Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings

October 4, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE . Mr.Pietro Manni, President of PQ Logic Corporation, presents a seminar entitled "Computer-Based Harmonic Modelling: Effect of Non-Linear Loads on Stand By Generators", organized by our Industry Applications chapter. Click for details October 18, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Jeff Tripp, Senior Engineer, Optech Incorporated Space and Atmospheric Division,will present a talk on some of the basic principles of time-of-flight LIDAR organized by our Instrumentation and Measurements Chapter.Click for details October 22, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. Section ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND AWARDS NIGHT IEEE Canada President, Bill Kennedy, will be presenting two Awards: - IEEE Canada W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award to Miro Forest - Sustaining Friend of IEEE Regional Activities Award to the University of Toronto. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING includes Election of Officers for 2006, 2007 and the presentation of the slate of officers by the nominating committee. Click for details October 28, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. Professor Chunming Qiao of SUNY, Buffalo will present a seminar entitled "Integrating Optical and Wireless Technologies" organized by our IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) and The Toronto Networking Seminar Series.Click for details

Upcoming Courses   Now is the time to register if you have not done so.

e-management, e-business, e-fficient - Enable e-management strategies to build your business. The University of Toronto Certificate in Electronic Communications provides up-to-date background in all aspects of electronic communications, including the current business environment, planning processes for communications networks, network and access technologies and services, along with a number of management processes and career-planning materials. It provides what you need to know to be current and competitive. Click here for details or visit the U of T PDC site to register

Upcoming Conferences

Bandwidth Management Workshop will be held October 3-6, 2005, Whistler,BC.Please visit their web site for full details

Electrical Safety, Technical and Megaprojects Workshop will be held on October 24-26, 2005, Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton, Alberta.Please visit their web site for full 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

Member News

Congratulations to one of our members who has been recently elevated to Senior Member grade;

    Khoman Phang     Education Society


If you wish to apply for Senior Member elevation, or nominate someone else, please use this link.

For the details of the IEEE Senior Member Program, please visit our IEEE Toronto page for helpful information and links.

Student News

Scholarship Winners   Two students are receiving IEEE Canadian Foundation Scholarships; Ricky Leung at Ryerson University, and Tina Tahmoures-Zadeh at the University of Toronto - they will be invited to our Annual General Meeting on October 22, 2005 at the Old Mill Inn.

IEEE News

The IEEE 2004 Annual Report is now available. Please Click here for more details.

Bill Gates to Keynote IEEE/ACM Super-Computing Conference.

23 September,2005 -- Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect for Microsoft Corp., will deliver the keynote address at the SC|05 Conference, 12-18 Nov., in Seattle, Wash., USA. SC|05, sponsored by the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery, is the premier international conference on high-performance computing, networking and storage. Under the theme, "Gateway to Discovery," SC|05 will showcase how high-performance computing, networking, storage and analytics lead to advances in research, education and commerce.Click for details

IEEE Dedicates Milestones in Switzerland and U.S.

26 September,2005 -- The IEEE is dedicating two historic sites today as Milestones in Electrical and Computer Engineering. One, at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, near Geneva, Switzerland, marks the invention of detectors used in elementary particle physics research. George Charpak, who received the 1992 Nobel Prize for Physics for this work, will unveil the IEEE Milestone plaque during the dedication. IEEE President W. Cleon Anderson also will participate in the ceremony. The other dedication takes place at the Taum Sauk Power Plant, in Lesterville, Mo, U.S.A. At the time it was built in 1963, it was the largest pumped storage electric power plant in North America.Click for details

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.

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