IEEE-LEOS Ottawa Chapter has won the Most Innovative Chapter of the Year Award

The Laser and Electro-Optics Society Ottawa Chapter has won the Most Innovative Chapter of the Year Award for the forth time (1993, 1995, 1996, and 2004). The Chapter has a long tradition of being innovative and thinking outside the box. For a few years now, the chapter has been working closely with NRC, OPRA, NCIT and CRC through Dr. Maike Miller and has hosted a variety of technical meetings and workshops. They have attracted very large audience and interests. These workshops have also allowed the chapter to conduct more profound discussions and provided extensive networking opportunities.

Electron Devices Society announces 2004 Graduate Fellowship Winners

The IEEE Electron Devices Society has announced its 2004 graduate fellowship winners. They are David John, University of British Columbia, David W. DiSanto, Simon Fraser University, Martin von Haartman, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and Hongyu Yu, The National University of Singapore. The winners will be honored on 13 December in San Francisco, California, USA, at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting. The award includes a check for US$5,000 to the student, a US$1,000 grant for the student's department and a US$1,000 grant for the student's faculty advisor to support the student's project. The award is presented annually to promote, recognize and support graduate level study and research within the IEEE EDS field of interest. For more information, please visit http://www.ieee.org/society/eds/education/fellowship.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.

IEEE Organizing Global Pre-College Technology Education Program

Continuing in its tradition of innovation, IEEE is taking the lead in developing a new non-discriminatory global pre-college technology education program. The program titled, emeritbadges.org, will be directed globally towards pre-college boys and girls. Emeritbadges.org has developed hands-on electricity and electronics instructional material based on the Boy Scouts merit badge requirements. Instructional material for computer education is being developed. Any student, boy or girl can use the program to enhance technical literacy and learn more about viable engineering and other technical career options.

Emeritbadges.org Project Director Ralph W. Russell, II from the IEEE Richmond, VA Section said that this non-discriminatory program would be promoted globally through IEEE and youth programs such as World Organization of the Scout Movement and The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The next use of the new global pre-college electronics education material and hands-on kit will be at the 2005 National Scout Jamboree in Caroline County, VA, USA. Over 35,000 scouts will attend the Jamboree from the USA and several other countries.

Project leaders have started discussions with national and regional Girl Scout leaders to develop a method of incorporating the emeritbadges.org program into the Girl Scout
program. The next step will be to start discussions with the global World Organization of the Scout Movement and The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

The 2005 Jamboree will be held at Fort A. P. Hill in Caroline, Virginia. The Jamboree will start on Monday, 25 July 2005 and end on Wednesday, 3 August 2005. Hundreds of
volunteers that can serve as Assistant Instructors at the Jamboree Electronics Merit Badge booth for at least two days are needed. Additional project and volunteer information can be found at http://www.emeritbadges.org.

IEEE Travel Services to Introduce New Online Booking Tool

IEEE Travel Services will change vendors for its online booking tool from Get There to TravelPort. The change will provide cost-savings to the organization, as well as the following improvements and new features:

• enhanced search capabilities
• a user-friendly Quick Start Guide
• a modified Search option that allows you to change your travel selections – such as cities, times, dates and more – without having to start over
• interactive pop-up calendars that enable faster page loading and date selection
• a simplified multi-leg trip booking process
• the ability to automatically send copies of your itinerary to several recipients via email

The revised fee structure comes on the heels of another new savings plan offered by IEEE Travel, the Companion Program. When you and your companion travel on the same itinerary, you will pay just one service fee instead of two.

For more information on IEEE Travel's new online booking tool or its revised fee structure, contact Sherry Russ at .

IEEE adopts new guidelines for handling plagiarism

New guidelines for handling plagiarism by IEEE members have been rolled out this year with the help of the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee. The conduct committee handles complaints by members about unethical conduct by other members within the IEEE organization or the workplace. Plagiarism is defined by the IEEE as the reuse of someone else's ideas, processes, results, or words in a publication without explicitly acknowledging the original author and source of the material. Plagiarism in any IEEE publication is unacceptable and is considered a serious breach of professional conduct. The new guidelines define plagiarism and outline corrective actions. The PSPB Operations Manual contains the new policy in Section 8.2.2 of Publication Guidelines under the heading "Allegations of Misconduct" and is posted at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/pab/index.html.

IEEE members: It's now easier than ever to cast your vote

Ballots for this year's IEEE election have been mailed to all eligible voting members. For the first time, IEEE members may choose one of two ways to cast their ballots -- electronically or through the mail. Information on voting procedures is included in the election ballot materials. In addition to selecting officers for the top-level leadership positions in the IEEE, members are being asked to vote on an IEEE constitutional amendment. For details regarding the IEEE constitutional amendment, visit http://www.ieee.org/about/whatis/bylaws/changesgrid.xml. For information on this year's candidates, visit http://www.ieee.org/corporate/elections/candidates.xml.

Car rental discounts available to IEEE members

IEEE members can now take advantage of discounted car rental rates from Avis Car Rental. By using the Avis online booking tool through the IEEE Travel Services web site, IEEE members can request a rate and modify or cancel a reservation. Avis also offers a "Preferred Service" which is available at nearly 1,400 locations worldwide, and includes amenities such as door-to-door directions, assistance with luggage, and access to the newest cars. For more information, please visit http://www.ieeetravelonline.org/.

IEEE Subscribers: Try the new Crossref search pilot

Researchers at institutions with IEEE subscriptions can now take advantage of a search pilot that includes results from the databases of 29 scholarly publishers. The effort, spearheaded by CrossRef, the non-profit industry association, focuses users' searches and reduces the "noise" produced by general Web searches. This new search is powered by Google using articles' Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to link from the search results to the published article. Access to articles is determined by each publisher and your institution's subscriptions. Note: For the most comprehensive search
of IEEE content, please use the IEEE Xplore Author, Basic, or Advanced search functions. Visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/crefsearch.html.

Call for Papers

The 2006 EIC Climate Change Technology Conference - Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century will examine engineering solutions that either mitigate or adapt to climate change. This three-day conference will interest engineering and environmental technology practitioners of all disciplines; delegates from industry, manufacturing, academia, government agencies and regulators; consulting engineers, and special interest groups; economists, financial, and legal experts and other specialists working in the climate change field.

Interested authors/panelists are invited to submit a proposal for a manuscript for presentation at a Paper or a Poster Session or for an electronic presentation to be part of a Panel Discussion.

Conference Tracks:

1. Policy, Strategy and Regulations
2. Monitoring & Recording GHG Emissions and Climate Indicators
3. Engineering for Mitigation (Reductions and removals of GHG.)
4. Engineering for Adaptation (Allowing for CC in infrastructure design)
5. Financial and Risk Management
6. Continuing Education and Engineering Roles
7. Standards and Protocols
8. Modeling and Analysis

Important Dates:
Proposal Submission: 15 February 2005
Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2005
Authors Submit Original Manuscript: 31 August 2005
Notification of Acceptance to Authors with any changes: 31 October 2005
Authors submit final manuscript submission for CD ROM: 31 January 2006
Panelists submit presentation for CD-ROM: 28 February 2006
Presentation at Conference: 10-12 May 2006
 

Montreal

• New Age Fiber Crystals

2 November 2004
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
McConnell Engineering Bldg, 6th floor, Rm. 603
McGill University
Montréal, Quebec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev041102.txt
Please RSVP to Peter Noutsios at noutsios@nortelnetworks.com or noutsios@ieee.org

• Multi-carrier CDMA for future wireless communication systems

3 November 2004
Centre de recherche Poly-GRAMES Research Center
3333 Queen-Mary,
Montréal, Quebec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev041103_2.txt
Please RSVP to Prof. Ke Wu at ke.wu@ieee.org

• Understanding Microwaves (Part I and II)

3 November 2004 (10 weeks)
3333 Queen Mary Rd.room R206
Montréal, Quebec
For any additional information, please contact Prof. Renato G Bosisio at renato.bosisio@polymtl.ca

• International Conference on Power Systems Transients (IPST)

19-23 June, 2005
Hilton Montreal Bonaventure,
1 Place Bonaventure
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ipst.org

• International Workshop Advances in Signal Processing for Non Destructive Evaluation of Materials (IWASPNDE)

2-5 August, 2005
Université Laval,
Quebec City, Québec
For more information, please visit http://intl.gel.ulaval.ca/

Ottawa

• Quantum Computing and Nano-Technology

5 November 2004
Room - 4124ME,
Carleton University,
1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario
Please RSVP before 3 Nov 2004 to Sreedhar Natarajan, sn@ieee.org
For more information visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/quantom.pdf

• IEEE Ottawa 60th Annual General Meeting

10 November 2004
The Salon,
Museum of Nature,
240 McLeod,
Ottawa Ontario
For more information, please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/AGMInvite2004.htm

• IEEE-LEOS/ OPRA/ NRC/ CRC/ Workshop

17 November 2004
M-36,
NRC Montreal Road Campus
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/index.html#leos2

• VTS meeting: Advances in Air Traffic Surveillance Systems

18 November 2004
The Crowsnest,
Naval Officer's Mess,
78 Lisgar St.,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.vts.html

• The heterogeneous neuron model and its use in hybrid neural networks within computational intelligence compound systems

24 November 2004
Room 5084 of SITE Building
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ci

• A Primer on Software Security

25 November 2004
785 Carling Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.osqa.org/events.asp?yr=2004&mth=10&no=1

• IEEE Intellectual Property Seminar

26 November 2004
3701 Carling Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ems/

• Alliance of IEEE Consultant Network (AICN) Seminar

30 November 2004
The Crowsnest,
Naval Officer's Mess,
78 Lisgar St,
Ottawa, Ontario
Please register ASAP by email to gmida@ieee.org
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/index.html#aicn

• Face recognition in video as a new biometrics modality and the appropriate associative memory framework

15 December 2004
Room 5084,
SITE Building,
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ci

• IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference

16-19 May 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/imtc/imtcup/

• Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century

9-12 May 2006
Ottawa Congress Centre,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ccc2006.ca/

Toronto

• Broadband Wireless Access at Frequencies Below 11 GHz

1 November 2004
Bahen Centre, Room BA 1130
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov0104.htm
An IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture

• From Marconi to Wireless Internet: A Tutorial

2 November 2004
University of Toronto, Galbraith Building, Room GB220
35 St. George Street
Toronto. Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov0204.htm
An IEEE Toronto Communications Society Distinguished Lecture

• The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength

4 November 2004
Earth Sciences Auditorium, Room ES 1050
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov0404.htm
An IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter Seminar

• Nanotechnology in Optical Switching and in Multimodal Medical Imaging

10 November 2004
Room 1160, Bahen Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov1004.htm
An IEEE Toronto Computer Society Chapter

• Modern Circulators and Isolators for Wireless and Automotive Applications

12 November 2004
Room 1130, Bahen Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov1204.htm
An IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Lecture

• Recent Developments in Nanotechnology: An Overview

16 November 2004
Room 1190, Bahen Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov1604.htm
An IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• HFSWR, A Radar Technology to See Beyond Horizon Signal Processing Challenges

16 November 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov16204.htm
An IEEE Toronto Signals and Applications Chapter Seminar

• A Slippery Topic: New Insulating Oil Technology for Transformers and Switchgear

22 November 2004
Ontario Power Generation/Kinectrics Auditorium
Building KR, 800 Kipling Ave,
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov16204.htm
An IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Southern Ontario Chapter Seminar

• Wen-do - a Women's Self Defense Workshop

25 November 2004
University of Toronto
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov2504.htm
An IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group Workshop

Vancouver

• Water Management Process to Meet Efficiency, Regulator, and Environmental Objectives

3-4 November 2004
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://www.ceatech.ca/Workshops/Upcoming.html

• Vancouver Section Social Event of the Year

17 November 2004
Shiraz Bar & Grill
200 - 911 Denman St,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/news/social2004.html 

• Remote System Engineering: DND's Remote Operating Vehicle Trainer

10 November 2004
MacDonald Dettwiler 13800 Commerce Parkway,
Richmond, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/grs/Pages/upcomingEvents.htm 
An IEEE Vancouver Aerospace and Geoscience Remote Sensing Chapter presentation

• Current Transport and Light Emission in Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs)

12 November 2004
Applied Sciences Bldg, ASB 9896,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/eds/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Electron Devices Society presentation

• World's Smallest Linux Computer Does Wireless

15 November 2004
BCIT Bldg SE6,
TELUS Theatre
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Joint Communications Society presentation

• Management of Multiple Concurrent Tasks -- a Juggler Approach

16 November 2004
National Research Council of Canada,
Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
3250 East Mall,
Univerisity of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/ems/ 
Please RSVP to Roya Rahbari at Roya.Rahbari@nrc.gc.ca 
An IEEE Vancouver Engineering Management Society presentation

• Quantization & Classification: Extracting Discrete Information from a Continuous World

25 November 2004
Henry Angus Room 104,
2053 Main Mall,
Univerisity of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.icics.ubc.ca/news/

• Talk by Mr.Paul Howard, Vice Chair of General Hydrogen

1 December 2004
National Research Council of Canada,
Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
3250 East Mall
Univerisity of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Please RSVP to Roya Rahbari at Roya.Rahbari@nrc.gc.ca 
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/ems/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Engineering Management Society presentation

• Converting MATLAB Algorithms to FPGA or ASIC Designs

6 December 2004
BCIT
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Joint Communications Society presentation

• IEEE Bandwidth Management Workshop XI

3-6 October 2005
Fairmont Chateau
Whistler, British Columbia,
For more information, please visit http://www.ieeebmw.org

Rest of Canada

• Broadband Wireless Access at Frequencies below 11 GHz

2 November 2004
DC 1302,
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.cst.uwaterloo.ca/DSS/talks_2004.html#2004_nov_3 

• Advanced Technologies for Information Processing

3 November 2004
ICT 305
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta

• Starting a New Technology Venture & Modern Integrated Circuit Design Methodology

5 November 2004
Room B310
Sexton Campus (DalTech)
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information, please visit http://agrg.cogs.ns.ca/IEEE/November5.html 

• What Do You Need to Know about Electrical Power? Electric Power Systems for Non Power System Experts

26 November 2004
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information, please visit http://agrg.cogs.ns.ca/ieee/events.html#up 

• Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2005)

1-4 May 2005
Saskatoon Inn
Portugal Cove Road
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/ccece05/

US

• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom)

29 November - 3 December 2004
Dallas, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.globecom2004.org/

• International Symposium on Microarchitecture

4-8 December 2004
Portland, Oregon
For more information, please visit http://www.microarch.org/micro37/ 

• International Electron Devices Meeting

13-15 December 2004
Hilton San Francisco Towers
San Francisco
For more information, please visit http://www.his.com/~iedm/ 

• IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

3-7 January 2005
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
For more information, please visit http://ieeepvsc.org 

• National Scout Jamboree

25 July - 3 August 2005
Caroline, Virginia
For more information, please visit http://www.emeritbadges.org 

International

• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

1 - 4 November 2004
Brighton, United Kingdom
For full information, including how to register, visit http://icdm04.cs.uni-dortmund.de

• International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON)

21-24 November 2004
Singapore
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/singapore/powercon2004/

• International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG)

4-8 April 2005
Nagoya, Japan
For more information, please visit http://www.intermag2005.jp/ 

• IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

23-24 June 2005
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
For more information, please visit http://conferences.computer.org/CBMS2005/index.html  

• International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2005)

9 - 12 May 2005
Suntec, Singapore
For more information please visit http://www.iccsa.org

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/.

IEEE publishes new guide on wireless communication standards

A new book from IEEE offers a comprehensive overview of WLAN, WPAN, and WMAN (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16) standards. "Wireless Communication Standards: A Study of 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16" has been prepared for use by those just getting their feet wet in wireless standards and also for wireless data communications experts. The Study discusses deployment of WLAN networks, explains current business trends and provides understanding of future standards development. For more information, visit http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/product.aspx?product_no=SP1134.

Career Advice Book by IEEE Spectrum Columnist Debuts

Those of you who've been following Carl Selinger's monthly "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School" column on the IEEE Spectrum Careers site will be pleased to learn that his book by the same title hits stores this month. The book covers non-technical "real world" leadership skills like decision-making, setting priorities, negotiating, teamwork, running meetings, and better writing and speaking. We're big fans of Carl's friendly, level-headed approaching to tackling these often confusing topics. To order the book online, go to http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471655767.html.

You can send any submissions by email to the editor:
Abhi Gupta at

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