ED/IM/SSC Chapter of the North Macedonia Section


2021/2022 ACTIVITY REPORT

All activities in 2022 are dedicated to the 75th anniversary of transistor as well as to the 25th anniversary of the North Macedonia Section.

In the 2021/2022 Chapter had two Administrative/Social meetings. On 24 February 2021, the Chapter Annual Meeting was held. The report of chapter activities in 2020 has been discussed and approved. On 24 Jun 2022 Chapter has a social meeting after the presentation dedicated to the 75th anniversary of transistor.

The presentation for membership development was held during LEOS 2022.

The chapter secretary, Goce Arsov, presented a talk on 75 anniversary of transistor as a part of the activities on the IEEE Day 2022 (Oct. 04).

The membership development activities among the students have been organized to attract students to join EDS. The EDS Membership subsidy has been used to attract new members to IEEE/EDS (we apply this possibility only for students)

The chapter had in plan to sponsor the organization and some expenses for renewing the necessary equipment for the student event RoboMac, our student members were involved in its organization during previous events. Unfortunately, due to Covid 19 Pandemic, the event had to be suspended for 2021. Whether (or when) it will be resumed nobody knows. Currently it is planned for the spring 2023.

The Chapter Vice-Chair Goce Arsov (current Secretary) has attended with a presentation of Chapter activities two EDS Virtual Chapter Meetings (on 24.3.2022 and 30.6.2022), and one Virtual EDS vTools training for chapters (24.02.2021).

At the end of 2021, the Chapter has organized elections for new officers using the vTools platform. The new officers took the post after approval by the Section Annual Meeting held on 16 February 2022.

 



List of technical talks,  organized in 2021. 


1. 15 March 2021, Technical – “Modern Assistive Technologies”, Speaker: Toni Bachvarovski, http://www.openthewindows.org/en, FEEIT – Skopje, ZOOM Meeting, N. Macedonia, 13 IEEE + 11 Guests

2. 17 March 2021, Technical – “Computers and Education: Where are We Now?”, Speaker: Prof. Predrag Pejovic, ETF, Belgrade, Serbia, FEEIT – Skopje, ZOOM Meeting, N. Macedonia, 10 IEEE + 7 Guests

3. 20 April 2021, Technical – “Electrogastrography: An Overview with Applications”, Speaker: Dr. Nadica Miljkovikj, ETF, Belgrade, Serbia, FEEIT – Skopje, ZOOM Meeting, N. Macedonia, 7 IEEE + 8 Guests

4. 27 April 2021, Technical - “ECG for Everybody”, Speaker: Dr. Stevan Jokic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, FEEIT – Skopje, ZOOM Meeting, N. Macedonia, 4 IEEE + 10 Guests

5. 27 May 2021, Technical – “Introduction to IHP Semiconductor Technology and Digital Design Flow“, Speaker: Goran Panic of IHP Microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder) Germany, FEEIT – Skopje, ZOOM Meeting, N. Macedonia, 5 IEEE + 16 Guests

6. 17 Dec 2021, Technical – “Simulation Software Next Door”, Speaker: Prof Dragica Vasileska, ASU, USA, FEEIT – Skopje, ZOOM Meeting, N. Macedonia, 15 IEEE + 27 Guests

7. 22 Dec 2021, Technical – “Audio technology in sound recording and processing”, Speaker: Slobodan Tanevski, University of audiovisual arts European Film, Theater and Dance Academy, Location: University of audiovisual arts European Film, Theater and Dance Academy, Skopje, N. Macedonia, 3 IEEE + 7 Guests

8. 08 Apr 2022, Technical – “Mobile Health Check”, speaker: Stevan Jokic, ECG for Everybody, Novi Sad, Serbia, 16 IEEE + 16 Guests

9. 09 May 2022, Technical – “A Modern Engineering Textbook Typesetting using Sphinx Documentation Generator”, speaker: Vladimir Milovanović, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, 25 IEEE + 40 Guests

10. 09 May 2022, Technical – “Free Software in Engineering Education”, speaker: Prof. Predrag Pejovic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia, (an on-line event), 27 IEEE + 38

11. 13 May 2022, Technical – “Functional neuromarkers of psychiatric disorders”, speaker: Silvana Markovska-Simoska, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, (an on-line event),  

12. 27 May 2022, Technical – “Explainability pipelines for an end-to-end understanding of 3D Covid-19 CT scans”, Speaker: Filip Makraduli, Keitaro Training, 18 IEEE + 22

 

13. 24 June 2022, Technical – “Celebrating 75th Anniversary of the Transistor”, speaker, Prof. Goce Arsov, FEEIT, Skopje, 15 IEEE + 20 Guests (this was an invited presentation to the Summer Symposium on Electronics and Signal Processing – LEOS, held in Krushevo on 24-25 June 2022)

14. 24 June 2022, Technical – Invited Lectures: “ Deep learning applications to remote sensing and medicine / Biomimetics of nests – Sustainable construction material”, speakers:  Professor António Cunha / Dr. Sandra Pereira, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal, (an on-line event), 11 IEEE + 35 Guests

15.12 Jul 2022, Technical – “High quality simulation of early vocal learning: 3 years on”, speaker: Prof. Yi Xu, University College London, 25 IEEE + 30

 

16. 13 Jul 2022, Technical – “Learning CVs and CCVs”, speaker: Daniel van Niekerk, University College London, 26 IEEE +31

17. 29 Aug 2022, Technical – “Fraunhofer Research Group for Cognitive Material Diagnostics”, speaker, Dr. Ivan Kraljevski, Fraunhofer IKTS and Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, 12 IEEE + 18