2002 IEEE Canada Student Paper Competition

The Regional Student Activities Board has announced the winners of the 2002 IEEE Canada Student Paper Competition. For each Council in Canada (Western, Central and Eastern), there are three awards. The first one is the IEEE Life Member Award that is granted to the best overall paper, which consists of a prize of $400 per team. When this award is granted, the two other awards are granted amongst the remaining papers, with the Hackbusch Award going to the best paper by University student(s) and the Palin Award to the best paper by College student(s). These two awards consist of a $250 prize per team. In supplement to the cash prizes, the winners will receive a congratulations letter and a certificate. The title of the winning papers as well as the name of their authors will be published on the IEEE Student Paper Contest Hall of Fame web site (on the IEEE Student Concourse web site).

Western Canada Council

Life Member Award
Experimental Verification of Microwave Detection of Breast Cancer
Jeff Sill
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Hackbusch Award
Electronic Third Brake Light Controller and LED Brake Light
Heather Clancy, Dawn Friesen, Greg Sawatzky, Jason Zabolotney
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

Palin Award
Automated Wire Dispenser
Tim Stampe, Colin Mantay
Red River College, Winnipeg, MB

Central Canada Council

Life Member Award
Self-Erecting Inverted Pendulum: Swing up and Stabilization Control
Stephen McGilvray
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON

Hackbusch Award
Smart Motor Controller for an E-bike
Olivier Trescases
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Eastern Canada Council

Life Member Award
Wavelength-Switchable, Dual-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
Dominik Pudo, KahnLi Lim
McGill University, Montreal, QC

Hackbusch Award
Wireless Gambling Prevention System (WGPS)
Taimoor Majeed, Shashank Bommaganti
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Regional Activities Board 2002 Awards

The IEEE RAB Awards & Recognition Committee has selected the following Canadian sections for the two awards:

RAB 2002 Section Growth Award - South Saskatchewan

RAB 2002 Student Branch Growth Award - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Section

Congratulations to the winning sections!

The Benefits of Mentoring (by Stephanie Mills, CMSI)

“If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.” - Chinese proverb

Mentoring is not new. Without even being aware it was happening, we have all been a mentor or have been mentored. There are people throughout our lives who have influenced us in a positive manner. We have influenced people. Our behaviour is modelled after people we admire.

Mentoring relationships and the positive influences can be applied to our professional lives. Relationships can be designed to be highly structured or self-directed over a short or long duration. Cultivating these mentoring relationships benefit the mentee, the mentor, and the organization.

Mentees experience increased job satisfaction resulting from having a role model to motivate and guide a course to reach personal goals and expectations. Consequently, career guidance paves a path to career growth, increased self-confidence and creativity. Mentees are given a unique opportunity to share expectations with other members of the organizations.

As a mentor, offering assistance and guiding the mentee(s) is rejuvenating, and provides fulfillment and satisfaction. In addition, mentoring relationships enable mentors to demonstrate the capability of helping people reach goals and personal objectives. The mentor may use these relationships as a method of identifying and sponsoring new employees displaying potential for growth. Best of all, the mentor can help to champion a legacy for leadership.

Ultimately, mentoring benefits the organization. Resources are drawn from within, instead of outside the organization. Job satisfaction from mentoring directly reduces absenteeism and turnover while increasing loyalty and organizational commitment. The long-term health of the organization as a social system is enhanced, promoting a desired organizational culture. Relationships are built across functional boundaries of an organization and can be expanded via mentoring pools to span nation – even worldwide.

IEEE E-mail alias blocks more than 330,000 viruses in 2002

The IEEE Email Alias service stopped 332,800 viruses from being delivered to IEEE members in 2002, more than double the 158,000 infected messages stopped in 2001. The free IEEE Email Alias service provides members with an @ieee.org email address, scans all incoming mail for viruses, and forwards all messages to their real Internet account. To join the more than 85,000 IEEE Members currently utilizing this free service, visit http://www.ieee.org/alias.

IEEE Circuits & Devices magazine wins design award

IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine was one of several IEEE publications honored recently by the Society for Technical Communication, NY Metro Chapter. The award for the cover design of the March 2002 issue recognizes the collective effort of IEEE volunteers and staff in content quality and design. Find out about other IEEE award-winning publications at http://www.ieee.org/newsinfo/briefs.xml#STC.

Inaugural issue of IEEE Power & Energy magazine available online

The first issue of IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, one of three new IEEE periodicals launching in 2003, is now available online for a limited time. The new magazine "for electric power professionals" will focus on advanced concepts, technologies, and practices associated with all aspects of electric power from a technical perspective in synergy with non-technical areas such as business, environmental, and social concerns. Read the first issue at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/power/subpages/emag/pe/public/2003/jan/Current1A.htm.

Semiconductor Pioneer tapped for IEEE Medal of Honor

Nick Holonyak, Jr. of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will receive the 2003 IEEE Medal of Honor for a career of contributions to the semiconductor field, particularly in the areas of semiconductor alloys, heterojunctions, visible light emitting diodes and injection lasers. Holonyak will be presented with the award at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony in June. Sixteen other IEEE awards were also recently announced, including the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence, and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal. Find out more about the IEEE Medal of Honor and other IEEE award recipients at  http://www.ieee.org/newsinfo/honors2003dec.xml.

Call for Papers - 2003 International Conference on VLSI

The International Multi-conference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering is a major annual international research event. The last Multi-conference attracted over 1,550 computer science and Engineering researchers from 72 countries. It is anticipated that The 2003 International Multi-conference will attract about 2000 participants. The VLSI-03 is one of the major 15 planned events. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Quantum Computing
• Nanoelectronics
• Molecular & Biological Computing
• MEMS
• Circuits & Systems
• Novel Design & Methodologies
• System-on-a-Chip: Design & Methodology
• Low Power VLSI System Design
• Complexity Issues
• Simulation Tools
• Algorithm Design Approaches (AI, Genetic, ...)
• High-Level Design Methodologies
• ASIC Architectures
• Reconfigurable Systems Design
• Novel Devices & Circuits
• Emerging Trends
• High-Performance Circuits
• Reusable Architectures
• Test & Verification
• Synthesis
• Mixed-Signal Design & Analysis
• Electrical/Packaging Designs & Co-Designs
• Applications (all applications will be considered)

Important Dates:

• Paper submission Due: 30 March 2003
• Notification of Acceptance: 15 April 2003
• Final camera-ready paper: 30 April 2003

Submissions can be made at http://www.stfx.ca/people/lyang/activities/vlsi-03/.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the January 2003 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings in Red Bank, NJ:

• Simon Rafi Chano - Montreal
• Martin Bouchard - Ottawa
• John H. Hopkins - Ottawa
• Jozef Strauss - Ottawa
• Raviraj Adve - Toronto
• Eva J. Tarasiewicz - Toronto
• Brent Hughes - Vancouver
• Samuel Tin Chu Kwok - Vancouver
• Steven Wilton - Vancouver

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

• Hot Electrons, A Myth or Reality?

3 March 2003
Army Officers Mess, 149 Somerset West
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/~max-com/IEEEOttEvents.html#ED.03Mar03.Arora
An Ottawa IEEE Electron Devices, Circuits & Systems and Solid-States Circuits Joint Chapter Seminar

• Tour of CTV

4 March 2003
Suite 300, 750 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/gold/ or contact Verona Wong at vwong@ieee.org to register
An IEEE Vancouver GOLD Chapter presentation

• International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technology (ISART 2003)

4-7 March 2003
Boulder, CO
For more information please visit http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/meetings/art/index.html

• Hot Electrons: A Myth or Reality?

5 March 2003
Wallberg building, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/hotelectrons.htm
An IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecture

• International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2003)

5-8 March 2003
Bangalore, India
For more information please visit http://www.aztecsoft.com/icde2003/

• Mixed-Mode ESD Protection Circuit Simulation

7 March 2003
Sanford Fleming Building, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/mixedmode.htm
An IEEE Toronto Solid-State Circuits Society presentation

• Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy

10 March 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://tor.ieee.ca/events/advanced.htm
An IEEE Toronto Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• Naval Combat Operational Training System

10 March 2003
Macdonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Pky
Richmond, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/grs/
An IEEE Vancouver Aerospace, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Chapter presentation

• Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy for Industrial and Scientific Applications

12 March 2003
CRIM Montréal
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030312.txt
Please RSVP to Peter Noutsios at noutsios@nortelnetworks.com
An IEEE Montréal Laser & Electro-Optics Society presentation

• Performance Evaluation of Distributed Systems

14 March 2003
CRIM Montréal
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030314.txt
Please RSVP to Eric Germain at e.germain@computer.org
An IEEE Montréal Computer Society presentation

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2003)

16-20 March 2003
New Orleans, Louisiana
For more information please visit http://www.wcnc.org

• Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education

20 March 2003
Sanford Fleming Building, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/digitaldiploma.htm
An IEEE Toronto Section Engineering & Human Environment Joint Chapter presentation

• PHP Québec conference

20-21 March 2003
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://phpconf.phpquebec.com/

• Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC)

23-28 March 2003
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information please visit http://www.ofcconference.org/home.cfm

• Current Status of IEEE Standardization of Verilog: a Hardware Description Language

26 March 2003
Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/~max-com/IEEEOttEvents.html#ed.act.26Mar03

• International Conference on Transmission and Distribution Construction, Operation and Live-Line Maintenance (ESMO 2003)

7-9 April 2003
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://esmoconference.com/home/index.htm

• Quantum Cascade Lasers

9 April 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://tor.ieee.ca/events/quantumcascade.htm
An IEEE Toronto Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• Quantum Cascade Lasers

10 April 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030410.txt
Please RSVP to Peter Noutsios at noutsios@nortelnetworks.com
An IEEE Montréal Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• The Origins of DSP

14 April 2003
Sanford Fleming Building, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/dlsantoniou.pdf
An IEEE ECE Distinguished Lecture

• 100 Years of Technical Communication: a Significant Endeavour

15 April 2003
Winnipeg, Manitoba
For more information, please contact Anne Parker at aparker@ee.umanitoba.ca or (204) 474-8450
A Winnipeg Section IEEE joint Chapter of IEEE PCS, EMS and Education Societies presentation

• Radiation Effects in Space and Ground-based Testing

15 April 2003
Macdonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Pky
Richmond, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/grs/
An IEEE Vancouver Aerospace, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Chapter presentation

• Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop

28-30 April 2003
Crown Plaza Hotel Georgia
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ieee-ias.org/apc2003/
An IEEE Vancouver Industry Applications Chapter presentation

• Real World Linux Canada Conference and Expo

28-30 April 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://tor.ieee.ca/events/conferencetradeshow.htm

• IEEE/EAB, Pre-Colleg Education Workshop and Training Session for Engineers

Presented by Douglas Gorham, Ed.D., Manager, Pre-College Education, IEEE Educational Activities Board
2 May 2003 - Delta Centre-Ville Hotel, Montréal , Quebec
3 May 2003 - Montréal , Quebec
5 May 2003 - Halifax, Nova Scotia
6 May 2003 - Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information please contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• CCECE 2003: Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering

4-7 May 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/ccece03/

• Off-shore Technology Conference

5-8 May 2003
Houston, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.otcnet.org

• Large Engineering Systems Conference On Power Engineering (LESCOPE 2003)

7-9 May 2003
Delta Centreville Hotel
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/ or contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• International Symposium on Asynchronous Systems & Circuits

12-16 May 2003
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://research.sun.com/async2003/

• International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2003)

18-21 May 2003
Delta Centreville Hotel
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/index.htm
Workshops at the conference can be found at http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/events.htm

• Distribution Automation Seminar and Exhibition

9-10 June 2003
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://www.ceatech.ca/workshops.html or contact Ms. Laurie Lang at lang@ceatech.ca

• International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA'03)

10-12 June 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/~icca03/

• Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS'2003)

18-20 June 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.newcas.org/

• IEEE Bandwidth management workshop

23-26 June 2003
Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieeebmwx.org

• The 2003 International Conference on VLSI(VLSI-03)

23-26 June 2003
Monte Carlo Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information please visit http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/

• International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-time Applications

30 June -2 July 2003
Calgary, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.socrt.org/

• IEEE Power Engineering Society's International General Meeting & Technical Conference

13-17 July 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.org/pesgmtoronto2003

• International Safety Conference - ISSC21

4-8 October 2003
Ottawa, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.system-safety.org/

• IEEE VTC Symposium on IP Mobility

4-9 August 2003
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://www.vtc2003.org

• Canadian Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2003

16-17 October 2003
Lord Elgin Hotel,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.CRMS2003.ca
This event is brought to you by the American Society for Quality (ASQ Reliability Division, Region 4), the Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE-Ottawa), IEEE Reliability Society (International, and the Ottawa Chapter)

• Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003)

19-22 October 2003
Banff, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/drcn2003/

IEEE Montreal maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/evenements_e.html.

IEEE Toronto maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events.htm.

IEEE Vancouver maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ieee.org/vancouver.

For more IEEE conferences, visit IEEE Conference Search at http://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/.

Newly released proceedings of ASDAM available

Information science, communication and microsystem technology provide the bedrock for the just released Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Microsystems. Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society and held this past October, the proceedings of this conference are available through the IEEE Online Catalog & Store at http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=EX531.

Proceedings of Symposium on Cyber Worlds now available

The proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cyber Worlds, held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2002, have been released and are now available from the IEEE Online Catalog & Store. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, topics range from software engineering, modeling, simulations, developments and applications of parallel/distributed computer systems and networks, to shape modeling and computer graphics. To find out more, visit http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=PR1862.

New Proceedings discuss advances in Infrared/Millimeter waves

The proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves are now available from the IEEE Online Catalog & Store. The proceedings include all of the research presented at last year's conference. Topics include novel coherent sources of radiation, THz technology, plasma applications and quasi-optical techniques. To find out more, visit http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=EX561.

Two new IEEE Conference Proceedings cover vital technologies

IEEE has published two new sets of conference proceedings which offer the latest in data mining and electron devices research. Now available through the IEEE Online Catalog & Store:

• 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining at http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=PR1754
• 2002 International Electron Devices Meeting at http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=CH37358

Local Computer Networks conference proceedings now available

The proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2002), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Communications, are now available. LCN is one of the networking industry's oldest, continuously running conferences, focusing on practical, leading-edge applications and research in the area of computer networks. The papers presented at the LCN are subject to thorough peer review. For more information, visit the IEEE Online Catalog & Store at http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=PR1591.

You can send any submissions by email to the editor:
Abhi Gupta at a.k.gupta@ieee.org

Please ensure you send in your submission by the 20^th of the month