On Wednesday, June 17th, four members of our branch took a long ride
to Hamburg to participate at the 6th IEEE Germany Student Conference at the TU Hamburg-Harburg. On our way we also picked up two members of the Regensburg Student Branch, who joined our ride.
After arriving at the Hostel near Hamburg’s football stadium, we started our search for a dinner at Hamburg’s wellknown “Schanzenviertel”. After having a breakfast the next morning, we took the S-Bahn to Harbug, where to conference took place.
The Weekend of the 12th to 14th July, one of our “Members-only” events, the retreat weekend took place. On Friday afternoon, 15 of our members started their trip to a small cottage in Haidmühle 45 minutes out of Passau near the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. As a special guest, the Past-Chair of the IEEE Student Branch from Regensburg followed our invitation and joined us.
After the arrival and check-in, the weekend got kicked of with coffee and self made pie.
Six members of the SB Passau visited the IEEE Region 8 Student & Young Professional Congress in Krakow from August 5th 2014 till the 10th.
riving to the SYP2014|\ Our journey started in the early morning hours
of August 5th in Passau. We loaded two cars with our luggage, and Student Branch members of course, and drove through Austria and the Czech Republic to Poland. After a long drive and some detours we finally arrived at the hostel in Krakow during the early afternoon.
The IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2014 took place in Krakow from August 4th until August 10th. Passau was represented by six student branch members. To present their activities at the congress, each branch was asked to create a poster before traveling to Krakow.
oster Passau|\ Additionally, a competition was held to determine the
best posters. Each congress visitor was able to cast one vote for his or her favorite poster.
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At the 7th of June 2014 our 5. Eggdrop Contest took place. This time it was part of the Campusfest. 9 teams had set themselves to the task of building an Eggdropper which is a construction to protect a raw egg from breaking while falling freely from a height of 20 meters onto the ground. At the end four of the nine teams succeeded.
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At the 17th of June 2014 we organized the FIM Barbecue Party together with the Fachschaft Informatik.
Professors, research assistants and students met at the place between
the FIM and the ITZ eating steaks and sausages and drinking beer. Even though the weather was not perfect at first, over 100 people
attended the party.
Along with food and drink, we saw to fun and excitement organizing the first Beer-Box-Far-Piling-Event.
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The IEEE Student Branch Passau wishes all students a good start in the summer term 2014. We want to invite you at the same time to join our first regular meeting on 2014/04/07. It starts at 6pm c.t. in the room IM 242, afterwards we will have a dinner at the restaurant “Akropolis Athen”.
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From June 26th to 27th, the IEEE Germany Student Conference will take
place for the fifth time. Submissions are possible until February, 28st. More information is available here.
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On February 20, IEEE Student Branch Passau celebrates its
25th\ |Egg-Drop-Contest| anniversary. We are glad to be participating in and enhancing day-to-day life at the university with fascinating talks and workshops for Passau’s Computer Science students. We will celebrate our 25th anniversary in summer, following
the 5th IEEE Germany Student Conference.
We organize events like Research Talks and “Professors face-to-face”, where we invite professors to talk about their life and career.
entooInstallParty|\ As the installation of Ubuntu is easy nowadays
it’s not worthwhile anymore to organize a Linux Install Party so we invented something new! We show you how to install a Gentoo system from ground up und how to perform the first steps. Ssecondarily we explain to you how to compile your own kernel und how to use the basic tools. You can not only listen to exciting talks from professionals who use Gentoo in a productive environment but also install the system on your own brought Machine.
