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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.
Now formatted for portrait-orientation printing.
Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings
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
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
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
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 cigre website
Click here for Events in the Planning.
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Upcoming Courses
In the spring of 2006, the IEEE Toronto Section is offering a 2-day course in Project Management, for those who manage or work on projects, but have little or no formal training in the field. The course is based on processes recommended by the Project Management Institute, the primary authority on project management.
The course, "Project Management - Meeting those Pesky Requirements", is taught by Celia Desmond, B.Sc., M. Eng., President of World Class -Telecommunications.
Click here for more Details.
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Upcoming Conferences
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LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld 2006 Conference & Expo, April
24 - 26, 2006, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
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"Where the IT Industry Meets!"
LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld Canada Conference & Expo 2006 is the key
tradeshow & conference for management & IT professionals to learn about
the most up-to-date information technology products, services,
applications & solutions on all platforms. Conference is a
non-commercial education program that includes keynotes, case studies,
tutorials & hands-on workshops. The tradeshow features experts from
leading companies; 20,000 sq. ft of exhibits all under one roof truly
makes this event a must-attend. New! LWNW 2006 will present the
"Smalltalk Solutions Conference 2006" in conjunction with the Smalltalk
Industry Council. Check out speakers, topics, contests, sponsors, and
more at http://lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca.
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IEEE members - free pre-registration for trade show, 25% discount
on pre-registration for conference and tutorials - use code A101 when you
pre-register and show your IEEE membership card at the door.
Register today to take advantage of Early Bird Rates: https://www.exporeg.com/lwnw.
Click on image at right to download your FREE PASS to the LinuxWorld and
NetworkWorld tradeshow - compliments of IEEE!
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The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario. Click here for details.
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 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
The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo will be held July 9-12, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton hotel. Click here for details
The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel. Click here for 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.Click here for details.
All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.
Hall of Fame The Hall of Fame section features the IEEE Fellows of the Toronto Section.
Dr.Farid N. Najm, FIEEE, received
the B.E. degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from
the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1983, and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1986 and 1989,
respectively. He worked with Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, 1989-1992,
then joined the ECE Department at UIUC as an Assistant Professor, becoming
Associate Professor in 1997. In 1999, he joined the ECE Department at the
University of Toronto, where he is now Professor and Vice-Chair of ECE.
Dr. Najm's research interests are in the general
area of computer-aided design (CAD) for integrated circuits,
with an emphasis on circuit level issues related to power dissipation,
timing, and reliability. In 2003 he was
conferred as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers for contributions to for contributions to estimation and
modeling of power dissipation in integrated circuits. Click here for a link to Dr.Najm 's webpage and a few of
his publications.
IEEE Job Site is an online recruitment
service that offers all IEEE members exclusive,free access to
real-time job-matching capabilities. You can use your IEEE Web Account
to register a job candidate profile in five easy steps.Click here for details.
Within the next month, there will be exciting new job opportunities with
ATI, a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D is
located in Markham, Ontario.
Members in News
IEEE Chapter Chair Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan was recently presented with this year's New Pioneer Awards Science and Technology award. After receiving his Engineering degree in India, Sridhar Krishnan came to Canada in 1994 to pursue 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 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. He is an active volunteer for the IEEE and founded the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE)
Section News
CALL FOR MEMBERS
The IEEE Toronto section will be forming a new chapter for the Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) in Toronto. For existing IEEE members, the
dues for the current half year are only $18.00 + GST. We require the
signatures of 12 non-student members to petition the new chapter.
If you are interested, please contact
Benjamin
or visit www.embsto.com for more info.
IEEE News
Wiley-IEEE Press Titles 20 Percent Off Through March :
13 March – Publisher John Wiley & Sons is currently offering 20 percent off all IEEE Press titles. IEEE Press, the largest IEEE book publishing division, is a leading source of technological information and publisher of books in both print and online format. The sale ends 31 March. For more information, visit this link
Two New IEEE Journals Debut Online
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13 March – The first issues of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security have been published and are now available online through the IEEE Xplore digital library.
For more IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here
Membership
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 Alex
, 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.
Volunteers Invited
Volunteering a few hours a month is a
very rewarding experience - we have a great group of about 45 volunteers
who contribute to the smooth running of our Section - by distributing the
workload over many Section members, the individual load is kept small - we
are looking for a few additional members to help out in the following
specific areas:
- Secretary for our Industry Applications Society
If you are interested, please contact
David
- The Communications Society is looking for a Volunteer to get involved with organizing technical, educational and professional seminars. Somebody from the industry will be an asset.
If you are interested, please contact
Xavier
Advertising
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interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter,
please contact the editor.
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