The PATW is a global competition for Young professionals and students within engineering to develop and showcase presentation skills.
Membership to the IET is not a requirement to enter, but you must be 18-30 years of age and be prepared to; Deliver a 10 minute presentation on any engineering or technology related area. Enhance your knowledge, develop your skills, increase your profile, and open doors for your career.
- Data analytics is a priority for many organizations
- Many jobs now call for some level of analytic knowledge
- Storytelling with data will soon become a “must have” skill
What is Cognos Analytics?
“IBM® Cognos® Analytics integrates data preparation, reporting, modeling, self-service analysis, dashboards, stories, event
management and now automated predictive analytics into one stack. Moreover, the latest release makes extensive use of AI, including machine learning, natural
language processing (NLP) and natural language generation (NLG), in order to automate as many features for the end user as possible, in an effort to make BI, analytics and predictive analysis easy for business users.”
Speaker Bio:
Mohammed Omar Khan is an Offering Manager on the IBM Cognos Analytics. He works with the development, design, sales, marketing, support and more teams to make Cognos Analytics a leader in the BI market. He is a Carleton University Alumni. Some of his achievements include 2nd place in Data Day 5.0 Poster Competition held at Carleton University, IBM VP Award, and IBM Managers Choice Award.
Algonquin College - School of Advanced Technology Career Fair
MORE THAN 40 PART-TIME FACULTY POSITIONS AVAILABLE
SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019
9AM TO 1PM
Join the learner-driven workforce of one of the National Capital Region’s Top Employers.
Enjoy a career you can be proud of by helping our learners become the leaders of tomorrow. We are looking for part-time faculty members in the following programs:
- Aviation Management - General Arts and Science
- Computer Engineering Technology – Computing Science
- Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technician
- Manufacturing Engineering Technician
- Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Computer Programmer
- Computer Systems Technician
- Computer Systems Technology - Security
- Bachelor of Information Technology – Network Technology
Presented by the CI & SMC - Joint Chapter of Computational Intelligence and Systems, Man and Cybernetics Societies:
Technical Talk: Recent Results and Open Problems in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
By
Professor Carlos Coello
CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico, IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer
Date: May 30th, 2019
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
6:15 PM Arrival and networking (light snacks available)
6:45 PM Approximate start of talk (40-60 mins)
7:45 - 8:00 PM Q&A period
8:00 - 8:30 PM Post-talk networking and discussion
Location: Colonel By (CBY), Room A-707, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract
Evolutionary algorithms (as well as a number of other metaheuristics) have become a popular choice for solving problems having two or more (often conflicting) objectives (the so-called multi-objective optimization problems). This area, known as EMOO (Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization) has had an important growth in the last 15 years, and several people (particularly newcomers) get the impression that it is now very difficult to make contributions of sufficient value to justify, for example, a PhD thesis. However, a lot of interesting research is still under way. In this talk, we will review some of the research topics on evolutionary multi-objective optimization that are currently attracting a lot of interest (e.g., handling many objectives, hybridization, indicator-based selection, use of surrogates, etc.) and which represent good opportunities for doing research. Some of the challenges currently faced by this discipline will also be delineated.
Speaker Bio
Carlos Artemio Coello Coello received a PhD in Computer Science from Tulane University (USA) in 1996. His research has mainly focused on the design of new multi-objective optimization algorithms based on bio-inspired metaheuristics, which is an area in which he has made pioneering contributions.
He currently has over 470 publications which, according to Google Scholar, report over 43,900 citations (with an h-index of 83). He has received several awards, including the National Research Award (in 2007) from the Mexican Academy of Science (in the area of exact sciences), the 2009 Medal to the Scientific Merit from Mexico City's congress, the Ciudad Capital: Heberto Castillo 2011 Award for scientists under the age of 45, in Basic Science, the 2012 Scopus Award (Mexico's edition) for being the most highly cited scientist in engineering in the 5 years previous to the award and the 2012 National Medal of Science in Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences from Mexico's presidency (this is the most important award that a scientist can receive in Mexico). He is also the recipient of the prestigious 2013 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, "for pioneering contributions to single- and multiobjective optimization techniques using bioinspired metaheuristics" and of the 2016 The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Award in “Engineering Sciences”. Since January 2011, he is an IEEE Fellow. He is also Associate Editor of several journals including the two most prestigious in his area: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Computation.
He is currently Vicepresident for Member Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer and Full Professor with distinction at the Computer Science Department of CINVESTAV-IPN in Mexico City, Mexico.
Presented by the Ottawa Robotics Competition Committee:
IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition 2019
Date: June 2nd, 2019
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Earl of March Secondary School, 4 The Parkway, Kanata, ON, Canada
Arduinos, 3D printing, Lego Mindstorms and displays, submarine robots, and AI, where can you find all this?
All of this and MUCH MORE will be at the IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition (ORC), Ottawa’s largest robotics competition for grade 5 to 12 students.
The ORC is taking place on Sunday, June 2nd at Earl of March Secondary School.
Best times to show up are between 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm to 4 pm.
The ORC is completely open to the public, so invite your friends and family too!
Presented by the Ottawa Section IEEE Reliability Society & Power Electronics Society Joint Ottawa Chapter and PELS Student Chapter:
The Future of Power Electronics:
wide bandgap devices and advanced digital power processors In Celebration of the 1st PELS Day
By
Tanya Gachovska and Chris Winkler
Date: June 20th, 2019
Time: 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 5:00 PM
Seminar: 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Trip: 6:30-7:30 PM
Location: Solantro Semiconductor Corp. 146 Colonnade Rd; Suite 200; Ottawa ON, Canada; K2E 7Y1
Abstract Wide bandgap semiconductors have drawn a lot of attention in power applications due to their superior material properties, such as withstand to high critical electric field so the breakdown voltage is a minimum of 10X higher and thus can be thinner devices because of the 100 times smaller on-resistance than Si. Their significantly smaller conduction and switching losses compared to Si devices enable high frequency switching leading to size decrease of the overall system. Smart control of wide bandgap devices, by utilizing advanced digital processors, further benefits power application by enabling designs with low parts count, high power density and a low BOM cost. Also, by supporting variable frequency operation and control methodologies, low EMI/RFI and high efficiency can be achieved.
Presented will be some benefits of wide bandgap semiconductors and their control with Solantro’s advanced digital power processor (SA4041) for Smart Power Supplies, and other applications. After the presentation, a tour showing the Smart Grid project together with Solantro’s Power development, operation and testing labs will be conducted. Solantro engineers will be happy to answer questions during the tour.
Speaker Bios Chris Winkler VP Business Development at Solantro Semiconductors Corp.
25+ years of experience in the semiconductor and wireless equipment industries spanning a variety of leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. He was previously with MEMSIC, where he was Executive Business Unit Director leading strategic marketing and product lines responsible for novel new MEMS sensing products to address the challenges of the enterprise server, storage, industrial power, IOT and motor control markets. During his career he has lead Power Analog and MOSFET products at Fairchild Semiconductor, led advanced RF systems technology at Motorola Mobility, led RF power amplifier solutions Motorola Semiconductor and engineering development at Home Wireless Networks Chris has published a wide variety of articles across a variety of industries and holds a BSEE & MSEE from Iowa State University.
Tanya Gachovska, Senior Verification Engineer at Solantro Semiconductors Corp.
Received her B.Sc., M.Eng., and Ph.D. Degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Ruse, Bulgaria, in 1994, 1995 and 2003, respectively. She earned her second Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics), at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Lincoln, USA in 2012. Her Ph.D. thesis was “Modeling of Power Semiconductor Devices”. She worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ruse from 1999 to 2003. She conducted research from 2004 to 2006 and taught for a semester in 2006 at McGill University in Montreal. She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the area of Pulsed Electric Fields at UNL from 2012 to 2013. During her Ph.D. Studies at UNL, she taught various courses and labs, and continued a collaboration in Pulsed Electric Fields research with McGill University, University of Ruse, University of Djiali Liabes, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria and École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, El Harrach, Algeria. She joined Solantro Semiconductor, Corp., Canadian Office in Ottawa in 2013. Dr. Gachovska authored or co-authored more than 30 technical papers and conference presentations, two books, two chapter of Power Electronics Handbook 4th edition and holds a world patent in Pulsed Electric Fields.
