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Issue: July 2006 Sections |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Canada
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News of Interest
The IEEE Canada logo
Since this newsletter appears around
Canada's birthday and the Canadian flag is often displayed more
prominently at this time, we thought our members might like to read
about IEEE Canada's "flag" - our logo.
Do you know why IEEE Canada does not use the
standard IEEE Logo? Do you know what the various parts signify?
Here are the answers... Most IEEE web pages
and other publications use the standard "IEEE Brand". IEEE Canada
uses a different and unique brand or logo for a similar reason to the
one behind the IEEE brand. Let me explain.
The IEEE Brand consists of the logo (or kite
as it is sometimes referred to) and the letters IEEE. The logo uses
elements of the two predecessor organizations IRE (Institute of Radio
Engineers, formed in 1912) and AIEE (American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, formed in 1884) which merged in 1963 to form the IEEE. More
details at
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history/index.html
IEEE Canada was formed in 1994 by the merger
of IEEE Region 7 and CSECE (the Canadian Society of Electrical and
Computer Engineering which was formed in 1976 as a member society of EIC
which denotes the Engineering Institute of Canada which itself was
formed in 1887). More details at
http://ieee.ca/history/index.html
The IEEE Canada brand/logo is composed of
the name IEEE Canada, with the IEEE logo on the left, and the CSECE logo
on the right - signifying the merger which was approved by both the IEEE
and EIC boards of directors in 1994.
Actually, earlier forms of the current IEEE
Canada brand/logo existed since the early 1970's when a Canadian office
was opened on the northern outskirts of Toronto. More details at http://ieee.ca/history/logos.htm
Congratulations to three IEEE Canada Sections celebrating 50th anniversaries this year: - IEEE Southern Alberta Section - IEEE Victoria Section - IEEE South Saskatchewan Section
Awards Received by IEEE Canada Members
IEEE Board of Directors has named
Professor Azizur Rahman
the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Richard H. Kaufmann Award
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Richard H. Kaufmann Award with the following citation: "For contributions to analysis, design, and development of Interior Permanent Magnet Motor drives." Congratulations Dr. Azizur Rahman!
Newly Elected IEEE Senior Members Featured in this Issue
Luiz Lopes Luiz A. C. Lopes received his MASc degree from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 1989 and his PhD degree from McGill University in 1996. He was an associate professor at Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil, from 1996 to 2001 where he was engaged in teaching and research in the area of power electronics. From 1999 to 2001 he was a consultant for ALBRAS (Aluminum of Brazil) on power electronics and control. He was a co-author of the "Digitalisation of the Industrial Substation of ALBRAS" project, which won first place at the FINEP 2001 Conference. His present research interests are distributed power generation and high power converters.
Amr M. Youssef
Work Experience Before joining CIISE at Concordia University, worked for the following companies and institutions
Latest Professional Activities Program Committee member - IEEE Globecom'06 - Sixth International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications, SETA'06, China. - IASTED Communication, Network and Information Security workshop, CNIS 2005, Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 12th workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC’2005), Waterloo, Canada. Current Research interests Cryptography and Network Security
Christophe Caloz
Dr. Caloz has authored and co-authored over 160 technical conference, letter and journal papers, and he holds several patents. He has authored the first unified textbook on metamaterials, which is entitled "Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave Applications" (Wiley and IEEE Press, 2005). In addition, he has authored three book chapters: "Microwave Coupler and Resonator Applications of Negative-Index Planar Structures" (in "Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Aspects," John Wiley and Sons, 2006), "From Bragg Structures to Micro-Engineered Materials," (in "Periodic Structures," Research Signpost, 2006), "Composite Right/Left-Handed Metamaterial Antennas," (in "Handbook of Metamaterials," to be published.) Research interests
Yousof Pakzad Ottawa Section
Senior software designer with more than 10 years experience in the telecommunications and broadcast industries. Experience includes: research, embedded software and hardware development, and teaching undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering. · Software Engineering, software design and development · Embedded Systems and Embedded Linux · VOIP and SIP · Networking and Network Security · Web Services Current Volunteer Works · Newsletter Editor and Member of Publication Committee, IEEE-Ottawa Section · Web design and maintenance for non-for-profit organizations
Habib Hamam New Brunswick Section
Dr. Habib Hamam has been an associate professor in electrical engineering at Université de Moncton. Since 2002. He was in charge of a research project in collaboration between the ENSTB and the French Research Center for Telecommunications (CNET - France) dealing with single mode fibre interconnects (1995-1996). He came to Canada through a project in collaboration between the ENSTB and Université Laval dealing with optical signal processing. In 1997, the School of Optometry of Université de Montréal invited him to set up a laboratory of optics of the eye with focus on the optical impacts of laser surgery. Dr. Habib Hamam has graduated from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) as a engineer in information processing in 1992. He earned his Ph.D degree in telecommunications from Université de Rennes I jointly with the France Telecom Graduate School of Brittany (ENSTB - France) in 1995. He also obtained a postdoctoral diploma in “Habilitation of Conducting Research in Signal Processing and Telecommunications” from Université de Rennes I in 2004. Major field · Optical Communications Systems Minor fields · E-Learning · Biomedical Engineering · Communication and information theory · Photonics and Switching Networks · Optics
Changcheng Huang Ottawa Section
Dr. Huang received his B. Eng. in 1985 and M. Eng. in 1988 both in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1997. From 1996 to 1998, he worked for Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada where he was a systems engineering specialist. He was a systems engineer and network architect in the Optical Networking Group of Tellabs, Illinois, USA during the period of 1998 to 2000. Since July 2000, he has been with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada where he is currently an associate professor. Dr. Huang won the CFI new opportunity award for building an optical network laboratory in 2001. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Communications Letters. Research Interests · Self-Similar traffic modeling · Fast simulation techniques · Congestion control mechanisms for broadband networks and Internet · Internet architecture and protocols · Optical network architecture and control issues · Networking protocols for wireless ad hoc networks
IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies
Research & Travel Grants
August 15 is the deadline for the IEEE
Canadian Foundation to receive application for VT research & travel
grants from researchers at Canadian Universities. For more information
and links to the online application forms, see
http://ieeecanadianfoundation.org/EN/index.htm
IEEE Canadian Foundation Special Grants
August 15 is the deadline for the IEEE Canadian Foundation to receive
application for IEEE Canadian Foundation Special Grants . For more
information and links to the online application forms, see
http://ieeecanadianfoundation.org/EN/index.htm
2006 IEEE Canada Power Quality Scholarship
Congratulations to Cody Wilson at the University of Calgary who is first
the winner of the IEEE Canada Power Quality Scholarship - this
scholarship is available to IEEE student members in full time attendance
at either the University of Alberta or the University of Calgary, who
are in their penultimate year and whose program of study includes
courses in electric power engineering. This scholarship was recently
established by the trustees of the Alberta Power Quality exposition &
conference which ran successfully from 1988 to 1995. For more
information on this and other scholarships and grants, please view the
IEEE Canadian Foundation web site at http://ieeecanadianfoundation.org/EN/index.htm
IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Prize
Last call for nominations - August 15, 2006 is the extended deadline for
nominations to recognize female IEEE Canada members who received their
first professional degree within the last ten years and who are active
in IEEE activities. For more information and a link to the online
nomination form, please view
http://ieeecanadianfoundation.org/EN/clift_prize.htm
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Congratulations and our sincere appreciation to all entities listed here that have supported IEEE Canada.Supporting Friend of IEEE Regional Activities Award Recipients 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, Newfoundland Labrador, Canada, Region 7
2005 Zenon Environmental, Inc., Ontario, Canada, Region 7
2005 Gennum Corporation, Ontario, Canada, Region 7
2004 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2003 Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
2003 Yvonne Raymond, Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada
2003 Aliant, Inc., Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Sustaining Friend of IEEE Regional Activities Award Recipients 1997 Fran Hustak, Electrical & Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada Upcoming Events
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