John HofmanPES Young Professionals Committee Chair

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What is Young Professionals?

IEEE Young Professionals is an international community of enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative members and volunteers. IEEE is committed to helping young professionals evaluate their career goals, polish their professional image, and create the building blocks of a lifelong and diverse professional network.

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PES YP Membership

• IEEE PES members who have earned their first degree within the past 15 years.

• Automatic membership (no need to apply)• More than 8000 PES YP members

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Seattle Section PES YP Affinity Group PES YP Panel Session at 2014 GM

PES YP Program

• Objectives:– Build continuity between student, young professional, and

senior IEEE/PES membership.

– Provide students and young professionals with career services, leadership opportunities, and networking opportunities

– Integrate PES YP members in PES Activities

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2016 PES YP Activities

• PES YP events at IEEE PES Conferences• PES Young Professional Webinar Series• PES Young Professional Regional/Chapter

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2016 PES-YP EVENTS BY TYPEConferences

Webinars

Regional/LocalEvents

2016 PES-YP EVENT ATTENDEESConferences

Webinars

Regional/LocalEvents

PES YP Committee Members– John Hofman (Committee Chair

• Burns & McDonnell Engineering– Aaron St. Leger (Past-Committee Chair)

• United States Military Academy

– Sayonsom Chanda (Vice-Chair/Webmaster)• Idaho National Labs

– Husaien F. Mahdi (Academic Liaison)• Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

– Erick G. Chinchilla Vargas (Event Coordinator)• University of Costa Rica, Guanacaste

– Simay Akar (Industry Liaison)• Talesun Solar Technologies Co., Ltd.

– Usman Munawar (Communications Coordinator)

• University of Engineering and Technology Lahore

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IEEE PES YP Regional Representatives

• Region 1: Chiranjeevi ‘Bala’ Kotharu• Region 2: Open Position• Region 3: Daniel Diaz• Region 4: Open Position • Region 5: Open Position• Region 6: Rohith Goura• Region 7: Adenusi Opeyemi Adebisi• Region 8: Mr. Anwar Ahmad Sabri, Princessose Irabor• Region 9: Thiago Alencar• Region 10: Hassaan Idrees

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PES YP Website8

PES YP Program:– Past/Future Events– Event Planning – Event Reporting

PES YP Webinars– Looking for Presenters– Couple of presenters lined up

but need more

Volunteer Opportunities– Regional Reps, Large areas

need more than one

Upcoming Events– YP Panel tomorrow– WiP/YP Reception – YP After Hours Social event

http://sites.ieee.org/pes-yp/

Regional Representative Goal

• To accelerate IEEE PES activities in Regions by valuable communication with local PES Chapters and involve graduate students.

• To organize small competitions to aware students and professionals about Innovation and Research to help society.

• To ensure and involve maximum professionals in organizining Webinars and networking Session to derive memberships of PES

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PES-YP Online Event Reporting• http://sites.ieee.org/pes-yp/event-reporting/

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What can the Chapter ExCom Do?

• Appoint/Elect a Chapter PES-YP Rep. to your committee• Host events geared at getting YP involved in IEEE-PES

• Offer Micro-volunteering positions (small involvement)• Funding for YP events is available

• Website: yp.ieee.org/funding-opportunities

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IEEE PES YP Regional Representatives

• Region 1: Chiranjeevi ‘Bala’ Kotharu• Region 2: Open Position• Region 3: Daniel Diaz• Region 4: Open Position • Region 5: Open Position• Region 6: Rohith Goura• Region 7: Adenusi Opeyemi Adebisi• Region 8: Mr. Anwar Ahmad Sabri, Princessose Irabor• Region 9: Thiago Alencar• Region 10: Hassaan Idrees

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Programs

• IEEE Research and Development Program • IEEE Graduate Internship Program • IEEE Technical Lecture Series • IEEE Mentor Program • IEEE Be Engr Program(Collaborated Regions 8, 9, & 10)• IEEE-PES Student Branch Initiative (Region 9)• IEEE-PES Networking Without Borders

• Student Congress• Renewable Energy in Schools

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PES Networking without Borders (NwB)PES Student chapters from 25 countries are supporting NwB project

PES NwB: Renewable Engineering in school

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PTCL Visit , National workshop on Power electronics, Innovation to invention 2014All Pakistan Student YP WIE Congress 2014

7th Annual PES GM YP Social Event• In collaboration with IEEE-Region 5 YP at

• WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017 @ Navy Pier Bar & Restaurant• 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

–600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611

• Click to Here to Register : https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/45921

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Twitter #Milestelfie Contest

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• In collaboration with IEEE History

• 179 sites around the world

• Contest Runs May 1, 2017 – Sept. 15, 2017.

• See PES-YP Website for details http://sites.ieee.org/pes-yp/milestelfies-photo-contest/