The Student Activities Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (we like to call is “SAC” only) was formed in 2006 as an initiative by the Robotics and Automation Society Adcom to represent the students' voices. As part of the Member Activities Board, the SAC consists of a chair who serves a two year position and 2 co-chairs who serve one year positions. The Goal of the SAC is to represent students in robotics worldwide.

The SAC is responsible for organizing and managing activities, promotions, and competitions to recruit students and keep members active. The SAC puts on a set of activities during ICRA and IROS, the two annual conferences of the Robotics and Automation Society. At IROS2010 we organized a trip to a popular Taipei night market, a visit to Taipei 101 (one of the highest buildings in the world!), a lunch with some of the leaders of the robotics industry, and many more events.

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The IEEE RAS is seeking applications for the two co-chairs of SAC, who will serve the next term in 2012. Learn more about the details here

The Editorial Board of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob2012) is giving the RAS Student Reviewer Program (SRP) the unique opportunity to offer students to actively participate in the reviewing process of this leading conference in the field of BioRobotics. Get the opportunity to learn how the reviewing process works! Learn more about the details here

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Volume 2 (2011):

• Issue 1, February 2011
• Issue 2, April 2011
• Issue S3, ICRA2011 edition
• Issue 4, May 2011
• Issue 5, June 2011
• Issue 6, July 2011
• Summer break
• Issue 7, September 2011
• Issue S8, IROS 2011 edition
• Issue 9, October 2011
• Issue 10, November 2011
• Issue 11, December 2011 (Available now!)

Archives: Volume 1 (2010):

• Issue 1, March 2010
• Issue S2, ICRA edition
• Issue 3, April 2010
• Issue 4, May 2010
• Issue 5, June 2010
• Summer break (consider it an issue…)
• Issue 7, September 2010
• Issue S8, IROS edition
• Issue 9, October 2010
• Issue 10, November 2010
• Issue 11, December 2010

We plan to release a Newsletter every month or so about SAC activities, competitions, running projects and upcoming deadlines. If you have any comments or ideas, contact us!

Soon moving this section to here.

The IROS reporting contest and photo contest are still open! See details on the IROS page! Hi everybody! As every year, SAC committee works hard to ensure that all students attending this great event will participate not only in technical activities but also in professional development, cultural exchange and social activities.

You can find updated information of the SAC activities being prepared at IROS 2011 SAC subpage (being permanently updated)

We hope to see you all there!!

Tamas Haidegger Marcelo L. Moreyra, Alejandro Perez

• SAC recruiting flyer
• SAC brochure for students
• SAC brochure for company partners
• SAC Student Reviewers Program

IEEE is the world's largest professional association providing access to the industry's most essential technical information, networking opportunities, career development tools and many other exclusive benefits to its members. Learn more about these here.

The Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) is interested in both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. The Robotics and Automation Magazine and the Transactions on Robotics are the highest ranked journals in the field. We do not need to introduce the flagship conferences of the RAS: ICRA and IROS, both providing significant discounts to members.

We are particularly inviting you to join the RAS Student Committee, to be part of a great experience: having fun while acquiring new knowledge and developing your career. You can learn more about our current activities from the regular RAS SAC Newsletter. Below, you can see the variety of programs we are preparing for our colleagues at this ICRA. You are welcome to join! All in all, IEEE requires a very modest membership fee from students compared to the direct and indirect benefits. Get involved today!

• Laura Magheri (chair) 2012-2013

• Tamas Haidegger (chair) 2010-2011
  • Alejandro Perez (co-chair) 2010, 2011
  • Marcelo L. Moreyra (co-chair) 2011
  • Michel Franken (co-chair) 2010
• Carol Reiley (chair) 2008-2009
  • Junjie 'Jonjay' Zhang, Shogo Okamoto (co-chairs) 2009
  • Elena Gribovskaya, Phil Roan (co-chairs) 2008
• Surya Singh 2006-2008 (first chair)

The following is a list of people who are currently helping with various activities. This list was last updated on April 27, 2011 based on information from our public mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ras-studcom

Fostering Interaction Between Robotists and Students (FIBRS) is a Student/Chair Mentorship Program run at the IROS and ICRA conferences. Find out more about it on the FIBRS wiki page.

Hello ICRA attendees!

You can get updated information on the student activities from the latest ICRA newsletter's online edition (last updated: May 10). Trying to keep the official ICRA website up to date as well, with less luck so far.

All in all, It promises to be a great conference and we are looking forward to meeting and getting to know all of you there!

On behalf of the IEEE RAS student council,

Amy Blank, Abeje Y. Mersha, Tamas Haidegger Marcelo L. Moreyra, Alejandro Perez

All the latest info about IROS 2010 activities, the IROS student reporters program and the photo contest are on our IROS2010 subpage

First phone call with past president Surya Singh

ICRA 2009 Proposals

Things to think about when planning events. Also Feedback on past events

Call for Chairs of Student Activities Committee Proposal 2007

Call for CoChairs of Student Activities Committee Proposal 2008

http://wiki.ieee-ras.org (RAS wiki) http://www.ieee-ras.org/login.php?retry=1&return= (login, email roz if you need ID) http://wiki.ieee-ras.org/positions (jobs)

*How many people are on this committee? There are three students on the committee, the chair and two new co-chairs

*What do you do? The student activity committee cochairs assist the chair of the Student Activity committee, who is also a voting member of the RAS Administrative Committee (AdCom), the governing body of the society to

      1. Determine and make the AdCom aware of concerns of students
      2. Work with the chairs of RAS Student Branch Chapters to encourage their active participation in activities which will benefit their members' technical, professional and educational goals
      3. Plan activities at RAS major conferences to enable students from different countries become acquainted and active in RAS

The student activity committee was responsible for creating the RAS wiki, the jobs board, and organizing students activities at RAS conferences. The chair serves on Member Activities Board (MAB) and is a voting member of AdCom, therefore he/she is required to attend the AdCom meetings. He/She receives $900 for domestic travel and $1800 for international travel to attend the AdCom meetings.

*Is it totally student run, or are there professors/IEEE “professionals” who are also involved in the brainstorming? This group is a subset of the member activities board currently headed by alicia casals. We get to interact with the rest of the RAS administrative committee. Most of the initiates are put forth by the student but members of the committee email us with thoughts from time to time. We also work with the local conference committee, which changes where-ever the conference is held, to plan events. The work does spike around the conferences since that is when we are putting in new proposals and executing ones with funding. I send out a fair amount of emails informing the chairs of activities and writing proposals. It's not too large of a time commitment ( a couple hours a month), but I am very active in trying to get this committee off the ground.

*Also, you make it sound like a pretty low level time commitment. Sounds like a spike around ICRA and a spike around IROS, but other than that not too much to do. is that accurate? My schedule is not too flexible so i'm just trying to get a gage of how much time is actually required to do it and to do it properly.

*Before you did this, were you already involved in IEEE and RAS? I was a member of RAS but I had not done anything on the administrative side prior to this.

*How do I get a RAS faculty to nominate me? Do I really need one? A student who submits a strong letter and a nomination from a professor at his university will be much more likely to be appointed. If you sign into your RAS web account you can search the RAS directory by city and possibly locate a professor you know well enough to request a nomination.