The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news
about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and
Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest
occuring in Toronto and surounding areas. Posted every month.
Profile on Sim Murthy
Sim Murthy has been a Life Senior Member of IEEE for over 10 years.
Sim attended the inaugural meeting of our Life Members Chapter on
Oct 30, 2002. He has just agreed to serve as the vice chair of
the chapter. Sim has been an active IEEE volunteer for the last 4
decades. Living in Edmonton, Alberta, before recently moving to
Toronto, he served as Treasurer then Chair for the Northern Canada
Section. Previously, he was the Chair of their Power Engineering
Society Chapter.
He studied at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and
Nova Scotia Technical University in Halifax. He has worked for
the Northern Canada Power Commission in Edmonton as a Planning and
Protection Supervisor, travelling often to the northern communities and
power stations. When the Company moved north to its areas of
operation, Sim retired from the Commission and taught courses in Power
Systems and Power System Protection at the University of Alberta in
Edmonton. Later he moved to British Columbia to teach Data
Communications and Microprocessors at the College of New Caledonia in
Prince George. After retirement Sim moved back to Southern Ontario, the
place where he had started as a landed immigrant back in 1967.
Sim has various interests even outside electrical engineering, such as
in music and Indian classical dance and community affairs. He
swims, plays badminton and bridge.
You can read the biographies of any of our volunteer leaders on our web site
by visiting our executive page.
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Upcoming Chapter/Group Activities
August 9 Dr. R. Jay Murphy, President of Macrodyne Inc.
will present a seminar on "Evolving Concepts of Wide Area Measurements in
the Electric Power Industry", organized by our Power Engineering
Chapter. Click for details.
Meeting Reports
Women in Engineering - "Project Management - Completing Projects with
Success"
IEEE Women in Engineering was established in 1994. Out of 8,267 WIE
members 583 of them live in Canada. WIE members have to be IEEE members.
Membership is free for students. There is a $25 USD membership fee for
the others. The WIE membership is not exclusive to females. With this
brief information on WIE, Visda from WIE Toronto Executive team, opened
the July 21, 2004 meeting.
The meeting took place at Galbraith Building
of University of Toronto with thirteen members in attendance. Our guest
speaker, Ms. Desmond, a prominent figure in Project Management area;
took over the meeting with a brief introduction of herself. Ms. Desmond
is the president of World Class Communication Company which provides
training in management skills in business and telecommunications
engineering environments. She is also the author of "Project Management
for Telecommunication Managers". She was President of IEEE Canada in
2000-2001 and President of IEEE Communications Society in 2002-2003. Ms.
Desmond's presentation on "Completing Projects with Success" was simply
excellent! We learnt through examples about the most important
components that a Project Manager needs to consider to fulfill her
duties successfully. We learnt about different tools available to
facilitate the scheduling of tasks, e.g. Breakdown Structure,
Forward/Backward Pass; and projecting the deadlines, e.g. Gantt chart.
Ms. Desmond kept the audience involved through out her talk by asking
questions and doing real life examples, e.g. planning a wedding. There
was a short Q&A in the end of the talk.
Guests socialized until 9 PM; one hour after the adjournment of the
meeting! WIE Toronto team thanks all those who showed interest
and attended this talk. Cheers and hope to see you at our next
WIE meeting in September!
Student News
Electro-Federation Canada (EFC) is a national,
not-for-profit industry
association representing over 250 member companies in the electrical,
electronics and telecommunications industries in Canada.
Now in its ninth year, the EFC Foundation will award $50,000 to eligible
students in the fields of engineering, computer science and business
administration, as well as to eligible second or third phase electrical
apprentices. Application Deadline: August 12, 2004 - details
Career Services
IEEE JOB SITE ADDS THOUSANDS OF NEW JOB LISTINGS Last month, the
IEEE Job Site added job listings from more than 100 participating media
and newspaper sites on the CareerCast National Network, greatly
increasing the number of postings previously available.
Registered users may set up automated search agents to search for open
positions in their field, and view the results online or by email.
Visit the IEEE Job Site at http://careers.ieee.org/ or use the
link on our careers site.
IEEE News
IEEE VIRTUAL MUSEUM LAUNCHES NEW EXHIBIT
The IEEE Virtual Museum has launched a new exhibit, titled "Let's Get
Small: The Shrinking World of Microelectronics." It explains how and why
certain technologies emerged, and uses interactive and multimedia
animations to demonstrate how transistors work, how integrated circuits
were made, and how computers use microelectronics to manipulate digital
information.
The exhibit is sponsored in part by the IEEE Foundation and the IEEE
Life Members Committee.
Visit the IEEE Virtual Museum online.
Member News
This year saw the passing of Robert Osborne - a long time volunteer in the
Toronto Section. He served as editor of the IEEE Toronto Connection
in 1987 when Wallas Khella was the Section Chair. In those days the newsletter
was mailed to all members eight time per year - from September through May,
and varyied in size from 4 to 12 pages with each issue.
Wallas, now our life members chair, suggested that his October 1987
editorial would serve as a fitting remembrance of his utmost sincerity and
dedication.
Robert Osborne Editorial, October 1987
What an opportunity we have in Toronto! Our
IEEE Section has 3500 members, supported by an Executive consisting of
20 dedicated and hard-working professionals. There are 10 active
Society chapters for those with interests ranging from computers to
aerospace science. The Executive meeting on September 1 was four
hours long, as we talked of all the plans for this upcoming year. YOU
can make the most of this opportunity by "participaction"! Come to the
Society events (you don't have to be a member of that specific Society)
- there are some significant topics and speakers planned. Call
any of the Executive people (listed below) and let them know you are
interested in hearing a particular speaker, or topic. Let us know
what IEEE should be planning: do you want us to sponsor a satellite
teleconference receiving room, or a computer tele-mailbox or a workshop
in your field? Let us know what events are happening, have
happened, should happen. Write things about achievers and
achievements. Let this newsletter be representative of the
concerns and visions of the electrical engineering community of greater
Toronto. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is
YOU! Make it what you want. Robert Osborn
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Editor
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