Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings

Jun 1, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. Professor Maria Stuchly, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria presents an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Applications of Microwaves in Medicine", organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter.Click for details Jun 1, 2006 at 6:20 p.m. Dr. Karen Sarfayan, Vice President Engineering, Unique Broadband Systems Ltd., presents a seminar entitled "The Emergence of Mobile TV using DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld)", organized by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter. Click for details Jun 13, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. David Kiguel of Hydro One Networks Inc. presents a seminar entitled "Reliability Standards in the North American Bulk Electric System", organized by our Power Engineering Chapter. Click for details Click here for Events in the Planning.

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.

Upcoming Conferences

Jun 9,2006 , Connections 2006 The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto is hosting a research symposium. The objectives of this event are to promote interaction between members of industry and graduate students and faculty, to learn about current research, and to identify future directions and collaboration opportunities. Please visit their web site for full details. - An IEEE Toronto Section Sponsored Event
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.Alberto Leon-Garcia, FIEEE,received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, in 1973, 1974, and 1976 respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto and he currently holds the Nortel Institute Chair in Network Architecture and Services. In 1999 he became an IEEE fellow for "For contributions to multiplexing and switching of integrated services traffic". Dr. Leon-Garcia was Editor for Voice/Data Networks for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1983 to 1988 and Editor for the IEEE Information Theory Newsletter from 1982 to 1984. He was Guest Editor of the September 1986 Special Issue on Performance Evaluation of Communications Networks of the IEEE Selected Areas on Communications. He is also author of the textbooks Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley), and Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, co-authored with Dr. Indra Widjaja and to be published by McGraw-Hill January 2000.Some of his research interests include Virtual Networks & Integrated Resources Management,Internet Performance,Programmable Network Node and Broadband Multimedia Wireless Access.Click here for a link to Dr.Leon-Garcia '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.

Member News   Congratulations to the following members on being elevated as Senior Members
Kiran Hirpara - Toronto Section
Richard Marceau - Toronto Section
Mohammad Meshkatoddini

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.

CALL FOR ARTICLES
The IEEE Toronto section will be publishing its Annual Print Publication -The Annual Connection and the editorial committee welcomes articles from the section members. Please limit your articles to a maximum of 500 words and submit it as a word or text file to the Editor.

IEEE News

Computer Society Seeks Nominations for Technology of the Decade Award :   20 April – The IEEE Computer Society is seeking nominations for its 60th Anniversary "Technology of the Decade Award," which will recognize a significant contribution to innovative information technology over the past 10 years. Nominations are due by Thursday, 15 June. For more information, click here.

IEEE Helps Bring Tech Literature Back to Iraq :   The IEEE and 15 other science and technology publishers have joined together to help rebuild libraries virtually at Iraqi universities and government agencies. The publishers have deeply discounted the subscriptions to their digital libraries through an agreement with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).For more information, click here.

22 May – The IEEE has launched a new online research service developed to fill the needs of power utilities and other energy organizations. The IEEE Power & Energy Library provides targeted searching and browsing of power and energy-specific content from IEEE's wide collection of online technology publications.click here.

For more IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here.

And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine by Clicking 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 - 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
For Advertisting in the annual printed edition of IEEE Toronto Section - The Annual Connection please contact the Editor.
The IEEE Toronto Section accepts advertising for items deemed to be of interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter, please contact the editor.