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Special Report on the 2004 Canadian Conference on Electrical and
Computer
Engineering, held May 2 - 5, 2004, in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
This was a very successful conference, with 570 papers scheduled for
presentation over three days - including sixty oral sessions and one
poster session. These paper presentations, all three Sunday
workshops, the opening reception, two plenary sessions, two luncheon
events, and the awards banquet were well attended and appreciated.
For a full report and access to the plenary presentations, please
visit the conference web site - photos to be posted on that web site
shortly. Prior to the conference, the host Section, Hamilton, had
planned a dedication ceremony for the DeCew Falls generating station on
the ourskirts of St. Catherines. The following is a few photos to
provide a glimpse of the activities that included highly technical,
educational, and human components. Click on the photos to view
the large size image.
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Profile on Bob Hanna
Dr. Robert H. (Bob) Hanna was the first IEEE Section volunteer to be profiled in this
newsletter (July 2003 issue).
Since that time, he has organized the Centennial Banquet in October 2003, was
elected to be President of IEEE Canada in 2006 and 2007, was conferred the
grade of Fellow of IEEE by the Board of Directors, and has inspired and
guided the organizing committee of the recently held and most sucessful
conference in Niagara Falls.
Bob is shown in his hotel suite overlooking the Canadian Falls during
a rare break from looking after all those details that make a good
conference an excellent one. Our congratulations to Bob
for many jobs well done!
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Upcoming Chapter Activities
May 10 Dr. David McComb of the Department of Materials at
Imperial College in London, England, will present a seminar on "Growth and
Characterisation of Thin Film Colloidal Crystal" organized by our Circuits
and Devices Chapter.
Click for details.
May 10 Dr. Oscar Law, a Senior Staff Engineer at ATI
Technologies in Markham, Ontario, will present a seminar on "90nm Technology
Design Challenge" organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter.
Click for details
May 21 Professor Thrasyvoulos Pappas of the
Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois will present a seminar on "Adaptive Perceptual
Color-Texture Image Segmentation" organized by our Signals and Applications
Chapter. Click for details.
May 26Yasser Ebrahim, a Lecturer in Computer Science at
Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, will present a seminar on
"Location Tracking of Human Subjects and User Modeling, Opportunities and
Challenges" organized by our Neural Networks Chapter, together with our
Communications and Computer Chapters. Click for details.
May 31 Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury of the ECE Department and
the Digital Technology Center of the University of Minnesota will present an
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecture on "Analog and
Mixed-Signal Verification for Communications "
organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter.
Click for details.
Meeting Reports
Here is two brief reports submitted by the meeting organizers:
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Our new Affinity Group for Women in Engineering -
(officially formed on March 24, 2004) held its first general interest meeting
on April 2nd. The turn out of 23 enthusiastic individuals was
heartwarming. Joan Tuzet , Visda Vokhshoori and Anna Araujo were
elected Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer. A lively
panel discussion was held on the topic "The role of women in
engineering: has it changed over the years". The panelists were:
Irene Katezla, PhD Principal Partner of LPI Solutions, Susan Treki,
PEng, PEO North York Education Director, and Kostas Plataniotis, PhD,
IEEE Toronto Section Chair. Dr. Plataniots welcomed Toronto WIE
to the IEEE Toronto Section in his opening remarks and emphasized his
support for this affinity group. Irene Katezla pointed out that
opportunities for women to advance their careers in the field of
engineering are increasing. Women are now offered more
challenging responsibilities to take on. Susan Treki spoke about
the significance of programs that are geared towards girls. These
outreach programs organized for girls in various stages of schooling can
play a positive role in promoting engineering among women.
Everyone agreed that in order to break into the male dominated world of
engineering, women don't need to change, they don't need to act
differently, i.e. 'manly'. The atmosphere was very friendly.
Guests were mingling till 10 PM! - check out the meeting page for more information.
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The Power Engineering Chapter meeting on Power Systems
Operations on May 4 was well received. 18 people attended with
very good questions and discussions. This enthousiastic meeting
wrapped up 30 minutes later than scheduled. Upon the request of
the attendees, the speaker provided his presentations of the three
topics that he covered in the meeting for publication on our web site -
check out the meeting page for more information.
Upcoming Conferences
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3rd International Conference for Upcoming Engineers
May 13-14, 2004, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson
University, Toronto - view the conference web site for details.
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ISMVL-2004 34th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic
May 19-22, 2004, University of Toronto - view the symposium web site for details.
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2004 RTAS Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application
Symposium, May 25 - 28, 2004, Le Royal Meridien - King Edward Hotel, Toronto,
Ontario. Submission deadline is January 12, 2004.
For more information, please visit the symposium web site.
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Life Member News
The recent LM meeting on April 20 was attended by eleven life members
who were very interested to learn how to use the Internet to access IEEE
member services, including how to renew IEEE membership annually (this
now is required for all life members), updating their own personal
information in the IEEE membership database, and obtain an IEEE web
account. Please click for details.
This meeting was held at the University of
Toronto IEEE McNaughton Learning Resource Centre which was created and has
been upgraded by grants from the IEEE Canadian Foundation.
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Member News
Congratulations to one of our members who has been recently elevated to
Senior Member grade; Geoffrey S. Klempner If you wish to
apply for Senior Member elevation, or nominate someone else, please use this link.
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Thanks For Reading
That's all for now, hope to have you visit again next month ..... Bob Alden,
Editor
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