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 Jan 29 and 30,2010 at at 8:30 a.m.  Bill Richardson from the Project Management Institute - Southern Ontario Chapter presents "Leadership Institute IV," organized by Project Management Institute - Southern Ontario Chapter. Click fo details. Paid registration required. Please see the link for more details. Feb 18, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.   "Green Energy Discussion Panel," presentation and networking event, featuring 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, and more to follow. . Click for details.Registration required Upcoming Conferences All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link. Section News IEEE Toronto Section Year in Review Last year the IEEE Toronto Section was quite vibrant with its many activities in addition to successfully celebrating 125 years of IEEE through its slogan of "EEE: Fostering technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity Celebrating 125 years of Engineering the Future www.ieee125.org". The section organized close to 21 technical and professional meetings throughout the year. As a part of the 125th Anniversary, the section organized the very successful 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009) at Ryerson University on September 27 - 29 and for the first time the conference was aired online through web conferencing. On the same day, the section celebrated and honored the Development of Pacemaker in Toronto by Dr. John A. Hopps by conferring the invention as an IEEE milestone. A plaque was mounted at the Best Institute, 114 College St. - where the research was performed. In addition the section organized the 2009 - Product Safety Engineering Society Symposium and jointly organized Canadian Conference on Climate Change - CCTC 2009 in Hamilton. Inspired by the past success, Toronto Section organized its second "Step Up to Senior Member" meeting in May. Over the course of two days the section volunteers addressed an overwhelming number of senior membership application: verified correctness, filled in the on-line senior membership application form and provided references where necessary. All-in-all a total of 49 members were elevated to senior members till Novemeber 2009. The year continued to be eventful with promoting mentoring of high school students, nurturing new alliances with PMI, completing the representation of the IEEE Societies, releasing of the printed newsletter, organizing the Annual General Meeting & electing of Wai Tung Ng, Xavier Fernando, Marcelo Mota & Pelle Westlind as the new Section officers. Lastly, on behalf of the section I would like to thank Dr.Alexei Botchkarev (Alex Bot) - the IEEE Toronto Section Chair (2008-9) for living up to demands of being the Chair of the largest Section in Canada. Dr.Botchkarev has spent many days and nights alike promoting the Toronto Section within the IEEE community and delivering on the demands of the section members through his innovative and creative leadership. He passes on the baton to Dr.Wai Tung Ng and Dr.Xavier Fernando as the Section's chair and vice chair respectively. IEEE News Andrew J. Viterbi, Co-Founder of Qualcomm, Named 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient 309 Named to the Class of 2010 IEEE Fellows 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 Advertising For Advertisting in the annual printed edition of IEEE Toronto Section - The Annual Connection please contact the Editor. The IEEE Toronto Section accepts advertising for items deemed to be of interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter, please contact the editor. 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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