We will be continuing to assemble our line following robot, Everyone is welcome. Day & Time: Monday January 21st, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber
Tuesday January 22nd, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. the Licensing Executives Society, will be presenting “Making Canada a Nation of Innovators”. Day & Time: Tuesday January 22nd, 2019 12:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Speakers from CIPO. TBD Speakers from ISED. TBD Organizers: Licensing Executives Society Toronto Chapter Location: AutoDesk at MaRS 661 University Ave #200 Toronto, ON M5G 1M1 Register: https://les.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9MjUwNzE4NSZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9Mzc4MDU0NzU4 Abstract: The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) and Canada’s Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) Office will jointly provide an informative presentation and discussion on the Government of Canada’s Innovation agenda. Learn how Canada’s Innovation and Skills Plan is putting bold ideas into action, including Canada’s IP Strategy, and Innovation Canada – a client centric, single window business innovation service. A light lunch will be served.
Wednesday January 23rd, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. IEEE Toronto Computer Chapter is hosting a “R&D Essentials for Technology Companies” event. Day & Time: Wednesday January 23rd, 2019 4:30 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. Organizers: Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Location: Bay Adelaide Centre (KPMGLLP) 333 Bay Street, Suite 4600 Toronto, ON M5H 4G3 Contact: Dennis Cecic, P. Eng., SMIEEE Chair, IEEE Computer Society (Toronto Chapter) Dennis Woo, P. Eng., SMIEEE, FEC Senior Manager, Tax Incentives Practice, KPMG LLP Register: RSVP is required for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rd-essentials-for-technology-companies-tickets-53069892477 Abstract: Does your business create or improve technologies? Development of technology is costly and risky. You will want to know about the available bank services, government funding programs and how to protect your intellectual property. Join us for an afternoon conversation on the following topics: – Bank services designed to support technology companies. – Government programs (e.g. SR&ED and IRAP) to support businesses conducting R&D. – Intellectual property, trademarks and patents. Experienced professionals from KPMG LLP, Prima IP, Royal Bank, and InvestOntario will present and answer your questions on these topics. Space is limited. Light refreshments will be served.
We will be continuing to assemble our line following robot. Anyone is welcome. Day & Time: Monday February 4th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber
We have a new project we are getting started where we will use an Arduino and GSM module to communicate with a load cell. These sessions will be led by Jigar Brahmbhatt. In this project we will learn how the load cell works for the measurement of different weights using the hx711 Amplifier, the Arduino programming for load cell calibration, a program for collecting data from the load cell, and sending that data through the GSM module. The first session will be to breadboard the circuit and try and calibrate the load cell using the Arduino. The plan is to have these sessions weekly and it is projected to last 4 to 6 weeks. Day & Time: Monday February 4th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speakers: Jigar Brahmbhatt Project Leader Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J233A Contact: IEEE Humber
This Thursday, February 21st, from 12:00 until 2:00 pm, we will be having a special session on Introducing Industrial Networks and Fieldbus. This session will be lead by Professor Keyvan Ghazaie Alamdari. Day & Time: Thursday February 21st, 2019 12:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speakers: Keyvan Ghazaie Alamdari Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room J235B Contact: IEEE Humber
Thursday February 28th, 2019 at 12:15 p.m. Prof. Shahram (Sean) Yousefi, Ph.D., P.Eng, Co-founder, President, and CEO of MESH Scheduling Inc will be presenting “Harmony: beyond win-win for an ailing healthcare system”. Day & Time: Thursday February 28th, 2019 12:15 p.m. ‐ 1:15 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Shahram (Sean) Yousefi, Ph.D., P.Eng Professor and Associate Dean, Corporate Relations, Queen’s University Co-founder, President, and CEO MESH Scheduling Inc Organizers: IEEE Toronto EMBS, and IEEE WIE Location: TRI-UC, Basement Lecture theatre 550 University Ave., Toronto, M5G 2A2 Contact: fboskovic@ridoutmaybee.com Abstract: Does Canada have a better healthcare system or the US? In this talk, we speak about some of the known as well as hidden issues in healthcare and workforce and provide some surprising comparative arguments. Humans, machines, and algorithms must learn important lessons and everything should come together from policy and strategy to processes and tools to save us! MESHAI.io has focused on helping reduce the largest component in healthcare cost by listening to the frontline providers and making sure they are well taken care of. Join us to hear about our point of view in this regard and on “Socially Intelligent Staff Scheduling” in healthcare. How can we do better? Where can you help? Biography: Prof. Shahram Yousefi is a passionate problem-solver with a strong belief that people are our biggest assets in every team. He believes a balanced approach towards learning, growth, and harmony is key to create success for the individuals as well as organizations.Prof. Yousefihas held positions at Edward S. Rogers Sr. department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéralde Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Jilin University, China, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, and department of electrical and computer engineering of Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, where he is currently a tenured full professor and Associate Dean, Corporate Relations. Shahram also serves as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Canadian journal of electrical and computer engineering. Prof. Shahram’sresearch interests lie in communications, cloud systems, big data, networks, information theory, signal processing, control, optimization, and algorithms in which he holds a number of patents. He has co-founded CanarmonyCorp., MESH Scheduling Inc., and OPTT Inc. to apply algorithms to make life better and more harmonious in healthcare and workforce management. One of Shahram’spatents in the area of data storage has recently been licensed to a Queen’s University startup to revolutionize a $500b solid state/cloud storage industry. Prof. Yousefi is an advisor to a number of technology, healthcare, and education startups
We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 1 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 1st, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber
Friday March 1st, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. Dr. Ayman El-Refaie, Ph.D, FIEEE, will be presenting an IEEE Toronto IES Chapter Seminar “Growing Role of Electrical Machines and Drives in Electrification”. Day & Time: Friday March 1st, 2019 5:30 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Ayman El-Refaie, Ph.D, FIEEE Thomas and Suzanne M. Werner Endowed Chair, Marquette University, USA Organizers: IEEE Toronto IES Chapter, UOIT Location: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Room: ERC-1092 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, ON L1H 0C5 Contact: Mohamed Youssef Abstract: Energy sustainability is arguably one of the most critical challenges for a sustainable future. With predictions showing future scarcity and/or higher degree of extraction difficulty of traditional sources of energy for example coal, oil and natural gas, the shift to sustainable clean sources of energy is a must. Another key reason is the increasing detrimental impact of using fossil fuels. Over the last few decades, there has been serious effort to replace mechanical and hydraulic systems with electrical systems. This effort also includes replacing fixed-speed and old electrical drives with higher performance variable-speed drives. This is mainly due to the higher reliability, efficiency and robustness of electrical systems. This trend of “more electric” systems could be seen across a wide range of applications. These include traction, aerospace, actuation, mining, oil & gas, and industrial applications as examples. This push for electrification posed a lot of challenges to develop electrical systems that meet the demanding requirements of the various applications including harsh environments, high power density, high efficiency and fault tolerance in safety-critical applications. At the heart of the electrification effort is the development of advanced electrical machines and drives. This presentation will provide an overview of the various applications where electrification is taking place. The presentation will focus on electrical machines and drives that have been developed or are currently under development. The presentation will also cover some general trends in electrical machines and potential areas of research. Biography: Ayman M. El-Refaie received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison on 2002, and 2005 respectively. Between 2005 and 2016, he has been a principal engineer and a project leader at the Electrical Machines and Drives Lab at General Electric Global Research Center. Since January 2017, he joined Marquette University as the Thomas and Suzanne M. Werner Endowed Chair in sustainable and secure energy. His interests include electrical machines and drives. He has 45 journal and 75 conference publications, with several others pending. He has 41 issued US patents and 28 US patent applications, with several others pending. At GE, he worked on several projects that involve the development of advanced electrical machines for various applications including, aerospace, traction, wind, and water desalination. He was the program manager and principal investigator of a $5.6M DOE-funded project to develop next generation traction motors for hybrid vehicles. He is currently the program manager and principal investigator of a $12M DOE-funded project to develop next generation traction motors for hybrid vehicles that do not include rare earth materials. He was the chair for the IEEE IAS Transportation Systems committee and an associate editor for the Electric Machines committee. He was a technical program chair for the IEEE 2011 Energy Conversion Conference and Exposition (ECCE). He was the general chair for ECCE 2014 and 2015 ECCE steering committee chair. He is the general chair of IEMDC 2019. He is a member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society executive board. He is an IEEE Fellow.
We will be having our weekly programming session Friday March 8 at 5:10 pm in room F310. Snacks and Codes will be served! We will continue our format of splitting off into groups for the first hour to help the new members catch up, the second hour will be preparation for IEEE Xtreme, and the 3rd hour will be dedicated to whatever interests the group that day (so bring your questions and ideas)! We will also continue our smart city project discussions! Bring your laptop with you! Day & Time: Friday March 8th, 2019 5:10 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Humber College Professor Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F310 Contact: IEEE Humber
Friday March 8th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., Hugo Sanchez will be presenting the “Distributed Generation and Introduction to Smart Grid Seminar”. Speaker: Hugo Sanchez Day & Time: Friday March 8th, 2019 6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Ryerson Student Branch, IEEE Toronto Location: Room KHW 271 Kerr Hall West Ryerson University Toronto, ON M5B 0A1 Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/187758 Contact: ieee.ryersonu@gmail.com Abstract: Hey folks! IEEE Ryerson is continuing their tech talk series, with yet another tech talk focusing on Distributed Generation and an Introduction to Smart Grid. The main objective is to provide a summary of the current practices and challenges to connect Distributed Generators i.e. solar, natural gas generators, battery storage systems, etc. to the distribution grid. For regular updates checkout the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/494094801412440/
Monday March 11th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. IEEE Ryerson Student Branch and IEEE Toronto PES will be hosting the “Space Weather and Compliance with NERC Standard TPL-007 and EOP-010”. Day & Time: Monday March 11th, 2019 6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Ryerson Student Branch, IEEE Toronto PES Location: Room ENG LG21 George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre Ryerson University Toronto, ON M5B 1Z4 Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/189260 Contact: ieee.ryersonu@gmail.com Abstract: IEEE Ryerson is at again with their tech talk series, with another talk focusing on space weather and compliance with NERC standard TPL-007 and EOP-010. The main objective is to talk about the effects of space weather on the power system and NERC (North American Reliability Corporation) reliability standards on geomagnetic disturbances. For regular updates checkout the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/390341378195975/
