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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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2014 IEEE YP Affinity Group Hall of Fame Awards Announced

June 28, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

We are pleased to announce this year’s winners of the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group Hall of Fame Award! Entries were evaluated based on their 2013 activities. A very competitive contest this year, the judges commented that it’s never an easy choice to choose from all of our great affinity groups worldwide. This year the two inductees into the […]

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Mixing it up in Toronto

June 21, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

More than 150 early-career professionals from a broad range of industries turned out to raise a glass and make new connections at Toronto IEEE Young Professionals’ latest networking social on May 6, 2014. The event at The Three Brewers microbrewery was co-hosted with IEEE Women in Engineering and scheduled to coincide with the Canadian Conference on Electrical […]

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YP Webinars Now On YouTube, Google Hangouts

June 20, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

We’ve seen lots of webinar activity recently, but here’s an exciting piece of news about all our webinars. The Young Professionals Webinar Series will now be hosted on the Google Hangouts platform, with live broadcasts streamed directly to YouTube and IEEE.tv. Webinars are archived as YouTube videos for future on-demand viewing, and will be available on the new IEEE Young […]

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Webinar on Staying Easy While Being Busy: 19 June 3PM EDT

June 14, 2014 By Eddie Custovic

Join us at the upcoming webinar on “How to remain easy while being busy,” brought to you jointly by IEEE Women in Engineering and IEEE Young Professionals. In this webinar, you’ll learn to stay easy-minded while doing everyday tasks. In this information age we may have time to recharge our phones and laptops, but do we […]