GOLD 2010 - The 2nd IEEE Career Development Essay Contest for Young Professionals and Women Engineers

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Category GOLD 2010

Deadline: September 24, 2010 | Date: October 29, 2010

Venue/Country: Tokyo, Japan

Updated: 2010-08-12 11:59:58 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

(Tokyo Denki University)

IEEE Japan Council WIE Chair Basabi Chakraborty

(Iwate Prefectural University )

The 2nd IEEE Career Development Essay Contest for Young

Professionals and Women Engineers (Organized by IEEE Tokyo GOLD

Affinity Group and IEEE Japan Council WIE Affinity Group)

IEEE Tokyo GOLD (Graduates of Last Decade) and IEEE Japan Council

WIE (Women in Engineering) organize “The 2nd Career Development

Essay Contest”. This contest targets young professional members

including students and women engineer members.

The contest’s purpose is to raise awareness on young professional

member's future paths and relevant skills and to share the

experiences.

You can think yourself about “how to shape my career?”, “how to

get a dream?”, “how to enjoy your life as a young professional or

woman engineer?”, or “What is benefit of IEEE activities for

development of your skill or career?” etc.

Please express your experience and thinking about career planning

for yourself.

Guideline

1. Theme:

Please select one theme from the followings and express your vision

for career developments.

What kind of skill and experience do you think is needed for career

development in your life?

Please express your vision for the future of your life, including

examples of activities or experience to engage in.

Essays may be submitted by anyone.

a). What's ideal vision for future engineer?

b). What's important skill on activity as a member of society?

c). What's important skill on working abroad?

d). How to contribute to society

e). Research activities for currently and future f). Career

development as a women engineer g). What is benefit of IEEE

activities?

h). What do you think about “career development”, “skill

planning”, or “dream come true”?

2. Deadline:

Entries must be received by September 24th (Fri), 2010

3. Format:

Essay must be 1 page (A4 sheet) in English or Japanese with PDF or

MS word format.

4. Submission:

Essay may be submitted to yasuharuieee.org by e-mail (PDF or MS

Word file). Article of the essay should include the following

information.

(1) your name,

(2) affiliation,

(3) e-mail address or phone number,

(4) IEEE membership No. (if you are IEEE member),

(5) essay title.

If you don't receive an acknowledgement within 7 days, please resend

to yasuharuieee.org.

5. Qualification:

Essays must be original and unpublished. Essays must be written by

one person.

There is no limitation in qualification for submission, for example,

age, IEEE membership, etc. The essay contest winner should become

IEEE member before ceremony of awarding an honor.

6. Criteria for selection:

The criteria of the contest may be focused on raising awareness of

view on young professional member's future path and relevant skills.

7. Award:

The following awards will be given:

1st Prize: Certificate and prize of 30,000 Japanese Yen 2nd Prize:

Certificate and prize of 10,000 Japanese Yen

All prize winners will be invited to the 7th IEEE Young Researchers

Workshop at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ookayama campus) on 20

November, 2010.

(Travel expenses will not be covered.)

The winner may be required to be IEEE member until the celebration

event on 20 November, 2010.

The winners will be announced in 29 October, 2010.

The winner’s essay will be released on the IEEE Tokyo GOLD Affinity

Group Website.

8. Contact:

If you have any questions, please contact yasuharuieee.org

(Yasuharu Ohgoe, IEEE Tokyo GOLD Affinity Group Chair).

Tel: +81(0)-49-296-5921

9. Tokyo GOLD and WIE Japan activities:

http://www.ieee-jp.org/tokyogold/index.html

http://www.ieee-jp.org/japancouncil/affinitygroup/WIE/