[NEWSLETTER] March 2017 Issue

Region 10 – Director’s Message

Region 10 – Newsletter Editor’s Message

Region 10 Meetings in 2017

Region 10 Executive Committee Meeting, 21 January 2017, Hong Kong Region 10 Annual General Meeting 2017 January 4-5, 2017, Chiba, Japan

Student Activities

• IEEE R10 Student Activities Team: Overview
• Cross Country Visit, IEEE USM SB, Malaysia
• University App Challenge (UAC)
• 2nd Bangladesh Olympiad
• IEEE Dhaka University SB
• Seminar on Electrical Industry Process Safety
• IEEE HITEC University SB
• IEEE SB of University of Peradeniya
• Igniting Hope, ‘Umang!’
• Orientation and Recruitment Drive
• MAT-UINO Workshop
• A synopsis of the events of IEEE – NUCES SB
• Guest Lectures and Industrial Visit
• Workshop on Research and LaTeX
• Snapshots of Activities
• Peradeniya Go Ahead with IEEE MTT-S Student Chapter
• Techloop+ – A New Learning Model by IEEE-VIT SB
• IEEE BDS News : Effective teaching methods for VLSI circuit design courses

Young Professional Activities

• IEEE Region 10 Young Professionals Plan, 2017
• “TrailBlazers” from IEEE Young Professionals Sri Lanka

Women in Engineering Activities

• Series of Workshop by IEEE WIE Affinity Group UET Taxila
• Career Planning towards Success for Female Engineering
• IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit 2017, Sri Lanka

Individual Benefits & Services (IBS) Committee

Humanitarian Activities

• IEEE SIGHT Communities of Practice Incubation Meeting in Bangladesh
• Illuminating Hearts: and Electrification Project

Professional and Chapter Activities IEEE R10 Newsletter – March 2017

• EDS-ETC Events Conducted by IEEE EDS Malaysia
• IEEE EMBS, BDS Awareness Session on Biomedical Research

Membership Development Activities 20

• Call for Section MD Plans for the 2017 R10 Membership Development Grants

Awards

• 2016 Hiroshima Section Contribution Award
• Awards for activities at the Kansai Section

Announcements 22

• 11th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST-2017), Sydney, Australia 22
• IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Melbourne, Australia 22
• Student and Young Professionals Congress ANZCON 2017

Section and Council News

• IEEE Sri Lanka Section SYW Congress 2016
• IEEE Bangladesh Section miniPOCO Forum 2017
• IEEE Bombay Section Symposium (IBSS-2016)
• Recent topics of Shikoku section
• The 1st IEEE-HKN Chapter in Australia
• IEEE Sendai Section- Learning from the experience
• IEEE Kochi Subsection : Excellentia v1.0 and Job fair 2017
• IEEE Malaysia Section Activities in First Quarter of 2017
• IEEE Islamabad Section Congress
• IEEE Japan Sections’ 60th Anniversary Celebration
• Japan SYWL Workshop : “Next Generation of IEEE – Invent the Future -”

Conferences

• iCATccT 2016
• SPIN 2017
• 7th CONFLUENCE-2017

Interesting Reading

• IT in January – March 2017 Highlights in general
• When India’s Craze for Centuries Goes Beyond Cricket
• Engineering Team Develops Nanofiber Solution for Clean, Fresh Air
• Kinetic Energy Harvesting Lighting the Way for Urban Planning