IEEE Macau Section

Prof. Rui Martins, Chairman R10 Annual Meeting in Adelaide, Australia – April 16 th and 17 th 2004 EEE Activities in Macao Birth, Fast Growth, Maturity

To foster for Excellence & Technological Innovation in:  Scientific Research and Engineering Development To enable and boost Local Members’ Careers To strengthen the Ties between University and Industry To promote the Engineering Process of:  Creating, Developing, Integrating, Sharing, & Applying Knowledge about Electro and Information Technologies and Sciences To disseminate information about New IT Developments by:  Publications, Conferences and Standards

University Background  Before 1981 Engineering Graduates from outside Macao, namely, HK, Portugal, China, Taiwan, USA, UK, and other countries 1981 University of East Asia (3-year private English university) (No Engineering Degrees) 1989 Creation of the Faculty of Science and Technology,UEA (4-year Bachelor’s degree in EEE, Software Eng. and later EME) 1991 UEA re-baptized as University of Macau (Public University) 1993First Batch of Graduates in EEE 1994First Batch of Graduates in Software Engineering Beginning of the 1990’s IEEE Members less than 10

New Developments 1992 to 1996 Incinerator, Airport, Air Macau, Internet from CTM, New Power Plants from CEM, Vodatel and others… 1993 & 1994 Starting of Master Programs in EEE and Software Engineering at UM 1996 Starting of Ph.D. Programs in EEE and Software Engineering at UM 6/ rd. International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments – organized by FST/UM and the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing 1998Creation of IEEE Student Branch at UM 2000 Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST) with Programs (P-Grad) in Information Technology 2000 First Ph.D. in FST / UM (and in Macao) in EEE (joint-degree UM-Technical University of Lisbon) 2001 to other Ph.D’s in FST / UM also in EEE Beginning of the 2000’s IEEE Members around 100

Consolidated Numbers 1993 to 2003 Close to 550 Bachelor degree holders in EEE, Software, and EME (FST / UM) 1993 to 2003 More than 70 Master degree holders in EEE, Software, and EME (FST / UM) 1996 to Doctors in EEE (FST / UM) 2000 to Master degree holders in Information Technology (MUST) High-Standards for Graduation Master Usually 1 paper accepted at IEEE International Conference Several Excellent cases with various papers accepted at IEEE International Conferences and IEEE or IEE Journals Ph.D At least 1 or 2 papers at IEEE Int.Conferences and 1 paper in a IEEE or IEE Journal

 Area : Microelectronics Ph.D. work in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Presented and Published in the World Top Conference in the Field [IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference – ISSCC, San Francisco, USA, 2002] **Only 2 Universities in China were able to publish in 50 editions of this Conference Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-HKUST & University of Macau-UM** Technical Contribution for the creation of a Company Chipidea Microelectronics (Macao)  In collaboration with Chipidea Microelectronics -CI (Tagus-Park) Portugal, UM has technically supported the creation of the First Microelectronics Design Center in Macao  The company is managed locally by an Assistant Professor of UM (that has got a joint Ph.D. degree awarded by UM and the Technical University of Lisbon-Portugal), that is now in a regime of no-paid leave  It is already staffed with 20 Electrical and Electronics Engineers graduated in UM that have passed an intensive period of training in CI in Portugal after graduation (Good Ties between University and Company) High Level Research Result

Scientific References and Publications  To promote High-Level Research work the University of Macau acquired in 2000 the IEEE Xplore Database that contains currently more than 1Million Scientific Papers  The Emergence of Master and Ph.D. programs led to the Publication of Numerous Papers in IEEE International Conferences and Scientific Journals  Main Titles : Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Transactions on Power Electronics, Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings of International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEE Electronics Letters.

Lab Facilities for Teaching and also Research (FST / UM) 15 Labs in EEE, Software Engineering and EME 5 for Advanced Research Power Electronics, Wireless Communication, Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, and Mechatronics (MUST) 6 Labs in Information Technology 1 for Advanced Research Computer Graphics and Image Processing

Science & Technology in Macao 2001Publication of a Science & Technology Law 2001Creation of MANETIC (Macao New Technologies Incubator Center) comprising already 16 companies 2002Creation of a S&T Council at Government level to support activities in the area 2004Future Creation of a S&T Fund to support R&D at University and Industry

IEEE Macau Section 1/2003Conditions to Start-Up a Local Section Members distributed by several IEEE Regions and Sections – Region 8, Region 10, HK Section, China Section, Taiwan Section, etc… In 2003 IEEE Members around 150, (considering also Student Members) 9/2003Petition signed by 50 Members to IEEE Headquarters 14/11/03 Approved the Creation of IEEE Macau Section In Region 10 with the Geocode R /2/04 Local Confirmation of Chief Officers for 2004

Legal Constitution of the Section in Macao Campaign for Admission of New Members Potential Members close to 1000 (considering graduates from other Regions) Local Promotion of IEEE Activities Worldwide Support and Boost the Activities of the Student Branch Cooperate in Organization of Workshops & Conferences (in close connection with Local Institutions & HK Section) Example : 2004 IEEJ International Analog VLSI Workshop – UM, October 2004 Organized by University of Macau and IEEJapan with collaboration of Chipidea (Macao) 2004 Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP) – UM, November/December 2004 Organized by City U of HK, IEEE HK Section RACS Joint-Chapter, IEE HK, University of Southern Queensland, University of Macau & Macau Institute of Engineers