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Contact us - to contact any member of our
executive please use the mailtos on our executive page.
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Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond
please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received
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Feb 9, 2006 at 7:45 p.m.
Dr. David Yap of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment presents a seminar
entitled "How Bad is Smog in Ontario?" organized by PEO and our Engineering
& Human Environment Chapter. Click for details.
Feb 10, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
Dr. David Plant of McGill University presents a seminar entitled
"Agile All-Photonic Networks" organized by our Circuits & Devices Chapter.
Click for details.
Feb 20, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.
Dr.Bin Wu of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ryerson
University in Toronto presents a seminar entitled
"Medium Voltage Drives with Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter Technology"
organized by our Industry Applications Chapter.
Click for details.
Feb 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Alexander Geyer of Mathsoft1 in Toronto presents a seminar entitled
"Trellis decoding of error-correcting codes" organized by our Communications
Chapter. Click for details.
Feb 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.
"First 2006 General Interest Meeting of IEEE GOLD - Graduates of the Last
Decade" organized by our GOLD Affinity Group. Members of ALL ages are invited.
Click for details.
Feb 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE, of Kinectrics and Meir Klein of Hydro One, present
a seminar entitled "On-line and Off-line Transformer Monitoring" organized by
our Power Engineering Chapter. Click for details.
Feb 23, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
Puica Nitu of Ontario Power Generation in Toronto presents a seminar entitled
"From Financial Markets to Energy Markets" organized by our Women In
Engineering Group. Click for details.
Feb 24, 2006 at 5:10 p.m.
Hugh Chow, Executive VP of ViXS Systems, Toronto presents a seminar entitled
"Globalization: A Semiconductor Industry Perspective" organized by our
Solid-State Circuits Chapter and Student Activities Committee. Click
for details.
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2006 dates:
February 25 - March 5 is engineering week in Canada
March 2 is Blue Jays Spring Training start
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Feb 27... The 7th annual ENERCOM Conference and Exposition
will be held Feb 27-Mar 1, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario.
Please visit their web site for full details.
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May 7... The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Please visit their web site for the early announcement.
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May 9... The Engineering Institute of Canada
Conference on Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and
Solutions in the 21st Century will be held May 9-12, 2006 in Ottawa,
Ontario. Please visit their web site for full details.
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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.
Please visit their web site for full details.
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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.
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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. Please visit their web site for full details.
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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
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Contact us - to contact any member of our
executive please use the mailtos on our executive page.
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New IEEE Fellows -
Professors Frank Kschischang and George Eleftheriades, both of the Deptartment
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, have been
elected by the IEEE Board of Directors at their recent meeting, effective
January 1, 2006. To see the entire class of 2006 IEEE Fellows, including
all citations, please use this link.
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Awards presented at recent AGM Former IEEE President
and IEEE Canada Director Emeritus Wallace Stanley Read was on hand (from his home in
St. John's, Newfoundland) to present the "W.S. Read Outstanding Service
Award" to Miro Forest. Ed Lovrek received the "IEEE Toronto Section
Chapter Chair of the Year".
Bill Kennedy presented the "Sustaining Friend of IEEE Regional Activities
Award" to the University of Toronto, and Professor Emeritus Gordon Slemon
accepted on behalf of the university.
Alagan Anpalagan, Alex Bot, and Pelle Westlind have been elected as IEEE
Toronto Section Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively for
2006 and 2007.
Dr. Richard Marceau, UOIT Provost, spoke about the rapid development of this
two-year old university in Whitby, Ontario.
Click here to read more and view all the photos.
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IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering is recognized by the IEEE WIE
Committee (world-wide) as the the runner-up for the 2004 Women in Engineering
Affinity Group of the Year award - see image at left (click to enlarge).
Congratulations to WIE Toronto Chair, Visda Vokhshoori, for her
leadership in developing a strong and interesting WIE program that includes
many innovative activity formats - Visda has also been recognized in her former
IEEE Section (Mid Hudson) for notable services and contributions - please see
the Women In Engineering home page for more details.
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IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society honours its Toronto
chapter as its Outstanding Chapter for 2004. The joint Toronto chapter which
included AAES has recently been re-organized - please see the Signals &
Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter home page for more details.
Congratulations to Signal Processing (formerly Signals and Applications)
Chapter Chair, Sri Krishnan, for his leadership in developing a strong series
of chapter activities in 2004.
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Ryerson University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
publicly recognized the IEEE Toronto Section at its 2005 Awards ceremony
on Nov 23 for its continued support of student activities through its program of awards.
Over the last decade, the Section has provide more that $50,000 in
Scholarships to local universities and colleges. Dr. Wallas Khella,
1978-89 Section Chair and currently a member-at-large of the Section
executive committee, was at the ceremony to present a couple of this
year's Section awards and to receive the plaque from ECE department
chair Dr. Sridhar Krishnan.
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"Power Systems for the
Non-Power System Engineer"
Bill Kennedy's Seminar
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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
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Toronto is one of 20 sections in Canada. For more
information about national activities and publications, please visit the
IEEE Canada links on the left. You can visit the IEEE (worldwide)
and EIC web sites by clicking on their logos below.
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