IEEE Announces 2002 Branch website contest winners

The winners of the 2002 Student Branch Web Site Contest are Boston University, United States (first place), the Student Branch of Padova University, Italy (second place), and Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Columbia (third place). The contest recognizes outstanding IEEE Student Branch web pages that convey the IEEE message in a concise and creative manner. Other criteria include ease of loading the page, navigability and overall presentation. Runners-up included Curtin IEEE Student Branch in Australia, University of California-Berkeley IEEE Student Branch, DeVry Institute of Technology at Calgary IEEE Student Branch, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Rowan University, Grand Valley State University and the University of Southern California. For contest rules and information on how your IEEE Student Branch can participate next year, visit http://www.ieee.org/membership/students/programs/websitecontest.html.

IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies Bursary 2002

The Vehicular Technologies Conference ’98 generated a surplus. A part of it was presented to the IEEE Canada Board of Directors with the stipulation that the funds be administered to the benefit of students. IEEE Canada will distribute a part of the interest of this surplus as the “IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies Bursary”. The bursary will be awarded to support IEEE student members of Canadian (IEEE Region 7) Universities or Colleges who wish to attend and present a paper at a Vehicular Technologies Conference or other IEEE Conference related to Vehicular Technologies. Each travel subsidy will be up to 50% of actual travel costs, based on submitted receipts in accordance with the current IEEE Canada Travel Expenses Guidelines, up to a maximum of $1500 per student, per calendar year. More than one bursary could be awarded per year, but the total amount should not exceed $1500 per year.
Schedule:

• Call for applications: May 2002
• Application deadline: November 1st, 2002
• Selection of recipient(s): November 2002
• Region ExCom approval: December 2002
• Recipient notified: December 2002

The application will contain at a minimum the following:

1. Name of conference or IEEE Activity
2. Paper title and abstract or detailed explanation of reason for attending the IEEE activity
3. Proof of acceptance for presentation or attendance of IEEE activity
4. Budget of anticipated travel costs

For more information please contact the Regional Student Activities Coordinator at the following address:
Dominic Rivard
1815 de Longueuil
Trois-Rivières, QC
G8Y 1M4

IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies Research Grant 2002

The Vehicular Technologies Conference ’98 generated a surplus. A part of it was presented to the IEEE Canada Board of Directors with the stipulation that the funds be administered to the benefit of students. IEEE Canada will distribute a part of the interest of this surplus as the “IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies Research Grant”. The grant will be awarded to sponsor research projects related to Vehicular Technologies in an institution (University or College) based in Canada (IEEE Region 7). One grant will be made to a research group related to an institution (University or College) based in Canada, per calendar year.

• Call for applications: May 2002
• Application deadline: November 1st, 2002
• Selection of recipient(s): November 2002
• Region ExCom approval: December 2002
• Recipient notified: December 2002

The application will contain at a minimum the following:

1. Name of the research group and the name of it’s related institution(s)
2. A description of the research groups aims with regards to ongoing and past research
3. A description of the current research projects undertaken by the group
4. A detailed description of the proposed research and why funding is required
5. An approval of the application by the research group supervisor

For more information please contact the Regional Student Activities Coordinator at the following address:
Dominic Rivard
1815 de Longueuil
Trois-Rivières, QC
G8Y 1M4

Induction of new members into the Canadian Academy of Engineering

President Joseph Wright, FCAE, today welcomed 25 new members into the Canadian Academy of Engineering. The ceremony took place in Ottawa, in conjunction with the Academy’s Annual General Meeting 2002. “This prestigious group of new inductees represents a significant addition to the membership of the Academy” said Dr. Wright; “they will assist in further raising the profile of the engineering profession in Canada, and its essential role in ensuring the well-being of the economy, the public and the environment”. The new members are:

• Pierre-Claude Aitcin
• Vijay Bhargava
• Sunil Das
• Zdenek Eisenstein
• Mohamed El-Hawary
• Robert Evans
• Anthony Franceschini
• Amin Ghali
• Alfred Guenkel
• Wagdi Habashi
• Terence Kerwin
• David Lynch
• John MacGregor
• Om Malik
• Richard Marceau
• Edward McRoberts
• Kenneth Neale
• Gilles Patry
• Alexander Penlidis
• Nimal Rajapakse
• Ravi Ravindran
• Lotfollah Shafai
• Mamdouh Shoukri
• Chan Wirasinghe
• Ke Wu

IEEE Foundation now accepting grant proposals for 2003 and beyond

The IEEE Foundation is currently accepting grant proposals for projects in 2003 and beyond. Projects for consideration must improve math, science, and technology education; recognize and celebrate engineering achievements; or preserve and promote the history of electrical and information technologies. The deadline for proposal abstracts is 19 August with full proposals due 30 September 2002. The IEEE Foundation will review proposals at their November 2002 meeting. For more information about the process and full instructions, visit: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/foundation/html/funding.html.

CAS Society offers free society membership to active IEEE members

The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) is offering free 2002 society memberships to current IEEE members. Included in CAS membership is a subscription to the quarterly Circuits and Systems Magazine. This offer is available only to active 2002 IEEE members and expires 1 August 2002. to find out more, visit http://www.ieee-cas.org.

Contribute to the Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology

Assist with your colleagues' professional development. Contribute your online educational materials any engineering field and discipline to The Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology (DLNET), a project funded by NSF and hosted at Virginia Tech. Educational materials (called learning objects) include MS Word files of course modules, PowerPoint presentations, applets, video clips, graphs, and illustrations. IEEE is willing to create the metadata record of your learning objects and submit it to DLNET. Or contribute yourself by following the guidelines at http://www.dlnet.vt.edu. Designed to complement engineering and technology education as well as to facilitate lifelong-learning, these learning objects will be accessible to the public at no cost. Currently only those collections and contents without copyright restrictions will be accepted for hosting at DLNET. Find out more on how to contribute through IEEE by contacting: Peter Wiesner, Ed.D., IEEE Educational Activities, p.wiesner@ieee.org.

Nominate a Senior Member Initiative Continued for 2002

With 1,515 elevations in 2001, the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) surpassed its goal of 1,500 new Senior Members. This program pays Sections and Societies with cash awards for successfully nominating Senior Member candidates. Last year the Electron Devices Society (EDS) used the program to earn US$1,250 by sucessfully nominating 125 EDS members to IEEE Senior Member grade. The NSI program is being continued for 2002 - with a new “stretch” goal of elevating 1,750 new Senior Members. Region 7 has a goal of 70 new members.

For more details on the NSI program and SM goal chart updates for 2002, see http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/smprogram.html.

• 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

30 June - 5 July 2002
Palais de Beaulieu
Lausanne, Switzerland
For more information please visit http://isit02.epfl.ch

• 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

• Increasing Software Reliability through Planned Evolutionary Development & Software Reliability Standards

19 July 2002
Chateau Laurier, Ottawa
An IEEE Ottawa Reliability Society Presentation
IEEE members, gratis with RSVP by July 12th, otherwise $10 at the door per tutorial without an RSVP. RSVP RaedAbdullah@ieee.org.

• International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2002)

30 July - 2 August 2002
Canadian Space Agency
St-Hubert, Quebec
For more information please visit http://antem.ee.umanitoba.ca/

• International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)

12-14 August 2002
Monterey, California
For more information please visit http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~islped

• IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LAN/MAN)

11-13 August 2002
Stockholm, Sweden
For more information please visit http://www.ieee-iemc-2002.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/

• 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

25-28 August 2002
Arlington, Virginia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/nanotech/nano2002/

• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

26-29 August 2002
Lausanne, Switzerland
For more information please visit http://www.icme2002.org/icme.html

• 6th International Conference on Signal Processing

26-30 August 2002
Beijing, China
For more information please visit http://icsp02.njtu.edu.cn/

• International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS2002)

8-12 September 2002
Natal, Brazil
For more information please visit http://its2002.ufrn.br/

• IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN2002)

9-11 September 2002
Radisson Arlandia
Stockholm, Sweden
For more information please visit http://www.cwc.nus.edu.sg/mwcn2002/

• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2002)

22-25 September 2002
Rochester, NY
For more information please visit http://icip2002.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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