IEEE YP Professional Development Series: Part 10 The Professional Development Series is a 10-part series of online seminars which aims at presenting and discussing career opportunities and pathways in the engineering profession, with presenters coming from a wide range of backgrounds across Canada and the world. In Part 10, to close the series, Joseph Botros... Read more →

IEEE Power & Energy Society Vancouver Chapter is pleased to announce a technical webinar on "Quantification of Peak Demand Reduction Potential in Commercial Buildings" by Professor Dr. Saifur Rahman. Please note that this event has been set up by Canada East Representative for the Ottawa PES Chapter. The chapter kindly invites all PES members and... Read more →

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280431

Join us for a complimentary lunch sponsored by SteppIR and Advanced Test Equipment Corp (ATEC). Following lunch, attendees will hear FOUR experts present on modern antenna and electromagnetic measurements to boost your test efficiency, reliability, and repeatibility. In addition to the two presentations shown below, this half-day event also features speakers Zhong Chen with ETS-Lindgren... Read more →

The Chicago Chapter and co-sponsoring EMCS units welcomes everyone to this informative and entertaining presentation about the roots of our profession. The practice of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is generally understood as beginning with the military in the 1950s. Work in the field was mostly limited to military applications until about 1980, when the FCC in... Read more →

In celebration of IEEE Day, the Vancouver Section has organized a few short talks related to security, ethics, and standards affecting the IEEE. Privacy Issues Associated with Connected Vehicles - Prof. David Michelson Bio: Prof. David Michelson leads the AURORA Connected Vehicle Test Bed at the University of British Columbia where his research focuses on... Read more →

  Webinar: NextG Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurements Oct 26 This webinar will focus on the challenges that millimetre-wave channel measurements, models, and systems pose for Regulators and Standards Organizations, Equipment Vendors, and Research Labs, and the role that IEEE SA P2982 - Recommended Practices for Verification of Millimetre-Wave Channel Sounders - will play in addressing them.... Read more →

Vancouver Talk: Reminiscing about Early Days Saturday Nov 13th, 11:00 - 12:00 Location: Online   The IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group Presents:   Talk sessions that invite Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. Registration is optional but recommended... we are still learning how to use events.   In this Talk Session,... Read more →

Webinar: Control and Monitoring Methods for Resilient Distributed and Networked Systems Presented by: Joint Chapter, Control Systems / Robotics / Systems Man and Cybernetics Speaker: Prof. Ahmad W. Al-Dabbagh, UBC Okanagan, BC Date: November 18th, 2021 Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm Location: Online Abstract: Examples of distributed and networked systems are many in society, such as in manufacturing... Read more →

FREE-POSITION WIRELESS CHARGERS: FUNDAMENTALS AND CHALLENGES Speakers:        Dr. Ali Saket of AIRAPOWER        Mr. Eric Goodchild of AIRAPOWER Wednesday, December 1, 2021   4:30 pm Location: Online Presented by: PEL35 Power Electronics Society, Vancouver Chapter   For additional information and registration, please visit: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/288519   Join Dr. Ali Saket and Mr. Eric Goodchild to learn... Read more →

Enhanced Wireless Technologies Using Metasurfaces Prof. Andrea Alu Date: Fri. Dec 3rd 2021 Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Location: Online IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Vancouver Chapter Presents: A Webinar by Prof. Andrea Alu, the Founding Director and Einstein Professor at the Photonics Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and a Fellow of NAI, AAAS,... Read more →

Reminiscing About Early Days - part 2 IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is the second talk session that invites Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. The first one in November ran long and we didn't get all the speakers, so they are listed again. Agenda Meeting Chair:            Carl Zanon IEEE... Read more →

IEEE NMDC 2021 sponsored by IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) will be held in the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel located in the center of Vancouver, BC, Canada from December 12th to 15th, 2021. The conference will be co-located with another conference – (https://ceidp.org/) (Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena) sponsored by the (https://ieeedeis.org/) (DEIS). IEEE NMDC... Read more →

IEEE Okanagan Sub-Section Presents: The need for a Corporate Endpoint Security System   Date:   Dec. 23rd, 2021 Time:  17:00 - 18:00 PDT Location:   Online Speaker:    Mr. Dennis Estacion   Abstract:   Information security is to protect information from unauthorized use, disruption or destruction. There are three categories of control used to secure information: management, physical... Read more →

FUNDAMENTALS OF RF AND MM-WAVE POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGNS Date:            Jan 26, 2022 Time:           12:00 - 13:30 Location:     ONLINE Presenter: Prof. Hua Wang,  ETH Zürich Abstract: This talk presents a focused overview of mm-wave power-amplifier (PA) designs in silicon, including design fundamentals, advanced PA architectures, and state-of-the-art design examples. The talk will start with an introduction... Read more →

VANCOUVER TALK 3: KEEPING IN CONTACT Date:            Jan 29th, 2022 Time:           11:00 - 12:00 Location:      ONLINE Presented by:  IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is the third talk session that invites Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly. Registration is optional, but we ask you to do so. ... Read more →

Webinar: Probabilistic Movement Primitives Control via Control Barrier Functions Presenter:  Dr. Nicholas Gans, Division Head of Autonomy and Intelligent Systems, University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute. Date:          February 10th, 2022 Time:         5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Location:    ONLINE Abstract: In this seminar, Dr. Nicholas Gans will present a recent investigation into novel control... Read more →

Webinar: THE WHY, THE WHAT, AND THE HOW OF RETROFIT PLUG-IN HYBRIDIZATION   Date:           Feb. 16, 2022 Time:          18:00 - 19:30 Location:      ONLINE Presenter:    Mr. Tom Gurski,  Blue Dot Motorworks Abstract:   Blue Dot Motorworks, a Seattle-based startup, is developing a family of bolt-on retrofit systems to convert existing vehicles in to plug-in hybrids. The motivation for... Read more →

VANCOUVER TALK 4: KEEPING IN CONTACT Date: Feb 19th, 2022 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 Location: ONLINE Presented by: IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is the fourth talk session that invites Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly. Registration is optional, but we ask you to do so.... Read more →