Celebration of IEEE Day 2014 by IEEE Cyprus Section and all its Groups

Dear IEEE Cyprus Section members,

October 7th is devoted to IEEE Day 2014, which is the 5th time in history when engineers worldwide will celebrate the anniversary of the first IEEE members gathering to share their technical ideas in 1884. The theme for this year’s IEEE Day is “Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow”.

For this purpose, the IEEE Cyprus Section and all of the Groups that are under it organise several events for the celebration of this Day, which according to the time that they are going to be held are listed below:

Date Time Place Organising Unit Title of event
07/10/2014 10:30 – 13:30 Omega Conference room, in the new Wing of the European University of Cyprus IEEE Cyprus Entrepreneurs Network (EN) Training Workshop for Horizon 2020: Information and Communication Technologies
07/10/2014 17:00 – 18:00 Room ΧΩΔ 02 – 011, New Campus, University of Cyprus IEEE Cyprus Section Lecture by Prof. J (Yiannis) Vardaxoglou “Metamaterial Arrays and Applications: FSS, EBG & AMC structures”
07/10/2014 19:00 Social Activities Building, 010 Room, New Campus, University of Cyprus IEEE University of Cyprus Student Branch Get to Know Party (followed by pizza & drinks)
09/10/2014 To be announced Cyprus University of Technology IEEE Cyprus University of Technology Student Branch Presentation of successful Business Stories related to Electrical and Computer Engineering , followed by reception (pizza & drinks)

Apart from participating in the events above, you can celebrate IEEE Day with the following ways:

  • Upload IEEE or IEEE Day visuals to your Facebook and also other social media profile picture, during the IEEE Day.
  • Share your celebration photos and related status with ‪#‎IEEEDAY2014 hashtag during IEEE Day and share your enthusiasm.
  • Wear an IEEE Day t-shirt: members can find the link on the IEEE Day website where they can download the t-shirt template and print the t-shirts locally.

Let us all celebrate IEEE Day 2014 in Cyprus, redefine and revive the importance of being IEEE members and honour with our presence the IEEE volunteers who worked hard in order to organise the celebration events above!

Also note that new IEEE higher-grade members get US$30 off their first year of IEEE Membership if they join between 5 October and 11 October 2014 (not applicable to student membership.)

Looking forward to meeting you during the celebrations,

Anastasia Georgouli
IEEE Day 2014 Cyprus Section Ambassador
Electrical Engineer Consultant JYA Engineering
IEEE Cyprus EN Chair