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IEEE GOLDRush is a quarterly newsletter published by IEEE GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) and is circulated to the approximately 30,000 members of GOLD worldwide. It is an important source of news on GOLD activities to help raise awareness and encourage other young professionals around the globe to partake in similar volunteer activities. It aims to meet the needs of young technology professionals around the world and help them to develop their careers by providing a range of articles on professional, social and technical topics. |
Submission Guidelines:
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1. Four (4) editions of GOLDRush are to be published each year in mid-March mid- June, mid-September and mid-December. These editions will be announced by email, published on the web as a downloadable PDF file and summarized on Twitter. Submission deadlines for 2009 are as follows:
26 February (March
edition) 2. Submissions may be GOLD News items, notices for events, or member articles on any topic relevant to young professionals for the Peer-Reviewed Contributions section. 3. Articles must be submitted in MS Word (doc/docx) or rtf format. 4. Submissions must be in English. 5. Fonts and formatting are not required as all submissions will be formatted by the editor. 6. Articles must be strictly no more than 700 words. 7. Notices must be strictly no more than 200 words. 8. Please include article title, author’s name, country or state/province, IEEE membership grade (i.e. student, member, senior member, etc.), and IEEE member number. 9. Attach photos both within the document and separately as jpeg files. Remember to include captions for any photos. 10. Please send submissions and photo(s) to GOLDRush@ieee.org before the deadlines set above. 11. Please note that all articles and photo(s) will be peer-reviewed and edited if necessary. Spelling, grammar, phrasing and length may be altered and there is no guarantee that by submitting your article it will be used in an upcoming IEEE GOLDRush Newsletter issue. 12. The final decision to publish any article is made by the GOLDRush Editor. 13. Any questions are to be directed to GOLDRush Editor, George Gordon GOLDRush@ieee.org.
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