IEEE Toronto Centennial Forum Photos

The IEEE Toronto Section was formed on September 30, 1903 as a Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE). The Canadian Section of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was formed in Toronto in 1925. The AIEE and IRE merged in 1963 to create IEEE, and IEEE Canada was created in 1994.

One hundred years later, to celebrate this auspicious occasion, the Section Executive Committee, led by Chair Bob Hanna, developed a new logo and web site, and held a number of events that would involve the members of the IEEE Toronto Section, the leadership of IEEE Canada, and the general public.

IEEE Toronto Centennial Forum on Reliable Power Grids in Canada

The massive electric power outage last August, which affected fifty million people in Ontario and several U.S. states created a widespread concern and desire to know more about what happened and how to prevent future occurances. The IEEE Toronto Section invited four experts from Ontario, B.C., and Québec to share their intimate knowledge of this specific event, other catastrophic power failures, and the electrical grid, with the forum attendees.

These photos were taken on October 3, 2003 at the Centennial Forum held at the Marriott Bloor Yorkville hotel in Toronto. Here are stars of this event:

The Panel , Dan Rochester , Jim Lee , Jean-Marie Gagnon , Prabha Kundur , Bob Hanna and Mo El-Hawary , Ron Chen


You may view all the photos or browse using the menu on the left, by scrolling the small photos and clicking on any small photo to view that photo full-size. The three links at the top left take you back to the Section "past events" page, the forum overview page and back to this page.

The IEEE Toronto Section wishes to note its appreciation to Dave Upham (dupham@rogers.com 416-340-6504) who took the photographs and provided files for publication on this web site.