BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuwait BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T061407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+03 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19470313T235308 TZOFFSETFROM:+0306 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2TH;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:+03 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230918T163003Z UID:AD9A556A-0D70-42C4-9B1E-F8C7A72FEB48 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kuwait:20230917T084500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kuwait:20230917T103000 DESCRIPTION:We firmly believe in the necessity of educating Jordanian schoo l girls about various engineering disciplines and encouraging them to pros per in such fields as well as broadening their understanding of engineerin g and connecting it to the real world\, our WIE affinity group at Yarmouk University had a successful visit to the Yarmouk Model School in Irbid\, w here we delivered a detailed lecture to tenth-grade and junior school girl s\, in which we covered the following:\n\n* Introduction to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.\n\n* Introduction to the Women in Engineering community.\n\n*An overview of engineering and its various spe cialties and fields.\n\n* A practical experiment presentation from the fie ld of Electronics Engineering\, where the girls were allowed to experience hands-on work with basic electronic components.\n\nDr. Yusra Obeidat \, t he WIE-YU supervisor and the Chair of the WIE-Jordan \, inaugurated the le cture and introduced the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Women in Engineering community. She emphasized the importance of the Women in Engineering community in shaping women's personalities to bei ng STEM students and working in it. She also stressed the need to engage w ith the community and the world\, expanding local and global knowledge net works\, and provided motivational statements for the schoolgirls to choose suitable engineering specialties in the future and believe in their abili ty to study engineering disciplines that open doors to creativity\, excell ence\, and innovation.\n\nStudent Shatha Badarneh from the Biomedical Engi neering department spoke about engineering in general from a student's per spective and the essential skills that engineering students should possess for success in their field. ‏Then\, a group of students discussed vario us engineering specialties and their importance in different fields of wor k. Student Lin Al-Zuhd talked about the field of bioInformatics Engineerin g\, student Baraa Al-Sukhni discussed the field of Biomedical System Engin eering\, student Rama Shobash spoke about Electronics Engineering\, while students Sanabel Abudiak and Aya Asfour talked about Computer Engineering. Finally\, student Hala Azaizeh discussed the field of Industrial Engineer ing.\n\nThe interactive lecture concluded with questions from the schoolgi rls about engineering\, its different specialties\, and opportunities for advancement and work in these fields.\n\n‏In conclusion\, we would like to thank the administration of the Model School\, represented by the schoo l's principal\, Sanaa Lababneh\, and the academic counselor\, Maisoun Jara dat\, for their cooperation in coordinating and successfully conducting th is event. We also extend our gratitude to everyone who contributed to the success of this activity. ‏Stay tuned for more special events from our c ommunity that will shape goals and leave a lasting impact.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Model School - Yarmouk University\n\nIrbid\, Jordan\, Jordan LOCATION:Irbid\, Jordan\, Jordan ORGANIZER:ieee.wie.yu@gmail.com SEQUENCE:30 SUMMARY:Engineering Pathways: Navigating Your Future URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374361 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>We firmly believe in the necessity of educ ating Jordanian school girls about various engineering disciplines and enc ouraging them to prosper in such fields as well as broadening their unders tanding of engineering and connecting it to the real world\, our WIE affin ity group at Yarmouk University had a successful visit to the Yarmouk Mode l School in Irbid\, where we delivered a detailed lecture to tenth-grade a nd junior school girls\, in which we covered the following:</p>\n<p>* Intr oduction to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.</p>\n<p >* Introduction to the Women in Engineering community.</p>\n<p>*An overvie w of engineering and its various specialties and fields.</p>\n<p>* A pract ical experiment presentation from the field of Electronics Engineering\, w here the girls were allowed to experience hands-on work with basic electro nic components.</p>\n<p>Dr. Yusra Obeidat \, the WIE-YU supervisor and the Chair of the WIE-Jordan \, inaugurated the lecture and introduced the Ins titute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Women in Engineerin g community. She emphasized the importance of the Women in Engineering com munity in shaping women's personalities to being STEM students and working in it. She also stressed the need to engage with the community and the wo rld\, expanding local and global knowledge networks\, and provided motivat ional statements for the schoolgirls to choose suitable engineering specia lties in the future and believe in their ability to study engineering disc iplines that open doors to creativity\, excellence\, and innovation.</p>\n <p>Student Shatha Badarneh from the Biomedical Engineering department spok e about engineering in general from a student's perspective and the essent ial skills that engineering students should possess for success in their f ield. &rlm\;Then\, a group of students discussed various engineering speci alties and their importance in different fields of work. Student Lin Al-Zu hd talked about the field of bioInformatics Engineering\, student Baraa Al -Sukhni discussed the field of Biomedical System Engineering\, student Ram a Shobash spoke about Electronics Engineering\, while students Sanabel Abu diak and Aya Asfour talked about Computer Engineering. Finally\, student H ala Azaizeh discussed the field of Industrial Engineering.</p>\n<p>The int eractive lecture concluded with questions from the schoolgirls about engin eering\, its different specialties\, and opportunities for advancement and work in these fields.</p>\n<p>&rlm\;In conclusion\, we would like to than k the administration of the Model School\, represented by the school's pri ncipal\, Sanaa Lababneh\, and the academic counselor\, Maisoun Jaradat\, f or their cooperation in coordinating and successfully conducting this even t. We also extend our gratitude to everyone who contributed to the success of this activity. &rlm\;Stay tuned for more special events from our commu nity that will shape goals and leave a lasting impact.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR