Women in Engineering

Friday, February 2nd at 12:15 p.m., Dr. Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh (PhD, P.Eng), Director of Biologically Inspired Sensors and Actuators Laboratory, will be presenting “High Throughput CMOS Sensors and Actuators: An Emerging Technology for Automation of Biological Laboratories”. Day & Time: Friday, February 2, 2018 12:15 p.m. ‐ 1:15 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh Biologically Inspired Sebsors and Actuators ( BioSA) Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lassonde School of Engineering York University Location: Room: ENG 288, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering 245 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Contact: Maryam Davoudpour Organizer: WIE IEEE Toronto, IEEE Ryerson Student Chapter, Instrumentation-Measurement/Robotics-Automation, Magnetics, and Computer Science Department of Ryerson University Abstract: Recent advances of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Lab-on-Chip (LoC) technologies have greatly attracted the attentions for a variety of life science applications including DNA sequencing, drug discovery and automation of biological laboratories. A CMOS based LoC consists of a microfluidic device for directing the biological/chemical samples towards sensors (e.g. magnetic, optical or capacitive sensors) or actuators (e.g. magnetic or electrical actuators). An array of sensors or actuators can be realized on the top of CMOS integrated circuits (IC) for accurately measurement of chemical and/or biological signals. High throughput microfluidic/CMOS technology for cellular and molecular analysis is in a very early stage of development and there are several critical challenges that must be investigated and resolved. In this talk, professor Ghafar-Zadeh will discuss new perspectives and challenges for the design and implementation of hybrid microfluidic CMOS sensors and actuators. Also he will demonstrate and discuss his recent research achievements in this emerging field of research. Biography: Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh (PhD, P.Eng) received his BSc ( KNT University, Tehran Iran), MSc (University of Tehran, Iran) and PhD ( Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada) degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1992, 1994 and 2008 respectively. In recognition of his innovative research in the topic of hybrid microfluidic/microelectronic systems, Dr. Ghafar-Zadeh received several postdoctoral fellowship awards including NSERC PDF and FRQNT PDF and he perused two postdoctoral fellows in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University; and the Dept. of Bio-engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ghafar-Zadeh has published more than 100 journal and conference papers and a book titled CMOS Capacitive Sensors for Lab-on-Chip applications. Since 2013, he has been an assistant Professor, in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Ghafar-Zadeh is the director of Biologically Inspired Sensors and Actuators Laboratory.

Friday, February 16th at 12:15 p.m., Nima Tabatabaei, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Hybrid Biomedical Optics Laboratory at York University, will be presenting “Hybrid Biomedical Optics Imaging and Instrumentation”. Day & Time: Friday, February 16, 2018 12:15 p.m. ‐ 1:15 p.m. Speaker: Nima Tabatabaei Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Director, Hybrid Biomedical Optics Laboratory York University, Canada Location: Room: ENG 210, George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering 245 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 Contact: Saba Sedghizade, Maryam Davoudpour Organizer: WIE IEEE Toronto, IEEE Ryerson Student Chapter, Instrumentation-Measurement/Robotics-Automation, Magnetics, and Computer Science Department of Ryerson University Abstract: The focus of professor Tabatabaei’s research is on the design and instrumentation of thermal and optical imaging technologies and devices with applications in medical diagnosis and screening. Optics-based medical devices are of particular interest to him due to their intrinsic ability of revealing malignancies in early stages. The early diagnosis of diseases improves the effectiveness of treatments, promotes prevention rather than medical intervention, and is probably the only approach for us to win the war on cancer. However, one of the major challenges in optical imaging of endogenous tissue contrast is the poor specificity due to background signals from healthy tissues. Professor Tabatabaei’s research vision is to overcome this shortcoming by separating excitation and detection channels using Hybrid methods. In this scenario, crosstalk between the channels, selectively, takes place by energy conversion at malignant sites that are sensitive to the excitation thus minimizing (if not eliminating) the signals originating form background health tissues. Biography: Nima Tabatabaei is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of Hybrid Biomedical Optics laboratory (http://www.HBOLab.ca) at the York University (Canada). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (University of Toronto; 2012) before carrying out research at the Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine as postdoctoral fellow. His research interests are design and development of hybrid biomedical optics imaging technologies for applications in early disease diagnosis and screening.

Monday, February 26th at 11:00 a.m., come to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) to learn about vehicle safety and relevant restraint systems and more at the “Introduction to Vehicle Safety, Simulation Tools for Autonomous Transportation and human-machine interface (HMI)” seminar. Day & Time: Monday, February 26, 2018 11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:30 p.m.: UB2080 12:30 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m.: SIRC 2020A Speakers: Dr. Stefan Dominico Professor, Engineering mechanics and simulations, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany Mr. Mohsen Tayefeh, M. Eng. Regional Sales Manager, SimuTech Group Mr. Roman Duplak P.Eng., M.Eng. Business Development Manager, SimuTech Group Dr. Moustafa El-Gindy, PEng Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Mr. Walter Hearn Area Director, ANSYS, Inc. Location: University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) 2000 Simcoe St N Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 Contact: Dr. Ahmad Barari, PEng Register: http://go.simutechgroup.com/autonomous-systems-uoit Organizer: IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering, IEEE Toronto Instrumentation-Measurement/Robotics-Automation, IEEE Toronto Magnetics Abstract: Reducing the number of people killed in road accidents is an important and challenging task. Beside other aspects improving the vehicle safety helps to achieve this goal. A lot of effort is being made by car manufacturers all over the world to improve the so-called safety performance of newly developed vehicles. This workshop will give a short introduction to vehicle safety and relevant restraint systems with a focus on the deployment of the restraint systems (“airbag sensing”) used to improve the protection of people (e.g. vehicle occupants) involved in a vehicle accident. Also, special focus will be on broad capabilities for simulating autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems — everything from high-fidelity, physics-based sensor modeling to ISO26262 and AUTOSAR compliant embedded software and human-machine interface development tools. The following topics will be covered: Introduction to Vehicle Safety Engineering Simulation for Safety – Driving scenarios – Virtual road test autonomous vehicles Restraint Systems and Airbag Sensing – Restraint Systems – Introduction to Airbag Sensing – Airbag Sensing (Calibration) Development – The future of Airbag Sensing – Lessons Learned (for real live) Vehicle Dynamics and Crash Simulation Research Future Trends – The race to develop autonomous vehicles (AV) – Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) – Autonomous driving technology — involving radar, lidar, V2X communication, sensor fusion and deep learning – Safe automated driving Biography: Dr. Stefan Dominico Dr. Dominico has extensive working experience in German auto-industries including vehicle safety development for Adam Opel AG, and simulation at an engineering supplier (IHF – Ingenieurbüro Huß & Feickert), and several years research experience on nonlinear finite element simulations at the Universität Kassel. Mr. Mohsen Tayefeh, M. Eng. Mr. Tayefeh has been consultant to various industries in implementation of advanced technologies through partnership strategies for many years. He is an expert in computer aided engineering, finite element analysis and simulation. He also has extensive experience to design and manufacturing in automotive sector. Mr. Roman Duplak P.Eng., M.Eng. As a trusted advisor Roman helps companies to implement high technologies. Prior to this he worked as a Business Segment Director for the largest Bus Manufacturer in North America (i.e. New Flyer Industries) and as a Program Manager for Boeing. Moreover, his technical background consisted of working as a Chief Engineer in electromechanical actuation technologies, which brings lots of added value to this seminar. Dr. Moustafa El-Gindy, PEng Dr. El-Gindy is a leading researcher on vehicle safety and crash worthiness analysis. His research interests includes articulated heavy vehicles, bus testing and simulation, crash testing and simulations, high-velocity impact and ballistics simulation, self-steering axles simulation, Tire mechanics, and virtual human modelling. Mr. Walter Hearn Mr. Hearn has been in leadership roles with ANSYS for more than 10 years. Currently he is directing multiple direct and indirect teams across the Central U.S. and Canada. His successful strategies in supervising partnerships with companies will bring significant added value and we will learn many practical success stories from him during this seminar.