IEEE Kingston Section Elections and Annual General Meeting
Held on 17 Dec. 09, John Forester from TransAlta Energy talked to us about the Wolfe Island Wind power generation project, and the new IEEE Kingston Section executive was elected. See the Section Website for who is on the board this year. A special welcome to first time executive member: Dr. Sidney Givigi, our new Treasurer.
IEEEXtreme 3.0 programming 2009 Results
Congratulations to Hatem Abou-zeid (ECE), Sharief Oteafy (Computing) and Mahmoud Ouda (Computing), all graduate students at Queen’s who participated in the IEEEXtreme 3.0 programming competition (a 24-hour programming contest who took place on 24th of October 2009), and placed 10th out of nearly 700 teams from 40 countries.
Student Engineering Competition Results 2010
In keeping with the tradition of a high standard of engineering projects, this year’s graduating classes at Queen’s and RMC had great success at the local and regional IEEE competitions. Congratulations to Team winners from both schools. For more information see the articles on the home page. Good luck to those teams heading down to Rochester for a share of the nearly $15,000 prize money.
Annual Summer Banquet
Plans`for the Banquet are well underway. Michael Brigham has agreed to speak to us about the Toronto Renewable Energy Cooperative, but also (and primarily) on the microFIT program and the implications of the new Green Energy Act.
Keep your eye on the website for more information as it arrives.
Speaker’s List
Do you know of someone that is a great speaker and has a HOT topic that would interest other members of the Kingston IEEE Section? In this year’s roster, we’d like to highlight local talent and research interests. If you would like to share your current work with the IEEE Kingston section community, contact Marc Fricker [
] and let him know. He is continuing to build the speaker database and needs your input!!
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