SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Considerations and Implementations For High Data Rate Interconnect
2018-11-15 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre Room B024, 40 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Thursday Nov 15, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Daniel Friedman, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, will be presenting “SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Considerations and Implementations For High Data Rate Interconnect”.
Day & Time: Thursday November 15th, 2018
1:30 p.m. ‐ 2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Friedman
Distinguished Research Staff Member
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Organizers: IEEE Toronto Solid-State Circuits Society
Location: Bahen Centre Room B024
40 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Contact: Dustin Dunwell
Abstract: Cloud computing requires many different interconnects. These links provide connectivity between and among CPUs, accelerators, memory, and switches; each link comes with its own distance and bandwidth requirements. Wireline transceivers are responsible for sending and receiving data from one chip to and from another, thus enabling required connectivity. Key specifications for such designs include data rate, power consumption, area, and connection distance. Distance and data rate specifications, in particular, drive the choice of physical channel to be used for the connection, which in turn drives requirements including the equalization capabilities of the transceiver. For short chip-to-chip channels with limited frequency-dependent loss, simple transceivers with little or no integrated equalization are appropriate, while for longer channels crossing backplanes and involving multiple transitions through connectors, complex transceivers with adaptive transmit and receive equalization are the right choice. As connection distances grow even longer, optical interconnect becomes an attractive option. In this talk, a framework for understanding serial link design will be presented, including a discussion of basic equalization strategies and key challenges. Next, several design examples will be presented, covering approaches to key classes of interconnect, from short reach channels to backplane channels to enabling highly integrated optical approaches. The talk will conclude with a discussion of emerging directions in this field.
Biography: Daniel Friedman is currently a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Senior Manager of the Communication Circuits and Systems department of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1992 and subsequently completed post-doctoral work at Harvard and consulting work at MIT Lincoln labs, broadly in the area of image sensor design. After joining IBM in 1994, he initially developed field-powered RFID tags before turning to high data rate wireline and wireless communication. His current research interests include high-speed I/O design, PLL design, mmWave circuits and systems, and circuit/system approaches to enabling new computing paradigms. He was a co-recipient of the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 2009 ISSCC, the 2009 JSSC Best Paper Award (given in 2011), and the 2017 ISSCC Lewis Winner Outstanding Paper Award; he holds more than 50 patents and has authored or co-authored more than 75 publications. He was a member of the BCTM technical program committee from 2003-2008 and of the ISSCC international technical program committee from ISSCC 2009 through ISSCC 2016; he served as the Wireline sub-committee chair from ISSCC 2012 through ISSCC 2016. He has served as the Short Course Chair from ISSCC 2017 to the present and is a member of the SSCS Adcom since 2018.

Experience with an on-line hydro generator expert system monitoring system
2018-11-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada
Thursday, November 15th 2018, IEEE Toronto Industry Application Society will be hosting a talk on “Experience with an on-line hydro generator expert system monitoring system”.
Day & Time: Thursday November 15th, 2018
6:00 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m.
Organizer: IEEE Toronto Industry Application Society
Location: Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S2E4
Contact: Hoda Youssef
Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/178319
Abstract: Current technological advances in condition monitoring are employing an increasing number of complex sensors and advanced monitors to diagnose the operating status and condition of hydro generators and turbines. Advanced systems routinely employed may include bearing vibration, air gap, shaft voltage, and current monitoring, partial discharge, and flux monitoring. Proper interpretation of this often complex information can lower operating and maintenance expenses, in addition to reducing unscheduled outages and catastrophic failures. However, the volume of available data from these monitors, and the extensive interpretation necessary to evaluate the complex waveforms and spectrums can overwhelm plant personnel and resources. Sophisticated software and algorithms are often necessary to correlate and interpret this data to establish the overall generator and drive train condition. HydroX™ (for Hydro Expert) is a commercial knowledge-based expert system program for on-line monitoring of hydro-generators. Working with the New York Power Authority, the system was developed over five years by Iris Power and GE -Bently Nevada. After a further two years of prototype evaluation at NYPA’s St. Lawrence Power Project on two 60MVA generators, the validated system is now commercially available and will be described.

Next-Generation Protection Technologies for Power Systems: The Quest for Resilience
2018-11-16 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Ryerson University, Department of Computer Science, Room 288 George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Toronto, ON – M5B 2K3
Friday Nov 16, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. Dr. Ali Hooshyar, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery & IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, will be presenting “Next-Generation Protection Technologies for Power Systems: The Quest for Resilience”.
Day & Time: Friday November 16th, 2018
9:30 a.m. ‐ 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Ali Hooshyar
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Organizers: IEEE Toronto Systems Chapter
Location: Ryerson University, Department of Computer Science, Room 288
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
245 Church Street,
Toronto, ON – M5B 2K3
Contact: Mehrdad Tirandazian
Abstract: The resilience of power systems is known as their ability to predict, adapt to and quickly recover from various disruptive events. Power grids have always been subject to such events, but in the last few years, the frequency and severity of large-scale disruptions have increased due to the growing number of major climate disasters. In addition, the increasing reliance on the cyber layer of smart grids has diversified the causes of major disruptions. Attackers can exploit the grid’s cyber vulnerabilities to manipulate protection and control commands, as was the case with the 2015 and 2016 blackouts in Ukraine. These recent developments have intensified the efforts to improve grid resilience. Large-scale disruptions usually involve abnormal currents and voltages—to which the protection system of the grid is expected to respond—, or involve trip commands to circuit breakers, which can originate from protective devices. Furthermore, some of the strategies to increase grid resilience alter the short-circuit behavior of the grid. As a result, substantial upgrades in the protection system are necessary to meet the demands for higher grid resilience. This talk will highlight some of the major changes required to prevent large-scale disruptive events or improve the grid operation during such events. Various protection system challenges that the speaker has unveiled are discussed, followed by the proposed solutions. Two of these challenges are elaborated in detail: first, this talk focuses on the relation between grid resilience and protection of microgrids, which can ensure the continuity of power supply during major disruptions in the transmission system. The performance of existing commercial relays for microgrid protection is demonstrated, and the requirements to eliminate the shortcomings of these relays are identified. Afterwards, this talk shows how cyber-attacks on communication-assisted protection schemes can lead to wide-area disruptions throughout the grid. The vulnerabilities of such schemes and a new approach to address them are discussed.
Biography: Ali Hooshyar received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2014. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2018. He was with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, York University, Toronto, from 2015 to 2018. His research interests include protection and control of renewable energy systems and smart grids. Dr. Hooshyar is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

Photonics Integration for Applications in Astrophotonics and Quantum Information
2018-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Room SF1101 10 King’s College Rd, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4
Friday Nov 16, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Mario Dagenais, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, will be presenting “Photonics Integration for Applications in Astrophotonics and Quantum Information”.
Day & Time: Friday November 16th, 2018
2:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mario Dagenais
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
Organizers: IEEE Toronto Circuits & Devices Chapter
Location: Room SF1101
10 King’s College Rd,
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4
Contact: Mengqi Wang
Abstract: We will describe our work on optical integration on a chip, in particular how to realize a complex waveguide Bragg grating for rejecting several emission lines from the atmosphere for astronomical observation and how to implement an integrated spectrometer based on Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWGs) or on echelle gratings. We will also present our work for creating an on-chip ultra-high rejection filter (> 100 dB) for applications in quantum information.
Biography: Professor Dagenais’ research interests are in photonics integration, high efficiency photovoltaic conversion, and nitride optoelectronics. Professor Dagenais received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1978 working in Quantum Optics and photon correlations under the direction of Professor Mandel. Together with Jeff Kimble, he made the first observation of photon antibunching. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University from 1978 to 1980, where he worked in nonlinear optics with Professor Bloembergen. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at GTE Laboratories on photonic switching and semiconductor lasers. He joined the University of Maryland in 1987 where he has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1991. He has more than 300 archival and conference publications. He has co-chaired several national and international meetings. Professor Dagenais is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Society.

IEEE Humber Programming Session #3 Fall 2018 Series
2018-11-16 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-11-19 18:15 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-11-23 09:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-11-23 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-11-30 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | 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)
2018-12-01 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-12-01 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-12-03 18:00 - 2018-12-07 18:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-12-06 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-12-10 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2018-12-14 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | 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.

The Qubit is the Transistor: Si-based Transistor and Analog-Mixed-Signal Circuit Scaling and the Natural Progression of Moore’s Law to Silicon Quantum Computing at the Atomic Scale
2018-12-16 13:10 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Bahen Centre, Room BA1230, 40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Monday December 17th, 2018 at 1:10 p.m. Dr. Sorin Voinigescu, Professor at the University of Toronto, will be presenting a SSCS distinguished lecture: “The Qubit is the Transistor: Si-based Transistor and Analog-Mixed-Signal Circuit Scaling and the Natural Progression of Moore’s Law to Silicon Quantum Computing at the Atomic Scale”.
Day & Time: Monday December 17th, 2018
1:10 p.m. ‐ 2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Sorin Voinigescu
Professor, University of Toronto
Organizers: SSCS IEEE Toronto
Location: Bahen Centre, Room BA1230
40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Contact: Dustin Dunwell
Abstract: Quantum computing is a hot topic at very cool temperatures. Cool as in 10-100 mK.
Recently, a cold-atom physicist nonchalantly asked me the question: Why are you interested in high temperature quantum computers? High as in 4 -12 K. He was serious! Need I talk about Global Warming in such cool environments? Pluto is another option. Today, quantum computers consist of racks of microwave and analog-mixed-signal test equipment, FPGAs and feedback loops for error correction, long 50-Ohm coaxial cables, and a few qubits formed with non-linear Josephson-junction resonators, entangled through niobium superconducting λ/4 resonators at 8-20 GHz, biased by a DC magnetic field of up to 1 Tesla, and whose spin is controlled by an AC magnetic field rotating in the “lab frame”. Are you still spinning?
There’s talk of electrons as “microwave photons”, Larmor and Rabi frequencies, photon-to-spin entanglement, RAP (as in rapid adiabatic passage), Bloch sphere, tensors in n-dimensional Hilbert spaces, but also of OFDM, phase noise, I-Q up- and down- conversion, Gaussian pulse modulation, coherent π/2, π/4 spin phase rotations in azimuth and elevation. Qubits are logic gates and memory cells at the same time. Logic gate operations consist of synchronized microwave pulses applied sequentially to the same qubits. The only probabilistic part (need I mention Schrodinger’s cats Flip and Flop?) is readout, when the spin state is projected on the Z (DC magnetic field) axis!
In other words, quantum computing is about everything you learned and thought you’d never use again, should have learned, or you were never taught in undergrad and grad school in math, quantum and atomic physics, electronics, electromagnetics, and computer science…
This talk will first attempt to demystify and translate the physics of quantum computing to an electronics engineer jargon. Next, I will discuss the feasibility of high-temperature (2-4 K) Si and SiGe electron/hole-spin qubits and qubit integrated circuits (ICs) in commercial 22nm FDSOI CMOS technology, and explore their scalability through simulation to 2nm dimensions, when the coupling energy, ΔE, becomes comparable to thermal noise at 77-300 K.
Silicon electron-spin and hole-spin coupled quantum-dot (QD) qubits have attracted a lot of interest recently due to their potential for integration in commercial CMOS technology. However, like their more established superconducting cousins, to date, because of the low confinement and coupling energies (e.g. ΔE, in the tens of μeV range, comparable to the thermal noise level, kBT, at 100 mK) their operation has been restricted to temperatures below 100 mK. Moreover, since cryogenic systems cannot remove more than a few μW of thermal power at 100 mK, and the experimental laboratory (think TNC at U of T versus TSMC 7nm fab) technologies in which these qubits have been realized do not allow for fabrication of spin manipulation and readout circuitry, the latter reside on a separate chip, at 4 K or higher temperature. The lack of monolithic integration further degrades readout fidelity and computing speed because the atto-Farad capacitance, high-impedance qubit needs to drive 50Ω and 100x larger capacitance interconnect off- chip. A qubit with higher confinement and coupling energies, with spin resonance in the upper mm-wave region, will allow for higher temperature operation, alleviating these problems and enabling large-scale monolithic quantum computing processors. For example, a qubit operating at 4 K would require mode splitting energies of 0.25 meV which corresponds to a spin resonance frequency of 60 GHz and require a DC magnetic field of 2.5 T. Simplifying a bit, 240GHz spin-resonance frequencies and 9T magnetic fields should be adequate for 12K operation and 1.4 THz with an humongous magnetic field are needed for 77 K. You get the drift…
Finally, I will briefly review hot-off-the-press results obtained here at U of T. For the first time we report (i) integration of qubits and electronics on the same die, (ii) strained SiGe hole-spin and strained Si electron-spin FDSOI qubits on the same die, and (iii) propose a monolithic processor architecture which allows for short, 10-20ps spin control pulses and high Rabi frequencies, fRabi, to compensate for short spin phase coherence lifetime. We also demonstrate that, at 2 K, MOSFETs and cascodes can be operated as QDs in the subthreshold region while behaving as classical MOSFETs and cascodes in the saturation region, suitable for qubits and mm-wave mixed-signal processing circuits, respectively.
If we still have holiday time left, I will go through a tutorial example of how we can derive the specification for the mm-wave spin manipulation and readout circuits starting from the Hamiltonian and the measured I-V characteristics of our SiGe hole-spin qubits. I may touch on the impact of minimum-size (18nmx6nmx80nm) MOSFET ofset voltage and process variation on qubit characteristics, on spin manipulation and readout architectural options (low phase-noise radar, OFDM radio, low-noise, broadband, ultra-high-gain TIAs), mm-wave switch impact and OFDM sub-carrier spacing on qubit crosstalk and isolation…Or maybe we should leave that for New Years’.

IEEE Humber Winter Coding Sessions #1
2019-01-11 17:10 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Humber College North Campus, Room F310
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. Please join us for hot chocolate, donuts, and the sharing of coding knowledge.
Day & Time: Friday January 11th, 2019
5:10 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 F310
Contact: IEEE Humber

Line Following Robot Project #1
2019-01-14 17:10 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
We will be starting to assemble our line following robot from the parts we ordered in the fall, everyone is welcome.
Day & Time: Monday January 14th, 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

IEEE U of T Energy Industry Mixer
2019-01-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | SS 1072 Sidney Smith Hall Toronto, Ontario
Thursday January 17th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch will be hosting the “IEEE U of T Energy Industry Mixer”.
Day & Time: Thursday January 17th, 2019
6:00 p.m. ‐ 7:45 p.m.
Speaker: Manu Sud
Manager at Ontario Ministry of Energy
Kurtis Martin-Sturmey
Utility Project Lead, METSCO Energy Solutions
Antonio Antonopoulos
Co-Founder, Isla Power
Maged Sami
Senior Manager, CarbonFree Technology
Nikola Dimiskovski
Prooject Analyst, Toronto Hydro
The panel discussion will be moderated by
Hugo Sanchez
Consultant, Alectra Utilities
Organizers: IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch
Location: SS 1072 Sidney Smith Hall
Toronto, Ontario
RVSP: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ieee-uoft-energy-industry-mixer-tickets-53889770755
Abstract: If you are interested in pursuing a career within the energy industry, you don’t want to miss out on an event in collaboration with UTII (UofT Industry Insights) happening on January 17, 2019. Get to know the energy industry with our guest speakers. This event is especially valuable for those of you who are interested in the Energy industry.
Agenda:
6.00 p.m.: Registration
6.15 p.m.: Guest Speaker’s Presentation and Panel Discussion
7.45 p.m.: Networking (aka end of event)
*food and refreshments are provided*

Line Following Robot Project #2
2019-01-21 17:10 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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

Making Canada a Nation of Innovators
2019-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | AutoDesk at MaRS, 661 University Ave #200 Toronto, ON M5G 1M1
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.

R&D Essentials for Technology Companies
2019-01-23 16:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Bay Adelaide Centre (KPMG LLP) 333 Bay Street, Suite 4600 Toronto, ON M5H 4G3
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.

Line Following Robot Project #3
2019-02-04 17:10 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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

Load Cell and GSM project #1
2019-02-04 17:10 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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

Introduction of Industrial Networks and Fieldbus
2019-02-21 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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

Harmony: beyond win-win for an ailing healthcare system
2019-02-28 12:15 - 13:15 (America/Toronto) | TRI-UC, Basement Lecture theatre, 550 University Ave., Toronto, M5G 2A2
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

IEEE Humber Winter Coding Sessions #7
2019-03-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Humber College North Campus, Room F310
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

IEEE Toronto IES Chapter Seminar “Growing Role of Electrical Machines and Drives in Electrification”
2019-03-01 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Room ERC-1092, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, ON L1H 0C5
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.

IEEE Humber Winter Coding Sessions #8
2019-03-08 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Humber College North Campus, Room F310
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
