(From The Institute print edition)
IEEE Around The World
REGION 1: Northeastern United States
- Clarkstown Central School District in Rockland County, N.Y., receives US $7000 from the IEEE Foundation to fund Project SMART (Science, Math and Rotocraft Technology), in which students ages 11 to 14 assemble a helicopter.
- 2006: Student branches add 161 students, bringing total to 4187.
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REGION 3: Southeast United States and Jamaica
- 2006: Student branches add 204 students, bringing total to 4767.
- 2006: Northwest Florida Section forms Women in Engineering Affinity Group.
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REGION 6: Western United States
- Palouse Section, in Washington, formed.
- Student branch at University of California, Berkeley, receives US $1500 IEEE Student Branch Enterprise Award to fund robotics competition.
- 2006: Utah State University, Logan, forms WIE Student Branch Affinity Group.
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REGION 7: Canada
- 2006: Higher-grade membership (excluding students and life members) increases by 407, bringing total to 12 433.
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REGION 8: Europe, Middle East, and Africa
- Region receives US $9000 IEEE Foundation grant for a historical preservation program, including oral-history interviews with technologists and a history workshop on developments in electrical and computer engineering.
Middle East Technical University Student Branch in Ankara, Turkey, receives US $10 000 IEEE Foundation grant for a contest in which students develop Web sites for their universities.
- 2006: Higher-grade membership increases by 5.6 percent; the 2359 new members bring the total to 44 417.
- 2006: Student branches add 1544 members, bringing total to 16 439.
- 2006: Bosnia and Kuwait sections form WIE Affinity groups.
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Region 9: Latin America
- 2006: Higher-grade membership increases by 6.9 percent, to 7345.
- 2006: Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia, and Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peru, form WIE Student Branch Affinity groups.
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Region 10: Asia and the Pacific
- Three new sections formed: Vietnam and Nanjing and Wuhan sections in China.
- Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Student Branch receives US $1500 IEEE Student Branch Enterprise Award for a design project on “Sustainable Technology Solutions for Providing Information and Communication Technology-Based Services to Rural People.”
- Calcutta Section forms WIE Affinity Group.
- 2006: Student membership jumps by 5236 to 26 106.
- 2006: WIE Student Branch Affinity Group formed at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Others formed at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Easwari Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India; Thangal Kunju Musaliar Institute of Technology, Karuvelil, India; and University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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