The Monthly Connection
The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section
ISSUE #20091201, December 2009
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This Month: meetings, courses, conferences, section news, ieee news, membership, volunteers

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The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest occuring in Toronto and surounding areas.   Posted every month.   Now formatted for portrait-orientation printing.

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Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings


Dec 3, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.  Sundar Venkataraman, Director of GE Energy Applications, presents "The Linden VFT Merchant Transmission Project," organized by our Power & Energy Chapter. Click for details. Registration required
Dec 4, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.   Jody Levine, Chair of the IEEE Toronto Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Chapter, presents "Development of Arc Flash Policy for Hydro One Metalclad Switchgear," organized by our Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Chapter. . Click for details.Registration required
Dec 9, 2009at 4:00 p.m.  John McNeill, Professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, presents "Breaking the Rules: Noise in Short Channel MOSFETS," organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter. . Click for details.
Dec 11, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.  Ali Nabavi, Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, presents "Matrix Converter and Practical Issues in Aircraft Application," organized by our Aerospace Electronics System Chapter. . Click for details.
Dec 11, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.   Natalia Nikolova Professor at McMaster University, presents "Recent Advances in the Methodologies of Near-field Microwave Imaging ," organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter. . Click for details.

Upcoming Conferences


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IEEE News




IEEE Members Select Moshe Kam 2010 President-Elect

Mobile Search of IEEE Xplore ® Digital Library Now Available


For more these and other IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here. And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine here.


Membership



Future Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section   Have you been in professional practice for at least ten years and have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years?   You should be an IEEE Senior Member.   Need help in obtaining your three references?   We will help you - just contact Dimitri , our membership chair.   Please click this link to find out the advantages, the requirements, and an explanation of the process including key links to apply online.


Volunteers



Volunteering a few hours a month is a very rewarding experience - we have a great group of about 45 volunteers who contribute to the smooth running of our Section - by distributing the workload over many Section members, the individual load is kept small. If you are interested, please contact our Section Chair Alex Bot at this


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Please send any news item submissions, comments, suggestions, concerns to the editor before the 28th at this email .

Thank you for reading - Naresh Kurada,MSEE,P.Eng.,MBA (Editor).

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