Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received Feb 9, 2006 at 7:45 p.m.   Dr. David Yap of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment presents a seminar entitled "How Bad is Smog in Ontario?" organized by PEO and our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.   Click for details. Feb 10, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. David Plant of McGill University presents a seminar entitled "Agile All-Photonic Networks" organized by our Circuits & Devices Chapter.   Click for details. Feb 20, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr.Bin Wu of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ryerson University in Toronto presents a seminar entitled "Medium Voltage Drives with Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter Technology" organized by our Industry Applications Chapter.   Click for details. Feb 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. Alexander Geyer of Mathsoft1 in Toronto presents a seminar entitled "Trellis decoding of error-correcting codes" organized by our Communications Chapter.   Click for details. Feb 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   "First 2006 General Interest Meeting of IEEE GOLD - Graduates of the Last Decade" organized by our GOLD Affinity Group. Members of ALL ages are invited.   Click for details. Feb 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE, of Kinectrics and Meir Klein of Hydro One, present a seminar entitled "On-line and Off-line Transformer Monitoring" organized by our Power Engineering Chapter.   Click for details. Feb 23, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Puica Nitu of Ontario Power Generation in Toronto presents a seminar entitled "From Financial Markets to Energy Markets" organized by our Women In Engineering Group.   Click for details. Note: Room Location Change! Mar 2, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   ENGINEERING WEEK - Special Invitation to IEEE members - "Engineering Innovations Forum 2006 - Robotics" at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto - includes public forum, exhibits, and reception.   Click for invitation and robotics exhibits. Mar 3, 2006 at 5:10 p.m.   Hugh Chow, Executive VP of ViXS Systems, Toronto presents a seminar entitled "Globalization: A Semiconductor Industry Perspective" organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter and Student Activities Committee.   Click for details. Note: Date Change! Mar 16, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Monica Weissmann of Edward Jones in Thornhill, Ontario presents a seminar entitled "Smart Women Finish Rich" organized by our Women In Engineering Group.   Click for details. Mar 31, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. P. Siegel of Caltech University presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Terahertz Technology in Outer and Inner Space" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation chapter.   Click for details. Apr 3, 2006   Dr. E. Micheli-Tzanakou of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey, U.S.A., presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Feature Extraction in Computational Intelligence" organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 5, 2006 at 6:45 p.m.   Dr. Myron Kayton, a Consulting Engineer for Kayton Engineering Company, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Navigation; Land, Sea, Air and Space" organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter.   Click for details. Apr 6, 2006 at 6:45 p.m.   Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness presents a seminar entitled "Disaster Management" organized by the Toronto Dufferin PEO Chapter and co-sponsored by our Engineering and Human Environment chapter.   Click for details. Apr 12, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Nick Bouris of Motorola Labs in Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A. presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Electromagnetic Design for Wireless Applications and Multidisciplinary Optimization" organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation chapter.   Click for details. Apr 21, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. K. Chakrabarty, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in Durham N.C., U.S.A. presents a seminar entitled "Design Automation Methods for Droplet-Based 'Digital' Microfluidic Biochips" organized by our Computer chapter.   Click for details. See what events we are planning - use this link to see who is planning what, when, and where - and provide feedback or ask a question. (updated Feb 19, 2006)

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2006 dates:    Feb 14 Valentine's Day    Feb 25 - Mar 5 Engineering Week    Mar 2 - 31 Blue Jays Spring Training

Summary of Conferences

Feb 27...   The 7th annual ENERCOM Conference and Exposition will be held Feb 27-Mar 1, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario.   Please visit their web site for full details.

May 7...   The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Early Bird registration deadline - April 7.   Please visit their web site for the early announcement.

May 9...   The Engineering Institute of Canada Conference on Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century will be held May 9-12, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Jun 11...   The 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Electric Insulation will be held June 11-14, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Delta Chelsea hotel.   Financial support for students deadline - March 15.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Jul 9...   The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo will be held July 9-12, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton hotel.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 17...   The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel.   Submission deadline - March 1.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 28...   The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.   Please visit their website   All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

IEEE Educational Programs in Canada

Feb 22...   IEEE Ottawa Section - Workshop on Instrumentation & Measurements, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - details

New IEEE and EIC Fellows from our Section - Frank Kschischang and George Eleftheriades, are new IEEE Fellows.   Bob Hanna and Frank Kschischang are the new EIC Fellows.   To see the complete list of Canadians, please use this link.

IEEE Sections Congress Recommendations   Every three years, representatives of IEEE's Sections around the world meet to provide "grass roots" feedback to the IEEE leadership by developing prioritized recommendations to improve value to IEEE members - here are their - recomendations and assignments for implementation.

Contact us - to contact any member of our executive please use the mailtos on our executive page.

Your 2006 Section Officers (from left):   Marcelo Mota - Secretary   Alex Bot - Vice Chair   Alagan Anpalagan - Chair   Pele Westlind - Treasurer

LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld 2006 Conference & Expo, April 24 - 26, 2006, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
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IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering is recognized by the IEEE WIE Committee (world-wide) as the the runner-up for the 2004 Women in Engineering Affinity Group of the Year award - see image at left (click to enlarge). Congratulations to WIE Toronto Chair, Visda Vokhshoori, for her leadership in developing a strong and interesting WIE program that includes many innovative activity formats - Visda has also been recognized in her former IEEE Section (Mid Hudson) for notable services and contributions - please see the Women In Engineering home page for more details.

IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society honours its Toronto chapter as its Outstanding Chapter for 2004. The joint Toronto chapter which included AAES has recently been re-organized - please see the Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter home page for more details. Congratulations to Signal Processing (formerly Signals and Applications) Chapter Chair, Sri Krishnan, for his leadership in developing a strong series of chapter activities in 2004.

Ryerson University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering publicly recognized the IEEE Toronto Section at its 2005 Awards ceremony on Nov 23 for its continued support of student activities through its program of awards. Over the last decade, the Section has provide more that $50,000 in Scholarships to local universities and colleges. Dr. Wallas Khella, 1978-89 Section Chair and currently a member-at-large of the Section executive committee, was at the ceremony to present a couple of this year's Section awards and to receive the plaque from ECE department chair Dr. Sridhar Krishnan.

Another Well Attended Seminar Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE at the Marriott Hotel on Bloor St.

With great pleasure, I welcome you to our website that has a wealth of information and useful links for you.   Our job is to serve the members of the Section as well as the society.   We serve our members by organizing technical meetings and social gatherings to advance the knowledge and network with other professionals. Many thanks to our active and dedicated volunteers who contribute to the success of our Section.   I welcome your suggestions that can help improve our services to our members.   There are many other interests as can be seen by exploring the IEEE Toronto links on the left.   Thank you very much for visiting our website. Dr. Alagan Anpalagan IEEE Toronto Section Chair