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.
Profile on Kostas Plataniotis - Kostas is the 2005 recipient of IEEE Canada's
Outstanding Engineering Educator Award for "contributions to engineering
education and inspirational guidance of graduate students".
Kostas received this award at the IEEE Canada annual awards banquet which
was held in Saskatoon on May 2, 2005. The photo shows IEEE Canada Awards
Chair Vijay Bhargava, Kostas, and IEEE Canada president Bill Kennedy.
Dr. Plataniotis is a Senior Member of IEEE in Toronto and currently
serves as the IEEE Toronto Section Chair. He is a tenured Associate
Professor with the "Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering" at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario;
a Nortel Institute for Telecommunications Associate; and an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science
at Ryerson University. His research interests include multimedia signal
processing, intelligent and adaptive systems, and wireless communication
systems. Kostas received his B. Eng. degree in Computer Engineering &
Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece in 1988 and his M.S
and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute
of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, in 1992 and 1994 respectively.
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Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings
May 5, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. Tour of the Trillium Hospital
(Mississauga Site) featuring their Cardiac Department with the latest
technical equipment for diagnostics and treatment. This tour should
appeal to those interested in instrumentation and medical applications as
well as anyone interested in the state of our health care system.
Organized by our Life Members Affinity Group.
Click for details.
May 6, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. Aleksandar Dogandzic of
Iowa State University, will present a seminar entitled "Distributed Signal
Processing for Sensor Networks Using Hidden Markov Random Fields",
organized by our Signals and Applications Chapter. Click for details.
May 11, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. Captain Stephen Boyne of
Defense Research & Development Canada, will present a seminar entitled
"Human Factors Engineering; Military applications, Civilian benefits",
organized by the PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter and supported by our
Engineering and Human Environment Chapter. Click for details.
May 12, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. Celia Desmond, President, World
Class - Telecommunications, will present a seminar entitled "Communicating
Effectively - Making Yourself Heard",
organized by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter. Click for details.
May 19, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. John Endrenyi, LF-IEEE,
Principal Scientist Emeritus at Kinectrics in Toronto, will present a seminar
entitled "The Effect of Maintenance on Component and System Reliability",
organized by our Power Engineering Chapter. Click for details.
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Upcoming Courses
Now is the time to register if you have not done so.
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Apr 9, 2005 1-day course, “Positioned for Success,
Differentiating Yourself”, Celia Desmond & Carolyn Wright, lecturers
Click for details
Apr 23, 2005 1-day course, “Breakthrough Thinking”,
Celia Desmond & Randy Park, lecturers Click for details
May 7, 2005 1-day course, “Networking with Others: The
most important job you will ever have”, Celia Desmond & Carolyn Wright, lecturers
Click for details
May 13 & 14, 2005 2-day course, “Project Management –
Meeting those pesky Requirements”, Celia Desmond, lecturer
Click for details
May 21, 2005 1-day course, “Understanding Personality
Type: Reading Character through TRUE COLORS”, Carolyn Wright, lecturer
Click for details
Jun 4, 2005 1-day course, “Essential Communications for
Engineers”, Celia Desmond, lecturer
Click for details
Upcoming Conferences
4th International Conference for Upcoming Engineers will be
held on May 20-21, 2005, at the University of Windsor - please view their conference web site for details.
The International Conference for Upcoming Engineers is a platform where
students and faculty members work together in organizing a conference, and
a forum to exchange ideas and promote learning and participation amongst
undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty researchers.
Groups of Students from IEEE Student Branches - send four or more delegates
to the conference and get an IEEE Student Branch display table for free!
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 The 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and
Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario
and the planning is well under way. Please visit their web site for advance information including their "Call for Papers".
The conference will take place in the heart of Ottawa, during the
famous Tulip Festival. Canada’s Capital Region is the home of several
universities and colleges including the University of Ottawa, Carleton
University, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Algonquin College and Cité
Collégiale. Ottawa is known as Silicon Valley North and hosts the
largest high technology cluster in Canada. Ottawa is also the center of
the Canadian Federal Government and several branches of government research
institutions. Ottawa offers a safe and entertaining urban environment
with pleasant weather during the period of the conference.
This conference is is being arranged in conjunction with CCC
2006 EIC - Climate Change Conference.
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Section News
Report on "Signal Processing Challenges in Wireless Location" - April 14
Professor Ali Sayed, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Editor-in-Chief for
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, presented a SP Society Sponsored Distinguished
Lecture on the topic of "Signal Processing Challenges in Wireless Location"
to the Toronto Section Members on April 14, 2005 in Ryerson University, Toronto.
38 members from the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, the University of
Western Ontario, and several industrial organizations attended the seminar.
Report on "How to have an effective meeting with your manager" - April 22 event
We started this meeting with a series of questions to
warm us up and give us a head start on the discussion.
We brainstormed on "How often should one meet with
his/her manager? Why is it important to have a good
communication with one's manager? Who should initiate
this? What if one doesn't see eye to eye with his/her
manager?" Replies were so interesting and diverse.
Then we discussed ways one can get the communication
with his/her manager off to a good start and ways on
how to improve it. Know your manager - his/her
strengths and weaknesses. Know yourself - your
strengths and weaknesses. Try to develop a
relationship that fits both yours and his/her needs.
In the second part of the meeting we discussed the
second year of this affinity group. Based on this
discussion and an email recieved on this topic, the following
is the summary of suggested activities for the next
year.
i. Speaker series: successful, dynamic women will talk
about their experiences, 3 this year
ii. Workshop: selected theme "managing stress", 1 this
year
iii. Dinner discussions, 3 this year
iv. Tour of a facility, tentative 1 this year
v. Technical talks
I want to thank the following individuals who shared
their ideas for the second year of this affinity.
Ida Jagaric, Liselle Ramcharan, Rachel Zhan, Sylvia
Raynham, Zei.
Contributed by Visda Vokhshoori, chair
of our Women in Engineering Affinity Group - which organized this event.
Member News
Congratulations to ten of our members who have been recently elevated to
Senior Member grade;
Dimitrios Androutsos Signal Processing Society
Ajit Bapat Industry Applications Society
Bruce P. D'Sena Communications Society
John Harauz Computer Society
Gul N. Khan Computer Society
Hoi-Kwong Lo Information Theory Society
Wallace J. MacLean Computer Society
Vince Scaini Industry ApplicationsSociety
Mitchell J. Shnier Circuits & Systems Society
Andreas Veneris Computer Society
If you wish to
apply for Senior Member elevation, or nominate someone else, please use this link.
Are you planning to apply for an IEEE Senior Membership grade?
Keep in mind that the next Admission & Advancement (A&A) panel meeting
will be held in June. Application and reference forms have to be
received at IEEE Operations Center by April 6. For the details of
the IEEE Senior Member Program, please visit our IEEE Toronto page of helpful information and links.
Student News
Scholarship Winners
Two students are receiving IEEE Canadian Foundation Scholarships; Ricky Leung
at Ryerson University, and Tina Tahmoures-Zadeh at the University of Toronto
- they will be invited to our Annual General Meeting on October 22, 2005 at
the Old Mill Inn.
2005 IEEE Electron Devices Society Graduate Student Fellowship
May 15, 2005 is the deadline
for graduate students who are members of the IEEE EDS Society to apply for
this US$5,000 award (plus travel stipent). This year fellowship is
awarded to promote, recognize, and support graduate level study and research
within the Electron Devices Society's field of interest:
Click for details.
IEEE News
Research in Motion (RIM) Job Postings 15 Apr. --
The IEEE Job Site has more than 100 new job postings from Research in
Motion (RIM). RIM is an internationally recognized leader in
wireless technology, and creator of the popular and revolutionary
BlackBerry (tm) wireless platform and handheld product lines. RIM
is no stranger to innovation and entrepreneurial spirit and they are
looking for individuals who have that same drive to take wireless
technologies to the next level. Whether you are a recent
graduate, or someone with experience, they can help unleash your career
today. Check out the current RIM job postings at the IEEE careers web site by entering
RIM in the Search Keywords box. Please register as a candidate
with the Job Site using your IEEE Web Account to apply for these
positions.
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 Alex
, 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 Invited
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 - we
are looking for a few additional members to help out in the following
specific areas:
- Vice Chair & Secretary for our Power Engineering Chapter
If you are interested, please contact
Ron
- Vice Chair & Secretary for our Women In Engineering Group
If you are interested, please contact
Visda
- Vice Chairs for our Engineering and Human Environment Chapter
with specific Society responsibilities - one each for the Education Society,
the Professional Communication Society,
and the Reliability Society. For descriptions of these positions refer
to this position profile. If you are
interested in volunteering as a chapter Vice Chair please contact chapter
chair Ed
NOTE - Ed says "thank you" to Bayo Awoyemi who has volunteered to be the
Engineering Management Vice Chair.
Advertising
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interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter,
please contact the editor.
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