This page is for students members of IEEE in Canada . The links contain information to help you get more out of your IEEE membership and your student branch. If you are involved in running your branch, we have information to help you make it better - click on the left side workshop link for all the presentations from the most recent annual workshop (normally held in September).

• New Student Branch Announcement

  Humber College has successfully formed a new Student Branch! We look forward to working with them!





• IEEE Canada Student Branch Workshop 

  The SBW was held in Mississauga, ON, Sept. 12 - 14, 2008. There were approximately 30 attendees from Student Branches from all across Canada. All training materials are listed under the workshop link (or click here). Our theme for this year is Membership Development - we want to show our members the benefits of IEEE membership! For our group photo, click here and for a picture of the workshop organizers, click here.





• IEEE Student Congress Ethics Competition Winners

  R7's Student Activities Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the SB Ethics Competition: Andrew Shaver (University of Ottawa), Matthew James (University of Guelph), Jieyi Rong (Carleton University) and Matt Gardner (McMaster University). They competed against the other Student Branch Leaders and won a total of $500 dollars to be split between their student branches. Great work everyone!





• IEEE Telus Paper Competition Winners

  • First Place ($10,000): Jordan Heuser, Arjun Phull, Mark Storus, "Speech Synthesis though Gesture Recognition", Queen's University - see photo

  • Second Place ($5000): A. J. Moss, Andrew Wong, Yuanyuan Yin, "The dScrybe Digital Receipt System", University of British Columbia

  • Third Place ($2000): Andrew Steadman, Mike Ball, Ahmed Elnahas, Chris van Slyke, "Foresight - Distributed Monitoring for a Forestry Environment", University of Alberta

  • Runners Up ($500 each): 1) Alex Stuber, Adam Grabka, Jarrett Levesque, "eFITS Electronic Fuel Injection Test System", University of Saskatchewan, 2) Michael Blizman, Robewrt Childs, Denis Itoua, "Autonomous Parallel Parking Vehicle", Lakehead University, 3) Chris Nichols, Dario Schor, Jane Polak-Scowcroft, "A Command and Data Handling System for the Win-Cube Pico Satellite Mission", University of Manitoba.




• IEEE Student Branch Website Competition

  R7's Student Activities Committee is pleased to announce that University of Ontario Institute of Technology's (UOIT) website has won fourth place in the Global Website Competition. This is an amazing achievement!! Great work. UOIT will receive $250 for their Student Branch for placing fourth!

• IEEE Canada Student Website Design Competition Results!

  It is our pleasure to announce R7's 2008 Student Branch Website Design Winners:

  • First Place: University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT): http://www.uoitieee.com/

  • Second Place: Carlton Universtiy: http://www.ieee.engsoc.org/

  • Third Place: University of Toronto: http://ieee.toronto.edu/drupal/

• CCECE 2008 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering  Niagara Falls, Ontario, May 4-7, 2008- website  

• 2007 Telus Competition Results: Sean Dunn, Dale Krall, Stephen McFetridge and James Reid from the University of Alberta, took home the $10,000.00 first place prize. Their winning project was the CompressAlert. The second place award of $5000.00 was presented to Corey Centen and Nilesh Patel of McMaster University. Their project was the CPRGlove. The third place award of $2000.00 was presented to Cory Anderson, Rylan Grant and Herbert Mueller of University of Saskatchewan,for the WiFi Positioning System project.

• 2007 Website Competition Results: The UBC Student Branch won the Region 7 Student Branch Website Competition for 2007. More results will be posted shortly.

• 2006 Telus Competition Results: Jonathan Anderson, from Memorial University, took home the $10,000.00 first place cash award. Jonathan’s winning project/presentation was titled Scribe: A Real-Time Transcription Tool. The second place award of $5000.00 was presented to the University of Saskatchewan team, comprised of Dylan Carson, Matthew Drotor and Dan Kos. Their project/presentation was titled iHold Music on Hold Device. The third place award of $2000.00 was presented to the Connestoga College team, comprised of Jonathan Musselman, Derek Novakowich and Stephen Connell. Their project/presentation was titled DigiPhase Acoustic Processor.

• 2006 Student Paper Competition Awards Results Life Member Awards: Riwa Karkokli of Ryerson University, Ammar AlBetar and Ahmad Rasem of Carleton University Hackbusch Award: Joel Mercer of Memorial University of Newfoundland Palin Awards:Francois Linguyeneza, Jason Wood, Darko Maric and Maciej Porczek of Red River Community College, Dave Hagedorn of Conestoga College. Congratualtions to all of our 2006 Region 7 Student Paper Competition winners.

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Awards   Students, Counselors, and Branches are eligible for awards. Links for descriptions are in the right side panel, note that deadlines are stated in the award overview pages.

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