{"id":817,"date":"2013-01-19T01:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:12:47","slug":"i-am-ieee-region-8-student-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"I am IEEE (Region 8 Student Representative)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how so many of us are asking who or what they are? Answering this question isn&#8217;t really easy, but if there&#8217;s one aspect about myself that I am absolutely sure about, it&#8217;s this: I am an engineer. I like building stuff and I like using mathematics, physics and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever hobby or job you have: There are probably associations for your very field. One of these associations for technology believers like myself is IEEE. You can google it, it&#8217;s basically a platform for technology-related people and companies. Never heard of IEEE before? Well, chances are you are using IEEE technologies like wifi in this very moment!<\/p>\n<p>So I am an IEEE member (as are 400000 others on this planet) and I&#8217;ve tried to push IEEE forward in our local university student community and our &#8220;local&#8221; Austrian IEEE community for the last couple of years. The whole thing got even bigger for me now. Starting 1st of January 2013 I&#8217;ve been appointed as the IEEE Region 8 Student Representative, which means my job now is to represent 17000 students from Africa, Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how the whole thing is going to work out, but trust me, I&#8217;ll give my very best! &#8211; And of course I am not alone, we&#8217;re a great team. Starting with Pablo from Spain who&#8217;s the chair and Elias Nassar from Lebanon as past chair to David Dias (Portugal), Famia (Greece) and Piotr (Poland) &#8211; they are all great and motivated team members! &#8211; I&#8217;ll keep you posted about the great ideas they have, for now I&#8217;ll leave you with a video about why others have joined IEEE<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tq3DGIaAq5E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how so many of us are asking who or what they are? Answering this question isn&#8217;t really easy, but if there&#8217;s one aspect about myself that I am absolutely sure about, it&#8217;s this: I am an engineer. I like building stuff and I like using mathematics, physics and technology. Whatever hobby or job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life_and_stuff","tag-ieee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15PpI-db","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chschmid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}