Section News

Sunday, June 15, 6:30 for 7:00 pm

The Fluvarium

Tickets only $20 each for IEEE members and one guest; non-members $30 each. Please specify lobster, vegetarian or steak at time of ticket purchase. Salads, rolls, dessert, tea, coffee and drink tickets included!

Deadline for tickets: noon, Monday, June 9

For tickets, contact any member of the IEEE Newfoundland & Labrador Section Executive.

Tuesday, May 27, 7:30 pm

Meet in the Marine Institute Main Lobby

Parking in Area M1

The Centre for Marine Simulation is an operational unit of the School of Maritime Studies at the Marine Institute. It comprises a suite of environments simulating various aspects of marine operations that are used for education, training, applied research and development. These simulations include:

• Full Mission Ship Bridge Simulator
• Ballast Control and Cargo Operations Simulator (MODU and Tanker operations)
• Dynamic Positioning Simulator
• Navigation and Blind Pilotage Simulator
• Propulsion Plant Simulator
• GMDSS Simulator
• ROV Simulator

The tour will highlight the Full Mission Bridge Simulator that enables bridge crews to be trained in a realistic environment incorporating 360 degrees of visuals and sound with six degrees of motion and control of weather and ocean parameters. A wide selection of ports, waterways and vessel types are available for training purposes and the Centre also develops its own ship and waterway models for simulation.

In addition, tour participants will have an opportunity to try their hand at flying a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) on a simulator designed and manufactured by GRI Simulations of Mt. Pearl. This simulator is considered to be among the best in the world with a variety of ROV classes and operating scenarios available. The School of Ocean Technology has incorporated two ROV simulators within its ROV Operator training program.

For further information, please contact Brian Kidney, bkidney@ieee.org.

On Wednesday, March 26 at 7:30, the Faculty of Engineering at Memorial is holding its annual "IEEE Student Night". This event is an opportunity for graduating engineering students to present and demonstrate their senior design projects. The evening will begin at 7:30 sharp in the Engineering Boardroom (room EN4002) in the Engineering Building at Memorial and will begin with the presentation of the following three projects:

"The Unshredinator: An Industrial Machine Vision Approach to Document Reconstruction" by Simon Silk

"Real Time Simulation of Rigid Body Mechanics" by Alex Brown

"SEGWii" by Jeremiah McCarthy

Following the presentations, there will be an opportunity to see demonstrations of all projects. Finally, the evening will conclude with the presentation of awards and consuming of pizza and drinks.

Any interested parties are encouraged to attend the evening. Students certainly will appreciate an opportunity to show to their future colleagues, the accomplishments of their final year projects.

Parking is available in Lot 16 for free.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Howard Heys at howard@engr.mun.ca.

Tuesday, March 25th, 7-8:30pm

EN-4032A (Ocean Engineering Boardroom), S.J. Carew Building, Memorial University

The IEEE Newfoundland-Labrador Section GOLD Affinity Group invites you to attend "Financial Planning", a presentation by Andrew Dixon. Andrew works with Freedom 55 Financial as a Financial Security and Investment Representative. He has been working with personal finances for 8 years, and served 12 years in the Canadian Forces as an Armoured Officer.

The presentation will be followed by light refreshments.

For more information, please contact Lori Hogan (lori.hogan@ieee.org, 737-8063).

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 7:00pm

Earth-Sciences Building, ER4031, Memorial University; Refreshments to follow in the Faculty Lounge ER4065.

Parking in Lot 16

Humans use vision to acquire over 90 per cent of all their environmental information. As such, an effective visualization system is essential for success in research and development. This is why Memorial University created the Computing, Simulation and Landmark Visualization Facility, a research centre that brings together high performance computing and immersive, 3-D visualization. The facility opened in 2005 as the only one in Atlantic Canada and it is among very few such facilities worldwide.

The Landmark Graphics Visualization Laboratory is a 3-D facility, consisting of a 7 x 2 metre curved Panoram Technologies screen with three rear-mounted projectors and high-end video processing equipment. Active full-colour stereo is achieved through the use of CrystalEyes liquid crystal shutter glasses, resulting in an incredibly realistic visualization environment. The system uses top-of-the-line hardware to generate high-quality 3-D OpenGL graphics, processed on a dedicated Linux-based IBM cluster.

As the maximum group size is 20 for this tour, please contact Paul Thorburn at 772-4755, paul.thorburn@nrc.ca by 1200 on Wednesday, Feb. 27 if you plan to attend. Please include return contact info in case the tour is full.

Workshop on Adverse Response Monitoring

"Patient Safety: Adverse Response to Medication"

Thursday, February 21-22, 2008

The Chamber, Ben Franklin Place, Ottawa, Canada

Goal
To find ways to unify efforts aimed at meeting the demand for medication safety systems that detect and report adverse events objectively, promptly, and relevantly - case by case, regardless of location.

Background
This workshop is set to address the foremost challenge of Patient Safety by focusing on the "hard problem" of quantifying the response to treatment, in view of the recent advances in measurement, computation, and communication at the interface between life, health, and medical sciences. This will be a cross-disciplinary, open forum that allows participants with various backgrounds to explore the issues from different perspectives. A telematic health information system that leverages measurement, networking, and communication technologies to assess and adjust patient's response to treatment will be demonstrated.

Who's attending?

Worldwide audience from the fields of engineering, informatics, medicine, and pharmacology: researchers and developers, scientists and educators, regulators and promoters interested in medication safety, executives and managers, students and practitioners.

Register now - Limited Seating http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ims/warm2008/

Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7:00pm

S.J. Carew Bldg, MUN, Room EN 4002 (Engineering Boardroom, 4th Floor)

Parking in Lot 16/16A

Presentation: "Thinking Yourself into an Electrical / Computer Engineer"

Presenter: Dr. Cecilia Moloney, B.Sc., M.A.Sc., PhD

Following the presentation the Section's Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers will be held. Light refreshments will be served in the Faculty Dining Room afterwards.

Friday, October 19, 2007, 12 noon - 1pm

S.J. Carew Building, Engineering Boradroom, 4th Floor

Abstract

In this presentation, the control problem for a number of cooperative spacecraft with communication constraints will be investigated and a solution presented involving a proposed decentralized controller. The efficacy of the proposed method is then demonstrated through simulations.

Speaker Biography:

Amir G. Aghdam received the B.A.Sc. degree from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran and the M.A.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, both in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 2000 and is presently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University. Dr. Aghdam has published more than 70 refereed papers and holds two patents with the US Patent Office. He served as Chair of the IEEE Montreal Section and Chair of the Control Systems Chapter of the IEEE Montreal Section in 2005 and 2006, and is presently Chair of the IEEE Eastern Canada Area. Dr. Aghdam has received more than $2.0M research grant since June 1, 2002 (as an individual or joint grantee) and has been a consultant for Centillium, Inc. and GlobVision, Inc. He was an associate editor of the 2007 IEEE Conference on Control Applications and is presently an associate editor of the IEEE Systems Journal and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering journal. Dr. Aghdam is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario and a senior member of the IEEE.

Parking - Lot 23, next to C-CORE Building

Please contact Gerard Dunphy (Phone: 737-1323, Email: g.dunphy@ieee.org) for further information.

Monday, September 17, 2007, 7pm

S.J. Carew Building, Engineering Boradroom, 4th Floor

Presenter: Dr. Myron Kayton, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

Topic: History of Navigation

Please join us as we welcome Dr. Myron Kayton, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, for his presentation on the History of Navigation. Refreshments will be served in the Faculty Lounge afterwards.

Speaker Biography:

Dr. Kayton is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, was an elected member of the corporate board of directors, and served two terms as president of its Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS). He has been technical chairman for several conference sessions, keynote speaker, and an active member of standards committees for navigation sensors and computers for nuclear power plants. Dr. Kayton taught at UCLA and is a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is the author of numerous papers and of the standard reference text, Avionics and Navigation Systems (1st and 2nd editions) and of Navigation: Land, Sea, Air, and Space. He is a past recipient of the IEEE's Millennium Medal. He is listed in Who's Who in Engineering, Who's Who in America, and in American Men and Women in Science.

Parking will be in Lot 16A

Please contact Gerard Dunphy (Phone: 737-1323, Email: g.dunphy@ieee.org) for further information.

Congratulations to Adam Gobi, the winner of the Membership Survey Draw. The names of all those who filled out our survey were added to a draw and Adam was the lucky winner of an IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador polo shirt.

Saturday, June 9, 6:30 for 7:00 pm

The Fluvarium

Tickets only $20 each for IEEE members and one guest; non-members $30 each. Please specify lobster, vegetarian or steak at time of ticket purchase. Salads, rolls, dessert, tea, coffee and drink tickets included!

Deadline for tickets: noon, Monday, June 4

For tickets, contact any member of the IEEE Newfoundland & Labrador Section Executive.

Electrical Power Conference (EPC) 2007 is focused on Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources as one of the areas in Power Systems Engineering that has been receiving a lot of attention in the recent years worldwide. The conference is sponsored by IEEE Canada and sponsored and organized by IEEE Montreal and Ottawa Sections. It is a natural extension/spin-off of the Electrical Power Symposia (EPS) that started in Ottawa and for the past six consecutive years were very successfully organized by the IEEE Ottawa Section.

The conference will be held in Montreal on October 25th and 26th. If you are interested in the conference, more information can be found at:

http://www.ieee.ca/epc07

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:30 pm

S.J. Carew Bldg, MUN, EN1040

The Faculty of Engineering at Memorial is holding its annual "IEEE Student Night". This event is an opportunity for graduating engineering students to present and demonstrate their senior design projects. The evening will begin at 7:30 sharp in room EN1040 of the Faculty of Engineering with the presentation of three top projects:

• "Interactive Projection Screen" by Jamie Warren
• "Wireless Calibration of a Distributed Sensor Grid" by Sushil Sanchetti
• "Hardware Implementation of Kasumi with Parity-Based Concurrent Error Detection" by Robert Powell

Following the presentations, there will be an opportunity to see demonstrations of all projects. Finally, the evening will conclude with the presentation of awards and consuming of pizza and drinks.

Any interested parties are encouraged to attend the evening. Students certainly will appreciate an opportunity to show the accomplishments of their final year projects to their fellow engineers.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Howard Heys at howard at engr.mun.ca.

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007 7:30 pm

S.J. Carew Bldg, MUN, Engineering Boardroom, 4th Floor

Guest Speaker: Michael Kidney B.A., B.Comm, CFP, FMA, CLU
Regional Manager, Life/Retirement and Investment Services for Great West Life

Join us for a talk on financial planning and how you can reasonably achieve your financial goals, be they focused on investing, buying your first home, preparing for retirement or more.

Light refreshments will be served in the Faculty Lounge afterwards.

This event is being organized by the newly formed GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Affinity Group. GOLD tries to create events and activities for recent graduates and young professionals, but we need your help. If you would like to get involved or have suggestions for activities, please let us know.

Please contact Lori Hogan (Phone: 737-8063, Email: lori.hogan@ieee.org ) for further information.