Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond
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Jul 2, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Prof. El-Hang Lee, Director of OPERA (Optics and Photonics Elite Research Academy) INHA University, South Korea, presents a Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture, "Optical Printed Circuit Board (O-PCB) and VLSI Photonics," organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Optical Sciences at the University of Toronto.   Click for details.

Jul 17, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.  Marlene George presents "Are You Living The Life You Want? Success is your Birthright!," organized by our Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group.  Click for details. Registration required.

Aug 14, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.  Janet Barclay presents "Getting Organized Once and for All," organized by our Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group.  Click for details. Registration required.

Sep 11, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.  Dr. Daniel Fischer, Senior Engineer, Kinectrics presents, "Artificial Intelligence Stops the Car (so you don’t have to)," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter.   Click for details.

Toronto Section and Ryerson University are hosting a Symposium on Alternate Energy and Global Synergy
Co-organized with the IEEE Toronto WIE Affinity Group

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
8:15 AM – 5:00 PM

ENG LG13 and ENG LG21
George Vari Engineering and Computing Center
Ryerson University
245 Church Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 1Z2

Attendance is Free.
Registration by e-mail is compulsory by July 7, 2008

Vision and Objective

• Brainstorm on viable/implementable technologies to be developed through R&D efforts on “Alternate Energy” in view of climate change, global warming, international commitments and depleting fossil fuels.
• Identify technologies for local and global applications.
• Identify the role of stake holders: Universities, Industry, Govt./Funding Agencies (National and international) and Utilities/ User Agencies- in this effort.
• Identify possible teams comprising individuals and organizations for specific projects.
• Prepare a roadmap to implement the above ideas for follow up.
• Discuss workable mechanism to carry out R&D efforts for the desired goal - develop transferable technologies leading to demonstration projects in the field.
• Discuss mechanism of international cooperation in these efforts to affect ‘Global Synergy’.

For more details visit: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/news/symposium.pdf

IEEE Communications Society Launches New Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification Program

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) has launched a new program to certify the practical knowledge and skills of wireless communications professionals.

The IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (IEEE WCET) Certification Program has been specifically designed by IEEE ComSoc to address the worldwide wireless industry’s growing need for communications professionals with practical problem-solving skills in real-world situations. With this certification, professionals will be able to clearly demonstrate their knowledge of wireless communications technologies to employers or change engineering fields as new opportunities arise in the wireless industry.

In the coming months, IEEE ComSoc will also launch a set of resources designed specifically to help participants prepare for the examination. In addition, a Candidate Handbook for the IEEE WCET certification program containing policies, complete details of the subject areas covered, reference sources, sample questions, application procedures and contact information is currently available free-of-charge through IEEE ComSoc.

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For more information on the IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification Program (IEEE WCET) contact:  Jean Niblett, IEEE Communications Society, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016.  Phone: (212) 705-8913. E-mail:  j.niblett@comsoc.org or visit www.ieee-wcet.org.

Summary of Local IEEE Conferences

July 6–11, 2008 — IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory – ISIT 2008 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.

Communications Society Free Online Tutorial

Sept 18, 2007: IEEE Communications Society is pleased to offer all IEEE members a free two-hour online tutorial...presentation on "Software Radio Implementation for MIMO/OFDM High Speed Wireless LAN/MAN" from IEEE Communications Society's popular Tutorials Now. Free for a limited time only.

This tutorial was originally presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, and covers cutting-edge wireless parallel transmission technologies in OFDM and MIMO. Development and systems engineers and technical managers will find the fundamental and helpful information very useful.

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