Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu recipient of the EIC KY Lo Medal

Guy C. Gosselin, President of the Engineering Institute of Canada is pleased to inform you that Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu has been selected to receive the K.Y. Lo Medal. Accordingly, he will be recognized at the EIC's annual honours and awards banquet in the Panorama Room at the National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin Street in Ottawa ON during the evening of Saturday, 6 March 2004.

Established by his students in 1998, this medal honours K. Y. Lo, Professor Emeritus of the University of Western Ontario and recognizes significant engineering contributions at the international level. The award of this medal is a rare distinction given that the EIC has eight member societies with a total membership approximating 35,000. The EIC Honours, Awards and Fellowships Committee, with members from each society, requires candidates to be supported by at least three nominators.

IEEE unveils Standards Information Network website

IEEE has recently unveiled its new IEEE Standards Information Network. Part of IEEE Press, the IEEE Standards Information Network is a publishing operation with the IEEE Standards Association that publishes leading-edge guides, handbooks, tutorials, and other materials that enhance the understanding and implementation of standards. To learn more about the authors, sign up for peer reviews or submit a book proposal, visit http://standards.ieee.org/standardspress/.

IEEE Powered by volunteers: The CICC Case Study

Want to volunteer to help fill important roles at IEEE but don't know how? The January issue of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Newsletter includes interviews with volunteers for the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) let readers know how to get started, what the jobs are and why volunteers find this work satisfying. You can find the story at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/sscs/jan04/volunteer.html

Former NEC Chairman to receive IEEE Medal of Honor

Tadahiro Sekimoto, former chairman of NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been named the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Medal of Honor, the IEEE's highest award. An IEEE Life Fellow, Sekimoto is being recognized for his contributions to the field of digital satellite communications, promotion of information technology research and development, and technical and corporate leadership in computers and communications. Sekimoto is credited with turning NEC into a global technical giant that excels in a wide spectrum of modern technology. The IEEE Medal of Honor as well as many other prestigious awards and honors will be presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony in June 2004 in Kansas City, MO, USA. Find out more about IEEE award recipients, visit http://www.ieee.org/newsinfo/medals2004.xml.

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

• Robert G. Ellis - Kitchener-Waterloo
• Janick Bergeron - Ottawa
• Maike L. Miller - Ottawa
• Ken J. Schultz - Ottawa
• James Funke - Southern Alberta
• Dianne C. Kennedy - Toronto
• Haibin Zhu - Toronto

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

Montreal

• 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

Toronto

• Novel Frontiers in Engineering: MEMS and Nanotechnology

12 February 2004
Islington Golf Club
45 Riverbank Road
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb1204.htm
An IEEE Toronto Computer Chapter presentation

• An Introduction to Intellectual Property Protection

17 March 2004
University of Toronto, Room BA 1180
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/mar1704.htm
An IEEE Toronto Communications 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/

Vancouver

• Sustainable Electric Power Systems in the 21st Century: Requirements, Challenges and the Role of New Technologies

11 February 2004
Southpoint Room of BC Hydro Edmonds Auditorium,
6911 Southpoint Drive,
Burnaby, BC
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/powereng/

• 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

• 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

• UNB Robotics Competition

6-8 February 2004
Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information please visit http://www.unb.ca/robotics/

• Duality in Multi-user Uplink and Downlink Channels

13 February 2004
DC 1304, Davis Center,
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.cst.uwaterloo.ca/DSS/talks.html#2004_feb_13

• 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

• 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

• 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

• International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

14-19 February 2004
San Francisco, California
For more information please visit http://www.isscc.org/isscc/2004/authors.htm

• Intel Developer Forum Systems Conference

17-19 February 2004
San Francisco, California
For more information please visit http://www.intel.com/idf/us/spr2004/systems/

• Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)

22-26 February 2004
Anaheim, California
For more information please visit www.apec-conf.org

• Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC 2004)

22-27 February 2004
Los Angeles, California
For more information please visit http://www.ofcconference.org

• Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show

7-11 March 2004
Boston, Massachussets
For more information please visit http://www.nanotech2004.com/

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

21-25 March 2004
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information please visit http://www.comsoc.org/confs/wcnc/2004

• 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/

• Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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

International

• International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology

9-11 February 2004
Korea's Phoenix Park
Republic of Korea
For more information please visit http://icact.nca.or.kr/2004/index.html

• International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM 2004)

7-11 March 2004
Hong Kong
For more information please visit http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/

• Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services

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

New Guide to Trellis and Turbo Coding

Christian Schlegel, author of the bestselling Wiley-IEEE Press book "Trellis Coding," has teamed up with Lance Perez to provide a follow-up. The new book "Trellis and Turbo Coding" provides both industrial and academic communities with a comprehensive grounding on the fundamentals, theory, and application of trellis and turbo coding. For more information, or to purchase, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471227552.

New Wiley title helps novice and pro understand CMOS electronics

Problems with testing, design, or reliability affect the financial as well as the engineering bottom line. The new Wiley-IEEE Press book "CMOS Electronics: How it Works, How it Fails" by Jaume Segura and Charles F. Hawkins offers important circuit theory and design knowledge for those at various points in the design and application process. It was written to help identify and solve problems in CMOS manufacturing environments. To order, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471476692.

Getting more out of your projects

Project managers trying to understand the trials and triumphs that can arise in any project setting can look towards a new book from John Wiley & Sons and the IEEE Computer Society for answers. In "It Sounded Good When We Started: A Project Manager's Guide to Working with People on Projects," authors Dwayne Phillips and Roy O'Bryan describe their own mistakes as well as the many valuable lessons they learned as a result. For more information, or to purchase this title, visit  http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471485861.

New book on Thyristor-based facts now available

The new book "Thyristor-Based FACTS Controllers for Electrical Transmission Systems" by R. Mohan Mathur and Rajiv K. Varma is now available from Wiley-IEEE Press. The book offers in-depth discussions of theoretical concepts, practical applications, and case studies of control design and system performance, and will be an important resource for academics, students, and practicing engineers involved with FACTS technology. For more information, or to purchase, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471206431.

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