IEEE Launches Revamped Website

The IEEE website this month underwent the first of several planned enhancements intended to make the site a more valuable resource for members, the technical profession and the general public. The initial updates, which are based on both user comments and Web best practices, include additional search capabilities, a refreshed design, shorter URLs and a migration toward a more streamlined navigation. Check out the new site at: http://www.ieee.org/

Student Built Instrument Embarks on Mission to Pluto

The first student-built device to be selected by NASA for a planetary mission is scheduled to launch on a journey to Pluto next week. The Student Dust Counter (SDC) created by students at the University of Colorado at Boulder will gather and analyze dust grains from space. The student team plans to use the device to identify previously unseen and ancient clumps of particles from the dust disk of the solar system. The SDC detector is comprised of a thin, plastic film resting on a honeycombed aluminum structure mounted on the outside of the spacecraft. Once tiny dust grains make contact with the SDC, diverse electrical signals will be generated, allowing the students to determine the mass of each particle. Read more: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/uoca-uoc122705.php

Thin-Film Lithium Batteries may Power Consumer Revolution

Thin-film lithium batteries may replace conventional alkaline batteries, according to researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who say traditional batteries can be short-lived and expensive, and that rechargeable batteries made from highly toxic heavy metals can pollute the environment. Oak Ridge researchers say they have developed materials for thin-film lithium batteries that withstand temperatures from below freezing to 250°C (480°F), which makes possible different product designs, including soldering the batteries into integrated circuits to power microelectronic devices. Researchers say they are working to make thin film lithium power sources smaller, lighter and more flexible. Read more: http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm

Electrical Transmission Infrastructure Analyzed in IEEE-USA eBook

The "vital American energy infrastructure" will "deteriorate before our eyes" unless economists, engineers and policy specialists resolve "a raging battle" among market pressures, technical necessities and policy priorities, according to Patrick E. Meyer, author of a new IEEE-USA eBook. Titled "The Reliability of the Electric Transmission Infrastructure in the 21st Century, An Analysis of The Energy Policy Act of 2005," the eBook provides a detailed discussion of the key provisions of the first comprehensive U.S. energy bill signed into law since 1992. For more information, or to order, go to: https://salaryapp.ieeeusa.org/rt/salary_database/shop

New Brunswick

• CNSR 2006 Conference, Communications Networks and Services Research

23-25 May 2006
Delta Hotel,
Moncton, New Brunswick
For more information please visit http://www.cnsr.info/Events/CNSR2006/

Montreal

• IEEE International Symposium on industrial Electronics IEEE-ISIE2006

9-13 July 2006
Ecole de technologie supérieure, Downtown Montreal
For more information visit the PES website at http://www.isie2006.com/

• PES General meeting

18-22 June 2006
Palais des congres in Montreal, Quebec Canada
For more information visit the PES website at http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/pes/menuitem....

Ottawa

• Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

7-10 May 2006
Ottawa Congress Centre
Ottawa, Canada
For more information please visit http://ieee.ca/ccece06/

• 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

• How Bad is Smog in Ontario?

9 Feb 2006
Islington Golf Club
45 Riverbank Drive, Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb0906.htm

• Agile All-Photonic Networks
  an IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

10 Feb 2006
University of Toronto, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 1200
40 St. George Street, Toronto
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb1006.htm

• Medium Voltage Drives with Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter Technology

20 Feb 2006
Ryerson University
Engineering Building, Room ENG LG06
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb2006.htm

• Trellis Decoding of Error-correcting Codes

20 Feb 2006
Ryerson University,
Business Building, Room: BUS 310
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb20206.htm

• First 2006 General Interest Meeting of IEEE GOLD - Graduates of the Last Decade

21 Feb 2006
Ryerson University
Engineering Building, Room ENG 106
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb2106.htm

• On-line and Off-line Transformer Monitoring

21 Feb 2006
TBA
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb21206.htm

• From Financial Markets to Energy Markets

23 Feb 2006
Ryerson University
East Kerr Hall, Room KHE 221
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb2306.htm

• Globalization: A Semiconductor Industry Perspective

24 Feb 2006
University of Toronto
Room SF1105, Sanford Fleming Building,
For more information please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/feb2406.htm

• IEEE International Symposium on Electric Insulation

11-14 June 2006
Delta Chelsea Hotel
Toronto, Ontario,
For more information please visit http://www.deis.nrc.ca/isei2006.htm

• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo

9-12 July 2006
Hilton Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.icme2006.org/

• 9th Annual International IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2006)

The University of Toronto Civil Engineering Department
and the IEEE Toronto Section.
September 17-20, 2006
Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre
Toronto, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.itsc2006.org/

• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

28-29 Sept 2006
Renaissance Downtown hotel.
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://eldar.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/dashlock/CIBCB2006/

Vancouver

• Regional Transmission Planning in the Pacific Northwest

7 Feb 2006
BC Hydro Edmonds Auditorium,
6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/powereng/

• Fatal Software: Lessons Learned from Accidents Involving Software-intensive Systems

22 Feb 2006
MacDonald Dettwiler
13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver

• Connecting Wind Farms to the Grid - What You Need to Know

3 Mar 2006
BC Hydro Edmonds Auditorium,
6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/powereng/

• Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop

8-10 May 2006
Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia
801 West Georgia, Vanvcouver
For more information please visit http://ieee-ias.org/apc2006/

Rest of Canada

• IFAC Symposium on Power Plants and Power Systems Control 2006

25-28 June ,2006
Delta Lodge
Kananaskis, (Near Calgary), Alberta
For more information please visit http://ifacpps2006.org

International

• 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

• The 5th IEEE International Conference on COGNITIVE INFORMATICS (ICCI 2006)

July 17-19, 2006
Beijing, China
Theme: Autonomic Computing and Neuroinformatics
For more information, please visit http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/ICCI2006

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 International Symposium on Industrial Electronics ISIE'06

The ISIE has issued a call for papers on the following topics Computer and Advanced Control Systems, Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, Power Systems, Signal and Image Processing, System Simulation and Software Development, System Integration, VLSI and Telecommunication, Industrial Information Technology, Mechatronic Systems, Industrial Electronics Engineering Education
For more information please visit http://www.isie2006.com/

Multimedia in Wireless/Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

The guest editors for an upcoming special issue of "IEEE Wireless Communications" magazine are looking for papers covering multimedia in wireless/mobile ad-hoc networks. Submissions are due 27 February, and the issue is expected to be published in October. For complete information on topics and submission procedures, visit: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfpwireless1006.htm

Automated Software Engineering

The organizers of the IEEE/AMC International Conference on Automated Software Engineering are now seeking papers for their 20th conference. Authors are invited to submit papers dealing with any one of a wide breadth of issues concerning software engineering, from automated reasoning techniques to software architectures. Abstracts are due 31 May 2006. For complete submission details, visit: http://www.ase-conference.org/CallForPapers.html

Region ten Conference seeks Papers on Communitcations Technologies

The IEEE International Region 10 Conference (Tencon 2006), which serves the Asia-Pacific community, is looking for papers ranging from broadband communications to bioinformatics and power electronics. Authors are encouraged to submit papers dealing with the most high-impacting concepts and communications related technologies in the world today. Papers should be submitted by 8 May. The conference will take place 14 November in Hong Kong, China. For details, visit: http://www.ieee.org.hk/tencon2006/

You can send any submissions by email to the editor:
Jeffery MacKinnon at newsletter@ieee.ca

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