IEEE Morocco Section Newsletter

Volume 1, N1, December 2005

In this issue Section news, Pages 1-2 Student news, Page 4,5

IEEE in Moroccan universities, Page 3 Events & Calendar, Page 6

Morocco Engineer Week 19 25 February 2005

IEEE Morocco Section: history, missions and activities

By Mohamed Essaaidi, Morocco Section Chairman (essaaidi@ieee.org)
As the chairman of the IEEE Morocco Section, I am really very pleased and honored to address, in this first edition of our Newsletter, the IEEE members established in Morocco to give a brief overview on the history, missions and activities of our section.

The Geocode for this Section is A Word from the Editor contributions, we rely on you. So R80093 and its boundaries are please feel free to send your prodefined as: Mediterranean Sea It was a great challenge but also a posals as Plain Text, RTF, or DOC North, Algeria East, Mauritania real pleasure for me to work on files. You can also send photothis first issue of the newsletter of graphs or pictures separately as South and Atlantic Ocean West. the IEEE Morocco Section (IEEE JPG files. Advertisements are also Shortly after the approval of this MS). It is the means by which we welcome. section by RAB, IEEE Region 8 will publish and announce major Membership Development Chair, achievements and main events You can also download the elecEng. Jaafar Al-Ibrahim, organized related to IEEE MS. Therefore, I tronic version of the newsletter at the elections of the Executive would like to keep hearing from all our website http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/ Committee members (ExCom) of of you, members out there, to help morocco/. the IEEE MS. I seize this occasion me produce a concise and useful to convey Mr Jaafar Al-Ibrahim my newsletter that will benefit all of us. Newsletter Editor: Prof El Mohajir Mohammed As far as I know, the efforts to I hope that together we will make Faculty of sciences Dhar Mehraz, create this section started long ago IEEE MS strong and productive. Department of Mathematics and by several Moroccan colleagues in The scope of the future newslet- computer sciences Rabat and Oujda universities. ters will strongly depend on your m_elmohajir@menara.ma Though different problems obstructed the success of the project. I seize this occasion to pay tribute The deadlines for IEEE MS newsletter are as follows: to them since they certainly conApril 2006 issue: 1 March tributed to the success of the overAugust 2006 issue: 1 July all formalization process of this December 2006 issue: 1 November section. In May 2000, The IEEE sponsored the Mediterranean warmest thanks and gratitude for involvement in different programs Microwave Symposium organized his invaluable support since the kech, November22-24, 2005. and activities that IEEE offers, by Abdelmalek Essaadi University beginning of this process in the Morocco Engineering week 2006, such as the lifelong learning proin Tetuan. There were an impor- year 2000. He even organized and February 19-25, 2006. grams, the organization of confertant attendance of IEEE members supervised on September 1st, and of different IEEE entities offi- 2000, in the Faculty of Science in Establishment of IEEE Student ences and workshops on IEEE standards. So far most of our efcers; it was the event that triggered Tetuan, the first meeting for the Branches Network. forts have focused mainly on peothe restart of the IEEE Morocco IEEE MS members as an effort to Section project. Shortly after that, formalize the Morocco Section Foundation of the IEEE Morocco ple from academia, either profesSection Local Offices Network. sors or students, whereas the in September 2000, I was ap- (picture above). IEEE is an institute of engineers. pointed as the official organizer of Furthermore, several active memTherefore, we are establishing an the Morocco Section and was bers were nominated as Coordinaaction plan for involving the electriinvited as a guest to the subsetors in the ExCom. The first meetcal and computer engineers in our quent IEEE Region 8 Committee ing of the ExCom was held on April activities. They will certainly benefit meetings in Cairo, Seville, Edin23, 2005 at the Faculty of Science from the IEEE Technology and burgh and Stockholm. I learned a in Tetuan. There, the section's innovation transfer who in turn will lot from those meetings, and I felt bylaws were adopted and very help to upgrade our industry and the great benefits of IEEE for elecinteresting technical activities were Members of the IEEE MS ExCom dur- make it stronger and more comtrical and computer professionals discussed and approved. These ing their first meeting in Tetuan petitive, contributing to an efficient in academia, government and activities, organized over all the socio-economical development of industry entities, and for the develcountry main cities, consist essen- The legal framework for the our country. opment of my country as a whole. tially of: IEEE Morocco Section vis--vis This fact considerably boosted my At the level of Moroccan engineerenthusiasm and zeal for this pro- Information and Communication the Moroccan legislation is the ing and science schools and uniject, though we didnt possess at Technologies International Sympo- Moroccan Association for Electri- versities, the IEEE can also bring that time the 50 members signa- sium 2005 (ICTIS2005) which took cal, Electronics and Computer significant value via the education tures required for the petition to place in Tetuan in June 3-6, 2005. Engineers (AEECE) which was and accreditation programs it ofapproved and registered by the form the section. During 2004, an fers. Last but not least, the neta g g r e s s i v e c a m p a i g n w a s IEEE Region 8 Operation Com- local competent authorities in working opportunities offered by mittee (OpCom) meeting held in Tetuan in July 2004. Most of the launched for recruiting new memthe IEEE at the worldwide scale members of the executive commitbers, more specifically in Abdel- Tangier in July 15-17, 2005. are crucial for improving our acamalek Essaadi Univesrity, and it International Conference on tee are also members of this Sec- demia, industry and government tion's ExCom. was very successful since we Wireless and Mobile Communicaperformances. For that reason, I managed to have more than 78 tion Networks (WMCN2005), Mar- Our section will not be involved in invite all of you to take part in IEEE members which signed a petition rakech, September 19-21, 2005. technical activities that have inter- MS activities and by so to contribrequesting the creation of the IEEE est only for academia; we would ute to the development of our uni International Conference on ModMorocco Section (IEEE MS). On like also to bring added value to versities, industries, businesses, eling and Simulation: General November 18, 2004, the section the industries, Businesses and government and of our country as was formally approved by the IEEE Applications and Models in Engi- government entities in Morocco. whole. neering Science, ICMS'05, MarraRegional Activities Board (RAB). We intend to achieve this via our

IEEE Sections Congress 2005 Report

By Jonathan Raines, Morocco Section Secretary
(jonraines@ieee.org) During the week of October 14-17, I had the pleasure to attend the IEEE Sections Congress 2005 conference. The IEEE hosts the Sections Congress every two years and invites every IEEE section in the world to come and participate in sharing new ideas to improve the IEEE sections. The 2005 conference was hosted in Tampa Bay Florida, which is a beautiful city located on the Gulf of Mexico where it is warm and sunny most of the year. We were also fortunate that Hurricane Wilma did not hit Tampa until a week after the conference. I was able to participate in meetings to prepare 2 proposals for the IEEE global office to focus on. The first proposal was to Increase membership value by giving one free society membership with increased benefits according to membership grade, volunteer contributions, and years of membership. This proposal was voted as the most important proposal and should get a lot of response from www.ieee-r8sac.org/. the IEEE. The IEEE also made a good presThe second proposal I assisted entation of the IEEE services that with was to allow member to it offers from the different groups renew on the Web without credit working at the IEEE global office in cards. This proposal was ac- the USA. I was able to get CDcepted by the IEEE and should get ROMs with short videos promoting some response. This will help our the IEEE, links to free promotional Morocco section because we have materials online (www.ieee.org/ many members, especially student creativeservices) and found many members, who have no credit new ideas for enhancing the IEEE cards or international currency. in Morocco. Because of that, they experience difficulty signing up or renewing I have compiled a powerpoint presentation about the IEEE Sections their IEEE membership. Congress and copied all of the CDAnother big focus that was talked ROM materials I received at the about in many ways is the idea conference onto a single CD-ROM. that student branches are ex- If you would like a copy of the tremely important for the IEEE. powerpoint and the CD-ROM, Most IEEE members became please contact me by email at members as students. The IEEE jonraines@ieee.org. You can also has a lot of benefits for students contact the local IEEE Bureau of who are doing research because of the Online Digital Library. If we The IEEE website offers dynamic focus our efforts on creating new pages that contains all the details student branches and having ac- and information for every matter tivities to involve them, our Mo- that concern IEEE. A search enrocco section will grow. Once we gine is also provided to find spehave a lot of students, we can host cific information. For example, conferences to make money for more details on the IEEE Region 8 our section, draw the interests of calendar can be found at industry to hire and train our stuewh.ieee.org/cgi-bin/calendars/ dents and more. reg8/calendar.pl. An IEEE conferFor advice on student branches, I ence search engine is also availfound that Marko Delimar, Stu- a b l e at www.ieee.org/ dent Activities Coordinator for all of conferencesearch Region 8, is an excellent contact. Page 2 Marko has money to support student activities and a lot of great ideas for the kinds of activities that our students will enjoy. You can contact Marko by email at m.delimar@ieee.org. Another excellent contact is Ricardo Varela, phobeo@ieee.org, of the Spanish Section. Ricardo is also very active at promoting student activities within Region 8. You can also learn a lot from the Region 8 Student Activities website at http://

Morocco Engineering Week (e-Week)

In an attempt to stimulate innovation and creativity among the Moroccan engineering students and professionals and in order to foster their awareness and knowledge about the new advances of all the cutting-edge technologies that are shaping today's and tomorrow's world at different levels, the IEEE Morocco Section is involving Morocco for the first time in the international e-week activities taking place in February 19-25, 2006. These activities consist of competitions, exhibitions, fairs, tutorials, seminars, workshops, conferences, etc. Many activities are currently under preparation in cooperation with several Moroccan universities and other public and private entities. Some of these events are: Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering Programming Marathon Workshop on Computer Science Projects Exhibitions Students Competitions Workshop on IEEE Computing Standards and IEEE Certification You can find some details of these activities below and on page 4. The complete program of the Morocco e-week 2006 will be available soon at the Section's website http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/morocco/. We invite everyone to join us for these events and contribute to its success.

E-week calendar
Student Logo competition:
Faculty of science, Tetuan Deadline for submission: 15th of January 2006 Contact: es.saidi@menara.ma

Student Web site competition:

Faculty of technical sciences, Tangier Deadline for submission 10th of February 2006 Contact: celamrani@ieee.org

Student Best paper competition:

Faculty of sciences Dhar Mehraz, Fez Deadline for submission: 5th of February 2006 Contact: m_elmohajir@menara.ma

Student Robotics competition:

Deadline for submission: 5th of February 2006 Contact: es.saidi@menara.ma

Workshop on Telecom and Information Systems:

Faculty of sciences Dhar Mehraz, Fez 21 of February 2006 Contact: m_elmohajir@menara.ma

Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering:

Faculty of technical sciences, Tangier 24 of February 2006 Contact: celamrani@ieee.org
Official ceremonies will be held at various Moroccan universities during the week of 19 of February to confer the prizes to the winners of the competitions (logo, website, best paper, robot). The exact place and date will be communicated soon, please visit regularly the IEEE Morocco Section website to find more information on the above events.

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IEEE: a New Way to Enhance Skills

By Chaker El Amrani, Communications Coordinator
(celamrani@ieee.org) S i n c e engineers belong to the greatest community in the world, and as they are responsible for almost everything that makes life worth living, in whatever place they are, they should get used to communicating ideas and issues with each other. Also they have to update their knowledge, get more technical expertise and be aware of the latest discoveries. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a global organization which offers international engineers and students a wide variety of theoretical and technical materials in electrical, electronics, communications, computer engineering, and computer science. The IEEE provides engineers with a large amount of information, documents, training and news related to many fields. Furthermore, the IEEE is based on a global network, which means that engineers from different countries could communicate and exchange ideas with each other. The IEEE Morocco Section is a

IEEE Structure at the University of Fez

IEEE Local Office, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdelah
lah, on the one hand, to give a series of seminars on the objectives and the activities of the IEEE Morocco section and on those of the IEEE in general, and on the other hand, to encourage professors and students to adhere to the IEEE and take advantage of its numerous benefits. In fact, the IEEE organization offers the possibility of accessing a huge electronic library containing various kinds of materials like books, scientific articles, research papers, magazines, and online courses. These resources are essential for the achievement of scientific or technological progress. This campaign couldnt come on better time as it coincides with the period when universities in Morocco are adopting new technological means to modernize their systems. This will help them to become better equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century.

(m_elmohajir@menara.ma) new entity which was founded in the fall of 2004. Its main goal is to Fez is the cultural and scientific offer Moroccan engineers a plat- capital of Morocco, and home to form with all information they need for their development while facilitating their participation to both national and global engineering networks. This will help improve and enhance their creativity and technical skills. Furthermore, several activities like conferences, workshops, etc. are regularly organized. Information on these events and also many others documents, news, etc. are made available at the sections Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/morocco/

The IEEE Morocco Section aims at providing Moroccan engineers with the latest information and focuses on enhancing the national engineering education and skills.

Encouraging Women into Engineering

By Noura AKNIN, Women in Engineering Coordinator
(aknin@ieee.org) It is with great pleasure that I look forward to coordinating the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity Group activities for the IEEE Morocco section. I would like to start by welcoming our new members and to thank our ExCom members for all their hard and excellent work. Our scope of interest is: make available the information regarding gender related educational issues. This may improve the entry of Moroccan women in engineering programs. To increase the participation and involvement of Moroccan women engineers within IEEE activities. To address ways to improve the contribution of Moroccan women in IEEE and in our environment.

the oldest university of the counThe outcome of the IEEE workshop try. at USMBA was the creation of the One of the most important institu- USMBA IEEE local Office and the tions playing a crucial role in the student branch. This important socio-economical development of achievement would not have been the city of Fez is its university, Sidi possible without the precious supMohamed Ben Adelah. It offers an port of the presidency of the USimportant educational and techno- MBA for which we are very grateful. logical platform that scientists and students use to carry out their research and materialize their innovative ideas. We have for instance a research group specializing in the development of new techniques for the preservation and restoration of the citys patrimony while an other deals with the development of decisional information systems for enviProfessors and Students at the USMBA ronmental management meeting with Prof. Mohamed Essaaidi purposes. All this makes of the USMBA a place where the On 21st of February 2006, the USdevelopment of science and tech- MBA IEEE local office will organize nology is of paramount impor- a workshop on wireless telecommutance for all its members. nication and Information systems, In the past, the benefits of being as well as a student competition for an IEEE member were not really the best technical paper. This is known at USMBA. The IEEE Mo- done in coordination with the IEEE rocco Section has only been es- MS in the context of the national tablished at the end of year 2004. Morocco engineering week, We After that, on the 13th of February invite everyone at USMBA to join 2005, Mohamed Essaaidi; chair- us for these activities and contribman of the IEEE Morocco Section ute to its success. At last, we hope (IEEE MS) was invited to the uni- this overall project will benefit us all. versity Sidi Mohamed Ben Abde- Contact information can be find on page 5.

To publish an electronic newsletter on Women in Engineering to disseminate news on women in To gather and disseminate infor- our profession, including the best mation regarding the women and ideas contributed. about initiatives for, by and on In addition, we are working on a behalf of women in engineering project that aims to create the and science at the local, national Morocco WIE affinity group Chapand global levels. ter. It is the best way for members To enable mentoring and educa- with similar interests to interact tion programs within IEEE and and share information with each

By joining IEEE, you will be part of a community that counts more than 365,000 members in over 150 countries , almost 40 percent of whom are from outside the United States, over 68,000 student members, more than 27,000 society affiliates, 307 sections, 1,446 chapters, more than 1,300 student branches in 80 countries, over 300 student branch chapters, more than 147 affinity groups, 39 societies and 3 technical councils. An affiliation to computer society for example, will give you access to hundreds of books, conference publications and more at discounted member rates. You will have FREE online access to 300 computing and IT books, and FREE online access to 350 distance learning course in more than 40 subjects including Java, Cisco, Sun, and more. Volume 1, N1, December 2005 Page 3

Many Reasons to Join IEEE Morocco Section

Students at UAE Form the First IEEE Student Branch in Morocco

At last, the first IEEE Student Branch in Morocco has been created, the IEEE University Abdelmalek Essaadi Student Branch IEEE-UAE-SB. It has been approved by the IEEE/Region 8 Committee on October 5th, 2005. This structure was made possible thanks to the cooperation of different actors at the UAE; the President of the university Prof. M. Bennouna, the vice-president Prof. A. El Moussaoui, the Chairman of IEEE Morocco Section Dr. M. Essaaidi, the coordinator of the students activities Dr. N. Raissouni and the coordinator of the ECC Dr. C. El Amrani. A big credit also goes to the UAE students who are highly motivated to be part of such a technological institution. IEEE is indeed one of the most prestigious, professional and technical international organization where students can evolve and develop their skills and proficiency. change information and expertise. There will be also a possibility to get, as a donation the IEEE All Publication Package. UAE students can also participate in activities organized by IEEE morocco section or by other IEEE sections, but we are also planning to organize our own activities like: Competition between students for the creation of the student branch website, Workshop on IEEE Computing Standards and IEEE Certification during the e-week that will be organized by IEEE Morocco section, Professional experience exhibition of Students graduated from UAE also during the e-week, Physics exhibition on the occasion of the declaration, by the UNESCO and the UN, the year 2005 a year of physics

IEEE student branch giving rise at the University of Mohammed V

First of all, we are really very pleased to contribute to this first edition of IEEE Morocco Section newsletter. We also would like to thank Prof. Mohamed Essaaidi, Morocco Section Chairman for the efforts he is making to lead successfully this section. The activities of the IEEE in Rabat are in a constant increase. Students are really willing to take part in the IEEE organisation and contribute to the success of the strategy that aims to improve research in Morocco. In fact, Rabat is a strategic city in Morocco where science and technology play a very important role in the socio-economical development of the region. Therefore, the creation of the IEEE Student Branch at the university of Mohamed V is very important for the success of the challenges the university is facing today. The students involved are both graduate students and engineers. Their domain of interest cover almost all the fields treated by IEEE societies.

To know more about us and about The UAE Student Branch will pre- our activities, please email Salima sent a lot of advantages like the Kaissi, IEEE-UAE-SB coordinator, possibility of connecting to stu- at salima132@hotmail.com. dents all over the world to ex-

USMBA Students in Fez working on the IEEE approval of their Student Branch
After the visit of Prof Essaaidi constitution of the USMBA IEEE Mohamed; chairman of the IEEE Student Branch. It will be the secMorocco section, to the faculty of ond student branch created in Mosciences Dhar Mehraz in Fez in rocco after the UAE Student Branch February 2005, we as students in Tetuan. For the time being, It gathwere very interested to join the ers students from computer sciences IEEE organization and be part of one of the most important scientific and technological organization in the world. It is exactly the kind of environment we need to evolve, develop, and share our scientific skills and knowledge while opening on the external world. We are also very pleased that the presidency of the Members of the future USMBA Student Branch gathering at the faculty of sciences Dhar Mehraz in Fez university sidi Mohamed Ben Abdelah has approved our request to and mathematics. We are planning pay our IEEE membership fees. to invite more students from other We take the opportunity to thank fields to join us. After making our its president Prof Taoufik Ouaz- Branch official, we will work on our zani Chahdi and its vice president activities plan for the year 2006, like Prof Rachid Benslimane for their organizing conferences, exhibitions invaluable support. We are able and get involved in all activities ennow, with the help of the USMBA gaged by IEEE MS. To know more IEEE Bureau led by Prof Moham- about us and about our activities, med El Mohajir and Prof Omar El please email Salam Ismail, IEEEBeqqali to start working on the U S M B A - S B c o o r d i n a t o r , a t approval process to formalize the ismailsalam80@yahoo.fr Page 4

Future members of UM5A-IEEE student branch Establishment of a Student Branch at Mohammed V-Agdals University: Although our student Branch has not yet been established, steps have been taken to encourage students at our University to become IEEE members. A meeting will be arranged early next month, to officially launch our Student Branch. Right now, we are looking for a wide networking effect between us and engineers from other institutes here in Rabat. Students at the INPT are also in the process of creating the INPT-IEEE student branch. We hope that together, we will form a strong and productive IEEE student structure. Developing synergies within IEEE: Our UM5A-IEEE student branch will be formed to provide the students of the University of Mohammed V-Agdal with some benefits such as: - Opportunities to meet and learn from fellow students, as well as from faculty members and professionals in the engineering field. - Participate in educational, technical, and professional activities such as research projects, meetings, and tours. - Participate in regional conferences, trainings, and workshops to develop their skills. - Participate to award competitions, scholarships and project/design programs and student paper contests. - Improve their English. We hope that our IEEE Student Branch will be a positive element in the UM5A-IEEE. We will do all our best to make this association a successful one. To know more about us and about our activities, please email Imade Benelallam, IEEE-UM5A-SB coordinator, at benelalam@hotmail.com.

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Announcement of Morocco E-week Students Competition 2006

The Moroccan Association for Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineers, and The IEEE Morocco Section are organizing the first Moroccan Engineering Week (e-Week'06) from 19th to the 25th of February, 2006. This event will be organized in cooperation with the Moroccan Universities as well as several other public and private institutions and businesses. The main objective of this national scientific and engineering event is to promote the engineering profession in Morocco and to stimulate innovation and creativity among the electrical, electronics, computer and other engineering students working in related fields. It is also intended to help these professionals and students access the state-of-the-art technology, and improve their skills in all the fast changing and cutting-edge techniques related to these fields. Several technical and social activities are scheduled for e-Week'06 in different Moroccan cities. One of the main highlights of this event is the students competition 2006. These competitions are open to all engineering students from all the Moroccan Universities as well as young practicing engineers in Morocco aged 30 and less. Candidates wishing to take part in this competition are required to submit their work before the indicated deadlines. The qualified candidates will represent Morocco in IEEE international competitions. All the entries to these competitions will be examined by a jury of Moroccan experts from both academia and industry. The winners will be awarded prizes which include certificates of recognition, issued by the IEEE Morocco Section, together with prizes offered by sponsoring universities and companies. More details and criteria of these competitions will be soon available at our website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/morocco/

IEEE MS Local Offices

IEEE Morocco Section has local offices representing it in various Moroccan universities. Their role is to promote IEEE within their faculties and schools, as well as within the local private companies and industries. These offices are meant to be the first point of contact for local professors, students and professionals to obtain information about the IEEE organization and the IEEE Morocco Section. The local offices should keep the local IEEE members informed about any matter of interest that is dispatched by the IEEE Morocco Section or by the IEEE organization. They should also coordinate and work very closely with IEEE MS to organize and plan activities at the national level. Indeed, local offices form a global IEEE morocco network as they bring together professors, students, researchers and professionals. The main aim of this structure is the creation of opportunities where people specializing in different fields and with different backgrounds can come together to share and exchange information, expertise and knowledge. Activities planned during the Morocco engineering week (19-25 February 2006) aim to serve this objective. We hope this IEEE structure will assist all our members in their work and make them even more productive, for the good of our universities and society. Please dont hesitate to contact your local office and help with your ideas and suggestions.

Local Offices Contact information

University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdelah, Fez Faculty of sciences Dhar Mehraz Prof Mohammed El Mohajir
E-mail: m_elmohajir@menara.ma

Technical paper competition

The aim is to recognize technical, written, and verbal communication skills of Moroccan students. These skills are key to successful careers. Candidates wishing to take part in this competition are required to submit a technical document, no more than 10 pages long, describing the different technical aspects of their work or applications. This document should be in electronic format (MS WORD) and sent in by e-mail to m_elmohajir@menara.ma. The paper should be written either in English or French. Deadline is the 5th of February 2006

Prof Omar El Beqqali

Email: bekkaliom@yahoo.fr

Robotics competition
The aim is to improve the competitiveness of all the technologies related with robotic and electronic systems within the country at the global scale, and to foster robotic programs within the Moroccan engineering schools. Candidates wishing to take part in this competition are invited to submit a technical document, not exceeding 6 pages, describing the different features of their robot or electronic system in electronic format (MS WORD or PDF) by email to robotic2006@ieee.org. The paper should be written either in English or French. Deadline is the 5th of February 2006

University Mohammed V Agdal, Rabat INPT Prof Elhassane Ibn-Elhaj

E-mail: ibnelhaj@inpt.ac.ma

Web Site competition

The goal of a Web page is to convey information in a manner useful to the reader, similar to the goal in writing a paper. How you convey the information can increase the readers interest as well as their knowledge. Thus, the criteria of content, presentation, navigability, originality, portability, and load time are the judging categories. To take part of this contest, send an email with your contribution to: wscontest@gmail.com. Deadline is the 10th of February

University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech ENSA Prof Driss Yousfi

E-mail: dr_yousfi@yahoo.com

Logo competition
The Entries for this competition should comply with the following guidelines: 1. Proposed logos should reflect the e-Week spirit as conceived by the candidates. 2. All colours are allowed. 3. Required size: 5 cm x 5 cm. 4. Submission via e-mail in both gif and pdf file formats to essaaidi@uae.ma before January 15, 2006. 5. Full name, affiliation and contact address of the candidate should be included with this electronic submission. Page 5

University Abdelmalek Essaadi FST, Tangier Prof Chaker El Amrani

Email: celamrani@ieee.org

Faculty of Science, Tetuan Prof Mohamed Essaaidi

Email: es.saidi@menara.ma IEEE MS Newsletter

Calendar & Events

March 13 - 15, 2006 ISCCSP 2006: 2006 Second International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing ; Marrakech, Morocco

IEEE Morocco Section Chairman: Mohamed Essaaidi

essaaidi@ieee.org

March 27 - 29, 2006 WEMIC 2006: Wireless Euro-Mediterranean International Conference; Amman, Jordan; IEEE Communications Society; http://www.just.edu.jo/~wireless/WEMIC/index.htm April 19 21, 2006 IMCL2006: 1st International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning; Amman, Jordan; IEEE Education Society http://www.imcl-conference.org/ May 16 19, 2006

Secretary: Jonathan Raines

jonraines@ieee.org

Address: P. O. Box 2121 Tetuan 93000 Phone: +212-399-72423

Fax: +212-399-94500
WWW: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/morocco/
The legal framework for the IEEE Morocco Section vis--vis the Moroccan legislation is the Moroccan Association for Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineers (AEECE) which was approved and registered by the local competent authorities in Tetuan in July 2004. Most of the members of the executive committee are also members of this Section's ExCom.

MELECON 2006 VERY IMPORTANT IEEE R8 Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference; Torremolinos, Mlaga, Spain; IEEE Region 8, IEEE Spain Section; http://www.melecon2006.etsit.uma.es/ May 21 -24, 2006

IEEE Morocco Section Conferences and Workshops

ISCAS 2006: The IEEE Morocco Section is technically sponsoring 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems; Island of Kos, and / or organizing different national and international Greece; IEEE Circuits and Systems Society conferences and workshops in different Moroccan cities. http://www.iscas06.org/ The main purpose of this article is to report on these technical activities. Information and Communication Technologies Inter- May 24 28, 2006 national Symposium (ICTIS'05) This symposium was held in conjunction with the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Information Security Assurance and Security in Marina Smir - Tetuan in June 3-6, 2005. It was also involved in a global workshop on Agent-Based Computing representing Europe and Africa. About a 100 technical papers and 4 keynote talks covering up-to-date and cutting-edge technologies of the different aspects and fields of information and communication technologies. Detailed information on this Symposium, including its proceedings in PDF format, is available at its website http://www.telecom.uae.ma/ictis/. PHOTONICS and WEB ENGINEERING: XVIII IEEE-SPIE Symposium on Photonics and Web Engineering, IEEE Poland Section, SPIE Poland Chapter; WILGA Village, 24-28 May 2006; http://nms.ise.pw.edu.pl; contact: R.Romaniuk@ieee.org June 29 30, 2006 IREV 2006: 3rd International Symposium on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation; Maribor, Slovenia; IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Education Society http://www.online-lab.net/rev

Seventh International Conference on Mobile and Aug 31 to Sept 3, 2006 Wireless Communication Networks This international conference, technically sponsored by Region 8 Student Branch Congress VERY IMPORTANT the IEEE Morocco Section and organized by the Tele- The SBC is a multi-national event bringing together IEEE students from three conticommunication Research Center of King's College of nents. It is the biggest of all IEEE student events in the Region, and most will agree London, was held in Marrakech in September 19-21, it is also the most interesting of all IEEE events in the Region. The next SBC will be in 2005. About 120 papers discussing several issues re- Paris form August 31 to September 3, 2006. Contact Marko Delimar lated with the state-of-the-art of wireless and telecom- m.delimar@ieee.org or, please subscribe to the r8students mailing list by sending an munication networks were presented. Furthermore, a email with "SUBSCRIBE R8STUDENTS" as a subject to listserv@ieee.org very interesting keynote talks and panel have been presented by telecommunication and networks professionals such as those from Erickson. Detailed informa- October 4 6, 2006 tion about this conference can be found at : http:// 2006 CCA/CACSD/ISIC: www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/mwcn2005/ 2006 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Second Workshop on Biomedical Engineering IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control Systems Design This workshop was held in the Nurses School at the and IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control; Munich, Germany; IEEE ConCivil Hospital in Tetuan during November 11th and 12th, trol System Society 2005. There were more than 20 papers presented in http://www.elet.polimi.it/conferences/cca06/ this workshop that addressed different issues related with biomedical engineering. Detailed information about Acknowledgment The IEEE Morocco Section ExCom wishes to this workshop, including the proceedings of the former thank sincerely Abdelmalek Essaadi University for sponsoring the edition, is available in this website: http:// print out of this first issue of the IEEE MS Newsletter. This contribuwww.telecom.uae.ma/embs/. tion will greatly help the IEEE MS achieve its objectives.

Volume 1, N1, December 2005

Publisher : AL Khalij AL ARABI

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