The IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2014 took place in Krakow from August 4th until August 10th. Passau was represented by six student branch members. To present their activities at the congress, each branch was asked to create a poster before traveling to Krakow.
oster Passau
On Thursday, July 3rd 2014, the event Tools for your Software Engineering Project took place for the second time. Students from higher semester introduced some tools that are maybe helpful for the Software Engineering Project.
Attached are the slides of the talks (only available in German).
Talk on SVN and GIT Talk about code analysis with IntelliJ IDEA Talk on LaTeX Bugtracking Project Management
On 07/06/2014, this time as part of the campus festival, our Eggdrop Contest took place for the 5th time in bright sunshine. Nine teams took on the task of building a construction (called an Eggdropper) that would protect a raw egg from a fall of 20 meters. In the end, four of the nine teams succeeded.
To quickly and safely bring the Eggdroppers to drop height above the forecourt of the Audimax, an aerial ladder from the Passau Volunteer Fire Department was used.
At the 17th of June 2014 we organized the FIM Barbecue Party together with the Fachschaft Informatik.
Professors, research assistants and students met at the place between
the FIM and the ITZ eating steaks and sausages and drinking beer. Even though the weather was not perfect at first, over 100 people
attended the party.
Along with food and drink, we saw to fun and excitement organizing the first Beer-Box-Far-Piling-Event.
SC02825The band Chord Dump which consists of members of the faculty entertained us with live music.
On Thursday, May 22, Olaf and Andreas were invited to give a talk about VIM and how easy it is to work with it. At the beginning, Olaf showed us basic commands like :wq and dd, which should be known by every VIM user. After that he gave us an introduction to a more sophisticated way of using VIM, in order to edit text faster and more efficiently, for example with macros.
On April 24, 2014 Prof. Dr. Amft has been our guest in a professors face-to-face. He spent one and a half hours to talk about his career, his research and his ambitions.
Professor Amft has been holding the new Chair for Sensors Technologies, which was created in the context of the “Technik Plus” program, since January 1, 2014. He deals with senors systems and their application in daily things like health or alimentation.
President Elect of IEEE
IEEE President-Elect J. Roberto de Marca will give a speech about Open Access and “Emerging technologies within IEEE”. The talk will be in english.
The IEEE Student Branch Passau wishes all students a good start in the summer term 2014. We want to invite you at the same time to join our first regular meeting on 2014/04/07. It starts at 6pm c.t. in the room IM 242, afterwards we will have a dinner at the restaurant “Akropolis Athen”.
From June 26th to 27th, the IEEE Germany Student Conference will take
place for the fifth time. Submissions are possible until February, 28st. More information is available here.
On February 20, IEEE Student Branch Passau celebrates its
25th\ anniversary. We are glad to be participating in and enhancing day-to-day life at the university with fascinating talks and workshops for Passau’s Computer Science students. We will celebrate our 25th anniversary in summer, following
the 5th IEEE Germany Student Conference.
We organize events like Research Talks and “Professors face-to-face”, where we invite professors to talk about their life and career. We also host workshops and competitions (e.
