities, best practices and
methodologies. The participants will take the
information from this Congress to their Sections
for implementing future strategy.

Region10 have over 120,000 members in 58

Sections and 6 Councils which covers 30% of the
IEEE membership. There are more than 1,400
Student Branches and almost 50 YP and WIE
affinity groups. Life members are increasing with
growing Life member affinity groups.

Actually that was a concern on the earthquake

before the event, but we are very delighted to
have a very enjoyable and dynamic event. Every
day and night was fantastic with good discussion

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 WELCOME MESSAGE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE On behalf of Organizing Committee and as
General Chair of IEEE Region 10 SYWL Congress
2018, I thank all who made this congress
successful.

Dr. Kurnianingsih (Nia) Dr. Ford Lumban

G. General co-Chair General co-Chair
Deepak Mathur
General Chair

It is a matter of great pleasure that we had a

very successful Region 10 SYWL Congress 2018
at Bali. The event saw the dedicated and
passionate volunteers organizing the event with
meticulous planning and execution. And
enthusiasm and active participation of
delegates made it a memorable event. I would
like congratulate all participants and volunteers Prof. Rajesh Ingle Pasan Pethiyagode
who took part in the Congress at Bali for the R10 SAC R10 SR
success.

The Congress aimed at volunteer training and

provided an excellent platform to all delegates
to network with fellow volunteers with an
opportunity to interact, brainstorm and learn
best practices of different sections.
Nivas Ravichandran Dr. Jing Dong

R10 YP Coordinator R10 WIE Coordinator

We also organized inspiring keynotes, technical
talks and sessions on soft skills required for the
growth and development of our volunteers. I
am sure that the Congress provided all
participants an opportunity of all-round
development. They would be taking the
learning from the Congress back to their
sections to train volunteers further and Prof. Tomonori Aoyama
implement best practices learnt to enhance the R10 Life Member Coordinator
effectiveness of their respective sections.

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 WELCOME MESSAGE heritages, culture, mountain, beach and scenery
with warm, polite and friendly people, a vibrant
INDONESIA SECTION CHAIR exotic culture and lifestyle.

Finally, we do hope all of you will nurture, have

enjoyable and valuable experience in SYWL
Congress, Bali Indonesia. During this 4 days
congress, please build your network; for students
and young professionals, be IEEE young
generations and become the next leader of IEEE in
the future!

Prof. Dr. Fitri Yuli Zulkifli

IEEE Indonesia Section Chair

Assalaamu ‘alaikum warahmatullaahi

wabarakaatuh

On behalf of IEEE Indonesia section, I would like to

express my sincere gratitude and delighted to
welcome you to R10 SYWL congress 2018 in Bali!
IEEE Indonesia Section this year has celebrated its
30 years activities in Indonesia, and therefore it is a
great honor that this year IEEE Region 10 has given this
opportunity for us to organize this big SYWL congress
to be held in Bali Indonesia.

In this occasion, I would like to thank and give a big

appreciation to all of the IEEE volunteers as this
congress organizers for their hard work,
outstanding level of collegiality, coordination, and
passion so this congress could be held wonderfully
and successfully in Bali.

My sincere gratitude also to all the distinguished

invited speakers and panelists whose knowledge
and experiences can surely inspire us all. In
addition, I really appreciate the support from the
16 sponsors for this SYWL congress. The sponsors
are from IEEE, industries and university which
shows that this congress is supported from various
parties.

I would also like to say welcome to Bali, one of the

paradise Island in Indonesia. Bali serves beautiful
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SPONSORS
GOLD

BRONZE

SILVER

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 34. Republic of Philippines Section
35. Sapporo Section
SECTIONS ATTENDED 36. Sendai Section
SYWL CONGRESS 2018 37. Seoul Section
38. Shanghai Section
39. Shikoku Section
NO. SECTION 40. Shin-etsu Section
1. AustralianCapital Territory 41. Sri Lanka Section
2. Bangalore Section 42. South Australia Section
3. Bangladesh Section 43. Tainan Section
4. Beijing Section 44. Taipei Section
5. Bombay Section 45. Thailand Section
6. Changwon Section 46. Tokyo Section
7. Chengdu Section 47. Uttar Pradesh Section
8. Daejeon Section 48. Victorian Section
9. Delhi Section 49. Vietnam Section
10. Fukuoka Section 50. Western Australia Section
11. Guangzhou Section 51. Wuhan Section
12. Gujarat Section 52. Bhutan Sub-Section
13. Gwangju Section
14. Harbin
15. Hyderabad Section
16. Hong Kong Section
17. Indonesia Section
18. Islamabad Section
19. Kansai Section
20. Karachi Section
21. Kharagphur Section
22. Kerala Section
23. Kerala Section
24. Kolkata Section
25. Lahore Section
26. Macau Section
27. Madras Section
28. Malaysia Section
29. Nagoya Section
30. New South Wales Section
31. New Zealand Central Section
32. Pune Section
33. Republic of Philippines Section

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 INTRODUCTION • IEEE Region 7 Director, Dr. Maike Luiken
• Ministry of Youth & Sports of the Republic of
Indonesia, represented by Deputy of Youth
Empowerment Sector, State Minister for Youth
IEEE Region 10 Students / Young Professionals / & Sport Affairs, Prof. Dr. Faisal Abdullah
Women in Engineering / Life Member (SYWL) • Leader of Education, Youth, and Sport Office of
Congress 2018 has been a great success on 30 Bali, Tia Kusuma Wardhani
August-2 September 2018, at Prime Plaza Hotel, • Mayor of Denpasar City, Ida Bagus Rai
Dharmawijaya Mantra, SE, M.Si
Sanur – Bali, Indonesia. This Congress is a
• Director of Oracle Academy for Asia Pacific and
biannual event and was attended by over 300 Japan, Damian Haas
delegates. The Congress was attended by the • Country Manager of Oracle Academy for
representatives from other Regions apart from Indonesia and Malaysia, Nurul Huda
delegates from 50 sections of Region 10. The
details are:
• 250+ delegates from 50 Sections in Region 10
(Asia Pacific)
• Region 1 (Northeastern US), represented by
John Day, Director of Member Products and
Programs
• Region 2 (Eastern US), attended by Jeff Eker, R2
Young Professionals Chair
• Region 3 (Southern US), attended by Subodha
Charles as a representative of IEEE IAS
Opening Ceremony of IEEE SYWL Congress 2018
• Region 5 (Southwestern US), attended by James
Jefferies, IEEE President
• Region 7 (Canada), attended by Dr. Maike
Luiken, IEEE Region 7 Director
• Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East), attended
by Dr. Rafal Sliz (IEEE Young Professionals Global
Chair); Flavia Dinca (IEEE Young Professionals
Vice Chair); Shashank Gaur as a representative
of IEEE COMSOC

The theme of the Congress is Collaborative

Innovation for Society Development.
The objective of this Congress is to provide a
platform for IEEE volunteers from different Sections Welcome Address by IEEE Region 10 Director, Prof.
for networking and sharing experiences as well as to Kukjin Chun
train the volunteers about IEEE activities, best
practices and methodologies. The participants take
the information from the Congress to their
respective Sections for implementing future
strategies and training of other local volunteers.

The Congress was inaugurated by the IEEE President

and CEO, James Jefferies and he was assisted by a
robot making the inauguration unique and
memorable. Following dignitaries attended and the
opening ceremony along with the participants and
volunteers.
• IEEE President, James Jefferies

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 Program at Glance by Program Committee of IEEE R10
Welcome Remark by General Chair of IEEE R10 SYWL SYWL Congress 2018, Nivas Ravichandran
Congress 2018, Deepak Mathur

Welcome Remark by Indonesia Section Chair,

Sponsor Acknowledge by General co-Chair of IEEE R10
Prof. Fitri Yuli Zulkifli
SYWL Congress 2018, Dr. Kurnianingsih (Nia)

Program at Glance by Program Committee of IEEE R10 Group Photo of Opening Ceremony
SYWL Congress 2018, Pasan Pethiyagode

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IEEE R10 Student Activities Committee
The Activities for the Students in the Congress were
organized by R10 SAC Team, namely, Dr. Rajesh
Ingle (R10 SAC Chair), Pasan Pethiyagode (R10 RSR),
Purva Ekatpure (R10 SAC Meeting Coordinator),
Shabab Iqbal (R10 SAC Website Coordinator), Jashan
Preet Singh (R10 SAC Website Contest Coordinator),
Akhil A. (R10 SAC Paper Contest Coordinator) and
Vivek Kumar (R10 SAC ZSR).

IEEE R10 Director- Prof. Kukjin Chun giving speech

During the lunch, ‘Infographics Competition’ was

conducted for the students to represent the
activities of their Student Branches and their
Sections in the form of an Infographic. The call for
the Competition was circulated on 1st August 2018.
The Competition received 25 Student Branch Entries
Group Photo of the participants of the SAC track
and 5 Section Entries, which were judged by a total
The Student Track of the Congress was organized on of 11 Judges on the day of the competition based on
31st August 2018 (11:00-16:00). The pre-lunch the content, creativity of poster and presentation.
session(2 hrs) consisted of address to the students The Competition helped all the student delegates to
by IEEE Delegates namely, IEEE President and CEO- learn about the best practices and the activities
James Jefferies on ‘Future of IEEE’, IEEE R10 conducted by other Student Branches and Sections,
Director- Prof. Kukjin Chun on ‘Research so that those can be incorporated in their SBs and
Opportunities’ , IEEE R10 Director Elect -Prof. sections.
Akinori Nishihara on ‘Ethics in Publishing’, IEEE R10
SAC Chair -Prof. Rajesh Ingle on ‘IEEE R10 SAC
Initiatives and Best Practices’ ,R10 RSR- Mr. Pasan The post-lunch session of the Student Track
Pethiyagode on ‘Reactivating Student Branches’ and consisted of a 2 hrs Networking Activity-”Living in
CEO & Chief Scientific Officer-BioAxis DNA Research the Future”. The pre-engagement of students for
Centre Pvt. Ltd. - Dr. Amit Kumar on ‘Internship: this activity had commenced 1 week before the
Insights and Recommendations’. Congress on IEEE Collabratec Platform-’Global
Student Exchange Community” by the means of
posts related to 8 upcoming technologies (eg: Elon
Musk’s venture- Neuralink, Google- Calico, Uber Air,
Mars Colonisation, etc).

IEEE President and CEO- James Jefferies giving

speech
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 Networking Session-’Living in the Future’: Skit
presentation

IEEE AIUB Student Branch and IEEE North South

Networking Session-’Living in the Future’: University Student Branch is receiving award of
preparation in progress MGA Region 10 Exemplary Student Branch 2017
and 2018 respectively
On the day of the event, the students were divided
into 8 teams ensuring diversity with respect to During the Awards Night on 31st August, the IEEE
sections among the teams to promote networking R10 SAC Awards for 2018 and MGA Awards for
among them. Each team was assigned an upcoming 2017,2018 were presented. The recipients for these
technology which was posted on IEEE Collabratec, awards were:
and they had to present a 5 mins skit depicting the
1) MGA Larry Wilson Regional Student Activities
situation/ common life scenario which we would be
able to see, in case that technology came into Award 2017: Anindo Saha (Bangladesh
existence. It was judged by 5 judges namely, Dr. Section)
Maike Luiken( IEEE Region 7 Director),Dr. Hussain 2) MGA Region 10 Exemplary Student Branch
Mahadi (IEEE IAS Chapters Area Chair, R10 South- 2017: IEEE AIUB SB, Bangladesh Section
east Asia, Australia and Pacific), Dr. Vijaylata (Chair- 3) MGA Outstanding Counsellor Award 2017: Dr.
IEEE WIE AG Hyderabad Section), Prof. Dr. Shaikh M.Tanseer Ali, Bangladesh Section
Fattah (Education Chair, IEEE Humanitarian Activity 4) MGA Larry K.Wilson Regional Student
Committee) and Dr. Rachana Garg( SAC Chair-Delhi Activities Award 2018: Wickramage Yasitha
Section). The activity turned out to be of great fun Harshanath, Srilanka Section
and helped networking among the students. This 5) MGA Region 10 Exemplary Student Branch
concluded the Student track of the Congress. 2018:
a) IEEE North South University SB,
Bangladesh Section
b) IEEE Multimedia University Student
Branch, Malaysia Section
c) College of Engineering Karunagappally,
Kerala Section

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 6) R10 SAC Volunteer Award 2018: Kong Sheng
How, Malaysia Section

7) R10 SAC Student Volunteer Award 2018:

Abhijeet Biswas, Bangladesh Section

8) R10 SAC Student Branch Award 2018: IEEE

Multimedia University Student Branch,
Malaysia Section

During the closing ceremony of the Congress on 2nd IEEE Region 10 SAC team 2018 with the delegates
September, the results of Infographics Competition
held during the Student Track were declared and
certificates were presented. The winners were:
Thus, the R10 SAC Activities during the SYWL
1) Student Branch Category: Congress were in line with the objectives of the
a) First Place: IEEE AIUB Student Branch, Congress. They provided a platform for IEEE student
Bangladesh Section volunteers from different sections to network,
b) Second Place: IEEE North South interact and learn from the volunteers, trained them
University Student Branch,Bangladesh about IEEE activities, best practices, methodologies
from different Sections and SBs so that they can take
Section
back the learnings from the Congress to implement
c) Third Place: PICT IEEE Student Branch,
in their sections, student branches.
Pune Section & Chengannur College of
Engineering Student Branch, Kerala
Section

2) Section Category: Kerala Section

Winning 2 Teams of the Networking Activity ”

Living in the Future” along with the judges

Along with it, the Certificates to the winning teams

of “Living in the Future” Networking Activity held
during the Student Track were also presented.

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 IEEE R10 Young Professionals
The biennial event of the Asia-Pacific region was
held from 30th August to 2nd September this
year. The flagship congress looked upon by
every enthusiast volunteer, had a turnaround of
260+ delegates - around 30% of which was by
the Young Professionals. Unlike the usual 2-days
track, the YP centric track this time was
fabricated for inducing a more focused Queued up was a fireside chat with the IEEE
brainstorming on day-1 while on day-2 Region 10 Director-Elect 2018, Akinori
exposure to more communities and instances Nishihara. Knowing his perspective on the
where YPs can further contribute in addition to significance of YP in IEEE, expectations and how
self-development tracks were in the focus area. he can cultivate our growth was a key takeaway
The tracks were planned with a goal to cover for delegates as it motivated them to define a
myriad topics, across all verticals that could path as a volunteer and know the kind of
nourish the experience for YPs. support we can get in raising the bars higher.
Also, it was important for the YPs to know and
The day commenced with the IEEE Region 10 realize how their steps are and will continue in
Young Professionals Coordinator - Nivas the shaping of the IEEE community. It seemed
Ravichandran, sharing the Region 10 Young to be a great exposure to be able to participate
Professionals’ current targets and in such a candid dialogue and to learn from
achievements, newer goals, and the delight to Akinori san that a far vision, simplicity, and
have had established YP community in 17 determination remains constant across all
sections across Asia-Pacific under his levels of volunteering.
leadership. He also shared the success of the
flagship events of the YP - the HardTech Summit
and how the YP is trying to put up the event
irrespective of newer challenges. The ‘Section
Meetups’ was another successful initiative in
adding values to the intra-section networking.
To diversify the experience of the delegates
further, we had Rafal Sliz, Global Young
Professionals Chair from Region 8. His insights
and one-to-one interactions hold not only the With a view of broadening the horizon for all
sharing of inter-regional practices and cultures sections, the track included sessions on ‘Best
but also the challenges that each region and YP Practices’ - progressive and unconventional -
as whole faces and the efforts they put up to that was followed by sections of Bangalore,
overcome these. As the discussions grew Tokyo, Bangladesh, and Region 2; represented
intense, to everyone’s amuse, the solutions to by Abhishek Appaji, Mayumi Suzuki, ARM
challenges of one Region could be found in Abdullah Rocky, and Jeff Eker respectively. The
practices of the other. flow of ideas throughout these sessions, the
story of their executions and the willingness of
sections to implement and enhance these was a
testament to the how it appealed to the
volunteers.

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To boost up the interactions and networking,
the YPs had a workshop led by Flavia Dinca,
Global Young Professionals Vice-Chair and
moderated by the Global YP team attendees,
viz. Rafal Sliz, Flavia Dinca, Shashank Gaur; the
participating teams putting up the best of their
ideas and visions to empower YP further by
channelizing the efforts in utilizing this platform
and building new ones within. The supreme
target was to come up with a perspective on
potential benefits to YPs, irrespective of their
region.
The ‘YP Poster Competition’ was another
platform for volunteers to propose their
abstracts, plans, successful initiatives, missions,
and visions.
The Global YP team made sure to acknowledge
the best of the ideas with a token of
appreciation in order to vitalize the morale of
the volunteers.
Bolstering the young professionals from an
individual perspective, the IEEE Region 10
Strategic Planning Committee delivered their
experiences on how IEEE helped them and kept
their zeal going in the triumph of their
entrepreneurial careers, how they balanced
their priorities with work and IEEE. The Young
Professionals team saw this of much
importance to the YP volunteers who juggle
between growing themselves professionally
and finding time out for volunteering.
Overall, the Young Professionals track tried to
deliver a brewing experience to the volunteers.
From networking among Region 10 to across
Region 8 and Region 2, from brainstorming
about their paths in IEEE to career
development. We believe the power of this
community lies not only in the energy they hold
to revolutionize things but the joy each one of
them takes in their volunteering affairs. With
the supports from IEEE, the Young Professionals
aim to grow not only themselves but everyone
who comes along.

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 IEEE R10 Women in Engineering between WIE and LM. Prof. Chris Lee and Dr. John
Day followed to give two excellent presentation
IEEE SYWL WIE Track was held at the Prime Plaza regarding the individual benefit and Collabratec. All
Hotel, Sanur - Bali, Indonesia, in the presence of an the speakers shared their views and opinion with
eminent group of delegates and leading volunteers the attendees there for the panel discussion.
of the IEEE, along with various national &
international establishments, on 31st August. The WIE Post Contest aiming to highlights the WIE
“Best Even” from all the WIE AGs in the year of 2017-
The WIE Track featured two high quality knowledge 2018 and evaluate top 3 to award on site from the
sharing sessions and the WIE Post Contest. The delegates. After the offsite evaluation of the
invited speakers included Dr. Jing Dong, the R10 WIE submitted posters from the delegates, WIE
Coordinator, Prof. Riri Fitri Sari, the Indonesia committee selected top 10 posters to present and
Section WIE Chair, Prof. Celia Shahnaz, the Past R10 be evaluated on site for the SYWL poster session,
finally the WIE "Best Event"Post Contest Winner
WIE Coordinator, Dr. Paulina Chen, the Hongkong
gave to IEEE WIE Student Branch Affinity Group of
Section WIE Chair, Ms. Emi Yano, the Japan Council
University of Colombo School of Computing (Sri
WIE Chair, Dr. Zuhaina Zakaria, R10 Educational
Lanka Section) and two Honerable Mention gave to
Activities Coordinator , Prof. Chris Lee, the R10 IEEE Bangladesh Section WIE AG and IEEE Hongkong
Individual Benefits & Service Coordinator and Mr. Section WIE AG.
John W. Day, the IEEE Member Products & Programs
Director.

In the WIE sessions, Dr. Jing Dong welcomed all the

attendees and delegates and made a brief
introduction about the R10 WIE status, including the
WIE mission, membership, activities and workplans
for the whole region, encouraging all the volunteers
take part in the regional and global WIE activities,
and inspiring their local members to take leadership
and professional skills enhancement trough the
events and experience, indicating the theme--- “By
joint hands, WIE CAN” . Prof. Riri Fitri Sari gave the
presentation “Showcase of the WIE Activities in
Indonesia Section AG” , introduced the status of
Indonesia WIE Affinity Group and its achievements,
showing that the WIE AG there has made great
impact across whole Indonesia Section through
different activities. Dr. Paulina Chen take herself
experience in Hongkong WIE Affinity Group as an
good example for her talk :”Pursue your passion:
inspire the enthusiasm for better volunteering of
WIE”. She also emphasize the importance of
engaging male member in the whole activities and
executive committees. Prof. Zuhaina Zakaria took
the example of WIE ILS Malaysia as a showcase to
explain how to organize a fantastic event and the
importance of building the teamwork. Dr. Celia
Shahnaz also shared her excellent leadership and
professional experience in her career and
encouraged all good ideas from the volunteers. Ms
Emi Yano, from the other hand , told us several
stories indicating the importance of collaboration

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IEEE R10 Life Member - Revitalizing Life professional societies and Government officials. To
one end the minimum requirement for establishing
Member Activities
a LMAG is 6 LMs, at the other end for a stable one,
more LMs are required.

In parallel with the Student Track, and WIE (Women The lively interactions during the Panel discussions
In Engineering) Track, a two-hour Life Member focused on Future possible activities including
Track (LMT) Session on August 31 was held during those in Sections having no LMAG. yet. Life
the SYWL Congress in Bali. Members could be involved in lectures, social
gathering, etc.
The LM Track Session chaired by Prof. Tomonori
Aoyama, IEEE R10 LM Coordinator, presented an The 15 LM participants are very small compared
interesting program composed of four (4) topics with the 245 participants of the SWYL Congress. At
and a Panel with speakers and Questions & Answer the other hand it is noted that the WIE Panel
Session from the floor. Session will discuss about the collaboration
activities between WIE and LM which will be held
The entire LMT Session provided us with valuable in the afternoon of August 31.
example activities in Sections already having a
LMAG (Life Member Activities Group) and
promoting Sections who still have to come up with a
LMAG. Hence, revitalizing Life Members still to be
actively involved in their Sections.

The four (4) topic discussions were as follows:

1. Overview of Life Member (LM) and the benefits

of LM by Tomonori Aoyama, R10 LM
Coordinator;
2. Kerala LMAG Acitivities and the LMAG
Achievements Award 2018, by
A.G.Hareendralal,Kerala LMAG Chair;
3. Tokyo LMAG activities by Tetsuya Miki, Tokyo
LMAG Chair;
4. LM status in Indonesia Section by Arnold
Djiwatampu, Indonesia Section
5. Panel Session with speakers and Q&A from the
floor by the Panel Coordinator, by Tomonori
Aoyama.

It is interesting to have examples of LM activities

from an IEEE Section in a developing country, the
Kerala Section, and a developed country like Japan,
the Tokyo Section.

The LM Session also was attended by other

Members although they are not LM Members.

The presentation on the status of a IEEE Section

having no LMAG established, yet, was provided by
Arnold Djiwatampu, SLM of the Indonesia IEEE
Section.

This Section only has six (6) LM who are engaged in

sharing experiences in Section and Chapter
activities, promoting IEEE membership to

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 Academic Track Gamantyo Hendrantoro gives presentation with
topic on integrity in academia. This topic is taken
since integrity is a consequence of being a member
of the academia by observing the ethical codes in
university, especially applicable in a relationship
with students, lecturers, the university, the wider
academic community, and self-consciousness. This
integrity becomes more complicated by the
increasingly-advanced information technology.

Several items are delivered during presentation

including points such as integrity in publication
writing, workload distribution among joint-
researchers, how to use online information,
Quality Publication and Conference for plagiarism, duplicate submission as well as choosing
Strategic Academic Career Planning the right journal for publication. Secondly, several
issues related to conferences such as organizing and
R10 Conference Quality Coordinator, Lance Fung attending a conference are also discussed. The
speaker invited an open discussion from the
A presentation on “Quality Publication and
audiences.
Conference for Strategic Academic Career Planning”
was delivered by Emeritus Professor Lance C.C. Fung
during the Academia Track at the 2018 IEEE Region
10 SYWL Congress on 1st September, 2018 in Bali Step Wise Guide to Write A Research Paper
Indonesia. Dr. Norliza Mohd Noor
Professor Fung shared his experience and Another invited speaker for the academia track,
observation from the Australian Academic Sector Norliza Mohd Noor from Universiti Teknologi
and other part of the world. He emphasized the Malaysia presented a talk titled ‘Step Wise Guide to
importance to be strategic with respect to career Write a Research Paper’. She motivated the
planning. He then focused on quality publications audience on the reasons and the needs to write a
and quality conferences as the means to research paper, and continuing her talk by reviewing
communicate one’s key achievements. Suggestions several types of research paper and understanding
included registration of ORCID, establishment of an the writing process for each category.
online profile, sharing of research output and use of
social network including blogs and tweets. He then She also touched on the prestige and scope of the
challenged the audience on new research areas, publication, which will be the authors’ deciding
new skills, new expertise to meet local, national and factor where to submit their work. Lastly, she
international interests. He emphasized the presented on step-by-step guide on writing the
importance of being involved with quality research paper starting from how to develop the
conferences and quality publications while be paper title to the end, which is writing he
careful about predator publishers and conferences. conclusion.

In summary, academic career is very competitive Panel discussion on Bridging the Gap between
across the globe and quality publication is an Industry, Academia, and Government
essential indicator of achievements, so it requires
Panelists:
strategic planning to communicate achievements.
1. Jim Jefferies, IEEE President;
Integrity in Academia
2. Prof. Akinori Nishihara, IEEE R10 Director-elect;
Program Committee Chair of SYWL Congres, 3. Dr. Jumain Appe, Director General of Innovation
Gamantyo Hendrantoro Strengthening, Ministry of Research, Technology
and Higher Education of the Republic of
Indonesia;
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4. Ery Punta H., Managing Director of Indigo can be supported by the academia, may be different
Creative Nation, Telkom Indonesia. for each region/countries.

Moderator:

Dr. Endang Widjiati, Agency for Assessment &

Application of Technology, Indonesia

Panel discussion is held on the second day,

September 1, after the presentation from Director
General of Innovation Strengthening, Ministry of
Research, Technology and Higher Education of the
Republic of Indonesia, Dr. Jumain Appe, with the
same topic of the discussion i.e. How to Bridge the
Gap between Academia, Industry, and Government.
Four panellists that join the discussion are Akinori
Nishihara as IEEE Region 10 Director-elect who
represent the academia view, Jim Jefferies as IEEE
President and CEO who represent the US industry
view, Ery Punta Hendraswara as Deputy Executive
General Manager, Digital Service Division, Telkom
Indonesia who represent the Indonesia industry
view and Dr Jumain Appe who represents the
Indonesia government.

Dr Jumain stated that government must play the

role of facilitator and assure a beneficial climate
where industry can flourish and have access to
world markets. Industry must avail itself of all
resources and promote cooperative research in
order to avoid duplication of effort and expense.
However, industry should also support academia as
a resource. Finally, academia needs to support
industry in return by improvement in the quality of
education and modernization of curricula. The
industry consortium is helping in this respect.
Curricula, equipment, and instruments required to
perform research at universities must be upgraded
as part of this effort. As conclusion of this panel
discussion, strategies on how government can play
a role in supporting what the needs of industry and

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ICT Strategy and Update Towards Industry 4.0
Readiness
Satriyo Dharmanto (CEO & Founder at Multikom;
Consultant of the Public Policy Strategy, Ministry of
Communication and Information Technology,
Republic Indonesia)

Based on the United Nations Food and Agriculture

Organization (FAO), the overall prosperity and well-
being of populations around the world highly
depend on how well countries manage their food Building your Social Media Profile
and agricultural sectors, and their precious natural
resources, such as land and water, and their forest Nivas Ravichandran
resources.
From a point of view of a budding individual, the
Refer to the World Bank, technological progress is a world is a place for a new revolution every single day
considerable driving force behind economic growth, and social media is its prime axis. These thoughts
citizen engagement and job creation of the country. resonated with Nivas Ravichandran as well who was
Information and communication technologies enthusiastic enough to help volunteers in 'Building
(ICTs), in particular, are reshaping many aspects of an effective Social Media Profile' at the IEEE Region
the world’s economies, governments, and societies. 10SL SYWL Congress. Thus, it was a must to highlight
what role social media could play and how can its
Based on ITU, currently there are more than 7 billion utilization to the fullest be beneficial to all.
mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide,
corresponding to a penetration rate of 97%. In In sharing his experiences, Nivas guided on how in
Indonesia currently have about 250 million mobile building a strong social media profile it was
cellular subscriptions, with penetration rate about important to first Target the platforms that fit our
105%. objective and how these platforms could then help
in presenting us the way we want ourselves to be
Young people represent almost 25% or 1/4 of the
seen. However, the point one couldn't have missed
total number of individuals using the Internet throughout was that the core of each of these lied
worldwide. in networking and building these networks.
The Disruptive Technologies are really happen. For In explaining how he utilizes social media as per
example, Uber is currently become the World’s current scenarios, Nivas focused more on LinkedIn,
Largest Taxi Company, with owns no car. Facebook Facebook and Twitter as the grassroots of building a
is currently become the World’s Largest Media strong social media profile. While keeping these
Company with produces no content, and Netflix is profiles clean and posting content relevant to their
currently become the World’s Largest Movie house, purpose remained a common practice for him, he
with owns no cinema. made sure volunteers understand how interacting
Digital Transformation will force many industries to with people across these must vary.
change their operating paradigm, from being Few other key takeaways from the session were to
manpower-intensive to being technology-centric. have an updated bio, a positive active participation
The Indonesian government officially launched the and defining our goals via profile taglines. In keeping
roadmap called "Making Indonesia 4.0" it includes a check on growth, on which the awareness is low,
major innovations in the digital technology, biology he enlightened on how the social selling index or
and hardware automations, and also implies that profile completion status could be monitored.
cyber-physical systems can make their own basic A slew of interesting questions, an overwhelming
decisions, hence becoming increasingly self-ruling.
feedback and healthy discussions following his talk
bespoke of how insightful and productive this was
to the volunteers.
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 Panel Discussion on Technologies and Will 4th Industrial revolution bring opportunities to
Industrial needs of 4th Industrial make you rich with lesser work pressures in
Industry? Was taken up by Dr Toshio Fukuda, Past
Revolution:
R10 Director and Director of Division X
“Are Our Students and Young Does the 4th industrial revolution ensure and is a
Professionals Ready to Join the Pace"? predictor of increasing the unemployment base?
Should we encourage our students and YPs ,how to
cope with this situation? Various aspect and related
Moderator: Amit Kumar, CEO (BioAxis DNA Research discussions were explained and discussed by Dr
Centre, India) Akinori Nisihara, R10 Director Elect 17-18.

It was a very well received and interactive session,

several questions were taken up by audience.
Panelists:

• Prof. Akinori Nishihara, R10 Director Elect (2017-

2018)
• Mr Deepak Mathur, R10 Vice Chair, Membership
Activities (2017 – 2018)
• Prof. Toshio Fukuda, President elect (2019)

There used to be a time when tech companies were

truly reluctant to understand the impact of their
services and products on the society, usually they
deferred to undertake responsibility how their
offerings (products, services) are being utilized.
Current time and policies have seen a real change in
thought process about the impacts of emerging
technologies (Especially after GDPR and issues with
giants like FB and Google). Most of the processes are
being automated and Industry is far cautious about
their Products, services along with their employees
and the way they operate and undertake the
projects. ML, AI, Cyber physical systems have taken
over most of the things be it banking or healthcare.!
Their is a high possibility and threat for our young
minds and they could be left behind not aware
about Industrial policies, their operations and be
serious towards updating and understanding the
highly changing industrial operations in this
revolutionary changing tech era.

With the above background by Amit, following key

points were taken up

Is this the time to caution our young engineers

about the problems and issues of the fast changing
technology world was discussed and focused by Mr
Deepak Mathur, R10 Vice Chair of Membership
activities.

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 IEEE R10 HTA Committee: Sustainable participants, particularly the future SIGHT and
Humanitarian Global Development HTA projects and programs.
Workshop The expected outcomes from this workshop
were to set a path for the attendees to enhance
Parkash Lohana
IEEE R10 HAC Coordinator (2017-18)
their skills in humanitarian projects, reducing
the risk of wasted work and failed projects. The
idea was that professionals and students in
In the coming year, humanitarian technology greater numbers than ever before are entering
and its relevant solutions will bring the field of humanitarian engineering for global
revolutionary change utilizing areas such as development and many were unprepared.
robotics, automation, artificial intelligence in
global development. With a promising
potential for these technologies and
prospective talent of IEEE volunteers, a match
can be created between talents to solutions.
While the challenge lies in making them
reliable, scalable and sustainable in long-run,
however as a starting point to consider, it
requires a sheer amount of brainstorming and
ideation on volunteers’ end to identify, inspire
and ideate solutions that can solve some of the
global solutions and primarily that of our region
Speaker conducting the workshop
(Asia & Pacific).
Organizations such as “Engineers Without
There were two main objectives for this
Borders USA”, which reported an increase of
workshop:
500 percent in membership from 2005 to 2011,
1. Encourage IEEE members, especially the have seen an influx of novice practitioners. At
young engineers, to work in the humanitarian the same time, experienced practitioners have
technology (HT) areas, and seen the repetition of common mistakes. Even
with a strong technical background, engineers,
2. To create an impact through HT activities in
designers and students first setting foot in the
their societies particularly for underserved
field can fail to understand basic principles of
communities.
inclusive design (working with, rather than for,
To carry this motive of IEEE R10, HTA a community), articulating a problem
Committee conducted a workshop for young statement, the counter-intuitive economic
professionals and student volunteers of IEEE priorities in impoverished communities,
during the IEEE R10 SYWL Congress held on working in a foreign culture and other
September 1, 2018, more than 25 participants challenges. The root of the problem is often a
were registered for this workshop. The theme set of questions that engineers and designers
of the workshop was based on sustainable do not think to ask.
engineering global development. This
workshop was conducted jointly with IEEE HAC.
The goal of this workshop was to develop the
skills needed for conducting successful
humanitarian engineering projects in the

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 giving some assumptions about the earlier
knowledge of the challenge by answering some
questions, later they had filled the IEEE SIGHT
logical model containing project mission, input,
activities, output, outcomes, and environmental
implications. One more analysis done during the
workshop by the participants is PESTLE (Political,
Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and
Environmental) this is called an external
Speaker is receiving a token of appreciation from R10
environmental analysis. Finishing a budget and
Director Prof. Kukjin Chun project plan was also very interesting and the
supporting activities during the workshop.
The workshop session divided into two sessions,
first covered the awareness among the participants After the completion of the workshop, R10 Director
regarding the significance of switching from R10 Prof. Kukjin Chun thanks the speaker and the
HTA’s flagship humanitarian project AIYEHUM to participants who have attended the workshop.
TENHUMCH, the TENHUMCH was not only
changing in the title but this has changed in their
requirements, earlier students, young
professionals were given the funds up to maximum
USD 500.00 for designing and developing
technological solutions for the benefit of resource
constrained and vulnerable communities. Later it
was realized that investing this amount only for
developing engineering prototype may not be
more valuable than any final year student project.
In 2018 IEEE R10 HTA committee introduced the
concept of one proposal one prototype with some
handsome amount of funding which may
encourage young scientists and engineers to solve
real-world challenges applying science and
technology. The contest aims at orienting young
minds towards identifying community problems
and developing technology solutions, focusing on
actual implementation reaching the beneficiaries
and the most important TENHUMCH proposals
must involve the local community.

The second session covers the hands-on activity for

the attendees, participants were given two
challenges with the objective to develop the skills
for conducting the successful humanitarian
projects among the participants. The activity
includes the SIGHT logical model, PESTLE Analysis
and the development of the budget and plan for
the proposed project.

After the completion of the workshop, R10 Director

Prof. Kukjin Chun thanks the speaker and the
participants who have attended the workshop.

It was very interesting for the participants for

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 IEEE HAC Education Workshop Region 7 Director Maike Luiken, IEEE President Elect
Prof. Toshio Fukuda, General Chair of R10 SYWL
Professor Shaikh Fattah, PhD Congress Deepak Mathur who is the Region 10
Education Chair, IEEE HAC Director Elect for 2019-2020, Prof. Kazuhiro Kosuge,
former Division X Director and Past President of RAS,
IEEE Humanitarian Activity Committee (HAC) IEEE YP Chair Rafal, Region 10 Coordinators
organized a workshop and invited talk on 1st Kurnianingsih Nia (General Co-Chair of R10 SYWL
September 2018 in IEEE Region 10 SYWL Congress at Congress), Nivas Ravichandran, Prof. Rajesh Ingle,
Sanur Plaza Hotel, Bali, Indonesia. IEEE HAC Prof. Tomonori, Jing Dong, Pasan Pethiyagode,
Education Chair Professor Dr. Shaikh Fattah many distinguished IEEE leaders like Lance Fang
represented IEEE HAC in the congress. He delivered (Conference Quality Management), Prof Fitri Yuli
the Invited Talk and conducted the HAC Education Zulkifli, Indonesia Section Chair. Some of them also
Workshop. In 2018, IEEE HAC has been organizing participated the workshop as guest.
such workshops in various regions of the world to
encourage and enlighten the enthusiastic The HAC Education Workshop was held right after
volunteers for engaging themselves in the the lunch and the room was completely full with
development of humanitarian technologies overwhelming participation. There were 10 active
targeting some specific sustainable development teams in the participatory workshop and more than
goals (SDGs). The workshop was designed in such a 40 participants attended the workshop. In the first
way that at the end of successfully participating the part of the workshop, Prof Fattah explained
workshop the participants will be able to map the fundamentals of sustainable development,
local community needs with appropriate SDGs and introduction to UN SDGs, importance of dealing with
can take effective initiative to conduct humanitarian community needs and scope of community
projects/event focusing sustainable development. engagement, ten key factors of humanitarian
The participants of the HAC events were very project design targeting sustainable development,
satisfied and motivated towards “collaborative and funding opportunities in IEEE (especially in HAC
innovation for society development”, the theme of and SIGHT) were elaborated. Participants were
this congress. encouraged to map the correct SDG with the local
needs. It is very important for a new contributor to
focus first on the needs of the local community and
then develop sustainable solutions to fulfill the
needs. In the second part, he presented some
examples of successful humanitarian projects and
Parkash Lohana demonstrated Region10 initiatives
to promote humanitarian activities and some
examples of humanitarian projects.

Invited Talk by Prof. Dr. Fattah

In the invited talk Professor Shaikh Fattah explained

the major steps to be taken to identify and
understand the local community needs, analyze the
possible solutions, and finally serve the community
through humanitarian technology projects targeting
sustainable development. Detailed information on
funding opportunities from IEEE HAC and IEEE Interactive HAC Workshop: each team is sharing
special interest group for humanitarian technology project ideas with Dr. Fattah
(SIGHT) to support potential humanitarian projects
and events was also presented. The invited talk was The third part was the most challenging interactive
delivered in the morning common session where project design session where the participants were
along with TENCON participants there were IEEE divided into 10 teams, each team consisting of
President James A. Jefferies and his wife Gloria three to five members. Each team had to prepare a
Jefferies, Region 10 Director Prof. Kukjin Chun, project proposal following the guidelines provided
Region 10 Director Elect Prof. Akinori Nishihara, in the first part. Professor Dr. Celia Shanaz and

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 Sarang Shaikh were invited in the workshop to The goal is to design and develop child care center for
share their experience about IEEE SIGHT and help women working in a private bank with highest level of
the participants during the interactive design security, monitoring and connectivity.
session. Each team independently identified some
• Drinking Water from Sea: Amalia Sholehah, M R
local community needs, discussed them with all
Memon, Hanan Daudpota, Nur Afny, and Rabbia
and proposed some suitable humanitarian Saleem
technology solutions meeting appropriate SDGs. The goal is to design and develop low cost plant to make
Their instant proposals were streamlined and the sea water usable which can serve a large population
critical issues were notified. The most exciting part living in the coastal area.
was the presentation and question-answering part,
where the participants asked several critical • Mosquito Mapping: Azfar Adib, Redwan Ferdous,
questions to other participants. It is found that all Raihan ur Rashid
10 teams were intensively engaged during the The goal is to design an app to map the mosquito
brainstorming session and each participant was densities dynamically in a region to take action
accordingly.
very enthusiastic during answering the critical
questions on their project proposal asked by other • Clean Communities: A Jain, Iyer anand, Cesio
participants. By attending such a workshop Raihandary
participants received introduction to formal To offer clean environment with very low emission and
education on humanitarian technology and pollution
sustainable development. It is expected that such
• One team worked on humanitarian projects was
knowledge will help them in future to contribute in
Shiaikh M. Anas, U. Mandy, Ryuichi Takemura, Amalia
sustainable development. In the workshop a token
Sholehah, M R Memon, Hanan Daudpota, Nur Afny, and
of appreciation was delivered by R10 Director
Rabbia Saleem
Professor Dr. Kukjin Chun. A very brief description
of some projects is provided below:
• Park Lifting: N. Kim, J. Lee, and R. Ramodhana
A sustainable development project proposal of solving
the crisis of parking places in urban areas of South Korea
maximizing the utilization of free spaces in innovative and
efficient manner.

• Clean Coastal Water: A. Indira, A. Trawironegoro, and

M. T. Hanif.
The target of this project is to produce clean water in
coastal areas of Karachi, Pakistan in a very low cost
sustainable manner based on recycling process.

• ADH Disorder Assessment: Dr. Vijayalakshmi K and

Dr. Suma MS
The target of the project is to develop low cost
neurocognitive device to carry out cognitive assessment
of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in
children.

• Sustainable Women Hygiene System: Dr. Annapurna

P P, Sireesha Tamada, and Dr. Vijayalaxmi
The objective of the project is to develop sustainable
women hygiene system with smart features considering
local resource constrains, cultural and social practices.

• Smart Bio Fuel: Savneet Chhatwal, Akash Thakare, C.

Satish, and Pooja Sharma
The target is to design and develop sustainable smart bio
fuel generation plant considering local resources and
community practices.

• Digital Child Care for Working Women: Irtiza Haque,

Shoilie Chakma and Baishakhi Rani Biswas
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 IEEE Industry Applications Society
Subodha Charles & Hussain Mahdi Multicultural Video Contest
• Competition was announced on 25th June,
Two sessions were dedicated for IAS, one from the 2018 and accepted submissions till 20th
main plenary session and another from the parallel August.
track – “IEEE Activities” • Maximum possible duration: 3 mins.
• 12 submissions were received.
1. 1st September from 9.30 - 10.00AM on the
• All videos were shown at the multicultural
topic "IEEE Industry Applications Society -
Contributions for Region 10" at the plenary night and the top video, which was created
session conducted by Subodha Charles by Gujarat section was awarded at the
closing ceremony.

2. 1st September from 15.00 - 15.30PM on the

topic "Introduction to IEEE Industry
Applications Society Programs" at the IEEE
Activities track conducted by Dr. Hussain Mahdi

Dedicated promotional booth just outside the

conference venue. This was used for;

• On-site member recruitment (free IAS

membership for congress delegates)
• Awareness
• Promotions/Branding

CMD offices were present at the booth to answer

any questions.

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 IEEE PES Young Professionals journals of PES, grants and sponsorship
opportunities offered by PES, the standards
Hassaan Idrees developed by the Society that guide the
IEEE PES Region 10 Young Professionals development and construction of equipment and
Representative systems, and the waves being made for educating
members of the industry and the general public. It
The recently concluded Asia Pacific Region 10
Congress for students, young professionals, women was mentioned how the members of PES are leaders
in engineering and life members (SYWL) at the in their fields, and how they derive substantial
benefits from involvement with this unique and
resort island of Bali in Indonesia saw heavy
participation from IEEE Power & Energy Society outstanding association.
(PES). As a silver sponsor for the Congress, PES The Congress also offered PES with a constant
effectively contributed to its content, the theme for physical presence, as a booth was provided to PES
which was “collaborative innovation for sustainable to spread their message to attendees and guests
development”. As the oldest society of IEEE throughout the three-day event, where a number of
providing the world’s largest forum for sharing the interested people asked about PES, funding and
latest in technological developments in the electric membership activities. This Region-wide Congress
power industry, the focus of PES in the R10 SYWL provided PES with the perfect opportunity to make
2018 Congress was on the scientific and engineering an impact to the leaders of tomorrow, both in Asia
knowledge about electric power and energy. and in the wider world.
As the PES Young Professionals representative in
Asia Pacific, Hassaan Idrees spoke during the
plenary sessions on the Grand Challenges of
Engineering in the 21st century, and how IEEE is
playing a part in tackling these challenges. This
session took inspiration from the challenges,
identified by the National Academy of Engineering
(NAE) and an international group of leading
technological thinkers, being faced by humanity in
the 21st century, where engineering has a role to
play. The session started off with the advancements
engineers made in the 20th century, revealed how
important solving these game-changing challenges Hassaan Idrees speaking on the Grand Challenges of
was, and pointed out how IEEE is contributing in Engineering and the role of IEEE & PES.
making sure these issues are effectively tackled. In
its quest to improve the planet, IEEE & PES are doing
their bit to securing the cyberspace, to making solar
energy economical, to reverse engineering the brain
and much more, all the while improving life on the
planet.

During the session on expanding PES Membership

and Recruitment, the focus was on students, young
professionals and women in the field of power and
energy, presented by John Benedict Boggala,
Hassaan Idrees and Celia Shahnaz, respectively. This
was a highly well received session, as the three
speakers spoke about the work being done by the
Society for students, young engineers and women
foe providing more opportunities for research in
energy and power systems, the conferences and

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 IEEE COMSOC Young Professionals How IEEE Add Value to the Milennials
Shasank Gaur & John Benedict in Industry 4.0 + IEEE Newsletter
Ewell Tan
The IEEE Region 10 Congress saw a participation of Project Manager, IEEE Asia-Pacific Limited
about 450 delegates from various sections in the
region and ComSoc had an significant impact in the By 2030, more than 75% of our workforce will be
minds of students and Young Professionals there. dominant by the Millennials who born after 1980s.
The society was the silver sponsor of the congress IEEE, being the trusted ‘voice’ for engineering,
and had a dedicated stall at the congress where we computing and technology information around the
had a lot of footfall in terms of curios participants globe, is ready to bring values to the young
looking for more information about the society. populations in this ever-changing environment.
ComSoc was represented by Shashank Gaur and Ms. Ewell Tan, the Project Manager from IEEE Asia-
volunteers John Benedict Boggala and Hamza Pacific Limited was delighted to share with the
Ihtisham who shared their experiences with ComSoc participants of R10 SYWL congress on how IEEE can
as a student member and YP over the course. The add value to the Millennials in Industry 4.0.
team also took questions from the students who
were present at the congress and helped them with We are aware of many challenges in today’s world,
resource materials for most efficient utilization of which is driven by digital transformation and
their ComSoc membership. innovation. Revolutions can be disruptive, to get
ourselves ready, we need to equip with knowledge
and tools to stay relevant. By getting yourself
involve in the IEEE family and enriching your IEEE
experience, you get to explore the vast
opportunities and stay connected with the global
networking platform provided by IEEE. This sharing
session with the participants were exciting and
rewarding.

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 IEEE R10 Strategic Planning:
Entrepreneurship Catalyst Workshop
Rajnish Gupta
IEEE R10 Strategic Planning (2017-18)

In line with the mission of R10 Strategic

Planning Committee to create an
entrepreneurial ecosystem in R10, the third
Entrepreneurship Catalysts Workshop was Entrepreneurship Catalysts Workshop Participants at
the Venue
organized on 29th August, 2018 in conjunction
with SYWL Congress.
The objective of the workshop was to bring
together representatives (who are active in
conducting entrepreneurial activities in their
respective sections -Catalysts) from few R10
Sections to discuss about the challenges in
creating entrepreneurship culture and how IEEE
can overcome them.
This workshop was attended by 13 members
from the following 11 sections.

Bangladesh Japan Council Singapore Participants Discussing Entrepreneurial Issues

Hyderabad Lahore Tokyo

Islamabad Madras Victoria

Indonesia Malaysia

Some of the salient features discussed and

agreed at this workshop are listed in the
following.
• Institute an Award for Entrepreneurship in R10
• Create the R10 Website on Entrepreneurship
which will include elements such as Jumpstart
Framework, DMP, Startup Story, etc.
• Explore Govt. Schemes and collaborate with
other Startup Communities
• Organize Workshops on DT/Business Modelling
• Organize R10 Start-up Boot Camps

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 IEEE Educational Activities:
Teacher in Service Program (TISP)
Zuhaina Zakaria
IEEE R10 Educational Activities Coordinator
(2017-18)

In conjunction of IEEE R10 SYWL Congress, a Teacher

in Service Program (TISP) Workshop was organised
on 30th August 2018. The event was a collaborative
event between IEEE Educational Activities Board
with IEEE Region 10 Educational Activities and IEEE
Indonesia Section. The workshop aims to provide
training to local primary and secondary school
teachers of the use of engineering, design &
technology hands-on activities in the classroom. At
the same time, the training also provides IEEE
volunteers on how to begin TISP in their local section
and collaborate with their local pre-university
community

The workshop is hosted by Muhfizaturrahmah,

Educational Activity Chair, Indonesia Section while
the training sessions were facilitated by Supavadee
Aramvith, Chair for IEEE EAB Pre-Education
Coordination Committee and Zuhaina Zakaria, IEEE
R10 Educational Activities Coordinator.

The workshop was attended by 35 IEEE Volunteers

and 5 teachers from local schools. Two simple lesson
plans i.e. ‘Working with wind energy’ and ‘Making
your arm robot’ were introduced to the participants.
They later formed a group in a hands-on session to
design and build-up a wind turbine and robot arm in
using simple materials such as plastic cups, craft
sticks, paperclips, wood dowels and cardboard.

In addition, this TISP workshop also provided a

discussion platform among participants and
instructors on how to implement this programme in
their local area. In the meantime, it can boost the
interest plus encourages pre-university students to
pursue STEM-related careers. Based on feedback,
participants were satisfied with the workshop and
they are keen to continue this activities with their
local sections and schools respectively.

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 IEEE R10 Mini EXCOM Meeting Awarding Night and Cultural Night
In conjunction with the R10 SYWL congress, a mini Awarding Night was held on 31 October 2018
R10 EXCOM meeting lead by R10 Director, Prof. announced by R10 Award & Recognition Committee
Kukjin Chun, was held on 1 September 2018. Chair 2018, Prof. Elmer Dadios, and R10 SYW
Coordinator.
A total of 17 R10 EXCOM members and 2 IEEE Staff
had participated in this meeting to discuss about the
strategies of Section performance evaluation and
had a status update of various R10 projects.

It was a productive meeting and we ended the

meeting with a nice photo shot in front of the photo
booth at R10 SYWL congress.”

Group Photo of Awarding Night

IEEE Region 10 SYWL Congress also hosted a Multi-

Cultural Exhibition on the evening of 1st September.
All IEEE Section which was represented at the
Congress was invited to put up a stall and show their
activities and culture. IEEE Region 10 Director, IEEE
President, and all the congress participants went
around the tables. The tables/stalls were judged and
the top 2 tables/stalls were awarded. This
exhibition was followed by a Multi-Cultural
Performance. Those event has gathered a lot of
attention and we had witnessed a variety of
performances from everyone. Dress code for the
multicultural night was a traditional dress of each
country.

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