IEEE Student Membership Reaches All-Time High

Student membership in IEEE jumped up 8.1% in 2005, to nearly 74,000, topping the previous high set back in 2002. The Asia-Pacific region encountered the highest growth, but Central and South America also saw significant increases in student membership. Information on IEEE student member activities around the world can be fount at: http://www.ieee.org/students

University of Alberta Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research Awarded to Norman C. Beaulieu

IEEE Fellow Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu has been selected as the recipient of the 2006 J Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research. The Kaplan award is the most prestigious University of Alberta research award. Only 3 members of the Faculty of Engineering have received the award since 1982 and Dr. Beaulieu becomes the first member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to receive this award. The Kaplan Award will be presented Tuesday, 7 March at the Timms Centre for the Arts at the University of Alberta commencing at 3:30 pm. Everyone is welcome. Some more information can be found at http://www.engineering.ualberta.ca

New GOLD Representative for IEEE Canada

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the January 2006 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings:

• Piotr Proszynski - Canadian Atlantic Section
• Waldemar Smoluch - Hamilton Section
• Daniel Ashlock - Kitchener-Waterloo Section
• Kazimierz Adamiak - London Section
• Antony Capel - Ottawa Section
• Adrian Chan - Ottawa Section
• Shahram Davari - Ottawa Section
• David Luknowsky- Ottawa Section
• Ali Miri - Ottawa Section
• Ronggong Song - Ottawa Section
• Giuseppe Bonadie - Toronto Section
• Amr Helmy - Toronto Section
• B.N.W. Ma - Toronto Section
• Ali Reza Sadeghian - Toronto Section
• Peter Zhao - Toronto Section
• Peter Lawrence - Vancouver Section
• J Bruce Neilson - Toronto Section
• Azm Hossain - Toronto Section

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

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

• 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

• 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/

• Wireless Communications for Submarines and Submersibles

6 Mar 2006
BCIT, Bldg SE2,
Town Square D
For more information please visit http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/

• Medical Technology: Achieving Success in Today's Marketplace

9 Mar 2006
ASB 10900, SFU Burnaby Campus
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/embs/

• The Road to Modernizing the Radar System for the CP-140 Aurora Aircraft

29 Mar 2006
MacDonald Dettwiler
13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/grs/Pages/home.htm

• Towards HardLANs: Building Network Intrusion Detections to 1 Gbps and Beyond

29 Mar 2006
Sierra Systems
1177 West Hastings Street, Suite 2500, Vancouver
For more information please visit http://www.kruchten.org/IEEE/

• 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/

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