Our Omni Directional Robot project: Basics of Robotics. Day & Time: Monday, January 20, 2020 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber
Continuing the work on the LED dress. Day & Time: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber
Wednesday January 22nd, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. Enas AlTarawneh will be hosting a round table: “A successful teaching practicum”. Day & Time: Wednesday January 22nd, 2020 4:30 p.m. ‐ 5:30 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Lassonde Building (LAS) – Room 3033 York University Toronto, ON M3J Contact: Hina Tabassum, PhD, P.Eng, SMIEEE Abstract: Are you planning on doing a teaching practicum and would like to ask questions on how to successfully plan for it from those who have done it before? Have you done a teaching practicum before and would like to provide your feedback and experience? Then join this round table. This workshop will provide participants with the basics of a successful teaching practicum. This workshop will also bring on discussions on the following topics 1) Student centered approach, 2) Structured lectures, 3) Guided learning, 4) Use of technology as a learning tool, 5) Evaluations, 6) Pacing, 7) Key performance indicator. Register: http://bit.ly/2QMYgfk
The WIE Toronto Team will continue to prepare for the National Engineering Month competition. Day & Time: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F233 Contact: IEEE Humber
These Sessions are to evolve our members’ programming and critical thinking ability. Day & Time: Friday, January 24, 2020 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Andrew Rudder Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F306 Contact: IEEE Humber
Our Omni Directional Robot project: Robotics. Day & Time: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room L212 Contact: IEEE Humber
Continuing the work on the LED dress. Soldering dotstars and testing them. Day & Time: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F307 Contact: IEEE Humber
Wednesday January 29th, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. Enas AlTarawneh will be hosting “Setting in with Programming – Python: The beginner crash course”. Day & Time: Wednesday January 29th, 2020 4:30 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Bergeron Center, BRG 213 York University Toronto Contact: Hina Tabassum, PhD, P.Eng, SMIEEE Abstract: Beginner lesson (assumes no knowledge in programming). This workshop will cover (1) input/output, (2) variables (3) numbers (4) string (5) lists /arrays (6) if-else (7) loops (8) functions (9) use and application of existing packages (10) file manipulation (11) GUI input/output Note: Bring your own laptop with a python installation (2.7, 3.3-3.7) Register: http://bit.ly/2sWzOPw
Thursday January 30th, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Vijay Sundaresan, performance architect at IBM Toronto, will be presenting “Advances in Open Liberty and Java Performance”. Day & Time: Thursday January 30th, 2020 6:30 p.m. ‐ 9:00 p.m. Speaker: Vijay Sundaresan Performance Architect IBM Toronto Organizers: IEEE Toronto Systems Chapter Location: Bahen Building, Room BA 4287 University of Toronto – St. George Campus 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4 Contact: Younas Abbas, Vice Chair, IEEE Computer Society (Toronto Chapter) Abstract: Are you a Java developer or Open Liberty user who is interested in improving your application’s performance for the cloud environment? In this talk, we will share insights about running Java EE, MicroProfile, and SpringBoot applications to quantify how well your application will perform with Open Liberty and OpenJ9 in different scenarios. We will discuss the cutting-edge advancements in the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is a core component of OpenJDK with OpenJ9. We will also talk about features that are important for cross platform performance as well as platform specific exploitation of the latest hardware features on Intel and other platforms. Register: RSVP is required for this event. Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/209751 for more details and to register. Fees: IEEE Members: Free Non-Member (Professional): $10 + 13% HST Biography: Vijay Sundaresan is a Performance Architect at the IBM Toronto Lab responsible for WAS/Java runtime performance. Vijay’s technical background and expertise are in the areas of performance analysis, compilation and virtual machine technology, Java SE and Java EE specifications, as well as hardware optimizations over the past two decades. Vijay was one of the original architects on both the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM as well as on the Eclipse OMR open source projects. As a graduate student at McGill University Vijay also made contributions to the Soot bytecode analysis framework that is very popular for implementing tools and optimizations
The main goal of this session is to learn how to use a microcontroller to drive dotstars. Day & Time: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F307 Contact: IEEE Humber
Friday, February 7, 2020 Zoya Popovic, Distinguished Professor and Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado, will be presenting “Medical Applications of Microwaves”. Day & Time: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. Speakers: Zoya Popovic Distinguished Professor Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Organizers: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology – Room 2135 40 St George street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 2E4 Register: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/219067 Contact: Prof. Costas Sarris Abstract: This talk will first present a brief overview of the activities in the microwave group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, following a discussion on two topics that use microwave techniques for medical applications: (1) design of exciters and bore for human-sized 10.5-T MRI machines; and (2) a study of near-field radiometry for internal temperature measurements of the human body. The focus of the first topic is design of cavity and probes for improving uniformity of the circularly-polarized B-field inside phantoms for high-field travelling-wave MRI imagers. The phenomenology of high-field imaging and its resulting challenges will be highlighted, followed by simulation and experimental data using a research Siemens instrument. Although MRI can be used for measuring internal body temperature, it is expensive, large and slow. Radiometry is shown to be a feasible method for implementing a portable or even wearable microwave thermometer. One of the possible frequencies of operation is the 1.4 GHz quiet band, which is appropriate for centimeter penetration into tissues with minimized radio-frequency interference (RFI). The total blackbody power from a tissue stack is received by a probe placed on the skin, designed to receive a high percentage of the total power from a buried tissue layer. Temperature retrieval for sub-surface tissue layers is performed using near-field weighting functions, obtained by full-wave simulations with known tissue complex electrical parameters. Measurements are presented using a calibrated Dicke radiometer at 1.4GHz for various phantom tissues. It is shown that temperature can be tracked within a fraction of a degree for a phantom muscle tissue layer under phantom fat and skin layers. Biography: Zoya Popovic is a Distinguished Professor and the Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado. She obtained her Dipl.Ing. degree at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and her Ph.D. at Caltech. In 2001/03 and 2014, she was a Visiting Professor with the Technical University of Munich, Germany and ISAE in Toulouse, France, respectively. She was a Chair of Excellence at Carlos III University in Madrid in 2018-19. She has graduated 60 PhDs and currently advises 14 doctoral students in various areas of microwave engineering. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of two IEEE MTT Microwave Prizes for best journal papers, the White House NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow award, the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, the ASEE/HP Terman Medal and the German Humboldt Research Award. She was named IEEE MTT Distinguished Educator in 2013 and the University of Colorado Distinguished Research Lecturer in 2015. She has a husband physicist and three daughters who can all solder.
Preparing the algorithm to write the code for the upper pattern of the dress. Day & Time: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F307 Contact: IEEE Humber
