IEE                  E IEEE Canada Newsletter / Bulletin de IEEE Canada alletin 

Issue: November 2007                                                       IEEE Canada News Central

News of Interest

Ø      Nominations are sought for IEEE Canada Major Awards

Ø      IEEE Canada Board of Directors

-     2007 Fall IEEE Canada Board of Directors Meeting

-     IEEE Canada Webinar - Project Management: The Human aspects and Project Progress Control

-     Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2007

-     2008 Membership Renewal is Underway

Ø      Conferences

-     The 21st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering -  CCECE08

-     6th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) 2008 Conference

-     2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)

-     Upcoming IEEE Conferences in Canada

Ø      Awards & Recognition

-     Senior Member Upgrades

-     Newly Elected IEEE Senior Member Featured in this Issue

o    Alain Houle

o    Zeljko Zilic

o    Ian Bruce

o    Ivan Lee

Ø      IEEE Members in the Spotlight

-     Dr. Dave Peelo

Ø      IEEE News

-     Scitopia.org Launches Updated Search Portal

-     IEEE Launches Internet Television

-     IEEE Communications Society Offers Free Educational Seminar

-     Two IEEE Authors Win Nobel Prize in Physics

-     Register for IEEE Online Training Seminars

-     Free Microsoft Development Software for Student Members

-     IEEE Expert Now Pilot Program Enables Members To Earn Free Continuing Education Units

-     Nominations Sought for IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award

-     Call for IEEE Fellow Nominations

-     Newly Redesigned IEEE Job Site!

-     Special Offer for Canadian Employers. Post Your Open Position on the IEEE Job Site Free of Charge*!

-     Post Your Internship and Co-op Jobs on the IEEE Job Site at No Charge

Ø      Non-IEEE News

-     Engineers Canada - New Name, Same Services

-     Internationally Educated Engineers: Licensed, Mobile, Employable

Ø      Message from the Editor

-     IEEE Canada Newsletter is available in both English and French

News of Interest

Ø     Nominations are sought for IEEE Canada Major Awards

Please consider nominating or endorsing a Canadian IEEE member for one of the following awards in either of the following two categories.

Achievement

- A.G.L. McNaughton Award for exemplary contributions to the engineering 

  profession

- R.A. Fessenden Award for important contributions to the field of

  telecommunications engineering

- Power Engineering Award for important contributions to the field of electric power

  engineering

- Computer Award for important contributions to the field of computer engineering

  and science

- Outstanding Engineer Award for important contributions to Electrical and

  Electronics Engineering

- Outstanding Engineering Educator Award for outstanding contributions to

  engineering education

Service

- W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award for outstanding and sustained service to

  IEEE Canada and the Institute

- J.J. Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award for meriterious service in eastern

  Canada at the local IEEE Section and Area level

- M.B. Broughton Central Canada Merit Award for meriterious service in central

  Canada at the local IEEE Section and Area level

- E.F. Glass Western Canada Merit Award for meriterious service in western

  Canada at the local IEEE Section and Area level

To Nominate 

For any nomination, one nominator and two endorsers are needed, so think of a deserving candidate you know and two additional people who also know the candidate - then go to the IEEE Canada web site home page, click on "nominations" on the left side, read the information on that page and on the linked pages for any related details you need. Then fill out the web forms (also linked from that page) - there is also an option to use Word if needed but the web form is really easy to use.

Deadline

The deadline for the forms to be received is November 30 - so please get started now!

Presenting The Awards

Each award consists of a silver or gold medal, a hardwood plaque, and two tickets to the IEEE Canada awards banquet to be held on Monday evening May 5, 2008 at the Sheraton Fallsview hotel in Niagara Falls during the annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Plan to come along and see your sucessful nominee honoured on the stage in a room full of many of Canada finest engineers (present and future) - it is always a superb event.

Ø     IEEE Canada Board of Directors

2007 Fall IEEE Canada Board of Directors Meeting

IEEE Canada Fall 2007 Board of Directors meeting was held at the Delta St. John's Hotel and Conference Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, on October 19 - 21. Representatives from all Canadian IEEE Sections reviewed current activities and discussed strategic plans to enhance organization's performance.

In the picture from the meeting: President Bob Hanna standing, with President-Elect Ferial El-Hawary and Director-Emeritus Ray Findlay on his left, and Treasurer Rob Anderson and Administrator Cathie Lowell on his right.

IEEE Canada Webinar - Project Management: The Human aspects and Project Progress Control

Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2007

Fall 2007 issue (vol. 32:4) of the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been published. Please click here for the abstracts in English and French.

2008 Membership Renewal is Underway

Don't let your membership lapse. To renew and take advantage of 2008 member benefits and services, renew online at http://www.computer.org/renewal or call +1 800 678 4333 (USA and Canada) or +1 732 981 0600 (worldwide) between 8 AM and 6 PM ET, Monday through Friday. If we have not heard from you as of 31 December, your member benefits and services will be suspended, so please take a moment to renew now.

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Ø     Conferences

Best wishes,
CCECE'08 Organizing Committee
http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08/

6th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) 2008 Conference

Halifax , Nova Scotia

May 5-8, 2008
http://www.cnsr.info/Events/CNSR2008/

 
You are invited to submit a research paper to the sixth annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) conference being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May 2008. In keeping with previous CNSR conferences, the 2008 conference has the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society, and papers accepted for the conference will be archived in the IEEE Explorer Digital Library.

At this year's conference, we're having parallel sessions in Communication Technologies (broadband networks, mobility, protocol design), Internet Architectures (VOIP, IPTV, web services, data mining, traffic engineering), and Transceiver Design (software and cognitive radios, and space-time coding).

The Lord Nelson, the conference hotel, across from the world famous Victorian Public Gardens, is conveniently located in the center of Halifax's vibrant downtown with its well-known reputation for friendliness, good restaurants, pubs, and theatres. And for those wanting to experience the beauty of Nova Scotia's South Shore, there's a trip to the picturesque lighthouse at Peggy's Cove.

For further information about the conference, accommodations, and Halifax please visit the conference website: http://www.cnsr.info/cnsr2008/

We look forward to receiving your submission before December 14, 2007, and seeing you in Halifax next May.

Jacek Ilow
CNSR 2008 Conference Chair

Associate Professor
Dalhousie University
Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Eng.
Halifax, Canada

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)

 
The 2008 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 26 - 28, 2008.

ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (link).

The theme for ISTAS 08 is: Citizens, Groups, Communities and Information and Communication Technologies.

ISTAS 08 will be a multi-disciplinary event for researchers in engineering, computer science, social sciences, arts and humanities; as well as community-based researchers, policy makers and technology user communities. Papers and discussions will address both the social and technical aspects of the specific topics.
For the call for papers and further information, visit http://istas08.ca.

Upcoming IEEE Conferences in Canada

 All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

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Ø     Awards & Recognition

Senior Member Upgrades

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the September 2007 IEEE Admission and Advancement Panel meeting.

Congratulations!

Hamilton Section	Ian	Bruce
Hamilton Section	Mark	Lawford
Kitchener-Waterloo Section	Gladimir	Baranoski
Montreal Section	Ramesh	Abhari
Montreal Section	Jacques	Beauvais
Montreal Section	Eric	David
Montreal Section	Jean-C	Gregoire
Montreal Section	Alain	Houle
Montreal Section	Brigitte	Jaumard
Montreal Section	Alexis	Motto
Montreal Section	Leszek	Szczecinski
Montreal Section	Remi	Tremblay
New Brunswick Section	Bruce	Colpitts
New Brunswick Section	Owen	Kaser
Saint Maurice Section	Daniel	Massicotte
Toronto Section	Mieso	Denko
Toronto Section	Ivan	Lee
Toronto Section	Mohammad	Mojahedi
Victoria Section	Reuven	Gordon

Newly Elected IEEE Senior Member Featured in this Issue

Newly Redesigned IEEE Job Site!

Come visit the Newly Redesigned IEEE Job Site!
Features you're sure to visit time and time again:
- Read the latest news from The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com.
- Take our poll on this month's hot topic.

Check it out at: http://www.ieee.org/jobs
Send us your feedback at candidatejobsite@ieee.org.

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If you have any questions, e-mail at employerjobsite@ieee.org.
*One free post per company referred by an IEEE Member

Post Your Internship and Co-op Jobs on the IEEE Job Site at NO CHARGE!

The IEEE Job Site has been offering free job posts to employers for Internship and Co-op positions within their organizations.  We now have over 20 internships and co-op jobs live on the Job Site and more are being added daily.

For details please visit

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Ø     Non-IEEE News

Engineers Canada — New Name, Same Services

The engineering profession in Canada has begun a new chapter in its history; the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) will now be known as Engineers Canada.

Engineers Canada will continue to work in the same areas as CCPE has for the past 71 years: promoting Canada’s engineering profession; setting and assessing engineering education standards; facilitating the mobility of engineers within Canada and negotiating international agreements; as well as coordinating the development of practice standards in Canada.  The new business name, however, captures the energy of today’s engineer and better reflects the profession’s dynamic nature.

“Engineering has changed over the last twenty years,” says Tony Dawe, P.Eng., President of Engineers Canada.  “Technical skills are key but so too are team work, negotiation skills, problem solving and creativity.  It is important that our business name reflects who we are today.”

Through its members, the provincial and territorial engineering licensing bodies, Engineers Canada will continue to represent all engineers, from agricultural engineers to water resources engineers and all disciplines in between. 

“We respect the history of our previous name and so we wanted to be sure that we understood our members’ perspectives on changing it,” says Chief Executive Officer Marie Lemay, P.Eng., ing. “In the end, we were glad to find support for creating a new, memorable name that we know will help us promote engineering and thus help improve Canadians’ quality of life, health and economic prosperity.”

Internationally Educated Engineers: Licensed, Mobile, Employable

Of the thousands of immigrants arriving in Canada annually, many identify themselves as engineers. In 2001, of the 44 percent of skilled workers who identified an intended occupation at the time of immigration, 63 percent indicated engineering.  These international engineering graduates may be seasoned engineering professionals, recent engineering graduates or have worked in jobs that would be considered technologist, technician, architect or scientist positions in Canada. Regardless of which group they fall into, some arrive in Canada expecting to begin work as engineers but are unable to find engineering employment. 

The Canadian engineering profession has updated its licensing system to help the international engineering graduates integrate into the workforce and profession without compromising public safety or lowering professional standards.  At the provincial / territorial level, examples include a new way of assessing academic qualifications in Saskatchewan that eliminated their backlog of applicants and a new method of assessing experience in New Brunswick that reduced applicants’ waiting time. In Manitoba, applicants with more than 10 years of experience can do an interview as part of their academic assessment and thus not have to write exams, while in Ontario, new Canadian who apply for licensing within six months of their landing date, can do so at no cost.

At the national level, Engineers Canada (Engineers Canada is the business name of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers) is leading the establishment of an accurate, current database of recognized international degrees and institutions to be used consistently by the provincial and territorial licensing bodies. It is expected that the database will reduce duplication of effort, resulting in a reduced processing time for international engineering graduates’ applications.

Canadian companies make hiring decisions every day.  Each is looking for the best minds in the country to help build their businesses, expand knowledge and solve problems.  That person may be an engineer, licensed in Canada but trained internationally.  Licensed international engineering graduates are assessed to the same standards as each of Canada’s 160,000 professional engineers, and they are mobile, able to work in any part of the country.  Employers can hire these professionals with confidence, knowing that having a P.Eng. (or ing.) license means that the Canadian engineering system has validated their academic qualifications, experience and character.

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Ø     Message from the Editor

Dear Colleagues,

I'm glad to inform you that starting from the October 2007 issue IEEE Canada

Newsletter is available in both English and French.

Please see French version at: http://ieee.ca/news/current/indexf.html

I’d like to thank Dr. Alain Houle, a new member of the IEEE Canada Newsletter editorial team , for his work which allowed us to better serve our francophone community.

Also, I’m thankful to Lena Jin, Newsletter Webmaster, for reviewing and updating a lot of pages of our website.

Regards,

Alex Bot

Newsletter Editor

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events – Edmonton

Upcoming Events – Montréal

Upcoming Events – Fredericton, New Brunswick

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08)

June 26-28, 2008
Fredericton, Nouveau Brunswick

http://istas08.ca

 IEEE Canada Newsletter – November 2007                Bulletin de IEEE Canada – Novembre 2007

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