IEEE West Europe Student-Young Professional Congress (WESYP)

The WESYP brought the opportunity for young professionals, IEEE students members and volunteers from Western Europe to get together, share stories and create a network to support each other in different projects related to IEEE or to a professional background. During the congress there were several presentations in technical areas as well as informative presentations to present the tools that IEEE offers. The tools demonstrate the volunteers to develop technical and professional activities. Even the program sight of IEEE was presented, that offer support for oriented projects in help of local problems for the community, e.g. the access to clean water. The congress also hosted a poster competitions and a delicious gala dinner with typical Scottish music and dance.

The technical presentation where oriented mainly to the philosophy behind GCU, that is the achievement of the common good through a sustainable future with less equality among the people. The presentation offer different vision of technologies of the future that could help with the climatic crisis or in the decision for technologies use today like the popular discussion of changing the power distribution system from AC to DC. The list of speakers can be found here: wesyp.org/speakers/index.html.

Beside the presentations the participants of the congress visit the Power Networks Demonstration Center of the University of Strahtclyde, where technologies in the power area are tested to certificate the correct behavior of it.