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January 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - January 2008

Editor: Yousof Pakzad, P.Eng., SMIEEE, pakzad@ieee.org
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Events

1. Technical Seminar of IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter, January 17, 2008
2. IEEE Ottawa Chapter AESS Seminar, January 22, 2008
3. Seminar by Joint IEEE Ottawa-Montreal Section DEIS Chapter, January 24, 2008
4. 21st Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 4 to 7, 2008, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

B. IEEE News

1. IEEE Ottawa Section Awards – 2007
2. New Senior IEEE Members in the Ottawa Section

C. Manage Your Subscription
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A. IEEE Events
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1. Technical Seminar of IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter, January 17, 2008
Organizer: IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter
Topic: Recent Advances in Phylogenetics
Speaker: Professor. Xuhua Xia, Department of Biology, and School of
Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa
Date and Time: January 17, 2008, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Carleton University, Minto Center 2014
URL: http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca/embs/
Contact: Dr. Sreeraman Rajan, sreeraman@ieee.org
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2. IEEE Ottawa Chapter AESS Seminar, January 22, 2008
Organizer: IEEE Ottawa Chapter AESS & IET-UK Ottawa Network - joint
Topic: MEOSAR - a 21st Century Satellite System for Search & Rescue
Speaker: Jim King of the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa
Date and Time: Tuesday 22 January 2008, 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Location: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Courtside B Room
URL: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.AESS.html
Contact: Hugh Reekie, h.reekie@ieee.org
Description: The new MEOSAR system, will be described. It overcomes many
difficulties experienced with previous SARSAT systems. The presentation
will include details of the constellation configuration, including
spacecraft pictures, graphics and some satellite orbit animations.
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3. Seminar by Joint IEEE Ottawa-Montreal Section DEIS Chapter,
IEEE Ottawa PES Chapters, and EPMG of INMS/NRC, January 24, 2008
Topic: Luminescence and Space Charge Distribution in Polymeric
Insulation subjected to High Electric Field
Speaker: Dr. Soli Bamji, National Research Council, Ottawa
Date: January 24, 2008,
Time: Registration and Networking: 10:40 a.m.
Seminar: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Building M-36, Kelvin Room, National Research Council,
1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON
PARKING: No fee at the visitor's parking. Please respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free. Registration required for security reasons.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Mahmoud.Abou-Dakka@nrc.ca
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4. 21st Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 4 to 7, 2008, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

CCECE is a flagship conference for researchers, students, and practising
engineers
in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Canada and around the
world to meet annually for 3 to 4 days in a Canadian city to present the
latest
technological advancements and discoveries, to network and exchange ideas,
to strengthen existing partnerships and foster new collaborations.

CCECE 2008 will feature 8 mini-symposia covering all areas of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, tutorial sessions in leading topics, plenary talks from
senior executives in industry and academia, around 90 technical sessions,
special sessions in hot topics, social programs, IEEE Canada Awards and Banquet

night, best student paper awards luncheon, and industrial exhibitions.

You can participate in CCECE 2008 in many ways: by submitting your original
research results as a full length technical paper, by submitting tutorial
proposals, by organizing a special session, and by attending the plenary talks,

tutorials, panel discussions and nearly 90 technical sessions planned for
May 4 to May 7, 2008.

Information on submission of technical papers, tutorial proposals, special
sessions proposals are in the weblinks of the main conference
website www.ccece08.org

The deadline to receive papers and tutorial proposals are December 7, 2007.
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B. IEEE News

IEEE Ottawa Section Awards – 2007

The following individuals and organizations received awards in the
IEEE Ottawa AGM 2007, held on November 28, 2007:

1.IEEE Ottawa Section members:

- Dr. Voicu Groza, P.Eng., SMIEEE for his leadership in establishing the
international Noninvasive Blood Pressure Measurements & Standardization
initiative.
- Preeti Raman for developing and providing on-line registration for
the Section activities.
- George Yee for his long term contribution as Chair of the Computer
Society Chapter.
- Kexing Liu for his contribution as Secretary of the Section in 2006-2007.
- Yousof Pakzad for his contribution to the Section electronic newsletter.
- Vijay Narasimhan for his contribution to the Section membership development.

2. IEEE Ottawa Chapters/AGs/Committees:

- The Antennas & Propagation Society and Microwave Theory & Techniques
Society Joint Chapter for its outstanding performance in 2007.
- The Robotics Competition Committee for its outstanding performance in 2007.
- The Electron Devices Society, Circuits and Systems Society, and
Solid-State Circuits Society Joint Chapter for its outstanding
performance in 2007.

3. IEEE Ottawa Student Branch:

- IEEE Algonquin College Student Branch for its outstanding performance in 2007

4. IEEE Ottawa AGM 2007 Keynote Speaker:

- Mr. Paul Bush for his contribution to the IEEE Ottawa Section as the
AGM 2007 Keynote Speaker

5. The best Ottawa power-tech/high-tech companies (Innovation &
Technology Award):

- Brookfield Power for successful development and operation of hydroelectric
green power generating stations.
- Group IV Semiconductor Inc. for innovation and development of lamps using
silicon thin-film emitter technology (Solid State Lighting).
- Thermal Energy International Inc. for innovative technology and providing
custom energy and emission reduction solutions.
- International Datacasting for providing innovative products for distribution
of audio, video and data via satellite systems.
- Nakina Systems for providing innovative management solutions to
telecommunications and data networks.
- Senstar Stellar Corporation for innovative solutions and providing outdoor
perimeter intrusion detection sensors and security systems.
- Telesat for innovative solutions and providing the most reliable, secure
satellite communications.

6. The Ottawa organizations/companies recognized at the AGM:
- Biosign Technologies Inc. for supporting and sponsoring the IEEE Ottawa
Section activities
- Ontario Centres of Excellence for building strong industry and academic
R&D relationships and accelerating the commercialization of innovations

Other IEEE Awards – 2007:

7. The Ottawa organizations/companies (Corporate Friend of IEEE Award
by IEEE Canada):
- Hydro Ottawa Limited for valuable and continuous support for the
IEEE Canada activities.
- Algonquin College for valuable and continuous support for the IEEE
Canada activities.

8. The IEEE Fellow Award by IEEE:
- Paris Vachon for contributions to operational marine applications of
imaging radar.
- Barry Wood for contributions to fundamental electrical measurement standards.
- Andrew Podgorski for contributions to broadband immunity and
compatibility certification.
- Charles Woodside for contributions to real-time software system
performance engineering.
- Hui Liu for contributions to resonant tunneling and intersubband
quantum devices.

9. Recognition by IEEE Canada:
- John Rakos for providing and presenting webinar seminars.
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2. New Senior IEEE Members in Ottawa Section

The following IEEE member was elevated to the Senior Member status at the
December 2007 Senior Member Elevation Review Panel Meeting.

* Stoyan Tanev

Congratulations for elevating to IEEE Senior member grade!
IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/requirements.html
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February 2008

February 2008
IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - February 2008
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. IEEE Ottawa Section Workshop (WARM 2008) February 21-22, 2008
Ottawa
2. Seminar: Advances in Wireless Sensor NETWORKS, February 27, 2008
by ComSoc/BTS Joint Chapter
3. Two seminars: UWB Antennas and Channel Characteristics & 3D
Propagation Modeling and Characteristics for High Speed Mobiles,
by AP/MTT Joint Chapter February 27, 2008
4. Seminar: HIGH TEMPERATURE INSULATING MATERIALS, February 27, 2008
by Chapters of DEIS, IMS, and PES

B. IEEE News

1. IEEE Plaques Presentation to Minister of Natural Resource Canada
2. IEEE ICCST Conference, Prague, Czech Rep.

C. Manage Your Subscription
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A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. IEEE Ottawa Section Workshop on Adverse Response Monitoring

Title:"Patient Safety: Adverse Response to Medication"
Organized by: IEEE Ottawa Section in conjunction with Biosogn
Speakers: Wayne K. Hindmarsh (University of Toronto, Leslie Dan
Faculty of Pharmacy)
Radu Leca (Biosign Technologies)
Tofy Mussivand (Ottawa Heart Institute)
George Mihalas (European Federation of Medical Informatics)
David Silver (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories)
Marilyn Sue Bogner (Institute for the Study of Human Error)

Sponsors: IBM, TELUS, Emergis, Biosign Technologies, OCRI,
IEEE Ottawa Section
Date & Time: Thursday Feb 21 - Friday Feb 22, Time: 8:00 Am - 7:00 PM
Location: The Chamber, Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2G 5K7 Tel: +1 613-727-6700
Parking: No fee at the visitors parking (Free of Cost)
For more details, please go to: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ims/warm2008/
For on-line registration please go to:
https://www.beanstream.com/secure/IEEECCECE2006/registration.asp
(or Follow the registration link on the main webpage
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ims/warm2008/)
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2. Seminar: Advances in Wireless Sensor NETWORKS,
by ComSoc/BTS Joint Chapter

Title: Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: Dr. Hussein T. Mouftah, Canada Research Chair and Distinguished
University Professor SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: February 27, 2008.
Time: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:45 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:30 p.m.
Place: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced
Technology, Building-T, Room T129
Parking: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors' Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please register
by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Organized By: The IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society and
Broadcast Technology Society and Algonquin College IEEE Student Branch
Contact: For more details: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc/index.html or
open the attached pdf file.
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3. Two seminars: UWB Antennas and Channel Characteristics &
3D Propagation Modeling and Characteristics for High Speed Mobiles,
by AP/MTT Joint Chapter
Title 1: UWB Antennas and Channel Characteristics
Title 2: 3D Propagation Modeling and Characteristics for High Speed Mobiles

Speaker: Prof. Werner Wiesbeck, Distinguished Lectures
Date: February 27, 2008
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Place: Conference Room on the 2nd floor GenieView Inc., 3701 Carling
Avenue,
CRC Building 94,Ottawa, ON, K2H 8S2
Admission: Free
Organized By:IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT Joint Chapter
Contact: qiubo.ye@crc.ca

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4. Seminar: HIGH TEMPERATURE INSULATING MATERIALS,
by Chapters of DEIS, IMS, and PES

Title: High Temperature Insulating Materials
Speaker: Gorur Govinda Raju, Emeritus Professor University of Windsor,
Windsor, CANADA
Date: February 27, 2008.
TIME: 10:00 a.m. Registration and Networking; 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Seminar.
Place: National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa,
Building M-50,Room 115.
PARKING: No fee at the visitor's parking. Please respect restricted areas.
Organized & Sponsored By: the Joint IEEE Ottawa-Montreal Section DEIS
Chapter,
IEEE Ottawa IMS, PES Chapters, and EPMG of
INMS/NRC.
Admission: Free but registration is required for security reasons.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail, to Mahmoud
Abou-Dakka.
CONTACT: Mahmoud.Abou-Dakka@nrc.ca, almuhtadi@ieee.org, vgroza@ieee.org

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B. IEEE News

1. IEEE Plaques Presentation to Minister of Natural Resource Canada

On behalf of IEEE Canada and IEEE Canada Electrical Power Conference
Wahab Almuhtadi, Chair of IEEE Ottawa Section and Branislav Djokic,
Past Chair of IEEE Ottawa Section met with Honorable Mr. Gary Lunn, P.C.,M.P
.,
Minister of Natural Resource Canada on Dec. 6, 2007 in his office at
the Parliament Hill, and presented Plagues of Recognitions to the Minister
for

his kind support to the IEEE Electrical Power Conference 2007 held in
Montreal

(www.ieee.ca/epc07) and to the Electrical Power Symposium 2006 held in
Ottawa
(www.ieee.org/eps2006) . Both Chair and Past Chair invited the Minister to
attend the upcoming IEEE Electrical Power Conference 2008 that will be held
in Vancouver (www.ieee.ca/epc08). The Minister accepted the invitation.

2. IEEE ICCST Conference, Prague, Czech Rep.

Title: 2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
Date: October 13 - 16, 2008
Place: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
More information: visit http://www.ieee.org/iccst08

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March 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - March 2008
Email:ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor:Khalid Mahmood
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. IEEE VTS Ottawa Chapter announcement March 04, 2008
2. IEEE CAS/EDS/SSCS Ottawa Chapter announcement March 04, 2008
3. IEEE Student Branches (uOttawa & Carleton)
Competition announcement March 08 & 09, 2008
4. IEEE MTT/AP Chapter announcement March 19, 2008
5. IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapters announcement March 26, 2008
6. IEEE MTT Ottawa Chapter announcement March 31, 2008

B. Manage Your Subscription
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A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. IEEE VTS Ottawa Chapter Workshop announcement
TITLE: Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration: The Vehicle of the Future
SPEAKERS: Steve Shladover & Jim Misener, PATH, U Cal, Berkeley, CA &
Barry Pekilis, Transport Canada
DATE: Tues 4th March 2008
TIME: registration/refreshment ( 18:15 - 19:00); workshop (19:00 - 21:15)
LOCATION: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., Ottawa; Courtside B room
PARKING: Free parking in east lot
ADMISSION: free admission; no charge refreshments if registered by 01 March 2008
REGISTRATION: Hugh Reekie 613-728-5343 h.reekie@iee.org
(mailto:H.reekie@ieee.org subject=IEEE/IET - VII Workshop 04 March)
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE-VTS Ottawa Chapter & IET-UK Ottawa Network - joint
CONTACT: Hugh Reekie 613-728-5343 h.reekie@iee.org
ABSTRACT: A 3-presentation Workshop to review recent progress & projects in the Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration field. In particular, developments in the
USA and Canada will be discussed.
DETAILS: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.vts.html
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2. IEEE CAS/EDS/SSCS Ottawa Chapter announcement
TITLE: Quantum Information-future of microelectronics
SPEAKER: Dr. Pawel Hawrylak, /National Research Council of Canada
DATE: Mar. 4, 2008,
TIME: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
LOCATION: 4124ME, Department of Electronics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel
By Drive,
PARKING: applicable charge
ADMISSION: free (first come, first seated)
REGISTRATION: N/A
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Section CAS/EDS/SSCS.
CONTACT: Ihsan Erdin, Ram Achar
URL: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/eds_cas_sscs/index.htm
Abstract:Quantum processing of information requires the development of quantum
systems which are at the same time coherent and quantum in nature, and yet easily
manipulated to process and extract classical information. To meet this challenge
we have embarked on the development of technologies which would allow us to design
and build nano-scale scalable and coherent solid state systems using elementary
building blocks such as single electron spins, single excitons, and single photons
using semiconductor quantum dots.
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3. IEEE Student Branches (uOttawa & Carleton) Competition announcement
TITLE: Battle Royale: uOttawa vs.Carleton LAN Event and Tournament
SPEAKER: none
DATE: Saturday March 8 , 2008 - Sunday March 9, 2008
TIME: 12:00 pm (Saturday) - 1:00 pm (Sunday)
LOCATION: Carleton University - University Centre 2nd Floor - Porter Hall
PARKING: Free on Weekends
ADMISSION: $15 (IEEE Members) $20 (Non-Members) $30 (At the Door)
REGISTRATION: http://www.battleroyale.ca/site/register.php
ORGANIZED BY: uOttawa Student Branch and Carleton Student Branch
CONTACT: Sarah Tolledo - sarah.tolledo@ieee.org /Farhad Khan -
farhad.khan@ieee.carleton.ca
URL: http://www.battleroyale.ca
ABSTRACT:Battle Royale is the first annual LAN competition between "cross town
rivals", the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. The 24 hour event
will feature tournaments for all the latest PC Games as well as two large
screen projectors playing current generation console games
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4. IEEE MTT/AP Chapter announcement
TITLE: Broadband Electromagnetic Environments and Protection Standards
SPEAKER: Dr. Andrew S. Podgorski-ASR Technologies Inc.,
DATE:Wednesday March 19, 2008
TIME:6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
LOCATION:FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive, Suite 203,Ottawa, ON, K2H 8K7
PARKING:Free
ADMISSION:Free
REGISTRATION:Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca
ORGANIZED BY:EMC Chapter and AP/MTT Chapters
CONTACT:Dr.Syed Bokhari, Chair, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca,
Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 277-9311 Dr. Quibo Ye, Chair of
the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters
Qiubo Ye [qiubo.ye@crc.ca]
URL:http://www.fidus.ca
ABSTRACT: Dr. Podgorski's research has extended our knowledge of lightning
current risetimes from 1 µs to 50 ns and that of lectrostatic discharge from
1 ns to 25 ps. This led to the formulation of a Composite Electromagnetic Threat
extending from DC to 100 GHz, which encompasses the standards and protection for
Lightning, Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse, and High Power Microwaves. Composite
Electromagnetic Threat offers an alternative approach to traditional EMI/EMC
immunity testing and hardness assessment that were previously based on the "Brute
Force Approach" found in existing standards.
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5. IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapters announcement
TITLE: Blind Modulation Classification: A Concept Whose Time Has Come
SPEAKER: Dr. Octavia A. Dobre, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada
DATE: Wednesday March 26, 2008.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:45 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. 08:30 p.m.
LOCATION: University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering
(SITE), Boardroom, 5th floor, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
PARKING: NOT free
ADMISSION: Free Free.
REGISTRATION: Registration required. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail
contacting Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society & Broadcast
Technology Society (ComSoc & BTS), Joint Chapter of Joint Chapter of Signal
Processing, Oceanic Engineering, & Geoscience and Remote Sensing (SP, OE, & GRS);
and Joint Chapter of Antennas & Propagation Society, and Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society (AP & MTT)
CONTACT: almuhtadi@ieee.org; hdajani@site.uottawa.ca; qiubo.ye@crc.ca
URL: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc/upcomingevents.html
ABSTRACT: In a world of rapid growth of commercial wireless services,
accommodating the explosive demand for spectrum access, efficiency and
reliability becomes increasingly technically challenging. A solution is provided
by flexible cognitive and intelligent radios, which sense the environment and
respond intelligently, without explicit pre-configuration to define their
functions. Furthermore, implementation of advanced information services for
military applications in a crowded electromagnetic spectrum is a challenging task
for communication engineers. Friendly signals should be securely transmitted and
received, whereas hostile signals must be located, identified and jammed.
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6. IEEE MTT Ottawa Chapter announcement
TITLE: Nonlinear Analog Behavioral Modeling of Microwave Devices and Circuits
SPEAKER: Dr. David Root - IEEE MTT Distinguished Microwave Lecturer Agilent
Technologies, Santa Rosa, California
DATE:Monday March 31, 2008
TIME: 12:00-12:50pm (overview) 1:00-2:00pm (technical advances)
LOCATION: 4124 Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton University
PARKING: applicable charge
ADMISSION: free
REGISTRATION: no
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP, CPMT, CAS/EDS/SSCS Chapters and
Department of Electronics, Carleton University
CONTACT: qjz@doe.carleton.ca or qiubo.ye@crc.ca
ABSTRACT: This lecture introduces general concepts and specific techniques
for effective (efficient, general, and accurate) nonlinear behavioral
modeling of microwave semiconductor devices and functional circuit blocks.
A behavioral model is a simplified but accurate model of a lower-level
component in the design hierarchy that simulates efficiently at the next
higher level of abstraction. A unified treatment at both the device and
functional block level is a distinguishing feature of this presentation. So
too is the application to behavioral models constructed from real
measurements and also from simulations starting from a detailed (complex)
model. The emphasis is placed on the combination of nonlinearity and
dynamics. Nonlinearity includes harmonic and inter-modulation distortion,
clipping, etc.

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March 2008 2nd issue

Title: Mechanical reliability in electronics - A lifetime of strange failures and conditions

Organized by: Ottawa Chapter's Reliability Society, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Microwaves/Antennas/Propagation Society, Educational Activities, and Algonquin College Student Branch
Speaker: D. Hugh M. Reekie
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (IEEE Members 6:00-6:30PM light sandwiches and refreshments, plus networking)
Location: Woodroffe Campus (room will be confirmed shortly), Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada
Parking: Free in lots 8, 9, 10 only after 6M, otherwise pay parking
Admission: FREE for members and non-members. However, members get light food and any presentation notes. Non-IEEE members can opt-in for the light food and presentation notes for $5 (state intention by e-mail and pay at the door).
Registration: RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
Contact: names/e-mail address of the organizer(s)
Biography: Hugh has been an electronics engineer all his career - but he nearly switched to mechanical engineering at college so perhaps he is one of the first mechatronics Engineers! After graduation in 1964 he specialized in Solid state microwave, building LNAs, varactor multipliers and "solid state klystrons"- and finally IMPATT oscillators after coming to Canada from the UK in 1969. After a stint building Anik A and C series spacecraft components, (also at Northern Telecom) he settled down with field trips all over Canada, upgrading Earth Stations for Telesat Canada. After building the world's first fully-integrated satellite news-gathering vehicle in the mid 1980s, he moved to the Communications Research Centre as an Applications Engineer on the MSAT program; there he assisted with satellite conference management, including the International IEEE VNIS 93, Ottawa. He started up the MTT and VTS Chapters in Ottawa; presently he chairs the AESS and VTS Chapters, and remains very involved with IET-UK (formerly IEE) local activities.
Abstract: In his presentation he describes a number of mechanically-related faults or conditions that affect electrical performance. In addition to standard electronic problems, Hugh will mention a number of specific instances of performance deterioration that can be directly related to the mechanical situation; some of the effects were from very strange mechanisms, requiring a strong knowledge of manufacturing processes to understand and diagnose. In conclusion, Hugh will suggest some "Field Philosophies" for the Project Engineer.
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April 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - April 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. IEEE Computer Society - Ottawa Chapter Technical Talk
A Platform-based Approach to System Prototyping April 15, 2008
2. IEEE Ottawa Section Life Members Affinity Group aanouncement
April 24, 2008
3. International Workshop on MEdical MEasurements and Applications (MeMeA)
May 9 - 10, 2008

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
Toronto, Ontario May 4-7 2008
3. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 6 - 7, 2008
4. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008
5. A report on Hugh's talk on March 18, 2008
"A lifetime of strange failures and conditions"

C. Non-IEEE News and Events
1. "The History of Flight and the Future of Aviation" Ottawa Flying Club
May 14, 2008
2. Short Course on Antenna Design, Testing & Wireless Propagation
June 2 - 5, 2008

D. Manage Your Subscription
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A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. TITLE: A Platform-based Approach to System Prototyping
SPEAKER: Hugh Pollitt-Smith, Senior Engineer, Systems Design at CMC Microsystems
DATE: Tuesday April 15th, 2008
TIME: 9:30 - 11:00
LOCATION: Room 5084, SITE Building, University of Ottawa
PARKING:
ADMISSION: Free of charge
REGISTRATION:
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Computer Society - Ottawa Chapter
CONTACT: Rami Abielmona, rabielmo@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: Can be found at the following URL http://ottawa.ieee.ca/cs//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=37
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2. TITLE: Energy From the Sun: Practical Photovoltaics
SPEAKER: Raye Thomas, LSM
DATE: Thursday, April 24, 2008
TIME: 19:30 - 21:30
LOCATION: Good Companions Building, 670 Albert St., Ottawa
South-East corner of Wellington/Slater/Albert and Empress
PARKING: Free - behind building, off Empress
ADMISSION: Free - Light refreshments.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Section Life Members Affinity Group
CONTACT: Dave Coll, dccinfo@sympatico.ca, 613-225-4229
ABSTRACT: Convivial conversation with old friends, colleagues, and
acquantances - talk by Raye Thomas on the current state of photovoltaics and
the practical applications of solidstate energy sources.
_______________________________________________________________________________

3. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Workshop on MEdical MEasurements and
Applications (MeMeA)
SPEAKERS: from Industry, Research Institutions, and Academia
DATE: May 9 - 10, 2008
TIME: on the website http://memea.ieee-ims.org/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
PARKING:on the website http://memea.ieee-ims.org/
Admission:on the website http://memea.ieee-ims.org/
REGISTRATION: To ensure a seat for this Workshop, please click here
http://memea.ieee-ims.org/registration.php
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter
CONTACTS: Voicu Groza and Chris Dyer
ABSTRATCT:not applicable/not provided
_______________________________________________________________________________

B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in February 2008.

* Benjamin, Guy -- i)Consumer Electronics Society
ii)Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
iii)Technology Management Society
* Franklin, C -- Society Unkown/Winner of Julian C. Smith medal from EIC
* Wang, Demin -- Broadcast Technology Society

Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!

IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. TITLE: Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
DATE:May 4 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
LOCATION: Sheraton Fallsview, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, and Toronto Section
CONTACTS: Conference Secretariat, CCECE 2008, IEEE Canada, PO Box 63005,
University Postal Outlet, 102 Plaza Drive, Dundas, ON, L9H 4H0 ,
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
CONTACTS: Conference Secretariat, CCECE 2008, IEEE Canada, PO Box 63005,
University Postal Outlet, 102 Plaza Drive, Dundas, ON, L9H 4H0 ,
Ph/Fax: (905) 628 - 9554, Email: admin@ieee.ca
ABSTRACT:Not applicabel/Not provided
____________________________________________________________________________

3. TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSER: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_______________________________________________________________________________

4. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology (ICCST), Prague, Czech Rep.
SPEAKERS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
DATE: October 13 - 16, 2008
TIME: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
LOCATION: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
PARKING: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ADMISSION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
REGISTRATION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section & IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Society
TECHNICAL SPONSER: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
CONTACTS: Milo Klíma and Gordon Thomas
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. A Report on Hugh's Presentation of March 18, 2008

"Hugh Reekie presented "Mechanical Reliability in Electronics:
A lifetime of strange failures and conditions" to 21 members and three
non-members on March 18th at Algonquin College. Using examples, Hugh showed how
we, as engineers, can become distracted with complicated tools and metrology when
solving a problem and lose the simple or evident signs and solutions.
The reassurng advice from experience was that its okay to resist the pressure
and solve problems after a good rest as time helps the mind understand the
options, benefits and risks for choosing the better solution. He then spent
the majority of the time demonstrating how problems in electronics are primarily
mechanical based not electrical, and how some mechanical problems have been
overcome throughout history and throughout his career."

_______________________________________________________________________________

C. Non-IEEE Events

1. TITLE: "The History of Flight and the Future of Aviation"
as part of The Ottawa Flying Club Annual Wings Dinner and 80th Anniversary
celebration.
SPEAKER: Burt Rutan, Aerospace Engineer and Winner of the Ansari
$10 Million X-Prize
DATE: Wednesday May 14, 2008
TIME: Cocktail (18:00), Dinner (19:00)
LOCATION: Cleo Banquet Hall; 156 Cleopatra Drive (near Merivale &
Hunt Club) Ottawa, ON www.cleobanquethall.com
PARKING: FREE
ADMISSION: $80/ticket or $1,000/ table sponsorship
REGISTRATION: 613-523-2142 or Dispatch@ofc.ca with the subject line
"Burt Rutan Tickets"
ORGANIZED BY: The Ottawa Flying Club www.ofc.ca
CONTACT: Marc Desjardins, Vice-President (613) 580-2424 x 28821
Marc.Desjardins@ottawa.ca

ABSTRACT: The Ottawa Flying Club is proud to welcome Burt Rutan as
their Keynote speaker during their Annual Wings Dinner banquet,
celebrating the graduation of newly licensed Private and Commercial
Pilots. Mr. Rutan has been quoted as being "The man responsible for
more innovations in modern aviation than any living engineer."
Burt Rutan has set an important example for scientists, engineers and
inventors in all disciplines to be bold in their scientific and
technological innovation efforts. Throughout his distinguished career,
he has demonstrated the extraordinary difference that a creative spirit,
driven by curiosity, can make to the advancement of humankind.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/5
_______________________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE : Short Course on Antenna Design, Testing & Wireless Propagation
SPEAKERS : Gilles Delisle, Daniel Janse van Rensburg & Derek McNamara
DATE : 2 - 5 June 2008
TIME : 08:30 - 16:30 Each Day
LOCATION : Campus of the University of Ottawa . Details of venue will be sent
upon registration.
PARKING : Details will be sent upon registration.
ADMISSION : Please consult http://www.nearfield.com/ShortCourses.htm
REGISTRATION : Please consult http://www.nearfield.com/ShortCourses.htm
ORGANIZED BY: Electromagnetic Measurement Consultants
CONTACT : Derek McNamara, School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa . Tel : +1 (613)562-5800 Ext.6221
E-Mail : mcnamara@site.uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT : This short course will provide an introduction to antenna concepts,
design and testing., as well as associated wireless propagation modeling. It is
intended for engineers and technicians who want to obtain a better understanding
of antennas, and the physical concepts that describe their operation and
characteristics. The course will consist of lecture presentations on general
concepts applicable to all antenna types, as well as discussions on specific
antennas in order to appreciate the application of such concepts.

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May 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - May 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
______________________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Radio Astronomy in Canada: 60 years of monitoring at 10.7 cm
May 01, 2008
2. International Workshop on MEdical MEasurements and Applications (MeMeA)
May 09 - 10, 2008
3. EMC Chapter Distinguished Lecturer Presentation May 15, 2008

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. Life Members Affinity Group meeting Update and future plans
3. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
Niagra Falls, Ontario May 04 - 07 2008
4. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 06 - 07, 2008
5. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008

C. Non-IEEE News and Events
1. Strategic Usability Engineering Workshop, May 12, 2008
2. "The History of Flight and the Future of Aviation" Ottawa Flying Club
May 14, 2008
3. Short Course on Antenna Design, Testing & Wireless Propagation
June 02 - 05, 2008

D. Manage Your Subscription
_______________________________________________________________________________

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. TITLE: Radio Astronomy in Canada: 60 years of monitoring at 10.7 cm
SPEAKER: Ken Tapping, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory,
National Research Council, Penticton, BC
DATE: Thursday 1st May 2008
TIME: Optional Pub Supper (nearby in building) 6:30 pm (please pre-register);
presentation 8:00 - 9:30 pm
LOCATION: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive - Courtside A Room, East Block
PARKING: free parking in the east lot
ADMISSION: All welcome - no charge
REGISTRATION: pre-registration appreciated - boteler@iee.org
ORGANIZED BY: Ottawa Chapter IEEE - AESS and IET-UK Ottawa Network
CONTACT: details - David Boteler boteler@iee.org
http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.AESS.html
ABSTRACT: The story of how measurements with WWII radar parts became an
international solar index used in everything from satellite drag models, radio

propagation predictions, weather radar calibrations, space weather forecasting
and climate change studies.

_______________________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Workshop on MEdical MEasurements and
Applications (MeMeA)
SPEAKERS: from Industry, Research Institutions, and Academia
DATE: May 9 - 10, 2008
TIME: on the website http://memea.ieee-ims.org/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
PARKING:on the website http://memea.ieee-ims.org/
Admission:on the website http://memea.ieee-ims.org/
REGISTRATION: To ensure a seat for this Workshop, please click here
http://memea.ieee-ims.org/registration.php
Engineers in Transition are eligible to register at student rate.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter
CONTACTS: Voicu Groza and Chris Dyer
ABSTRATCT:not applicable/not provided
____________________________________________________________________________

3. TITLE: EMC fundamentals and Computer modeling
SPEAKER: Dr Franz Schlagenhaufer, Senior Research Fellow
The University of Western Australia Western Australian Telecommunications
Research Institute (WATRI) Perth , Western Australia
Franz Schlagenhaufer [franz-s@watri.org.au]
DATE: Thursday, May 15, 2008
TIME: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
LOCATION: FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive, Suite 203 , Ottawa ,
Ontario , K2H 8K7 www.fidus.ca
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: E-mail address
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter
CONTACT: Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter
Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca, Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 277-9311
ABSTRACT: Grounding, shielding, filtering and cabling/wiring are important
design criteria to achieve EMC on the equipment level. In order to avoid
costly
overkill solutions and to tailor individual measures in the case of
contradicting requirements, they must not be understood as cookbook style
recipes but their application must be based on sound theoretical principles.
this talk refreshes electromagnetic theory in a nutshell, but avoids the
mathematical burden. The nature of electric and magnetic dipoles, estimation of

current flow in ground planes, EMC characteristics of transmission lines are
some of the topics that covered in this presentation.
_______________________________________________________________________________

B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in March 2008.

* Hemati, Saied -- Society Unknown (Subscriber of Electronics Magazine)
* Wu, Jing -- Communications Society

Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!

IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
_____________________________________________________________________________

2. Life Members Affinity Group meeting Update future plans

The Ottawa Section Life Members Affinity Group held it's second meeting
of the year on April 24th at the Good Companions. Twelve Life members and
one guests attended; Raye Thomas (LS) presented an informative talk about
the state of solar energy and photovoltaics.

The Group is looking forward to an active program of meetings in the Fall -
all Life Members are invited to attend. Contact Dave Coll at dccoll@ieee.org
David C. Coll, Ph.D., FCAE, FIEEE, P.Eng.
Chair, Ottawa Section Life Members Affinity Group
for information, or with ideas about speakers, site visits, or other
activities.
____________________________________________________________________________

3. TITLE: Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
DATE:May 4 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
LOCATION: Sheraton Fallsview, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, and Toronto Section
CONTACTS: Conference Secretariat, CCECE 2008, IEEE Canada, PO Box 63005,
University Postal Outlet, 102 Plaza Drive, Dundas, ON, L9H 4H0 ,
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/ccece08
CONTACTS: Conference Secretariat, CCECE 2008, IEEE Canada, PO Box 63005,
University Postal Outlet, 102 Plaza Drive, Dundas, ON, L9H 4H0 ,
Ph/Fax: (905) 628 - 9554, Email: admin@ieee.ca
ABSTRACT:Not applicabel/Not provided
____________________________________________________________________________

4. TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSER: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_______________________________________________________________________________

1. TITLE: Strategic Usability Engineering Workshop
incomplete details submitted, contact Andrew Patrick Email: andrew@capchi.org
more information available at - http://www.capchi.org/workshop.html
______________________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE: "The History of Flight and the Future of Aviation"
as part of The Ottawa Flying Club Annual Wings Dinner and 80th Anniversary
celebration.
SPEAKER: Burt Rutan, Aerospace Engineer and Winner of the Ansari $10 Million
X-Prize
DATE: Wednesday May 14, 2008
TIME: Cocktail (18:00), Dinner (19:00)
LOCATION: Cleo Banquet Hall; 156 Cleopatra Drive (near Merivale & Hunt Club)
Ottawa, ON www.cleobanquethall.com
PARKING: FREE
ADMISSION: $80/ticket or $1,000/ table sponsorship
REGISTRATION: 613-523-2142 or Dispatch@ofc.ca with the subject line
"Burt Rutan Tickets"
ORGANIZED BY: The Ottawa Flying Club www.ofc.ca
CONTACT: Marc Desjardins, Vice-President (613) 580-2424 x 28821
Marc.Desjardins@ottawa.ca

3. TITLE : Short Course on Antenna Design, Testing & Wireless Propagation
SPEAKERS : Gilles Delisle, Daniel Janse van Rensburg & Derek McNamara
DATE : 2 - 5 June 2008
TIME : 08:30 - 16:30 Each Day
LOCATION : Campus of the University of Ottawa . Details of venue will be sent
upon registration.
PARKING : Details will be sent upon registration.
ADMISSION : Please consult http://www.nearfield.com/ShortCourses.htm
REGISTRATION : Please consult http://www.nearfield.com/ShortCourses.htm
ORGANIZED BY: Electromagnetic Measurement Consultants
CONTACT: Derek McNamara, School of Information Technology & Engineering (SITE),

University of Ottawa . Tel : +1 (613)562-5800 Ext.6221
E-Mail : mcnamara@site.uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT : This short course will provide an introduction to antenna
concepts,design and testing., as well as associated wireless
propagation modeling. It is intended for engineers and technicians
who want to obtain a better understanding of antennas, and the
physical concepts that describe their operation and characteristics.
The course will consist of lecture presentations on general concepts
applicable to all antenna types, as well as discussions on specific
antennas in order to appreciate the application of such concepts.

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May 2008 2nd issue

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - MAY 2008 (2nd Issue)
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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IEEE Ottawa 6th Annual Robotics Competition

Organized by: IEEE Ottawa Section - Robotics Competition Committee
Date & Time: Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:00-17:00
Location: SITE Building, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Admission: All welcome - no charge
Details: http://orc.ottawa.ieee.ca/
Contacts: Rob Woolley <rcwoolley@ieee.org> and Rami Abielmona
<rabielmo@ieee.org>
Abstract: The Ottawa Robot Competition aims at bringing engineering
awareness to students in grades 7 and 8 by presenting a fun and
instructive approach to problem solving. Using Robolab LEGO
MINDSTORMS/NXT kits, the students have around 8-10 weeks to design and
build an autonomous robot. In teams of four to seven, they learn
engineering concepts with the help of a mentor and come together to
produce a working prototype

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June 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - June 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_______________________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Joint Seminar of the AP/MTT, CPMT Chapters and Department of Electronics,
Carleton University June 23, 2008
2. The IEEE Reliability Society announcement September 2008
3. ROSE 2008 International Workshop on RObotic and Sensors Environments
Ottawa, Ontario October 17 - 18, 2008

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 06 - 07, 2008
3. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008
4. Call for Fellow Nominations
5. Clearing Up Confusion in Fellows Categories

C. Non-IEEE News and Events

1. Short Course on Antenna Design, Testing & Wireless Propagation
June 02 - 05, 2008
2. "Blood on the Tracks" as reported by Tony Bailetti
3. EMC Design Engineers in demand!, Google needs them

D. Manage Your Subscription
_______________________________________________________________________________

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. TITLE:Current Status and Future Trends for Si and Compound MMICs in
Millimeter-wave Regime and Related Issues for System on Chip (SOC) and/or
System in Package (SIP) Applications
SPEAKER: Professor Huei Wang - IEEE MTT Distinguished Microwave Lecturer
National Taiwan University
DATE: June 23, 2008
TIME: 4:00-5:00pm
LOCATION: 4124 Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton University
PARKING: applicable charge
ADMISSION: free
REGISTRATION: n/a
ORGANIZED BY: Joint Seminar of the IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT, CPMT Chapters and
Department of Electronics, Carleton University
CONTACT: qiubo.ye@crc.ca
ABSTRACT: The anticipated presentation will cover the current status and
future trends of millimeter-wave MMICs, including those using III-V compound
(GaAs, InP, GaN, etc.) and Si-based (CMOS, SiGe HBT and BiCMOS) MMIC
technologies. Millimeter-wave MMICs used to be applied to military and
astronomy systems for long time and started to be utilized for civil
applications in the decade, such as communications and automotive radars. The
evolution of IC technologies has enabled the performance of Si-based MMICs
over 100 GHz, even in standard bulk CMOS processes. This is believed to have a
major impact in the future development of millimeter-wave systems.Since
low-cost mass-production potential pushes forward the technology, a very high
integration of circuit functions on a chip, such as RF, base-band circuitry,
automatic-control for a steady operation, and maybe even the antenna, etc.
should be included, and thus the system on chip (SOC) issues should be
addressed, especially in MMW regime. Moreover, millimeter-wave packaging cost
always dominated in the module development.In order to simplify the assembly
and reduced cost, the concept of system in package (SIP) has been proposed.
This presentation will also survey the current technologies for SOC and SIP
and discuss related issues and challenges.
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. The IEEE Reliability Society in conjunction with its Ottawa Chapter, and
the Student Branch coordinators will be hosting a series of presentations
throughout a day this September.

Your action is needed:
* If you wish more detail, or a reminder, as the planning is finalized, OR
* If you wish to sponsor a presentation or the event, OR
* If you wish to volunteer.

contact Raed Abdullah @ E-mail: RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_______________________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: ROSE 2008 - IEEE International Workshop on RObotic and Sensors
Environments
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
DATE: October 17 - 18, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSER: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
CONTACTS: Pierre Payeur (ppayeur@site.uottawa.ca),
Chris Dyer (cdyer@conferencecatalysts.com)
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_______________________________________________________________________________

B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in April 2008.

* Aweya, James member of none of the Societies
* Gillingham, Peter member of Solid-State Circuits Society

Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!

IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
_______________________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSER: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_______________________________________________________________________________

Nominations are being accepted for the IEEE Fellows class of 2010. The rank of

IEEE Fellow is the institute’s highest member grade, bestowed on an IEEE
Senior Member who has had an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of
the IEEE fields of interest. The deadline for nominations is 1 March 2009.
Senior Members can be nominated in one of four categories:application
engineer/ practitioner, research engineer/scientist, educator, or technical
leader.

The Fellows Web pages contain information regarding the history of the IEEE
Fellows program, the nomination process, access to the Fellows Nomination Kit,
lists of Fellows who are eligible to be references and more about the Fellow
program. Please visit the Fellows website at http:/www.ieee.org/fellows.
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. Clearing Up Confusion in Fellows Categories
*Originally published in The Institute and updated by Fellow Activities
Staff *

Even though it’s been nearly three years since nominations were first accepted
for the newest Fellows category, Application Engineer/Practitioner, few have
been nominated. Out of the 295 Fellows named in 2008, only 20 were from the
practitioner group compared to the 15 in the 268 member Class of 2007 One
reason might be because people are still unsure about the type of work that
qualifies someone for this category, says 2003 IEEE President Michael Adler
and chair of the IEEE Board-appointed 2008 Fellow Ad Hoc Committee, which
reviews the Fellows process. Many nominators are checking off the Research
Engineer/ Scientist box on the nomination forms when perhaps they should be
marking the Application Engineer/Practitioner category, he says. The position
of some nominees is identified to be that of a research scientist or engineer,
but the work for which they are being cited could be considered that of a
practitioner, Adler explains.There were 225 Fellows from the research
engineer/scientist group in the 2008 class. To help clear up any confusion and
help boost the number of Fellows from industry, here is a primer of the type
of work that qualifies for the application engineer/practitioner category. The
person has to be an IEEE senior member in good standing with five years of
service in any grade of membership excluding affiliates, and who has made
significant contributions in any of these areas: product development, systems,
applications or operations, project management or construction, process
development, manufacturing innovations, or codes or standards development.
Adler notes that it could be someone who develops a process to produce a
product that may have been designed by others, and that has had a major
impact. For example, among Fellows in the Application Engineer/Practitioner
category, were those who invented and standardized elements of optical
transmission systems, developed applications for satellite data and airborne
LIDAR(light detection and ranging) imagery, researched signal processing for
acoustics and sound reproduction, and provided technical leadership of a
project that turned novel concepts for computer architecture into commercial
processors. Nominations for the class of 2010 are now being accepted. The
deadline is 1 March 2009. Nomination instructions, forms and additional
information are available on the Fellows web site at http://www.ieee.org/fellows

_______________________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE Events

1. TITLE : Short Course on Antenna Design, Testing & Wireless Propagation
SPEAKERS : Gilles Delisle, Daniel Janse van Rensburg & Derek McNamara
DATE : 2 - 5 June 2008
TIME : 08:30 - 16:30 Each Day
LOCATION : Campus of the University of Ottawa . Details of venue will be sent
upon registration.
PARKING : Details will be sent upon registration.
ADMISSION : Please consult http://www.nearfield.com/ShortCourses.htm
REGISTRATION : Please consult http://www.nearfield.com/ShortCourses.htm
ORGANIZED BY: Electromagnetic Measurement Consultants
CONTACT: Derek McNamara, School of Information Technology & Engineering
(SITE),
University of Ottawa . Tel : +1 (613)562-5800 Ext.6221
E-Mail : mcnamara@site.uottawa.ca

ABSTRACT : This short course will provide an introduction to antenna concepts,
design and testing, as well as associated wireless propagation modeling. It is
intended for engineers and technicians who want to obtain a better
understanding of antennas, and the physical concepts that describe their
operation and characteristics. The course will consist of lecture
presentations on general concepts applicable to all antenna types, as well as
discussions on specific antennas in order to appreciate the application of
such concepts.
_______________________________________________________________________________
2.
Tony Bailetti, host of TIM lecture series at Carleton University reported that
a conference titled "Blood on the tracks" was held on May 15. Initiatives that
came out of this conference are currently described on wiki and are accessible
via:
http://www.talentfirstnetwork.org/wiki/index.php?title=Blood_on_the_tracks:_6_years_of_technical_entrepreneurship_in_Ottawa

IEEE members are invited to contribute to these initiatives or propose better
ones.The greater the number and diversity of talented individuals with a
common purpose, the better the outcomes of these initiatives will be.

We are welcoming good people to be part of this grass roots effort in support
of technical entrepreneurship in Ottawa.
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. Google Job Posting:
Google is currently looking for EMC Design Engineers for the following job
description below (EMC Society). relocation package is very competitive.

http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=77628
Contact Person: "Tod Vanlandingham" <todv@google.com>
EMC Design Engineer - Mountain View
This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: Platforms
Google's global deployment of custom-designed machines has created one of the
largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in existence: cutting-edge
innovation on a huge scale. The Platforms team designs and builds the software,
hardware, computing platform and networking technologies that power all of
Google's services. The role: EMC Design Engineer As an EMC Engineer in
Platforms Engineering, you will play a key role in the development of one of
the world's most impressive computing infrastructures! Your objective will be
to collaborate closely with our Hardware Design Teams to develop, test and
qualify products to be compliant with the relevant worldwide EMC standards and
regulatory requirements. This will involve engaging with various disciplines
(Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, Power etc) as early as possible in the R&D
cycle to ensure compliance by design rather than retrofit at a later time. In
addition you will be required to ensure all formal product certification
documentation and labeling is in place for all deployment jurisdictions.

Responsibilities:
Work closely with hardware design teams and suppliers to understand new
project architectures and requirements and subsequently provide design input,
develop test plans and conduct compliance testing to extract key data to
validate that all EMC goals are met in accordance with the relevant regulatory
standards and specifications. Resolve complex non-compliant issues by the most
efficient and cost effective methods. Ensure findings, risks and
recommendations are clearly communicated to the various cross functional
teams. Co-ordinate the process of formal certification and subsequently
maintain high quality product technical files and reports. Cultivate good
working relationships with customers, external suppliers, test labs and
manufacturing partners.

Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in EE, or equivalent.M.S. or PhD in EMC or related
discipline desirable. A minimum of 8 years hands-on EMC Design experience
preferably with information Technology Equipment. Strong technical background
and analytical knowledge of EMC and high speed design principles coupled with
familiarity with a variety of software modeling tools. Good general
understanding of hardware design constraints and tradeoffs and an ability to
find cost effective work-arounds where feasible. Ability to simultaneously
investigate multiple avenues to solve problems. Expert knowledge of
international standards and procedures related to obtaining worldwide product
certifications (e.g. FCC, CISPR, ICES, VCCI, etc.). Familiarity with test
equipment such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, LISN's, network analyzers,
current probes, etc. Excellent understanding of product delivery lifecycles
in a dynamic fast paced environment. Strong oral and written communication and
interpersonal skills. Please contact: todv at google.com
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July 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - July 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
______________________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics July 03, 2008
2. LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics II July 10, 2008
3. The IEEE Reliability Society announcement September 2008
4. ROSE 2008 International Workshop on Robotics and Sensors Environments
October 17 - 18, 2008
5. LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics October 24, 2008

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. FPGA Programming competition results, call for volunteers and Worskshop
announcement
3. Symposium on Alternate Energy and Global Synergy July 15, 2008
Toronto, Ontario
4. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 06 - 07, 2008
5. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008
6. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009) May 12-15 2009
Hamilton, Ontario

C. Non-IEEE News and Events
None to report

D. Manage Your Subscription
______________________________________________________________________________

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. TITLE: LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
SPEAKER: Feature Speaker: LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof El-Hang Lee
of National Center for VLSI Photonics, INHA University, South Korea
DATE: Thursday July 3, 2008
TIME: registration/refreshment ( 13:00 - 13:30); seminar ( 13:30 - 16:30)
LOCATION: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: Must Register in Advance by providing the following to
Dr Kexing Liu: kexing.liu@ieee.org by 5:00pm, July 2, 2008
First Name:
Last Name:
Title:
Organization Name:
Phone Number:
Email-address:
IEEE Membership #, if applicable:
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
CONTACT: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: For a list of the talk abstracts, Please visit LEOS Ottawa Chapter
web site for details

______________________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE: LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
SPEAKER:LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Dr Weng Chow Sandia National Laboratory,
USA
DATE: Thursday July 10, 2008
TIME: registration/refreshment ( 8:30 - 9:00); seminar ( 9:00 - 11:30)
LOCATION: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: Must Register in Advance by providing the following to
Dr Kexing Liu: kexing.liu@ieee.org by 5:00pm, July 8, 2008
First Name:
Last Name:
Title:
Organization Name:
Phone Number:
Email-address:
IEEE Membership #, if applicable:
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
CONTACT: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: For a list of the talk abstracts, Please visit LEOS Ottawa Chapter
web site for details
______________________________________________________________________________
3. The IEEE Reliability Society in conjunction with its Ottawa Chapter, and the
Student Branches will be hosting a series of presentations throughout a day
this September. Your action is needed:
* If you wish more detail, or a reminder, as the planning is finalized, OR
* If you wish to sponsor a presentation or the event, OR
* If you wish to volunteer.

contact Raed Abdullah @ E-mail: RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
______________________________________________________________________________
4. TITLE: ROSE 2008 - IEEE International Workshop on Robotics and Sensors
Environments
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
DATE: October 17 - 18, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
CONTACTS: Pierre Payeur (ppayeur@site.uottawa.ca),
Chris Dyer (cdyer@conferencecatalysts.com)
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
______________________________________________________________________________
5. TITLE:LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
SPEAKER: LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Silvano Donati, Dip. Elettronica,
Universita Pavia, Italy
DATE:Friday October 24, 2008
TIME:registration/refreshment ( 8:30 - 9:00); seminar ( 9:00 - 11:30)
LOCATION: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: Must Register in Advance
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
CONTACT: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: For a list of the talk abstracts, Please visit LEOS Ottawa
Chapter web site for details
______________________________________________________________________________

B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in May 2008.

* Al-Azzawi, Abdul member of LEO Society
* Macisaac, Carolyn member of WiE, ComSoc andd EMBS

2. FPGA Programming competition results, call for volunteers and Worskshop
announcement

University of Toronto Team won the Innovate Canada FPGA programming
competition.

We are proud to announce the winners of the 2008 Innovate Canada FPGA
programming competition. This program is sponsored by industry to
encourage risk-taking and innovation at the university levels in the
area of hardware/software co-design. The design competition provided
student groups with leading edge Altera FPGA based development boards,
FPGA design tools from Altera and C-to-FPGA tools from Impulse, and
engineering support from both companies in their efforts to develop
commercially useful and innovative applications.

All of the resulting applications are being made available to the public
via the http://www.innovatecanada.ca website

1st.-Digital Revolution, U. of Toronto:
FPGA-based object recognition project automating object detection.

2nd.-ISE for LEON, U. of Ottawa:
Generation of a fuzzy logic co-processor as instruction set extension
for the LEON processor.

3rd.-CarletonDSP, Carleton U.:
Hardware implementation of a wavelet image compression algorithm.

3rd.- Vidigo, U. of Saskatchewan:
Ethernet transmission of MJPEG stream from standard composite (yellow
RCA) NTSC video signal input.

Honorable mention: Heart rate monitor, Carleton U.:
Heart rate estimator using phonocardiogram (PCG) signals automating
unattended unobtrusive monitoring.

We take the opportunity to invite you to actively participate in the
organization of our next FPGA Workshop to be held in Ottawa on October
14-15, 2008. This event focuses on FPGA technology and the applications
it enables. It marks the beginning of a Canada-wide FPGA programming
competition (January-May 2009) that enables university students to
develop innovative digital systems. Winners are guaranteed publications
and prizes, this year they shared $5,000 in cash prizes. If interested,
contact the event chair: Alfredo Herrera - alfredo.herrera@ieee.org

______________________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: Symposium on Alternate Energy and Global Synergy
SPEAKER: information not available
DATE: Tuesday July 15, 2008
TIME: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION: ELCE Dept. Ryerson University, Toronto
PARKING: information not available
ADMISSION: information not available
REGISTRATION: information not available
ORGANIZED BY: Ryerson University & IEEE Toronto Sections
CONTACT: S (Sreenivasa) Murthy - Visiting Professor Dept of Electrical and
Computer Engineering Ryerson University, Toronto Email: smurthy@ee.ryerson.ca
ABSTRACT: 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 effect ‘Global Synergy’
______________________________________________________________________________

4. TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
______________________________________________________________________________

5. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology (ICCST), Prague, Czech Rep.
SPEAKERS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
DATE: October 13 - 16, 2008
TIME: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
LOCATION: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
PARKING: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ADMISSION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
REGISTRATION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section & IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Society
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
CONTACTS: Milo Klíma and Gordon Thomas
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
______________________________________________________________________________
6. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12 - May 15
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location: The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute of Canada
(EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS:
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009) is a
Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy advisors,
industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new information and ideas
for dealing with climate change and global warming. It also provides an
opportunity for participants to keep abreast of emerging techniques and
technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate
change.

The conference theme:
Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and administrative
responses to address issues associated with the impacts of climate change and
global warming. For more details, visit the "Call for Papers" page.

______________________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE Events
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August 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - August 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
______________________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications and Information Processing
August 18, 2008
2. Lessons Learned from Post 8/13/03 Blackouts September 05, 2008
3. Al Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth"
presented by Nathalie Lavigne of EcoVerde September 23, 2008

4. The IEEE Reliability Society announcement September 25, 2008
5. ROSE 2008 International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments
October 17 - 18, 2008
6. LEOS/NRC/OPRA/OPC Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
October 24, 2008
7. 2008 AGM (Annual General Meeting) -- Pre-Announcement

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section

2. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 06 - 07, 2008
3. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008
4. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009) May 12-15 2009
Hamilton, Ontario

C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
1. UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC, COOP PROGRAM IN MASTER'S IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

D. Manage Your Subscription
______________________________________________________________________________

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. TITLE: Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications and Information Processing
SPEAKER: LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Prem Kumar, Northwestern
University, USA
DATE: Monday, August 18, 2008
TIME: 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
LOCATION: NRC Main Campus, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa; M-50 Auditorium

REGISTRATION: Due to enhanced security at NRC, all participants must register
in advance. RSVP to John Bernard John.Bernard@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
by 5:00pm, August 15, 2008.

For details please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
______________________________________________________________________________
2.TITLE:Lessons Learned from Post 8/13/03 Blackouts:An Educator’s Point of View
SPEAKER: Dr. Mo El-Hawary, IEEE Fellow, IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer,
Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
DATE: Friday 5th September 2008
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:00 p.m.;
Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced Technology,
Building-T, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 (green) & 9
(red). Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: All welcome - Free.
REGISTRATION: pre-registration Registration required. To ensure a seat, please
register by e-mail contacting: almuhtadi@ieee.org.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE PES Ottawa Chapter, IEEE Ottwaw Section and IEEE Canada -
Easetern Area
CONTACT: details - Wahab Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org , and
Amir Aghdam aghdam@ieee.org
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/ottawa/
ABSTRACT: The presentation will focus on the events surrounding the major
Northeast North American blackout which interrupted electric power service to
fifty million people in the US and Canada. We will also highlight earlier and
subsequent blackouts in North America and Europe. Technical causes and the
lessons learned from follow-up system studies will be introduced. The discussion
will then shift to the effect of the findings on how the power engineering
curriculum might reflect these new findings. Opportunities for research and
development are highlighted.
______________________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: Al Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth" presented by Nathalie Lavigne
of EcoVerde.
DATE: September 23, 2008
DURATION: 90 minutes
TIME: to be announced in September's issue
(is preference 8:00AM, 11:30AM, 2:30PM, or 5:30PM?)
LOCATION: to be announced in September's issue
(is preference Algonquin College, University of Ottawa, Carleton U, other
(or vicinity of each)?)
If you wish to influence what will be announced in the September issue,
or wish to express interest in attending and being notified directly,
please e-mail RaedAbdullah@ieee.org with the
subject "Al Gore's 'The Inconvenient Truth' "
______________________________________________________________________________
4. The IEEE Reliability Society in conjunction with its Ottawa Chapter, and
the Student Branches will be hosting a series of presentations throughout the
day this September 25th, 2008. Your action is needed:
* If you wish more detail, or a reminder, as the planning is finalized, OR
* If you wish to sponsor a presentation or the event, OR
* If you wish to volunteer.

contact Raed Abdullah @ E-mail: RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
______________________________________________________________________________
5. TITLE: ROSE 2008 - IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors
Environments
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
DATE: October 17 - 18, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
CONTACTS: Pierre Payeur (ppayeur@site.uottawa.ca),
Chris Dyer (cdyer@conferencecatalysts.com)
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
______________________________________________________________________________
6. TITLE:LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
SPEAKERS: 1. LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Silvano Donati,
Dip. Elettronica, Universita Pavia, Italy
SUBJECT: Coupling Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers and Applications to
Self-Mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
2. John C. Cartledge Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Queen’s University, Canada
SUBJECT: Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic
Communications
DATE:Friday October 24, 2008
TIME: 8:30 a.m. – noon
LOCATION: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: Must Register in Advance
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
CONTACT: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: For a list of the talk abstracts, Please visit LEOS Ottawa
Chapter web site for details
______________________________________________________________________________
7. 2008 AGM -- Pre-Announcement
The event will follow a similar dinner format as in 2007 and will be held
late October, early November. Request to audition (or recommend for audition)
for MC may be placed with Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section Chair
almuhtadi@ieee.org To save the section money, if you wish to be notified by
e-mail only, send your request to Alfredo Herrera, IEEE Ottawa Section
Secretary alfredo.herrera@ieee.org If you wish to volunteer, contact Wahab
Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section Chair almuhtadi@ieee.org Any further
suggestions, comments, questions or concerns may be addressed by Raed Abdullah,
IEEE Ottawa Section Vice-Chair RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
______________________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in June 2008.

* Sze, Kin member of 1) Antennas and Propagation Society
2) Microwave theory and Techniques Society

* Wa James, Tam member of 1) Signal Procesing Society

* Zhonggui, Xiang member of 1) Antennas and Propagation Society
2) Components, Packaging and Manufacturing
Technology Society
3) Microwave Theory and Techniques Society

2. TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
______________________________________________________________________________

3. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
(ICCST), Prague, Czech Rep.
SPEAKERS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
DATE: October 13 - 16, 2008
TIME: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
LOCATION: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
PARKING: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ADMISSION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
REGISTRATION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section & IEEE Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Society
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
CONTACTS: Milo Klíma and Gordon Thomas
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
______________________________________________________________________________
4. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12 - May 15
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location: The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute of Canada
(EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009) is a
Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy advisors,
industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new information and
ideas for dealing with climate change and global warming. It also provides an
opportunity for participants to keep abreast of emerging techniques and
technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate
change.

The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and administrative
responses to address issues associated with the impacts of climate change and
global warming. For more details, visit the "Call for Papers" page.

______________________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements

1. UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC, COOP PROGRAM IN MASTER'S IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
Have you thought about pursuing a master's degree in project management?
Is your organization looking for newly graduated project managers?
The University of Quebec in Outaouais can help you; its program is
North America's biggest and is fully endorsed by the Project Management
Institute. Although it is a francophone stream, most gradates are bilingual
and fully motivated.
The University of Quebec in Outaouais is looking for partners to place its
COOP students from the master's in project management; and as always, they are
interested in anyone wanting to join the program. Please contact:

Dr AZONDÉKON, Sébastien
Professor in administrative sciences and director of the master's program in
project management
Tel: (819)595-3900, ext. 1936, sebastien.azondekon@uqo.ca

BIRON, Geneviève
Manager, COOP programs, project management master's
Tel: (819)595-3900, ext. 1762, genevieve.biron@uqo.ca

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September 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - September 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. Lessons Learned from Post 08/13/03 Blackouts September 05, 2008
2. IEEE Computer Society-Ottawa Chapter technical talk
September 09, 2008
3. Al Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth"
presented by Nathalie Lavigne of EcoVerde September 23, 2008
4. The IEEE Reliability Society announcement September 25, 2008
5. The IEEE Ottawa Chapter of TMC and October 03, 2008
Ottawa Chapter of PEO joint announcement
6. ROSE 2008 International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors
Environments October 17 - 18, 2008
7. LEOS/NRC/OPRA/OPC Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
October 24, 2008
8. 2008 AGM (Annual General Meeting) -- Pre-Announcement

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section

2. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008)"Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 06 - 07, 2008
3. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008
4. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009

C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
1. NATO Advanced Study Institute 2008 announcement
(location Ottawa) November 25 - December 05, 2008

D. Manage Your Subscription
_____________________________________________________________________

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1.TITLE:Lessons Learned from Post 8/13/03 Blackouts:
An Educator’s Point of View
SPEAKER: Dr. Mo El-Hawary, IEEE Fellow, IEEE PES Distinguished
Lecturer, Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CAN
DATE: Friday 5th September 2008
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:00 p.m.;
Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced
Technology, Building-T, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8
(green) & 9 (red). Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: All welcome - Free.
REGISTRATION: pre-registration Registration required.To ensure a
seat, please register by e-mail contacting: almuhtadi@ieee.org.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE PES Ottawa Chapter, IEEE Ottwaw Section and IEEE
Canada - Easetern Area
CONTACT: details - Wahab Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org , and
Amir Aghdam aghdam@ieee.org
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/ottawa/
ABSTRACT: The presentation will focus on the events surrounding the
major Northeast North American blackout which interrupted electric
power service to fifty million people in the US and Canada. We will
also highlight earlier and subsequent blackouts in North America and
Europe. Technical causes and the lessons learned from follow-up
system studies will be introduced. The discussion will then shift to
the effect of the findings on how the power engineering curriculum
might reflect these new findings. Opportunities for research and
development are highlighted.
_____________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE: IEEE Computer Society - Ottawa Chapter technical talk
SPEAKER: Dr. Andy Adler, an Associate,
at Carleton University.
DATE: Tuesday September 9, 2008
TIME: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
LOCATION: Minto Board Room (First floor, near the main entrance)
Minto (CASE) Engineering Building
Carleton University - 1125 Colonel By Drive
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Computer Society - Ottawa Chapter
URL of the details: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/cs/
CONTACT: Email: Rami Abielmona, rabielmo@ieee.org
ABSTRACT:
The IEEE Computer Society - Ottawa Chapter will be holding a chapter
technical talk entitled 'Biometrics & Authentication Technologies:
security issues', and will be given by Dr. Andy Adler, an Associate
Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Biomedical
Engineering at Carleton University.
_____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: Al Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth" presented by
Nathalie Lavigne of EcoVerde.
DATE: September 23, 2008
DURATION: 90 minutes
TIME: contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
LOCATION: contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
For further details please contact Raed Abdullah at e-mail
RaedAbdullah@ieee.org with the subject
"Al Gore's 'The Inconvenient Truth' "
_____________________________________________________________________
4. The IEEE Reliability Society in conjunction with its Ottawa
Chapter,and the Student Branches will be hosting a series of
presentations throughout the day this September 25th, 2008. Your
action is needed:
* If you wish more detail, or a reminder, as the planning is
finalized, OR
* If you wish to sponsor a presentation or the event, OR
* If you wish to volunteer.

contact Raed Abdullah @ E-mail: RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
5. The Ottawa Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario jointly with
the IEEE Ottawa Section Technology Management Council cordially
invites you to attend a special information session. The event will
provide our audience with a unique learning opportunities in HOW TO
maintain your company’s competitiveness and HOW TO leverage the
skills of Canadian engineering workers who may be challenged when
seeking employment: older, younger, immigrants and under employed
engineers.

SPEAKERS: Ms. Lisa MacLeod MPP, Dr. Linda Manning, Ms. D. Lynne Watt,
Mr. Gilles Bérubé, Mr. Norm Sterling MPP.
DATE: Friday, October 3, 2008
TIME: 07:30 a.m. to 08:00 a.m. FOR Registration, Coffee & networking)
08:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Presentations and Discussions
LOCATION: Air Force Officers' Mess, 158 Gloucester St, Ottawa
ADMISSION: $15 (Free to PEO and IEEE members)
REGISTRATION: Required as Space is limited for this event; so please
confirm your attendance before September 23, 2008.
CONTACT: Wenqin_shao@yahoo.ca or 613 954-6125.
____________________________________________________________________

6. TITLE: ROSE 2008 - IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and
Sensors Environments
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
DATE: October 17 - 18, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
CONTACTS: Pierre Payeur (ppayeur@site.uottawa.ca),
Chris Dyer (cdyer@conferencecatalysts.com)
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
____________________________________________________________________
7. TITLE:LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
SPEAKERS: 1. LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Silvano Donati,
Dip. Elettronica, Universita Pavia, Italy
SUBJECT: Coupling Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers and Applications
to Self-Mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
2. John C. Cartledge Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Queen’s University, Canada
SUBJECT: Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic
Communications
DATE:Friday October 24, 2008
TIME: 8:30 a.m. – noon
LOCATION: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: Must Register in Advance
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
CONTACT: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: For a list of the talk abstracts, Please visit LEOS Ottawa
Chapter web site for details
_____________________________________________________________________
8. 2008 AGM -- Pre-Announcement
The event will follow a similar dinner format as in 2007 and will be
held late October, early November. Request to audition (or recommend
for audition) for MC may be placed with Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa
Section Chair almuhtadi@ieee.org To save the section money, if you
wish to be notified by e-mail only, send your request to
Alfredo Herrera, IEEE Ottawa Section Secretary
alfredo.herrera@ieee.org If you wish to volunteer,
contact Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section Chair almuhtadi@ieee.org
Any further suggestions, comments, questions or concerns may be
addressed by Raed Abdullah, IEEE Ottawa Section
Vice-Chair RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in
July 2008.

Shamaie, Atid Member of CI and CS
Thayaparan, Thayananthan Society Membership unknown
Wainer, Gabriel Member of CS

2.TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008)
"Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_____________________________________________________________________

3. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security
Technology (ICCST), Prague, Czech Rep.
SPEAKERS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
DATE: October 13 - 16, 2008
TIME: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
LOCATION: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
PARKING: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ADMISSION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
REGISTRATION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section & IEEE Aerospace and
Electronic Systems Society
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
CONTACTS: Milo Klíma and Gordon Thomas
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_____________________________________________________________________
4. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.

The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.

_____________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements

1)NATO Advanced Study Institute 2008 workshop in Laser Control &
Monitoring in New Materials, Biomedicine, Environment, Security &
Defense, will be held November 25th to December 5th, 2008 in Ottawa,
Canada, at Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The ASI is organized by the Center of Research in Photonics
(University of Ottawa). An international faculty of world renowned
researchers will teach various aspects of both fundamental and
applied research in recently emerged directions of laser physics,
fusion, combustion, photobiology and biomedicine, nanotechnology and
material processing to advanced PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
from industry, university and government laboratories. Advanced Study
Institute Co-Directors: Professor Dr. Trevor J Hall, University of
Ottawa, Dr. Sergey V. Gaponenko, National Academy of Sciences of
Belarus Scientific Program Co-Chairs: Dr. Paul Corkum, University of
Ottawa/National Research Council of Canada, Dr. Albert Stolow,
National Research Council of Canada

Website: http://www.photonics.uottawa.ca/nato-asi-2008/
Application deadline: September 1, 2008 (ICIP/CIPI will be providing
partial registration fees, value of $1000, for students. You can
download this grant application forms from www.cipi.ulaval.ca.
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October 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - October 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. The IEEE Ottawa Chapter of TMC and Ottawa Chapter of PEO joint
announcement October 03, 2008
2. ROSE 2008 International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors
Environments October 17 - 18, 2008
3. IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments
and Games (HAVE 2008) October 18-19 2008

4. LEOS/NRC/OPRA/OPC Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
October 24, 2008
5 Double technical presentations by the Ottawa Chapter of AESS on
the topics of The Evolution of Aircraft Avionics and
Radio Waves Across the North October 30, 2008
6. 2008 AGM (Annual General Meeting) -- Pre-Announcement

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section

2. Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008)"Energy Innovation"
Vancouver, British Columbia October 06 - 07, 2008
3. International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)
Prague, Czech Rep. October 13 - 16, 2008
4. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009

C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
1. NATO Advanced Study Institute 2008 announcement
(location Ottawa) November 25 - December 05, 2008

D. Manage Your Subscription
_____________________________________________________________________

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events

1. The Ottawa Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario jointly with
the IEEE Ottawa Section Technology Management Council cordially
invites you to attend a special information session. The event will
provide our audience with a unique learning opportunities in HOW TO
maintain your company’s competitiveness and HOW TO leverage the
skills of Canadian engineering workers who may be challenged when
seeking employment: older, younger, immigrants and under employed
engineers.

SPEAKERS: Ms. Lisa McLeod MPP, Dr. Linda Manning, Ms. D. Lynne Watt,
Mr. Gilles Bérubé, Mr. Norm Sterling MPP.
DATE: Friday, October 3, 2008
TIME: 07:30 a.m. to 08:00 a.m. FOR Registration, Coffee & networking)
08:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Presentations and Discussions
LOCATION: Air Force Officers' Mess, 158 Gloucester St, Ottawa
ADMISSION: $15 (Free to PEO and IEEE members)
REGISTRATION: Required as Space is limited for this event; so please
confirm your attendance before September 23, 2008.
CONTACT: Wenqin_shao@yahoo.ca or 613 954-6125.
____________________________________________________________________

2. TITLE: ROSE 2008 - IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and
Sensors Environments
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
DATE: October 17 - 18, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
LOCATION: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/ROSE2008/
CONTACTS: Pierre Payeur (ppayeur@site.uottawa.ca),
Chris Dyer (cdyer@conferencecatalysts.com)
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual
Environments and Games (HAVE 2008)
SPEAKER: n/a
DATE: October 18-19 2008
TIME: n/a
LOCATION: uOttawa, 800 King Edward Ave., 2nd floor
PARKING: charge
ADMISSION: registration required, see website
REGISTRATION: http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/have2008/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society,
University of Ottawa
CONTACT: Prof. Shervin Shirmohammadi, shervin@discover.uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This is the 7th in a workshop series devoted to advances
in haptic & visual sensors and displays, multimodal perception and
psychophysics, object modeling, multi-sensor data fusion, soft
computing techniques, human-computer interaction, augmented and
virtualized reality, APIs, RTIs, collaborative distributed virtual
environments, and applications.
_____________________________________________________________________
4. TITLE:LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
SPEAKERS: 1. LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Silvano Donati,
Dip. Elettronica, Universita Pavia, Italy
SUBJECT: Coupling Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers and Applications
to Self-Mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
2. John C. Cartledge Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Queen’s University, Canada
SUBJECT: Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic
Communications
DATE:Friday October 24, 2008
TIME: 8:30 a.m. – noon
LOCATION: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: Must Register in Advance
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
CONTACT: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: For a list of the talk abstracts, Please visit LEOS Ottawa
Chapter web site for details
_____________________________________________________________________

5. TITLE 1: The Evolution of Aircraft Avionics - A Distinguished
Lecture Presentation
SPEAKER 1: Myron Kayton - Consultant - AESS California
TITLE 2: Radio Waves Across the North
SPEAKER 2: Ernest Brown - Ottawa
DATE: Thur, Oct 30, 2008
TIME: Presentations (19.00 - 21.30) Bar refreshment break
(20.15 - 20.45);
LOCATION: The Crowsnest, Naval Office's Mess - 78 Lisgar St., Ottawa
PARKING: Adjacent on-street parking
ADMISSION: Free to everyone
REGISTRATION: Preferred by not absolutely necessary - see web page
ORGANIZED BY: AESS Ottawa Chapter
CONTACT: Hugh Reekie - h.reekie@ieee.org
WEB ADDRESS: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.AESS.html
ABSTRACT 1: Aircraft Avionics: * Avionic Subsystems * State of the
Art in 1955 * Antenna farm and avionics * Avionics Hardware * Testing
* Air Traffic Control * Military-Unique Avionics
ABSTRACT 2: A compilation of stories of those radio operators
on stations of the Northwest Staging Route during WWII. Including
Seat-of-your-pants Air Navigation in the Yukon
_____________________________________________________________________
6. 2008 AGM -- Pre-Announcement
(Specific details and program will be announced seperately on a
special edition of this newsletter)
The event will follow a similar dinner format as in 2007 and will be
held late October, early November. Request to audition (or recommend
for audition) for MC may be placed with Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa
Section Chair almuhtadi@ieee.org To save the section money, if you
wish to be notified by e-mail only, send your request to
Alfredo Herrera, IEEE Ottawa Section alfredo.herrera@ieee.org
If you wish to volunteer, contact Wahab Almuhtadi,
IEEE Ottawa Section Chair almuhtadi@ieee.org
Any further suggestions, comments, questions or concerns may be
addressed to Raed Abdullah, IEEE Ottawa Section
Vice-Chair RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

Following members were elevated to Senior Member status in August 2008

* Mahmood, Khalid Member of Control Systems,
(Editor of this Newsletter) Communications and
Computer Society
* Tong, Wen Society Memebrship not listed
* Yu, Richard Member of Communications Society

Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!

IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
_____________________________________________________________________
2.TITLE:Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008)
"Energy Innovation"
SPEAKERS: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
DATE: October 6 - 7, 2008
TIME: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PARKING: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ADMISSION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
REGISTRATION: on the website http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.ca/epc08
CONTACTS: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: 2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security
Technology (ICCST), Prague, Czech Rep.
SPEAKERS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
DATE: October 13 - 16, 2008
TIME: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
LOCATION: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
PARKING: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ADMISSION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
REGISTRATION: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section & IEEE Aerospace and
Electronic Systems Society
TECHNICAL SPONSOR: IEEE Ottawa Section
DETAILS: http://www.ieee.org/iccst08
CONTACTS: Milo Klíma and Gordon Thomas
ABSTRACT: Not applicable/Not provided
_____________________________________________________________________
4. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.

The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
_____________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements

You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE and/
or one of the IEEE Technical Societies.

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October 2008 2nd issue

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 2008 (SPECIAL EDITION))
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
IN THIS ISSUE:

1) 2008 Annual General Meeting
Official notice is herby given that the IEEE Ottawa Section 2008 AGM
will be held on the evening of Tuesday, November 11, 2008, in a
meeting-dinner format as in 2007, at the Hampton Inn on Coventry Road
just off the Vanier Parkway near Highway 417. Our Keynote Speaker
will be Mr. Rod Bryden, President & CEO of Plasco Energy Group Inc.
More details will be forthcoming on the website http://ottawa.ieee.ca/

2)Technical Presentation on Sectionalizers and Reclosers
(tentative) October 24, 2008, by Dr. Christian Sasse, Managing
Director, IEEE SM, Tavrida Electric North America Inc.
www.tavrida-na.com More detail to follow - visit
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ News section by mid-October.

3)IEEE International Communications Conference (2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigous ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org

4)The IEEE Ottawa Section has twinned with the IEEE Minneapolis MN
Section.In the hope of building stronger organizations, the executive
of the two sections agreed to communicate and share experiences,
plus collaborate and cooperate in future events. The agreement
took place at the 2008 IEEE Sections Congress held in Quebec City
last month, where in informal discussions, we found we were working
on similar goals and activities such as in engineering in medicine
and biology, reliability, plus industry and student outreach.
The romance begins.

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November 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - November 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. 2008 AGM - Invitation from the Chair November 11, 2008
Section Annual Report http://ottawa.ieee.ca/AGMInvite2008.htm
2. Sister-Sections Agreement between Ottawa and Twin-Cities
3. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Sustainable Building:
Fitting Tools to the Task November 25, 2008
4. Quantitative Analysis of Network Patterns in Developing Organs
November 20, 2008
5. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
6. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009

C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
1. NATO Advanced Study Institute 2008 announcement
(location Ottawa) November 25 - December 05, 2008

D. Manage Your Subscription
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A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events/News

1. AGM 2008 Invitation

Dear IEEE Member and Guest,

On behalf of the IEEE Ottawa Section Executive Committee, I am
pleased to invite you to your 2008, 64th Annual General Meeting
dinner of the IEEE Ottawa Section.

Date & Time: 5:45PM on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Location: Conference Centre, Hampton Inn,
100 Coventry Rd., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Rod Bryden
President & CEO of Plasco Energy Group Inc.
“The Plasco Conversion System – A new method of converting waste to
value”

Sincerely,

Wahab Almuhtadi, Ph. D., P. Eng., SMIEEE
Chair, IEEE Ottawa Section
____________________________________________________________________
2. Sister-Sections Agreement between Ottawa and Twin-Cities

The IEEE Ottawa Section - Region 7 (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and the
IEEE Twin-Cities Section - Region 4 (Twin-Cities, Minnesota, USA)
have signed a “Sister-Section Agreement” on the 21st and 22nd of
September, 2008 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The agreement was
signed by Wahab Almuhtadi Ottawa Section Chair and Arun Kumar Twin
Cities Section Chair and approved by Ferial El-Hawary IEEE Region 7
Director and Wilson IEEE Region 7 Director and officially announced
at the 2008 IEEE Sections Congress held in Quebec City on the 22nd of
September, 2008. The executives of the two sections agreed to
communicate and share experiences, plus collaborate and cooperate in
future events between both sections, their chapters, affinity groups,
student branches and committees. To accomplish great objectives for
IEEE, this partnership agreement will bring a very fruitful
cooperation and reap dividends on what can be accomplished with the
resources of both Sections. For more details please click here to
view the agreement.
Twin-Cities Section was established in 1902. http://www.tc-ieee.org/
Ottawa Section was established in 1944. http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca
____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Sustainable Building:
Fitting Tools to the Task
A technical Meeting by Technology Management Council (TMC),
Professional Communication Society and Society on Social
Implications of Technology Joint Chapter November 2008 Seminar:
TARGET AUDIENCE: Managers, and professionals in all disciplines.
DATE: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 Time: 7:30-9:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Air Force Officer’s Mess, 158 Gloucester Street,
Ottawa, Ontario
SESSION Cost: Free, BUT registration is required by 18 November,2008.
REGISTRATION: e-mail to Wahib Thabet wahibt@nortel.com or
call 613-839-1108.
Agenda: Registration, networking, coffee 7:30-08:00 a.m.,
Intro: 08:00-08:10
Presentation: 08:10a.m. To 09:10 a.m., Q&A 09:10-09:25 a.m.

Overview:
There is a critical need to shift from prescriptive to environmental
performance measures and approaches to green building in
North America. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers the best prospect
for accomplishing that task. This presentation will focus on the
essence of LCA from a building design team perspective, including a
primer on methods and terminology and progress on the integration of
LCA in rating systems. Included will be a brief overview of other
sustainable building standards development activities in the U.S.
that may affect the Canadian approach. The presentation will also
introduce a simple LCA tools classification system, establish how
tools interrelate and where they fit in the green design process,
including a new free LCA-based tool, the ATHENA? EcoCalculator for
Assemblies. This LCA-based tool, originally developed for use in the
Green Globes U.S. rating system and now being adopted for use in a
new LEED U.S. LCA credit calculator, makes it easy for design teams
to compare common building assemblies in terms of environmental
impacts.

Presenter’s BIO: Wayne Trusty
Masters degree in economics and 40 years of experience in such
diverse fields as resource industry economics and policy, water
resources, transportation, energy policy and markets, Wayne Trusty
now serves as President of the ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute
and its U.S. affiliate, Athena Institute International. He is an
Adjunct Associate Professor on the University of Calgary’s Faculty of
Environmental Design, a member of the board of the Green Building
Initiative, and Chair of the Technical Committee established in the
U.S. to take the Green Globes rating system through a full American
National Standards Institute process. He was previously a Vice Chair
of the Board of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and a
member of the USGBC’s LEED New Construction Steering Committee. He
continues to serve on the Metrics and Life Cycle Assessment task
force for CaGBC and on the LEED Resources and Materials Technical
Advisory Group in the United States. Wayne is a member of several
other organizations, including the U.S. Consortium for Research on
Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM), is past chairman of an
international technical committee examining the use of LCA with
regard to building materials and products, and was a member of the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Materials Flow
Accounting.

ACTION: REGISTER NOW & INVITE A COLLEAGUE TO PARTICIPATE!
Visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/tmpcsit
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4.IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter's Technical Meeting
Title: Quantitative Analysis of Network Patterns in Developing Organs
Speaker: Dr. Anne-Gaelle Rolland-Lagan, Department of Biology,
University of Ottawa
Date: Nov 20,2008
Time: 17:30-19:00
Place: Mackenzie Room 4359, Carleton University , Ottawa
Admission: Free
Parking: Paid
Refreshment: Light refreshment will be served
More details of this talk can be obtained from
www.ottawa.ieee.ca/embs/
____________________________________________________________________
5. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to Friday, May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
6. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

No A&A meetings results were announced since August 2008

IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html

For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.

The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
_____________________________________________________________________
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December 2008

IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - December 2008
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:

A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Overview of the Self-healing Autonomous Sensor Network
(SASNet) Project- Organized BY Joint Chapter of Signal Processing,
Oceanic Engineering, and Geoscience and Remote Sensing
December 2, 2008

2. Soft Computing for Sensor and Algorithm Fusion Organized BY Ottawa
Chapter of CI Society December 18, 2008

3. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
4. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)

B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009
3. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June 5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
nothing to report

D. Manage Your Subscription
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A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events/News

1. TITLE: Overview of the Self-healing Autonomous Sensor Network
(SASNet) Project
SPEAKER: Louise Lamont, Research Manager, Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor
Network Systems, Communications Research Centre, Industry Canada
DATE: Tuesday, December 2, 2008,
TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology
and Engineering (SITE-5084), Boardroom, 5th floor,
800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free Registration. Please contact in advance to
reserve seats.
REFRESHMENTS: Will be served 15 minutes before the start of the
meeting.
ORGANIZED BY: Joint Chapter of Signal Processing,Oceanic Engineering,
and Geoscience and Remote Sensing
ABSTRACT: This presentation gives an overview of the Self-healing
Autonomous Sensor Network (SASNet) project that is being developed
jointly by the Communications Research Centre and DRDC - Canada.
Wireless sensor networks can be used for many applications,including
environmental areas such as monitoring for seismic activity,creating
industrial efficiencies, traffic control, security and military
operations and even improved health care. The SASNet project
proposes to meet these requirements through the development of an
easily deployable self-healing network of distributed, self-
configurable, taskable and manageable wireless sensors. The concept
is to employ large numbers of different types of basic, inexpensive,
expendable sensors (e.g. acoustic, seismic, passive infrared and
magnetic) that form a network to cue more complex, expensive sensors
including electro-optical imaging devices, thereby providing the
tactical user with access to wide range of complementary sensor data.

Contact to reserve seats: balasing@site.uottawa.ca
Joint Chapter of Signal Processing, Oceanic Engineering,
and Geoscience and Remote Sensing
____________________________________________________________________
2.TITLE: Soft Computing for Sensor and Algorithm Fusion
SPEAKER: James M. Keller, Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
(IEEE Fellow and CIS Distinguished Lecturer)
DATE: Thursday December 18, 2008
TIME: 10:30 - 12:00
LOCATION: Building M-50, NRC Auditorium, 1200 Montreal Road
ADMISSION: free
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society- Ottawa Chapter
CONTACT: Rami Abielmona, rabielmo@ieee.org

ABSTRACT: This is an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - Ottawa
Chapter Distinguished Lecture. Refreshments will be served, and the
lecture will be followed by the chapter's annual chapter meeting(AGM)
_____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to Friday, May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
4. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News

1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

Following members were elevated to Senior Member status in
October 2008

* Abdullah, Raed Member of Power Engineering Society and
Reliability Society

* Bolic, Miodrag Member of Signal Processing Society

* Legault, Stephane Member of Antennas & Propagation Society

* Montuno, Delfin Member of Communications Society

* Ono, Yuu Member of EMB Society and
Ultasonics, Ferroelectric & Frequency
Control Society

* Vant, Malcolm Aerospace& Electronic Systems Society
GepSciences & Remote Sensing Society
Signal Processing Society
Following members were elevated to Senior Member status in
November 2008

* Kropp, Carl Member of Power and Energy Society
* and Industrial Applications
*
* Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!
*
* IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html

The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
_____________________________________________________________________

3. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.

All participants are asked to present a poster on their research. An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu

The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline is
January 23,2009.

Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
_____________________________________________________________________
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