Annual Lobster Boil
Sunday, June 15, 2008, 6:30 for
7pm, Fluvarium, St. John’s
For over 30 years now the
IEEE Newfoundland & Labrador Section Lobster Boil has
been an annual tradition. Once
again, the location is the
Fluvarium with its pleasant decor and great outdoor gallery.
If you don’t wish to partake of
the fresh, succulent Newfoundland lobster as your main
course, choices of steak or vegetarian will be offered. Your
choice will have to be made
when you purchase your ticket
so the caterer can prepare and
provide as requested.
Please bring your ticket
with you to identify which meal
you have ordered and to enter
in the door prize draw.
The menu: All choices include 2 drink tickets for wine,
NECEC 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Holiday Inn, Portugal Cove
Road
After taking a hiatus in
2009 to host CCECE, we are
once again up and running preparing for NECEC 2010 and
we're again looking forward to
another successful conference.
This is a great opportunity for
the local Electrical and Computer Engineering community
to get together to showcase de-
beer, spirits or nonalcoholic
beverage; coffee or tea; and
dessert. Remember to specify
your choice when you purchase.
Choice #1: Lobster dinner
Choice #2: Steak dinner
Choice #3: Vegetarian
Tickets are $20 each for
IEEE members, who may bring
one guest for an additional
$20; $30 each for non-members.
For tickets, contact any
member of the executive. Tickets have to be purchased by
Friday, June 4.
For more
information email:
[email protected]
Volumn 10, Issue 1
May 2010
Highlights
• IEEE Canada Spring
Meeting Report
• CCECE 2009
• Scholarships and
Awards
Upcoming
• Annual Lobster Boil
• NECEC 2010
We hope to see you there!
velopments and share experiences. As before, proceeds will
go to fund scholarships and student activities at Memorial.
The conference organizing
committee this year includes a
great breadth and depth of experience that will surely help
to ensure that we have a great
conference. We are please to
announce that Gary Smith, VP
Operations at Newfoundland
Power will be the General
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Chair for the conference this
year, and Dr. Dennis Peters
will be the Vice Chair. The
technical committee is cochaired by Dr. Octavia Dobre
and Mr. David Tilley. For further details, please visit:
http://necec.engr.mun.ca.
www.ieee.org/newfoundland_labrador
IEEE Student Night
The annual IEEE Student
Night, held March 31 at Memorial University, was again a
great success. This annual
event is put off by the members
of the IEEE Student Branch to
recognize the graduating ECE
class as they present their final
term projects and get ready for
the next stage of their lives and
careers. The senior design projects are intended to allow students to demonstrate their
mastery of engineering design
and the breadth of technical
and non-technical skills required to bring a project to
completion. For the first time
this year the senior design projects were done in teams of two
to five students, who could be
a mix of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Engineering students. The level of achievement
demonstrated by these projects
was quite impressive.
At IEEE Student Night three
teams, who were selected
based on peer evaluation,
presented their projects and
were judged on the quality of
their presentations and projects. In addition all teams
were on hand to demonstrate
their projects. A reception followed, with award presentations.
The
IEEE
NL
Section
provides awards for the best
presentations and demonstrations. The recipients this year
were:
Though St. John’s played host
to the Canadian Conference on
Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) over a year
ago, it is only recently that business related to the conference
came to a close.
Technically,
CCECE 2009 had a strong contingent of papers and presentations.
The
conference
accepted
247
papers
for
presentation in eight mini-symposia. In addition to the paper
presentations, technical tours
were arranged of local technical points of interest.
Financially, CCECE 2009
was a great success, generat-
ing $45,000 in profit (split
between
Newfoundland-Labrador
Section
and
IEEE
Canada) and unmeasured business in and around the St.
John’s area. Over 230 participants registered for the conference,
and
many
more
attended the IEEE Canada
Board meeting and CHECE
meeting held with the conference. Some key supporters to
be thanked for this success include:
Barry and Sarah Howse - Control and Communication System for the MUN Autonomous
SWATH Surface Vehicle
The Faculty of Engineering
is always interested in new
project ideas, so if you have
any ideas that you think would
be suitable for future projects
please contact Dr. Dennis
Peters and [email protected].
Presentations
1st: Renée Hodder and Tim
Smith - BridgeBuster
2nd: Leah Andrews,
Christa Barry and Sarah
Howse - Control and Communication System for the
MUN
Autonomous
SWATH Surface Vehicle
3rd: Matthew Baxter,
Michael Hobbs and Sean
Jessome - Searchlight for
Small Marine Craft Full
Mission Simulators
Demonstration:
Leah Andrews, Christa
Leah Andrews, Christa Barry and Sarah
Howse receive award from Lori Hogan
CCECE 2009 Final Update
- Faculty of Engineering and
Applied
Science,
Memorial
University
- NL Power
- Cahill Group of Companies
- Alstom
- Black & McDonald
- Guillevin International Co.
- Northern Radar
- PEG-NL
- The Electronics Centre
- NL Hydro
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IEEE Canada Regional Meeting
The IEEE Canada Board of Directors held its annual Spring
Meeting from 30 April to 2 May
2010 in Calgary – host city for
CCECE 2010. Lori Hogan and
Amy Hsiao represented the Section at the meeting. As well,
Gerard Dunphy attended the
meeting as IEEE Canada treasurer.
The meeting kicked off on
Friday with a full day of volunteer training. Also held on Friday were Area meetings (IEEE
Canada is comprised of three
geographic areas – East, Central, and West) and Group meetings (IEEE Canada has a
number of standing committees
and representatives for students, GOLD, life members,
publications, promotions, etc.).
Saturday meeting activities
included reports from each Sec-
tion and Group, and a Q&A session with the two nominees for
IEEE President-Elect, Gordon
Day and Joe Lillie. The IEEE
Canada budget was discussed,
noting the negative impact of
the rising Canadian dollar on
available funds. The Board dinner on Saturday night focused
on awards for Best Large and
Small Sections and banners to
Sections celebrating their 25th
and 50th anniversaries. Saturday’s dinner highlighted another important milestone –
Wally Read of the Newfoundland-Labrador
Section
and
IEEE Canada Director Emeriti,
celebrated his 80th birthday!
Meetings
concluded
on
Sunday with more formal discussions and motions. Approval was given to start the search
for a firm to redesign the IEEE
Canada website. New standing committees were formed,
including a History Committee
(for ECE-related history) and a
Teacher In-Service Program
Committee (for organization
and discussion of the TISP program).
It was decided that
CCECE 2012 will be hosted by
the Montreal Section, who bet
Quebec City and Canadian Atlantic (NS/PEI) for the honours.
Anyone who would like to
learn more about IEEE Canada
are encouraged to check out
the current website:
www.ieee.ca
Interested in volunteering
with the local Section?
Student Branch Update
This past semester, the MUN
student branch was once again
able to contribute support to
the Term 8 IEEE Student Night.
The evening provided student
branch members with the opportunity to meet representatives
from industry and to see the
hard work completed by the
Term 8 electrical and computer
engineering classes.
The convocation of the class
of 2010 introduced new members of the student branch executive.
The
new
executive
members are as follows:
Student Branch Chair Jonathan Howse
Vice Chair - Scott Stevenson
Treasurer - Bernard Ryan
Secretary - Mike O'Keefe
The new student branch executive is looking forward to
serving
the
IEEE
student
branch organization in the upcoming fall semester.
Have ideas for new
events or activities?
If you are interested in becoming a member of the student branch or are looking for
more information, please contact Jonathan Howse at
[email protected]
AGM
The Section held its annual
general meeting on November
30, 2009.
The meeting included reports from Section executive members related to
Section activities, finance, and
a final summary on the success
of CCECE 2009. Also at the
meeting, the 2010-2011 Section executive was confirmed.
The elected Section executive
members are:
Chair: Ms. Lori Hogan
Vice-Chair: Dr. Cheng Li
Secretary: Mr. David Tilley
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Looking to network with
professional peers?
Contact Lori Hogan at
[email protected]
Treasurer: Mr. Geoff Holden
In addition to Section business, Gerard Dunphy spoke on
a new initiative of the IEEE,
the Humanitarian Innovation
Challenge (HTC).
The HTC has brought knowledgeable people together to
identify, and work to solve,
some of the world's most
pressing challenges. Gerard
attended one of the working
sessions of the HTC group in
Fall 2009.
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Scholarships and Awards
The Eastern Newfoundland Regional Science Fair was held at
the Marine Institute on March
26, 2010. This annual event
brings together over 500 Grade
7 to 12 science students in the
Eastern Newfoundland School
District. Once again the IEEENL section showed their support with a prize of $100 awarded to the best project related
to computer science or engineering
with
an
electrical
theme. Two IEEE members,
Adam Burry of Progress Software, and Amy Hsiao from Memorial
University
of
Newfoundland, participated as
judges, and the prize was awarded to Matthew Boychuck, a
Grade 10 student at Holy Spirit
High School, CBS, for his project
entitled
"Secrets
of
Stealth".
The section has also hon-
oured
Memorial
Engineering
students recently.
Susan Ryan is
the recipient of the
Convocation
Award for 2010.
Susie has been involved in the Student Branch since
Term 4, most recently holding the
position of Chair.
She is a winner of
the ICF Student
Scholarship
for
Matthew Boychuck presents his project to
IEEE volunteer judge Adam Burry.
involvement, and
filled
in
for
the
Regional Student Representat- and academic achievements to
ive at an international meeting date.
The IEEE-NL Section
in Singapore in July 2009.
would like to congratulate
Andrew Butt was the recipi- them both.
ent of the $1000 Term 6 ECE
IEEE scholarship for his participation in the student chapter
Dr. Dennis Peters, Student
Branch Counsellor for Newfoundland and Labrador Section, has been awarded the
2010 IEEE J.J. Archambault
Eastern Canada Merit Award.
This honour is given in recognition of dedicated and distinguished
service
to
the
profession.
Dr. Peters is an Associate
Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Memorial University. His research involves techniques for
design and verification of software and computer systems,
with particular focus on realtime applications and parallel
or distributed processing. He
has earned a B.Eng (Electrical)
from Memorial and M.Eng and
Ph.D degrees in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from
McMaster University in 1995
and 2000, respectively.
ing Profession, serving on the
Dr. Peters has been a mem- Board of Examiners for the
ber of the IEEE for over 20 Professional Engineers and
years and holds the grade of Geoscientists of Newfoundland
Senior Member. He has been and Labrador (PEGNL), and as
very active in section activities, a member of the Canadian Enas well as at the regional Level. gineering Qualifications Board.
He has served on the New(Notes from IEEE Canadian
foundland and Labrador Sec- Review)
tion
executive
committee
continuously
since
1999,
including
a
term as Chair (200203).
He has also
served on the organization committee for
local, national and international
conferences,
including
co-chair of the Technical Program Committee for CCECE
2009. Dr. Peters also
takes on an active
Dr. Peters receives his award from
Om Malik, President of IEEE Canada
role in the Engineer-
2010 IEEE J.J. Archambault Eastern
Canada Merit Award
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