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May 2, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. Amit Mehta of the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, Swansea University, UK presents "Recent Progress in Switched Beam Single Element Antennas," organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 6, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Andreas C. Cangellaris of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, presents a Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Distinguished Lecture, "A Methodology for Fast, Fully Coupled Electro-Mechanical Modelling of RF-MEMS Capacitive Switches," organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 12, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh of ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, presents "Flexible Nonlinear Light Sources," organized by our Circuits & Devices Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 14, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Walter Banks, President, Byte Craft Limited presents, "Linguistic Variables: Clear Thinking with Fuzzy Logic," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 15, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. David C. Hutchings, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, presents "Enabling Technologies for the Monolithic Integration of Semiconductor Lasers and Waveguide Optical Isolators," organized by our Circuits & Devices Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 15, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Nikola Nedovic of Fujitsu Laboratories of America in
Sunnyvale, California presents "Clock and Data Recovery in High-Speed Wireline Communications," organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter. Click for details.

May 21, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. Blair Peberdy, Vice President and Chief Conservation Officer, Toronto Hydro presents the talk "Toronto Hydro's Conservation Demand Management Initiatives," jointly organized by our Life Members and Power Engineering Chapters. Click for details.

May 21, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Rami Abielmona, VP Research & Engineering, Larus Technologies Corporation, presents "Sensor Networks in Two Keywords: In-Network Processing for Data-Centric Applications," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter. Click for details.

Jun 4, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Azadeh Kushki from the University of Toronto presents, "Cognitive Dynamic Radio Tracking," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter. Click for details.

Jun 24, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Arlene Cohen presents "The Art of Presentation," organized by our Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group. Click for details.

Jul 2, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Prof. El-Hang Lee, Director of OPERA (Optics and Photonics Elite Research Academy) INHA University, South Korea, presents a Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture, "Optical Printed Circuit Board (O-PCB) and VLSI Photonics," organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Optical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Click for details.

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Local IEEE Educational Programs

"USB Hands-On in Linux" by Dennis Cecic — June, 2008
USB has emerged as the de-facto standard interface for PC connectivity. Unfortunately for developers, the USB programming model is relatively complex, compared to these traditional interfaces. The objective of this 1-day class is to de-mystify the USB, and kick-start your USB Device development in Linux by reviewing the important aspects of the USB, as well as getting some hands-on experience in implementing generic data exchange between a Microchip PIC18 USB MCU and a Linux user-space C-program.
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The IEEE Toronto Section recently held the two-day course "Project Management – Meeting those Pesky Requirements" by Celia Desmond. Click the thumbnail on the left for a larger version.

Visit our Education Activities page for a full list of upcoming and past courses.

IEEE Communications Society Launches New Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification Program

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) has launched a new program to certify the practical knowledge and skills of wireless communications professionals.

The IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (IEEE WCET) Certification Program has been specifically designed by IEEE ComSoc to address the worldwide wireless industry’s growing need for communications professionals with practical problem-solving skills in real-world situations. With this certification, professionals will be able to clearly demonstrate their knowledge of wireless communications technologies to employers or change engineering fields as new opportunities arise in the wireless industry.

In the coming months, IEEE ComSoc will also launch a set of resources designed specifically to help participants prepare for the examination. In addition, a Candidate Handbook for the IEEE WCET certification program containing policies, complete details of the subject areas covered, reference sources, sample questions, application procedures and contact information is currently available free-of-charge through IEEE ComSoc.

For more information on the IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification Program (IEEE WCET) contact: Jean Niblett, IEEE Communications Society, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Phone: (212) 705-8913. E-mail: j.niblett@comsoc.org or visit www.ieee-wcet.org.

Visda Vokhshoori Awarded the 2008 IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Prize

Visda Vokhshoori joined IEEE as a student member in 1996 (elevated to member in 2002) and has been actively involved with the organization ever since. In 2000 she founded the IEEE Hudson Valley WIE Affinity and served as its chair until she moved to Toronto, Canada in 2003. She served as Chair of the Toronto Section WIE Affinity Group for several years until becoming the Section Public Relations Commitee Chair in 2007. She is being awarded the 2008 Women in Engineering Prize, awarded to a female IEEE Canada member who received her first professional degree within the last ten years and who is active in IEEE activities.

The IEEE Toronto Section would like to congratulate Visda Vokhshoori for her achievement and contributions to the IEEE community.

Dr. Bruno N. Di Stefano Awarded the 2008 IEEE Canada W. S. Read Gold Medal

Bruno DiStefano, a Senior Member of IEEE residing in the Toronto Section, is President of Nuptek Systems Ltd. He is being awarded the 2008 W.S. Read Gold Medal (Outstanding and Sustained Service to IEEE Canada and the Institute) in recognition of service to the profession & IEEE.

The IEEE Toronto Section would like to congratulate Bruno Di Stefano for his achievement and thank him for his service to the profession.

Science Rendezvous

The Greater Toronto Area is host to some of the most cutting edge science and technology research in the world. From the discovery of stem cells to work on innovative lasers, amazing developments have happened here.

Come and see for yourself!

We invite people of all ages to come and explore exciting opportunities in science and technology, to meet the people who make it happen, and to encourage the next generation to discover the possibilities of a future in science.

For more information visit: www.sciencerendezvous.ca

Summary of Local IEEE Conferences

May 4–7, 2008 — 21st IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering – CCECE 2008 will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, at the Sheraton Fallsview hotel. CCECE is a flagship conference for researchers, students, and practising engineers in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Canada and around the world to meet annually for 3 to 4 days in a Canadian city to present the latest technological advancements and discoveries, to network and exchange ideas, to strengthen existing partnerships and foster new collaborations.

May 9–10, 2008 — IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications – MeMeA 2008 will be held in Ottawa, Ontario.

May 12, 2008 — 7th International Conference for Upcoming Engineers — ICUE 2008 will be held at the University of Toronto.

June 24–26, 2008 — 24th Biennial Symposium on Communications will be held at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

July 6–11, 2008 — IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory – ISIT 2008 will be held in Toronto, Ontario.

All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

Pas Pasupathy: Meeting Challenges Head On

IEEE Life Fellow and Toronto Section member, Prof. Subbarayan "Pas" Pasupathy, was recently profiled in the IEEE publication "The Institute":

"A lunch with co-workers and perhaps a fancy watch or a piece of luggage are typical retirement gifts for many people. But those weren’t adequate to mark the career of IEEE Life Fellow Subbarayan “Pas” Pasupathy. Instead, his students and colleagues at the University of Toronto, in Canada, devoted an all-day workshop to honor his contributions as teacher, pioneering researcher, and international authority on wireless digital communications, detection and estimation theory, and biomedical signal processing."

Read the full article by Kathy Kowalenko and visit the official workshop web page.

Communications Society Free Online Tutorial

Sept 18, 2007: IEEE Communications Society is pleased to offer all IEEE members a free two-hour online tutorial...presentation on "Software Radio Implementation for MIMO/OFDM High Speed Wireless LAN/MAN" from IEEE Communications Society's popular Tutorials Now. Free for a limited time only.

This tutorial was originally presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, and covers cutting-edge wireless parallel transmission technologies in OFDM and MIMO. Development and systems engineers and technical managers will find the fundamental and helpful information very useful.

IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker The IEEE Toronto Life Members affinity group has successfully nominated the "Hopps First External Pacemaker" as an IEEE Milestone.

Pat Finnigan (LM Chair) is leading this initiative and he needs some help in working with researchers and IEEE members in the life sciences/medical area to gather some more information about Dr. Hopps and his pioneering work in the late 1940's. Click this link to see Dr. Hopps interviewed on a 1950's CBC archive clip from Front Page Challenge.

If you have any relevent information or expertise or are just interested to help out, please contact Pat using his .

Contact us - to contact any member of our executive please use the mailtos on our executive page.

Your 2008 Section Officers (L to R):
Wai Tung Ng - Vice Chair
Alex Bot - Chair
Marcelo Mota - Secretary
Pelle Westlind - Treasurer

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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