IEEE Members in Quebec eligible for Group Insurance Plans

Good News! IEEE Members residing in Quebec, Canada, are now eligible to participate in the IEEE Group Insurance Plans offered to IEEE Canadian Members. Competitively priced insurance plans such as Term Life Insurance, 10-year level term life insurance, and Disability Insurance are available to safeguard you and your family. Call 1-800-493-IEEE (1-800-493-4333) to request more information.

2005 IEEE Canada Fellows

Following is a list of the Region 7 members elevated to Fellow, Class of 2005. Please join us in congratulating them for this singular achievement.

• Dr. Wilsun Xu
  Northern Canada Section
  for contributions to the analysis, simulation and measurement of power system harmonics.
   
• Dr. Septimiu (Tim) Edmund Salcudean
  Vancouver Section
  for contributions to haptic interfaces, teleoperation systems and applications.
   
• Prof. Vikram Krishnamurthy
  Vancouver Section
  for contributions to adaptive sensor signal processing.
   
• Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic
  Vancouver Section
  for contributions to computer aided design tools for circuit analysis.
   
• Prof. Rodney Lynn Kirlin
  Victoria Section
  for contributions to the application of signal processing for geophysics.
   
• Mr. William Malcolm McDermid
  Winnipeg section
  for contributions to the development of rotating machine insulation testing.
   
• Dr. Innocent Kamwa
  Montreal section
  for contributions to the identification of synchronous generator models and innovations in power grid control.
   
• Prof. Mohamed Kamel
  Kitchener-Waterloo section
  for contributions to pattern recognition and intelligent systems.
   
• Dr. Robert Thomas Harold Alden
  Toronto Section
  for contributions to eigenvalue analysis of power system stability.
   

IEEE Job Site

The IEEE Job Site is an online recruitment service that offers all IEEE members exclusive 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 automatically be routed to you by e-mail. Your identity will be hidden until you choose to reveal it to prospective employers. Take advantage of the expanding technology job opportunities in both Canada and the rest of the global community. Whether or not you are actively seeking new employment, please register with the IEEE Job Site today!

Call for Papers

The deadline for abstracts submission for the IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP) is 21 January 2005 and the deadline for papers submission is 28 January 2005.

RSP explores trends in Rapid Product Development of Computer Based Systems. It aims to bring together researchers from the hardware and software communities to share their experiences and to foster collaboration of new and innovative Science and Technology. Please visit our web site - http://www.rsp-workshop.org - for additional information and links to the Paper Submission System.

RSP 2005 is being held 8-10 June in Montreal, Quebec. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings as well as available through IEEE Publications. For years, extended versions of top papers are proposed to be published in special issues of prestigious journals. This strategy will be continued in 2005 edition.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the November 2004 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings:

• Xun Li - Hamilton
• Tayeb A. Denidni - Montreal
• Momcilo Andric - Newfoundland-Labrador
• Wayne A. Timm - North Saskatchewan
• Amir H. Banihashemi - Ottawa
• Colin S. Cantlie - Ottawa
• Glenn Parsons - Ottawa
• Shervin Shirmohammadi - Ottawa
• Ian G. Sloman - South Saskatchewan
• Jon G. Rokne - Southern Alberta
• Muhammad Ashfaq - Toronto
• Mohammed Reza Rafiei - Toronto
• Dilip B. Kotak - Vancouver
• Marek Syrzycki - Vancouver
• Kay Wiese - Vancouver
• Greg E. Bridges - Winnipeg
• Mohammad N. Uddin - Winnipeg

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

Montreal

• MCeTech: Montreal Conference on Internet Technologies

19-21 January 2005
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.mcetech2005.org/

• Standards and interoperability of Health Information Systems

1-2 February 2005
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.aits.ca/fr/activites1a.asp

• 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 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

• Software Defined Radio

12 January 2005
CRC,
3701 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc

• IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference

17-19 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/

• 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

Toronto

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

12 January 2005
Room ENG 471, Centre for Computing and Engineering,
Ryerson University,
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/jan1205.htm
An IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group Workshop

• Computer Tomographic Imaging for Non-destructive Testing of Materials

31 January 2005
Ryerson University,
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/jan3105.htm

Vancouver

• The Challenges and Heuristics of System Engineering Management

11 January 2005
National Research Council of Canada
University of BC,
Vancouver, British Columbia,
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/ems/
Please RSVP to Roya Rahbari at roya.rohbari@nrc.gc.ca
An IEEE Vancouver Engineering Management Society presentation

• Unpacking a suitcase full of astrophysics: Exciting results from the MOST microsat

19 January 2005
MacDonald Dettwiler,
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

• 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

• Design Projects Symposium

19 January 2005
DC 1304
University of Waterloo
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://kw.ieee.ca/Presentations/04Sem_dec10.pdf

• 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

US

• IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

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

• IEEE 2005 Winter Vision Multi-Meeting

5-7 January 2005
Breckenridge, Colorado
For more information, please visit http://wacv2005.vast.uccs.edu/

• International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2005)

8-12 March 2005
Hawaii
For more information, please visit http://www.percom.org/

• Wireless and Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

13-17 March 2005
New Orleans, Louisiana
For more information, please visit http://www.wcnc.org/

• 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/

• 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 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 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/

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/.

How do you fuse soft & hard computing?

A new book from Wiley-IEEE Press offers a practical guide to the integration of soft and hard computing for today's engineering applications. "Computationally Intelligent Hybrid Systems: The Fusion of Soft Computing and Hard Computing," edited by Seppo J. Ovaska, is currently the only book to examine the practical issues involved in the creation of high-performance, cost-effective applications using a synthesis of neural networks, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary computation with traditional computing methods. For more information, or to purchase this title, visit  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471476684.html.

Expert addresses power system failures

A new book from Wiley-IEEE Press offers readers to the chance to learn how to evaluate, forecast, and manage the risk of power system failures. "Risk Assessment of Power Systems: Models, Methods, and Applications" by industry expert Wenyuan Li serves to bridge the gap between theory and application. For more information, or to purchase this title, visit http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047163168X.html.

Mechatronics - An Integrated Approach

A single source, providing an integrated and simplified treatment of mechanics, electronics, and intelligent computer control with sensors and actuators, and covering theory, design, and practice of mechatronics. A versatile text that spans several courses in mechatronics, the book offers a strong foundation in such core subjects as dynamic system modeling, electronic components and analysis, mechanical components and analysis, robotics, sensors/transducers and instrumentation, stepper motors, dc and ac motors and drives, hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, fluidics, automatic control, digital processing and hardware, communication and interfacing, software tools, design, and prototyping. Appendices provide additional background on Laplace and Fourier transform techniques, and software tools including MATLAB, SIMULINK, and LabVIEW. The book emphasizes practical situations and applications with numerous worked examples, problems, and exercises. An entire chapter is devoted to practical case studies.
Author: Clarence W. de Silva
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, USA ISBN0-8493-1274-4
 

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