RIM Will Offer New Career Opportunities on the IEEE Job Site!

Research in Motion (RIM) has agreed to post a large number of technology job openings on the IEEE Job Site within the next two weeks. To take advantage of these new opportunities, it is strongly recommended that you register your candidate profile and post a resume with the Job Site now.

The IEEE Job Site is an online recruitment service that offers all IEEE members exclusive, free access to real-time job-matching capabilities. You can use your IEEE Web Account to register a job candidate profile in five easy steps:

1. Visit http://www.ieee.org/jobs
2. Click on the "IEEE Members" link.
3. Choose "Register/profile your ideal job" on the landing page.
4. Complete the basic information for your job candidate profile. (professional skills, required salary, location of desired position, etc.).
5. Post your resume online and set up a job search agent.

Positions of interest will be routed automatically to you by e-mail. If you choose the "anonymous" option, your identity will remain hidden until you decide to reveal it to prospective employers. Take advantage of the expanding technology job opportunities throughout the global community.

Recruit a colleague, earn credit towards IEEE dues

Did you know that you can earn credit toward your 2006 IEEE dues when you refer a colleague to join IEEE? Through the IEEE Member-Get-A-Member program, current IEEE Members can receive a US$5 credit towards next year's dues for every new member that they recruit. New members joining between now and the end of August pay half-year rates, and receive membership through the remainder of 2005. For the rules of the IEEE Member-Get-A-Member program, plus tips on recruitment, visit http://www.ieee.org/mgm. IEEE Student Members, take advantage of the IEEE Student-Get-A-Student program http://www.ieee.org/sgs.

Awarding non-IEEE entities that support IEEE units

The Friend of IEEE Regional Activities Award was created specifically to recognize support provided to the IEEE and its members in support of its goals by firms, divisions of firms or individuals. The award is a plaque or certificate for the recipient. Nominations may be submitted at any time during the year.

At a recent Regional Activities Board meeting, the following were approved to be recipients of the Sustaining or Supporting Friend of IEEE Regional Activities Awards:

• Boeing Corporation, St. Louis Missouri, Region 5 (Sustaining Friend Award): For their continued support for member professional activities and education within the IEEE Saint Louis Section.
• University of Toronto-Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Region 7 (Supporting Friend Award): For ongoing support to the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority (DAFZA), United Arab Emirates, Region 8 (Supporting Friend Award): In appreciation of their efforts to encourage IEEE activities and sponsor IEEE events in United Arab Emirates.

The link for the nomination form is available at the RAB Awards Website: http://www.ieee.org/rabawards.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the February 2005 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings:

• Douglas G. Down - Hamilton
• Carlos E. Saavedra - Kingston
• David V. Plant - Montreal
• Jasmin E. Roy - Ottawa
• Sridhar Krishnan - Toronto
• Jody P. Levine - Toronto
• Baochun Li - Toronto
• Alain Tabue - Toronto
• Alan Wallis - Toronto
• Per E. Westlind - Toronto
• Wenpeng Luan - Vancouver
• Mehrdad Saif - Vancouver
• Mehmet R. Eskicioglu - Winnipeg
• Dennis Woodford - Winnipeg

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

Montreal

• Adaptive MIMO OFDM Receivers: Implementation Impairments and Complexity Issues

15 April 2005
INRS - Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 800 de la Gauchetière ouest, Bureau 6900
Montréal, Québec
Please RSVP to Richard O'Shaughnessey at (514) 496-1217 or
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2005/Ev050415.txt
An IEEE Montréal Signal Processing Society presentation

• Circuit Techniques for Operational Amplifier Speed and Accuracy Improvement: Analog Circuit Design with Structural Methodology

19 April 2005
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Main Building, room A-533
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://resmiq.grm.polymtl.ca/intensif/registration.html

• Towards UAV autonomy: Guidance, Navigation and Cooperative Control

26 April 2005
Concordia University, Sir George Williams Campus, Room S-H-961-14
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2005/Ev050426.txt 
An IEEE Montréal Control Systems Society presentation

• Recent Developments in Nanotechnology

12 May 2005
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Bldg, 6th floor, Rm. 603, 3480 University St., Montreal
Montréal, Québec
Please RSVP to Peter Noutsios at (514) 895-0597 or
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2005/Ev050512.txt 
An IEEE Montréal Laser & Electro-Optics Society presentation

• 9th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory

5-8 June 2005
McGill University,
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~cwit2005

• IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP)

8-10 June 2005
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.rsp-workshop.org

• International workshop on Atmospheric Icing of Structures (IWAIS)

12-16 June 2005
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/iwais/ 

• 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 Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP)

19-21 July 2005
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel,
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/isatp05/ 

• International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS)

25-27 July 2005
Concordia University
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://ideas.concordia.ca/ideas05/ 

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

31 July - 4 August 2005
Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05/ 

• 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

• Workshop on Cyber Infrastructure and Emergency Preparedness

1-2 April 2005
SITE building, 800 King Edward Avenue, room SITE 2-060
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://cyber.ncct.uottawa.ca/

• Understanding Power Phenomena in Power Systems

25 April 2005
National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.modasolutions.com/Forms/IEEE_EDUCATION/index06022005.htm

• IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference

17-19 May 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/imtc/imtcup/

• Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference

16-19 August 2005
Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.canadiansemiconductor.org

• Introduction to Antenna Concepts and Testing

12-15 September 2005
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~mcnamara/shortcourse.pdf

• 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

• Biometric Identity Verification

7 April 2005
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr0705.htm
An IEEE Toronto Signals and Applications Chapter & IEEE Toronto Computer Chapter presentation

• Merging Traditional VLSI with Photonics

8 April 2005
Room SF1105, Sanford Fleming Building, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr0805.htm
An IEEE Toronto Solid-State Circuits Chapter presentation

• Future-Proof Your Embedded Design with ARM-Based MCUs

12 April 2005
School of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology, Newnham Campus, 1750 Finch Ave. East,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr1205.htm 
An IEEE Toronto Computer Chapter presentation

• Signal Processing Challenges in Wireless Location

14 April 2005
Room ENG 101, 245 Church Street (at Gould), Ryerson University,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr1405.htm 
An IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture

• Thinking for Results

18 April 2005
Room 248, Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr1805.htm 
An IEEE Toronto Engineering & Human Environment Chapter presentation

• Nuclear Power Generation – Where are we going?

21 April 2005
Old Mill Inn, Balmoral Room, 21 Old Mill Road,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr2105.htm
Please confirm your attendance by sending your full name, IEEE membership number and employer to Ron Chen at by Monday April 18, 2005.
An IEEE Toronto Power Engineering Chapter and Life Members Affinity Group presentation

• Round table discussion on: "How to have an effective meeting with your manager"

22 April 2005
University of Toronto International Student Centre
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr2205.htm
An IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group presentation

• Silicon-based Light Emitting Nanomaterials and Photonic Structures

26 April 2005
University of Toronto, Galbraith Building, Room 248
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/apr2605.htm
An IEEE Toronto Circuits and Devices Chapter presentation

• Tour of the Trillium Hospital (Mississauga Site) featuring their Cardiac Department

5 May 2005
Trillium Hospital, 100 Queensway West
Mississauga, Ontario
Please RSVP to Dr. Wallas H. Khella P. Eng. (905) 279-2976 or Mr. Sim Murthy, P. Eng. (905) 826-2553
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/may0505.htm 
An IEEE Toronto Life Members Affinity Group presentation

• Wireless Technologies in the Power Industry

5-6 May 2005
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.ceatech.ca/

• Distributed Signal Processing for Sensor Networks Using Hidden Markov Random Fields

6 May 2005
Room BA 1220, Bahen Centre, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street,
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/may06205.htm 
An IEEE Toronto Signals and Applications Chapter presentation

• Human Factors Engineering; Military applications, Civilian benefits

11 May 2005
Islington Golf Club, 45 Riverbank Drive
Toronto , Ontario
Please RSVP to Barry Westhead, P.Eng at or (905) 501 9157
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/may1105.htm 
An IEEE Toronto Engineering and Human Environment Chapter presentation

Vancouver

• The 5thAnnual BCNET Advanced Networks Conference

26-27 April 2005
SFU Harbour Centre Conference Facilities,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://bc.net/Events/Conference05/event_mainpage.htm 

• Multicriteria project portfolio selection under risk and uncertainties

28 April 2005
National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, 3250 East Mall,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/ems/

• Neural Network Modelling and Biomedical Decision Strategies

29 April 2005
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Mountain Campus
Burnaby, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/embs/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter presentation

• 2005 IEEE Vancouver Section AGM Dinner

9 May 2005
Hilton Hotel, Metrotown
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/news/agm2005.html 

• Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM'05)

24-26 August 2005
Victoria, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.PacRimConf.ca

• IEEE Bandwidth Management Workshop XI

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

• International Symposium on Collaborative Research

7-9 October 2005
The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.researchcentre.apsc.ubc.ca

Rest of Canada

• 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/

• Conference on Communication Networks and Services

16-18 May 2005
Citadel Halifax Hotel
1960 Brunswick St. (downtown close to waterfront)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://www.cnsr.info

• International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic

18-21 May 2005
University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/ISMVL2005/

• International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE 2005)

20-21 May 2005
Windsor, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.icue.ca/

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

20-24 July 2005
Banff, Alberta
For more information, please visit http://www.socrt.org

• International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2005)

29 July - 1 August 2005
Niagara Falls, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.icma2005.org 

• International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC)

11-13 September 2005
Fairmont Hotel,
St. John's, Newfoundland
For more information please visit http://www.iemc2005.org

• 2005 Electrical Safety, Technical and Mega Projects Edmonton Workshop

24-26 October 2005
Edmonton, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/safetyworkshop05/

US

• International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing (IPDPS)

3-8 April 2005
Denver, Colorado
For more information, please visit http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2005/

• International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

4-8 April 2005
Denver, Colorado
For more information, please visit http://juliet.stfx.ca/~lyang/ipdps05-pdsec/

• IEEE Rural Electric Power Conference

8-10 May 2005
San Antonio, Texas
For more information, please visit http://www.ieeerepc.org/

• International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

15-21 May 2005
Saint Louis, Missouri
For more information, please visit http://www.cs.wustl.edu/icse05

• IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS)

22-24 May 2005
Newport, Rhode Island
For more information, please visit http://dsplab.eng.umd.edu/gensips/

• International workshop on openmap (IWOMP 2005)

1-4 June 2005
Eugene, Oregon
For more information, please visit http://www.nic.uoregon.edu/iwomp2005

• International Enterprise Networking and Services Conference (EntNet)

6-8 June 2005
Chicago, Illinois
For more information, please visit http://www.ieee-entnet.org

• The 2005 World Congress in Applied Computing

20-23 June 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information, please visit http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

• The Second International Workshop on Ad Hoc Networks and Interoperability Issues (MANETII'05)

27-30 June 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information, please visit http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~denko/workshframe.html

• The 2005 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PSC-05)

27-30 June 2005
Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information, please visit http://juliet.stfx.ca/~lyang/psc-05/

• International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC)

27-30 June 2005
Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information, please visit http://www.cs.utep.edu/~cic/index.html

• 2005 Summer Bioengineering Conference

22-26 June 2005
Vail, Colorado
For more information, please visit http://www.asme.org/divisions/bed/events/stu_comp.htm

• National Scout Jamboree

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

International

• International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG)

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

• 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

• International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM2005)

16-19 May 2005
Nice, France
For more information, please visit http://www.ieee-im.org/

• Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid 2005)

9-12 May 2005
Cardiff, UK
For more information please visit http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

16-20 May 2005
Seoul, Korea
For more information, please visit http://www.icc05.org

• International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design

24-26 May 2005
Coventry, UK
For more information, please visit http://2005.cscwid.org/

• International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology

25-27 May 2005
Muroran, Japan
For more information, please visit http://wstst05.softcomputing.net/

• International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-05)

14-17 June 2005
Oslo, Norway
For more information, please visit http://dataforeningen.no/icpp2005/

• 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 Multimedia & Expo (ICME)

6-8 July 2005
Amsterdam, Netherlands
For more information, please visit http://www.icme2005.org/

• WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, systems, communications and computers (CSCC)

11-16 July 2005
Athens, Greece
For more information, please visit http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2005/greece

• International Work Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices

23-26 August 2005
Seoul, Korea
For more information, please visit http://archi.cse.cau.ac.kr/

• International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05)

27-29 August 2005
Changsha, China
For more information, please visit http://www.xtu.edu.cn/nc2005

• International Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Design and Applications

8-10 September 2005
Wroclaw, Poland
For more information, please visit http://emoda05.softcomputing.net

• International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2005)

21-23 September 2005
Shanghai, China
For more information, please visit http://www.cit.fudan.edu.cn/cit2005/

• Conference on Multigrid, Multilevel and Multiscale Modeling

27-30 September 2005
The Hague, The Netherlands
For more information, please visit http://pcse.tudelft.nl/emg2005/index.php

• International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering

10-13 October 2005
Seoul, Korea
For more information, please visit http://voronoi.hanyang.ac.kr/vd2005/

• International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks

16-19 October 2005
Island of Ischia, Italy
For more information, please visit http://drcn2005.telecomitalialab.com

• International Conference on High performance scientific Computing Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes

6-10 March 2006
Hanoi, Vietnam
For more information, please visit http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/HPSCHanoi2006

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