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News of InterestIEEE Canada Standards Committee co-hosts Canadian delegation to 2003 IEC Annual General MeetingThe IEEE Canada Standards Committee and the Canadian Electricity Association jointly hosted the Canadian delegates to the IEC Annual General Meeting at a delegate reception held in Montreal on 16 October 2003. ICSC members in attendance hosting the Canadian delegates were Doug Topping (ICSC Chair and President EPCOR Generation Inc. in Edmonton, Alberta), Wally Read and Helen Sam. The ICSC members were supported by IEEE SA staff members Sue Vogel, Terry deCourcelle and Linda Gargiulo. Portions of Doug Topping's welcoming address follows: "The IEEE Canada Standards Committee is confident that this reception is the beginning of more joint initiatives with our Canadian Standards organizations going forward as we move to strengthen our relationships and interactions. Our committee works closely with the IEEE Standards Association to identify Canadian standardization needs that can be met by working with our IEEE membership in Canada. There are approximately l4,000 of IEEE members in Canada and about 600 of these are also members of The IEEE Standards Association. One example of our committee's work was the IEC fast track adoption of IEEE 1249, The Guide for Computer-Based Control for Hydroelectric Power Plant Automation - accomplished through The Canadian National Committee. Having this IEEE document adopted by IEC gave it the broad recognition needed for use in Canada. This IEEE 1249 work by our committee has demonstrated to us the significance of IEEE's dual logo initiative. We ask that you, the Canadian Standards industry representatives, support IEEE's dual logo initiative with other standards organizations that will limit the duplication of effort and bring more commonality to standards on a global basis. I'd like to introduce the members of The IEEE Canada Standards Committee that are here tonight so you recognize them:
Other members of the committee not here this evening are:
So you can see that our committee membership spans the country. Finally, I would like to extend a special thank you to the Canadian delegates for your work in standards development. I know it can be a thankless job but I also believe it to be the most important foundation upon which our society functions and grows. Please maintain your involvement and dedication to the development, implementation and enforcement of standards." If you would like more information on the IEEE Canada Standards Committee and its activities, please e-mail: l.gargiulo@ieee.org. Dr. Read addresses Winnipeg Life Members - time to give back"Give Back Time"; that was the title and theme of an address by Dr. Wallace S,. Read, IEEE Past President, to a 20 October 2003 meeting of the joint chapter of the IEEE Winnipeg Section Life Members and Canadian Society for Senior Engineers (CSSE). Wally pointed out several ways senior engineers can contribute their wisdom and experience to other members and professional associations such as IEEE:
Wally highlighted several examples of Canadian IEEE Milestones including:
He encouraged visiting the IEEE Virtual Museum at www.ieee.org/museum. IEEE/IES Electrical Power Symposium 2003Last year on 1 November, the Ottawa IEEE PES Chapter, the IEEE Reliability Society Chapter, and IEEE Ottawa organized the Deregulation Symposiums and Tutorial. Though deregulation is in limbo, the Ontario Electricity Industry is still under immense challenges. So, this year on 14 November 2003, the Ottawa IEEE (PES and RS) and IEEE Ottawa are holding their third Electrical Power Symposium 2003 (EPS2003) at Ben Franklin Place, Centrepointe, Ottawa, Ontario. This year's theme is "Supply and Demand Challenges" and how that played in the recent "Blackout". This is an opportunity to listen to and discuss with industry leaders on the issues and solutions concerning electricity supply and demand. Included in the symposium is a special session on the 14th August 2003 blackout. The symposium covers the history and future direction of electric delivery systems in North America; environmental drivers, Ontario supply and demand balance and the operation of the newly created market; the 14th August 2003 blackout and the restoration; demand management and demand reduction; distributed generation; energy efficiency; and domestic electrical energy systems. The Symposium will be held on Friday, 14th November, 2003. For full details and registration please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/ottawa/EPS2003/ Contact persons: Raed Abdullah (RaedAbdullah@ieee.org) 2004 IEEE membership renewal open for businessIEEE membership renewal notices were mailed to all active IEEE members at the end of September. In addition to the vast array of existing benefits and services, IEEE members may chose to add the new IEEE Product Safety Society or one of five new journals to their memberships for 2004. For a complete list of IEEE membership benefits and services, visit http://www.ieee.org/memberbenefits. Renew online prior to 14 November for the chance to win a Dell notebook computer http://www.ieee.org/renewal/. 2004 Member-get-a-member (MGM) and Student-get-a-student (SGS) CampaignDo you have a good IEEE experience to share with a colleague? Why not tell your peers about some of the benefits that you have experienced as an IEEE member? You can help make your colleagues more informed about IEEE, and at the same time earn yourself an incentive for successfully recruiting them. IEEE conducts the MGM and SGS campaigns annually to encourage members to actively recruit their colleagues or fellow students to become IEEE members. The program makes sense, since who is better equipped to extol the benefits of membership than our existing members? This year's program will run from 2 September 2003 through 15 August 2004. In return for their efforts, a small financial "thank you" will be awarded to all recruiters that can be used as a credit towards IEEE or Society membership dues, or towards the purchase of IEEE services and products. For rules of the programs and recruiting tips, visit http://www.ieee.org/mgm or contact Felicia Taylor. IEEE Authors win Nobel Prize in Medicine for MRI developmentAmerican Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield won the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine this month for their discoveries on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Lauterbur, an IEEE author and past IEEE Medal of Honor winner, discovered the possibility of creating two-dimensional pictures by producing variations in a magnetic field - the basis for the now-routine medical diagnosis tool. Mansfield, an IEEE author, developed the process by which signals the body emits in response to the magnetic field are analyzed. Lauterbur is at the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Urbana; Mansfield is at the University of Nottingham in Britain. For more information on the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine and its winners, visit http://www.ieee.org/nobel. IEEE Xplore adds new way to access IEEE SpectrumFor the first time ever in IEEE Xplore, full-text HTML is now available to subscribers for select issues of IEEE Spectrum magazine. All issues ranging from January 2002 through June 2003 now offer the option of accessing both the PDF and HTML full-text versions of all articles. This enhancement allows for easier navigation within documents, including links to figures, charts and references. Although IEEE Xplore does not offer full-text searching from the search screens, users can use browser tools to search within full-text HTML documents. In the near future, IEEE will also present full-text HTML for select issues of the Proceedings of the IEEE, but there are no immediate plans to expand full-text HTML beyond these two publications. To see the benefits of HTML access, subscribers may visit IEEE Xplore at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=6. Why Projects Slip: Part 2, Miss-Executing!(by Bill Franklin & Doug Copeland, Precision Planning Group)In part 1 of “Why Projects Slip”, we observed the stakes are high in not achieving project goals. Companies undertaking expensive initiatives to deliver new products only to have them fail due to being excessively late, of poor quality, or significantly over budget can suffer irreparable financial harm. Fortunately, as at the project launch, the astute project manager and senior management can observe telltale signals and take action to mitigate more serious problems. Here, as the project moves into the execution phase of design and development, are our top reasons for project slippage:
Projects don’t have to late, over budget or suffer from poor quality. Recognize the symptoms of project that are in trouble, understand the root causes that are causing issues, and take appropriate action. With practice and experience, you can consistently deliver projects on time, within budget, and with the features your clients and customers want. In part 3 of “Why Projects Slip” we’ll give a list of red flags to watch for. Ignore these at your peril! ObituaryMichael Z. Tarnawecky, Professor Emeritus University of Manitoba Beloved husband of Dr. Iraida Tarnawecky passed away on Saturday, October 11, 2003. Professor Tarnawecky taught at the Univ of Manitoba, Dept of EE, Fort Garry Campus. Professor Tarnawecky retired in December 1991 and was named Professor Emeritus in January 1993. Professor Tarnawecky joined IEEE March 1966 and held the grade of Member. He was elevated to Senior Member grade in January 1976. Professor Tarnawecky held the office of Section Secretary (Northern Canada Section) from June 1977 - July l978; Vice Chair (Northern Canada Section) July 1978 - June l979; and Section Chair (Winnipeg Section) June 1979 - September 1980. (Source: The Winnipeg Free Press, 15 October 2003 & research by Dave J. Kemp, SMIEEE, FEIC) Senior Member UpgradesThe following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the September 2003 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
For more information on the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) Program, please visit http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/smprogram.html. The 2003 Goal for IEEE Canada is to elevate 150 members to Senior Members. Upcoming Events
IEEE Montreal maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/evenements_e.html. IEEE Ottawa maintains a page of upcoming events at http://members.attcanada.ca/~max-com/IEEEOttEvents.html. IEEE Toronto maintains a page of upcoming events at http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/upcoming.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/. IEEE Commercial ReleasesIEEE Press publishes first comphrehensive history of the Information AgeA new book from Wiley-IEEE Press, "The Worldwide History of Telecommunications" by Anon A. Huurdeman, is the first comprehensive history of the Information Age, covering how we got here and where we are going. Huurdeman's book covers telecommunications from a global perspective, presenting telecommunications as a uniquely human achievement, dependent on the contributions of many ingenious inventors, discoverers, physicists, and engineers over a period spanning more than two centuries. For more information, or to purchase, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471205052. New book offers designers insight into VerilogA new book published by Wiley-IEEE Press, "Design Through Verilog HDL" by T.R. Padmanabhan and B. Bala Tripura Sundari, offers designers new to the language an opportunity to become familiar with the language construction and real-life practical applications. Verilog is a hardware description language (HDL) that makes it possible to build hardware utilizing very sizable and complex digital circuits. Find out more about this tile at http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471441481. Electric power systems book now available through Wiley-IEEEThe new book "Understanding Electric Power Systems: An Overview of the Technology and the Marketplace," former power company managers Jack Casazza and Frank Delea provide insight to electric power systems, how they operate, the organizational structure, as well as the regulation and pricing of electricity. Additional topics covered are electric system control, power system reliability, government regulation, and financial considerations. Key terms and definitions used worldwide are included in the glossary to provide a full understanding of this technology. For more information, or to purchase, please visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471446521. IEEE Press authors cover challenges of managing IP NetworksEditors Salah Aidarous and Thomas Plevyak present IP network management insight in their new book, "Managing IP Networks: Challenges and Opportunities." The book addresses critical challenges affecting the growth of IP networks, with contributions from some of the top experts in the field. For more information, or to order, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471392995. Submission InformationYou can send any submissions by email to the editor: Please ensure you send in your submission by the 20th of the month
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