Ottawa Section Wins the IEEE Canada Exemplary Large Section Award
We are happy to announce that the Ottawa Section was presented the 2020 IEEE Canada Exemplary Large Section Award at the IEEE Canada Spring Board Meeting on February 28 in Toronto, ON.
This award highlights the successful efforts in fulfilling the educational and scientific goals of IEEE for the benefit of the public by maintaining, enhancing, and supporting the Student Branches, Technical Chapters, and Affinity Groups within their geographic boundaries.
Thank you to all the section executives and volunteers for their huge effort and extraordinary contributions to make this possible!
Presented by the Ottawa Young Professionals Affinity Group:
IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals Affinity Group has received the 2019 IEEE Canada Young Professionals Group of the Year Award
IEEE Canada presents the 2019 IEEE Canada Young Professionals Affinity Group of the Year Award to IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals Affinity Group in recognition of their outstanding performance and contributions to young professionals' engagement.
Presented by the Ottawa Women in Engineering Affinity Group:
IEEE WIE Ottawa at Women in Data Science Conference
Marking the start of the International women’s week, IEEE WIE Ottawa's booth was present at the Women In Data Science Conference. We got an opportunity to represent ourselves along with the some of leading organizations namely Ottawa safety council, Mindbridge.ai, Blackberry, Iversoft, Shopify, Bronson big data analysis, and Macadamian.
Thanks to our volunteers, Fadwa, Ragu, and Hilda, for spreading the work about the various initiatives WIE has taken and representing the enthusiasm that we as a team bring to contribute our best. The collaboration was seen as our volunteers joined hands with the organizers for the event to volunteer for the event. Leading the flag for the Women in Technology, IEEE Women in Engineering Ottawa team strives best to put forward all efforts to initiate more and more events and promote women in STEM.
Join us for our upcoming events! #IEEEWIEOttawa
Presented by the Ottawa Power and Energy Society Chapter:
IEEE Ottawa seminar on Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling
by
Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi
Director of Technology at BluWave-ai, Ottawa
Date: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129, T-Building, School of Advanced Technology, Algonquin College
1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa, ON K2G 1V8, Canada
Parking: Parking at Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a machine and display the ticket on your dashboard. Please respect restricted areas.
Abstract:
A microgrid is defined as a group of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and loads that act locally as a single controllable entity and can operate in both grid-connected and islanded modes. Microgrids are considered a critical link in the evolution from vertically integrated bulk power systems to smart decentralized networks, by facilitating the integration of DERs. Entities, such as government agencies, utilities, military bases, and universities around the world are deploying microgrids, and an increasing number of these systems are expected to be developed in the next decade. In general, stability in microgrids has been treated from the perspective of conventional bulk power systems. However, the nature of the stability problem and dynamic performance of a microgrid are considerably different than those of a conventional power system due to intrinsic differences between microgrids and bulk power systems, such as size, feeder types, high share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), converter-interfaced components, low inertia, measurement devices such as Phase-Locked Loop (PLL), unbalanced operation, etc.
This seminar discusses the findings of the award-winning IEEE PES Task Force on Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling, which defines concepts and identifies relevant issues related to stability in microgrids. The seminar presents definitions and classification of microgrid stability, considering pertinent microgrid features such as voltage-frequency dependence, unbalancing, low inertia, and generation intermittency. A few examples will be also presented, highlighting some of the stability classes discussed during the seminar.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi is the Senior Director of Technology at BluWave-ai, an internationally award-winning startup offering AI-enabled control and optimization solutions for smart grids. He has more than 8 years of experience in designing mission critical grid solutions for industry and academia, including technical leadership of a $6M international consortium in Electric Grid Modernization, and Smart Grid projects with Hatch and Canadian Solar. Mostafa has authored/co-authored several high-impact technical papers and patents on intelligent control and optimization of renewable-penetrated grids.
Mostafa obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has also studied and performed research in Sweden at KTH and Germany at KIT. During the course of his career, Mostafa has received multiple business, research, and teaching awards, including the prestigious University of Waterloo Doctoral Thesis Completion Award and Ottawa's Forty Under 40.
Mostafa has also led the award-winning IEEE Power and Energy Society Task Force on microgrid stability, an international coalition of 21 researchers from 14 institutions investigating stability issues in microgrids. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Presented by the Ottawa Joint Chapter of the Technical Management Council, Professional Communications Society, and Society on Social Implications of Technology:
IEEE Ottawa Seminar Series on AI and Machine Learning - The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence: Observations from a Commercial Pioneer
By
Peter MacKinnon
Synergy Technology Management
Date: Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: 2nd Floor Lunch Area, Suite 200, Vitesse Re-skilling 359 Terry Fox Drive
Abstract:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly in the news with stories of promise and peril. Political leaders have declared it a national priority, the global high
tech industry is racing AI apps to markets and policy and governance implications of AI are in their infancy. We will explore where this is all heading.
We will begin with some definitions and a bit of history behind the rise of AI. The talk will then place AI in the context of being a potentially disruptive technology on society. This will lead to a discussion about ethics and moral issues regarding the development and use of aspects of AI as a dual-use
technology. Time permitting, the role of AI in defence and security will be used as an example for appreciating the complexity and ethical issues brought on by AI. We will then turn to the role of the engineer in this new world being enabled by AI.
Finally, we will review potential governance and policy issues and options to address the rapid unchecked development and application of AI within society at large; and, ultimately end with a precautionary note.
Speaker Bio:
The speaker was a pioneer in the commercialization of AI in the 1980s and today is actively involved in ethical and policy issues related to AI. Peter has an extensive background on the forefront of scientific and technological breakthroughs around disruptive technologies and their impacts on society.
He was an early proponent in the development and promotion of Big Data and data analytics using High Performance Computers, and was a major
contributor in creating the Internet in Canada, among other accomplishments.
Peter has a background as a scientist, business manager, entrepreneur, domestic and international bureaucrat, executive, diplomat, management advisor, and academic; including most recently affiliation with both Telfer School of Management and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa and the Faculty of Engineering at Carleton University. Peter also blogs on AI for the Institute on Science, Society and Policy, an interfaculty organisation at uOttawa.
Presented by the Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society, Broadcast Technology Society and Consumer Electronics Society:
Seminar: Drone-assisted Mobile Edge Computing
By
Nirwan Ansari
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Parking: Parking at Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a machine and display the ticket on your dashboard. Please respect restricted areas
Abstract:
In mobile access networks, different types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g., sensor nodes and smartphones) will generate vast traffic demands, thus dramatically increasing the traffic loads of their connected access nodes, especially in the 5G era. Mobile edge computing enables data collected by IoT devices to be stored in and processed by local fog nodes as well as allows IoT users to access IoT applications via these nodes at the same time. In this case, the communications latency critically affects the response time of IoT user requests. Owing to the dynamic distribution of IoT users, drone base station (DBS), which can be flexibly deployed over hotspot areas, can potentially improve the wireless latency of IoT users by mitigating the heavy traffic loads of macro BSs. Drone-based communications poses two major challenges: 1) DBS should be deployed in suitable areas with heavy traffic demands to serve more users; 2) traffic loads in the network should be allocated among macro BSs and DBSs to avoid instigating traffic congestions. Therefore, we propose a TrAffic Load balancing (TALL) scheme in such drone-assisted fog network to minimize the wireless latency of IoT users. In the scheme, we divide the problem into two sub-problems and design two algorithms to optimize the DBS placement and user association, respectively. Extensive simulations have been set up to validate the performance of TALL.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Nirwan Ansari, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, MSEE from the University of Michigan, and BSEE (summa cum laude with a perfect GPA) from NJIT. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors.
He authored Green Mobile Networks: A Networking Perspective (Wiley-IEEE, 2017) with T. Han, and coauthored two other books. He has also (co-)authored more than 600 technical publications. He has guest-edited a number of special issues covering various emerging topics in communications and networking. He has served on the editorial/advisory board of over ten journals including as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. His current research focuses on green communications and networking, cloud computing, droneassisted networking, and various aspects of broadband networks. He was elected to serve in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Board of Governors as a member-at-large, has chaired some ComSoc technical and steering committees, is current Director of ComSoc Educational Services Board, has been serving in many committees such as the IEEE Fellow Committee, and has been actively organizing numerous IEEE International Conferences/Symposia/Workshops. He is frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, tutorials, and invited talks. Some of his recognitions include several excellence in teaching awards, a few best paper awards, the NCE Excellence in Research Award, several ComSoc TC technical recognition awards, the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor of the Year Award, the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Award, the NCE 100 Medal, and designation as a COMSOC Distinguished Lecturer. He has also been granted more than 40 U.S. patents.
