IEEE Canada Newsletter/ Bulletin de IEEE Canada

IEEE Canada Newsletter / Bulletin de IEEE Canada

Issue: May 2006

News of Interest

Message from IEEE President: 2006 Membership Drive

Dear Colleague:

I have the distinct pleasure of serving you as the 2006 President of IEEE. Today I am writing to ask for your help and participation in the 2006 drive to help increase our membership.

The foundation and strength of the IEEE is a strong and growing base of members. IEEE does not have a professional sales and marketing force for membership. Rather, we depend on word of mouth to communicate our organization and that means you. To continue to grow and build the IEEE, we need your help. Here's what you can do.

Participate in the Member-Get-A-Member program. This program is available with incentives for finding new members. You will get a $5.00 credit voucher for every member that you recruit. But the real reward is more than a credit voucher. It’s a stronger, better IEEE with enhanced connections into industry and the community. These connections help to build the IEEE Network that supports our careers and the profession.

There are many tangible benefits associated with membership: career and professional development tools, discounts on products and services (both technical and non-technical), the award-winning Spectrum magazine, reduced conference registration fees, multiple opportunities to network with the leaders of the field, access to top technical information, an ever increasing number of continuing education courses, and much more. The list continues to grow each year. In 2005 we launched a members-only web portal, myIEEE. This portal puts all your membership benefits together in one, easily-accessible place.

In 2006 you will see the launch of IEEE.tv, which, through streaming video, can place conference presentations, technical seminars, and other items of general interest directly on your desktop. We also have plans to launch a new, online member directory to help our members get in touch, and stay in touch with each other.

With all of that, I thank you for maintaining your membership in IEEE this year and hopefully in the future. I also urge you to recommend IEEE to your colleagues and co-workers. Please direct your colleagues to http://www.ieee.org/join to become a part of the IEEE Network. Remind them that if they join between now and 15 August 2006, they can join for just one-half the normal dues rate.

This is your organization. Help us to grow it and to keep it as vital and vibrant in the future as it has been in the past. Thank you for your participation in the 2006 Membership Drive.

Very truly yours,

Michael Lightner, Ph. D.
President and CEO
IEEE

IEEE Canada - TELUS Innovation Award

Canadian researchers have and are continuing to greatly contribute to the advances in Electronics, Computing, and Communications Technologies. Today, fields like Nanotechnology and Photonics as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary subjects are gaining in importance in the development of new engineering ICT solutions. TELUS Communications Incorporated wishes to stimulate the interest of Canadian IEEE student members in these fields by sponsoring the annual IEEE Canada TELUS Innovation Award. The first such awards were presented in September 2005 and this year the finals will be held in Toronto, as part of the annual R7 IEEE Student Congress.

The purpose of the IEEE Canada TELUS Innovation Award is to offer IEEE student members the opportunity to engage individually or as a team in a significant ICT project. The project would have a strong design and/or research component with the emphasis on design that "embodies the spirit of innovation" and has strong application in industry in the foreseeable future.

Up to $20,000 in cash awards plus travel and accommodation for qualifying teams is generously being funded by TELUS Communications Incorporated. The deadline for nomination submissions is June 1, 2006. More details are available on the IEEE Canada student web site at http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/students/telus_award/index.htm or by contacting Janet Bradley, R7 Student Activities Chairperson, at janbee@ieee.org

IEEE Canada Members in News

IEEE Toronto Chapter Chair Sridhar (Sri) Krishnan was recently presented with this year's New Pioneer Awards Science and Technology award. After receiving his Engineering degree in India, Sridhar Krishnan came to Canada in 1994 to pursue at the University of Calgary. Within five years he not only had adjusted to a new system of education and a new culture, but also had made his mark as an outstanding research student and acquired a Ph.D. Today as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Associate Professor, Sridhar is the youngest Chair for an ECE Department in Canada and is a major player in transforming Ryerson University from a primarily undergraduate institution to a full-fledged research university. He is an active volunteer for the IEEE and founded the International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (ICUE).

The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario

CCECE is an annual conference for university, industrial and government delegates to exchange their ideas on research and disseminate their results and experiences in the field of electrical and computer engineering. The conference is the major IEEE event and flagship conference in Region 7 (Canada) which was established in 1988. Since then the conference has been held in Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Halifax, Calgary, St. John's, Waterloo, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Niagara Falls. The 2006 Conference will take place in Ottawa, Ontario, for the second time in its history, after 16 years.

CCECE will host DRDC Workshop - Signal and Information Processing for Defence Applications and several tutorials, including Modeling and Optimization for High-Frequency Electronic Design, Recognition in Video, Processing, Protecting and Providing Multimedia Information, etc.

This conference is being arranged in conjunction with the CCC 2006 conference Climate Change Technology Conference by the Engineering Institute of Canada.

This year, CCECE's annual conference will host the IEEE's fourth annual Ottawa Robotics Competition. The goal of the competition is to expose students in Grades 7 and 8 to engineering. 18 teams from 11 different schools will compete in a junior and senior challenge. The challenge: To build a robot with Lego in just nine weeks. Hussein Mouftah, the general conference chair will give opening remarks at the competition. For more information visit the website at http://www.ottawaroboticscompetition.org.

For more information see the Official Website at www.ieee.ca/ccece06

IEEE International Symposium on Electric Insulation

11-14 June 2006
Delta Chelsea Hotel
Toronto, Ontario

This symposium is a biennial conference for the electrical insulation industry and is a premier international forum on insulation technology, with invited keynote speakers to overview trends and developments for the future, followed by a series of practical presentations from scientists and engineers active in the field of electrical insulation. This conference will be the sixteenth in the series. ISEI originated in Montreal in 1976 and, after the three last meetings took place in the US it is returning to Canada once again. The emphasis of the conference is on practical aspects of electrical insulation materials, measurements and applications.

Howard Sedding, Chair ISEI2006: "Over the past few months, the Technical Committee has been extremely busy with the moiré than 200 abstracts submitted for consideration for presentation at the Symposium.

The final program contains over 140 contributions on all aspects relating to the latest advances in electrical insulating materials, measurements and applications. Reflecting the international aspect of the symposium there are papers from researchers in 23 countries.

Consequently, I strongly urge all of you whether in the manufacturing, industrial, utility and academic sectors to attend ISEI 2006 not only to keep abreast of the exciting developments in the science and engineering of electrical insulating materials but to renew old acquaintances and meet new ones."

For more information see the Official Website at http://www.deis.nrc.ca/isei2006.htm

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

ITSC2006 offers participants involved in Intelligent Transport Systems from the public sector (e.g. national governments, local authorities, pan-European organizations, planners, public transport authorities, academic institutions) to the private sector (e.g. freight and transport operators, public transport operators, car manufacturers, service providers, telecom operators, system integrators, fleet owners, road operators, motoring organizations) and all interested, great value with presentations and discussions by international experts on their latest developments, as well as up-to-date technology.

From left: Matthew Roorda, Conference Vice Chair; Baher Abdulhai, Conference Chair; Kostas Plataniotis, Conference Vice Chair.

Organizing committee received over 400 papers from 30 countries.

For more information please visit http://www.itsc2006.org/

35 New Canadian Jobs Posted on the IEEE Job Site!

ATI Technologies Inc., a Markham/Greater Toronto Area-based company, makes a breakthrough in the Canadian content of the IEEE Job Site by posting 35 new jobs this week. ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the supply of graphics, video and multimedia products for desktop, workstation and notebook PCs, digital televisions, cell phones and game consoles. Posted jobs will be of interest to a broad range of IEEE members, including Mechanical/Electronic Design Engineers, System Architects, Program/Product/Marketing/Quality Managers, etc. Click here to view ATI jobs: http://careers.ieee.org/js.php?view=1&lookid=ieee.......fromSearch.x=21&fromSearch.y=9

Other organizations currently advertising their employment opportunities on the IEEE Job Site include The British Columbia Institute of Technology, CancerCare Manitoba, etc.

Whether you are an electrical, electronics, computer and other electrotechnology and information-technology professional looking for your next great job or an employer striving to hire a new talent - visiting IEEE Job Site will be worthwhile.

Any technology professional can search the Job Site listings, but you must be an IEEE member to take full advantage of this online recruitment service.

Click here to start your search NOW http://careers.ieee.org/.

Award and Recognition Presentations

Engineering Institute of Canada Awards Gala March 2006, Ottawa, Canada to members of IEEE Canada 2006 Fellow and Medal Recipients

From left: Praveen Jain (Kingston), Robert A. Hanna (Toronto), Hussein Mouftah (Ottawa), Frank Kschischang (Toronto), Michael S. Davies (Vancouver)
Presented by/presente par: Maja Veljkovic, EIC President

Notes: Hussein Mouftah received the Julian C. Smith Medal; Praveen Jain, Robert A. Hanna, Frank Kschischank, & Michael S. Davies were inducted as EIC Fellows. Witold Kinsner (Winnipeg) will receive his EIC Fellow certificate at a later date.

Senior Member Upgrades

Following are is some brief information on recently elevated Senior Members

Dr. Malcolm Heywood - Senior Member

Canadian Atlantic Section

Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University

Degrees:PhD - University of Essex

Research Interests:Genetic Programming and Neural Networks with applications in content based retrieval, intruder detection and information analysis.

Homepage:Dr. Malcolm Heywood's Website http://www.cs.dal.ca/~mheywood/

Ron Bolton - Senior Member

Canada North Saskatchewan Section

Ronald J. Bolton is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and Adjunct Scientist at Telecommunications Research Laboratories (TRLabs) in Saskatoon. Ron received B. Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan in 1972 and 1978 respectively and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Queensland in 1983. He presently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in integrated circuit design, advanced electronics and pattern recognition. Current research interests are in VLSI design of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs).

While on sabbatical leaves from the University, he has worked with the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC) in 1995 and Wavecom Electronics Ltd. (now VCom Electronics Ltd.) in 2003.

Dr. Bolton is a Registered Professional Engineer in Saskatchewan, a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and founder and president of Professional Special System Technologies Inc. (PSST).

Christian Pépin - Senior Member

IEEE Canada Saint Maurice Section, Vice-President

Diplômes:
Baccalauréat en génie électrique, UQTR (1997).
M.Sc., Sciences appliquées, École Polytechnique de Montréal (1991).
Ph.D., Physique, Université Laval (1990).
M.Sc., Physique, UQTR (1985).
B.Sc., Physique, UQTR (1983).

Emplois:
Physicien (Physique du réacteur) et Responsable de la formation en détection du rayonnement; Hydro-Québec, Centrale nucléaire Gentilly 2 (2003-)
Coordonnateur retour d'expérience Hydro-Québec, Centrale nucléaire Gentilly 2 (2000-2003)
Conseiller en sûreté d'exploitation nucléaire à Hydro-Québec, Centrale nucléaire Gentilly 2 (1991-1999)
Conseiller en gestion d'eau lourde (1991)
Étudiant stagiaire universitaire à Hydro-Québec, Centrale nucléaire Gentilly 2 (1990)
Chargé de cours à l'UQTR (depuis 1986).

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

Upcoming Events

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

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

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

Other

Introduction to Antenna Concepts and Testing

24 - 26 May 2006
University of Ottawa
For more information, please visit www.site.uottawa.ca/~mcnamara/shortcourse.pdf

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/.

Call For Papers

ISMAR 06, Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

DATE: October 22-25, 2006
LOCATION: University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Online Paper Submissions Deadline: April 24, 9PM US Pacific Time Zone
Demo Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006
DETAILS: http://www.ismar06.org/cfp.html

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/

Note from the Editor

Starting this month I am happy to announce that there has been an addition to the Editorial team. Alex Bot has join myself to write the News of Interest section of the IEEE Canada Newsletter, and I must say that this newsletter is one of the best, if not the best since I have been editor. Alex can be contacted via the newsletter eamil found below.

Submission Information

You can send any submissions by email to the editors:
Jeffery MacKinnon and Alex Bot at newsletter@ieee.ca

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

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