IEEE Ottawa Section - Chapter Chair & Officer listing - last edited  11 June 2003

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• Section Chair - John Grefford - 613-839-1108 - grefford@ieee.org
• Vice Chair - Ian Glenn - ian.glenn@ieee.org
• Secretary - Ramiro Liscano - rliscano@ieee.org
• Treasurer - Maike Miller - maike.miller@ieee.org
• Past Chair - Hala Tabl - clk320ca@yahoo.ca
  
• Committees: 
  
  • Monthly e-mail Bulletin& web page - Amir Ghavam ghavam@ieee.org
  • Award Activities - Saman Adham 613-722-2051 Ext.242. - saman@logicvision.com -
  • AGM planning - John Grefford - 613-839-1108 grefford@ieee.org
  • Educational Activities - Branislav Djokic - branislav@ieee.org
  • Nomination and Appointments - Tom Lavrisa - lavrisa@ieee.org
  • Membership Development - Ian Glenn - ian.glenn@ieee.org - upgrade to Senior Member
  • Naval Mess Bookings - Hugh Reekie - h.reekie@ieee.org Ian Glenn, Mel Walker
• Vehicular Technology - Hugh Reekie 728-5343 (day & evg) - h.reekie@ieee.org
  • The Ottawa VTS Chapter meets 2 - 4 times per year, usually in the evenings at the Crowsnest, 78 Lisgar St, but on occasion at the Communications Research Centre Auditorium, daytime. An attempt is made to get two Distinguished Speakers from VTS (out-of-town) per year; we have had visitors from Washington, Dublin Ireland and Germany in the last 2 years. Presently we publicise using the Sections web listing and monthly email bulletin; there is a limited email announcement, but this is planned for expansion soon; email me to be put on the list. See our web page.
• Electromagnetic Compatibility - Vice Chair & Acting Chair - Syed Bokhari - bokhari@ieee.org
  • The EMC Chapter meets a minimum of 2 times per year, mainly for talks from Distinguished Lecturers. Such past Distinguished Lecturers include Henry Ott, Todd Hubing, and Mark Montrose. All updates are provided by a monthly e-mail newsletter, and non-IEEE members can also subscribe by sending an email to bokhari@tality.com, with the subject "Subscribe."
• Instrumentation and Measurement - Voicu Groza - vgroza@ieee.org
  • The Ottawa IM Chapter meets 2 - 4 per year, usually in the evenings at the University of Ottawa, SITE, 150 Louis Pasteur Street. An attempt is made to get two Distinguished Speakers from IM per year; we have had speakers from Amsterdam (Netherlands), Orebro (Sweden), etc.... In 2000 we organized, in collaboration with CITO, a TechTalk Workshop on Virtual Reality. Presently we publicize using the Sections web listing and monthly email bulletin.
• Alliance of IEEE Consultant Network (AICN) - Gidon Mida gmida@ieee.org 613-829-0820 x 239 past chair - John Grefford - 613-839-1108 grefford@ieee.org
  • The Ottawa Chapter is the first outside the US. This local affinity group is open (at no charge) to all IEEE members; a minimal cost applies to be listed in the AICN directory. We meet about 6 times per year and provide an informal networking opportunity. Speakers are invited based on member interest; topics include marketing, accounting, management and legal issues (e.g.IP and contracts). .
    See also http://www.ieeeusa.org/business/index.html
    - and a flavour for the section level (Los Angeles) http://www.laacn.org/index.html.
• Reliability - Raed Abdullah - (613) 738-5499 ext. 357  RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
  • The Chapter is evolving to better meet the needs of its membership, and meets at least twice a year; it also co-sponsors meetings with the Society of Reliabilty Engineers, Ottawa. Topics cover all aspects of reliability across a wide spectrum of science, engineering and business fields, e.g. medical devices, microelectronics, and chip testing protocols. We publicise events on the IEEE Ottawa web site.there is also an e-mail bulletin to the members and interested guests - a few wall posters, too. If you would like to help shape this section, make a presentation, or subscribe to our email bulletin, please e-mail me.The local chapter is co-hosting a Major conference in Oct 2003.
• Communications - Ian Glenn ian.glenn@ieee.org
  • Vice Chair - Jean-François Lemieux jean-francois.lemieux@sympatico.ca  e-newsletter: Leonardo Salomone salomone@ieee.org
  • visit the Com Soc Ottawa web page
• AESS - Aerospace and Electronic Systems - Mel Walker melwalker@igs.net
  • The Ottawa Chapter of the AES Society meets 2 - 3 times per year in the evening, usually at the Crowsnest. Occasional technical visits take place; some meetings/visits are run in conjunction with other Chapters. Suggestion for speakers/visits welcome.
• Computer Society - Chair - George Yee g.m.yee@ieee.org Vice Chair - Ramiro Liscano - rliscano@ieee.org webpage co-ordinator - Dan Franzblau danfranzblau@hotmail.com
  • The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society meets 2 - 3 times per year in the evening, usually at the Minto Centre Board Room, Carleton University, or at the University of Ottawa. An attempt is made to have at least one Computer Society Distinguished Visitor per year. One year we were fortunate in having 2 distinguished visitors! Presently we publicize using the Sections web listing and monthly email bulletin; there is a limited email announcement which we are planning to expand soon. Please email me to receive the email announcement or to suggest speakers.
• Robotics & Automation and Control Systems Societies Joint Chapter - Jurek Sasiadek - 613-788-5684 jsas@ccs.carleton.ca
  • This joint Chapter meets several times a year, usually at Carleton University or the Crowsnest, HMCS Bytown, Lisgar St. Depending on the topic selected, some meetings are joint with other chapters. Suggestions for topics/speakers welcome.
• Engineering Management Society - John Grefford - 613-839-1108 grefford@ieee.org - Vice Chair - Colleen Morris morriscolleen@yahoo.ca
  • 4-6 seminars by Academic Researchers and Engineering Practioners annually; monthly electronic newsletter and IEEE Web Site notices give specific local events. Products and Services provided by your Engineering Management Society are: Education Products and Services, EMS Recognition and External Relations and information about future EMS Conferences. Special links can be found at: http://www.todaysengineer.org/ and http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ems/
• Microwaves/Antennas/Propagation MTT/AP - Chairman - Jasmin Roy bus: 613-998-2180 home: 819-776-9631 jasmin.roy@crc.ca   Vice Chairman - Hugh Reekie 728-5343 (day & evg) - (Microwave Theory &Techniques / Antennas and Propagation joint).
  • Visit the MTT/AP Chapter web page The AP/MTT joint chapter meets at least twice a year. We try to bring in some distinguished guest speakers to give tutorials in their field of specialty or to speak about their research. Anyone is welcome to make suggestions for topics of discussion/presentation or for various activities by contacting the Chapter Chairman Jasmin Roy or vice-chairman Hugh Reekie
• Lasers and Electro-Optics - Chair - Andrei Skirtach bus 613-591-9100 (ext. 231) ASkirtach@ieee.org Past Chairman - John Alcock bus: 993-3016, john.alcock@nrc.ca
  • The LEOS Chapter meets 8 -9 times per year, mainly for talks by Distinguished Lecturers. local speakers and NRC visitors. The meetings are held at NRC (Building M-50 or Sussex Drive) or at a west end location such as Ben Franklin Place. Information on upcoming meetings is circulated by E-mail and posted on the Ottawa LEOS Web page - www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/ottawa/leos/ Visitors are welcome and non-LEOS members can subscribe to the meeting announcements by sending an E-mail to ASkirtach@ieee.org
• Electron Devices Society, Circuits and Systems Society, and Solid-State Circuits Joint Chapter - Ammar Gharbi - 613- 765-8558 - gharbi@ieee.org
  • The chapter organizes technical meetings to provide IEEE members recent advances and research development on the societies' related fields. The chapter publicize its events on both the IEEE Ottawa web site as well on its monthly newsletter. If you have a suggestion for a speaker, please contact me to make the necessary arrangements.
• Power Engineering (PES) - Wahab Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org
  • Ottawa IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES): The functions of the Ottawa IEEE-PES Chapter are to promote close cooperation and exchange of technical information among its members and the members of other chapters of IEEE Ottawa Section. Ottawa IEEE-PES Chapter holds for its members technical, educational and professional meetings as well as seminars, forums, and conferences presented by experienced speakers. To find more about Ottawa IEEE-PES Chapter, please contact Wahab Almuhtadi
• Signal Processing - James Ryan daytime 613-270-0458 ext. 2772.- j.g.ryan@ieee.org
  • The chapter organizes technical meetings to highlight local work in the field of signal processing. Events are publicized through a SP Society electronic mail list, the IEEE Ottawa monthly newsletter and also on the IEEE Ottawa web site. We are always looking for new ideas and suggestions for future topics.
• Neural Networks Chapter - Slawo Wesolkowski - s.wesolkowski@ieee.org
  • The chapter addresses the needs of the community in the field of interestof the IEEE Neural Networks Society (www.ieee-nns.org) which is defined as "the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms emphasizing neural networks, including connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained." These topics are sometimes included in broaderframeworks, usually referred to as Computational Intelligence or Soft Computing. -
  • Anyone wanting to help out with the chapter is encouraged to contact Slawo.
• GOLD - Graduates of the Last Decade - Sanjay Gupta sgupta@ieee.org  Meets regularly for social and technical events.
• Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Boguslaw J. Jarosz 613-520-2600 x 4318 jarosz@physics.carleton.ca  
  • In our Chapter we run 'Professional' meetings, i.e., the speaker discusses current developments in his/her discipline. The lecture type presentation (~50 min) is followed by discussion period (~10-20 min). Usually the talk is preceded by 10-15 min socializing.
• Retired and Life Member Group - Hugh Reekie 728-5343 (day & evg) - h.reekie@ieee.org
  • If there is sufficient interest, an informal committee can be set up. The plan would be to target technical meetings (2 or 3 per year) of specific interest to members (organized by others) and have an informal dinner get-together beforehand. Anyone interested - with either the committee or attending once set up - should contact Hugh. A similar group, directed to contract and retired engineers, meets monthly.
• Carleton University - Student Branch - web site
  • Student Activities / Faculty Advisor - Calvin Plett cp@doe.carleton.ca
  • Students Chair - Chair - Hamid Boland hboland@ieee.org - past Chair Paul Ricker ricker@ieee.org as of Oct 2002  Email to all exec ieee@doe.carleton.ca  
    Maryam Monadi vice chair maryam_monadi@yahoo.com - Maimuna Chawla secretary maimunachawla@yahoo.com - Babak Fooladi treasurer bfooladi@connectmail.carleton.ca - Nilendran Ratnasabapathy - Director - Sales nilendran@ieee.org - Leonardo Salomone Director - Marketing salomone@ieee.org - Amin Bahadori Director - Membership abahador@connectmail.carleton.ca - Helga Kertesz Director - Internal helga.kertesz@rogers.com - Masuma Khan Director - External masuma_smurf@yahoo.ca -  Heba El-Helou Office Director sweethera@hotmail.com - Omar Nada Techical Director onada@connectmail.carleton.ca   As of March 2003 - We have over 300 active members- the largest student branch in Canada.We hosted social event for company representatives to meer with students; n various formats we have up to 15 companies and 200 students take part. Our annual Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) held at the Casino de Hull, emphasized the need for soft skills in the work place.Over 300 students attended; four company leaders gave presentations. Our campus office offers various services to students; we hold an IEEE Papers' Competition every year.
• Ottawa University - website www.genie.uottawa.ca/~ieee/ email ieee@genie.uottawa.ca
  • Students Chair - Andy Pan andy-pan@rogers.com as of Oct 2002
  • Vice-Chair IEEE Student Branch - Warren A. Layton - wlayton@ieee.org
  • Student Secretary - Sudhakur Sivapalan - ssivapalan@sympatico.ca
  • Faculty advisors - Dr. Timothy C. Lethbridge 562-5800 ext. 6685  Fax: 562-5664 tcl@site.uottawa.ca
    and Stefane Roux - sroux@site.uottawa.ca - as of June 2003
• Algonquin College - ieee@algonquincollege.com
  • Faculty Advisor - Maike Miller maike.miller@ieee.org  
  • Student Chair - Ryan Wallace  ieee@algonquincollege.com as of March 2002

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    IEEE Ottawa Section, 36 Steacie Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2K 2A9
    The phone number is: 613-592-8160 x 211.

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