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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
Dec 1, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Yongmin Kim, Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair in Bioengineering, University of Washington, presents a distinguished lecture on "Bioengineering, Translational Research, and Technology Commercialization" organized by our Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter Click for
Click for details.
Dec 4, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
Puica Nitu, Senior Advisor in Energy Markets of Ontario Power Generation Inc., presents a seminar on "From risk management of financial options to risk management of physical options" organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter Click for details.
Dec 7, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Hassan Kojori presents a seminar on "A Tutorial on Advanced Methods of AC and DC Arc Fault Detection and Protection (AFDP)" co-organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter and Industry Application chapter .
Click for details. Registration required
Dec 21, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
Our Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Chapter presents the event "Grist for the Rumour Mill: Holiday Networking Event and Informal Panel Session on Equipment Standards" Attendance confirmation requested.
Click for details.
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Upcoming Conferences
All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.
IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2007
April 30 - May 2, 2007
Princeton, NJ.
*Paper submission deadline*: Dec. 4, 2006.
Click for details http://www.sarnoffsymposium.org
Hall of Fame The Hall of Fame section features the IEEE Fellows of the Toronto Section.
Prof. J. Douglas Lavers
FIEEE, received his B.Sc.from Dalhousie Univ.,M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Univ.of Toronto
Prof.Lavers,is a professor at the University of Toronto his primary research interests focus on applications involving magnetic fields at frequencies ranging from DC to several hundred MHz. Typical applications include: design and development of high efficiency, high power density magnetic components for telecommunications and computer power supplies; advanced systems to control molten metal fluid velocities in high throughput continuous casting systems; magnet design for MRI systems; contact resistance phenomena in low and high frequency electrical contacts; electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference phenomena. Additionally, he researches on neural network applications for nonlinear, high power systems and on modeling issues related to power electronic systems.
In 1994 Prof. J Douglas Lavers was conferred as a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the modeling of electrometallurgical systems and electroheat devices
Click here for more about Prof.Lavers.
Section News
Dr.Bill Chisholm,PHd, P.Eng (Ont) - Elevated to Fellow
Dr.Bill Chisholm, P.Eng (Ont) is a Principal Engineer at Kinectrics (www.kinectrics.com), the former Ontario Hydro Research Division, now owned by Vision Capital Limited of London. He received his BASc. in Engineering Science in 1977, an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering by the University of Waterloo in 1983. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (www.cigele.ca).
Bill has carried out and delivered research to understand how adverse weather affects EHV transmission system reliability. When lightning strikes the tall transmission-line towers, the electromagnetic response, including an apparently imperfect reflection from ground, adds to voltage stress on line insulation, causing unexpected flashover arcs through the air. When ice or freezing fog accumulates on typical EHV station-post insulators, combinations of surface pollution and melting temperatures also lead to flashovers. Lines with thermal restrictions have been operated with more confidence using distributed-average wind speeds derived from his real-time measurements of conductor clearance above ground.
His citation from IEEE is “for contributions to extra high voltage transmission line performance assessment”.
Bill chaired the IEEE Lightning and Insulator Subcommittee from 1997 to 2005 and also chaired the Transmission Lightning Performance Working Group that was awarded the “Best Standard, 1999” for IEEE 1243-1997, “Guide for Improving the Lightning Performance of Transmission Lines”. He has served on many paper and panel sessions at IEEE PES conferences and also gave invited guest lectures in Japan, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil. He contributed to the EPRI Transmission Line Reference Book, 200 kV and Above (third edition). Outside of work, he is a member of the North Toronto Masters Swim Club (www.swimordie.ca) and has held ten Ontario records in butterfly and distance freestyle
IEEE News
2008 IEEE President-Elect Candidates and New Board of Directors Selected
27 November – During the IEEE November Meeting Series in New Orleans, Marc Apter, Pedro Ray and John Vig were nominated to run in the IEEE 2007 annual election as president-elect candidates by the IEEE Board of Directors. The winner of this election will serve as president-elect in 2008 and IEEE president in 2009... more.
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And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine 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 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.
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. If you are interested, please contact our
Section Chair Alagan Anpalagan at this
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