Finland Section Student and Gold Activities

Cognitive networks and spectrum sharing

On the 12th of May IEEE GOLD Oulu organized a Professional Telecommunication Lectures. The aim was to provide students, young scientists, postdoctoral researchers and industry representatives the unique opportunity to get familiar with recent research results related to cognitive wireless communication networks. High-qualified lectures provided the main theoretical tools, describing the relevant solutions and methods, and addressing the problems still open in these areas.

In addition, Rafal Sliz has introduced to participants the IEEE organization and recent achievements and activities of IEEE/GOLD section in Finland.

After the lectures there was time for the social part of the event, during which participants could get to know each other and share their ideas and experience.

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During the last weekend of October IEEE GOLD Oulu Finland together with Infotech and IEEE Student Branch Oulu organized a Grand Challenge Workshop in Sanginjoki. It was a two day event (30 – 31.10.2009) during which participants could gain knowledge about integration of different fields of technology.

Event was opened by IEEE GOLD Finland Oulu Activities chairman Rafal Sliz, who welcomed participants and briefly presented the contents of the seminar. Next Marek Skowron showed a presentation about benefits of IEEE for its members and deeply explained the IEEE Student Transition and Elevation Partnership (STEP) program.

After those presentations there was time for invited key note speakers. Professors Heli Jantunen and Olli Silvén made their presentations and shared their experience with working in co-operation with different laboratories from university and beyond, which attendees found very interesting.

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Our first IEEE GOLD seminar in the Helsinki area was held on Tuesday 26th of May 2009 and proved to be a success with many new people in attendance! Maciej Borkowski, our GOLD Chair, opened the seminar by giving a fun introduction to the IEEE and the student and GOLD activities in Finland and internationally. (more…)

IEEE gathered 15 student and GOLD members  to visit VTT on 13th of May. Many thanks to VTT, especially to Petteri, for organizing the visit and taking good care of us. Also many thanks to Vili and Esa for interesting presentations about Converging networks laboratory and award winning NFC technology.  May your research be successful as it has been! (more…)

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Visit the The Humanitarian Technology Challenge pages and find out how your education in technology can be used to solve humanitarian issues.

Thank you all for participating in the Transition Into Management event! Our special appreciation goes to our invited expert Markku Hentilä for leading the discussion and sharing with us his managerial experience. Markku holds a position of the CEO of Icecom and a Business Development Director of Opal Blue Ltd. The event attracted 23 participants from 7 companies located in the Oulu region, and from the University of Oulu.

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What: IEEE Sections Congress, Region 8 meeting and IEEE GOLD Summit 2008
Where: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
When: 17th – 22nd September 2008

The Sections Congress is the one major meeting sponsored by the IEEE which brings together the leaders and volunteers from all the different sections of IEEE. Just prior to the Sections Congress, was the Region 8 meeting and the GOLD Summit 2008. This year the IEEE Finland Section was represented by your humble Student and GOLD activities web master!

The first ever IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition is now opened to all students! Check the contest’s pages. Identify a real-world problem which affects your community and get practical and leadership skills trying to solve it. You can count on the support of the IEEE GOLD Finland, let us know about your ideas!

What: The biannual IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD (Graduates Of the Last decade) Congress
Where: London
When: 28th – 31th August 2008

The Multicultural night was the highlight of the congers!

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