R 10 Student Activities: Report & Vision 2007-08

Mini S. Thomas, R 10 Student Activities Coordinator 2007-08Prof. & Head, Department of EE,

JMI, New Delhi, India & Kazuyuki and Gopal, RSRs

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Organization of the Talk

Introductory Remarks Vision/Programs 2007-08

Strengthening Existing Branches Regular SAC activities

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Status of Student activities in R10Positive Notes

Largest number of Student branches Enthusiastic Branch counselors Vibrant student branches Many sections with more student

members than full members

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Student members Dec 20062006 2005 Change

R1 4,187 4,026 161 4.0%

R2 3,761 3,763 -2 -0.1%

R3 4,767 4,563 204 4.5%

R4 3,886 4,070 -184 -4.5%

R5 4,036 4,292 -256 -6.0%

R6 6,469 6,668 -199 -3.0%

R7 3,587 3,354 233 6.9%

R8 16,439 14,895 1,544 10.4%

R9 7,253 7,396 -143 -1.9%

R10 26,106 20,843 5,263 25.3%

R10 % 32.43% 28.2% 79.5%

Total 80,491 73,870 6,621 9.0%

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No of Branches Dec 2006Region Student

branches (1526)

Branch Chapters

WIE

R1 83 41 1

R2 75 20 0

R3 94 33 1

R4 60 26 1

R5 84 31 0

R6 75 35 0

R7 57 20 6

R8 257 36 28

R9 257 119 24

R10 484 (32%) 49 18

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Top 14 student branches: 6 from R10R10 MADRAS CRESCENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE 693

R3 ATLANTA GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 610

R8 EGYPT ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY 472

R10 BOMBAYMAHARASHTRA ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING 455

R10 MADRAS VELAMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE 430

R5 CENTRAL TEXAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN 426

R4 CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - URBANA 412

R9WESTERN PUERTO RICO

UNIVERSITY OF-PUERTO RICO - MAYAGUEZ 377

R10 BOMBAY SSGM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 376

R6METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 339

R6SANTA CLARA VALLEY STANFORD UNIVERSITY 336

R8 LEBANON AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT 335

R10 BOMBAYTHADOMAL SHAHANI ENGINEERING COLLEGE 322

R10 BOMBAYINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - PUNE 319

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Status Student activities in R10Alarming facts

Maximum number of dormant student branches

Student membership fluctuations Minimal Reporting by student

branches (30%) 1st May & 1st November

Lack of networking among student members

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R10 Student Branch Statistics Dec 2006

Total Student Branches: 484

Inactive student Branches: 146

(zero membership)

Student Branches in India: 366

(120 Inactive)

Student branches In Pakistan: 25

(16 Inactive)

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Inactive Branches Dec 2006 (Zero)Section Student

BranchesInactive Branches

Student Membership

BANGALORE 34 13 38% 1321BOMBAY 78 24 31% 4203CALCUTTA 10 4 40% 398DELHI 23 7 30% 989HYDERABAD 52 16 30% 1786KERALA 35 4 11% 1250MADRAS 119 50 42% 3799KARACHI 9 8 89% 73LAHORE 9 6 67% 94

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Vision 2007-08

Strengthening of Existing Student Branches

1. Enhance Networking Among Branches

2. Empower the Branch Counselor

3. IEEE Alumni Groups

4. Branch Operations Guide/ News letter

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1. Emphasize on the network •Student Branch Networking (section level)

•Healthy competition among branches

•Section level Biannual student meets,

•Annual Council & Regional level student meets

•E groups at section level

•Update of emails & addresses of branch officers –started already

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2. Empowering the Branch Counselor

Student branch challenges: Ever changing student leadership Not able to successfully transfer the

experience base The Branch Counselor: The Vital Link Activities Start Branch Counselor’s congress at section

level and at Council level. Call for the first congress given in January

Counselor Awards at R10 level (The same format as the RAB award, deadline 30th May 2007)

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Objectives:

To empower and motivate the Branch counselors who are the vital link between the changing student leadership of a branch.

Activity: Branch Counselor’s Congress: at

section level, council level with all /partial expenses paid by R10.

More outstanding Branch Counselor awards: 3 new awards for Region 10,

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Make the counselor aware of the possibilities in front of them

Make a manual of activities that can be planned (Technical, Professional, Social etc) for the branch

The importance of the branch counselor during the infancy of the student branch

Financial management of the branch Liaison with the local section

Branch Counselors congress: Motivating the Branch Counselor

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Fund raising tips Conduct of effective meetings Resolving a crisis, election process of the

branch Calendar of events for the student branch Awards and recognition for the branches,

students & counselors

Motivating the Branch Counselor (contd…)

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Three Applications received

Council level Japan Council: October 2007 India Council: October 2007

Section level Hyderabad section: April 2007

The SAC committee approved all the three proposals

Branch Counselor’s Congress:

Pilot Project

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3. IEEE ALUMNI Groups

Form IEEE student branch ALUMNI Groups Keep in constant touch with IEEE student Branch

Alumni wherever they are! Call an IEEE Alumni meet every year (SB level /Section) Make senior members talk to alumni for

membership retention/benefits Call prominent IEEE Alumni from Academics&

Industry for interaction: mentoring Big boost for GOLD 4 meetings planned in 2007 Announcement to be made in April 2007

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IEEE ALUMNI Meet 2007

The first IEEE SB Alumni Meet At Jamia Millia Islamia on 7th January ’07 Registration: 10 IEEE Alumni and 40

Current IEEE students GD, Pledge, Mentoring etc A Big boost to GOLD affinity Group The Alumni renewing the IEEE

membership

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4. Branch Operations Guide

•A Guide for the student branch officers

• Available on-line and hard copy to branches

•Contents: Organization, Branch administration, Activities, Awards, Library, Rebate Schedule, Calendar, Forms, etc

• Contents: Suggestions are welcome

•Addresses of current branch officers??

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Proposals for R10 SC/GOLD Congress2008

Call for proposals:

Madras Section short listed for holding the congress

Explore the possibility of holding a

Joint R10, R8 student congress in Dubai!

Final decision in May after getting detailed proposals from Madras and Dubai

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R10 Student-GOLD Congress 2006HOST: BEIJING, CHINA 13th -17th

July 2006

Hosted by 4 Beijing SBs Beijing Univ. of Post & Tech. Beijing JiaoTong Univ. Peking University Tsing Hua University

A Big Thank You to Beijing Section

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Budget allocation for Activities 2007IEEE Branch counselor’s Meet pilot project One per year in any one section/ council (new)

US$ 3800

IEEE Alumni Meet Pilot project (three to four per year)

Branch/ Section level (new)

US$ 1000

Branch Operations Guide around 1000 copies (hard) and update on the website (new)

US$ 2500

R 10 Outstanding Branch Counselor award Three awards per year US$ 250 each to the branch counselor and US $ 100 to the student branch ( new)

US$ 1050

Student congress Council/section level

One per year and innovative projects (new)

US$ 800

Website contest

Travel expenses to Graduate student to attend TENCON (paper contest winner)

US$ 1050

US$ 1000

SAC expenses attending SAC meetings, Alumini and Branch Counselor’s meet

US$ 3800

Operational Expenses US$ 3000

RSR expenses US$ 5500

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R10 SAC Committee 2007

Mr. Marc Apter, IEEE Presidential candidate Dr. Aki Nishihara, Past RSAC Dr. Marzuki, Past RSAC Dr. M.M. Shah, past IC SAC Mr. Yasuhara Ohgoe, GOLD Mr. Kazukuki Sodoh, RSR Ms. Helene Fung, GOLD Mr. Gopal Balakrishnan, RSR Dr. Mini S. Thomas, R10SAC

Thank you members!

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Suggestions are welcome

Thank You !!!!!