Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings

December 9, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. . Dr. John Volakis, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Metamaterials for Miniaturization of NarrowBand and Ultra-Wideband Antennas" organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation chapter Click for details December 9, 2005 at 5:10 p.m. Dr. Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang of the Jack Haskin School of Engineering at the University of California in Santa Cruz presents a seminar entitled "Challenges and Innovations for Development of SOCs" organized by our Solid-State Circuits chapter details

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Upcoming Conferences

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 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.

Hall of Fame

Dr . George Eleftheriades,Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto has been recently inducted into the Class of 2006 IEEE Fellow as a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to conception, analysis and fabrication of electromagnetic materials and their applications .In March 2004 Dr.Eleftheriades was awarded the prestigous NSERC Steacie Fellowship. He is also the recepient of the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award and the Gordon Slemon Award for the “teaching of design” from the University of Toronto both in 2001.Amongst his many research interests is his interest in Metamaterials i.e. man-made materials with superior properties that cannot be found in nature and he is the Canada Research Chair in Nano- and Micro-Structured Electromagnetic Materials and Applications . Click here for a link to Dr.Eleftheriades's webpage

Dr.Frank R. Kschischang,Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto has been recently inducted into the Class of 2006 IEEE Fellow as a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to trellis structures, graphical models and iterative decoding techniques for error-correcting codes .Dr. Kschischang's research interests are in the area of digital communications, particularly in the area of communication algorithms and he is the Canada Research Chair in Communication Algorithms.

Prof. Pas Pasupathy was his academic supervisor during Kschischang's graduate and doctoral years at the University of Toronto and describes him to be consistently striving for excellence and never sacrificed 'teaching' for 'research'.

Dr. Ian Blake his colleague at the University of Toronto showers accolades for Dr.Kschischang's quite unique ability to combine his strong mathematical talents to address very significant practical problems and commends him for his construction of the lattice in 36 dimensions (the so-called Kschischang-Pasupathy lattice),applying graph theory to coding problems and his work on factor graphs - a cornerstone of the field of low density parity check codes that is gaining a lot of importance. Click here for a link to Dr.Kschischang's webpage

Student News

Wallas Khella attended the the Awards program for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University on November 23, 2005, representing the IEEE Toronto Section. He presented the IEEE Toronto Section Wallas Khella Scholarship (value $2,000) to Raymond Phan, a student in 3rd year Computer Engineering. During the last 10 years, the Section has awarded a total of about $ 50,000 to students attending various local universities and colleges.

Wallas also accepted a plaque on behalf of the Section from the Ryerson University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recognizing the continued support extended by our Section.

IEEE News

2006 IEEE - Fellows Elected

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. A brief citation is issued to new Fellows describing their accomplishments and the total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth percent of the total voting Institute membership.For a completed listing of the IEEE Fellows for 2006 please click here.

IEEE Members Select Leah H. Jamieson 2006 IEEE PRESIDENT-ELECT

PISCATAWAY, N.J.,November 4th ,2005. - Leah H. Jamieson, Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and associate dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., has been selected as 2006 IEEE president-elect. Pending acceptance of the Teller's Committee report by the IEEE Board of Directors, Jamieson will begin serving as IEEE president on 1 Jan. 2007. She will succeed 2006 IEEE President Michael R. Lightner, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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- Vice Chair & Secretary for our Women In Engineering Group    If you are interested, please contact Visda

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