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  • IEEE WIE ILS 2018 Toronto

    IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit (WIE ILS) is here for the first time in Toronto, Canada! IEEE Canada WIE is delighted to invite you to meet us on September 15th and 16th, 2018 at the Hilton Mississauga Meadowvale and participate in our 2-day summit. With “STEMpowered Leadership” as the theme, the summit aims at inspiring, engaging, and empowering women in STEM. IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit is launched as a part of IEEE WIE’s portfolio of global initiatives that provide opportunities for networking, mentorship, and collaboration. Past IEEE WIE Summits have been extremely successful and have made an outstanding impact on communities around the globe! Learn more and register at http://site.ieee.org/wieils-toronto-2018/.

  • Silicon Photonics: High-Density Integration for Novel Functionality

    Room SFB 560, 10 King’s College Rd, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4

    Monday, September 24th 2018, Wei Jiang, Professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University, and an Associate Director of Optical Communications Systems & Network Engineering Research Center of Jiangsu Province will be presenting “Silicon Photonics: High-Density Integration for Novel Functionality”. Day & Time: Monday September 24th, 2018 2:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m. Speaker: Wei Jiang Professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University, Associate Director of Optical Communications Systems & Network Engineering Research Center of Jiangsu Province Organizers: Amr S. Helmy and IEEE Toronto Circuits & Devices Chapter Location: Room SFB 560 10 King’s College Rd, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 Contact: Mengqi Wang Abstract: Silicon photonics can potentially transform the photonics technology owing to its low-cost fabrication and large-scale integration advantages. Integration can open up new opportunities, such as solid-state LIDARs for autonomous vehicles and chip-scale optical interconnects. To realize these opportunities, reducing device size and increasing integration density will be crucial. Towards these directions, this talk will discuss our recent experimental work on novel micro/nano-photonic structures, including photonic crystals, waveguide superlattices, and free-form structures. (1) A waveguide superlattice is introduced to enable low-crosstalk, high-density waveguide integration at half-wavelength pitches, which opens the door to high-performance optical phased arrays, next-generation LIDARs, and high-density space-division multiplexing. (2) Novel free-form structures are explored to create an ultra-short waveguide “taper”. Interestingly, the evolutionary algorithm yields an optimal structure with anomalous shapes. Through wavefront analysis, the role of a subtle “semi-lens” is identified. (3) Further opportunities in slow-light photonic crystal switches/modulators will also be briefly discussed. In many cases, underpinning physics needs to be fully understood first, and then be formulated into precise theory to guide experiments and achieve viable results. Biography: Wei Jiang is a professor in the college of engineering and applied sciences at Nanjing University, and an associate director of Optical Communications Systems & Network Engineering Research Center of Jiangsu Province. Prior to working at NJU, he was an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. His current research interests include silicon photonics, photonic crystals, nanophotonics, and their applications in optical interconnects, communications, sensing, and computing. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of silicon electro-optic and thermo-optic devices, high-density waveguide integration, slow light, superprism effects, and photonic crystal interface properties. He received his B.S. degree in physics from Nanjing University, and his M.A. degree in physics and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. Prof. Jiang received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and IEEE Region I Outstanding Teaching Award, among other honors.

  • IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Panel: “Creating a Diverse Smart Grid Sector: Challenges and Opportunities”

    350 Victoria St Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3

    Thursday, October 11th 2018, Jessie Ma, Neetika Sathe, Shadi Chuangpishit, and Sheldon Williamson will be participating on the IEEE Canada Women in Engineering Panel – “Creating a Diverse Smart Grid Sector: Challenges and Opportunities”. Day & Time: Thursday October 11th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 6:00 p.m. Speakers: Jessie Ma Senior Research Fellow, Ryerson Centre for Urban Energy Neetika Sathe Vice President, Advanced Planning at Alectra Shadi Chuangpishit Senior Consultant at Quanta Technology Sheldon Williamson Professor and NSERC Canada Research Chair in Electrical Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Organizers: IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Location: Library Building, Library Lecture Hall – LIB72, Ryerson University 350 Victoria St Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 Contact: Manar Jammal Register for Free: https://goo.gl/7cwkqv

  • Iguana Interface Engine, A day in the life of an integration engineer

    Centennial College, Progress Campus, Room A3-15

    Iguana interface engine allows integration with EHRs and other healthcare applications. Several EHRs systems can be connected via Iguana: Epic, Allscrips, Meditech, athenahealth, Cerner, etc. Iguana can process any data format and supports all protocols. Date & Time: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Speakers: Amandeep Aujla, Integration Engineer at iNTERFACEWARE Location: Centennial College, Progress Campus, Room A3-15 Organizer: Education Committee, IEEE Toronto Section Contact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour

  • Control of Power Electronics Systems Using Predictive Switching Sequences and Switching Transitions

    BA 4287, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S2E4

    Friday, October 12th 2018, Sudip K. Mazumder of University of Illinois at Chicago, will be presenting “Control of Power Electronics Systems Using Predictive Switching Sequences and Switching Transitions”. Day & Time: Friday October 12th, 2018 4:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Sudip K. Mazumder Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago Organizers: IEEE Toronto Power Electronics Chapter Location: Room Number: BA 4287 Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S2E4 Contact: Mahdieh Taghizadeh RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/176071 Abstract: This presentation provides a fundamentally different perspective to the control of solid-state semiconductor-device-based switching power-electronic systems (PESs). It is based on controlling the time evolution of the feasible switching sequences and controlling the switching transitions of PESs. The former – that is, the switching-sequence-based control (SBC) – yields rapid response under transient condition, optimal equilibrium response, and yields seamless transition between the two dynamical modes. Further, by enabling integration of modulation and control, SBC precludes the need for ad-hoc offline modulation synthesis. In other words, an optimal switching sequence for a PES is generated dynamically without the need for prior determination of a modulation scheme (which generates a pre-determined switching sequence) as evident in most conventional approaches. This presentation will provide the mechanism to carry out SBC synthesis and how it leads to multi-scale optimality leading to enhanced PES performance. Subsequent to the outline of SBC, the presentation will focus on switching-transition control (STC). The primary objective of STC is to demonstrate how key PES parameters including and stress, switching loss, electromagnetic noise emission can be controlled dynamically by modulating the dynamics of the power semiconductor devices. Both electrical and newly developed optical-control mechanisms to achieve STC will be briefly outlined. Finally, envisioned mechanism for monolithic integration of SBC and STC will be illustrated. This presentation will demonstrate, along with results, multiple practical applications (currently of high priority in the power/energy space) where the radically new control concepts make a tangible and substantive difference. Biography: Sudip K. Mazumder received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001. He is a Professor and the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronics Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as the President of the small business NextWatt LLC. He has over 25 years of professional experience and has held R&D and design positions in leading industrial organizations and has served as a Technical Consultant for several industries. His current areas of interests are switching-sequence and switching-transition based control of power-electronics systems and interactive-power networks; power electronics for renewable energy, micro/smart grids, energy storage; wide-bandgap (GaN/SiC) power electronics; and optically-triggered wide-bandgap power semiconductor devices. His research has attracted about 50 sponsored-research projects from leading federal agencies and industries, and yielded over 210 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious tier-one international journals and conferences, 10 patents, 10 book chapters and 1 book, and 88 invited/plenary/keynote lectures and presentations. He has guided/guiding 11 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Ph.D. and 11 M.S. students. He is the recipient of University of Illinois at Chicago’s Inventor of the Year Award (2014), University of Illinois’ University Scholar Award – university’s highest award (2013), IEEE International Future Energy Challenge Award (2005), ONR Young Investigator Award (2005), NSF CAREER Award (2003), and IEEE PELS Transaction Paper Award (2002). In 2016, he was elevated to the rank of an IEEE Fellow and he was invited to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE PELS beginning in 2016. He served/serving as the Guest Editor-in-Chief/Editor for IEEE PELS/IES Transactions between 2013-2014 and 2016-2017, as the first Editor-in-Chief for Advances in Power Electronics (2006-2009), and as an Associate Editor for IEEE IES/PELS/TAES/TII/JESTPE Transactions (2003-/2009-/2008-/2016-/2016-). Currently, he serves as the Chair for IEEE PELS TC on Sustainable Energy Systems. He is also the incoming (starting 2019) Editor-at-Large for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He is the Chair for IEEE PEDG’21, the TPC Chair for IEEE DEAS’19, and the Tutorial Chair for ECCE’19.

  • Audio and Acoustics Signal Processing: The Quest for High Fidelity Continues

    Room BA 4287, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S2E4

    Tuesday, October 16th 2018, Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Professor at the Institute for Media Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau, will be presenting “Audio and Acoustics Signal Processing: The Quest for High Fidelity Continues”. Day & Time: Tuesday October 16th, 2018 4:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg Professor at the Institute for Media Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, Ilmenau Organizers: IEEE Toronto Industry Application Society (IAS) Location: Room Number: BA 4287 Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S2E4 Contact: Sanaz Kanani RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/176976 Abstract: The dream of high fidelity continues since more than 100 years. In the last decades, signal processing has contributed many new solutions and a vast amount of additional knowledge to this field. These include: – Simple solutions like matrix multichannel systems. – Audio coding which changed the world of music distribution and listening habits. – Active noise control. – Active modification of room acoustics. – Search and recommendation technologies to find your favourite music. and many more … So are there any problems left to be solved? Among others, I see two main research areas: – Music Information Retrieval (MIR), helping us to find and organise music, or teaching playing musical instruments. – Immersive technologies for movie theatres and eventually our homes, creating the illusion of being at some other place. For such systems we use our knowledge about hearing, especially how ear and brain work together to form the sensation of sound. However, our knowledge about hearing, about psychoacoustics is still far from complete. In fact, just in the last few years we have learned a lot about what we don’t know. The talk will touch on a number of the subjects above, explain some current work and its applications and finally talk about open research questions regarding psychoacoustics and the evaluation of audio quality. Biography: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg has been a driving force behind some of today’s most innovative digital audio technology, notably the mp3 and MPEG-AAC audio coding standards. He is acclaimed for pioneering work in digital audio coding, psychoacoustics and 3D-Audio His honors include the AES Silver Medal and the “IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronic Award”, Furthermore he is member in the “Hall of Fame” of the Consumer Electronics Association and of the Internet Society. He holds three honorary Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Brandenburg holds about 100 patents. He is professor at the Institute for Media Technology, Technische Universität Ilmenau, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau, Germany

  • Surgical Robots: Innovation, Opportunities, Challenges

    Autodesk Toronto, 661 University Avenue Toronto, ON M5G 1M1

    Wednesday, October 17th 2018, the GYBO Robotics Network will be hosting a symposium “Surgical Robots: Innovation, Opportunities, Challenges”. Day & Time: Wednesday October 17th, 2018 2:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. Organizers: GYBO Robotics Network, IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering, IEEE Toronto Instrumentation & Measurement – Robotics & Automation Chapter, Autodesk, Synaptive Location: Autodesk Toronto 661 University Avenue Toronto, ON M5G 1M1 RVSP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surgical-robots-innovation-opportunities-challenges-registration-50073521250?discount=IEEEWIE Description: Canada is home to numerous initiatives in surgical robotics technologies including the commercialized work of Synaptive Medical, the research on KidsArm at Sick Kids and investment in innovation centres such as the CSTAR research group. With its world-leading hubs in health research and innovation, Canada has a unique opportunity to combine key assets for innovation leadership; a highly concentrated health innovation cluster, engineering and technical talent to create the solutions of the future, and a single-payer system to support their larger scale adoption. The symposium will explore home-grown Canadian innovations, invite technology users and adopters to highlight what opportunities exist for these technologies, and host a discussion on the challenges in bringing these technologies to market, including their validation, adoption, policy innovation and how they will transform the healthcare system and practice. Agenda: 2:00 pm Networking 2:15 pm Surgical Robotic Technology Innovation in Canada – Technical Talks – Leila Kheradpir​, M.Sc., P.Eng, Director, Hardware Engineering, Synaptive Medical – Tim Fielding, Medical Product Development Manager, MDA – Thomas Looi, Program Director, Centre for Image Guided Innovation and Therapeutic Intervention, Hospital for Sick Children – Rajni Patel, Director of Engineering, Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics and Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Control, Western University 3:20 pm Surgical Robots: Needs, Opportunities and Gaps – User Talks – Dr. Taymaa May, Gynaecologist, Oncologist, and Surgical Scientist, UHN Princess Margaret Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto 3:50 pm Networking 4:10 pm Panel Discussion – Cameron Piron, CoFounder and Member of the Board, Synaptive Medical – Tim Reedman, Director, Commercial Systems, MDA Robotics – Rajni Patel, Director of Engineering, Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics and Canada Research Chair in Advanced Robotics and Control, Western University – Leila Kheradpir​, M.Sc., P.Eng, Director, Hardware Engineering, Synaptive Medical 4:50 pm Closing Remarks 5:00 pm Networking

  • Utility Protection Relay Fundamentals

    Ryerson University 341 Yonge St, Toronto M5B 1S1

    Wednesday, October 17th 2018, Eric Stark, Sr. Engineering Training & Consulting with RNItechnology, will be presenting “Utility Protection Relay Fundamentals”. Day & Time: Wednesday October 17th, 2018 5:30 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Eric Stark Sr. Engineering Training & Consulting with RNItechnology Organizers: IEEE Toronto & IEEE Ryerson Location: Ryerson University 341 Yonge St Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 1S1 Building: Student Learning Centre (SLC) Room Number: Collaboratory Zone (3rd Floor) Contact: Sadeed Bari Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/177825 Biography: Eric Stark is currently a Sr. Engineering Training & Consulting with RNItechnology. Eric’s mission is to educate the masses on how to protect a smart grid, something he is more than qualified for considering his 31 years of experience in electrical engineering, control, automation and protection. He is a sought after expert and trainer for Protection & Control, Engineering and Project management with expert knowledge in Protection & Control relays and SCADA. In addition, Eric has organized, consulted and delivered successfully, achieving 100% customer satisfaction on numerous engineering events and training around the globe like USA, Canada, Malaysia, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana and Middle East.

  • IESO Operating the Power System: New Challenges Call for New Approaches

    Room Number: BA1230, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4

    Friday, October 19th 2018, David Short, Director of Power System Assessments for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), will be presenting “IESO Operating the Power System: New Challenges Call for New Approaches”. Day & Time: Friday October 19th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 6:00 p.m. Speaker: David Short Director, Power System Assessments for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) Organizers: IEEE Toronto Industry Application Society (IAS), IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Location: Room Number: BA1230 Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S2E4 Contact: Hoda Youssef Abstract: Distributed energy resources. Changing supply and demand patterns. Advanced grid technologies. The complexities of operating the system have never been greater – but with new challenges come new opportunities to help shape the province’s electricity sector. From leveraging innovation to drive cost-effectiveness and efficiency, to building a market that will meet system and consumer needs at the lowest cost, learn about the IESO’s experience in operating today’s system and how we are laying the foundation for an evolving energy landscape. Biography: David Short holds the position of Director, Power System Assessments for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). In this role, his teams are responsible for managing power system changes within the IESO, operational analysis, and engineering studies that define our system models and operating orders. Mr. Short has over 25 years of industry experience in Ontario and British Columbia. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering) from Queen’s University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. He also holds the Certificate of Authorization for engineering services at the IESO.

  • Working at Hydro One – Professional Event by IEEE Industry Applications

    BA 1230, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S2E4

    Friday, October 26th 2018, Bruno Jesus of Hydro One, will be presenting “Working at Hydro One – Professional Event by IEEE Industry Applications”. Day & Time: Friday October 26th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 6:00 p.m. Speaker: Bruno Jesus Director of Strategy and Integrated Planning at Hydro One Networks Inc. Organizers: IEEE Toronto Industry Applications Location: Room Number: BA 1230 Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology University of Toronto 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S2E4 Contact: Hoda Youssef RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/176071 Abstract: Bruno Jesus, the Director of Strategy and Integrated Planning at Hydro One Networks Inc., will provide an overview of what it is like working at Hydro One, the strong culture that is embraced across the organization as well as the training and development opportunities that are available. By diving into the history of Hydro One’s transmission and distribution business as well as taking a look at where we are today, Bruno will be able to speak to the broad range of opportunities for all types of engineers across Hydro One. Biography: Bruno Jesus is the Director of Strategy and Integrated Planning at Hydro One Networks Inc. With over 30 years of experience, Bruno has had the opportunity to work in various groups within Planning and Operations such as Asset Strategies and Standards as well as Station Sustainment Capital Planning. Bruno’s current accountabilities include developing transmission and distribution strategies, investment planning, business processes, secondary land use, joint use wire agreements, new technology and innovation (R&D) and reliability reporting. Bruno graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

  • DEWCOM 2018: The 3rd International Workshop on Dew Computing

    Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa, Meeting Room Elm 1., 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, Canada L6G 1A5

    Dew computing is a new computing model appeared after the wide acceptance of cloud computing. While cloud computing uses centralized servers to provide various services, dew computing uses on-premises computers to provide decentralized, cloud-friendly, and collaborative micro services to end-users. Dew computing is an on-premises computer software-hardware organization paradigm in the cloud computing environment, which is complementary to cloud computing. The key features of dew computing are that on-premises computers provide functionality independent of cloud services and they also collaborate with cloud services. This year, DEWCOM 2018 will be held at the same venue with the 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2018). One of the goals of this arrangement is for Dew Computing researchers to exchange ideas with industry partners. Welcome researchers, professionals, and students currently working in any areas to participate this event and to be pioneers of this new research area. Day & Time: October 29th – 30th, 2018 Organizers: IEEE Computer Society Dew Computing Special Technical Community (DewCom STC), IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa, Meeting Room Elm 1. 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, Canada L6G 1A5 Parking voucher is available upon request. Register: http://www.dewcomputing.org/index.php/dewcom-2018/ Contact: dewcom2018@easychair.org Schedule: Session 1 (Tutorial/Presentations): Oct. 29, 3:15 – 5:15pm. Session 2 (Presentations): Oct. 30, 8:30 – 10:00am Nutrition Break: 10:00 – 10:15am. Session 3 (Presentations): Oct. 30, 10:15am. – 12:00pm Lunch: 12:00 -1:00pm. Session 4 (Presentations/DewCom STC Committee Meeting): Oct.30, 1:00 – 3:00pm. Nutrition Break: 3:00 – 3:15pm. Session 5 (DewCom STC Committee Meeting): 3:15 – 5:15pm.

  • App-a-thon

    Room ENG 303 - George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre Ryerson University Toronto, ON M5B 1Z4

    Saturday November 10th, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. the “App-a-thon” is starting – a competition in which students are challenged to create a Mobile Application within a span of 24-hours. This is an open-ended hackathon where creativity and technical skills are encouraged to develop a unique App. Day & Time: 10:00 a.m. Saturday November 10th – 10:00 a.m. Sunday November 11th, 2018 Organizers: IEEE Ryerson Student Branch, IEEE Toronto WIE Location: Room ENG 303 George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre Ryerson University Toronto, ON M5B 1Z4 Register: https://goo.gl/qEKyU4 Contact: ieee.ryersonu@gmail.com For regular updates checkout, the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/203391940542115/