IEEE Young Professionals

Member Profiles

September 21, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

IEEE PES Young Professionals is an international community of enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative members and volunteers. A spotlight on selected PES YP members is provided here to provide insight into this great community. These members provide unique insight into their education, career goals and progression, and personal lives. Anthony please tell us about yourself I am […]

Uncategorized

Life on Oil and Gas rigs: An IEEE insider view

September 18, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Today we bring you an exciting inside view of what it is like to be an engineer on oil and gas rigs. We interview Loai Khalayli an active IEEE member who provides us with detailed information about his life and how he ended up working in this exciting industry. 1. Loai Please tell us a […]

GOLDRush

Central Europe in focus at CEuSYP

September 14, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Continuing the tradition of Central European cross-section congresses, after Linz in 2011 and Opole in 2013, this time Central European Student and Young Professionals Congress (CEuSYP) was held in Croatia, from May 8 to 10, 2015, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb. This Congress edition was attended by 80 participants – student […]

Continuing Education

Finished study? Where to next?

September 5, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

You have your necessary engineering tertiary qualification; check! You are a member of various engineering related organisations; check! You are actively partaking in numerous co-curricular activities; check! ……. however you are struggling to ‘land’ that first job, relevant work experience and job ready skills. This is the problem facing many current graduates from all over […]

Community

Young Professionals, Microwaves and a Regional Gathering

August 27, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

The third edition of the prestigious IEEE Region 10 Student/ Young Professionals/ Women in Engineering Congress 2015 was held Colombo, Sri Lanka from 9th July to 12th July, 2015. The congress began on a high note with the first ever IEEE Cricket league played between different sections. This fostered a sense of healthy competitive spirit […]

Member Profiles

PES YP Member Spotlight – Rafael Segundo

August 23, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Manuals

How to Organise a Student and Young Professional Congress

August 23, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Today’s article comes to us from Region 8 and focuses on the organisation of student/young professional congresses. This thorough manual was put together by the wonderful volunteers of this region. The Student and Young Professional Congress (SYP Congress) is an event that takes place every two years in Region 8. It gathers both student and […]

Technology

Tech Update: Bacteria eating and breathing electricity

August 18, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

How do we use bacteria that can eat and breathe electricity using renewable resources to produce something we can use? This could potentially be very powerful here in Australia as we have abundance of land, sun and wind but in areas that aren’t populated” says Dr Ashley Franks. Dr. Ashley Franks is a researcher at […]

Continuing Education

5 ways to improve your Linkedin Profile – An IEEE volunteer perspective

August 17, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Today’s article is brought to us by Nivas Ravichandran. Nivas is a recent graduate of B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering and is associated with Frilp as the Growth Specialist. He has proved to be an active IEEE Volunteer from 2010 and has organised more than a 100+ events under IEEE. He also holds responsibilities like Electronics […]