OUTSTANDING CHAPTER AWARD

NOMINATION

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY STUDENT

CHAPTER

UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS

REGION 8

GREECE SECTION

Website: www.computer.ieee-upatras.gr || www.ieee-upatras.gr Email: computer@ieee-upatras.gr

Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/IEEE-SB-UPatras-Computer-Chapter/307346405946129

Twitter : https://twitter.com/IEEECSUpatras

Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/csupatras

CONTENTS

1.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Introduction

1.1 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Newsletters

1.2 …………………………………………………………………..…………………..Enlistment of Past and New CS Members

2. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Student Branch Chapter Activities

2.1 …………………………………………………………………………………Website Development with Joomla Workshop

2.2 ………………………………………………………Human Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence Seminar

2.3 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Games Expo 2012

2.4…………………………………………………………………………………………………. Connection with Industry-Internships

2.5 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………UBI-PATRAS 2012

3. …………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………Volunteer Activity

3.1…………………………………………………..………………………………..……… Field Trip to Gaming Forum 2012 by AIT

4. ………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………Contests

4.1 ………………………………………………………………………………Website Development Contest using Joomla CMS

5. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Fund Raising

6. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Social Events

7. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Photos/Press

1.Introduction

The needs of IEEE Student Branch of University of Patras’ members and expressions of

interest from IEEE members about scientific and Computer Science interests led to the

establishment of an IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter.

The IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras was found on

November 5th, 2011 and approved by the IEEE on January 5th , 2012 with code

SBC50001.It is the 1st and the only Computer Society Student Chapter to have been found

in Greece.

Since we were found, members were eager to organize and participate in Scientific Events

about the field of Computer Science, as well as undertake scientific projects to develop

applications.

Our community grew numerically amazingly during the first months of our activity.Right

now we are counting 49 Active Members and this number is growing rapidly day by day.

Our outstanding effort and the organization of several interesting events during 2011-2012

had as a result the creation of a huge network including researchers, students, professors

and industry, while also the Greek and IEEE Press published several articles in newsletters

and newspapers about our activity.

Therefore, we submit this petition in order to nominate our IEEE Computer Society Student

Chapter of the University of Patras, Greece for the Outstanding Chapter Award of IEEE

Computer Society.

1.1 Newsletters

Student Branch Chapter Newsletters Since January 6th 2012 we have published 2 NewsLetters(Greek Language) for 2

seasons(Winter & Spring).These Newsletters included information and summaries of past events as well as a section of “coming soon” events.

http://issuu.com/MariosBikos/docs/csupatras1stnewsletter/1 http://issuu.com/MariosBikos/docs/2nd_newsletter/1

1.2 Enlistment of Past and New CS Members

MEMBERS= 49 active

Member Number Full Name IEEE Membership Status Description

41461334 Andreas Papalambrou Active

41531217 Nikolaos Kefalas Active

80151098 Giorgos Gioulis Active

80367436 Manolis Viennas Active

80428767 Andreas G Kotsopoulos Active

80727246 Spyros Theodoritsis Active

90237456 George Apostolopoulos Active

90298757 Michael G Epitropakis Active

90364293 Apostolos P. Fournaris Active

90457774 Christos A. Koulamas Active

90551560 EPAMEINONDAS RONTOGIANNIS

Active

90617883 Marios Kendea Active

90677790 Erikos Alkalai Active

90789593 Charalampos Tsimpouris Active

90866305 ATHANASIOS POLYZOS Active

90872590 Theodoros Chatzigiannakis Active

91161210 Filippos Vasilakis Active

91167134 Thanasis Paraskevas Active

91211019 George Lydakis Active

91213448 Marios Fotios Bikos Active

91226131 Thrasyvoulos Karidis Active

91253271 Anestis Bechtsoudis Active

92029882 Konstantinos Goutsos Active

92043208 Maria Rossi Active

92102992 Vasileios Keramidas Active

92104674 Maria Karpathiotaki Active

92104960 Eftychios Theodorakis Active

92113838 Nicholas Kostas Zaglis Active

92122963 Ioannis Prevezanos Active

92141381 PANAGIOTIS TSINGANOS Active

92142588 DIMITRIOS SKREPETOS Active

92142619 ANDREAS BABOURIS Active

92147034 George Konstantinos Bikos Active

92147425 Filippos Dimosthenis Soulakis Active

92151293 GEORGE KOULIKAS Active

92151331 Spiros Kafkias Active

92160066 Markos Petros Mertzemekianos Active

92160566 Albano Seitaj Active

92160569 Prokopis Antoniadis Active

92161509 Isi Matalon Active

92184834 Nikos Nikoloutsakos Active

92264631 EFTYCHIA PANAGIOTOPOULOU Active

92267481 Adamantios Ntanis Active

92270823 Panagiota Revithi Active

92288475 Paris Stefanou Active

92311930 Anastasia Grigoropoulou Active

92313010 Theodore Tsamis Active

92416476 Achilleas John Yfantis Active

92416772 Ioanna Tzanetou Active

21/09/2011-06/01/2012

Members=16

Member Number Full Name IEEE Membership Status Description

91226131 Thrasyvoulos Karidis Active

92102992 Vasileios Keramidas Active

92104674 Maria Karpathiotaki Active

92104960 Eftychios Theodorakis Active

92113838 Nicholas Kostas Zaglis Active

92122963 Ioannis Prevezanos Active

92141381 PANAGIOTIS TSINGANOS Active

92142588 DIMITRIOS SKREPETOS Active

92142619 ANDREAS BABOURIS Active

92147034 George Konstantinos Bikos Active

92147425 Filippos Soulakis Active

92151293 GEORGE KOULIKAS Active

92151331 Spiros Kafkias Active

92160566 Albano Seitaj Active

92160569 Prokopis Antoniadis Active

92161509 Isi Matalon Active

06/01/2012-Present

New Members

Member Number Full Name IEEE Membership Status Description

92160066 Markos Petros Mertzemekianos Active

92184834 Nikos Nikoloutsakos Active

92264631 EFTYCHIA PANAGIOTOPOULOU Active

92267481 Adamantios Ntanis Active

92270823 Panagiota Revithi Active

92288475 Paris Stefanou Active

92311930 Anastasia Grigoropoulou Active

92313010 Theodore Tsamis Active

92416476 Achilleas John Yfantis Active

92416772 Ioanna Tzanetou Active

2. Student Branch Chapter Activities

2.1 Website Development with Joomla-Workshop

Attendance: 250 people

Building a website from scratch may sound like a

complicated topic but on December 20th 2011, students of

the University of Patras had the opportunity to build their own website using Joomla in a workshop organized by the

IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of

Patras. Joomla is a content management system (CMS) which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online

applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and

extensibility have made Joomla one of the most popular Web site software available. The workshop was delivered by Mr.

Evangelou, Managing Director at Nuevo Webmare Ltd/ CTO

at JoomlaWorks Ltd and creator of the most popular sports portal (gazzetta.gr) in Greece. The workshop included a

presentation on how to launch a website as well as administrate its content. The

participants were excited and really enjoyed the workshop.

2.2 Human-Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence Event

Attendance: 120 people

On Thursday, February 16th, 2012 IEEE Computer

Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras

organized a seminar entitled:

"Human-Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence"

The purpose of this event was to present to the public

the sectors and research applications that have been

developed by the laboratory of Human-Computer

Interaction and Wire Communications, which also

include the area of Artificial Intelligence and is part of

the Telecommunications and Information Technology Division that belongs to the Electrical

and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) of the University of Patras.

The attendees had the opportunity to become familiar with new technologies and learn

more about them such as eye tracking and user monitor equipment , portable devices

development and testing methods and tools as well as multimedia and software

development tools. But, the most important part of the event was that the attendees-

students were given the chance to participate in these projects and assist professors with

their research.The presentations were given by N.Fakotakis, Director of the Laboratory of

Wire Communications (EBC), and head of the Artificial Intelligence Group, N.Avouris, Head

of Group HCI, Professor of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction and

K.Sgarbas, Assistant Professor on "Symbolic Artificial Intelligence with emphasis on

Interactive Systems", Faculty Advisor of the IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter.

Students were amazed by the perspective of these new technologies and were motivated

to participate in the labs and research activities.

2.3 Games Expo 2012

Attendance: 1018 people

IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter &

IEEE Student Branch of University of Patras

organized the first Greek Games Expo in the

city of Patras.

A series of successful events at the University

of Patras, and the expertise combined with the appetite of the members of the Organizing

Committee led to our decision to organize an event on a field that we all know from when

we were young but we want to know more about, the one of ...Video Games!

Video games have become an entertainment for all ages and genders, with huge appeal to

both young people and adults. They are available in every format from digital consoles to

mobile phones. Gradually changing the way we communicate, we interact, we learn, we

work. It's an industry with great history, but with an even greater future. We Deserve to

know gaming better and what better way than to present this field to new students with

interest and hunger for learning!

This event was addressed to the public generally, but particularly young people and

students interested in the field of Gaming in Greece. Our goal was to bring together in this

event a series of speeches by researchers and Greek companies operating in the area of

Gaming in Greece as well as informing the public about how they started, what is

happening currently in the field of Gaming in Greece, what do they think about the future

of video games in Greece, business solutions through this area, information on the stages

and processes of a project and finally a video game demo or Demo Videos from video

games that have been developed by them. Partial, our goal was to strengthen the

presence of Greece in the developing field of videogames. Main concern of the event was

to bring young people into more direct contact with the area of Game Development in

Greece and to highlight the interconnection between academics-researchers and

production & development of videogames.

Personal contact and dialogue between companies, researchers and young people emerged

interesting proposals and prospects for participants from both sides .To achieve these

objectives, each participating company was presented to the public through a speech,

while it could have its own space in the event. Thus, a friendly atmosphere enabled all

attendees to learn about the activities of companies, recruiting chances, Gaming Projects

dealt with. It also enabled the public to play video games on consoles which had been

placed to live closely the thrill of Gaming. The event was held on Friday, March 16th at the

Conference and Cultural Centre of the University of Patras. 1018 attendees really enjoyed

the presentations and the parallel events and everyone is looking forward for the next

Games Expo which is going to be Games & Mobile Expo 2013.

2.4 Connection with Industry through our activity

During Games Expo 2012 personal contact and dialogue between companies, researchers and young people emerged 2 interesting proposals for

participants.Specifically, 2 Gaming Companies from Greece, Saicon Games

(http://www.saicongames.com/) and Eyelead (http://eyelead.com) offered internships for students of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department during the students’

diploma thesis in the field of Game Development.

2.5 UBI-PATRAS 2012

Attendance: 110 people On Friday, May 25th, 2012, the

workshop on Mobile & Ubiquitous

Computing was organized by the

Research Group on Internet

Technologies Computer Engineering and

Informatics, Univ. Patras, in

collaboration with the student associations StudentGuru Patras, IEEE Computer Society

Student Chapter of University of Patras and i-Bite team. The workshop’s goal was to inform students about the activities of the University and the

ITYE in this research area and demonstrate the possibility of doing project work in

undergraduate and postgraduate level.

For those already active members of the University the conference provided an opportunity

to meet, and stimulate fruitful discussion for better cooperation with a view to participation

in national and international projects.

The workshop included lectures on the background of the field of Mobile Computing and

scattered by the University faculty members and a large student competition in which the

students participated and won fantastic prizes!

The event was considered successful and everyone left the event having been motivated to

participate in national and international projects.

3. Volunteer Activity

3.1 Field Trip-Gaming Forum 2012 by Athens Information Technology Center

The 1st Gaming Forum 2012 was held in collaboration with

the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Athens Plaython and IEEE

Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras. The 1st Gaming

Forum 2012 was envisaged to become an annual

networking and information sharing event aimed at discussing trends in game design and its applications in entertainment, education and marketing; analyzing the business of gaming and creating a game development community

The 1st Gaming Forum was a two-day event, on April 27th-28th 2012, comprised of two

parts,the Gaming Convention: a networking and information sharing event which aimed to

bring together the academia and industry to discuss various topics related to the concepts of gaming and gamification and the Gaming Contest which aimed at bringing together

game enthusiasts and game developers, in order to facilitate the creation of highly innovative game ideas and working game prototypes.

IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of University of Patras arranged a field trip to the Event for the support through the Volunteering Students and the organization of the event. During this event we managed to set up several mini-contests like Typing Contest, XBOX 360 contests etc using our experience from Games Expo 2012.

4. Contests

4.1 WebSite Creation Contest-Joomla CMS

IEEE Computer Chapter organized a contest for it's

website computer.ieee-upatras.gr.

Students were invited to submit their site for IEEE Computer Chapter using ONLY Joomla CMS. We wanted

them to create their website as they would have imagined it should be, using their imagination and creativity, and of course JOOMLA CMS 1.6-1.7.They had to create the site locally to their computer(localhost) and then send us their files via email.

This Contest began on Wednesday December 21st, 2011

and ended on Tuesday February 14th, 2012.

Prizes

1 HTC Trophy mobile phone by HTC!! €70.00 cash by Found.gr 2 Domain Names .gr, .eu or 1 Domain Name .com by

Papaki.gr 1 Web Hosting-Dynamic for 1 Year Free-1 Web Hosting

Pro for 1 Year Free! by Papaki.gr

Final Judges: Professor N. Avouris, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras-Dr K. Sgarbas, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer

Engineering, Advisor of the Computer Society Student Student Branch, Univ of Patras- Mr F. Evangelou, Managing Director at Nuevvo Webware Ltd.,Mr M. Bikos, IEEE Computer Society Student Student Branch Acting Chair

The IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter at the University of Patras had the pleasure

to announce the winner of the "Competition for Website Development" with Joomla CMS

who was Pantazis Dimitris.3 sites were submitted, and judges were asked to evaluate

on the basis of functionality,aesthetics, organizing information, navigation and The

Browser Portability.

5. Fund-Raising

During the Games Expo 2012 organization and throughout the year we managed to raise funds and created T-shirts

with our Logos and IEEE Computer Society Stamps.

Here are some photos

6.Social Events

Boosting membership with a Student Branch Chapter Social and

Orientation Night.

Just before Christmas Holiday IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter and Fellow IEEE

EMBS Student Chapter of University of Patras arranged their first social event to celebrate the end of 2011. During this event the members from both chapters had the opportunity

to meet each other and most importantly, exchange opinions and knowledge as all of them

have different scientific backgrounds such as Electrical and Computer Engineering , Medicine , Mechanical Engineering and Biology. Last but not least, the Members of the

IEEE Student Branch University of Patras enjoyed the event and had a great time and a lot

of fun!

7.Photos/Press