IEEE Bangladesh Section Awards Night 2020
Md. Zunaid Baten, Awards Coordinator for IEEE Bangladesh Section
On 31st December, 2020 IEEE Bangladesh Section hosted a virtual Awards Night. Prof. Dr. Celia Shahnaz, IEEE Bangladesh Section Chair presided over the program. Prof. Dr. Zunaid Baten, Awards Coordinator, IEEE Bangladesh Section moderated the Awards Session. More than 200 members joined the program.
IEEE Bangladesh Section (BDS) is glad to announce again the winners of IEEE BDS Awards 2020 under the following categories:
- Outstanding Student Branch: IEEE IUB Student Branch
- Outstanding WIE Student Branch AG: IEEE BUP Student Branch WIE AG
- Outstanding Student Volunteer: Hossain Md Sabir
- Outstanding WIE Student Volunteer: Suhee Sanjana Mehjabin
- Outstanding Student Branch Counselor: Md. Kafiul Islam
Honorable Mentions:
- Outstanding WIE Student Branch AG: IEEE BUET Student Branch WIE AG
- Outstanding WIE Student Volunteer: Syed Sadia Hossain
It is to be noted that this is the first time that IEEE BDS confer WIE Outstanding Student Branch Affinity Group and WIE Outstanding Student Volunteer awards. IEEE BDS congratulates all the award winners for their outstanding contributions to IEEE Bangladesh Section 2020.
IEEE R10 MINIPOCO: IEEE Bangladesh Section Conference Education Program – Virtual Workshops
Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section
S M Saiduzzaman, Newsletter Editor for IEEE Bangladesh Section
Under an approved fund for R10 Mini POCO, IEEE Bangladesh Section organized 2 workshops by IEEE MCE for training on conference organization. The workshops were held on 2nd and 9th December, 2020. The workshops were funded by IEEE Region 10. The resource person for both events was Fred Schindler, FIEEE from IEEE Conference Committee.
The first workshop on 2nd December, 2020 was conducted for the Section Leadership for their further perusal so that they can evaluate the conference applications for technical sponsorship or co-sponsorship. The pros and cons of a conference emphasizing the evaluation and maintenance of technical quality throughout the conference and its addition to the Xplore repository were elaborately discussed by Fred Schindler. All the 15 ExCom Members of IEEE Bangladesh Section including Past Chair Prof. Shaikh Fattah attended the workshop. John Tracy moderated the session with a short introduction speech from Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section.
The second workshop was held on 9th December, 2020 for the conference organizers and Section members. This workshop emphasized on ensuring and maintaining the technical quality in various steps of a conference. Furthermore, some confusions and questions were cleared during the interactive QA Session by the resource person Fred Schindler. Dr. SN Singh, Vice Chair, IEEE R10 Technical Activities; Dr. Michael Ong, Conference and Technical Seminar Coordinator, IEEE Region 10 and Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair, IEEE Bangladesh Section were other panelists of the session with John Tracy as the moderator. Around 50 people attended the workshop including various conference organizers of Bangladesh.
Dr. Celia concluded the session by giving a vote of thanks to all the attendees and the panelists. She encouraged the workshop attendees to implement the key points from the workshop in their conferences and welcomed everybody to contact her in case of any confusion.
Bengalis Research Forum 2021
Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section
S M Saiduzzaman, Newsletter Editor for IEEE Bangladesh Section
21st February is observed worldwide as the International Mother Language Day commemorating the martyrs of the mother language movement on 21st February, 1952 in the then East Pakistan, present Bangladesh. To pay respect to the sacrifices of the language martyrs and as an initiative of the Reaching Locals Project, IEEE Bangladesh Section organized the 1st Bengalis Research Forum on 21st February, 2021. The theme was to gather the Bengali (Bangla) speaking research scholars and enthusiasts focusing on the mass enactment of local language Bangla based educational and research activities in the field of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering. More than 100 Bengali-speaking distinguished scholars and enthusiasts from the USA, Japan, India, Australia, UK, Germany, and Bangladesh attended the event. They candidly discussed the challenges and proposed solutions and opportunities to encourage the Bengali instruction medium based research activities among Bengali-speaking individuals worldwide. The forum unanimously emphasized that there is no alternative to Bangla medium based scientific and technological practice through different endeavors i.e. research article and book publication, technical communication, translating key technical books into local languages, and so on in order to increase and uphold the thousand years’ glory of Bengali Language. The attendees also thanked the organizers for the forum initiative and expressed the importance of frequent organization of such activities from a technical institute like IEEE to reach out to the locals. The program was moderated and chaired by Prof. Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section. The full program was conducted in Bangla.
R10 EAC Funded “Bridge the Healthcare Gap: Introducing Telemedicine and IoT to Secondary Schools Students”
Raihan ur Rashid, Secretary for IEEE Bangladesh Section
IEEE Bangladesh Section organized a virtual workshop titled “Bridge the Healthcare Gap: Introducing Telemedicine and IoT to Secondary Schools Students” on 20th December, 2020 aiming to promote engineering education to pre-university students. 100 students of class 11 and 12 from Engineering University Girls School and College, Dhaka, Bangladesh have actively participated in the program.
Prof Dr. Celia Shanaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section was the Chief Guest of the program. In her speech, the honorable chief guest focused on the importance of IEEE and its educational activities as well as the necessity and impact of engineering education in national development. Jannatul Adan, Humanitarian Activities Coordinator for IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group (WIE) Bangladesh Section was the anchor for the program.
Prof. Dr. A. B. M. Aowlad Hossain, Educational Activity Coordinator of IEEE Bangladesh Section was the resource person to conduct the workshop. Firstly, Prof. Hossain gave a presentation on the overview of IEEE and its educational activities as well as the necessity of such program. The available online resources of IEEE for pre-university education like TryEngineering, TryComputing, TryNano have been introduced to the participants even with native Bengali language. Then, he started the main topic on telemedicine and its benefits to improve healthcare.