IEEE-ISLAMABAD SECTION Prepared for: IEEE R10 Meeting : March, 2007 Nexus Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Historical Background 1998 – Formed as Sub-section of Lahore 2000 – Established as Independent Section 2005 – Grew to establish its Sub-section in Peshawar

Activities to be Covered Membership Drive Student Activities Professional Societies Activities Conferences / Workshops /Seminars

Executive Committee Members/ Chairs for Activities / Chapters. Slot/ActivityNameMembership No. ChairmanEngr. Mansoor Malik Vice ChairmanEngr. Saleem Tariq Secretary/ TreasurerEngr. Umar Farooq Chair Professional/ Education Activities Dr. Mansoor Ahmed Chair Student ActivitiesDr. Arshad Ali Cont …

Slot/ActivityNameMembership No. Chair Membership DevProf Dr Muhammad Ahmad Chair Electronic CommMr. Amir Jelani Chair AESS/ GRSS Joint Chapter Dr. Umar Khattak Chair Power Engg & Power Electronics Chapter Dr. Azzam ul Asar Chair Consultancy NetworkDr. Muhammad Ahmed Chair Women in EnggDr. Romana Aziz Executive Committee Members/ Chairs for Activities / Chapters ( Cont’d )

Membership Development Statistics Dec, 2003Dec, 2004Dec,2005Dec, 2006 H---- F---1 SM M AM Total S Total

Membership Development / Retention Statistics

Membership Development Efforts Approached heads of public and private institutes to support joining of IEEE by Electronics, Electrical and Computer engineers. Approached Vice Chancellors / heads of public / private universities/colleges/ institutes to encourage participation of faculty members / students in IEEE related activities. To encourage new members joining IEEE, approached relevant Govt depts. like HEC, Planning Commission and CBR to incorporate measures to reimburse IEEE membership fees to engineers and students. (Cont…)

Special attention have been given to update the section website to better promote IEEE activities. Outreach and awareness campaigns have been launched especially in educational institutions to attract faculty members / students for joining IEEE. Held social gathering of IEEE members to facilitate them to do networking and exchange their views / experiences. It was also affectively used to contact lapsed members. Published advertisements in the national newspapers highlighting cause of IEEE & its societies to promote general awareness and to attract new members. Guests are invited especially during Executive Committee meetings to have new volunteers. Membership Development Efforts

Establishing Student Branches Student Branches in 2005 & Earlier NUST Institute of Information Technology, Rawalpindi Electrical & Mechanical Engineering College, Rawalpindi Institute of Space Technology, Rawalpindi Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engg Sciences and Technology, Topi University of Engg & Technology, Taxila Student Branches Established in 2006 Al-Riphah University University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar Planned to Establish Student Branches in 2007 Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad. NU-FAST (NUCES, Peshawar Campus). IMS, Peshawar.

Efforts to Promote Student Activities Representatives of student branches visited different educational institutions to promote membership. Delegate of student branches visit each other to exchange views/ experiences to improve working. Students were actively involved in making arrangements for mega events i.e. Conference and Symposiums etc. Students actively involved in arrangements for conferences / symposiums / seminars etc were awarded Competition arranged for the Best Student Branch on the basis of their performance. Membership campaigns are regularly organized by student branches through lectures / speeches by Senior Members.

Chair student activity arranged annual coordination meeting of all student branches to know their problems and provided guidance to improve their working. For professional development, different competitions were organized. Efforts to Promote Student Activities

Student Activities Generated Workshops PCB Design Matlab Lectures Applications of Radar in Disaster Management Plagiarism Detection and its Consequences The Future of Web Interface- Beyond the GUI Professional Development Activities Internship program for students in summer holidays Visit to PTCL Gateway Earth Station. (Cont…)

Competitions arranged. –Software Competition. –Multimedia Competition. –Quiz Competition. –Final year Project Competition. Technology Poster Exhibition. Student Activities Generated

Establishment of Chapters for Professional Societies / Affinity Groups Special emphasis given in 2006/ 2007 to form Affinity Groups and Chapters for Professional Societies As initial step, where possible, Joint Chapters of two societies formed. Chapters established in 2006 –AESS /GRSS Joint Chapter –Power Engineering / Power Electronics Joint Chapter. (Cont…)

Affinity Group in Process for Approval –Consultancy Network Chapters / Affinity Group Planned for 2007/2008 –Affinity Group for Women in Engineering –Independent Chapters for AESS and GRSS Establishment of Chapters for Professional Societies / Affinity Groups

Statistics For Conferences Arranged In 2006 Conference Title / Dates Papers Rcvd Papers Accepted Acceptance %age GatheringConfiguration ICAST – Sept, Keynote Sessions 4 Technical sessions 1 Panel discussion ICET – Nov, Technical Sessions 02 Tutorials 02 Poster Sessions INMIC – Dec, Technical sessions  Low Acceptance Percentage speaks of efforts to maintain good standard in paper presentations.  High turnout speaks of good campaign for the mega events.

Seminars/ Symposiums/ Administrative Activities Seminars Statistics in Geospatial Sciences Frame work for Dynamic Routing in the Context of Urban Disorder Management. Technology Incubation Centre. Symposiums Establishment and Operation of Satellite Ground Station. Data Capturing Techniques. Nanotechnology. (Cont…)

Tutorials Satellite Communication. Hybrid Vehicle Technology. Wimax Technology. Administrative Meetings 06 Executive Committee meetings of Islamabad Section. 04 Administrative meetings of Peshawar Sub-section. 02 Administrative meetings of AESS/GRSS Joint Chapter. Seminars/ Symposiums/ Administrative Activities

PROGRES IN MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR RETENTION DEMANDS CONTINOUS EFFORTS AND FOLLOW UP AT ALL LEVELS OF INTERACTION WITH THE EXISTING AND POTENTIAL MEMBERS. REGULAR MEETINGS OF EX-COMM KEEPS ISSUES ALIVE AND MEMBERS WORK FOR ACHIEVING THE ASSIGNED GOAL MOST MEMBERS BELONG TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, INFLUENCING GREATER ENROLEMENT OF STUDENT MEMBERS EMPHASIS ON ESTABLISHING CHAPTERS PERTAINING TO PROFESSIONAL SOCITIES CONCLUSION

COMMUNICATION WITH THE MEMBERS THROUGH NEWSLETTER AND WEB –WEBSITE FOR ISLAMABAD SECTION LAUNCHED – CONCLUSION

OUR WEAK AREA –NEED TO WORK FOR MORE PARTICIPATION FROM INDUSTRY –MEMBERSHIP COST CONCLUSION

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