Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received Apr 4, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr. D. Brocilo, Research Associate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario presents a seminar entitled "Plasma Pollution Control Technology for Sustainable Energy Development" organized by our Gold Affinity Group.   Click for details. Apr 4, 2006 at 7:0 p.m.   Lauri Hiivala, Nexans Canada in Toronto, presents a seminar entitled "New CSA/ICEA Standards and AEIC Specification for Power Cables" organized by our Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 5, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. Steven Best of the MITRE corporation in Bedford, MA, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Optimizing the Performance of Electrically Small Antennas" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 5, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr. Myron Kayton, a Consulting Engineer for Kayton Engineering Company, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Navigation; Land, Sea, Air and Space" organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 6, 2006 at 6:45 p.m.   Natik Hussain presents a seminar entitled "Rebuilding Iraq - a Canadian Engineering Perspective" organized by the Toronto Dufferin PEO Chapter and co-sponsored by our Engineering and Human Environment chapter.   Click for details.   Note: Topic Change! Apr 7, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. David Hockanson of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, CA, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "0.1 Horsepower and 0 to 5 GHz in 50 Picoseconds: The Challenges in Delivering Power to Tomorrow's Microelectronics" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 10, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.   Mr. Bern Grush, Founder and CTO of Applied Location Corporation in Toronto, presents a seminar entitled "Application of Digital Signal Processing to GNSS Signals for Transportation Pricing Systems" organized by our Signal Processing Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 10, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr. E. Micheli-Tzanakou of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey, U.S.A., presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Feature Extraction in Computational Intelligence" organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter.   Click for details.   Note: Date Change! Apr 12, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Nick Bouris of Motorola Labs in Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A. presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Electromagnetic Design for Wireless Applications and Multidisciplinary Optimization" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation chapter.   Click for details.   Note: Room Change! Apr 13, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Cliff Brewster, Principal of OnTime Management Inc. presents a seminar entitled "Managing Projects Successfully and Becoming PMP Certified" organized by our GOLD Affinity Group.   Click for details. Apr 20, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Mrs. Carmela Phillips, Supervisor Compliance and Disputes Resolution, Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), presents a seminar entitled "Reliability in Deregulated Electricity Markets: The Ontario Example " organized by our Power Engineering chapter.   Click for details. Apr 21, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. K. Chakrabarty, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in Durham N.C., U.S.A. presents a seminar entitled "Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics CAD" organized by our Computer chapter.   Click for details. Apr 24, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. Jon Mark of the Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Waterloo in Ontario presents a seminar entitled "Evolution of Wireless Communications" organized by our Signal Processing chapter.   Click for details. Apr 26, 2006 at 9:00 a.m.   D. Douglass, T. Seppa, and W. Chisholm present a tutorial entitled "Selection of Weather Parameters for Bare Overhead Conductor Ratings".   This is a cigré Working Group 12 presentation which is endorsed by our Power Engineering Chapter.   Click for details and cigré web site. Apr 27, 2006 at 6:30 a.m.   Noreen E. Calderbank, P.Eng., Manager, Prelicensing Programs, Professional Engineers Ontario, presents a seminar entitled "The Professional Engineer Designation" organized by our Women In Engineering affinity group.   Click for details. May 15, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Professor Philip Russell of the Max-Planck Research Group in the Institute for Optics, Information & Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, presents a LEOS distinguished lecture entitled "New Age Fibre Crystals", organized by our Circuits & Devices Chapter.   Click for details. See what events we are planning - use this link to see who is planning what, when, and where - and provide feedback or ask a question. (updated Feb 19, 2006)

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Summary of Conferences

Plan to attend two excellent conferences - back to back in the same area of Ottawa during beautiful tulip time! May 7...   The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Early Bird registration deadline - April 7.   Please visit their web site for complete details and registration.   Did you know?   IEEE Canada is a member society of EIC! May 9...   The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) Conference on Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century will be held May 9-12, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Featured speakers.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Jun 11...   The 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Electric Insulation will be held June 11-14, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Delta Chelsea hotel.   Financial support for students deadline - March 15.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Jul 9...   The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo will be held July 9-12, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton hotel.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 17...   The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel.   Submission deadline - March 1.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 28...   The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.   Please visit their website   All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

IEEE Educational Programs

Apr 28   3:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT - a free-of-charge internet-based short course "Teaching Power Systems with Integrated Software Laboratory" - details.   Registration is required by April 3, 2006 via .   When you register for this course, please inform Ron Chen, PES Toronto Chapter Chair by .   May 26...   IEEE Toronto Section - Project Management - Meeting those Pesky Requirements - details   Registration Deadline: May 12, 2006, 12:00 noon

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) chapter   This will be a new chapter for IEEE Toronto - Benjamin Mak is seeking signatures from all EMBS members to complete his petition to form this chapter. Please contact him if you are willing to lend your signature or if you have any suggestions or questions using his .

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Your 2006 Section Officers (from left):   Marcelo Mota - Secretary   Alex Bot - Vice Chair   Alagan Anpalagan - Chair   Pele Westlind - Treasurer

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IEEE Chapter Chair Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan was recently presented with this year's NPA Science and Technology award. After receiving his Engineering degree in India, Sridhar Krishnan came to Canada in 1994 to pursue at the University of Calgary. Within five years he not only had adjusted to a new system of education and a new culture, but also had made his mark as an outstanding research student and acquired a Ph.D. Today as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Associate Professor, Sridhar is the youngest Chair for an ECE Department in Canada and is a major player in transforming Ryerson University from a primarily undergraduate institution to a full-fledged research university. He is an active volunteer for the IEEE and founded the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE)     The NPA Awards

Another Well Attended Seminar Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE at the Marriott Hotel on Bloor St.

With great pleasure, I welcome you to our website that has a wealth of information and useful links for you.   Our job is to serve the members of the Section as well as the society.   We serve our members by organizing technical meetings and social gatherings to advance the knowledge and network with other professionals. Many thanks to our active and dedicated volunteers who contribute to the success of our Section.   I welcome your suggestions that can help improve our services to our members.   There are many other interests as can be seen by exploring the IEEE Toronto links on the left.   Thank you very much for visiting our website. Dr. Alagan Anpalagan IEEE Toronto Section Chair