The first edition of this year's TechGate, the publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers student branch at AUB, was released the last week of April. The fourteen-page technical computer and technology oriented magazine was put together mainly by a group of engineering students, though the institute includes other than computer and communication engineering and electrical engineering and computer science students. In this issue, TechGate covered diverse technical issues as well as the student branch activities "in a simplified manner to reach the largest possible audience," said Outlook colleague Naji Issa, editor-in-chief of TechGate. "Thanks to the expertise I gained from Outlook," Issa added, "this year's issue had a new and professional layout." As for their future activities, Issa hopes "to publish another issue this academic year." The AUB student branch was established in 1997. "At the beginning it had only 77 members; now the IEEE student branch of AUB has 340 members," said president of the IEEE student branch of AUB, Ghassan Abou Samra. "There are similar branches in NDU and LAU."