IEEE Control Systems Society Outreach Fund Current and Past Projects

OUTREACH

  • Control Systems for Everyone – Low-Cost Hands-On Training for Pre-University Students (India)
  • Proposal for the 4th Annual ICON Student Research Conference (USA)
  • 2026 ACC Self-Driving Car Student Competition (USA)
  • 8th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control (UK)
  • Professional Development and Career Advice for Young Professionals (USA)
  • Inaugural African Control Systems Symposium (AFCONS) (Senegal)
  • CDC 2026 Hawai’i Outreach: Control, Robotics, and Workforce Pathways (USA)
  • STEM Sparks: Inspiring Young Innovators through Solar and Electronics-Based Learning (Malaysia)
  • IEEE CSS Pre-University Control Systems Initiative (PUCSI) (Kenya)
  • Workshop “Women in Control” (Indonesia)
  • Chapter Visibility, Technical Affinity Engagement, and Community Building (Brazil)
  • IEEE CSS Student Support for EuroGNC 2026 Pre-Conference Workshops (Spain)
  • NextGen Control: Building a Sustainable Automatic Control Community Across the IEEE Northeast Brasiel (Brazil)
  • 2026 CDC Cup (USA)
  • Coffee and Control: Building Community Through Conversations in Control (USA)
  • Winter School on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control (India)
  • Female Influencers in Automatic Control – a discussion on Women in STEM and the importance of role-models. Special event at CDC2026. (USA)
  • Indian Control Conference (India)
  • Summer school on control of distributed parameter systems and applications (China)
  • Workshop – Future PhD in control (Germany)
  • When Robotics Meet Controls – PARC (Senegal)
  • Bridging the Gap: A Gateway to Control Systems Engineering for Lebanese High School Students (Lebanon)
  • Coffee and Control: Educating, Engaging, and Expanding the Control Systems Community (UK)
  • 2025 ACC Self-Driving Car Student Competition (USA)
  • CO^3: Strengthening the Control Community in Colombia (Colombia)
  • Workshop Series on Instrumentation, Control, and Automation for Future Indonesian Scientists and Engineers (Indonesia)
  • Optimal/Robust Control and State Estimation for Aerospace Applications (India)
  • Control Talk Series: Bridging Academia and Industry (USA)
  • CDC 2025 CUP (USA)
  • Diversity and inclusion day in CDC-2025 (USA)
  • Brave Transitions: Rejoining with Purpose Across Academia, Industry & Innovation  (India)
  • Launching and Sustaining Activities of the IEEE CSS Student Branch Chapter at IIT Patna (India)
  • NextCom (Europe/USA)
  • 2024 CDC Cup (USA)
  • Series of Control System Workshop 2024 – 2025 (USA)
  • Supporting Students and Early Career Researchers in Control Systems at the 5th IFAC CPHS 2024 (Turkey)
  • Promoting IEEE Control Systems Society in Nigerian Universities through Automatic Control Workshops (Nigeria)
  • NextCom CDC 2024 Budget Revision Proposal (USA)
  • Inclusive Diversity Lunch Event at IEEE CDC 2024 (USA)
  • ICON Student Research Conference (USA)
  • The future of control engineering – a female perspective (Sweden)
  • ROAD2CDC, Initiative of IEEE CSS Italy Chapter (Italy)
  • Attracting young people to STEM: An Outreach Program in Romania and Moldavia (Romania, Moldavia)
  • A Joint ‘Summer School on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control’ and Indo-French seminar on Robust Nonlinear Control (France)
  • Inaugural ICON Student Research Conference (USA)
  • EECI International Graduate School on Control - EECI-IGSC (France)
  • An IEEE CSS Workshop on Control for Societal-Scale Challenges (USA)
  • STEM and Control Hands-on Activities (Brazil)
  • “in Control,” the first podcast on control theory (Switzerland)