Shikoku Section Report
PART A - SECTION SUMMARY
A.1 Executive Summary – (Please follow the format given below)
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Section Executive Committee Member Listo Chair: Yuichi Tanji (Kagawa University)§ tanji.yuichi@kagawa-u.ac.jp
o Vice Chair: Yukio Mitsuyama (Kochi University of Technology)§ mitsuyama.yukio@kochi-tech.ac.jp
o Secretary: Ken’ichi Fujimoto (Kagawa University)§ fujimoto.kenichi@kagawa-u.ac.jp
o Treasurer: Koji Ishii (Kagawa University)§ ishii.koji@kagawa-u.ac.jp
o Membership Development Chair: Tomohiro Kubo (Tokushima University)§ kubotomo@tokushima-u.ac.jp
o Student Activity Chair: Koji Kinoshita (Ehime University)§ kinoshita@cs.ehime-u.ac.jp
o Nominations Activities Chair: Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology)§ matsuzaki.kiminori@kochi-tech.ac.jp
o Professional Activities Chair: Toshiyuki Uto (Ehime University)§ uto@cs.ehime-u.ac.jp
o Past Chair: Tetsushi Ueta (Tokushima University)§ ueta@tokushima-u.ac.jp
Section Highlights
o Held 6 technical meetings and 2 lectures for student education including chapter activities
o IEEE Shikoku Section was established in November 1998, expecting its 25 years anniversary
in 2023.
Major Events (International, National)o SJCIEE 2023: Shikoku-section Joint Convention of the Institutes of Electrical and related
Engineers (National)
Major Chapter Activities
Major Student and Affinity Group Activities
AwardsA.2 Financial Report – (Please follow the format given below)••

Summary (as per submitted on NetSuite)o Carryover Balance 4,539,119 Yen
o Income
903,020 Yen
o Expense
929,631 Yeno Total Balance
4,539,119 Yen
Any other financial activities

PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
B.1 Membership Development Activities••Total number of active members in the past 3 years.
226 (Sep. 23, 2023)
212 (Sep. 24, 2022)
219 (Sep. 25, 2021)
Summary and evidence of work done to improve the value of membership, which leads to retention andgrowth of members[Annual General Meetings]
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Sep. 23, 2023, YONDEN Shikoku Electric Power CO., Inc. in Kagawa (Attendance: 6,attendance by proxy: 16, totally 22)[Administrative Meetings](1) Jan. 25, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (Online)(2) Apr. 28, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(3) May 23, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(4) May 30, 2023
Executive Committee Meeting of SJCIEE 2023 (Online)(5) Jun. 13, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(6) Aug. 7, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(7) Aug. 11, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(8) Aug. 19, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(9) Aug. 30, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(10) Sep. 1, 2023
Executive Committee Meeting of SJCIEE 2023 (by e-mail)(11) Sep. 23, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting in Kagawa (Attendance: 5)(12) Sep. 27, 2023
Executive Committee Meeting of SJCIEE 2023 (by e-mail)(13) Nov. 20, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)(14) Dec. 1, 2023
Executive Committee Meeting of SJCIEE 2023 (Online)(15) Dec. 27, 2023
Section Executive Committee Meeting (by e-mail)[Technical Meetings](1) Cyber Security Symposium Dogo 2023
Date: June 29 – 30, 2023
Place: Matsuyama
Attendance: Members & Guests: 1,343(2) 2023 Shikoku-section Joint Convention of the Institutes of Electrical and related Engineers
Date: Sep. 23, 2023
Place: YONDEN Shikoku Electric Power CO., Inc., Takamatsu
Attendance: Members & Guests: 351 (including IEEE member speakers: 24)
oB.2 Chapter Activities••••

Total number of Chapters in the Sectiono 1 (CAS)o 1 (EMB Joint Chapter with Fukuoka and Hiroshima Sections)
Number of Chapters formed in the current yearo 0
Number of active Chapters (Chapters who have reported required number of meetings during the year)o 2
Summary of Chapter activities (Chapter wise with attachment table/information)
CASS Shikoku Chapter
16 Technical Meetings
1. CASS Shikoku Chapter Student Design Competition§ Date: Jan. 14, 2023
§ Place: Online
22. Networking with other CASS Student Branch Chapters (with Tokyo City Univ)§ Date: Jan. 20, 2023
§ Place: Online
3. IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal Processing (NSP'23)§ Date: Feb. 10, 2023
§ Place: Online
4. IEEE CASS Shikoku Workshop on Circuit and Systems§ Date: Apr. 24-25, 2023
§ Place: Shikoku University
5. IEEE CASS Sapporo Workshop on Circuit and Systems§ Date: Jul. 30 – Aug. 1, 2023
§ Place: Hokkaido University
6. Taiwan and Japan Conference on Circuits and Systems (TJCAS'23)§ Date: Sep. 6–8, 2023
§ Place: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
7. Invited Lecture by Prof. Maciej Ogorzalek§ Date: Sep. 10, 2023
§ Place: Tokushima University
8. IEEE CASS Workshop to Protect Shikoku Mountain Area Using CAS Technology§ Date: Sep. 10–12, 2023
§ Place: Tokushima University & Togenkyo Iya Mountain Village
9. IEEE Day Event "Let us share experiences attending technical conferences"§ Date: Oct. 8, 2023
§ Place: Tokushima University
10. SEA Student Branch Chapter Development Workshop in Singapore§ Date: Nov. 18, 2023
§ Place: Paradox Singapore Merchant Court, Singapore.
11. Invited Lecture by Prof. Mamoru Tanaka§ Date: Dec. 7, 2023
§ Place: Tokushima University
12. IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Circuit Networks (NCN'23)§ Date: Dec. 8–9, 2023
§ Place: Shikoku University
13. IEEE CASS Shanghai and Shikoku Chapters Joint Workshop on Circuits and Systems(SSJW’23)§ Date: Dec. 11, 2023
§ Place: online
14. IEEE CASS Chiba Workshop on Circuits and Systems§ Date: Dec. 14–16, 2023
§ Place: Chiba University
15. IEEE CASS Shikoku Chapter YP and Student Members Meeting§ Date: Dec. 18, 2023
§ Place: Tokushima University
16. SEA Student Branch Chapter Development Workshop in Bandung§ Date: Dec. 18–19, 2023
§ Place: Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
2 CASS-Sponsored Administrative Meetings
1. Chapter Executive Committee Meeting§ Date: Dec. 27, 2023
§ Place: Tokushima University

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities
Summary of continuing Educational activities including conferences, technical activities, training courses, anddistinguished lecture programs with attachment table / information[Distinguished Lecture Programs]
1. IEEE Shikoku Section Lecture3Lecturer: Fukutaro Sakaguchi (Microsoft Corporation)
Title: AI Technology That Change The World and Microsoft's Efforts
Date: Jul. 19, 2023
Place: Online
Attendance: Members & Guests: 41
2. IEEE Shikoku Section Lecture
Lecturer: Roberto Barrio (Professor at University of Zaragoza)
Title: Dynamics of excitable cells: neurons and cardiomyocytes
Date: Aug. 30, 2023
Place: Kagawa University
Attendance: Members & Guests: 21
3. IEEE Shikoku Section Lecture
Lecturer: Maciej Ogorzalek (Professor at Jagiellonian University)
Title: Time-delay models in engineering
Date: Sep. 10, 2023
Place: Tokushima University
Attendance: Members & Guests: 20
4. IEEE Shikoku Section Lecture
Lecturer: Minoru Sakama (Tokushima University)
Title: Optimization Problems in Design of Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Date: Sep. 13, 2023
Place: Kagawa University
Attendance: Members & Guests: 6
5. IEEE Shikoku Section Lecture
Lecturer: Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia University)
Title: Learning on LC Circuits
Date: Dec. 7, 2023
Place: Tokushima University
Attendance: Members & Guests: 24

B.4 Students Activities•••••

Total number of Student Branches in the Sectiono 2 (Kagawa University and Tokushima University)
Number of Student Branches formed in the current year
o 0
Section level student activities (student congress, paper and other contests, awards etc)
English presentation brush-up seminars
o 1. Ehime University§ Date: Sep. 5, 2023
§ Lecturer: Kei-ichi Endo (Ehime University)§ Place: Ehime University§ Attendance: Members & Guests: 11
o 2. Kagawa University§ Date: Sep. 20, 2023
§ Lecturer: Nick Fry (Kagawa University)§ Place: Kagawa University§ Attendance: Members & Guests: 15
Exchange meetings with non-member students
o 1. Kagawa University§ Date: Sep. 20, 2023
§ Place: Kagawa University§ Attendance: Members & Guests: 15
Formulation of financial support guidelines for student members presenting at international conferences
Number of active Student Branches (Student Branches who have reported required number of meetings
during the year)o 1
Summary of Student Branch activities (Student Branch wise with attachment table/information)
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1. Recruitment of student members§ Shikoku Section recommended the students who came to the student paper contest at
Shikoku section Joint Convention of the Institutes of Electrical and related Engineers(SJCIEE) to be student members.

B.5 Affinity Group Activities•••

Young Professional (YP)
Women In Engineering (WIE)
Life Member (LM)B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities••

Award constituted by the Section
Please list all Awards and Recognitions received by the Section, and members in the Section, from R 10and IEEE HQ during the year

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.)• Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year)• Home Page of the Section (give the URL and how often it is updated)Ø https://www.ieee-jp.org/section/shikoku/² (updated several times in a year)
Ø IEEE CAS Society, Shikoku Chapter:² http://ieee-scas.is.tokushima-u.ac.jp/
Ø IEEE EMBS Society, West Japan Chapter:² https://ieee-jp.org/section/fukuoka/chapter/embwj/index.html
Ø Tokushima University Student Branch Web site:² http://ieee-sb.is.tokushima-u.ac.jp/• Other means of contacts with Section members including social media² E-mail: shikoku@listserv.ieee.org

B.8 Industry Relations••

Membership growth and retention
Activities for/with industrial members

B.9 Humanitarian Technology Activities••

Humanitarian Technology related activities supported by the Section including collaboration with otherOUs.
SIGHT Activities

B.10 Community Activities•IEEE Social activities (Family day, IEEE day, Engineers Week)”

PART C - OTHERS
C.1 Special Events• Please briefly describe the importance of special events and the outcomes achieved5• Funding secured from the IEEE and external sources including sponsorships

C.2 Relationship with National and International Societies and Non-Government
Organizations (NGO)• Nature of relationship and details of any formal agreement signed• Details of joint activitieso A technical convention with IEEJ, IEICE, IPSJ, IEIJ, ITE, SICE, IEIEJ• Benefit to IEEE members (for example discounts, access to technical information etc.)• Benefit to Section (for example help in membership development, venue facilities, cost saving etc.)

C3. Collaboration with other IEEE Sections• Support extended to neighboring Sections• Joint activities with any other Section

C.4 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section• Support extended for organising technical, educational and professional activities• Joint activities for membership development• Support extended for the formation of a Sub-section or transition of a Sub-section into a full Section

C.5 Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other Sections
for the benefits of members)
C.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions, if any

PART D - GOALS AND PLANS
D.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation
plans
Support extended for organizing technical, educational and professional activities
1. Committee Meetings
6 meetings
2. Annual Meetings
At Tokushima University, Tokushima
3. Technical Conference/Meetings
Technical Convention
2024 Shikoku-section Joint Convention of the Institutes of Electrical and related Engineers
at Tokushima University, Tokushima
Technical Meetings
Some meetings in cooperation with domestic societies in Japan
Some lecture meetings by experts
4. Membership Development
Encouragement of upgrade to senior members
Promotion of IEEE student membership
Cooperation with CAS Shikoku Chapter and EMB West Japan Chapter
5. Student Activities
Promotion of IEEE student membership
Encouragement of English presentation
6. Nominations6

Support to upgrade fellow or senior Member

D.2 Goals and Future Plans
Our goal is to make the dissemination of IEEE Shikoku section using the Internet effectively andsupport the promotion of student branches activities.

D.3 Any innovative ideas to make IEEE more creative and value added for sustaining
the membership retention and recruitment goals.
D.4 Business Plan for Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability.

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