IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - June 2011 - 119

STUDENT'S CORNER

Events and Projects of the RAS SAC
By Tamas Haidegger (haidegger@ieee.org), Alejandro Perez, and Marcelo Leandro Moreyra

he IEEE Robotics Automation Society (RAS) Student
Activities Committee (SAC)
has gone through a reorganization, and we are doing our best to
create attractive new programs in addition to the existing ones. As we are
strongly committed to continue walking this path, allow me to briefly
summarize the ongoing events and
projects of the RAS SAC. I'm happy to
announce that Marcelo Leandro Moreyra joined us as a cochair for 2011
replacing Michel Franken. Marcelo is
a Ph.D. candidate at the Universidad
Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca,
Buenos Aires. We welcome him on
board. To get more information about
any of the projects, please visit our
Web site (http://wiki.ieee-ras.org/mab/
sac). The main priority of the committee is to improve student interaction
and professional experience at the flagship conferences of the Society, namely
IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
For this reason, last year, we were
learning, chairing, hiking, and singing
together, led by Michel Franken, and
we will continue having all of these
events at the upcoming conferences.
Marcelo has been leading the committee newsletter (NL) since early 2010.
The SAC activities and many other
interesting information are included
every month. The NL has two volumes so far (http://wiki.ieee-ras.org/

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mab/sac # sac_newsletter), and we are
keen to improve it. We will actively
work to ensure that the information
provided by the NL will be increasingly useful for RAS students.
We exerted quite a bit to reach out
to our new members by creating brochures and flyers as well as Facebook
and LinkedIn activities, which are an
initiative by Alejandro. We are now
ready to engage the company partners for
future cooperation.
The Student Reviewer Program
(SRP) has been set up and managed by
Ludo Visser ("The Reviewing Process:
Assessing Scientific Contribution" to
appear in "Student's Corner" column of
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine,
September 2011). The aim of the program is to introduce the young researchers in a supervised and structured
way to the reviewing process by providing reference materials, tutorials, and
organizing a supervised training process. So far, a Web site with a mailing
list has been set up (http://sites.ieee.org/
ras-srp/), with connected Facebook
and LinkedIn groups. In addition, a
collection of reference material was
done, and following Seth Hutchinson's

Alejandro Perez

"Editor's Corner" column in IEEE
Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol.
17, no. 4, pp. 101, 103-104, Dec. 2010,
you can read the second part of his
column in the September issue or on
the student Web
*
page.
The main priority
We have an
ongoing student
of the committee is
photo contest, reto improve student
port writing, cochairing program,
interaction and
and many more.
professional
If you have more
initiatives, please
experience at the
let us know. Join
flagship conferences
the RAS SAC
mailing list at rasof the Society.
studcom@google- *
groups.com or
leave your impressions on our
Wiki site (http://wiki.ieee-ras.org/
mab/sac).
We are doing our best to provide
you a Society experience like nothing
else. Please give us some feedback and
keep joining our programs.
Keep roboting.

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