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Issue: December 2008 IEEE Canada News Central
Ø IEEE Canada Board of Directors - Call for Nominations for Director Elect
- Canadian Atlantic Section demystifies MEMS- Kingston Section and Generation of Green Energy- Montreal Section forms a new Chapter, TMC- Ottawa Section marks its 65th anniversary- Toronto WIE hosts a seminar on Winning in Life
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Toronto Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint with IEEE Canada webinar
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• The major elements of a successful leader |
• The importance of goal setting at all stages of life |
• The saving in time and energy resulting from having a written plan of |
• Develop a better understanding of self, identify interests, and cultivate the |
• Be a mentor as well as a mentee |
• Be assertive, take ownership of accomplishments and ideas |
Behnaz Ghoraani,
IEEE WIE - Toronto, Chair
bghoraani@ieee.org
Wireless communication technology has enabled mobility of personal devices equipped with sensing and computing capabilities. An important consequence of such mobility is that resource and information needs of users change with their physical location. In a recent on-line webinar, co-organized by Toronto Section Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter and IEEE Canada, Dr. Azadeh Kushki, discussed the history, applications, and theory of positioning in indoor wireless local area networks (WLAN). More than 109 individuals attended this talk from all across Canada.
The last few decades of physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, engineering, and social sciences have been marked by major developments of views on complex systems, complexity, self-organization, and emergent phenomena that originate from the interactions not only among the constituent components (agents), but also with the environment, without any central authority. How can measures of complexity capture the intuitive sense of pattern, order, structure, regularity, evolution of features, memory, and correlation? In this talk, Dr. Witold Kinsner, described several key ideas, including dynamical systems, complex systems, complexity, and quantification of complexity. A taxonomy of complexity measures is provided.
Congratulations to Ning Hu recipient of this years, "IEEE Toronto Section Scholarship for Academic Excellence". The Section funds a program of scholarships to encourage IEEE related activities and to recognize student achievement. This program was started in the early 1980's. During the last 10 years, the Section has awarded a total of $ $ 50,000.
Ø Our Members in the Spotlight
Marcelo's long and fruitful volunteer work for the IEEE developing and promoting the Institute's activities internationally in all Regions outside the U.S. (Regions 7, 8, 9 and 10), with a stronger focus in Regions 9 (Latin America) and 7 (Canada), has largely contributed to the MGA Board's mission of serving the needs of the members of the IEEE by maintaining, enhancing, and supporting the geographical organizational units of the IEEE and met the following MGA Board goals, with a transnational scope in the true spirit of the Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award.
Marcelo Mota holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and a Master degree in Business Administration from the University of Warwick, England, and works at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) as Director, IT Programs. Marcelo is a Senior Member of IEEE. He served as Chair of the Transnational Committee of the IEEE's Educational Activities Board (1997 and 1998) and Member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board, Regional Activities Board, and Publication Activities Board (1997). He was Chair (1994-95) and Vice-Chair (1992-93) of the IEEE's Bahia Section. Marcelo is also a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Globalization Newsletter and former Editor of the IEEE Latin America Newsletter. He is a recipient of the IEEE 2000 Third Millennium Medal for remarkable volunteer services. Currently he is the Secretary of the IEEE Toronto Section.
Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award: To recognize the accomplishment judged to be the most significant and effective in fulfilling one or more of the Transnational goals and objectives of MGA and/or personal goals of the Vice President of Member and Geographic Activities as related to Transnational activities. This award is made in memory of Dr. Larry K. Wilson. The accomplishments of the candidate should be of "significant performance," and have made a distinguishing contribution to IEEE.
All our congratulations to Marcelo!
Dr. Anader Benyamin Seeyar is the recipient of the 2008 MGA Leadership Award, for his dedicated leadership and significant contributions to serve IEEE and the engineering profession through continuous engagement efforts in the Montreal Section.
ANADER BENYAMIN-SEEYAR (IIEEE Member 1977 and IEEE Senior Member in 1991) received his BSEE from Iran University of Science and Technology (Tehran, Iran) in 1973, his MSEE from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 1979, and his PhD from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) in 1984.
Since March 1985 he has been working for advanced technology companies - including ISR Technologies, PolarSat, ART Advanced Research Technologies, Harris Corporation (Montreal), Vistar Telecommunications, Spar Aerospace/ComStream (or MDA Corporation), and Bell-Northern Research (BNR) - in satellite and terrestrial communications, wireless indoor/outdoor personal communications, high-speed multimedia networking, computer communications, and telephone systems. His main interests and responsibilities are in directing R&D development programs in satellite/wireless/terrestrial network design, advanced systems design, communication protocol engineering, and hardware and software design.
He has been actively involved in contributing to the development of the IEEE 802.16a standard for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Air Interface (Wireless MAN). In addition, since 2005, he has also been involved with the IEEE Montreal Section, initially as its secretary, and for the last two years as its chair. During these years, he has shown significant leadership in improving the services of the section for all its members. From 1987 to 2007, he was a part-time adjunct associate professor (teaching and research) at Concordia University.
The purpose of this award is to recognize those individuals who have exhibited exemplary and substantive leadership of an extraordinary nature in implementing activities which support MGA goals and objectives at the local, regional, national, and/or international level. The accomplishments of the candidate should be of "significant performance," and have made a distinguishing contribution to IEEE.
All our congratulations to Anader!
Rami Abielmona, Ottawa Section, is the recipient of 2008 MGA Achievement Award, for his exemplary contributions and energetic leadership towards increasing the participation in the IEEE Ottawa Section Robotics Competition, and actively engaging the local students.
The award recipient, Dr. Rami Abielmona, is currently the VP of Research & Engineering at Larus Technologies Corporation (http://www.larus.com), a sensor networking solutions company based in Ottawa, Canada. A senior volunteer in the IEEE, his current roles include the IEEE Ottawa Section Treasurer, the IEEE Ottawa Section Robotics Competition Committee Vice-Chair, the IEEE Computer Society Ottawa Chapter Chair, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Ottawa Chapter Webmaster, and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Educational Activities Sub-Committee Chair.
The recipient has demonstrated a singular achievement in the development and completion of Ottawa Robotics Competition which is directed to the fulfillment of the goals and objectives of the IEEE MGA. The IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition has left an undeniable imprint on the fabric of regional operations.
This award is to recognize individuals involved with MGA and/or the Regional network for singular achievement in the development and completion of a project(s) or activity(ies) which are directed to the fulfillment of one or more of the goals and objectives of MGA. This award is designed to recognize those substantive projects or achievements of a relatively short nature (one to three years) but which have left an undeniable imprint on the fabric of regional operations.
All our congratulations to Rami!
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Congratulations to IEEE R7 Class of 2008 Fellows!
John Cartledge, IEEE-F, Kingston, Ontario for contributions to modulation dynamics of optical devices |
Omar Ramahi, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario for contributions to computational electromagnetics in electromagnetic compatibility |
Xuemin Shen, IEEE-F, Waterloo, Ontario for contributions to resource management of wireless networks |
Ming Yu, IEEE-F, Cambridge, Ontario for contributions to the design and tuning of microwave filters and multiplexers |
Kazimierz Adamiak, IEEE-F, London, Ontario for contributions to the numerical analysis of applied electrostatic and electro-hydrodynamic processes |
Terence Peters, IEEE-F, London, Ontario for contributions to medical imaging and image-guided surgery |
Louis Durand, IEEE-F, Montreal, Quebec for contributions to instrumentation and methods for assessing cardiovascular |
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario for contributions to interactive haptic audio visual systems |
John Lodge, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario for contributions to the application of signal processing and communications theory |
David Parnas, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario for contributions to software engineering |
Adam Skorek, IEEE-F, Trois Rivieres, Quebec for contributions to electro-thermal analysis of industrial processes |
Michal Okoniewski, IEEE-F, Calgary, Alberta for contributions to computational electromagnetics |
Francis Dawson, IEEE-F, Totronto, Ontario for contributions to modeling of excitation and detection of electrical arcs |
Brendon Frey, IEEE-F, Totronto, Ontario for contributions to information processing and machine learning |
Nicholas Hamilton Piercy, IEEE-F, Innisfil, Ontario for leadership in development, design and implementation of modern network architecture and topologies in the cable industry |
Jonathon Rose, IEEE-F, Toronto, Ontario for leadership in development, design and implementation of modern network architecture and topologies in the cable industry |
Ian Cumming, IEEE-F, Vancouver, British Columbia for achievements in synthetic aperture radar signal processing |
http://toronto.ieee.ca/tic-sth2009/
Important Dates
Tutorials Proposals submission |
Friday, January 9, 2009 |
Paper Proposals Submission (Title/Abstract) |
Friday, March 6, 2009 |
Submission of Full Length Papers for Review |
Friday, May 1, 2009 |
Notification of Acceptance |
Friday, June 26, 2009 |
Final Paper Submission Deadline |
Friday, July 31, 2009 |
Author's Registration Deadline |
Friday, July 31, 2009 |
Advance Registration Deadline |
Friday, August 28, 2009 |
The TIC-STH conference is an international forum for state-of-the-art research across a broad spectrum of the IEEE science and technology fields of interest.
The format of the conference is several parallel Symposia focusing on the advanced scientific and technological problems, especially of the interdisciplinary nature.
ANTEM/URSI 2009 - 13th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Sciences Meeting
15 Feb - 18 Feb 2009, The Banff Centre Banff, AB, Canada
2009 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference
23 Mar - 26 Mar 2009, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Hotel Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS)
26 Apr - 30 Apr 2009, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal, QC, Canada
2009 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
26 Jul - 30 Jul 2009, Calgary Telus Convention Ctr. Calgary, AB, Canada
Deadline to receive proposals: December 5, 2008
www.ieee.ca/ccece09/
The Newfoundland and Labrador Section is very proud to be hosting the 22nd Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), which will be held at the Delta St. John's and the St. John's Convention Centre May 3-6, 2009. This annual flagship conference of IEEE Canada serves as an excellent opportunity for researchers and professionals in the IEEE fields to meet and present their work.
The theme for CCECE '09 is "From Electrons to Oceans: Innovation at Many Scales." St. John's is one of the oldest cities in North America with a rich history and distinctive culture. Only minutes from the most easterly point in North America, St. John's has the sophistication of a modern city and the "friendliness" of a small town.
A welcome reception for all delegates will be held Sunday evening at The Rooms. We will offer pre-conference tutorials. The Conference sessions themselves, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, will be conducted in the conference facilities at the Delta St. John's with plenary sessions and meals in the St. John's Convention Centre. In addition, an active and enticing social program will be offered to all attendees, partners, and guests.
The conference committee is co-chaired by Dr. Wally Read and Dr. John Quaicoe, and the technical committee is led by Dr. Eric Gill and Dr. Dennis Peters. Experienced, enthusiastic, and dedicated volunteers from the Section round out the organizing committee and will help to ensure that the conference is very successful.
Following the lead of CCECE '08, the conference will be structured into a seven mini-symposia in the areas of Circuits, Devices and Systems; Control and Robotics; Communications and Networking; Computers, Software and Applications; Ocean Engineering; Power Electronics and Energy Systems; and Signal and Multimedia Processing. A full paper review process will be used to ensure that the conference is of very high technical quality. The deadline to receive papers and tutorial proposals is Friday, December 5, 2008. For further details please refer to Call for Papers at www.ieee.ca/ccece09/pdfs/cfp_e_09.pdf
We predict that CCECE 2009 will be an unforgettable experience - an overwhelming technical and financial success that also offers a wealth of activities and networking opportunities for delegates. We hope to see you in May!
For further information and updates see the conference website at www.ieee.ca/ccece09/.
Find information about these and all IEEE Conferences in Canada here.
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Features, Views and Analysis
The following article is based on conversation with Puica Nitu with the disclaimer that the ideas presented in this article strictly represent a personal view on the topic. It is of interest to continue expanding on the topic of this Symposium with future editorials.
The Ontario's energy outlook presented by the Ontario Power Authority estimates 9,673 MW of renewable resources by 2010 and additional 6,027 MW by 2025. And this is Ontario alone.
Canada strongly supports the development of renewable energy technologies. NSERC, CanREN, provincial governments and agencies promote and support renewable solutions. Throughout North America, renewable energy is expected to rise by 40% by year 2025.
The entire world is energized through private investments, intensive R&D and research grants in the quest for efficient and sustainable solutions. Germany is become world leader in solar energy. Denmark and Ireland have massively invested in wind power. In the United States, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) of DOE focuses on a wide range of renewable energy sources, partnering with other government entities and the private sector to better leverage the Federal investment in research, development and deployment of new technologies. Apart from investing in technologies, stakeholders form new business partnerships to influence this global dynamic movement.
The emerging technologies have great impact on the planning and the operation of the power system. Each technology presents opportunities but also brings a new set of challenges, both technical and business in nature as the entire system is been affected. The impact is also felt on the side of the large power producers. The generators' operating profiles change as the generation mix evolves. The penetration of renewable resources impacts power system reliability requirements and displaces generation dispatch schedules. It has impacts on an ever evolving grid (transmission and distribution) and on the stability of the power system. Most interestingly, the integration of new renewable resources, distributed generation, energy storage and smart demand responses has its own set of complexities. This integration is aimed towards managing peak loads, offering new value-added services and enhancing asset use.
Climate change concerns, energy security and relatively high energy prices will continue to support the deployment and advancement of new technologies. In the same time attention is given to make the existing networks smarter. The smart grid brings information and digital technology to the power network to facilitate new communication and monitoring which leads to improved reliability, security, and power management.
Canada's objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from the 2006 level by year 2020. There are various mechanisms to ensure these targets ranging from conservation, renewable generation and carbon emissions caps and trading.
Ontario accounts for half of Canada's emissions. There is a consultative process with respect to the Carbon legislation, with an expectation that the current cap and trade will evolve and a national cap will soon be put in place.
According to Environment Canada there is a decrease in the Green House Gas emissions since 2003 which is primarily due to the change in the generation mix and lower emissions from fossil fuel production. Renewable energy is changing the generation mix and has a major role in a country's carbon footprint.
CIGRE and IEEE PES in cooperation with US and Canada's National Committees are organizing the Symposium Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System to be held in Calgary July 29-31, 2009.
CIGRE (International Council on Large Electric Systems) is one of the leading worldwide Organizations on Electric Power Systems, covering their technical, economic, environmental, organizational and regulatory aspects. With members in over 80 countries, CIGRÉ is the largest worldwide forum that unites large producers, manufacturers, system operators and regulatory bodies, bringing together technical innovation, requirements and operating experience. CIGRE fosters sharing experience on key developments of energy supply. It is the point where strategy (vision roadmap, energy security and commercial leverage) meets tactics (operations, maintenance and extended life cycle).
The main theme of the joint Symposium is the Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System. The topic of this symposium is very timely. Renewable resources along with conservation are the fastest growing supply mechanisms in the province of Ontario.
Puica is Program Manager with Ontario Power Generation Inc, member of the Strategic Energy Panel for the Natural Research Council of Canada, national representative in Cigre and IEEE Senior Member. She has an extensive experience in the North American utility industry.
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