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Page en Français This Issue's Content: News - IEEE Canada Board of Directors - Your News - News of Interest - Our Members in the Spotlight - Call for Papers - Conferences Upcoming Events - New Brunswick - Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto - Winnipeg - Calgary - Other Submission Information
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Issue: January 2012 IEEE Canada News Central
Ø IEEE Canada Board of Directors - 2012 IEEE Canada Award Winners- Formation of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Chapter at Dalhousie University- Celebrating 125 years of Canadian Engineering Societies- Renew Your Membership for 2012- Membership Dues in Special Circumstances
- Review of the Foundation's 2011 Activities
- Kitchener Waterloo Section posts upcoming events online- HamiltonSection posts upcoming events online- Kingston Section posts upcoming events online- London Section posts upcoming events online- New Brunswick Section posts upcoming events online- South Alberta Section posts upcoming events online- Winnipeg Section posts upcoming events online- Northern Canada Section posts upcoming events online- North Saskatchewan Section posts upcoming events online- Vancouver Section posts upcoming events online- Montreal Section posts upcoming events online- IEEE Distinguished Lecture is Coming to Toronto
- IEEE Canada on Facebook!- Member Benefit - HP- Auto Insurance Rates Update, from The Personal- Your Life is On Your Computer. Back it Up- MBNA Credit card for Members of IEEE- Canada- Professional Liability Insurance- IEEE Member Group Insurance Program-Celebrating 50 years!- Positions available from Engineering Careers!
Ø Our Members in the Spotlight - The First issue of the IEEE TISP (Teachers in service) Newsletter
- IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2012)- IEEE International Conference on Communications- 2012 IEEE International Systems Conference- VTC 2012 FALL- Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications- 2012 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference
- Upcoming IEEE Conferences in Canada- All IEEE Conferences in Canada
Ø IEEE Canada Board of Directors 2012 IEEE Canada Award WinnersCongratulations to the 2012 award recipients: A.G.L. McNaughton - John Bandler
To nominate a member that deserves recognition, please visit www.ieee.ca/awards Formation of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Chapter at Dalhousie UniversityIn a recent e-mail vote of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Executive Council, it was approved unanimously to establish an IEEE-HKN Chapter at Dalhousie University. This is the first IEEE-HKN Chapter to be established in Region 7. Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) was founded as a national electrical and computer engineering honor society in the United States in October 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As of 2009, the organization currently has more than 200 student chapters and about 250,000 members and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. On 14 February 2009, HKN signed a merger agreement with IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society. The merger, which went into legal effect on 1 September 2010, made HKN the official honor society of IEEE, recognizing scholarship and academic excellence and identifying student leaders, young professionals and eminent scholars in the IEEE's technical fields of interest. Under the terms of the merger, HKN became an organizational unit of IEEE, governed by a new IEEE?HKN Board of Governors. For more info: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Eta_Kappa_Nu Celebrating 125 years of Canadian Engineering SocietiesThe EIC was founded as the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in the context of engineers applying their abilities to non-military applications. The membership was eclectic as far as their field of application was concerned. In 1918 the members practicing what is recognized as Civil Engineering today formed the first member society of the EIC with the title "Canadian Society for Civil Engineering" and the parent society received its current name along with a Canadian national charter. Canada's well-known iron ring, The Canadian Academy of Engineering and a model for the incorporation of Canada's Provincial Professional Engineering Associations were all originated in the EIC. The EIC will mark this achievement with two Awards Galas. The first will be in Ottawa on 25 February 2012 at the Westin Hotel. The second gala will take place at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on 7 June 2012 where we will join the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering in a joint event coincident with their annual meeting. For more information, please see here Renew Your Membership for 2012You can start renewing your membership for 2012. Remember, IEEE membership can connect you with professionals who can open doors to many opportunities. There are also many online resources available to members (e.g. online books and publications). Use your IEEE Web Account and password to renew online at http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/renew/index.html Membership Dues in Special CircumstancesIEEE realizes that economic circumstances may impact some members' ability to pay the full amount of IEEE membership dues. For this reason, the following special circumstance categories have been established. Special circumstances are not available to Student members. Only one category may be claimed in any year. Review of the Foundation's 2011 Activities2011 has been a busy year for the foundation. The following is a list of activities undertaken. The foundation would like to thank you all contributors, participants and donors for their support. Nov 2011 The Board of Directors meeting was held on November 24 and
elected Lori Hogan of NL Section as a new member to April 2015 awarded IEEE McNaughton Learning Resource Centre Upgrade Grants to University of Saskatchewan University of Ottawa University of Manitoba Carleton University awarded IEEE Canadian Foundation Special Grants to University of Waterloo NanoRobotics Group All Saints High School Robotics Team Concordia and McGill Collaborative Field Trip to MIT and Boston University University of Manitoba Satellite Project UBC Field Trip to USA Oct 2011 The IEEE Vancouver Section received a Special Grant to assist in funding their Centennial Publication. This publication is to focus on the history of the Vancouver Section and the celebration the 100th anniversary of the founding of the section. The publication is intended to be educational, forming a milestone in a series of publications on the Vancouver Section history and will provide a precious keepsake for members. The publication will contain a reprint of earlier history about the Vancouver Section and a new article updating the more recent history and a summary of centennial celebrations. Sept 2011 Susan Ryan, employed by Newfoundland Hydro, was the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Prize. Aug 2011 The IEEE Canadian Foundation is sad to record the passing of one of its founding members, Wally Read, on 15 August 2011. Many IEEE volunteers in Canada and worldwide have lost a dear friend and a guiding light. June 2011 Emily Landry received her $5,000 IEEE Canadian Foundation Scholarship from ICF President Bob Alden at one of the IEEE Vancouver Section Centennial celebration events - From Softwood to to Software - on 27 June 2011. June 2011 The IEEE Canadian Foundation program of establishing IEEE McNaughton Learning Resource Centres (with grants to establish and upgrade centres) was voted one of the top three initiatives worldwide at the annual IEEE Student Activities Committee meeting in Seattle, WA, 3-5 June 2011. May 2011 IEEE Canada presented, at its annual Awards Banquet in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on May 9, 2011:
M.B. Broughton Central Canada Merit Award to Maike Luiken of London, Ontario W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award to Kash Husain of London, Ontario Apr 2011 The Board of Directors meeting was held on April 7, after the Annual Membership meeting and:
elected the officers for the 2011-12 term: President - Bob Alden First Vice President - David Whyte Treasurer - Luc Matteau Secretary - Ossama Iskandar elected David Whyte as VP Grants and Mo El-Hawary as VP Development expressed appreciation to two members Janet Bradley and Slawo Wesolkowski who are leaving the Foundation elected two new members for 5-year terms; Fiorenza Albert-Howard & Branislav Djokic re-elected seven members for 5-year terms; Mo El-Hawary, Paul Fortier, Kash Husain, Sam Iskandar, John Mowbray, John Plant & David Whyte elected members to the operating committees awarded four IEEE Canadian Foundation Scholarships at $5,000 each: Emily Landry, UBC Okanagan Alexander Kougiya, University of Saskatchewan Jeffrey Arcand, University of Ottawa Daphne Ong, Carleton University awarded three IEEE Canadian Foundation Special Grants: Glebe Collegiate FIRST Robotics Team UBC IEEE Student Branch Field Trip to Germany IEEE Canada - Student Training Workshop awarded one Endowed Award - a VT Travel Grant to Maurice Khabbaz of Concordia University approved a change to the VT awards, discontinuing the Research Grant and replacing it with a second Travel Grant Apr 2011 The Annual Membership meeting was held on April 7 and
Feb 2011 The IEEE Canadian Foundation received a $1000 donation from the Victoria Section. Jan 2011 The IEEE Canadian Foundation Executive Committee approved a grant of $1,500 to support the first IEEE Canada Women In Engineering conference, 30 Apr., 2011, Mississauga, Ontario. Kitchener Waterloo Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Kitchener Waterloo Section: http://www.ieeekw.com/activities.php HamiltonSection posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Hamilton Section: http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/hamilton/currentevents.htm Kingston Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Kingston Section: http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/www_kingston/ London Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the London Section: http://london.ieee.ca/ New Brunswick Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the New Brunswick Section: http://nb.ieee.ca/ South Alberta Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the South Alberta Section: http://sas.ieee.ca/events.html Winnipeg Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Winnipeg Section: http://ewh.ieee.org/mu/winnipeg/events/ Northern Canada Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Northern Canada Section: http://northerncanada.ieee.ca/ Northern Saskatchewan Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Northern Saskatchewan Section: http://northsask.ieee.ca/ Vancouver Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Vancouver Section: http://www.ieeecontact.org Montreal Section posts upcoming events onlinePlease refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Montreal Section: http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/index.php The October issue of the section's newsletter can be found here IEEE Distinguished Lecture is Coming to TorontoIEEE Toronto Systems Chapter is organizing an IEEE Distinguished Lecture in Toronto. Professor Keith W. Hipel, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC, FIEEE, FAWRA will present a lecture: "Competition and Cooperation in Societal and Technological Systems of Systems". The lecture presents an encompassing perspective on competition and cooperation for multiple participants strategically interacting within societal and technological systems of systems according to their underlying value systems as they strive to reach their goals. By appreciating the reality that systems of systems are inhabited by multiple participants or agents having multiple objectives, one can adhere to adaptive and integrative decision making principles to properly design, construct, maintain, and operate systems of systems that serve the interests of stakeholders in a fair and sustainable manner throughout the systems' life cycles. An insightful way is explained for classifying systems of systems in the world according to environmental (natural world), societal (real life), intelligent (artificial life) and integrated (mixed life) systems of systems. To examine strategic behaviour in societal systems of systems, some of the latest contributions in systems thinking techniques are discussed for advancing the paradigm of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution including modeling value systems, taking preference uncertainty and strength of preference into account, describing how emotions can affect decision making under conflict, and tracing the evolution of a conflict from a status quo situation to a final equilibrium. A real world environmental conflict is employed to illustrate how cooperation among decision makers can produce a more preferred win/win resolution which cannot be reached when they behave independently in a purely competitive manner. In fact, tremendous opportunities abound for researchers and practitioners in systems, man and cybernetics to develop flexible smart systems tools in multiple participant-multiple objective decision making for both cooperative and independent interactive situations to tackle pressing global problems such as global warming, unemployment, globalization of trade, over-population, widespread pollution, poverty, terrorism, and proliferation of nuclear weapons, from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. Keith Hipel is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is Vice President of the Academy of Sciences which is part of the Royal Society of Canada. Keith thoroughly enjoys mentoring students and is a recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award and the Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision from the University of Waterloo. His major research interests are the development and application of conflict resolution, multiple objective decision making and time series analysis techniques from a systems design engineering perspective. The main application areas of these decision technologies are water resources management, hydrology, environmental engineering and sustainable development. Keith is the author or co-author of 4 books, 11 edited books, more than 200 journal papers, as well as many conference and encyclopedia articles. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC), International Council on Systems Engineering (FINCOSE), and the American Water Resources Association (FAWRA). Day and Time: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Registration is free, but space is limited. Please register via this link: http://tinyurl.com/systemsEvent
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Ø Our Members in the Spotlight The First issue of the IEEE TISP (Teachers in service) NewsletterAs of December 15, 2011, the first Issue of TISP Canada´s Newsletter has been created for the IEEE Canada membership. The high quality newsletter would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of our chief editors Dirk Werle dwerle@ca.inter.net, Patrick Finnigan pjfinnigan@gmail.com, and Bruce Van-Lane b.vanlane@communicationmatters.com, who have set high professional standards for both the format and content of the first Issue. This IEEE TISP Newsletter will be implemented every 2 or 3 months with the latest updates of IEEE TISP Canada´s Champions across the country to engage our next generation scientists, engineers and technologists in the engineering discipline at very early stages of their careers. Here is the link to the first IEEE Canada´s TISP Newsletter, (maintained by Youness Fareh, TISP Canada Webmaster):
IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2012)Date: April 29 - May 2, 2012
The 2012 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 29 to May 2 at Hotel Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth. CCECE 2012 provides a forum for the presentation of electrical and computer engineering research and development from Canada and around the world. Plenary speakers include Alessandro Astolfi from Imperial College London, Gregor Bochmann from the University of Ottawa, Peter Caines from McGill University, Vahid Tarokh from Harvard University and Ke Wu from École Polytechnique de Montréal. The conference includes the following symposia: Circuits, Devices and Systems
Important Deadlines
http://www.ccece2012.org/
IEEE International Conference on CommunicationsDate: June 10-15, 2012 Since 1965 the IEEE International Conference on Communications has been one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. IEEE ICC brings together the world's leaders, scientists, policy makers from industry and academia. The IEEE Ottawa Section is proud to host IEEE ICC 2012 Conference and Exhibition from 10-15 June 2012 where recent advances in the field of communications will be presented. The theme of the conference is "CONNECT o COMMUNICATE o COLLABORATE". For participants it promises to stimulate the scientific exchange of ideas, the identification of future trends in communications, and the illumination of business opportunities. The conference program will feature 12 technical symposia, 16 industrial forums, keynote presentations, several workshops, and tutorials. For general conference information please visit:http://www.ieee-icc.org/2012
2012 IEEE International Systems ConferenceDate: March 19-23, 2012 The theme of the IEEE International Systaems Conference is Engineering of Complex Systems, to include Systems-of-systems, Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, and Systems Thinking. The IEEE Systems Council facilitates interactions among communities of interest on system-level problems and applications. System-level thinking is essential in the world today, not only for technical systems but also for society at large. The Council addresses the discipline of systems engineering, including the issues and complexities of system-level and system-of-systems applications, focusing on the total systems effectiveness of complex integrated systems of national and global significance. Important Deadlines
CALL FOR PAPERS - VTC 2012 FALLDate: September 3 to 6, 2012
The IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society since 1950, and is held twice a year since 1999. The objectives of the conference are to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. It constitutes an established and dynamic forum for the exchange of information on the latest developments in the above-mentioned fields from both fundamental and practical standpoints. As such, the conference is characterized by healthy and global representations from both industry and academia. VTC 2012 Fall will be held in Quebec City from September 3 to 6, 2012. The conference venue is the Quebec City Convention Center. Located in the heart of Québec City, the Convention Centre is a modern, state-of-the-art facility offering impeccable amenities, a warm atmosphere, a delectable dining experience, and a whole lot more. In 2003, it was ranked among the 3 best convention centres in the world by the prestigious International Association of Congress Centres. Abundant accommodations are available for various budgets within walking distance of the convention center, as well as the highest concentration of restaurants in North America. Furthermore, many of the historical landmarks and attractions of Quebec City, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985, are also within walking distance. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers, tutorials and workshops in the areas of, but not limited to: 1. Ad-Hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks
Prospective authors are invited to submit a 5-page full paper through the conference website. Furthermore, the program will feature a Recent Results track to showcase results recently obtained in industry or academia (extended abstract submission allowed in this track). Conference Information of VTC2012-Fall:
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General Chairs Sébastien Roy, Université Laval, Canada
Technical Program Chairs Jean-Yves Chouinard, Université Laval, Canada
Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense ApplicationsDate: 11-13 July 2012 We would like to invite you to submit Full Regular or Special Session papers to the Fifth IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2012) with the theme of "Creating Intelligent Surveillance". Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Ottawa Section, the IEEE Computer Society Ottawa Chapter and the IEEE CIS Ottawa Chapter. Important Deadlines
2012 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy ConferenceDate: October 10-12, 2012 The annual Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC 2012) will take place in London, Ontario, Canada from October 10 to 12, 2012. London is located in the heart of Southwest ern Ontario midway between Toronto and Detroit. The conference is an opportunity for electric power and energy systems experts from industry, academia, and other interested organizations to discuss the latest developments in the field. This may include debate on the potential impact of these developments including discussions on regulatory and policy aspects. EPEC 2012 is hosted by the Sections of the Central Area of IEEE Canada and IEEE Canada (IEEE Region 7): London Section, Kitchener/Waterloo Section, Hamilton Section, Toronto Section, Peterborough Section, and Kingston Section. EPEC 2012 proceedings are included in EI Compendex, IEEE Xplore and ISI Proceedings. Website:http://www.ieee.ca/epec12
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