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Deadline for RAS Local Chapter Development Grants

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The RAS Member Activities Board (MAB) awards a limited number of Chapter
Development Grants to local RAS Chapters for professional development, educational
outreach, and other programs. Grant proposals will be reviewed by the MAB at its
meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2016 and funds up to US$2,000 will be awarded
on a competitive basis. The deadline for proposals is 30 April 2016. For submission
details, please visit http://www.ieee-ras.org/member-communities/chapters.

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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2016.2531959
Date of publication: 8 March 2016

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Equally intense has been his activity to disseminate robotics and science
to the general public. The results of his
research have earned him numerous
awards and hundreds of articles in
national and foreign newspapers and
magazines, as well as many appearances on radio and television.
Welcome to New RAS Chapters
Congratulations to the following newly
organized Chapters:
New IEEE Section Chapters
South Brazil Section Chapter
● Lebanon Section Robotics and Automation, Instrumentation and Measurement, and Control Systems Joint
Societies Chapter.
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New IEEE Student Chapter
Branches
Brazil
Universidade do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro
● Universidade Federal do Vale do São
Francisco.
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Colombia
Universidad Francisco De Paula
Santander
● Universidad Surcolombiana.
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Egypt
Helwan University.

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France
University of Franche Comte.

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India
Saveetha School of Engineering
● Sri Krishna College of Engineering
and Technology
● TKM College of Engineering
● College of Engineering-Adoor.
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Mexico
● Universidad Autonóma de Guadalajara
● Universidad Tec Milenio Campus
Las Torres.
Pakistan
● National University of Computer and
Emerging Sciences Lahore.
Peru
Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia-UTEC.

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Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez.

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Announcing New RAS Society
Senior Members
Senior Member is the highest grade for
which IEEE members can apply. IEEE
members can self-nominate or be nominated for Senior Member grade.
To be eligible for application or
nomination, candidates must:
● be engineers, scientists, educators,
technical executives, or originators in
IEEE-designated fields
● have experience reflecting professional maturity
● have been in professional practice for
at least ten years (with some credit
for certain degrees)
● show significant performance over a
period of at least five of their years in
professional practice.
The following RAS members met these
requirements and were elevated to Senior
Member status as of November 2015.
Congratulations new Senior Members!
● Atiqur Rahman Ahad
● Mojtaba Ahmadi
● Messaoud Amairi
● Rui Araujo
● Mike Bangham
● Shiuh Long Chang
● Mark Colgan

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Ruwan Gopura
Tapio Heikkila
Zdenek Hurak
Pierre Larochelle
Mark Loy
Ignacio Mas
Luis Reis
Rui P. Rocha
Terence Sanger
Mario Tornabene
Zheng Wang
Christopher Wilson
Guoyuan Wu.

2016 IEEE RAS Fellow Class
RAS congratulates its members who were
elevated to Fellow grade in 2016. The
IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred by the
Board of Directors upon a person with an
extraordinary record of accomplishments
in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
The following are the 2015 RAS Fellows evaluated by RAS:
● Alin Albu-Schaeffer of German Aerospace Center, Technical University
Munich, Germany, for contributions
to compliant and lightweight robots.
● Tatsuo Arai of Osaka University,
Japan, for contributions to micromanipulators and sensors, and applications to cellular biology.
● Chun-Hung Chen of George Mason
University, Virginia, United States, for
contributions to the simulation-based
optimization of automation systems.
● Wan Kyun Chung of the Pohang
University of Science and Technology, South Korea, for developments
in robust control theory for mechanical systems.
● Qiang Huang of the Beijing Institute
of Technology, China, for contributions to the design and control of
biped robots.
● Danica Kragic of the Royal Institute
of Technology, Sweden, for contributions to vision-based systems and
robotic object manipulation.
● Domenico Prattichizzo of the University of Siena, Italy, for contributions to haptics and multifingered
robotic hands.
● Stergios Roumeliotis of the University of Minnesota, United States, for

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