IEEE Foundation announces new awards

At its November meeting, the IEEE Foundation Board of Directors voted to  approve over US$65,000 in new grants. These grants will help students  refine their interest in science and engineering; re-establish teaching, computing, and laboratory facilities at a university devastated by an earthquake; and provide learning materials to the future leaders of the IEEE.

Projects that will improve math, science and technology education,  recognize and celebrate engineering achievements or preserve and promote the history of electrical and information technologies may be eligible to receive a grant from the IEEE Foundation. The 2002 deadlines for proposal submission are 14 January, 25 April and 30 September.

For more information on the IEEE Foundation, visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/foundation/html/about.html.

IEEE offers credit cards in US, Canada, UK and Puerto Rico

Through the IEEE Financial Advantage Program, IEEE members in a growing number of countries can apply for the IEEE credit card. Each credit card offers a competitive interest rate and no annual fee. Find out more, or apply online at http://www.ieee.org/services/financial/fap/programs/financial_services/allcards.html.

IEEE Power Engineering Society Transactions Policies undergo major changes

Authors will need to follow new policies and guidelines to get their work published in any IEEE Power Engineering Society Transaction starting in 2002. Papers will now be edited, and proofs will be provided to authors for approval. Under previous guidelines, manuscripts were formatted and published without further review by the author. In addition, starting 7 January 2002, authors who previously submitted articles by mail will be able to do so in PDF format via the Web. For more detail on these new policies go to http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/power/subpages/authors-folder/autoupload.htm.

Nominate an IEEE Fellow

An IEEE Fellow is a member of unusual distinction in the profession. This recognition is conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors on a person of extraordinary qualifications and experience who has made important individual contributions to one or more of the IEEE fields of interest. The deadline for receipt of the nomination form and reference letters is 15 March 2002. Fellow kits can be downloaded from the Web at http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/fellows/forms.htm

IEEE Societies welcome suggestions of members who should be nominated for Fellow. If the nominee is not an IEEE Senior Member, the Senior Member application and its three supporting references must be submitted no later than 4 February 2002. Senior Member forms may completed online http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smforms.htm.

Preliminary Announcement for IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section AGM 2002

The 2002 IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section Annual General Meeting will be held in the evening of January 18, Friday, 2002, in Saraguay Club at 360 Purcells Cove Road. The meeting will start at 6:00pm and finish at 7:00pm. It will be followed by a buffet dinner with wine.
Please mark the event on your calendar and bring your guest(s) to enjoy the exquisite foods and environment of the Saraguay Club.

The following members were updated to Senior Member status at the November 2001 Admission and Advancement Panel meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

• Calvin Thomas Grubb - Hamilton
• Frank Morales Aguilera - Montreal
• Peter C. Noutsios - Montreal
• David J. Walkey - Ottawa
• Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi - Toronto
• Kim J. Vicente - Toronto

For more information on the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) Program, please visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/sminitiative.html 

• IEEE International Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference (MEMS)

20-24 January 2002
MGM Grand Conference Center
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information please visit http://mems.caltech.edu/mems2002.html

• Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)

28-30 January 2002
Monterey, California
For more information please visit http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/

• International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

4-6 February 2002
San Francisco, California
For more information please visit http://www.isscc.org/isscc

• IEEE Information Decision and Control Conference

11-13 February 2002
Adelaide, South Australia
For more information please visit http://www.plevin.on.net/IDC2002/

• 2002 International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

26 February - 1 March 2002
San Jose, California
For more information please visit http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/icde2002

• IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition 2002 (APEC 2002)

10-14 March 2002
Dallas, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.apec-conf.org/

• Ontario 2002 Electronic Code

12-13 March 2002
Valhalla Inn
Toronto, ON
For more information please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Fundamentals of Electrical Distribution Systems

13-15 March 2002
Valhalla Inn
Toronto, ON
For more information please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• IEEE Virtual Reality 2002

24-28 March 2002
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://www.vr2002.org

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002)

26-29 May 2002
Scottsdale, Arizona
For more information please visit http://www.iscas2002.com

• Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2002)

16-21 June 2002
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.nrc.ca/confserv/cpem02

• 48th Annual Pulp and Paper Industry Technical Conference

17-21 June 2002
Sheraton Centre, Toronto
For more information please visit http://www.pulpandpaper2002.com

• IEEE International Conference on Power Engineering (LESCOPE'2002)

26-29 June 2002
The Sheraton Hotel
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/

• 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

7-10 July 2002
Washington, DC
For more information please visit http://www.biomedicalimaging.org

• International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Convertors and Systems

18-21 August 2002
École de technologie supérieure
Montreal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.electrimacs2002.com/

• Accelerated Stress Testing Workshop 2002

2-4 October 2002
Hotel Wyndham Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc7/ast2002/index.html

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