Help develop IEEE-SA Project No. P1595

The IEEE Power Engineering Society (IEEE-PES) and the IEEE-Standards Association (IEEE-SA) have initiated Standards project P1595. This project has been assigned to the IEEE-PES Working Group for Implementing Technology to Limit Climate Change (CCWG) and an international Task Force was formed to lead the project.  The goal of Project P1595 is to develop a set of international standards for the quantification of GreenHouse Gases (GHG) emission credits from certifiable projects in the electricity sector These standards will be globally applicable and will simplify the cost effective evaluation of project GHG credits, thus facilitating the trading and retirement of such credits in national and international markets.

The electricity industry is a major contributor (about one third) to global CO2 emissions.
Therefore it makes good sense for the industry to develop and implement technology options to achieve cost effective GHG reductions. It also makes sense for the industry to develop the standard rules for quantifying GHG emission reduction credits from such initiatives. If the industry does not, others will, and the industry may not like the result.

Since IEEE Standards Board approval of Project P1595 in August 2001, good progress has been made by the P1595 Task Force including the set up of a web-site at: www.argpower.com (with thanks to the Applied Resources Group of Brookline MA). Background information and reports on events to discuss the Standards can be found on this web-site along with the preliminary standard document IEEE-P1595-D0.1. However, the critical point has been reached where financial support is required to engage the necessary technical expertise and resources for the detailed development of the standards. Products of this work, including rules, methodology, templates, case studies, and web tools will be made publicly available. The leading edge nature of GHG emission trading requires vision, leadership, and support from the industry, governments and all interested individuals and entities.

At their February 11, 2004 meeting the IEEE Executive Committee gave the green light for a funding program to be administered by the IEEE-SA to further develop the GHG Standards. Contributions from all organizations and individuals with an interest in accelerating the reduction of GHG emissions to the earth’s atmosphere through the development and implementation of viable GHG emission trading markets will be needed if we are to reach our goals. Organizations or individuals may contribute at the Sponsor level of $25,000 or the Supporter Level of $10,000. Of course contributions of any amount are welcome including “in-kind” support such as expert resources, methodologies, project case studies and sector evaluation tools. Commitments for in-kind contributions have already been received and more are welcome.

If you wish to contribute or have any questions about this program, please contact Jim McConnach, chair of CCWG at: jsmcconnach@ieee.org, 705-645-5524; Rich D’Aquanni, USA CCWG at rich@argpower.com, 617-277-2102; Naeem Ahmad IEEE-SA contact staff at n.ahmad@ieee.org, 732-562-3931.

IEEE student branch web site contest deadline approaching

The submission deadline for the annual IEEE Student Branch Web Site Contest is 15 April 2004. Finalists will be chosen in each of the ten IEEE Regions to complete for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, plus runners-up prizes. Monetary awards range from US$250 to $1,000. The IEEE Student Activities Committee will announce winners on 15 May. For complete judging criteria, or to view the list of 2003 winners, visit http://www.ieee.org/membership/students/programs/websitecontest.xml

Each year, IEEE Student Members compete for up to US$250,000 in IEEE Awards & Scholarships. Many awards are for specific IEEE-related disciplines and range from travel grants to post-doctoral fellowships. For information, visit http://www.ieee.org/scholarships

New IEEE members in Canada receive life insurance policy at no cost

Did you know that new IEEE members living in the U.S. and Canada receive a no-cost $20,000 life-insurance policy for one year? It's true. New full-grade members are enrolled in the program on a quarterly basis. The plan is administered by MARSH Affinity Group Services, and may be renewed at cost, increased or allowed to lapse after the first year. For more information on the full range of insurance services available through the IEEE Financial Advantage Program, visit http://www.ieeeinsurance.com.

Web site offers guidance in selecting IEEE Online collections

Looking for access to IEEE online information, but not sure which option is right for you? A new Web site, Discover IEEE, offers guidance in selecting the right access options for individuals and organizations. Included are a brief demonstration of IEEE Xplore, the IEEE online delivery platform, and easy links to request free trials. Visit the site today at http://www.ieee.org/discover

New journal premiers: IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing letters

The first issue of IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Letters has been published and is now available online in IEEE Xplore. One of five new IEEE publications in 2004, this journal includes theory, concepts, and techniques of science and engineering as they apply to the sensing of the earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space, and examines the processing, interpretation, and dissemination of this information. Institutions with subscriptions to IEEE online collections may have access to this title, depending on their access rights, through IEEE Xplore  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=8859.

Vanishing URL's: Ephemera for Engineers and Scientists

The Internet has revolutionized publishing, making it easier than ever before to access and publish articles, papers and even books. Of course, as with any change, there are some growing pains. Many technical articles now include references to Internet addresses, as opposed to hard-copy resources. In one study, 108 of 184 Internet addresses became inactive within four years. Don Christiansen looks at e-references and their penchant for disappearing, in the latest edition of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer at http://www.todaysengineer.org/feb04/backscatter.asp

Alberta

• The Fundamentals of Distributed Generation

19-20 April 2004
Holiday Inn The Palace
Edmonton, Alberta
For more information, please visit http://www.electricityforum.com/forums/distgen2004.html

• The Fundamentals of Distributed Generation

21-22 April 2004
Holiday Inn Downtown
Calgary, Alberta
For more information, please visit http://www.electricityforum.com/forums/distgen2004.html

• Electrical System Safety: Hazards and Safeguards

6-7 May 2004
Coast Terrace Inn
Edmonton, Alberta
For more information, please visit http://www.electricityforum.com/forums/safety2004.html

Mississauga

• Emergency Generators

5-7 April 2004
EPIC Learning Center
5759 Coopers Ave.
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Distributed Renewable Resources Power Generation Systems

14-15 April 2004
EPIC Learning Center
5759 Coopers Ave.
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Increasing Efficiency Through Effective Delegation

15 April 2004
EPIC Learning Center
5759 Coopers Ave.
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Commissioning, Testing, and Start-up of Electrical Systems

26-27 April 2004
EPIC Learning Center
5759 Coopers Ave.
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Power Switchgear Equipment

28-30 April 2004
EPIC Learning Center
5759 Coopers Ave.
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

Montreal

• H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 - Video coding for next generation multimedia

5 Apr 2004
Room S-H-961-14,
Concordia University,
Montréal, Québec
Please RSVP to Dr. M.O. Ahmad at (514) 848-2424 ext. 3142
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev040405_2.pdf
An IEEE Montréal Circuits and Systems Society and Signal Processing Society joint event with Concordia University

• Web Services Architecture & Applications

5 Apr 2004
CRIM Montréal
Montréal, Québec
Please RSVP to Éric Germain at e.germain@computer.org
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev040405_1.txt
An IEEE Montréal Computer Society presentation

• Insulated Conductors Committee Spring Meeting (PES-ICC 2004)

1-5 May 2004
Marriott Chateau Champlain
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/icc/meetings/spring_2004/spring_2004.htm

• International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004)

17-21 May 2004
Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel,
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.icassp2004.com/

• International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS)

7 June 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://iqua.ece.toronto.edu/iwqos04/

• Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS 2004)

20-23 June, 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.newcas.org

• International Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 50th Anniversary Joint Conference (UFFC 2004)

23-27 August 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ieee-uffc.org/fcmain.asp?page=2004fc

Ottawa

• The Emerging Trends in Next Generation Services and Applications

16 April 2004
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.opra.ca/event_feb2004.html

• Ottawa Smart Energy Fair

17 April 2004
Canada Science and Technology Museum
1867 St. Laurent Blvd
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/ottawa/SmartEnergy/SEF2004.htm

• Car-and-Driver Electronics Interface

19 April 2004
The Crowsnest,
Naval Officer's Mess,
78 Lisgar St.,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/%7Emax-com/ottawa.vts.html

• What is the Meaning of ‘Safe’ in Nuclear Technology?

5 May 2004
Algonquin College
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/ottawa/ea/IEEE_Nuclear_Safety_Seminar.pdf

• Photonics North

27-29 September 2004
Ottawa Congress Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://spie.org/conferences/calls/04/pn/

Toronto

• RF MEMS for Commercial and Defense Applications

1 April 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr0104.htm
An IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter presentation.

• IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering - First General Interest Meeting

2 April 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr0204.htm

• Using the Internet to Access IEEE Services

20 April 2004
Galbraith Building, Room 150,
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr2004.htm
Please confirm your attendance with Wallas Khella at wkhella@ieee.org or 905-279-2976

• Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors

27 April 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr2704.htm

• Recent Applications of Fuzzy Logic

28 April 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr2804.htm
An IEEE Toronto Neural Networks Chapter presentation

• Engineers Without E-Waste

28 April 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr28204.htm
An IEEE Engineering & Human Environment Chapter presentation

• International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL 2004)

19-22 May 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~ismvl2004/

• Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2004)

25-28 May, 2004
Le Royal Meridien, King Edward,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04/

• 2004 Annual Dinner and General Meeting

16 October, 2004
The Old Mill Inn,
21 Old Mill Road,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/oct1604.htm

Vancouver

• New Frontiers in Wireless Communications, A Special Night of Tutorials

5 April 2004
BCIT - Bldg SE6
TELUS Theatre
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/

• Synthetic Aperture Radar: Theory and Signal Processing

21 April 2004
Richmond, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/grs/Pages/upcomingEvents.htm
An IEEE Vancouver Aerospace, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Chapter presentation

• Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop (APC 2004)

26-28 April 2004
Vancouver, BC
For more information please visit http://www.ieee-ias.org/apc2004/index.html

• Electrical System Safety: Hazards and Safeguards

4-5 May 2004
Holiday Inn Downtown
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://www.electricityforum.com/forums/safety2004.html

• 2004 AGM and Dinner

10 May 2004
Hilton Vancouver Metrotown hotel
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/news/agm2004.html

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004)

23-26 May 2004
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC
For more information please visit http://www.iscas2004.org

Rest of Canada

• Characteristic Basis Function Method A General-Purpose Technique For Fast Simulation Of RF/Microwave Circuits And Antennas

1 Apr 2004
EIT 3151,
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ieee_kw/Presentations/04Sem_apr1.pdf

• Reliability-Based List Decoding of Linear Block Codes

26 Apr 2004
DC-1304, Davis Center,
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.cst.uwaterloo.ca/DSS/talks.html#2004_apr_26

• Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2-5 May 2004
Sheraton Fallsview
Niagara Falls, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/ccece04

• Distributed Resources Workshop

10-11 May 2004
Fairmont Palliser Hotel
Calgary, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.ceatech.ca/workshops/upcoming.html

• Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV2004)

17-19 May 2004
University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.cipprs.org/CRV/

• Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2004)

19-21 May 2004
Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information, please visit http://www.cnsr.info/Events/CNSR2004/events.php

• Electrical System Safety: Hazards and Safeguards

7-8 June 200
Holiday Inn Select
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information, please visit http://www.electricityforum.com/forums/safety2004.html

• Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering

28-31 July 2004
The Delta Halifax Hotel
1990 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/

US

• IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

30 March - 2 Apr 2004
Boston, Massachusetts
For more information please visit http://www.cse.uconn.edu/icde04/

• Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2004)

14-15 May 2004
Pomona, California
For more information please visit http://www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi/

• IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON 2004)

19-22 September 2004
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information please visit http://rawcon.org/

• IEEE Broadcast Symposium

13-15 October 2004
Washington, DC
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/bt/symposium.html

• Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

24-28 October 2004
Salt Lake City, Utah
For more information please visit http://www.dasconline.org

International

• Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services

19-23 April 2004
Seoul, Korea
For more information please visit http://www.noms2004.org/

• International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Systems

18-21 May 2004
Kyoto, Japan
For more information please visit http://www1.ilcc.com/uwbst_iwuwbs2004/

• International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

31 May - 3 Jun 2004
Oulu, Finland
For more information please visit http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/iwwan2004/index.html

• International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004)

20-24 June 2004
Paris, France
For more information please visit http://www.icc2004.org/

• IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC)

20-26 June 2004
Aachen, Germany
For more information please visit http://www.pesc04.org/

• European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2004)

7-10 September 2004
Vienna, Austria
For more information please visit http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/eusipco2004

Many IEEE Canada sections maintain their own listings of upcoming events:

Canadian Atlantic Kitchener-Waterloo Montreal Newfoundland and Labrador New Brunswick Northern Canada

Ottawa Southern Alberta Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg

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

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IEEE Standards information network publishes handbook to IEEE 802.15.3

A new handbook from the IEEE Standards Information Network offers guidance in wireless multimedia. "Wireless Multimedia: A Handbook to the IEEE 802.15.3 Standard" clarifies the IEEE 802.15.3 standard for individuals who are implementing compliant devices and shows how the standard can be used to develop wireless multimedia applications. Some of these applications include: wireless keyboards and printers, personal video and digital cameras, digital audio players and headphones, gaming, home theater system and stereo system components, video conferencing, and more. The IEEE 802.15.3 standard addresses an untapped market that goes beyond IEEE 802.11(TM) and Bluetooth(R) wireless technologies. For more on this handbook, visit http://shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=SP1132.

Author addresses history of telecommunications

Anton Huurdemann, an independent telecommunications author, has written "The Worldwide History of Telecommunications", a comprehensive history of the telecommunications age now available from Wiley-IEEE Press. Huurdemann studied electrical engineering in Amsterdam and international business at Nyenrode University, making his career in the exportation of telecommunications systems. This book covers optical telegraphy, electrical telegraphy via wires and cables, telephony and telephone switching and cryptography, and is available for purchase online at  http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471205052.

Wiley-IEEE press offers new book on real-world project management

In their new Wiley-IEEE Press book, "It Sounded Good When We Started: A Project Manager's Guide to Working with People Projects," authors Dwayne Phillips and Roy O'Brien provide a guide to real-world project management by describing mistakes and valuable lessons learned throughout their sixty years of project management experience. They aim to help project managers understand the trials and triumphs that can arise with any project. For more information, or to purchase, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471485861.

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