IEEE Young Professionals

GOLDRush

Introducing Eddie Custovic, GOLDRush Assistant Editor-in-Chief

February 2, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

The GOLDRush team is pleased to welcome Dr. Eddie Custovic, PhD as our new Assistant Editor-in-Chief! Eddie will be helping us expand our collaboration with the global community of IEEE members and looks forward to serving Young Professionals through his role with GOLDRush. Eddie was born in Bosnia & Herzegovina and lived for extended periods in Switzerland […]

Announcements

EDS Seeks Nominations for 2015 Graduate Student Fellowships

January 31, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

The IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) is seeking nominations for its 2015 PhD and Masters Student Fellowships. These awards are presented annually to promote, recognize, and support graduate- and masters-level study and research within the EDS field of interest. For both Masters and PhD, it is expected that at least one fellowship will be awarded […]

Readers' Forum

Seven Reasons Professionals Should Blog

December 4, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

Do you like to express your opinions and discuss them with others? Do you have thoughts and ideas that deserve to be shared with the world? If so, it’s time to ask yourself “why haven’t I started blogging yet?” For you, blogging is the best thing to happen since the Internet began. Blogging existed before […]

Continuing Education

Making an Impression for Success with Toronto YP’s

November 10, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

School teaches you the essentials of your profession. But what about those unspoken details one needs to pay attention to when entering into the professional world? What are small things one should know when transitioning to the corporate world? The IEEE Young Professionals Toronto team organized the Professional Development Series to answer just that. The […]

News

R8 YP at the Students and Young Professionals Congress in Krakow

November 6, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

In August, IEEE Region 8 Students and Young Professionals Congress took place in Krakow, Poland, bringing together over 300 volunteers from student branches and Young Professionals Affinity Groups for four days of presentations, workshops and fun activities. As part of this event, the Region 8 Young Professionals subcommittee organized two different workshops. The first workshop […]

News

Spring STEP in Hyderabad

September 4, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

IEEE Young Professionals Hyderabad, in association with the IEEE Student Branch at Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology (VBIT), conducted their first STEP of the year in March. The STEP (Student Transition and Elevation Partnership) program assists student members as they graduate and transition to higher levels of IEEE membership. This session of STEP featured career […]

EDS

IEEE Electron Devices Society Announces 2014 Graduate Student Fellowship Winners

July 28, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

The IEEE Electron Devices Society is pleased to announce its 2014 Student Fellowship winners! The winners of the PhD fellowship are: Peng Huang – Peking University (Beijing, China) Amit Trivedi – Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia, USA) Sam Vaziri – KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Kista, Sweden) The winners of the Masters fellowship are: Yexin […]

News

Multi-Day STEP Event in Rio De Janeiro

July 28, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

The IEEE Rio de Janeiro Young Professionals organized a 2-day STEP program in December of 2013. The event was held in the amphitheater of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Open to all undergraduate senior students including non-IEEE members, the main objective of the event was to inform […]

Announcements

2015 IEEE Young Professionals Chairperson Announced

July 6, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

Mario Milicevic was recently selected as the incoming Chairperson for the 2015 IEEE MGA Young Professionals Global Strategy & Operations Committee. Mario currently serves as the Vice Chair of Member Products & Services on the MGA Young Professionals Committee, where he leads a international team of volunteers to deliver high-impact products & services to IEEE Young […]

Announcements

Need Help With An Event? Region 8 Has the Answer

July 2, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

In order to increase collaboration within the region and help Affinity Groups organize new and exciting events, the Region 8 Young Professionals subcommittee is launching a new program called the Event Exchange Program across the region (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). The concept of the program is simple: Affinity Groups send the Region 8 […]