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Nominations are sought for IEEE Canada Awards
The IEEE Canada Awards and Recognition Committee (ARC) urges you to consider nominating suitable candidates for the various awards that are available to IEEE Canada members and Sections.
IEEE Canada offers 7 achievement awards and 4 service awards and consist of medals, plaques, and travel allowances.
Achievement Awards
- A.G.L. McNaughton Award
- R.A. Fessenden Award
- Electric Power Award
- C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award
- Outstanding Engineer Award
- J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award
- R.H. Tanner Industry Leadership Award
Service Awards
- W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award
- J.J. Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award
- M.B. Broughton Central Canada Merit Award
- E.F. Glass Western Canada Merit Award
The deadline for nominations is 30 November 2016.
You can help recognize the efforts of outstanding members by nominating individuals for one of the IEEE Canada Awards. Each award has a unique mission and criteria and offers the opportunity to honour distinguished colleagues, inspiring teachers, and dedicated volunteers. ?If you know someone who has made substantial regional IEEE volunteer, professional and leadership contributions, consider nominating him or her for one of the above IEEE Canada Awards.
Please visit the IEEE Canada Award nomination web page for information on criteria, eligibility and nomination forms.
Please email Vijay Sood with any questions about the Awards and Recognition Program.
Learn more about printable, flexible electronics through CPEIA white papers
As part of our valued partnership with the IEEE, the CPEIA is sharing these five white papers with IEEE members to raise awareness of printable and flexible electronics a variety of market verticals.
Community outreach and education is a core component of the CPEIA mandate, and an area with great potential for collaboration between the CPEIA and IEEE. Interested IEEE Members can download these white papers at no cost to learn about use cases and applications, using the code ieee!@$2016.
The papers are:
- Printable Electronics - Canada's Opportunity
- Printable and Flexible Electronics Enabled Intelligent Buildings: New Functions, Improved Performance and Optimized Control
- Printable and Flexible Electronics Applications in the Connected Home
- Driving New Levels of Consumer Engagement through Intelligent Packaging
- The Future is Smart: The Internet of Things
To keep abreast of news and events from Canada's printable electronics sector, join our mailing and newsletter list.
What is Printable and Flexible Electronics?
With PE, inks that can conduct electricity - made from materials such as graphite, silver, and copper - are printed on a substrate at high enough density to form a complete electronic circuit, but thin enough to have negligible impact on the substrate thickness.
The substrate can be rigid, flexible or even stretchable, such as paper, plastic, fabric or glass. These inks can be applied through traditional printing processes such as flexo, screen, inkjet, gravure, and offset, as well as through coatings.
This can be done through fast and inexpensive automated processes, such as those used in the commercial printing industry for newspapers and magazines. These electronic components can also be embedded though additive manufacturing processes, such as 3D printing or in-mold electronics.
PE can be used to create discreet components such as displays, conductors, transistors, sensors, light emitting diodes, photovoltaic energy capture cells, memory, logic processing, system clocks, antennas, batteries, and low-voltage electronic interconnects. These can be integrated into simple systems that, for example, can record, store, and then transmit temperature information.
Fully functional electronic systems can be created in this way, or discreet components and sub-systems can be produced to function as part of a hybrid solution with conventional silicon-based integrated circuits or components.
Interested in learning more about the benefits of CPEIA membership?
For more information or to learn about membership with the CPEIA, please contact Peter Kallai, President and CEO, at 613-795-8181 or by email at pkallai@cpeia-acei.ca.
Upcoming Activities and Conferences
2016 International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)
Date: Oct 31-Nov 4, 2016
Location: Montreal
The 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2016 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions.
For more information, please visit the http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2016/.
2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA)
Date: December 6-9, 2016
Location: Athens, Greece
2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), organized by the IEEE Canada Ottawa Section's CI/SMC Chapter, will be held in Athens, Greece on December 6-9, 2016. CISDA 2016 is an opportunity for presenting and discussing the latest esearch efforts rooted in Computational Intelligence as applied to defense and security problems. First-class contributions addressing research challenges in these areas and their CI-based solutions (i.e., neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, rough sets, granular computing, and other emerging learning or optimization techniques) are solicited.
For more information, please visit the http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cisda2016/.
IEEE Humanitarian Technology Conferences around the world
Humanitarian Technology Conference on December 21-23, 2016
The IEEE R10 HTC will be hosted at the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, INDIA. For more information and the call for papers, please, refer to: http://www.ieeehtc2016.com/
2017 IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference
IHTC 2017 will take place in Toronto. please stay tuned for more information as it becomes available http://www.ihtc2017.ieee.ca/
Section Events Online
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Kitchener Waterloo Section: http://www.ieeekw.com/activities.php
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Hamilton Section: http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/hamilton/currentevents.htm
Message from the Section Chair : A Past Section Chair
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Kingston Section: http://sites.ieee.org/kingston/
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the London Section: http://london.ieee.ca/
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the New Brunswick Section: http://nb.ieee.ca/
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Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Winnipeg Section: http://winnipeg.ieee.ca/calendar
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Northern Canada Section: http://northerncanada.ieee.ca/>
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Northern Saskatchewan Section: http://northsask.ieee.ca/
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Vancouver Section: http://www.ieeecontact.org
Please find the IEEE Montreal Section Newsletter (Issue 6, January 2012): http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/files/IEEE_Montreal_Newsletter_Jan_2012.pdf
The IEEE Montreal Section ExCom would like to thank to all contributors and editors.
The previous issues (# 5, Nov. 2011) can be accessed through:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/files/IEEE_Montreal_Newsletter_Oct_2011.pdf
http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/index.php
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Ottawa Section: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Toronto Section: http://toronto.ieee.ca/
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the St-Maurice Section: http://www.sm.ieee.ca/evenactivites.html
Please refer to the following link for the latest activities hosted by the Canadian Atlantic Section: http://cas.ieee.ca/?page_id=1408
