Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond
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Feb 15, 2010 at 6:30 a.m. Dr. Kostas Plataniotis, Professor at the Univeristy of Toronto presents, "Biometrics: Solutions for Security and Authentication", hosted by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Chapter. Click for details.

Feb 16, 2010 at 4:10 p.m. Dr. Antonio Liscidini, Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Pavia presents, "RF-Building Blocks for an All-Digital PLL", hosted by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter. Click for details.

Feb 18, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. "Green Energy Discussion Panel," presentation and networking event, hosted by our GOLD Toronto Section. This event will feature speakers: Mike Crawley, President and CEO, International Power Canada Inc., Mojtaba Jalambadani, Senior Project Manager, HydroOne Networks, Alourdes Sully, Team Lead of Project Engineering, Hydro One, Alan S. Fung, Ph.D., P.Eng., Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Milfred Hammerbacher, President, Canadian Solar Solutions, and Donald Wallace, Executive Director, Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy. Click for details.  Registration required. Please see the link for more details.

Jun 25 and 26, 2010 Our Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, in conjunction with UOIT will be holding an International Workshop on Real-Time Measurement, Instrumentation and Control (RTMIC). Click for details. Paid registration required. Please see the link for more details.

Jul 11 to 17, 2010 The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting will be hosted here in Toronto. Click for details. Paid registration required. Please see the link for more details.

New Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Chapter

On September 3, 2009, the IEEE Toronto Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Chapter was established and approved by IEEE. The chapter is chaired by Dr. Hossam A.Gabbar, Associate Professor, Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Read more about this new chapter and its upcoming events here.

IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker   The IEEE Toronto Life Members affinity group has successfully nominated the "Hopps First External Pacemaker" as an IEEE Milestone.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) History Center recently recognized with a Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing The First External Cardiac Pacemaker 1950 "an external electronic pacemaker-defibrillator with electrodes inside the patient, developed by the National Research Council, for the successful continuous pacemaking of a heart. This achievement led to pacemakers which have enhanced the lives of thousands and also helped to firmly establish the importance of electronic devices in medicine."

» Read more about the milestone event and view the event photos

Launch of IEEE Toronto Section Consultants Network Affinity Group & Online Consultants Database

The petition to form the IEEE Toronto Section Consultants Network was approved by IEEE HQs on October 7, 2008. On October 25, the IEEE Toronto Section launched the online Consultants Database under the stewardship of Fasih Masood, Chair, Industrial Relations Committee & Consultants Network Affinity Group. The technical architect of the database is Karl Martin, IEEE Toronto Section Webmaster.

In phase-I, the objectives of the Consultants Database include, but not limited to, fostering the growth of Consultants in fields under the umbrella of IEEE & its Societies, encouraging local consultants to join the IEEE Toronto Section Consultants Network and form new alliances, promoting the use of independent technical and engineering consultants by industry and business, and providing educational activities for self-employed members.

Under the MOU of IEEE and PMI Southern Ontario Chapter, the Consultants Database will also be advertised on the home page of PMI SOC Website at http://www.soc.pmi.on.ca/

In phase-II, IEEE Toronto Section will publish a print catalogue of all consultants with pictures & profiles which will be distributed at all the IEEE Events.

Symposium on Alternate Energy and Global Synergy:
Proceedings and Presentations Slides Available for Download

On July 15, 2008, a highly successful one-day Symposium on Alternate Energy and Global Synergy was hosted by Ryerson University, co-sponsored the IEEE Toronto Section (represented by the WIE Affinity Group). The symposium proceedings and presentation slides have been made available here.

IEEE Communications Society Offers Free Free Webinars/Tutorials

1. Free online tutorials available... Commercial Wireless Networking (3 hs, 220 slides) joins WiMax: Mobilizing the Internet (2 hrs 7 min; 89 sldes) and Next Generation Cellular Networks (2 hrs 40 min, 93 slides) as complimentary online tutorials.  See them now; limited time access.
2. VIEW a Webinar on the WCET Certification Program to learn more about it!
3. Watch the commercial on WCET brought to you by IEEE.tv

Summary of Local IEEE Conferences

Sep 27–29, 2009 — Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity – TIC-STH 2009 will be held in Toronto, Ontario.

Oct 19–21, 2009 — Product Safety Engineering Society Symposium – PSESS 2009 will be held in Toronto, Ontario.

All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

Pas Pasupathy: Meeting Challenges Head On

IEEE Life Fellow and Toronto Section member, Prof. Subbarayan "Pas" Pasupathy, was recently profiled in the IEEE publication "The Institute":

"A lunch with co-workers and perhaps a fancy watch or a piece of luggage are typical retirement gifts for many people. But those weren’t adequate to mark the career of IEEE Life Fellow Subbarayan “Pas” Pasupathy. Instead, his students and colleagues at the University of Toronto, in Canada, devoted an all-day workshop to honor his contributions as teacher, pioneering researcher, and international authority on wireless digital communications, detection and estimation theory, and biomedical signal processing."

Read the full article by Kathy Kowalenko and visit the official workshop web page.