» 2009 IEEE Canada Student Branch Website Contest

» 2009 UVS Canada Mark Cuss Scholarship

An annual scholarship of $2500 is available to all students working in the unmanned vehicle area; some conditions apply.   Deadline for applications is August 31 each year.  Click here for more information and to apply.

» 2009 IEEE Canada Student Paper Contest Winners

Central Area (Life Member Award $500)
"Closed-Loop MIMO Systems using Phase Steering", Ben Leung,  Queen's University  
 Branch Counselor: Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad

Eastern Area (Life Member Award $500)
"The Unshredinator: A Machine Vision Approach to Shredded Document Reconstruction", Simon Silk, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Branch Counsellor: Dennis Peters

Western Area (Life Member Award $500)
"A Road Quality Measurement System using GPS Technology", Mark Roy and Paul Klassen, University of Manitoba
Branch Counsellor: Witold Kinsner

Western Area (Hackbusch Award (runner up) $250)
"Radio Frequency Identification: A Wireless Scale", Aaron J. Gillrie, University of Victoria
Branch Counsellor:  Kin Li

» 2009 IEEE Canada - TELUS Innovation Award Confirmed

The TELUS Innovation Award competition presentations and final judging will again be held in conjunction with the annual Student Congress in Mississauga ON in Sept.  See here for more information.

» 2008 New Student Branch Announcement

Humber College has successfully formed a new Student Branch! We look forward to working with them!

» 2008 Student Branch Workshop

The SBW was held in Mississauga, ON, Sept. 12 - 14, 2008. There were approximately 30 attendees from Student Branches from all across Canada. All training materials are listed here. For our group photo, click here and for a picture of the workshop organizers, click here

» 2008 IEEE Student Congress Ethics Competition Winners

R7's SAC is pleased to announce the winners of the SB Ethics Competition: Andrew Shaver (U of Ottawa), Matthew James (U of Guelph), Jieyi Rong (Carleton U) and Matt Gardner (McMaster U). They won a total of $500 dollars to be split between their Student Branches. Great work everyone!

» 2008 IEEE Telus Paper Competition Winners

Congratulations to the first place winners of the Telus Paper Competition ($10,000) from Queen's University: Jordan Heuser, Arjun Phull and Mark Storus for their project titled "Speech Synthesis though Gesture Recognition". All winners were awarded their prizes at an exclusive Telus-IEEE Canada dinner/banquet, see photo.  For details on all winners, please see here. Great work everyone!!!

» 2008 IEEE Student Branch Website Competition

R7's Student Activities Committee is pleased to announce that University of Ontario Institute of Technology's (UOIT) website has won fourth place in the Global Website Competition. This is an amazing achievement!! Great work. UOIT will receive $250 for their Student Branch for placing fourth!