IEEE Young Professionals

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Pakistan Workshop on Power Electronics with Renewable Integration

February 13, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

The IEEE IIUI Student Branch and Faculty of Engineering & Technology in collaboration with IEEE PES and the IEEE Young Professionals Region 10 organised a national workshop to address a shortage of research in the domain of Power Electronics in Pakistan. Power Electronics and its applications have seen tremendous growth in the last decade all over […]

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IEEE Young Professionals Leadership Conference 2014

February 11, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

On December 16, 2014, IEEE Phoenix Young Professionals in collaboration with IEEE Phoenix Women in Engineering, IEEE Arizona State University Student Branch, and IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Epsilon Beta Chapter organized their first leadership conference as part of IEEE Young Professionals (formerly GOLD) Strategic Alliance initiative proposed by Shafiul “Jacky” Islam at IEEE Southwest Area Meeting on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Announcements

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 […]