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  • IEEE Humber Programming Session #3 Fall 2018 Series

    Humber College North Campus, Room F321

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Over the 6 weeks we will be practicing logic questions while learning new coding techniques from sorting to data structures. The sessions will also be open to questions and student ideas. Day & Time: Friday November 16th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F321 Contact: IEEE Humber Abstract: We will be having our 3rd programming session! The session will be held in F312, in one of the hive rooms. As usual donuts will be served! This week we will be practicing what we learned in the first couple of sessions. So if you haven’t attended the first 2 sessions, this is your chance to catch up! Andrew Rudder and Robert Lengyel will be there to assist us when needed, but this will be more about the group helping each other. The first 2 weeks we covered pointers, structs, link lists, and practiced some logic problems with loops and functions. This Google drive link has all of the documents and coding files we utilized during the sessions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWns0X22mWdXAyJdGHH_pc0kRNG0pM12 And here is a good video on structs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5pA7RvvQDg

  • Improving Communication Skills for Engineers

    350 Victoria St Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3, Room Number: LIB 072

    Monday, November 19th, 2018, Hugo Sánchez-Reategui, Consultant of Alectra Utilities (formerly PowerStream Inc.), and Ted Lyberogiannis, Senior Manager at an electrical utility in Toronto, will be presenting “Improving Communication Skills for Engineers”. Day & Time: Monday November 19th, 2018 6:15 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. Organizers: IEEE Toronto Young Professionals Affinity Group and Industry Relations Committee Location: 350 Victoria St Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 2K3 Room Number: LIB 072 Contact: Miad Fard Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/178984 Abstract: We are excited to announce that IEEE Toronto Section’s Young Professionals Affinity Group and Industry Relations Committee will be hosting a seminar on Improving Communication Skills for Engineers with distinguished speakers who will share their experiences and speak about the opportunities, possibilities, and challenges in an engineering workplace and the required communication skills. You will hear first-hand tips on how to become an excellent communicator to advance your career. The focus of this seminar is on communication skills one requires to be successful in an engineering profession. This seminar could be of special interest to engineering students, new graduates, young engineers, and young professionals in general. Speakers: Hugo Sánchez-Reategui Hugo Sanchez-Reategui has been a consultant of Alectra Utilities (formerly PowerStream Inc.) for the past 8 years confirming capacity for Embedded Distributed Generators dealing with stakeholders, developers, utilities and government agencies.He is a current member of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), OSPE (Ontario Society of Professional Engineers) , past member of Toastmasters International (Public Speaking) for 7 years and VP of Public Relations of Toastmasters (elected twice). He earned a Bachelor of Engineering at National University of Callao, Peru and IEEQB Program Certificate at Ryerson University in 2010. Hugo has been an active volunteer member of IEEE Toronto (largest IEEE section in Canada) since 2016, he has been supporting student branches, chapters and IEEE Canada conferences. During his past volunteering role of 2 years (2016 – 2018) with IEEE Toronto, he led the Industry Relations Committee, managing a selected group of volunteers to work on technology topics i.e. Cyber Security, Smart Grid, Smart Cities and other emerging technologies showing the awareness of these topics and promoting the IEEE brand as a technology leader in Canada and North America. In addition, Hugo mentors undergrad, new grad students and participates as a speaker in IEEE events. His technical interests include Smart Grid Technologies, Distribution Operations, Substation Communications and Protection of Distribution Systems. Ted Lyberogiannis Ted is a Professional Engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Electrical Power Systems from the University of Waterloo. He is also currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Energy and Infrastructure Law from Osgoode Hall Law school. He currently works as a senior manager at an electrical utility in Toronto. Upon graduating from his Bachelor’s degree in 2004, he realized that his technical abilities would be of little use if he was unable to communicate effectively. Shortly after graduating, he began practicing his public speaking by joining a local Toastmasters club at his work. He is now an experienced Toastmaster who has won dozens of public speaking contests and has competed at the Semi-Finals of the World Championships of Public Speaking on two occasions. He is a firm believer in the power of communication and that anyone can become a good public speaker if they practice enough.

  • Energy-Efficient Edge Computing for AI-driven Applications

    Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Rd, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4, Canada

    Thursday, November 22nd 2018, Vivienne Sze, Associate Professor at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, is presenting “Energy-Efficient Edge Computing for AI-driven Applications”. Day & Time: Thursday November 22nd, 2018 4:10 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Vivienne Sze Associate Professor, MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Organizers: IEEE Toronto Solid-State Circuits Society Location: Sanford Fleming Building, Room 1105 10 King’s College Rd Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3G4 Contact: Dustin Dunwell Abstract: Edge computing near the sensor is preferred over the cloud due to privacy and/or latency concerns for a wide range of applications including robotics/drones, self-driving cars, smart Internet of Things, and portable/wearable electronics. However, at the sensor there are often stringent constraints on energy consumption and cost in addition to throughput and accuracy requirements. In this talk, we will describe how joint algorithm and hardware design can be used to reduce energy consumption while delivering real-time and robust performance for applications including deep learning, computer vision, autonomous navigation and video/image processing. We will show how energy-efficient techniques that exploit correlation and sparsity to reduce compute, data movement and storage costs can be applied to various AI tasks including object detection, image classification, depth estimation, super-resolution, localization and mapping. Biography: Vivienne Sze is an Associate Professor at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Her research interests include energy-aware signal processing algorithms, and low-power circuit and system design for portable multimedia applications, including computer vision, deep learning, autonomous navigation, and video process/coding. Prior to joining MIT, she was a Member of Technical Staff in the R&D Center at TI, where she designed low-power algorithms and architectures for video coding. She also represented TI in the JCT-VC committee of ITU-T and ISO/IEC standards body during the development of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which received a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award. She is a co-editor of the book entitled “High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): Algorithms and Architectures” (Springer, 2014). Prof. Sze received the B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto in 2004, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degree from MIT in 2006 and 2010, respectively. In 2011, she received the Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in Electrical Engineering at MIT. She is a recipient of the 2018 Facebook Hardware & Software Systems Research Award, the 2017 Qualcomm Faculty Award, the 2016 Google Faculty Research Award, the 2016 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award, the 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2007 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, and a co-recipient of the 2017 CICC Outstanding Invited Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE Micro Top Picks Award and the 2008 A-SSCC Outstanding Design Award. For more information about research in the Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group at MIT visit: http://www.rle.mit.edu/eems/

  • Opportunities in Neural Engineering

    Room ENG 460, Ryerson University, 245 Church Street, Toronto

    Friday Nov 23, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Group, Ryerson University and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will be hosting the “Opportunities in Neural Engineering” event. Day & Time: Friday November 23rd, 2018 9:00 a.m. ‐ 1:30 p.m. Organizers: Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Group Ryerson University IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Location: Room ENG 460, Ryerson University 245 Church Street, Toronto Contact: Filip Boskovic Agenda: Each talk will be for 20 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussions. Session 1 – Neural Engineering framework 1) Overview of the event – Sri Krishnan, Associate Dean (Research), Ryerson University 2) Neural signal processing and machine learning – Sri Krishnan 3) Assistive Technologies – Teodiano Bastos, Federal Univ. Espirito Santo, Brazil 4) Parkinsons’ Disease Voice Analysis – Alice Rueda, Intel Student Ambassador and PhD student Session 2 – Applications in Neural Engineering 5) Brain-computer Interfaces – Dharmendra Gurve, Ryerson University 6) Rehabilitation facilities and framework for collaborative work – Jeevan Pant, Ryerson University 7) Assistive Living – Robson Cruz and Yuri Silva, Federal Univ. Manuas, Brazil 8) Emerging opportunities – Sri Krishnan and Teodiano Bastos

  • IEEE Humber Programming Session #4 Fall 2018 Series

    Humber College North Campus, Room F312

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Over the 6 weeks we will be practicing logic questions while learning new coding techniques from sorting to data structures. The sessions will also be open to questions and student ideas. Day & Time: Friday November 23rd, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F312 Contact: IEEE Humber Abstract: This Friday, November 23 at 5pm, we will be having our 4th programming session. The session will be held in F312, in one of the hive rooms. Please let us know if you can attend. Due to the popularity and interest in these sessions, we will be extending these sessions to 3 hours from now on. Last week we practiced with Link Lists but asked everyone to try and finish a complete link list with these functions by this Friday: createNode addFront printList AddLast deleteFront deleteLast I attached a sample of a link list with only the first three functions. At the beginning of the next session we will answer any lingering link lists questions, and Andrew Rudder will go over the advantages and disadvantages of using a link list. Also, Robert Lengyel will be talking about vectors and strings. With our remaining time we will be continuing to explore steganography. This Google drive link has all of the documents and coding files we utilized during the first 2 sessions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWns0X22mWdXAyJdGHH_pc0kRNG0pM12

  • IEEE Humber Programming Session #5 Fall 2018 Series

    Humber College North Campus, Room F312

    This is a series of programming sessions lead by instructor Andew Rudder designed to prepare our IEEE at Humber student branch for future coding challenges such as IEEE Xtreme. These sessions will be held at Humber College and will be interactive so please bring a laptop with you. Over the 6 weeks we will be practicing logic questions while learning new coding techniques from sorting to data structures. The sessions will also be open to questions and student ideas. Day & Time: Friday November 30th, 2018 5:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. Speaker: Andew Rudder Secretary, IEEE at Humber Student Branch Organizers: IEEE Toronto WIE, Humber Student Branch Location: Humber College North Campus, Room F312 Contact: IEEE Humber Abstract: Our next programming session is Friday November 30th, from 5pm – 8pm in room F312. Snacks will be served! Last week we reviewed Link lists and the key differences & uses between Link-Lists and Arrays. We then covered vectors in depth. And then, we went further with stenography with a demonstration of an LSB bitmap encoder. Sample code for this encoder is located in week 4 of this google drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWns0X22mWdXAyJdGHH_pc0kRNG0pM12 This week we will continue exploring stenography, practice with vectors, and take a deeper look into strings.

  • Connecting your IoT Device with LoRaWAN to The Things Network (TTN)

    Room ENG101, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 1Z4

    Saturday, December 1st 2018, Dennis Cecic, P. Eng., SMIEEE., Senior Technical Training Engineer with Microchip Technology Canada Inc., will be presenting “Connecting your IoT Device with LoRaWAN to The Things Network (TTN)”. Day & Time: Saturday December 1st, 2018 10:00 a.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Dennis Cecic, P. Eng., SMIEEE. Senior Technical Training Engineer with Microchip Technology Canada Inc. Chair of the IEEE Toronto Computer Society Organizers: IEEE Toronto Computer Society Location: Room ENG101, Ryerson University (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre) 245 Church Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 1Z4 Contact: Dennis Cecic, P. Eng., SMIEEE. Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/179788 Abstract: The long range and low-power capability of LoRaWANTM combined with the flexibility and ease of use of The Thing Network’s open source data network makes this one of the easiest ways for an embedded engineer to create an end-to-end IoT solution. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn how to send sensor data from a low cost, low-power sensor all the way to a user application. The class will walk through connecting a LoRaWAN-enabled endpoint through a LoRaWAN gateway to The Things Network’s servers and finally to an end user application. Upon completion, attendees will be equipped to deploy each piece of this IoT solution. Notes: RSVP is required for this event. Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/179788 for more details and to register. FEES: All $29.95 + 13% HST Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Attendees will be provided with a sensor board for use during the workshop. Attendees may purchase the sensor board separately: https://www.microchipdirect.com/product/search/all/THW1021 Attendees are expected to download courseware and install software onto their laptop computers before attending the event per instructions here (see README.txt): https://microchip.box.com/s/qiiqa285z8c9ee798xyzb8d2iqw15cwi Biography: Dennis is a Senior Technical Training Engineer with Microchip Technology Canada Inc., specializing in microcontrollers, embedded software and the internet of things (IoT). His industrial embedded design experience includes development of microwave, infrared and acoustic motion sensors for the commercial security system market, as well as specialty devices for assisted living. He has also developed and taught courses in 32-bit microcontrollers and DSP in the school of electronics at Seneca College. He holds a B. Eng. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ryerson University. Dennis is also the current Chair of the IEEE Computer Society – Toronto Chapter.

  • IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop: Distributed Machine Learning, The Future of Programming in The Present

    Room A3-17, Centennial College, Progress Campus 941 Progress Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M1G 3T8

    Saturday Dec 1, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. Reza Dibaj, Chair of Magnetics Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section, will be presenting an IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop: “Distributed Machine Learning, The Future of Programming in The Present”. Day & Time: Saturday December 1st, 2018 5:30 p.m. ‐ 6:30 p.m. Speaker: Reza Dibaj Chair of Magnetics Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section Organizers: Magnetics Chapter, IEEE Toronto Centennial College Chapter, WIE IEEE Toronto Location: Room A3-17 Centennial College, Progress Campus 941 Progress Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M1G 3T8 Contact: Reza Dibaj Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) and statistical techniques have provided a new era that enables us to convert the data to information and transform the information into actionable knowledge. Moreover, distributed computing ecosystems provide the ability to break down the computation burdens among commodity hardware, thanks to cloud environments. Among all the attempts in this road, SciKit and TensorFlow are two states of the art libraries that can be used in Python and this seminar will open the gate to know their bases.

  • Power System Engineering, Operation and Management

    Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology, 205 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 5L7, Canada

    A short course in “Power System Engineering, Operation and Management” is offered in January 2019 to enhance knowledge and understanding of the practical applications of power system engineering and modern technologies in the energy sector. Course Timetable: • Monday, January 14th, 2019 to Friday, January 18th 2019: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (with a brief coffee break; Coffee and snacks will be provided) • Thursday, January 17th, 2019: Site Visit to the Operation & Control Centre: 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Transportation and snacks will be provided) Speakers: • Doug Houseman, IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee • Prof. Javeed Ahmed Khan, Senior member of IEEE • Satish Saini, Chair Education Committee IEEE Toronto section Location: Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology 205 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 5L7 (access to Hwy 427, 407 & 409) Organizer: Education Committee, IEEE Toronto Section Contact: Satish Saini RVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/177273 Registration Fee: $500 + GST/HST. (10% Discount to IEEE members) Course Outline: See the full call for registration document for more information. Day 1: Fundamentals of power system, electrical circuits & power flow, protection & control Day 2: Power System Components and Operation- generation, transmission & distribution Day 3: Latest technologies and trends in power generation including renewable sources Day 4: SCADA, EMS and DMS applications in transmission & distribution of power Day 5: Site Visit to the power operation Centre; Operation of Ontario’s electricity market. Project Management and other soft skills for power system engineers. Course Test/Exam Who should attend: • Electrical, IT and others engineers with interest in energy & power system. • Technocrats, technologists and other professionals in the field of power generation, transmission & distribution. • Foreign-trained professionals. • Graduate/ undergraduate students in (colleges and universities). What will you receive after completion: • Course Certificate of Completion along with CEUs and PDH (After completing an in-class short exam and evaluation which all attendees must pass). • Course Materials in Paper Format. • Continuous support on career advice, resume building and skills development. Biography: Doug Houseman – Doug is a well known leader in grid modernisation with 40 + years of experience in the energy and utility industry and involvement in projects in more than 70 countries. He has been involved in IEEE’s GridVision 2050, US Department of Energy’s QER and to revise CEATI’s Distribution Utility Technology Roadmap. Doug is a NIST fellow and member of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) where he had a hand in both the Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model and Transactive Energy. He has led the IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Intelligent Grid Coordinating Committee and Emerging Technology Committee for the last five years. He has developed more than 20 tutorials for grid modernization for IEEE and others in addition to hundreds of other publications, presentations, workshops, papers and articles on grid modernization, power SCADA, Microgrids, AMR and many more. Prof. Javeed Ahmed Khan – Prof Javeed has a PhD degree in electrical engineering in electrical energy systems and Bachelor’s in instrumentation and electronics engineering. His 15 years of experience is spread across the globe in academia, consultancy and power industry. He has taught around 25 courses in electrical, electronics, control and computer engineering in different Universities and Colleges around the world. His major achievements are setting up of functional electrical and electronics engineering department and a lab at an engineering institute and many projects on solar powered electric car, vertical-axis wind turbine, Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging System and many more. Javeed is a senior member of IEEE, and a Professional Engineer registered with PEO, Ontario and APEGA, Alberta. Satish Saini – With Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and numerous advanced courses in power, energy and management, Satish is a Licensed Professional Engineer registered with PEO, Canada. He has an extensive 33 years of accomplished management experience in various fields of energy and power at global level. Majority of his experience is in electrical utility operations and management at senior level, business development and project management related to renewable energy, smart metering / AMI, Advanced Distribution System (ADS) / Smart Grid, DSM and DMS. He has been involved in hiring, training and mentoring a diverse work force from various backgrounds. He is an active member of IEEE in various committees, Task Forces and Working Groups related to Smart Distribution, Smart Grid, MicroGrids and Smart Cities. He has a strong vision of developing the aging DS Grid with latest innovative technologies and solutions along with transforming utilities through smart grid programs. Mentoring and training young and foreign-trained professionals is one of his strongest passion.

  • Integrated Terrestrial/Aerial 6G Networks for Ubiquitous 3D Super-Connectivity in 2030s

    Bahen Centre, Room BA1230, 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4

    Thursday December 6th, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, will be presenting a ComSoc distinguished lecture: “Integrated Terrestrial/Aerial 6G Networks for Ubiquitous 3D Super-Connectivity in 2030s”. Day & Time: Thursday December 6th, 2018 2:00 p.m. ‐ 3:30 p.m. Speaker: Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu Carleton University Organizers: ComSoc IEEE Toronto Location: Bahen Centre, Room BA1230 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4 Contact: ComSoc IEEE Toronto Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183175 Abstract: As the 5G standards are currently being developed with a scheduled completion date of late-2019, it is time to reinitiate a brainstorming endeavour followed by the technical groundwork towards the subsequent generation (6G) wireless networks of 2030s. One reasonable starting point in this new 6G discussion is to reflect on the possible shortcomings of the 5G networks to-be-deployed. 5G promises to provide connectivity for a broad range of use-cases in a variety of vertical industries; after all, this rich set of scenarios is indeed what distinguishes 5G from the previous four generations. Many of the envisioned 5G use-cases require challenging target values for one or more of the key QoS elements, such as high rate, high reliability, low latency, and high energy efficiency; we refer to the presence of such demanding links as the super-connectivity. However, the very fundamental principles of digital and wireless communications reveal that the provision of ubiquitous super-connectivity in the global scale – i.e., beyond indoors, dense downtown or campus-type areas – is infeasible with the legacy terrestrial network architecture as this would require prohibitively expensive gross over-provisioning. The problem will only exacerbate with even more demanding 6G use-cases such as UAVs requiring connectivity (ex: delivery drones), thus the need for 3D super-connectivity. In this talk, we will present a 5-layer vertical architecture composed of fully integrated terrestrial and aerial layers for 6G networks of 2030s: – Terrestrial HetNets with macro-, micro-, and pico-BSs – Flying-BSs (aerial-/UAV-/drone-BSs); altitude: up to several 100 m – High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) (floating-BSs); altitude: ~20 km – Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites; altitude: 200-1,000 km – Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites; altitude: 35,786 km In the absence of a clear technology roadmap for the 2030s, the talk has, to a certain extent, an exploratory view point to stimulate further thinking and creativity. We are certainly at the dawn of a new era in wireless research and innovation; the next twenty years will be very interesting. Biography: Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at Carleton University. His research covers many aspects of communications technologies with emphasis on wireless networks. He supervised 20 PhD students (all completed with theses). He coauthored 360+ peer-reviewed research papers including 120+ in the IEEE journals; these publications have received 11,000+ citations. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society, and a Distinguished Speaker for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has been one of the most frequent tutorial presenters in the leading international IEEE conferences (29 times). He has had extensive collaboration with industry which resulted in 25 granted patents (plus more than a dozen applied). During 2012-2016, he led one of the largest academic-industrial collaborative research projects on pre-standards 5G wireless, sponsored by the Ontario Government and the industry. He served as the General Chair and Technical Program Chair of several major international IEEE conferences.

  • Smart Connected Buildings Form the Foundation of Smart City: Today’s Possibility, Tomorrow’s Necessity

    Room 288, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3

    Monday December 10th, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Amir Shabani, Ph.D., P.Eng., Canada Industrial Research Chair (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings, will be presenting “Smart Connected Buildings Form the Foundation of Smart City: Today’s Possibility, Tomorrow’s Necessity”. Day & Time: Monday December 10th, 2018 1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Amir Shabani, Ph.D., P.Eng. Canada Industrial Research Chair (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings Organizers: Magnetics Chapter, WIE IEEE Toronto Location: Ryerson University, Department of Computer Science, Room 288 George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 Contact: Reza Dibaj Abstract: Have you ever been or worked in a space/classroom that the air was not fresh enough, too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer? Have you ever wondered why even a brand new LEED-certified building is not smart enough and does not let the occupants control their environment, in terms of temperature, lighting et cetera. This presentation aims to provide some insights on the challenges the current industry of building automation is facing and the opportunities that the new advancement such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Adaptive Machine Learning (AML) could bring to this industry to make buildings smarter and sociable. In the context of smart city, rather than buildings being primarily treated as loads, intelligent buildings play a significant role in saving energy and improving the comfort and productivity of the occupants; emphasizing the needs for buildings to be social: interact with occupants, share data with each other, learn from each other, and help each other. Biography: Dr. Amir Shabani is the NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRCC) in Smart Connected Buildings. He is the director of Intelligent Building Automation Systems (IBAS) lab at George Brown College, Toronto, where his research team is closely collaborating with industry leaders on deployment, assessment, and development of new technologies that make homes and buildings smarter and social.

  • Rethink Cities – A FIDIC/EFCA White Paper on Sustainable Urban Development

    Ryerson University, Victoria Building (VIC) 285 Victoria St., 7th Floor, Room 736 (conference room) Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W1

    Friday December 14th, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Laleh Farhadi, MSc Urban and Regional Planning, will be presenting “Rethink Cities – A FIDIC/EFCA White Paper on Sustainable Urban Development”. Day & Time: Friday December 14th, 2018 1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Laleh Farhadi, MSc Urban and Regional Planning Organizers: Magnetics Chapter, WIE IEEE Toronto Location: Ryerson University, Victoria Building (VIC) 285 Victoria St., 7th Floor, Room 736 (conference room) Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W1 Contact: Reza Dibaj Abstract: Today, over half of the world’s population lives in cities covering 2- 3 % of the Earth’s land area, using 75 % of all energy and emitting 80% of all carbon dioxide. Infrastructure investments in many countries and cities are not at a desirable level or they are steered in the wrong direction while many cities are growing faster geographically than population-wise. Society has to rethink cities. The FIDIC White Paper addresses the need of evolving resource efficiency in cities with increased focus on planning and making socially and economically attractive areas, well-functioning spatial structures and energy efficient systems. To meet the increasingly complex challenges of cities, holistic and integrated approach is needed and rightly applied regarding emissions, climate, resilience, climate risks, flooding, biodiversity, energy and material use, improved quality of life and social responsibility. Biography: Laleh Farhadi is an Urban Planner, internationally experienced in both private and public sectors on different types of plans and projects related to the city and its ongoing challenges. During a project in Consulting Engineering Firm, while reviewing and providing feedback for a FIDIC White Paper called “Rethink Cities”, she faced the fact that the total built environment (not just the individual buildings) requires sustainable overall solutions that form synergies in solutions for society, buildings, infrastructure, and technical systems. This presentation based on FIDIC/ EFCA White Paper is a step forward to this knowledge and responsibility sharing with the hope of professional cooperation among various effecting fields in the city.