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IEEE Ottawa Section to Host ICC 2012NEW
Sister-Sections Agreement between Ottawa and Twin-Cities
2007 Annual General Meeting Pictures
- The Bold and the Brave by WIE and WISE Ottawa, December 01, 2009
- Survive and Thrive in Tough Job Market, December 09, 2009
- Technical talk on BGAN - A Sophisticated Portable Video Uplink Satellite Terminal, December 10, 2009
- MUSES’09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance Applications, December 11-12, 2009
- 2010 Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics, January 2010
- Last minute news - Ottawa Section Annual Christmas Dinner
- 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference, September 6-9, 2010
- IEEE Ottawa Section won hosting of ICC 2012, June 2012
The Bold and the Brave
Organized by: WIE Ottawa, WISE Ottawa and University of Ottawa Press
Title:
The Bold and the Brave
Speaker: Dr. Monique Frize (IEEE WIE Ottawa member and WISE Ottawa member/co-founder)
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: University of Ottawa, Colonel By Hall, Tower A, Room 707, 161 Louis-Pasteur, Ottawa, ON., Canada
Parking: As applicable on uOttawa campus
Admission: Free
Registration: rsvp.booklaunch@ieee.org
Contact: Jennifer Ng
Abstract:
The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have strived throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have faced and continue to face in the fields of science and engineering. She focuses on the history of women’s education in mathematics and science through the ages, from antiquity to the Enlightenment. While opportunities for women were often purposely limited, she reveals how many women found ways to explore science outside of formal education.
For more details, go to http://ieee.org/go/booklaunch
Survive and Thrive in Tough Job Market
Organized by: Engineer in Transition Committee
Title:
Survive and Thrive in Tough Job Market
Speaker: Thomas Lavrisa, Regulatory Program Officer at Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Date & Time: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, Registration/Refreshment (18:00 - 18:30); Seminar (18:45- 20:00)
Location: Algonquin College T-Building T302, Ottawa, ON., Canada
Map: http://www.algonquincollege.com/main/yourAlgonquinTab/directions/woodroffeMap.htm
Parking: Free
Admission: Free
Registration: emily.hao.chen@ieee.org
Details: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/eit/EiT_Events.html
Contact: Emily Chen
Abstract: Curious about your career options?How can you get a job like theirs? What are the secrets to their success?Don't miss this "Own Your Career" Seminar, where presenter(s) will share their personal career journeys with us and provide advice to job seekers.
BGAN - A Sophisticated Portable Video Uplink Satellite Terminal
Organized by: IEEE-VTS Ottawa Chapter
Title:
BGAN - A Sophisticated Portable Video Uplink Satellite Terminal
Speaker: Marie-Louise Sakkal, Stratos International
Date & Time: Thursday, December 10 2009, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Bytown "A" Room, RA Centre, Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON., Canada
Parking: Free at RA Centre. Go upstairs from the main lobby. Supper attendees may wish to use the East lot and enter by the corner door.
Admission: Free admission
Registration: Pre-registration appreciated
Details: http://www3.bell.net/max-com/ottawa.vts.html
Contact: Hugh Reekie or 613-728-5343
MUSES’09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance Applications
Organized by: The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society,
The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
TC-30 Security and Contraband Detection of the IEEE I&M Society, and
School of Information Technology and Engineering and
Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
Title:
MUSES’09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance Applications
Speaker: The workshop will consist of several oral presentations provided by numerous experts in the field
Date & Time: December 11 and 12, 2009; Full days - Exact schedule of will be provided soon.
Location: University of Ottawa, Faculty of Engineering, SITE, Ottawa, ON., Canada
Registration: IEEE Regular Members: … $150
IEEE Retired / Job-seekers: … $50
IEEE Life Members: … $50
IEEE Students: … $50
Members of IET, PEO, OCRI, OTI: … $150
Non-Members: … $200
Students: … $80
Deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, December 03, 2009. The workshop will consist of oral presentations of 30 minutes each. Submit a short abstract (1/2 page) by e-mail to: petriu@site.uottawa.ca
Contact: Emil Petriu and Voicu Groza
Abstract:
This workshop will provide a scientific forum to present and discuss development aspects of multimodal (video, voice and sound, RFID, perimeter intrusion, infrared, chemical, etc) intelligent sensor technologies for geographical location and socio-cultural context-aware security risk assessment and decision support in human-crowd surveillance applications. Contributions covering theoretical developments and practical applications, including but not limited to the following areas, are invited:
• algorithms for the integration of the heterogeneous information from the surveillance sensors into a coherent multimodal model of the human crowd behaviour;
• multi granularity-level feedback and human-computer interaction interfaces for the human users/agents who are the final threat assessors and decision makers in the specific security monitoring situation.
• image processing and computer-vision algorithms for tracking and recognition of relevant face and body-language patterns such as facial emotions, body gait and gestures of the humans in a crowd;
• the measurement and evaluation of the environmental parameters (background sound, ambient light, etc) that provide contextual information for specific surveillance task;
• multidisciplinary (human psychology, multicultural sociology, etc.) context-aware system for the real-time evaluation of threatening behavioural patterns of humans identified as potential security risk;
OTHER DETAILS:
Sponsors: University of Ottawa, IBM Canada Ltd., Larus Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Organizers: Honorary Chairs - Mel Siegel, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
General Chairs - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Don Aldrige, IBM Canada Ltd.
Technical Program Chairs:
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada
Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Local Arrangement Chairs:
Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section, Canada
Albino Cordeiro, University of Ottawa, Canada
Publication Chairs:
Rami Abielmona, Larus Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Nizar Sakr, University of Ottawa, Canada
2010 Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
Title:
2010 Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
Speakers:
IEEE PS Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Tetsuya Mizumoto of Tokyo Institute of Technology: "Optical Nonreciprocal Devices for Integrated Photonics"
IEEE PS Ottawa Chapter Guest Speaker: Dr Jackson Klein of Optiwave: “Title TBD”
IEEE PS Ottawa Chapter Guest Speaker: Dr Cristian Popescu of spectra-nova: “Title TBD”
Date & Time: Friday, January 22, 2010, 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Main Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON., Canada
Details: Look for the next newsletter for more specific details.
Contact: Kexing Liu
Last minute news - Ottawa Section Annual Christmas Dinner
A tentative booking for the IEEE OS Annual Christmas Dinner has been made for Wednesday, December 16th, 2009, at 5:30PM. If you would like to attend this year's dinner, please email your intentions to Section Secretary, Carolyn MacIsaac - ASAP.
2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2010
Title:
2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2010
Date & Time: September 2010
Location: Westin Hotel, Ottawa, ON., Canada
Details: http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2010fall/
Details: This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as application sessions. Paper submission details will be published shortly. Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2010
IEEE Ottawa Section won hosting of ICC 2012
Thanks to hard work of Wahab Almuhtadi (past Section Chair, and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter Chair), plus the strong support of Telus, Ottawa Tourism, Ottawa Convention Centre, and many many other local industry and academia supporters, the Ottawa Section has won the right to host the prestigious International Conference on Communications in 2012. It may seem so long away; however, this effort has taken a year to get to this point and a lot of work is yet to come. More detail will be provided on our website. In the next few months, we will be looking forward to contacting those who have already come forward to help.
The announcement was made on June 17, 2009, at the International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Ottawa beat out other bidding major international cities. ICC 2012 will be held at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from June 10 till June 15, 2012. The estimated number of the conference attendees will be 1500 to 2000. The conference will have a significant impact in regaining the reputation and business of the Canadian telecom and high tech companies that are facing many challenges during these recent years, and would raise the profile and visibility of these companies. As well as the conference will benefit the academia, scientific and engineering research, industry and local business in Ottawa.
ICC2008 was held in Beijing, China http://www.ieee-icc.org/2008/. ICC2009 was held in Dresden, Germany http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/. ICC2010 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa http://www.ieee-icc.org/2010/, and ICC2011 will be held in Kyoto, Japan http://www.ieee-icc.org/2011/.
New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section Results of the previous A&A Review Panel meeting held on October 17, 2009 in Sydney, NSW, Australia, are as follows. Charles E Hickman, Chaired the A&A Committee, 218 members were elevated, the results became available in November:
* Cotaras, Frederick Member of Oceanic Engineering Society
* Dubuc, Christian Member of Communications Society
* Hossain, Mohammod Member of Instrumentation and Measurement Society
* Khoury, Tony Member of Communications Society
* Lunscher, Wolfram --
* Panario, Daniel Member of Information Theory Society
Congratulations to the newly elevated Senior Members.
** 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
Update on the state of WIE and TISP Ottawa News
WIE Update:
The Ottawa WIE website has been revamped and is now available at http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-wie. Please check our "Events" section to see what our executives have planned! As you renew your IEEE membership for next year, consider to add
WIE membership (only $25USD/year). Recent surveys indicated that over 25% of WIE membership is male. They responded that while they did not require directly services from WIE, they paid the dues in order to support the women in the profession and also the women in their lives who consider/will consider engineering as a career. So please consider to support. Reminder that WIE membership is free for students (undergrad and grad) as well as for Life Members so check WIE when you renew this year! Please contact for questions, comments, etc - Jennifer Ng, WIE Ottawa Chair
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TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) Ottawa News:
The TISP Ottawa Committee is official. Please check the information given on the webpage above. The TISP Ottawa committee is currently looking for volunteers to help with the workshops to the educators. If you are interested to help out and support our pre-engineering education efforts, please send email to Jennifer Ng, TISP Ottawa Champion jng@ieee.org
New Membership Benefits
Through the efforts of John Grefford, the 2003 & 2004 IEEE Ottawa Section Chair and still volunteer, a very competitive home and auto insurance plan is now being offered through The Personal check out their fees(http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca -click on the icon) that may just pay for your membership fees a few times over.
IEEE Canada 2009 Major Achievement award winner
Congratulations to David Falconer, a Fellow of IEEE residing in the Ottawa Section, is a Professor of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is receiving the R.A. Fessenden Award (Telecommunications) for outstanding technical contributions to the area of data transmission in both wireline and wireless environments.
EEE Canada 2009 Major Service award winners
Congratulations to John Grefford, a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of EIC residing in the Ottawa Section, is Program Support Officer with Defence Construction Canada. He is receiving the J.J. Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award for dedicated and outstanding service to the IEEE Ottawa Section, IEEE Canada and EIC.
IEEE Fellows news
Congratulations:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario for contributions
to interactive haptic audio visual systems. John Lodge, IEEE-F, Ottawa,
Ontario, for contributions to the application of signal processing
and communications theory. David Parnas, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario,
for contributions to software engineering Also, congratulations to
Dr. Maike Luiken,the 2005 Ottawa Section Chair, who will be receiving
an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellowship at the upcoming EIC
Awards Gala to be held in Ottawa early this month.
Collaborations with other sections
Details: 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.
PowerPoint presentations from the March 4 , 2008 Ottawa IEEE VTS Talk
Title: Vehicle-Infrastructure
Integration: The Vehicle of the Future
Organized by: IEEE-VTS Ottawa Chapter &
IET-UK Ottawa Network - joint
Speaker: Steve Shladover & Jim Misener, PATH,
U Cal, Berkeley, CA & Barry Pekilis, Transport Canada
Date & Time: Tuesday,
March 4, 2008 at 18:15 - 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
Details: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.vts.html
Contacts: Hugh
Reekie, 613-728-5343
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.
Spanning the Spectrum - Addressing a VII for Now and the Future by Jim Misener, California, PATH, Transportation Safety Research Program Lead
Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation and the Vehicle of the Future by Steven E. Shladover, Sc.D., University of California, PATH Program