The IEEE Standards Education Committee Made in Egypt Women in Engineering Student Paper Contest 2011 *

On the subject:

The Use of Industry Standards in the Development of Projects for the Made in Egypt Competition

First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $300

Submission Deadline:  August 5, 2011

You can find more details and the contest rules here

* The contest is sponsored by the IEEE Standards Education Committee

Under the auspices of three Egyptian Ministers, the “IEEE Egypt WIE AG” second forum has taken place as one of the concurrent events during the Egyptian Engineering Day 2010 www.ieeegoldegypt.org/EED . The forum theme was ” Social Engineering: For you and your family”, where the speakers talked about the Egyptian initiatives where science and technology were used to develop the Egyptian society especially in poor areas.

By the end of the day the audience were more than 600 during the closing the session which was an open discussion with H.E Ambassador Moushira Khattab Egyptian Minister of Family and Population on enabling working women. The session was moderated by Prof.Dr.Nevin Darwish WIE Egypt Chair.

The surprise was H.E Moushira Khattab announcement that the Egyptian first lady Suzan Moubarak is willing to auspice WIE Egypt activity for a prize for women in science and technology.

Vodafone won the “Best work-life balance working environment competition”

The “Best work-life balance working environment competition” – confounded and organized by WIE Egypt under the auspices of H.E. Dr.Ahmed Darwish Egyptian Minister of Administrative Development – finals were held during the second forum. Six international and local companies working in the field of Information and Communications Technology ICT were competing to win the prize, and this year winner was Vodafone Egypt.

The winner was announced during the Egyptian Engineering Day closing ceremony where the number of audience exceeded 1500 ! and the prize was given by H.E. Moushira Khattab to the Vodafone representative Ms.Rania Salah the director of HR department in Vodafone Egypt.

A long road

The Egyptian Media covered the event; many people now are looking for WIE Egypt and the next steps to be taken. This year WIE Egypt have taken the first real step to spread the work-life balance concept among the employees in general , while focusing on women rights who are working in ICT . 2010-2011 is a long road full of work as new programs are going to start. So be tuned!





Ms.Rania Salah Vodafone Egypt representative taking WIE Egypt prize for winning “Best work-life balance working environment competition”



Vodafone representative and Engineers



Women In Engineering Second forum

The 22nd IEEE technically co-sponsored International Conference on Microelectronics ICM’10  was held in Cairo, Egypt. ICM’ 10 was held in cooperation with the École Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs and the University of Waterloo. ICM was co-located with the 3rd International Conference on Thermal Issues in Emerging Technologies (THETA).

The International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM) was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Electronic Devices Society and has been held in numerous countries across the Middle East and Asia over the past 21 years. ICM 2010 included oral, poster sessions, and tutorials given by experts in state-of-the-art topics.

The ICM’10 covered all areas of devices, circuits and systems, including but not limited to:
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN FOR MICROELECTRONICS, MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

Vodafone Egypt



“Social Engineering for You and Your Family”

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Convention Center – Smart Village

The aim of the forum is to raise awareness of the importance of Engineering in social development, to come up with innovative ideas for institutes, academia and individuals to enhance our society through technology and highlighting the achievements done so far in Egypt in the field of improving society through science and technology.

]]> http://wie.ieee.org.eg/main/eed-second-forum/feed/ 0 http://wie.ieee.org.eg/main/second-forum/ http://wie.ieee.org.eg/main/second-forum/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:44:45 +0000 IEEE Egypt WIE http://wie.ieee.org.eg/?p=543 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Egypt section Women in Engineering Affinity group is launching its second forum entitled Social Engineering :”For You and Your Family”.

Our goals for the forum are simple, but bold: to raise awareness of the importance of Engineering in social development, to come up with innovative ideas for institutes, academia and individuals to enhance our society through technology and highlighting the achievements done so far in Egypt in the field of improving society through science and technology.

The Forum Program is as following:



The Work-life balance competition finals will be held during the Egyptian Engineering Day on 3 August 2010 at Smart Village conference hall, Cairo-Alexandria road, Egypt.

Six companies are competing to prove that they have the best working environment andthey are: Microsoft Egypt , Vodafone Egypt, Giza Systems, Raya, Arabize and GNS Group.

The participated companies and the winner will be rewarded during the closing ceremony of the EED.

You Don’t Want To Miss It!!

In such crowded fast-rhythm world, Work-Life Balance has become an urging need for each working human being a male or a female; however, it’s much more urging for females due to the multiple roles they are playing in their lives. Pursuing successful careers while preserving their families is the daily rush they go through.



Thus, IEEE Egypt Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group is pleased to invite your company to participate in the “Best Work- Life Balance Working Environment” 2010 competition. The aim of the competition is to promote the work-life balance culture among Science and Technology companies and organizations in Egypt and to improve their working environments in a way that maintains balanced female employees.

Companies and organizations working in S&T field are going to yearly compete in presenting/developing creative working models that consider the needs and duties of a working female. Companies should be able to guarantee that these models are applicable in their environments. A prototype is considered as a plus. “Best Work-Life Balance Working Environment” Award will be given in the Egyptian Engineering Day (EED). This award stands as recognition of your company’s leading role in developing the society by supporting working women in Egypt.

As a major player in the S&T field, your company is one of our highly regarded companies and your involvement in the competition will add value to your company and our program alike. Complete and submit the registration form to women.egypt@ieee.org . Registration deadline is the 25th of May 2010. An orientation session will be held to the registered companies in which they will know more about the competition phases. For inquiries: women.egypt@ieee.org

Looking forward to having you participate in our competition. Cordially, IEEE Egypt WIE Team May 2010

Click here to know more about the competition

IEEE Egypt’s Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity group held its first forum on August 3rd under the title: Innovative Ways to Achieve Work-life Balance. The forum was held as part of the Egyptian Engineering Day at the Cairo International Conference Center.

Dr. Hind Hanafy, President of Alexandria University, gave the opening speech for the forum which included prominent women in the fields of science and technology like Prof. Dr. Hadya El Hennawy, Dean of the faculty of Engineering Ain Shams University, and Dr. Nadia El Awady President of World Federation of Science Journalists.The forum covered three main areas; achieving work-life balance, highlighting a few prominent women who have achieved work-life balance, and promoting governmental and non-governmental initiatives which provide a woman friendly work environment.



EED 2009

Another point of focus at the forum was helping companies maintain profitability during the financial crisis by providing a balanced working environment for their employees. Etisalat Egypt and ITWorks both presented their experiences in this field. Also presented was the Ministry of Administrative Development’s Beitak Matktbak, Your Home Your Office, an initiative for working from home. Dr Nevin Darwish Chair of WIE Egypt presented her experience in three women for one job.Over 160 people from the industry, academia and NGOs attended the forum and were greatly impressed by the discussions.

Female university students were especially pleased to discuss their concerns regarding the difficulties that face women in scientific fields especially the environment not accepting women in other roles that are equally important as work. WIE Egypt announced an initiative for companies and NGOs to cooperate with the affinity group to organize a competition for the best women friendly working environment in a company in the field of science and technology.



Dr.Hend Hanfi, President of Alexandria University

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists, the mission of IEEE WIE is to inspire, engage, encourage, and empower IEEE women worldwide.

IEEE WIE envisions a vibrant community of IEEE women and men innovating the world of tomorrow.

With the support of our dear professors; a group of energetic young women engineers started WIE affinity group in Egypt in June 2008, since that time the core team has been busy setting tracks, goals, and plans for the Egyptian affinity group

And as the volunteers are the heart of any non-profit organizational work, Our strength is a result of the time and effort provided by those who volunteer to serve their society, we are announcing volunteering opportunities in Egyptian WIE Affinity group as we are working in several areas starting from Work life Balance, Social Engineering, Mentoring, networking to Unleashing kids abilities which are the direct concerns of all Egyptian women engineers

If you want to become part of the WIE volunteer team, now is the time to let us know. We have volunteer opportunities at our coming conferences and programs. If you have experience, passion and a willingness to share, we hope that you will consider participating as a volunteer with us. Our goal is to have volunteer groups that represent the diversity of backgrounds, experience and demographics of our community.

To learn more about the available opportunities, and to tell us how you’d like to be involved, register here.

Best regards,

Egyptian WIE Core Team