IEE                  E IEEE Canada Newsletter / Bulletin de IEEE Canada alletin 

Issue: December 2007                                                       IEEE Canada News Central

                                                       A Happy Holiday Season and Merry Christmas!

News of Interest

Ø      IEEE Canada Board of Directors

-     2007 Fall IEEE Canada Board of Directors Meeting

-     IEEE Canada Educational Webinars

-     2008 Membership Renewal is Underway

Ø      Section Events

-     IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Toronto

-     Inauguration of Ottawa Life Member Affinity Group

-     IEEE Toronto Section 2007 Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner

Ø      Conferences

-     The 21st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering -  CCECE08

-     The Sixth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR2008)

-     2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)

-     Upcoming IEEE Conferences in Canada

Ø      Awards & Recognition

-     Fellows

      IEEE Canada Members Elected to the Grade of IEEE Fellows - Class of 2008

o    Kenneth Cadien, IEEE-F, Edmonton, Alberta

o    Timothy Driscoll, IEEE-F, Calgary, Alberta

o    Ling Guan, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario

o    Vincent Hayward, IEEE-F, Montreal, Quebec

o    Shesha Jayaram, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario

o    Bogdan Kasztenny, IEEE-F, Markham, Ontario

o    Jorg Liebeherr, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario

o    Yvon Savaria, IEEE-F, Montreal, Quebec

o    Ivan Stojmenovic, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario

o    Bin Wu, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario

o    En-hui Yang, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario

o    Weihua Zhuang, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario

-     Senior Member Upgrades

-     Newly Elected IEEE Senior Member Featured in this Issue

o    Gladimir Baranoski

o    Ramesh Abhari

o    Owen Kaser

o    Kui Wu

-     2007 RAB GOLD Achievement Award

-     Engineering Professor Inducted Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Ø      IEEE News

-     Scitopia.org Launches Updated Search Portal

-     IEEE Launches Internet Television

-     IEEE Communications Society Offers Free Educational Seminar

-     Register for IEEE Online Training Seminars

-     Free Microsoft Development Software for Student Members

-     IEEE Expert Now Pilot Program Enables Members To Earn Free Continuing Education Units

-     Nominations Sought for IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award

-     Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations

-     Newly Redesigned IEEE Job Site!

-     Special Offer for Canadian Employers. Post Your Open Position on the IEEE Job Site Free of Charge*!

-     Post Your Internship and Co-op Jobs on the IEEE Job Site at No Charge

Ø      Non-IEEE News

-     Engineers Canada - New Name, Same Services

-     Internationally Educated Engineers: Licensed, Mobile, Employable

Ø      Message from the Editor

-     Farewell, but Not Goodbye

News of Interest

Ø     IEEE Canada Board of Directors

2007 Fall IEEE Canada Board of Directors Meeting

IEEE Canada Fall 2007 Board of Directors meeting was held at the Delta St. John's Hotel and Conference Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, on October 19 - 21. Representatives from all Canadian IEEE Sections reviewed current activities and discussed strategic plans to enhance organization's performance.

Report from the hosting section - IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Section.

From October 19-21, St. John's was the host city for the IEEE Canada Board

(Region 7) fall meeting. Under the leadership of Dr. Robert Hanna, the voting members of the Board are composed of Section Chairs or representatives from each Section in Canada, Member Services Chair, Publications and Communications Chair, External Relations Chair, and Treasurer. There were others in attendance observing the meeting and contributing to discussions including representatives from Sections and Groups as well as from other Regions and the IEEE International headquarters in Piscataway, NJ. The Board meets twice a year, once in the spring immediately before the Canadian Conference for Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) and again in the fall.

Kathleen Chafe represented the Section as the voting member from Newfoundland and Labrador. Others

from the Section who participated in the meetings and events over the weekend

were Lori Hogan, Gerard Dunphy, Octavia Dobre, Brian Kidney, and

Dennis Peters. We wanted to give the attendees a taste of Newfoundland hospitality and the unique nightlife just steps away from the Delta host hotel. We hosted a very entertaining screech-in ceremony for over 40 attendees and partners at Christian's Pub. We were also very pleased to have the opportunity to screech-in our Awards and Scholarships Chair, Octavia Dobre! After the kissing of the codfish we went to Bridie Molloy's where all enjoyed the excellent music by the local band The Navigators.

Our caucus meeting on Saturday consisted of Officer, Section, Group, and

visitor reports. Highlights included a presentation on concentrated banking

advantages by the IEEE Investment Group from Piscataway, an overview of

Region 5 activities from the Region 5 Director, as well as discussions regarding

financial support and participation for Sections Congress 2008 in Quebec City.

We reviewed our healthy financial status for 2007 and proposed plans for 2008. A banquet was held Saturday night.

Our business meeting was held on the final day, Sunday. The Board approved a new annual IEEE Canada conference - the Electrical Power Conference, which

was originally started in Ottawa Section and then moved to Montreal in 2007, and

the host city for 2008 will be Vancouver. We also approved our 2008 budget as well as regional funding support formulas for Section delegates to travel to Sections Congress 2008.

The next Regional meeting will be held in Niagara Falls May 2-4, 2008.

http://ieee.engr.mun.ca/~nlsection/newsletters/V07N2Newsletter.pdf

IEEE Canada Educational Webinars

IEEE Canada Education Activity Committee started a new initiative in 2007 to provide IEEE members with Educational services at minimum cost to the members.

The focus is on providing Seminars on Soft Skills that every engineer needs. To be cost effective the Education Activity Committee organized a pilot project to provide Leadership training Seminar delivered through a web based interface (Webinar). The webinar was run in April 2007 with high success. There were more than 150 attendees. Everyone enjoyed the presentation provided by Celia Desmond (President of World Class Telecommunication).

The success of the first webinar led to the development and organization of a series of webinars on Project Management.

The first in that series was organized and run in October 2007 and provided an Introduction to Project Management. The second in the same series was organized and run in November 2007 on Advanced Topics on Project Management (Project Control and The Human Aspects). Both webinar were highly attended (more than 120 attendees). Slides from both webinars can be found at http://www.ieee.ca/diglib/webinars.htm

If you have any suggestion on specific topic that should be considered please forward your suggestions to the IEEE Canada Education Activity Chair, Dr. Saman Adham (Email: saman@ieee.org).

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Saman Adham
IEEE Canada Education Activity Chair

2008 Membership Renewal is Underway

Don't let your membership lapse. To renew and take advantage of 2008 member benefits and services, renew online at http://www.computer.org/renewal or call +1 800 678 4333 (USA and Canada) or +1 732 981 0600 (worldwide) between 8 AM and 6 PM ET, Monday through Friday.

Membership fees for the year 2008 are considerably lower then for the previous years because of the strong Canadian dollar.

If we have not heard from you as of 31 December, your member benefits and services will be suspended, so please take a moment to renew now.

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Ø     Section Events

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Toronto

Here is the formula for learning and networking, brought to you by the

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Toronto:

4 exceptional speakers

100 attendees from academia and industry

150+ glasses of wine

10+ platters of cheese and appetizers = one great wine and cheese event

Click photos to enlarge

On October 30, 2007, the IEEE EMBS Toronto hosted its 2nd annual wine

and cheese event.  We welcomed the following exceptional speakers:

Dr. Alistair Glass, Ontario Deputy Minister of Research and Innovation

Neil Fraser, President of Medtronic of Canada

Kris Shah, Vice-President of Baylis Medical Company

Klaus Stitz, Head of Regulatory Affairs, MEDEC

The attendees learned much about the direction of innovation and the  

biomedical industry in Toronto.

Benjamin Mak

IEEE EMBS Toronto, Chair

Inauguration of Ottawa Life Member Affinity Group

The Ottawa Section Life Member Affinity Group was officially inaugurated on Oct. 4, 2007 at a very successful founding meeting at the NRC sponsored by the IEEE Ottawa Section.

A big thanks goes to Ron Potts, Dr. Hussein Mouftah, Dr. Branislav Djokic and all who participated in the meeting. The meeting was opened by Dr. Husein Mouftah and welcomed by the Section Chair Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi and followed by election then concluded by Ron Potts with his very interesting presentation on Ontario Hydro Tunnel Project. David Coll was elected Chair and John Wilson Vice Chair for the Ottawa Section Life Member Affinity Group . There were 18 Ottawa life members as well as the Section Chair and Past Chair attending. Dr. Hussein Mouftah was the Organizing Chair.

IEEE Toronto Section 2007 Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner

IEEE Toronto Section AGM was held on October 27. This annual event is an opportunity for IEEE Toronto Section members to meet each other as well as the dedicated group of IEEE volunteers who give of their time to plan, organize and execute the wide range of programs offered within the Section and elsewhere in Canada.

Guest Speaker this year was Dr. Ron Dembo - Founder and CEO of ZeroFootprint, a Toronto, Ontario-based organization created to fight global warming by mitigating the environmental impacts of businesses and individuals as well as build a marketplace for people worldwide to engage in sustainable commerce.

Dr. Alagan Anpalagan, Section Chair reported on the past year's activities and presented a variety of awards and recognitions.

A Photographic Record of the evening (click photos to enlarge)

Keynote Speech by Ron Dembo	B. Hanna (IEEE Canada President), A. Anpalagan (Section Chair), R. Dembo (Keynote Speaker)	Alagan Anpalagan provides yearly   update
Bob Hanna addressing the audience	Bob Hanna recognized for his exemplary service, with Past IEEE President Ray Findlay	Bob Hanna with Benjamin Mak  (Chair, EMBS Chapter)
	Section Officers for 2008-09 (Wai Tung Ng, Alex Bot, Marcelo Mota, Pelle Westlind)

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Ø     Conferences

The 21^st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering – CCECE08

Niagara Falls, Ontario

May 4 - 7, 2008

You are invited to participate in the 21st Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) to be held in Sheraton Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The venue, the city of Niagara Falls with more than 15 million visitors annually is abundant of activities that are bound to entertain people of all ages and walks of life. Niagara Falls is located 125 km southeast of Toronto City and 27 km north of Buffalo City, New York. Niagara Falls often said to be the honeymoon capital of the world, features most popular falls that are spectacular wonders of the world and provide breathtaking views.	Dr. Sri Krishnan, Conference Chair
CCECE (http://www.ccece08.org) is a flagship conference for researchers, students, and practicing engineers in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Canada and around the world to meet annually for 3 to 4 days in a Canadian city to present the latest technological advancements and discoveries, to network and exchange ideas, to strengthen existing partnerships and foster new collaborations.	Dr. Alagan Anpalagan, Technical Program
CCECE 2008 will feature 8 mini-symposia covering all areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, tutorial sessions in leading topics, plenary talks from senior executives in industry and academia, around 90 technical sessions, special sessions in hot topics, social programs, IEEE Canada Awards and Banquet night, best student paper awards luncheon, and industrial exhibitions. You can participate in CCECE 2008 in many ways: by submitting your original research results as a full length technical paper, by submitting tutorial proposals, by organizing a special session, and by attending the plenary talks, tutorials, panel discussions and nearly 90 technical sessions planned for May 4 to May 7, 2008. Information on submission of technical papers, tutorial proposals, special sessions proposals are in the weblinks of the main conference website www.ccece08.org	Dr. Bob Dony, Technical Program

The deadline to receive papers and tutorial proposals are December 7, 2007. We look forward for your enthusiastic participation in the conference.

Best wishes,
CCECE'08 Organizing Committee
http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08/

The Sixth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR2008)

May 5 - 8, 2008

Halifax, Nova Scotia
http://www.cnsr.info/Events/CNSR2008/cnsr2008main.php
http://cas.ieee.ca/index.php?q=node/36

This annual conference is jointly sponsored by Dalhousie University, University of New Brunswick (UNB), Université de Moncton (UdeM) and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency's (ACOA) Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF).

The proceedings from CNSR2008 will be archived through the IEEE Digital Library.

Technical papers describing original research in the field of communication networks and services are invited. Topics and areas to be presented at the conference are listed below. However, papers outside these areas are also welcome with a requirement that they describe current original work in the fields described, either theoretical or applied and have not been published elsewhere. Both industrial and academic contributions are invited.

• Ad Hoc Networks
• Adaptive Web Systems
• Antenna Systems
• Architectures for Voice/Data Services
• Broadband Wireless Networks
• Communication Algorithms
• Communication Systems
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Data Mining
• Digital Broadcast Technologies
• Emerging Communication Technologies
• Emerging Web Technologies
• Intelligent Transceiving Architectures
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Mobility in Communication Systems
• Network Management
• Network Security
• Optical Networks
• Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
• Protocol Design
• Quality of Service in Communication Systems
• Radio Propagation
• Sensor Networks
• Signal Processing for Communications
• Software Radio
• Space-Time Coding and Decoding
• Traffic Engineering and Modelling
• Ultra-Wide Band
• Voice Over IP
• Web Information Management
• Web Services
• Wireless Security

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)

 
The 2008 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 26 - 28, 2008.

ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (link).

The theme for ISTAS 08 is: Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies.

ISTAS 08 will be a multi-disciplinary event for researchers in engineering, computer science, social sciences, arts and humanities; as well as community-based researchers, policy makers and technology user communities. Papers and discussions will address both the social and technical aspects of the specific topics.
For the call for papers and further information, visit http://istas08.ca.

Upcoming IEEE Conferences in Canada

 All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

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Ø     Awards & Recognition

Fellows

IEEE Canada Members Elected to the Grade of IEEE Fellows - Class of 2008.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE 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.

Congratulations on your technical achievements!

Kenneth Cadien, IEEE-F, Edmonton, Alberta for contributions to chemical mechanical polishing

Timothy Driscoll, IEEE-F, Calgary, Alberta for leadership in the development of codes and standards for electrical safety in industry

Ling Guan, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario for contributions to image and multimedia signal processing

Vincent Hayward, IEEE-F, Montreal, Quebec for contributions to robot manipulator programming and the development of haptics interface technology

Shesha Jayaram, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario for contributions to the use of high voltage in process technology

Bogdan Kasztenny, IEEE-F, Markham, Ontario for contributions to protective relaying methods, designs, and applications

Jorg Liebeherr, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario for contributions to the design and analysis of computer networks and their protocols

Yvon Savaria, IEEE-F, Montreal, Quebec for contributions to the development of long interconnect VLSI signal processing architectures

Ivan Stojmenovic, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario for contributions to data communication algorithms and protocols for wireless sensor and ad hoc networks

Bin Wu, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario for contributions to high-power converter technology and adjustable speed drives

En-hui Yang, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario for contributions to source coding

Weihua Zhuang, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario for contributions to mobile communications and networks

A complete list of all Canadian IEEE Fellows by year of elevation is available

on the IEEE Canada web site at http://www.ieee.ca/awards/ieee_fellow_list.htm

Senior Member Upgrades

TThe following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the October 2007 IEEE Admission and Advancement Panel meeting.

Congratulations!

Hamilton Section	Ian	Rowe
Hamilton Section	Steve	Hranilovic
London Section	Dev	Sainani
Montreal Section	Kaleem	Siddiqi
Montreal Section	M	Nourmoussavi
Montreal Section	Yves	Lemieux
Montreal Section	Christian	Royer
Montreal Section	Xiupu	Zhang
New Brunswick Section	Brent	Petersen
Toronto Section	Jahangir	Tavakkoli
Toronto Section	Ioan	Marusca
Vancouver Section	Christian	Sasse
Victoria Section	Kui	Wu

Newly Elected IEEE Senior Member Featured in this Issue