IEEE WIECON-ECE 2015
The IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2015 (WIECON-ECE 2015) was organized for the first time to bring together individuals, especially women personnel conducting research and professional activities in the area of ECE to share and present their latest ideas and findings. WIE Affinity Group, IEEE BDS has taken this initiative in collaboration with IEEE Bangladesh Section with a theme “Contribute and Continue Research and Innovation - Achieve Professional Excellence beyond Yourself”. The conference was held in BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh during December 19-20, 2015. With a view to encourage more participation of women in WIECON-ECE 2015, each paper submitted had at least one female author. The conference featured world-class keynote talks, invited talks, oral and poster sessions, special sessions, tutorials, workshops, student competitions, offered by researchers and professionals working in academia, industry and research organizations.
Inauguration event
Cultural event
Keynote Talk-1: Communication Networks: Traffic Data, Network Topologies & Routing Anomalies by Ljiljana Trajkovic, Ph.D., P.Eng., Fellow of IEEE
Affiliation:
President, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (2014-15)
President, IEEE Circuits and System Society (2007)
Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Keynote Talk-2: Inertial Sensor Based Wearable Devices on Healthcare by Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, Ph.D., Fellow of IEEE
Affiliation: Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Keynote Talk-3: Women in Engineering Taking the Lead for a Better World by Margaretha A.K. Eriksson
Affiliation: Director-Elect, IEEE Region 8 (2015-16), I.K. AB and Halmstad University, Sweden
Keynote Talk-4: Today’s Industry Applications of Power Electronics and Update on IEEE’s Industry Applications Society by David B. Durocher
Affiliation: Director-Elect, IEEE Region 8 (2015-16), President, IEEE Industry Applications Society (2015-16), Global Industry Manager, Eaton Corporation in Wilsonville, OR, USA
Keynote Talk-5: A Global View of the Commercial Scale Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid by Saifur Rahman, Ph.D., Fellow of IEEE
Affiliation: President-Elect (2016-17), IEEE PES, Professor, Virginia Tech, USA
Keynote Talk-6: The Evolution of Interior Permanent Machines and their Control Techniques for Traction and Wind Power Applications by Fazlur Rahman, Fellow of IEEE
Affiliation: Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The conference also covered:
4 Invited Talks, 3 Tutorial Sessions, 1 Workshop, 1 Meeting, 97 Oral Presentations and 40 Poster Presentations, 1 industrial panel.
Event – 20 : WIE BD meeting with international WIE Chair
Type: Professional
Participants: 25 IEEE members, 35 non-IEEE members
A meeting was arranged between Global WIE Chair, Dr. Takako Hashimoto and all the WIE members of Bangladesh according to the wish of Dr. Hashimoto during her visit to Bangladesh. This meeting was a part of WIECON-ECE 2015 and was held at the Conference Room (CSE Wing), ECE Building, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). This meeting turned out to be a magnificent event with the presence of Distinguished IEEE fellows - Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic, President, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; Dr. Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, Vice President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) on Membership Activities; Dr. Norliza Mohd Noor 2015 IEEE Region 10 Individual Benefits & Services Coordinator; Dr. Supavadee Aramvith, 2015 IEEE Region 10 Women in Engineering (WIE) Coordinator; Margaretha A.K. Eriksson, IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect and Dr. Iva Bojic, postdoc at MIT, USA, MIT Senseable City Lab in Singapore. All of them were the invited and keynote speakers of WIECON-ECE 2015.
Invited and Keynote speakers of WIECON ECE 2015 attending meeting with WIE BD students.
The meeting was conducted by Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair, WIE BD; Dr. Lamia Iftekhar, Vice Chair, WIE BD with the presence of other WIE affinity group executive committee members including- Farhana Parveen, Smantha Lubaba Noor, Pramiti Anusuya Alam, Mohasinina Binte Kamal and Kazi Khurshidi haque Dia.
WIE Executive Committee members with the invited and keynote speakers.
About 60 female students who are WIE members from almost all the public and private Universities attended the meeting. The student branches of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, BRAC University, North South University, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, United International University, Stamford University Bangladesh, East West Universit and Daffodil International University participated in this meeting.
The speakers in this meeting shared their experiences, goals and motivation toward success with the students. They inspired the female students to come out of their cocoon and do the best of what they can. The students asked many questions to the speakers, talked to them personally, took photos and enjoyed the meeting very much. Finally, the speakers were glad to see the enthusiasm of the female students of Bangladesh and expressed their hope for a better future.
