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Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999
AGM & Technical Meeting
Time: 7:30 pm
Location:EN4002, S.J. Carew Building (Engineering), MUN, St.
John's, NF
By: Terry Carter and Danny Neil, Bailey SEA Newfoundland
Abstract:
A description of the Hibernia Distributed Control System (DCS)
Architecture, its functional application (what we are controlling on
the platform) with focus on the Power Management System. In addition,
a discussion of the architecture of the Terra Nova Project DCS and
how that system differs from the Hibernia System. Generally, the talk
will focus on electrical aspects of the installation including Power
Supply and grounding.
About the Speakers
Terry Carter - General Manager
Born in the UK, Terry graduated from Teesside University with a Bachelor of
Sience in Control Engineering. He started working with the British Steel
Corporation as an Electrical Technician and has spent the last 25 years
with BAILEY/ ABB in various Commissioning, Engineering, Project Management
and General Management assignments. Terry's various positions with BAILEY/ABB
have required him to to live overseas for a number of years and he has been
involved in both Power Generation and Offshore Projects in Canada,
Australia, UK, USA, Spain, China, and Mexico.
Danny Neil - Senior Application Engineer
Danny has been involved in the Hibernia Project for a period of 7 years. He
has been involved in all stages of the Hibernia Project from the Design stage
through Commissioning and Operations support. Danny is a Newfoundlander and
a MUN graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
Danny has worked in the Oil Industry for a period of 17 years, mostly in
Atlantic Canada.
Attendance: 10 students, 14 members and 24 non-members (38
Total)
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 1999
Technical Meeting - NECEC '99
Time: All Day Event 8:30am-4:30pm
Location: Various Room, S.J. Carew
Building (Engineering), MUN, St. John's, NF
Keynote: Stephen Wetmore
Another great technical conference put off by your local IEEE community.
Details of the event and pictures can be found here... NECEC'99.
Attendance: XX students, XX members and XX non-members (XXX
Total)
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999
Technical Meeting - Power by Wireless - In, From, and To, Space
Time: 7:15 for 7:30pm
Location:EN4002, S.J. Carew Building (Engineering), MUN, St.
John's, NF
By: Dr. R. Bryan Erb, Manager, Canadian Space Power Initiative
Abstract:
Wireless transmissions for communication have been a defining technological
feature of the 20th Century. It is quite
possible that wireless transmission of power for various uses will
be equally important in the next century.
Dr. R. Bryan Erb of the Canadian Space Agency will describe some of
the work going on in various countries in the area
of WPT (wireless power transmission) and its applications. Applications
may include such things as:
- A "Power Plug in Space" for industrial applications
- A source of carbon-free power for the Earth
- Means to launch space vehicles and de-orbit space debris
Canada's role in this new area of spacefaring is presently being defined
and Dr. Erb will describe the current exploratory
efforts.
About the Speaker
Bryan Erb is a native of Calgary and he obtained undergraduate and
Master's degrees in Civil Engineering at the University
of Alberta in Edmonton. He won an Athlone Fellowship for post-graduate
work in England where he earned a Master's
degree in Aeronautics. In mid-career, he was awarded a Sloan Fellowship
to MIT in the United States where he earned a
Master of Science in Management. In 1990, he was awarded an Honorary
Doctor of Science by the University of
Alberta.
Early in his career, Dr. Erb worked in the then-novel field of aerothermodynamic
engineering on the Avro Arrow. After
the demise of that program, he joined NASA and carried out new and
challenging spacecraft engineering and management
assignments with NASA through the mid-1980s. Major professional contributions
included: conducting
aerothermodynamic analysis on Project Mercury; establishing the concepts,
with the original 8-person team, for what
became Apollo; managing the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, with responsibility
for the quarantining of lunar astronauts and
examination of the lunar material; and planning and managing important
remote sensing experiments, including the first
world-scale inventory of wheat using satellite data.
From 1986 until last year, Dr. Erb represented Canada on the International
Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson
Space Center in Houston, Texas, where he still resides. During the
mid 1990s, he focused his professional time and talents
on applications of space technology to the pressing problem of terrestrial
energy supply. This led to the formation in 1998
of the Canadian Space Power Initiative which he manages for the Canadian
Space Agency.
Bryan has published widely, has numerous professional honours and affiliations,
and was featured as one of Canada's
Space Pioneers in a television documentary.
Attendance: 10 students, 12 members and 13 non-members (35 Total)
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999
Technical Meeting - Server and Applications Performance Management
Time: 7:15 for 7:30pm
Location:EN4002, S.J. Carew Building
(Engineering), MUN, St. John's, NF
By: Peter Green, BSc.Eng.
Abstract:
The business community has started to recognize that the Internet can
provide many opportunities for reaching the new wired global market place.
With the huge deployment of dialup Internet services, the increasing number
of dedicated high speed Internet users, and the push by mass media to move
business to this multimedia rich forum, the Internet users are starting
to demand quality of service. To meet these demands, the major Internet
Service Providers (ISP) are building server and network infrastructure
that will meet the mission critical needs of hundreds of business
and thousands of individual users. This seminar will discuss the industry
standards and developments that have come about to meet these service level
demands. Specific emphasis will be placed upon explaining the concepts
and terminology of server and application performance management. An example
performance management infrastructure will be modeled, to allow the participants
to understand the relationships between applications, servers, network
devices and end user services.
About the Speaker:
Peter Green is an Engineer in the Network Planning Group of NewTel
Communications, responsible for planning and designing network architectures
for the delivery of data services. He has been a core team member
for most of the major data communications plans including; architecture
for dialup Internet, network expansion for frame relay services, ATM backbone
architecture for LAN and WAN services, architecture of DSL based high speed
Internet, network and systems performance management. He obtained
a Diploma of Technology in Electronics from the Marine Institute in 1992
and Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of New Brunswick in 1995. Peter's most recent academic
studies have been at Memorial University of Newfoundland where he was pursuing
his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering.
Attendance: 6 students, 10 members and 14 non-members (30 Total)
Thursday, Sept 9, 1999
Technical Meeting - Tour of Centre for Marine
Simulation
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Fisheries and Marine Institute,
St. John's
By: Dr. J. Pawlowski
Details concerning the Centre for Marine Simulation
can be found at their website.
Attendance: 2 students, 3 members and 4 non-members
(9 Total)
Friday, June 4, 1999
Social Event - Annual Lobster Boil and BBQ
Time: 7:15 for 7:30 pm
Location: Elk's Club, Carpasian Road,
St. John's
By: Various
Attendance: 3 guests, X students, X members
and X non-members (73 Total)
The menu included steak, vegetarian and, of course,
lobster.
The entertainment was lavish, this year feature
two different acts.
Look to here for pictures of
Lobster
Boil 1999
Wednesday, May 5, 1999
Technical Meeting - Directions in Private-Key
Cryptography
Time: 7:15 for 7:30 pm
Location: EN4002, S.J. Carew Building
(Engineering), MUN
By: Dr. Horward Heys
Cryptography is becoming an increasingly important tool for maintaining
the privacy and authenticity of electronic communication. The field of
private key cryptography--where the cipher uses the same key for both encryption
and decryption--has a long history but its practical application to modern
computers and communications is still in its infancy.
In this seminar, new developments in the design and analysis of modern
private key ciphers will be discussed. In particular, the basic principles
used in modern ciphers will be introduced and the recently discovered methods
of "breaking" ciphers will be presented. Specific emphasis in the seminar
will also be given to developments in the recent ongoing effort to develop
a new "world" standard referred to as the Advanced Encryption Standard.
About the Speaker
Howard Heys is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He obtained a B.E.Sc.\ in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Western Ontario in 1984 and a Ph.D.\
in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Queen's University in 1994.
He also worked for several years as a software designer at Bell Northern
Research (now Nortel) in Ottawa and Toronto. His current research is primarily
concerned with the design and analysis of private key cryptographic algorithms.
Attendance: 10 students, 4 members and 6 non-members
(20 Total)
Thursday, April 1, 1999
Technical Meeting - IEEE Night
Time: 6:45 for 7:00pm
Location: EN1040, S.J. Carew Building
(Engineering), MUN
By: Dr. R. Venkatesan
IEEE Night is the professional part of the MUN
Electrical Engineering Term 8 project. The evening began with three oral
presentations which had been selected based on the ENGR 8800 academic oral
presentations held March 24 and 25. The presenters where Paul Yanchus
(Voice Over IP), Paul Andrews (Performance Digital Distributorless
Ignition System) and Faustina Hwang (DEMON: Discrete Event Modeling
of Navigation Simulating mobile robots in a 2-D semi-structured environment).
Following the oral presentations, all students demonstrated their projects
to interested industry visitors. The evening concluded with refreshments
and the presentation of the awards.
The IEEE section judges for the presentations
where Yves Fontaine (NewTel Communications), Paul Hatcher
(Cable Atlantic) and John Mackey (Stratos). The judges noted
that all students did an excellent job in presenting and that they had
a hard decision of determining who should be awarded the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
place prizes. The IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Section Awards for IEEE
Night 1999 presentation where distributed by Paul Hatcher as follows 1st
place ($250) Faustina Hwang, 2nd place ($150) Paul Yanchus and 3rd place
($100) Paul Andrews.
For the first time, IEEE Night was preceded by
an afternoon demonstrations of the MUN Electrical Engineering Term 8 projects.
This gave the demonstration judges ample time to visit each individual
student's project. The team of judges consisted of MUN faculty members
and IEEE members noted below.
J. Robinson (MUN), T. Norvell
(MUN), H. Heys (MUN), D. Peters (MUN), M. P. Bruce-Lockhart
(MUN), B. Jeyasurya (MUN), J.E. Quaicoe (MUN), R. Hale
(MUN), S. O'Young (MUN), P. LeFeure (C-CORE), E. Woodman
(IDON East Corp), N. Chaulk (ICAN Ltd), P. Green (NewTel
Communications), J. Arsenault (Hibernia), D. Tilley (NewTel
Communications)
As a distributed team the judges reviewed all
of the student projects and then as a collective team decided upon the
top demonstrations. The team was unable to narrow down to three tops
demos, so after consultation with some of the IEEE section executive, it
was decided that a 4th prize would be awarded. The IEEE Newfoundland and
Labrador Section Awards for IEEE Night 1999 demonstrations where distributed
by Peter Green as follows Andrew Vardy (Visual Interpretation of
Human Hand Gestures for Wearable Computing Applications), Darrel Wells
(Electronic
Spirometer for Asthma Detection), Stefan Tarrant (Measurement of
Shear Wave Velocity of Soft Sediments) and a team award to Chris Harbin
(Software Driver Library for the RT200 Robot) and Jamie King
(A
Vision System for an Autonomous Robot Arm). Each prize was valued at
$100.
The evening was well attended by IEEE members
from the local community. Dr
R. Venkatesan is acknowledged for co-ordinating yet another successful
IEEE Night and ENGR 8800 - Electrical Engineering Project.
From left to right:
IEEE Representative - Peter Green (NewTel Communications)
1st Place Presenter Faustina Hwang (DEMON)
Team Demonstration Winners Chris Harbin
and Jamie King
(RT200 Robot)
Demonstration Winner Darrel Wells
(Electronic
Spirometer for Asthma Detection)
2nd Place Presenter Paul Yanchus (Voice
Over IP)
Demonstration Winner Andrew Vardy (Visual
Interpretation for Wearable Computing)
3rd Place Presenter Paul Andrews (Performance
Digital Distributorless Ignition System)
IEEE Representative - Paul Hatcher (Cable Atlantic)
Missing: Demonstration Winner Stefan
Tarrant (Shear Wave Velocity)
Look to here for more pictures of
IEEE
Night 1999
Thursday, March 4, 1999
Technical Meeting - Stratos Mobile Networks
Time: 7:15 for 7:30pm
Location: 34 Glencoe Drive, Donovan's Industrial Park
By: John Mackey
Stratos is a global provider of mobile satellite communication services
with network facilities in Canada, the United States and Australia. Combining
the technology of satellite systems such as communication services with
network facilities in Canada, the United States and Australia. Combining
the technology of satellite systems such as Inmarsat, MSAT and Iridium
with unique software and hardware solutions, Stratos is recognized as one
of the leading providers of portable satellite communications.
The technical meeting consisted of a short presentation on the company's
services and network facilities, followed by a tour and demonstration of
various types of satellite equipment.
Attendance: 3 students, 11 members and 2 non-members (16
Total)
Thursday, January 7, 1999
Technical Meeting - Active Filters for Power
Conditioning
Time: 7:00 for 7:15 PM
Location: Engineering (S.J. Carew) Building,
MUN, Room EN-4002 (Board Room)
By: Dr. H. Akagi of the Okayama University,
Japan.
Dr. Akagi is an IEEE Fellow and presently Industry
Applications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 1998-1999. He received
his Ph. D from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1979. He is one
of the world authorities on active filters and active filter applications
for power systems as well as power electronics. Refreshments will
be provided following the presentation.
Attendance:
Wednesday, December 9,1998
Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Technical
Meeting - ADSL Technical Overview
Time: 7:00 for 7:15 PM
Location: Engineering (S.J. Carew) Building,
MUN, Room EN-4002 (Board Room)
By: Craig Flynn, P. Eng.
Craig is a Senior Engineer with the Network Development
of NewTel Communications
Annual general meeting and election of officers:
8:00-9:00pm
Wine and cheeze social: 9:00-10:00pm
Friday, November 13, 1998
NECEC 98
The aim of NECEC '98 is to provide a forum where
professionals in electrical, electronic, computer engineering and information
technologies can present their work to the growing technical community
within the province. The conference will focus on technical concepts, innovations
and implementations. NECEC '98 will be structured in a format similar to
that found successful in previous years.
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