Introduction
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Tainan Section was initiated by a preparatory committee and formally formed 2003. Currently it has more than 950 members in Taiwan. Taiwan is grouped into Region 10 Asia Pacificand has two sections: the Taipei Section and the Tainan Section. The Tainan Section’s boundaries include Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung. Members who reside in the area are automatically recognized as members of Tainan Section by IEEE.
There are 17 Chapters, 2 Council Chapters, 2 Affinity Groups, and 1 Student Branch in the Tainan Section. The role of these chapters is to facilitate the specialized interest in their various fields of expertise.
The detailed information is as follows:
- Antennas and Propagation Society Tainan Chapter
- Broadcast Technology Society Tainan Chapter
- Circuits and Systems Society Tainan Chapter
- Communications Society Tainan Chapter
- Computational Intelligence Society Tainan Chapter
- Computer Society Tainan Chapter
- Electron Devices Society Tainan Chapter
- Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Tainan Chapter
- IEEE Young Professionals Tainan Affinity Group
- Industry Applications Society Tainan Chapter
- Information Theory Society Tainan Chapter
- Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Tainan Chapter
- Nanotechnology Council Tainan Chapter
- Photonics Society Tainan Chapter
- Robotics and Automation Society Tainan Chapter
- Sensors Council Chapter Tainan Chapter
- Signal Processing Society Tainan Chapter
- Solid-State Circuit Society Tainan Chapter
- Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Tainan Chapter
- Vehicular Technology Society Tainan Chapter
- Women in Engineering Tainan Affinity Group
- National Cheng Kung University Student Branch
There is an active student branch, the IEEE National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Student Branch, which provides a platform for students to exchange ideas and network.
The primary goals and functions of the IEEE Tainan Section are:
- To provide basic assistance to members of Tainan Section in membership development
- Dissemination of knowledge in the broader fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering through holding of technical talk, seminar, conference, symposium, workshop, tutorial, etc.
- To assist IEEE members in developing chapters holding activities.
- To provide support to Student Branches