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You are cordially invited to the upcoming technical talk:
Capability-based Force Mix Analysis
with a Multi-objective Optimization Example
Speakers: Fred Ma and Slawo Wesolkowski, Defense Scientists (Center for Operational Research and Analysis, Defense Research and Development Canada)
Co-organized by: IEEE CI/SMC Ottawa Joint Chapter (http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci) and University of Ottawa Computer Science Graduate Student Association
Agenda:
11:30 – 12:00 Refreshment and networking
12:00 – 1:00 Technical talk / Q&A period
Admission is free but registration is required via Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/
CUHacking is the first Major League Hacking membered hackathon in Ottawa, and going to be the largest hackathon in Ottawa. Around 300 university and college students are expected to participate. The objective of this hackathon is for groups of students to come up with and create a software or hardware project in 24 hours. Prizes will be awarded to the best hacks as well as through possible challenges run by tech companies. Participation for students is free and food will also be provided.
Being a member event of Major League Hacking makes CUHacking an official worldwide hackathon. This will motivate university and college students in software, computer systems, and electrical engineering all across the world to work on side projects that can make a positive impact on society.
Sponsorship package: http://cuhacking.com/
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free Registration. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract
In this talk, we discuss recent efforts which led to recognition of telecommunication engineering (TE) as a distinct education discipline in the US and other countries. These efforts have concluded by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., (ABET) approval of its new Criteria for Electrical, Computer, Communications, Telecommunication(s) and Similarly Named Engineering Programs. We reflect on the history of the Telecommunication Engineering Education (TEE) initiative and movement (2008-2014) which resulted in this development. We discuss the impact of progress in Network Science and Engineering and the evolution of the Internet on modern Telecommunications, and examine these developments in light of other developments in the arena of engineering education. The talk will look into the work that needs to be done to capitalize on these events and developments in several areas/directions; and the roles of numerous stakeholders thereto. For example, Telecom is an area of high standardization activity and the new discipline requires curricular components, syllabi, course(s) and innovative instruction methods to fill a knowledge gap in this particular area. We discuss ongoing efforts that are proceeding forward in this regards through a project ISTEE (Integrating Standards into Telecommunication Engineering Education). This project is a partnership now involving US academia, industry, the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Technology (NIST), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Speaker’s Bio:
Tarek S. El-Bawab led the Telecommunication Engineering Education (TEE) initiative and movement (2008-2014), which resulted in recognition of telecommunication engineering as a distinct ABET-accreditable education discipline on November 1, 2014. He is the first recipient of the IEEE Communications Society’s (ComSoc) Education Award, due to this work (2015). The citation of this award reads: “for outstanding contributions to the definition, and to the accreditation criteria, of modern communication/telecommunicatio
Strategy Group (CTO organization). Earlier, he was involved in networking research with a number of organizations, including Alcatel-Lucent (USA); the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University (USA); and the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex (UK). Before this he led large-scale international telecommunication projects in the Middle East for 10 years. He is Member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. He has more than 70 scholarly journal/conference papers and patents. His book Optical Switching is one of the most comprehensive references in its subject. He is the Editor of Springer’s Series: Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering, and the Associate Editor in Chief (AEiC) of the IEEE Communications Magazine. Tarek has served IEEE and ComSoc in numerous capacities. He is Board Member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB), and of the EAB’s Committee on Global Accreditation Activities (CGAA). He is member of ComSoc’s Educational Services Board (ESB). He served as member of the Board of Governors, Director of Conference Operations, and member of the Online Content Board (OCB) of ComSoc (2014-2015). He is a founding/active member of several ComSoc technical committees, and served as Chair of the Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee for two terms. He has served as symposium chair, workshops Chair, and organizer in several ICC/Globecom Conferences, and organized/chaired the ICC/Globecom International Workshop on Optical Networking Technologies (IWONT) for 10 years. Tarek is also member of the IEEE Computer, Electron Devices, and Photonics Societies. Dr. El-Bawab has a B.Sc. in electrical engineering, and a B.A. in history, both from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He holds an M.Sc. in solid state science from the American University in Cairo, and an M.Sc. in telecommunications and information systems from the University of Essex, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University.
The Hackathon is finally here!
Apply here (https://hackinghealthottawa.t
What is the #HIP613 Hackathon?
#HIP613 is a weekend-long hackathon that breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation. We bring together healthcare professionals, IT, designers, policy analysts and entrepreneurs to collaborate, dream up & create solutions to real world problems to improve healthcare.
At the hackathon, we will build prototypes of our ideas, so that they can be tested to potentially transform healthcare. We are excited to have CHEO-OCTC consider your successful projects for pilot opportunities at the hospital. Other projects will move on to become viable startups — and that’s how we together can create impact!
Early bird tickets are $35 CAD for participants so be sure to apply soon. Observer tickets are $20 CAD. The early bird rate ends April 3rd.
We understand that you are excited to solve problems but please refrain from developing the solution before the Hackathon. Feel free to ideate, design, post, update, review, join a project on sparkboard!
Hackathon Schedule
Our weekend hackathons are fun, intense, hands-on events where small teams tackle tough problems in a supportive community of peers and mentors. All meals will be catered for you this weekend – on us!
Friday evening is about pitching ideas and challenges – and forming teams around those ideas and challenges.
Saturday is about working together to bring your idea to life.
Sunday is about demonstrating your innovative solution, getting feedback from a friendly panel and vying for up a ton of prizes, and invaluable connections!
What is Hacking Health?
Hacking Health is an international movement designed to improve health care by inviting technology creators and health care professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. Learn more about Hacking Health HERE.
For more information: https://www.eventbrite.ca/d/ca
The IEEE Ottawa Reliability & Power Electronics Societies Joint Chapter (R-PELS), the Power and Energy Society Chapter (PES), and the Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology Chapter (SIGHT), Leidos Canada, and the University of Ottawa SunLab invite all interested IEEE members, and prospective members in, for example, the Science Technology, Engineering, Environment and Mathematics disciplines to a seminar on:
Achieving Very High Solar Penetration
by Dr. Richard Perez, University at Albany
PARKING: Underground paid parking available on campus. Some free parking is available on nearby streets. Please respect restricted areas.
Admission: Complementary. Registration is required to ensure a seat and sufficient snacks, please register by e-mail contacting:  register-perez@leidos.ca with a copy to RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
Abstract
Solar power (PV) is a vast, quasi-limitless resource. It is rapidly becoming the least costly electrical generation source on a pure energy basis. Yet its inherent intermittency and non-dispatchability are perceived as insurmountable obstacles in the way to very high penetration.
However there are operational solutions including, but not limited to electrical energy storage, that can facilitate high PV penetration with the firm power delivery guarantees necessary to entirely displace conventional generation. In addition to storage, operational solutions include load shaping, grid strengthening and solar overbuilding/curtailment.
While using storage alone would be prohibitively expensive, an optimal combination of all solutions could be affordable and enable high penetration solar to drive growing economies. The presentation will argue that the optimal – lowest cost – development of these solutions will require a fundamental change in the current approaches to remunerate solar and distributed energy resources (DER) production. .
Bio  Dr. Richard Perez is a senior research associate at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center where he directs applied research and teaches in the fields of solar radiation, solar energy applications and daylighting. Dr. Perez has produced more than 200 journal articles, conference papers and technical reports, holds two U.S. patents on methods of load management using photovoltaics, and has received numerous professional awards.
Dr. Perez has been on the forefront of understanding and developing tools for bringing solar into a predictable real source of power:
• He is the author of the “Perez model†that is used within most daylighting and PV systems energy predictions – a sky model needed to translate global solar values into solar power on the panels.
• He is also the key developer of the SUNY model that delivers highly-used satellite solar resource datasets.
• His work in the past decade has been in identifying the potential of photovoltaic (PV) power generation to meet the electrical power demand of large cities in non-traditional solar regions such as the northeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada.
