2)Introduction to FPGAs (April 24, 10:30-12:00)

This workshop was focused on beginner level and presented the basic principles of operation of FPGAs, their advantages and disadvantages over other similar devices, as well as some of their practical applications, such as that of electronic power pulsation or biomedicine.

Speakers: Ioannis Chatzipaschalis, Dimitris (Jim) Theocharopoulos

IEEE DUTh SB and each one of our chapters and Affinity Groups presented their work in a virtual event hosted by the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace on Friday, April 23th at 15:00. Participants had the chance to learn about our activities, events, annual teams and the advantages of being a member of IEEE.

In specific, the sections that we covered were:

• Marketing funnel Analysis (awareness phase until retention)
• The mechanisms, form and way in which mobile ads work
• The metrics (KPIs) that affect the strategy
• Methods that can be used to increase downloads on Google Play and the App Store
• Techniques to increase mobile app engagement
• Alternative monetization (revenue) of a mobile application and practices on games

The second speech, by Dimitrios Giannakoudis, coordinator of Xánthi TechLab and negotiations and conflict management expert, was about "Negotiations & Conflict management in a work place."

Last but not least, the co-founder of Women Act Antigoni Kouvidi, talked about "Women and Leadership in Greece"

Our Student Branch took part in this year's Google Hashcode which been held completely digital due to COVID-19 pandemic. 6 teams and 14 participants did their best to reach the top on the scoreboard.

STAR’s aim is to create a technical support network for teachers and a mentoring program for students, through a series of hands-on activities, in order to convey the message that engineering has career options that benefit humanity, and is gender neutral.

The workshops provided the participants with the requisite theoretical background in order to get fully involved in the practical sessions after.

We are proud of the inclusion of IEEE DUTh Student Branch in the list of "IEEE MGA Exemplary Student Branch Awards" among with many other Student Branches from Greece and all over the world. Congratulations to each Student Branch and a big “thank you” to all of our members who helped our branch receive this award with their continuous efforts under these difficult conditions.

At the same time, we are particularly pleased that a member of our Student Branch, Theodoros Chatzinikolaou has been honored with the Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award.

The IEEE Greece Section celebrated 50 years of service with a series of online events organized by its Chapters, Affinity Groups, and Student Branches!

The YP Greece Affinity Group, the WiE Affinity Group and 12 SBs located in different cities in Greece presented their work over the past year and their future plans!

The three webinars provided the participants with the requisite theoretical background in order to get fully involved in the practical sessions after.

The titles and details of the sessions are given below.

5/12/2020 Introduction to FPGAs - Ioannis Chatzipaschalis

12/12/2020 Introduction to 3D Design - Nefeli Kavouni

19/12/2020 Introduction to Electrical Energy Systems - Michail Pitsikalis

The participating students gained important knowledge in modern fields of Science and Technology and got involved into the world of engineering.

A collaboration between the IEEE CS DUTh SBC and IEEE EMBS AUTh brought the webinar with the title “AI in Medicine”, which held on Thursday, 17th of December 2020 at 18:30 on Google Meet.

The speaker of this webinar was Dr. Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis, Professor in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Senior Member of IEEE.

In this webinar, a brief introduction to the IoT protocol stack was made, which included examples of physical-level IoT technologies, data link (RFID, IEEE 802.15.4 5, IEEE 802.11ah, Bluetooth low energy (BLE)), network-level (IPv6, 6LoWPAN), transport and application technologies (CoAP). In addition, there was a brief introduction to long-range IoT technologies (LoRaWAN, NB-IoT). This was followed by an overview of IoT applications with an emphasis on "smart farming" applications.

In our first session professor of EECE department at AUTh Mr. George K. Karagiannidis had a talk about “5G Wireless Networks: Services and Fundamental Technologies”.

Secondly, professor of EECE at AUTh Mr. Traianos V. Yioultsis talked about “Wireless Radio Frequency Communications: Measurements, Exposure Limits and Means of Protection”.

In our last session professor of Physics Department at AUTh Mr. Theodoros Samaras covered the topic of “5G networks and their potential health effects”.

These issues are covered by the Webinar Data Science vs Modern World organized in collaboration with IEEE CS & RAS DUTh SBCs and the IEEE Student Branch at Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. First session was "Introduction to Data Science and it’s Real World Applications" by Ena Džemila SSST and second session was "Opinion Dynamics: Games on Social Networks and Influence Analysis" by Sotiris Gyftopoulos DUTh.

Introduction to Robotics Webinar is an event co-organised by ΙΕΕΕ Student Branches at Democritus University of Thrace and ETH Zurich, aimed to promote robotic fundamentals to academic community.

First session was "«Intelligent» Robots leaving the production halls" by Prof. Dr. 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘦𝘨𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘡, and second session was "In the dawn of self-deployment of autonomous vehicles" by Prof. Dr. 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘉. 𝘒𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘴, 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘴 𝘊𝘩. 𝘒𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘴, 𝘒𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴 Ι. 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴, 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘷𝘢𝘴 𝘋. 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘴 𝘋𝘜𝘛𝘩.

Our Student Branch took part in this year's special competition which been held completely digital due to COVID-19 pandemic, but nothing less than the amazing experience of previous years.

The “IEEE Week” started on October the 6th (official IEEE Day) with a virtual event called “IEEE Beyond”, during which previous volunteers and officers were informing students and answering their questions about IEEE and our Technical Societies and Affinity Groups.

The “IEEE Week” continued on 12-18 October with a hybrid series of events, including both virtual and in-person activities, always respecting public health and restrictions. The events aimed at introducing students to the world of IEEE and engineering, informing them about the activities of our Student Branch and of course sharing ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow!

Hands on workshops, webinars and presentations with a wide variety of themes as programming, electronic automations, robotics, game development, Cybersecurity and engineering experiments were some of the events.

As today’s unprecedented times require, the DUTh SB’s marketing team joined forces with skilled graphic designers to present to both the public and the student members, a means of sharing, connecting and getting informed quickly and easily. Using all popular social media platforms and a brand new website, one can easily follow the branch’s exciting journey through current events and enjoyable content, as well as share all the above with the IEEE family.

The main goal of rebranding the student branch is to cover the need of getting involved, getting informed and learning the community in which all of us belong. Through exploiting the media at the best of our ability, we strived for the creation of an insight to our activities, our future plans.