IEEE Canada Newsletter / Bulletin de IEEE Canada
Issue: May 2005

Sections
News of Interest
Senior Member Upgrades
Upcoming Events
   Upcoming Events - Montreal
   Upcoming Events - Ottawa
   Upcoming Events - Toronto
   Upcoming Events - Vancouver
   Upcoming Events - Rest of Canada
   Upcoming Events - US
   Upcoming Events - International
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News of Interest

IEEE Canadian Foundation: IEEE Canada Women In Engineering Prize 2005

After careful consideration by the full Board of Directors, the IEEE Canadian Foundation has agreed to award the IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Prize for 2005 to Jennifer Jessop of the Winnipeg Section, as nominated by Jeff Blais.

This Prize is awarded to a female IEEE Canada member who received her first professional degree within the last ten years and who is active in IEEE activities - value $500. This year, 2005, is the first that the Prize has been awarded.

Congratulations Jennifer!

IEEE Canada Telus Innovation Competition

IEEE Canada and Telus are sponsoring an exciting new award competition: The IEEE Canada Telus Innovation Award. The winning team will take home a $10,000 prize in a national competition to be held in September in Vancouver.

This competition is open to IEEE student members who are completing or have recently completed their final year project. IEEE Canada student members in their final year (2004/2005 academic year) of an engineering or technology program at a Canadian undergraduate institution (University or College) are invited to enter a significant Information Computing and Telecommunication (ICT) Technologies project for which they are receiving education credits. The best project in Canada will earn its creators a $10,000 prize in a national competition to be held this coming fall in Vancouver. Individuals or teams of up to five are encouraged to submit a written report about their project to their IEEE Student Branch. Branch Counselors are to submit their nominee to the Regional Competition no later than 1 June 2005.

Please see http://www.ieee.ca/students/telus_award/index.htm for further information and for the registration form.

IEEE Job site has RIM postings

The IEEE Job Site has more than 100 new job postings from Research in Motion (RIM). RIM is an internationally recognized leader in wireless technology, and creator of the popular and revolutionary BlackBerry (tm) wireless platform and handheld product lines. RIM is no stranger to innovation and entrepreneurial spirit and they are looking for individuals who have that same drive to take wireless technologies to the next level. Whether you are a recent graduate, or someone with experience, they can help unleash your career today. Check out the current RIM job postings at http://careers.ieee.org/js.php?lookid=ieee by entering RIM in the Search Keywords box. Please register as a candidate with the Job Site using your IEEE Web Account to apply for these positions.

IEEE PES International Student Prize Paper Contest

This contest is sponsored by the IEEE Power Engineering Society to encourage students in their professional development, to stimulate interest in the problems of the electric power industry, to encourage preparation of quality technical papers under faculty supervision, and to give recognition to the schools and faculties that provide guidance in these areas.

The competition is based solely on judging of written papers related to the electric power industry. The choice of suitable topics is limited to the following:

  • Renewable energy sources
  • Alternative power generation
  • High-reliability power generation, transmission, and distribution
  • Energy-efficient power generation and distribution
  • New technologies for power generation, transmission and distribution.
Papers may discuss engineering theory and/or applications. The applicability to the power industry should be adequately presented in the paper. The content of the papers may be broadly interpreted but each paper must fit into at least one of the topic areas cited above. Papers that primarily emphasize other areas will not be considered (this represents a recent change made by the granting organization). Primary criteria in judging papers will be technical quality and written presentation.

For more information, please visit http://gauss.nmsu.edu/~hsmollec/ieeecont.html.

Electrical Safety, Technical and Mega Projects Workshop

The purpose of the workshop is to encourage the Canadian electrical industry, to become more engaged with electrical safety, technical advances, codes and standards, and execution of mega projects. Specifically, there has been significant interest demonstrated in publicizing and discussing both the successes and lessons learned with respect to the electrical industry from both a safety and technical perspective in relation to their involvement with mega projects. In addition, there have been significant advances over the past several years in electrical safety and it is important that all involved in the electrical business become engaged in this area.

This Workshop is not a training course, but a forum for exchanging ideas and practical
experiences involving knowledge, work practices, electrical safety and technology that are changing the electrical discipline in industry. Targeted audiences include but is not limited to people involved in electrical in these areas of interest:

  • Facilities construction, operation and maintenance
  • Facilities and process design
  • Inherently safer products and equipment
  • Electrical safety services
  • Training and continuing education
  • Regulations, codes and standards
  • Forensics
  • Risk management
  • Workplace safety
  • Human error and human factors

For more information, please visit http://www.ieee.ca/safetyworkshop05/.

IEEE Student Members: Graduating? Update your address

If you're about to graduate, update your IEEE membership record now with your post-graduate or continuing education information to ensure your membership benefits continue without interruption. Visit http://www.ieee.org/graduate.

IEEE Electron Devices Society seeks fellowship nominations

The IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) is seeking nominations for their 2005 Graduate Student Fellowship Program. The award is presented annually to promote, recognize, and support graduate level study and research within the EDS field of interest. At least one fellowship is awarded to annually to a student in each of three regions. The award includes US$5,000 for the student, a $1,000 grant for the student's department, a $1,000 grant for the student's faculty advisor to support the student's project, and a plaque for the student presented at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting. The submission deadline is 15 May 2005. For more information, please visit http://www.ieee.org/society/eds/education/fellowship.xml.

Half-year dues now available on IEEE memberships, publications

Dues on new IEEE memberships and additional IEEE Society memberships are now available at half price through 15 August 2005. Discounted rates on new subscriptions to IEEE publications are also available to IEEE members during this period. Individual memberships and subscriptions become active upon payment and continue through the remainder of 2005. IEEE Societies focus on specific technologies such as communications and aerospace engineering or focus on general technology subjects. There are 122 publications that may be added to membership during this half-year cycle. To join IEEE, visit http://www.ieee.org/join.

IEEE Virtual Museum launches exhibit on electronic instruments

The IEEE Virtual Museum has launched its latest exhibit, "Songs in the Key of E," which explores the numerous ways electronics have been used to create music. With examples such as the singing arc, the theremin and the synthesizer, among others, the exhibit highlights both the inventors of electronic instruments and the instruments themselves, and uses audio clips to demonstrate the various sounds. Aimed at pre-college students and their educators, the IEEE Virtual Museum explores the global impact of electrical and information sciences and technologies to demonstrate how relevant engineers are to society. Visit the IEEE Virtual Museum at  http://www.ieee.org/museum.

 

Senior Member Upgrades

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

  • John W. Hassall - Hamilton
  • Steve Jackson - Hamilton
  • M. Tamer Ozsu - Kitchener-Waterloo
  • Leo E. Berg - Northern Canada
  • Abdullah S. Alghamdi - Ottawa
  • Lionel C. Briand - Ottawa
  • Peter A. Krug - Ottawa
  • Larbi Talbi - Ottawa
  • Wael Badawy - Southern Alberta
  • Robert J. Satnik - Southern Alberta
  • Dimitrios Androutsos - Toronto
  • Ajit Bapat - Toronto
  • Bruce P. D'Sena - Toronto
  • John Harauz - Toronto
  • Gul N. Khan - Toronto
  • Hoi-Kwong Lo - Toronto
  • Wallace J. MacLean - Toronto
  • Vince Scaini - Toronto
  • Mitchell J. Shnier - Toronto
  • Andreas Veneris - Toronto
  • Anna M. Celler - Vancouver
  • Michael Y. Lau - Vancouver

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

Upcoming Events

Montreal

  • Challenges and Enabling Technologies for Future Wireless Networks

2 May 2005
ECE Department, Concordia University, Room H-961-14
Montréal, Québec
Please RSVP to Ali Ghrayeb at
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2005/Ev050502.txt

  • Recent Developments in Nanotechnology

12 May 2005
McGill University, McConnell Engineering Bldg, 6th floor, Rm. 603, 3480 University St.,
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

  • Organic and Nano Electronic Workshop

30 May 2005
McGill University,
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~shih/NanoEngineering/main.html

  • Modeling Languages for Instructional Engineering

3 June 2005
Télé-Université, LICEF, 4750, ave. Henri-Julien
Montréal, Québec
Please RSVP to Hamadou Saliah-Hassane at
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2005/Ev050603.txt

  • 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/

  • Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

22–24 August 2005
Delta Centre-ville Hotel,
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/wimob2005/

  • Photon-Based Nanoscience & Technology

19-29 September 2005
Auberge Estrimont,
Orford, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.vitesse.ca/programs/asiphoton.asp

Ottawa

  • Kyoto & Climate Change Technology Challenges & Opportunities

13 May 2005
CRC Auditorium, 3701 Carling Ave
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca/ems

  • 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

  • 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

  • Communicating Effectively - Making Yourself Heard

12 May 2005
University of Toronto, Galbraith Building, Room 248
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/may1205.htm

Vancouver

  • 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 

  • Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop

9-11 May 2005
Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia, 801 West Georgia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://ieee-ias.org/apc2005/

  • 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/

  • IFIP International Conference on Networking

2-6 May 2005
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/networking2005/

  • 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

  • International Conference on Knowledge Capture

2-5 October 2005,
The Banff Centre,
Banff, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.kcap05.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

  • 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 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  

  • IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

27-30 June 2005
Cartagena, Spain
For more information, please visit http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2005/

  • 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

  • ISPRS Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-dimensional GIS

5-8 September 2005
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd (near Cardiff)
Wales, UK
For more information, please visit http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/GIS/DMGIS05/

  • 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 Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications

15-17 September 2005
Crema (Milan), Italy
For more information, please visit http://dsa.uniparthenope.it/wilf2005

  • International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia (MoMM2005)

19-21 September 2005
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
For more information, please visit http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2005/

  • 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 Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005)

6-7 December 2005
Nagasaki, Japan
For more information, please visit http://www.ubiquitous-intelligence.org/conf/uisw2005

  • 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

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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