• Humber College Competitive Programming Workshops

    Room: J233A, Bldg: 2nd floor, 205 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9W5L7

    Dr. Andrew Rudder will be teaching programming concepts with a focus on competitive programming. Various languages may be used. You should be familiar with any of the following programming languages Java, C#, C, C++ or python. A basic knowledge of selection logic (such as if statements), loops and functions are sufficient. This is a prerequisite for Humber IEEE Students attending IEEExtreme competitions. Course continues depending on registration. Course is free. Available to any current Humber students. Course will probably last until October 2022. Breaks for Humber Midterm exams, final exams and reading weeks. Co-sponsored by: Dr. Andrew Rudder Room: J233A, Bldg: 2nd floor, 205 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9W5L7

  • Engineering Idol 2023 – Lunar Gateway

    Bldg: Bergeron Centre, 11 Arboretum Ln, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 2S5

    Date updated to Arpil 1st, 2023 because of the snow storm and inaccessibility of the venue on March 4th. --------------------------------------- Welcome to Engineering Idol 2023 Competition! Engineering is more than math and science and we hope this contest will give you an understanding of the practice of professional Engineering. Summary of this year's competition: The United States-led Lunar Gateway, a space station in lunar orbit, will be the next major international collaboration in human space exploration. It is an important part of an ambitious plan by NASA and the International Space Station (ISS) partners, including Canada, to send humans deeper into space than we have ever been. About one-sixth of the size of the ISS, this new outpost will be developed, serviced, and utilised in collaboration with international and commercial partners. (Canada is contributing a smart robotic system, Canadarm3, to the Gateway.) The area of space around the Moon can help us prepare for human missions to more distant destinations like Mars. Building a space station around the Moon allows for: 1. A deeper understanding of the possible health effects of cosmic radiation and solar storms on astronauts living and working outside of Earth's protective magnetic field; 2. Access to the lunar surface to conduct cutting-edge science; 3. A unique setting for technology demonstrations; 4. Observations of the stars, our Sun, and our planet; 5. An easier return to Earth. The Gateway will be: 1. a science laboratory; 2. a testbed for new technologies; 3. a rendezvous location for exploration of the surface of the Moon; 4. a mission control centre for operations on the Moon; and 5. one day, a stepping stone for voyages to Mars. When fully assembled, the Gateway will include modules for scientific research and living quarters for crews of four astronauts. They will be able to live and work on the Gateway for up to three months at a time, occasionally travelling to the lunar surface to conduct science and test new technologies. Eventually, these missions could last longer in order to prepare for the deeper-space missions of the future. The objective of this competition is to desing the modules and manufacture them in a reduced scale for teh competition day. Supporting documents should be provided during the competition date for judging purposes. Co-sponsored by: Professional Engineering Ontario (PEO) Speaker(s): Dr John Moores, Bldg: Bergeron Centre, 11 Arboretum Ln, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 2S5

  • Amateur Radio certification study Saturday online

    50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/354378

    Saturday Online Study Group preparing for the Canadian Amateur Radio certification exam. 2hrs/week Course based on the certification study guide from https://www.coaxpublications.ca/ord0001.php Purchase the book if you are serious about learning this. Optional morse code practise with course. There are other books available that basically covers the same topics. Course continues depending on registration. Course is free. Available to anyone. This study group is repeating, if you miss a lecture, you can take it again 2-3 months later. Breaks for Humber Midterm exams, final exams and reading weeks Agenda: 2 hours per day Saturday afternoon 10-12 am edt 50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/354378

  • Amateur Radio certification study Saturday online

    50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355747

    Saturday Online Study Group preparing for the Canadian Amateur Radio certification exam. 2hrs/week Course based on the certification study guide from https://www.coaxpublications.ca/ord0001.php Purchase the book if you are serious about learning this. Optional morse code practise with course. There are other books available that basically covers the same topics. Course continues depending on registration. Course is free. Available to anyone. This study group is repeating, if you miss a lecture, you can take it again 2-3 months later. Breaks for Humber Midterm exams, final exams and reading weeks I keep forgetting to email registrants the zoom link : Mike Cutts is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Mike Cutts's Personal Meeting Room Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9674071840?pwd=VS9ZeU5KdTZ1MUp3cG9UejU2eXNWZz09 Meeting ID: 967 407 1840 Passcode: abcde Agenda: 2 hours every Saturday morning 10-12 am edt (Saturday afternoon/evening in Europe) 50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355747

  • Humber College Arduino/Microcontroller Hardware & Electronics Study Workshops.

    Room: J233a, Bldg: H, 2nd Floor, 205 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9W5L7

    Weekly, In-Person Arduino/RP2040/ESP32 Workshop with various peripherals and how to interface them. Beginner to Expert level. LED Displays, Infrared, Matrix Keyboard, sound, DHT sensors, Servos, LED Strips, Analog Inputs... and whatever else the students bring to the table. Also, students can come in for tutoring, work on homework and class projects. Room: J233a, Bldg: H, 2nd Floor, 205 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9W5L7

  • 9th Annual LumeSmart EarthDay Conference & Trade Show

    Ontario Investment and Trade Centre 250 Yonge Street , Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2L7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358654

    Topic: Energy Transition April 21, 2023 | Ontario Investment and Trade Centre This year, Earth Day will be celebrated with the 9th Annual Lumesmart EarthDay by “Energy Transition ” topic. The goal is to connect Entrepreneurs and Businesses in Cleantech, specially in the Energy Transition industry to learn about available support from government and associations. IEEE Toronto and WIE are sponsoring this event. Ontario Investment and Trade Centre 250 Yonge Street , Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 2L7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358654

  • Data-Driven Anomaly Detection & Prediction for IoT

    Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358912

    Anomaly detection/prediction usually relies on wide domain knowledge to build up the tools to automatically detect/predict abnormal events or behaviors of an IoT system. An IoT system may consist of machines with different capabilities, functionalities and ages. Abnormal events or behaviors are usually rare events. It is time-consuming and high-cost to build up the domain knowhow of the IoT systems and collect enough data points of the anomaly. In this lecture, I first identify the issues and challenges. Then I illustrate a general environment for anomaly detection/perdition. Then I will illustrate the technologies and solutions for anomaly detection/prediction, and show some prototypes and their applications. Speaker(s): Phone Lin, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358912

  • Overview of CubeSats: from Concept to Orbit, by Prof. Reyhan Baktur

    Room: EPH 225, Bldg: Eric Pallin Hall, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), 87 Gerrard St East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Distinguished Lecture Please join us for an upcoming lecture on 27 Apr. 2023 at 11 am – 12 pm (Eastern Time) by Prof. Reyhan Baktur, from Utah State University, USA. Overview of CubeSats: from Concept to Orbit CubeSats are modular and standardized modern small satellites. They have been gaining steady popularity as educational projects, low-cost space exploration vehicles for technology demonstrations, multi-point observations of space environment, and monitoring/reporting proper deployment of expensive deep space instruments. With rapid advancement of electronics, novel mechanical design, and aerospace technology, new progress in CubeSats is emerging every day. This calls for interests and early involvements of creative young minds. The objective of this presentation is to convey the basics of CubeSat development cycle, launch methods, typical CubeSat orbits, link budget analysis, various antenna solutions, and feasible classroom projects. For the interests of young professionals in electrical engineering, this lecture features a tour of several recent CubeSat missions and antenna designs for spacecraft, ground station, and radio beacon. Biography Dr. Reyhan Baktur is an associate professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Utah State University (USU). Her research interests include antennas and microwave engineering with a focus on antenna design for CubeSats; optically transparent antennas; multifunctional integrated antennas, sensors, and microwave circuits. She is affiliated with the Center for Space Engineering at USU, the Space Dynamics Laboratory (the university affiliated research center), and collaborates with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Baktur is an an IEEE Antennas and Propagation (APS) Distinguished Lecturer of 2022-2024, AdCom member of IEEE APS, and is active in US National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science, serving as the vice chair for commission B, and the inaugural chair for the Women in Radio Science. Co-sponsored by: Toronto Metropolitan University Speaker(s): Reyhan Baktur, Room: EPH 225, Bldg: Eric Pallin Hall, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), 87 Gerrard St East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Terahertz Chip-Scale Systems: A New Design Paradigm

    Room: BA1230, Bldg: Bahen Center for Information Technology, 40 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Silicon-based Terahertz systems is a field that is only about a decade old. In this time, we have seen a phenomenal growth of silicon systems operating at THz frequencies for a wide range of applications in sensing, imaging and communication. It can be argued that both the ‘THz gap’ and the ‘technology and applications gap’ is closing in meaningful ways in the THz range. Technologies beyond 100 GHz focusing on sensing, imaging and wireless back-haul links are getting attractive as we enter into a new area of highly dense network of autonomous systems requiring ultra-high speed and reliable links. In order to move beyond this inflection point as Moore’s law continue to slow, I will discuss why we need to look beyond the classical ‘device’-level metrics of efficiency and sensitivity of THz sources and detectors towards holistic ‘system’ level properties such as scalability and programmability. Such properties are critically important for applications in sensing and imaging, as evidenced across sensor fusion technologies across mmWave, IR and optical frequencies. In this talk, I will highlight approaches that cut across electromagnetics, circuits, systems and signal processing, to allow for such reconfigurability in THz signal synthesis and sensing, yet realized with devices that are themselves not very efficient. Particularly, we will demonstrate approaches to THz beamforming arrays, CMOS sensors reconfigurable across the three field properties of spectrum (100 GHz-1000 GHz), beam pattern and polarization (Nature Comm’19), programmable THz metasurfaces with CMOS tiling (Nature Elec’20), and enabling dynamic spectrum shaping (ISSCC’21, JSSC’21) and physically secure sub-THz links (ISSCC’20, Nature Elec’21). In the end, I will comment on what could be the major directions for the field in the coming decade. Speaker(s): Kaushik Sengupta, Room: BA1230, Bldg: Bahen Center for Information Technology, 40 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Amateur Radio certification study Saturday online

    50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/356718

    Saturday Online Study Group preparing for the Canadian Amateur Radio certification exam. 2hrs/week Course based on the certification study guide from https://www.coaxpublications.ca/ord0001.php Purchase the book if you are serious about learning this. Optional morse code practise with course. There are other books available that basically covers the same topics. Course continues depending on registration. Course is free. Available to anyone. This study group is repeating, if you miss a lecture, you can take it again 2-3 months later. Breaks for Humber Midterm exams, final exams and reading weeks I keep forgetting to email registrants the zoom link : Mike Cutts is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Mike Cutts's Personal Meeting Room Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9674071840?pwd=VS9ZeU5KdTZ1MUp3cG9UejU2eXNWZz09 Meeting ID: 967 407 1840 Passcode: abcde Agenda: 2 hours every Saturday morning 10-12 am edt (Saturday afternoon/evening in Europe) 50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/356718

  • IEEE Toronto Jazz Night at Ripley’s Aquarium

    Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, 288 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 3L9

    IEEE Toronto invites its members and friends to join us to enjoy a live jazz band as you sip your drink under the sea at Ripley's Aquarium. Friday Night Jazz is a monthly event at Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. On Friday, May 12th, IEEE Toronto is inviting its members, along with their friends and family members, to join us at this event. IEEE Toronto members can purchase tickets here for a discounted rate: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ieee-toronto-jazz-night-at-ripleys-aquarium-tickets-594147660647 But ticket numbers are limited, so please reserve your spot quickly. Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, 288 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 3L9

  • Amateur Radio certification study Saturday online

    50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360348

    Saturday Online Study Group preparing for the Canadian Amateur Radio certification exam. 2hrs/week Course based on the certification study guide from https://www.coaxpublications.ca/ord0001.php Purchase the book if you are serious about learning this. Optional morse code practise with course. There are other books available that basically covers the same topics. Course continues depending on registration. Course is free. Available to anyone. This study group is repeating, if you miss a lecture, you can take it again 2-3 months later. Breaks for Humber Midterm exams, final exams and reading weeks I keep forgetting to email registrants the zoom link : Mike Cutts is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Mike Cutts's Personal Meeting Room Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9674071840?pwd=VS9ZeU5KdTZ1MUp3cG9UejU2eXNWZz09 Meeting ID: 967 407 1840 Passcode: abcde Agenda: 2 hours every Saturday morning 10-12 am edt (Saturday afternoon/evening in Europe) 50 Panorama Court, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M9V4A9, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360348