Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received Mar 2, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   ENGINEERING WEEK - Special Invitation to IEEE members - "Engineering Innovations Forum 2006 - Robotics" at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto - includes public forum, exhibits, and reception.   Click for invitation and robotics exhibits. Mar 3, 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. Note: Date Change! Mar 16, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Monica Weissmann of Edward Jones in Thornhill, Ontario presents a seminar entitled "Smart Women Finish Rich" organized by our Women In Engineering Group.   Click for details. Mar 20, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.   Dr. Jiu Ding of the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, presents a seminar entitled "The Google Matrix and Its Eigenvalues" organized by our Communications Society chapter.   Click for details.     Note: Room Change! Mar 21, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.   A tour of the "Independent Electricity System Operator" (IESO). organized by our Life Members Affinity Group.   Click for details.     Mar 23, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr. Bill Chisholm of Kinetrics in Toronto, presents a seminar entitled "Use of Overhead Conductor Ground Clearance Measurements to Calculate Effective Wind Speed for Transmission Line Rating" organized by our Power Engineering Society chapter.   Click for details.     Mar 31, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. P. Siegel of Caltech University presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Terahertz Technology in Outer and Inner Space" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation chapter.   Click for details. 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 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 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. 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

New IEEE and EIC Fellows from our Section - Frank Kschischang and George Eleftheriades, are new IEEE Fellows.   Bob Hanna and Frank Kschischang are the new EIC Fellows.   To see the complete list of Canadians, please use this link.

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

LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld 2006 Conference & Expo, April 24 - 26, 2006, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
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New Pioneers Awards 2006 Reception, Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North.   IEEE Senior Member and Chapter Chair Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan will be presented with this year's Science and Technology award. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in India, Sridhar Krishnan came to Canada in 1994 to pursue graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering 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 (ECE) at Ryerson University 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. Sridhar is a brilliant scientist who has had 80 research papers published in leading international biomedical engineering conferences and journals. He has a U.S. patent for his research on early detection of arthritis using engineering approaches and is a pioneer in using time-frequency domain analysis – a complex technique exploring non-stationary signals for analyzing biomedical and multimedia signals. This technique is also applied to screen cancer cells, knee joints, monitoring hypertension and stress, and in designing assistive devices for hearing impaired people. At Ryerson University, Sridhar founded the Signal Analysis Research (SAR) group of undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates who collaborate with clinicians and industries and conduct leading-edge research on medical images and signals, multimedia information and signal analysis. Additionally, Sridhar is an active mentor, counselling engineering students on career choices. Outside of his job, Sridhar finds the time to volunteer. He serves as the Chair of the Signal Processing Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Toronto Section. He founded and organized the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE) – a forum that exposes undergraduate students to the research community and he actively volunteers for organizations that work to empower Tamil youth. In September 2005 Ryerson University awarded the Faculty Research Excellence Award to Sridhar Krishnan.     More on the NPA Awards

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.

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