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The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news
about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and
Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest
occuring in Toronto and surounding areas. Posted every month.
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Oct 9, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
Timothy Brown, Chief Technology Strategist at WireIE presents "WiMAX: The Future of Ubiquitous Broadband Wireless Internet Access," organized by our Engineering and Human Environment Chapter Click for details.Registration required.
Oct 15, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
"Toronto Aerospace Museum Lecture and Tour," organized by our Aerospace and Electronic Systems Chapter and the Central Ontario Section of SAE. Click for details details.Registration required.
Oct 23, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
"Investigating Safety Culture in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries in Ontario," Joint Conference/Forum organized by the IEEE Toronto Engineering and Human Environment Chapter, the ISA Chemical & Petroleum Industries and Management Divisions, and the Association of Polish Engineers in Canada. Click for details details.Registration required.
Oct 25, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.
IEEE Toronto 2008 Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner. This annual event is an opportunity for IEEE Toronto Section members to meet each other as well as the dedicated group of IEEE volunteers who give of their time to plan, organize and execute the wide range of programs offered within the Section and elsewhere in Canada. This year, the keynote speech will be "The History and Advances of Cardiac Pacemakers," presented by Dr. Neil Fraser, president of Medtronic of Canada Ltd.
details.Registration required.
Nov 4, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Daniel Fischer, Senior Engineer, Kinectrics presents, "Artificial Intelligence Stops the Car (so you don’t have to)," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter. Click for details.
Nov 20, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
Prof. Thia Kirubarajan (Kiruba) of McMaster University presents "Passive Coherent Location: Tracking Aircraft Using Radio and TV Stations," organized by our Aerospace and Electronic Systems Chapter and Communications Chapter. Click for details.Registration required.
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Symposium on Alternative Energy
There has been an heightened awareness amongst the citizens of the world on the changing climate patterns, the melting of the polar ice caps and the larger concern for environmental degradation. At the heart of these global concerns is the increasing demand for energy and the emergence of alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar as solutions. However, the larger questions of how, where and when to tap into these alternative and cleaner sources of energy has been a challenge. With this background, on July 15 - Ryerson University along with the IEEE Toronto Section and under the stewardship of S. Sreenevasa Murthy held a conference to bring researchers, engineers,environmentalists and business leaders to brainstorm on these very questions to develop a holistic understanding of these global problems and probe on developing a plan to tackle them.
Please download the proceedings of the Conference and symposium here to engage yourself in this cause.
The IEEE Toronto Section leaders attend the Sections Congress 2008
On September 19 Alex Bot - the Toronto Section Chair lead a delegation of volunteers and section leaders to the IEEE Sections Congress where they networked with delegates from all ten IEEE Regions.
This four day event included workshops, panel and tutorial sessions held on topics of interest to the Sections to utilize the resources of the worldwide IEEE to maximize their effectiveness as IEEE volunteer leaders.
The Sections Congress is the one major meeting sponsored by the IEEE which brings together the Institute's grassroots leadership so that they can share ideas, concerns and solutions.This triennial gathering of Section leadership is sponsored by the Member and Geographic Activities Board. In addition,the Congress is also a forum where the Section Chairs speak as the collective voice of IEEE membership, expressing ideas about how the Institute can better serve its members, both now and going forward. The issues generated at Sections Congress have had a major impact on the plans made by the IEEE Leadership for the future of the Institute.Click here for more pictures
 Tesla, An Evening With Genius – Nov. 6–8, 2008
Play organized by: Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Toronto Section
He discovered alternating current, wireless and radio. And no, he is not Marconi. In fact, in 1943, the Supreme Court granted full rights to Tesla for the invention of radio, nullifying the claims of Marchese Gugliemo Marconi who had patented a two-tuned-circuit design and a more practical four-tuned-circuit modeled after Tesla's. Marconi's patent on the invention of radio was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court because Tesla's work predated it (Case #369, 6/21/43). Nikola Tesla is known as the forgotten genius although we know him too well through his inventions.
In a unique event, IEEE Toronto Section and PEO have organized an evening with Tesla! This one-man play about Tesla's life is written by J. Michael Newlight and Frank Tabbita, with Frank Tabbita as Nikola Tesla.
Tickets are available on www.ticketmaster.com.
Thursday, November 6th at 8:00 pm - $20
Friday, November 7th at 8:00 pm - $25
Saturday, November 8th at 8:00 pm - $25
Students - $15 on any day
The above prices include all applicable taxes and fees. For more information visit the event web site: http://www.vasicweb.com/tesla/
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October 25-29, 2008- The Seventeenth International Conference on
Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT). Holiday Inn on King
Toronto, CANADA. Click for more http://pactconf.org
The purpose of PACT is to bring together researchers from architecture,
compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative
research of common interest.
Register at: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/pact/registration.html
May 12–15, 2009 — Canadian Conference on Climate Change – CCTC 2009 will be held in Hamilton, Ontario.
Oct 19–21, 2009 — Product Safety Engineering Society Symposium – PSESS 2009 will be held in Toronto, Ontario.
All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.
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"Overhead Conductor Tension and Sags, and Guying of Poles" by Wallas H. Khella, Ph.D., P.Eng. — Nov. 3 & 4, 2008
This one and a half day seminar is designed for Engineers, Technologists and Technicians working for electrical utilities, communication organizations and consulting engineering firms dealing with the design of new or upgrading of overhead distribution lines. The seminar will outline the physical and mechanical characteristics of the overhead line components and shows how to apply these to design pole lines that meets the Regulation. Reference Standards and applicable specifications will be given. Each participant will receive a comprehensive set of seminar notes, which can be used as reference design manual. Various Excel spreadsheets will be demonstrated to assist in determining the guying/anchoring requirements to meet the required Grades of Construction.
Click for details (hosted on the S&C website). Read More....
"Critical Software Safeguards Course: Lint and MISRA-C" by Michael Barr — Nov. 20, 2008
The automatic C/C++ code checker, lint, is a powerful but underutilized static analysis tool. The “2004 Guidelines for the Use of the C Language in Critical Systems” (a.k.a., MISRA-C) are similarly powerful and underused. On their own, lint and MISRA-C are powerful tools for preventing or detecting bugs and, thus, making embedded systems safer and more reliable. Furthermore, the value of following the MISRA-C coding guidelines is magnified many times by the use of lint or another static analysis tool as an automatic rule enforcer. This one day course introduces both static analysis and MISRA-C individually and demonstrates how to put them together for maximum impact.
Click for details.
"Project Management — Meeting Those Pesky Requirements" by Celia Desmond, B.Sc., M. Eng. — Nov. 24 & 25, 2008
What makes a project successful? What can you do to make your projects succeed? Numerous problems cause many projects either to fail, or to create headaches for the project team. In order to meet the project requirements or to meet the changing expectations of others, project teams must understand these and manage them. There are techniques that can be implemented which have been shown to make projects more successful and to make life easier for the project manager and the team. This short seminar provides broad coverage of project management methods, supplemented by real project examples.
The two day seminar will be held at S&C Canada’s Training Centre. A set of notes will be provided. Snacks, refreshments and lunches will be freely available to all attendees.
Click for details (hosted on the S&C website).
"Building USB Applications with Libusb" by Dennis Cecic — Nov. 29, 2008
Are you still trying to use Serial/Parallel ports for PC interfacing? Good luck. 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 review the important aspects of USB (electrical, protocol, mechanical, certification), as well as providing hands-on experience in implementing a custom PC Host application using the cross-platform Libusb API to exchange generic data with a USB microcontroller. The course will be run in a fully instrumented computer laboratory.
Click for details. Registration deadline: November 22, 2008
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.
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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.
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Future Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section
Have you been
in professional practice for at least ten years and have shown significant
performance over a period of at least five of those years? You should
be an IEEE Senior Member. Need help in obtaining your three
references? We will help you - just contact Dimitri
, our membership chair.
Please click this link to find out the advantages, the requirements,
and an explanation of the process including key links to apply online.
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our Section - by distributing the workload over many Section members, the
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