Creation of Tunisia IEEE section

A Tunisian section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been created, during a scientific seminar organised on Sunday in Hammamet, by the Tunis Higher Science and Techniques school.

NABEUl - A Tunisian section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been created, during a scientific seminar organised on Sunday in Hammamet, by the Tunis Higher Science and Techniques school.

The creation of this new section in Tunis constitutes a key scientific event, all the more that IEEE, whose premises are in the United States of America, gathers more than 350,000 researchers from the different nationalities.

This organisation, which publishes some 350 international scientific magazines, is considered as being an institution of reference in matters of researches in the fields of electricity, information technology and electronics engineering.

Mr. Farhat Fnaiech, chairman of the unit of Signal, Image and Intelligent Command of Industrial Systems (SICISI) and representative of IEEE in Africa, which counts five sections, to which to be added Tunisia section, pointed that this laudable initiative is a new acknowledgement to Tunisia for the scientific progress it has accomplished and its vanguard policy which is distinguished by the constant support to the fields of research, notably engineering.

The meeting to which took part academics, researchers and directors of several university establishments of Tunis, as well as the chairman of the IEEE section in Europe, Mr. Jean Gabriel Remy, and the member of the IEEE section of France Gerard André Capolino, allowed to present the targets of the organisation and its action methods.

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