IEEE CASS Kenya Chapter Launch
We are excited to announce that on 29 July 2022, the IEEE CASS Kenya Chapter was officially launched. The launch event took part at the Nairobi Safari club hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya. The event attracted 65 Young Professionals from across the city.
The attendees came from local industries in Kenya. Some of the industries that they came from included Gearbox Europlacer (a PCB assembly company), Konza smart city, W.Gietsen Nairobi (Renewable Energy company), Kenyatta University, Autodesk, Roam (an Electric vehicle manufacturing company), and Safaricom (local telecommunications company).
This was a two hours event that had speakers and dinner after the launch. The first talk was about the design of power supplies for electric vehicles. It was given by Mr. Hampton from Roam. The next talk was by Prof. Ricardo Reis from IEEE CASS, who gave an overview of CASS activities and the benefits of membership in CASS. The next was by Dr. Victor Grimblat of Synopsis, who talked about the introduction to IC design workflow. This talk gave the audience an idea of how integrated circuits are designed and formed a basis for future workshops and talks on this subject. Synopsis through Dr. Victor also donated their tools to Kenyatta University. This was a really good gesture and will help strengthen learning and research not only in the university but in Kenya at large. The guest speaker, Mr. Ken Okolo, the strategic partnership manager for Raspberry pi in Africa was next. He talked about the need for a hardware community in Africa and why academia and industry should come together. He commended CASS for enabling this dream in Africa and pledged his support for CASS in Africa. His talk was really inspiring to the attendees. Mr. Ken flew from Nigeria just to attend this event in Kenya.
Mr. Kithinji was next who was standing in for the chair of the IEEE Kenya section, Mrs. Esther Muchiri. He talked about IEEE Kenya and need for YP volunteers. Finally, we had Mr. Steve from W.Gietsen who talked about the need for innovation in the circuits and systems field in Kenya. This event was a huge success and the entire CASS team in Kenya is very excited and has started activities already. We had a lot of young professionals develop an interest in CASS and we have even had an increase in attendance at successive events from CASS Kenya.
I would like to thank all the speakers and the volunteering team in Kenya who made this possible (Allan Koech, Stacy Awinja, Kithinji Muriungi, Esther Muchiri, John Muchiri, Shadrack Kipkemoi, Valery Chebet, Anthony Gatau, and Winfred Wandii). I would also like to thank the CASS leadership under CASS President, Manuel Dalgado for the support offered to the chapter.
Click here to see event photos.
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Post Event Report on IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Workshop
“CASS Day at Singapore”
Hosting Chapter: Singapore Chapter
Main Organizers: Wang Yi, Kelvin Fong, Jun Wei Lee
Date: 29th July 2022, Friday
Venue: NTU (Executive Seminar Room (S2.2-B2-53)) & NUS (Seminar Room E5-03-20)
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Singapore Chapter has successfully organized a 1-day workshop on 29th July for two universities at Singapore: National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. The purpose of this workshop is to promote CASS in the APAC regions in post pandemic period.
Please refer to the agenda as follows. We have reputable speakers from CASS to be at Singapore with virtual participants to broadcast CAS society: general of CAS, future of CAS, membership benefits followed by What is NEW in CAS to attract students, researcher to join CAS family. It was successful even and visit from regional CAS Chapter to Singapore!
Wang Yi, Kelvin Fong, Jun Wei Lee
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IEEE CASS Joint Workshop Kenya CASS Chapter and Rio Grande do Sul CASS Chapter
This August 12, it was organized a joint workshop between the new CASS Kenya Chapter and CASS Rio Grande do Sul Chapter. The workshop included sessions related to Education, Industry and Research in both regions, as well a presentation of report about the activities organized by the CASS Rio Grande do Sul, showing why it got again the World CASS Chapter of the Year. At our knowledge, it was the first workshop between two CASS chapters in two continents.
The workshop was recorded and it is directly available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZbe0xNfIk
The program of the workshop was:
(9 AM Brazil) (3 PM Kenya): Opening Session
Fidel Makatia (CASS BoG Member) and Ricardo Reis (CASS BoG Member)
(9:20 AM Brazil) ( 3:20 PM Kenya): Education on Electronics/Microelectronics
Prof. Tiago Balen (Head of the Graduate Program on Microelectronics at UFRGS): Microelectronics Education in the South of Brazil
Prof. Shadrack Mambo (Dean School of Engineering and Technology Kenyatta University): STEM education in Kenya and Africa
Q&A
(10: 30 AM Brazil) ( 4:30 PM Kenya):
Prof. Fernanda Kastensmidt (UFRGS): Radiation on Electronics: ASICs and Programmable Devices
(11:00) break
(11:10 AM Brazil) ( 5:10 PM Kenya):
The Electronic/Microelectronics Industry In Brazil and Kenya
1- Latiff Cherono, General Manager at Gearbox Europlacer, Kenya
Electronic manufacturing industry in Kenya and Africa
2- Prof. Sergio Bampi (UFRGS, Brazil)
The Microelectronics Industry in Brazil
Q&A
(12:30 Brazil, 18:30 Kenya)
Presentation of IEEE CASS Chapter Rio Grande do Sul Activities (World Chapter of the Year)
Prof. José Azambuja (UFRGS, Brazil)
Planning of Activities in Kenya and Rio Grande do Sul
(1:00 PM Brazil, 7 PM Kenya)
Final Remarks
Followed by the CASS Talk by Sandro Ferreira (Unisinos, Brazil)
Organized by:
Fidel Makatia (CASS BoG Member, Kenya) and Ricardo Reis (CASS BoG Member, Brazil
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Upcoming IEEE CASS Talks by Rio Grande do Sul CASS Chapter
The IEEE CASS Rio Grande do Sul Chapter and the Graduate Program on Microelectronics (PGMicro) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) transformed Local Face-to-Face Seminars into Global Webinars. A report about this action was published in the IEEE CASS Magazine, 4th quarter, 2020 [1] as well in IEEE CASS Magazines, second quarter 2021 [2] and second quarter 2022 [3].
The 2020/2021/2022 webinars were recorded and are available at the IEEE CASS Rio Grande do Sul YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/cassriograndedosul), as well several other presentations related to other activities organized by the Rio Grande do Sul Chapter.
Some of the next CASS Talks by Rio Grande do Sul, Chapter are:
August 19, Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen/DFKI, Germany, Polynomial Formal Verification: Ensuring Correctness Efficiently
September 2, Georges Gielen, KU Leuven, Belgium, Sensor interfacing in the edge: small, sound, smart !
September 9, Ian O’Oconnor, University of Lyon, France, Emerging technology based 3D compute cubes for edge intelligence
September 16, Said Hamdioui, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Device Aware Test: The mean to win the war against unmodeled faults
September 30, Jan Madsen, Technical University of Denmark, Biocomputing: Computing with Biological Circuits
Please go to the CASS Rio Grande do Sul YouTube channel to see the titles and abstracts of talks, and to subscribe to the YouTube channel. It is also possible to find, in the YouTube channel, other talks related to events organized by the CASS Chapter. CASS Talks keep reaching a broad set of countries, all around the world.
References:
[1] Ricardo Reis, Raphael Brum and José Rodrigo Azambuja, "How CASS-RS Transformed Local Face-to-Face Seminars into Global Webinars,” IEEE CASS Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 78-87, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2020.3027224.
[2] R. Reis, “2021 IEEE CASS Rio Grande do Sul webinars,” IEEE CASS Mag., vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 125–126, 2021, doi: 10.1109/MCAS.2021. 3071635.
[3] R. Reis, “2022 IEEE CASS Rio Grande do Sul Webinars,” IEEE CASS Mag., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 125–126, 2022, doi: 10.1109/MCAS.2022.3165866.