Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received October 4, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.   Mr.Pietro Manni, President of PQ Logic Corporation, presents a seminar entitled "Computer-Based Harmonic Modelling: Effect of Non-Linear Loads on Stand By Generators", organized by our Industry Applications chapter.   Click for details. October 18, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.   Mr. Jeff Tripp, Senior Engineer at Optech Incorporated presents a seminar entitled "Time-of-flight LIDAR and application", organized by our Instrumentation and Measurement chapter.   Click for details. October 22, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.   Section ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND AWARDS NIGHT - includes election of officers for 2006,07   Click for details. October 27, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.   Stewart Russell (Zephyr North Ltd.) and Puica Nitu (Ontario Power Generation) present a seminar entitled "Introduction to Wind Energy - Wind Energy in Ontario, & From Financial Markets to Energy Markets", organized by our Women in Engineering Affinity Group.   Click for details. October 27, 2005 at 5:10 p.m.   Dr. Zhi-Gong Wang, Southeast University, Nanjing, China presents a seminar entitled "Fabless IC Design for Wireless and Optic-Fiber Communications", organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter.   Click for details. October 28, 2005 at 2:00 p.m.   Dr. Chunming Qiao, Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, presents a seminar entitled "Integrating Optical and Wireless Technologies", organized by our Circuits and Devices chapter.   Click for details. November 4, 2005 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. Michal Okoniewski, Professor at the University of Calgary, presents a seminar entitled "RF-MEMS and Antenna Research in the Applied Electromagnetics Group at the University of Calgary" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation chapter.   Click for details. November 8, 2005 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. Vincent Chan, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents a seminar entitled "Research, Development and Commercial Deployment of Optical Networks: A Case Study on the History of a Major Innovation" organized by our Circuits & Devices chapter.   Click for details. November 10, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.   IEEE Power Engineering Chapter Dinner Meeting (Special Invitation to PES Fellows and PES SMs)   7:30 p.m. PEO Seminar on "Smart Electricity Meters" organized by the Toronto Duffering PEO chapter.   Click for details. November 14, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. Benny Bing, Associate Director, Georgia Tech Broadband Institute presents a seminar entitled "Broadband Wireless Access - The Next Wireless Revolution" organized by our Communications chapter.   Click for details.

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2005 dates:       Oct 10 Thanksgiving Day (Canada)    Oct 22 section AGM    Oct 29 turn back your clocks before retiring to bed

Summary of Conferences

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.   Please visit their website

Call for Presenters   Jai Cole, Exposition & Conference Director, invites proposals from IEEE members to present a conference session, tutorial or hands-on lab at LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld Canada Conference & Expo, April 24,25,26, 2006, in Toronto at the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre.   Please click this link for details - deadline October 31, 2005.

e-management, e-business, e-fficient - Enable e-management strategies to build your business. The University of Toronto Certificate in Electronic Communications provides up-to-date background in all aspects of electronic communications, including the current business environment, planning processes for communications networks, network and access technologies and services, along with a number of management processes and career-planning materials.   It provides what you need to know to be current and competitive.   Click here for details or visit the U of T PDC site to register.

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.

The Independent Electricity System Operator (formerly the operations centre of Ontario Hydro) forcasts electricity needs in Ontario, and balances the supply of and demand for electricity in Ontario and then directs its flow across the province's transmission lines. For more on this subject, including fluctuations in hourly electricity prices, please click here or click on the image.

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.

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.

"Power Systems for the Non-Power System Engineer" Bill Kennedy's Seminar

I welcome you to our website, which is designed to be our members' focal point to keep in touch and up to date, and to introduce visitors to our Section and the activities of its members.   Our interests are primarily technical, in the diverse fields of things electrical such as electrical power generation and distribution, wired and wireless tele-communications, digital networks and data processing, and the ubiquitous computer. There are many other interests as can be seen by exploring the IEEE Toronto links on the left. Thank you for visiting, enjoy, Dr. Kostas Plataniotis IEEE Toronto Section Chair