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A non-profit organization, IEEE (pronounced Eye-triple-E) is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others. With over 1400 student branches in educational institutes worldwide, the GUC-IEEE Student Branch is one of the most recently established branches among a total of 15 in Egypt. A student branch gives students the opportunity to meet and learn from fellow students, as well as faculty members and professionals in the field.
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A good IEEE student branch can be one of the most positive elements in an Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology department. Student branch activities offer numerous educational, technical, and professional advantages of IEEE membership through special projects, activities, paper and project contests, meetings, conferences, tours and field trips. An active student branch may acquire free access to selected IEEE printed publications and opportunities for proposal funding by IEEE.
The GUC-IEEE Student Branch aims to extend the academic and practical engineering knowledge and experience among the GUC students and staff of engineering faculties through the aforementioned means.
Saturday, October 27th, 2007 marked the day of the inauguration of the branch through an opening ceremony attended by branch members, students, staff, prominent academic figures from Cairo and Ain Shams Universities' engineering faculties, representatives from fellow student branches and last but not least, university president, Dr. Mahmoud Abd El Kader. Speeches were in order by Dr. Maha Elsabrouty (branch councilor), Dr. Niveen Darwish, (Egypt-IEEE Student Branches Chairperson) and Dr. Mahmoud Abd El Kader. The highlight of the event however was the Poster Competition; to recognize and award engineering BSc students from the faculties of IET and MET with exceptional poster technicality, clarity, results, innovation, presentation and design. Both individual and group effort were considered and additionally, participants in the RF Summer Internship were separately awarded. All competition participants received honorary certificates.
The structure of the GUC-IEEE student branch has dynamically evolved to best fit the current needs of engineering faculties, with recent focus on spreading awareness of IEEE and encouraging all engineering students to apply for membership. Access to the IEEE digital library via a limited number of computer terminals is underway. Competition organization is in good hands.
Garnering as much support as possible, the GUC-IEEE student branch is in for a very active period as of next semester.
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