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Name
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PILAR MOLINA GAUDÓ
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Country
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Spain
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Job Title
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Docent-Lecturer
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Organization
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University of Zaragoza,
Spain
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Location
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Zaragoza (between Madrid
& Barcelona)
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Work Description
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Full teaching
responsibilities with research in the
area of RF Electronics
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Personal Interests
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My two daughters, running,
reading
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IEEE Volunteer Position/s 2007
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Region 8 GOLD coordinator,
MTT-S Membership Services Committee
member, Zaragoza Student Branch Conselor
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Past Volunteer Positions
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Region 8 Student Activities
Committee Chair (2003-2004)
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How did IEEE find you?
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I was the first to start a
Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity
Group (AG) outside the US. The AG
initiative for non-technical
entities in IEEE had just been approved,
I sent an e-mail to the WIE
asking how I could help and I ended up
setting up the Spain
Chapter. The same year I attended an
IEEE Conference where the WIE
Committee was meeting. They invited me
to stay. I (apparently) gave
some constructive comments and one and a
half years after I was
appointed a member on that committee.
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Describe something that you did as a
volunteer that you are proud of.
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Co-organize the Student
Branch Congress of the Region 8 in 2004
that took place in Passau, Germany.
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How has IEEE nurtured you as a person?
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As a volunteer, I benefit
strongly from networking. Through
my participation in the
IEEE, I become a better person year
after year. I really enjoy
my participation and the challenges of
my positions. I am devoted
to making the IEEE better and as a
result contributing to the
engineering profession and humankind
generally. I enjoy every
second of my IEEE work. The people I
have met in the IEEE have
believed in me, empowered me and made me
improve. This has been a
very rewarding experience.
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What wouldn't be possible for you, if
you hadn't volunteered
for IEEE?
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It would be impossible for
me to have such a broad international
perspective of what engineering is and
what engineering education
should focus on.
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What do you find unique about IEEE?
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The global nature of the
organization.
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Why did you continue volunteering?
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In my case, I do not
volunteer as much I used to because of
personal commitments. I have two small
daughters, one is two, the
other is six-months and that keeps me
away from IEEE more than I
would like to. Life has to be a balance
between various commitments.
If I could, I would volunteer MORE for
the IEEE as I enjoy it so
much.
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Does volunteering help you to achieve
your
aspirations?
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Yes, it does. It satisfies
my networking eagerness (in an
international playing field), it
improves my negotiation
capabilities and it supports my
travelling to interesting places to
meet new (and not that new) people.
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An IEEE friend who left an inspiring
impression on you.
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Ted Hissey.
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