 President-Elect McCaw
A visit of ISA president 2004 Lowel McCaw to the district occured recently. The sections he visited were the England, Ireland, Leinster Ireland, and leaders from the France, Belgium and Netherlands Sections. There may be some reports on this visit on the individual section websites.
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Awards announced.
The ISA awards for 2003 have been announced. They were presented at the Autumn Meeting of the Society in Houston (US). There are a number which are given within our district. Full Details
These are:
Golden Achievement Award
Robert Shine (Ireland Section)
Alex Bobovitch (St Petersberg Section)
In recognition of exemplary efforts and achievements across many countries, cultures, and languages to further ISA student activities and to mentor students.
Distinguished Society Service Award: Maurizio Brancaleoni (Italy Section)
And for the second year in a row in the Section Performance Award:
Ireland Section
For garnering the most points among medium (201-400 members) Gold Sections
Congratulations to all concerned!
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Long Distance Learning
Dr. G. Cockrell ( ISA
vice-president) presents by long distance lecture on " Project management" to SUAI students in St Petersburg.
a Short Movie of part of the event. (Quicktime about 500K).
New VP Elect announced
Billy Walsh from the Ireland Section is the new Vice President Elect for District 12. He has been President of the Ireland Section and has held many offices in that section.
In the District he has acted as Treasurer and more recently as District Secretary.
He is part of the team at the National University of Ireland's prestigious Dairy and Food Engineering Department in Cork.
He may be contacted on B.Walsh@ucc.ie
ISA Ireland's Industry Dinner
The ISA Industry Dinner, which was be held in Cork in October. This social event was organised to celebrate the Section winning the Gold in the World Section Performance Award, for the second year in a row. The sectioned also recognised Bob Shine the first member in Ireland to be awarded the Society's Golden Achievement Award for 25 years dedicated service
Picture shows (left) current Section President Peadar Walsh and Past Section President Alan Edwards with one of the Section Performance Awards.
More on the Ireland Section Website
 Alex Bobovitch
Without doubt, Alex is one of the hardest working members in District 12.
His work in encouraging and promoting student activity is unparalleled in the Society. He has recently been profiled on the ISA main website.
Alex Bobovitch Profile
Diplomatic visit
The Consul General of France in St. Petersburg Mr.
Stephane Visconti visited SUAI and ISA headquarters Russian Federation.
On photo left to rigth: Prof.Anatoli Ovodenko - ISA HQ RF chair,
Mr.Stephane Visconti, Alex Bobovitch during discussion at the ISA HQ
Russian member honoured
RAS academics professor Lidia Chubraeva (St. Petersburg Russian section member) received recognition in a greeting letter from Russian president Vladimir Putin to mark March 8, 2003 ( Women's Day). Picture shows Lidia Chubraeva presenting her lecture for the First ISA Italian - Russian students seminar last summer with (inset) the official presidential notification document.
More details of these awards
FORUM ADVANTIC
The Advantic Forum held recently has been a great success. 300 participants took part.
The Key of success was at first the reputation of the IRA Institute throughout France and Nortf Africa, a strong program on
advanced topics in automation with international industrial and academic experts in advanced control with strong tutorial & technical sessions. Strong cooperation with ISA France section from the planning stage ensured this high quality of content.
The organisers were especially fortunate to have the presence of President Pino Zani and help for various other sections including Ian Verhappen from Canada and Paulo Pinceti from Genoa.
A proposal has been made to hold a District 12 Symposium for the year 2003/4, possible in the Marseille Region on Advanced instrumentation & Automation in the Environmenta Field (technical , economical & safety aspects). This would be held in the English language with simultaeneous translations into French.
Contact Michel Chandevau with suggestions and for details.
International Conference
Striving for Perfection in a Regulated Environment - An End User View
The Ireland Section's International Conference held in February was well attended with over one hundred delegates. Picture shows fromer Section President Tony Mahon (DPS Engineering), Greg Brandyberry GSK, Alan Edwards, Section President (CG Svcs)and Cormac Callaghan BMS, who chaired the event.
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D12 Student team returned from Houston with gold, silver and bronze
medals!
This year SUAI students represented Europe in the 11 ISA
international student Games in Houston. they got
excellent results at the ISG All stars Bowl : Boris Scorina got gold,
Maxim Ovodenko got- silver and Maxim Samoylov- got bronze medals!
The team adviser during many years from 1996- Alex Bobovitch was
awarded the Don W.Tompson Award.
The Forth InternationalSchool-Conference, part of the commemoration of the
300th annivirsary of Saint-Petersburg were held 23-27 June of
2003. The ISA Russian regular section and ISA headquarters Russian Federation
are co-sponsors of thei event. They prepared 50 prizes and
certificates for the best students reports. Awards were presented to
students by ISA headquarters Russian Federation chair professor
Anatoli Ovodenko and section president professor Alexander Samoylov.
