Hi everyone,
as you surely know from our previous posts, last week we hosted a meeting in the Conference Room of the DEI to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of IEEE, and almost 50 persons were present at the event throughout the whole morning .
Prof. Silvano Donati, Chairman of IEEE Italy Section, was present and opened the day with a review of IEEE’s history in our country: in fact, this year is also the 50th Anniversary of our Section, therefore that was the perfect occasion to learn a little more about this.
After a short presentation of i3Poli held by Vincenzo, Marco and me, other talks were given by Prof. Sergio Pignari, by Prof. Alessandro Ferrero and finally by Prof. Luigi Dadda. Additionally, Luka Lugaric, a former IEEE Region 8 SAC member and now a member of the Professional Development Committee, took part to the celebration and encouraged the students to actively participate to IEEE’s life.
At the end of the meeting – around 1 PM – we held a subscription party, during which five students registered to IEEE and thus also became members of i3Poli, our Student Branch.
Now we are writing a short article on this event to send to our Region, with the hope to be published on the next number of R8News magazine – coming out on October, 2009. If you want to participate on the discussion for this, please go to our mailing list.
Here are a couple of pictures we took during the meeting:
We want to thanks everyone who participated to our celebration, and hope to gain experience from this first event to better organize the next ones! So stay tuned, or – better – become an active member of our Student Branch!
Vincenzo has gathered some of the presentations that were made during the 125th Anniversary celebration we had some weeks ago, so I’m posting them here on the site. 
