The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest occuring in Toronto and surounding areas.   Posted every month.   Now formatted for portrait-orientation printing.
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Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings If you have trouble reading this newsletter click here January 24–28, 2011 -   2011 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop (ESW 2011) will be Hosted by the IEEE Industry Applications Society in Toronto. April 30, 2011 - 1st  IEEE Canada Women in Engineering National Conference(IEEE WIENC) will be held at Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre, Mississauga, Ontario. The conference will feature a multitude of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, workshop, poster presentations, best poster award, and industrial exhibition booths. Call for Papers Deadline - Sunday, February 20, 2011.Click here for details Please check the Toronto Section Website (http://toronto.ieee.ca/) regularly - updates posted as they are received Upcoming Conferences May 8~11, 2011,Niagara Falls, Ontario  24th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2011) - Organized and Hosted by the IEEE Toronto Section. June 12 ~ 16, 2011,Toronto, Canada   21st International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations. click for Details All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link. Section News Prof.Edward H. Sargent of University of Toronto has elevated to the IEEE Fellow grade effective 1 January 2011 for his contributions to colloidal quantum dots optoelectronic devices Senior Memeber Upgrade Congratulations to the following Toronto Section Memebers who were elevated to Senior Memebers in 2010 - Joseph Lee;Andreas Moshovos;Liang Song;Frank R Spitzer;Saeed Zolfaghari;Ghassan Hamarneh;Rongliang Chen;Shahid Mian;Lubomir Sevov; Purang Abolmaesumi;Yashar Ganjali;Sylvia Raynham;Shahram Shahbazpanahi;Mark Daley;Kouroush Jenab;Venkata Pratap Revuru;Robert T James;Afshin Rezaei-Zare;Roberto Speranza;Tarek Abdel Galil;Colin Climie;David Fung;Prof. Biswajit Ganguly;Sharon Hagi;Gordon Irish;Siu-Kay Alexander Ng;Gerald Penn;Ihor Skotar;J. C.Tan;Thankarajah Thayaparen & Antonio Ziewalicz IEEE News Morris Chang, Founding Chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Named 2011 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient 321 Named to the Class of 2011 IEEE Fellows For more these and other IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here. And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine here. Membership Future Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section   Have you been in professional practice for at least ten years and have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years?   You should be an IEEE Senior Member.   Need help in obtaining your three references?   We will help you - just contact Ramiro Liscano, our membership chair.   Please click this link to find out the advantages, the requirements, and an explanation of the process including key links to apply online. Volunteers Volunteering a few hours a month is a very rewarding experience - we have a great group of about 45 volunteers who contribute to the smooth running of our Section - by distributing the workload over many Section members, the individual load is kept small. If you are interested, please contact our Section Chair Alex Bot at this Advertising For Advertisting in the annual printed edition of IEEE Toronto Section - The Annual Connection please contact the Editor. The IEEE Toronto Section accepts advertising for items deemed to be of interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter, please contact the editor. Please send any news item submissions, comments, suggestions, concerns to the editor before the 28th at this email . Thank you for reading - Naresh Kurada,MSEE,P.Eng.,MBA (Editor). Subscribe or Unsubscribe IEEE Toronto E-News is sent monthly to all members of the IEEE Toronto Section and to a separate mailing list of non-members who have elected to subscribe (except those who have opted out) and any one else who has subscribed.   Since we are now using a new IEEE service, called e-Notice, our member mailing list is created each month using the on-line membership data base. IEEE Toronto Section Members   If you receive two copies, please cancel the non-member one by using the linked web page and completing the simple web form to "Unsubscribe".   If you do not wish to receive these newsletters, use this link to cancel your subscription. All Others (members of other sections and non-members)   If you wish to opt in or out, please use the linked web page and complete the simple web form. Home Page: http://toronto.ieee.ca by webmaster