IEEE Tunisia Section History

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IEEE Geographic Unit Organizing Document - Tunisia

Section Background

The IEEE Tunisia (Tynisia) Section was formed in June 2008 with a startup membership of around 300. It is located on the continent of Africa, and in IEEE Region 8. The section is not represented on any Council.

Student Branches

The ENIT Engineering school student branch, located in Tunis, received the 2008 IEEE MGA Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award for the whole of Region 8. The ENIT SB was formulated in 2006, and launched in 2007 - before the Tunisia Section was formed.

National Engineering School of the University of Sfax Student Branch (SB ENIS), hosted a special event that officially launched the IEEE SB ENIS on April 01, 2009.  By June 30, 2009, The IEEE SB ENIS had a total of 125 members comprising: 89 Graduate Student Members and 36 Student Members.

Chapters

In June 2009, the Tunisia Section establishes new chapters for:

• IEEE Circuits and Systems
• Signal processing
• Computer society
• Computational Intelligence

In November 2009, the Tunisia Section establishes new chapters for:

• WIE Affinity group
• Joint Chapter Aerospace & Electronics, EMBS, Education and Microwave Theory & Techniques.

In August 2010, the Tunisia Section establishes a new affinity group for:

• GOLD - Graduates of the Last Decade

In November 2010, the Tunisia Section establishes a new chapter for:

• Industry Applications

Officers

Year	Chair	Vice Chair	Secretary	Treasurer
2008
2009-2010	Mourad Loulou	Farhat Fnaiech	Jelel Ezzine	Mohamed Adel Alimi