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WIE From Around the World

My Experience
as the Chair of an
IEEE WIE Affinity Group

The next two webinars, How to
Be a Freelancer and Job Experience
Without a Job, were collaborative
webinars with the Usman Institute
of Technology WIE and IEEE NUSTPNEC teams, respectively. These
events enhanced my leadership

Wearing various hats to meet members' needs

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was select directors and mentors
for respective departments, and I
chose experienced people for the job.
This was my first accomplishment
as the chair of WIE. The most difficult task was finding members for
the design department because it
requires trained people who know
how to use graphic design software
such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe
Photoshop. We recruited mostly
juniors in their first year for the
design department, and a mentor
trained them. Now we have very
skilled graphic designers.
◗◗ Conducting successful and influential events: Fortunately, I found
an intelligent and supportive mentor who gave me the idea to conduct a webinar on graphic design,
and I then implemented it. Team
members from all the departments
worked diligently for the webinar,
and this event ultimately became a
success as we received more than
200 registrations. All of the participants learned a lot from the webinar
and shared positive reviews with us.
They also requested that we conduct more events of such kind. As a
result, this event provided me with
a lot of confidence and motivation to
move forward.

I was appointed chair of the IEEE
Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity
Group of the College of National University of Sciences and Technologies at
the Pakistan Navy Engineering College
(NUST-PNEC) on 5 June 2020 amid
lockdown due to the global COVID-19
pandemic. It was a great honor for me
to become the leader of an international
Society where my leadership and teammanagement skills could flourish, but
at the same time, it is a challenge to run
an Affinity Group that has neither its
team nor its financial assets in place.

Organizing From the Ground Up
As the chair of an IEEE WIE Affinity Group,
I have worked on the following tasks:
◗◗ Team building: This was the first
duty I had to perform as a leader,
and it was challenging to build a
team when everything was carried
out in a work-from-home environment. Usually, teams are built from
a proper recruitment process, but
I constructed mine using connections of my own. By 20 June 2020,
I had a complete team of 24 people,
including members from various
departments. The next thing I did
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The poster designed for the Playing
MATLAB webinar by my skilled design
team members.



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