Interact with Today’s World 2008 Conference (ITW’08)

Alexandria Student Branch

• Alex. Univ branch is one of the few first branches founded in Egypt.• It was founded in the year 2000. starting with hardly enough members

(20) and 4 active members. • In the past 8 years, the branch has undergone major developments and

breakthroughs.• we have the largest number of student members nationwide (close to a

1000 members this year) .• Our range of activities includes : technical seminars, SPACs, soft skills

workshops, study groups, field trips, contests….. and more.

“Interact With Today’s World”ITW’08

• ITW ’08 is a 3-day conference, held in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center.

• The event featured state-of-the-art sessions, given by professional engineers and IT experts.

• More than 500 attendees were present (85% of which were undergraduate EE students.

• The event highlighted some of today’s and tomorrow’s most significant topics in areas of Telecommunications, Microelectronics, Industrial Automation and more.

• It also shed some light on the development of interpersonal skills which is key to the success of any individual or organization today.

ITW Goals:

• Reach out to a large number of audience.• Raise the level of technical awareness related to

today’s most significant areas of technology• Prepare students for the transition between

university and the professional world.• Promote the importance of soft skills investment for

individuals and teams.

Marketing Channels

• Mailing Lists (Alex SB and Egypt Section mailing lists).• Our website.• Posters.• Our facebook page and the IEEE AlexSB group on

facebook.• All online student bulletins that we know of: Yahoo!

Groups, forums and facebook groups.

Session: “Advanced Techniques for Next G Wireless Systems”, Prof. Dr. Said El-Khamy, IEEE Felow and Alex. Subsection Chairman

Session: “Analog & Digital Systems Design Flow”, Mentor Graphics Egypt

Coffee Break

Registration Desk

Registration Desk

Help Desk

“Be a Volunteer”

Session: “User Demands Shaping Telecom Networks Transformation”, Ericsson

Session: “WiMAX”, Alcatel-Lucent Egypt

Session: “Team-Working”, Mr. Mohamed Hamed

Workshop: “Myers-Briggs Personality Test”, Mr. Yasser Omar

Branch Volunteers Outing

ITW’08

Challenges

Thank You!