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Speaker: Allen Upward Registration is optional, but we want to know who to expect. 10:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 9:45 AM (12:45 PM Montreal) to check connection and say hello.All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity Group. We are looking for speakers for the rest of the year, contact Carl Zanon if interested. Speaker(s): Allen Upward, Agenda: 9:45 AM Zoom opens 10:00 AM Welcome and speaker introduction by Carl Zanon 10:05 AM Speaker Portable Electric (PE) was founded in 2015, and is a Vancouver-based technology company and manufacturer of the VOLTstack 5 kV to 30 kV e-Generator, a clean energy alternative to traditional gas and diesel generators. EV Car chargers: the installation of 40 7 kW Level 2 and 13 DC Fast Chargers across the Kootenays region. The charger also acts as an e-generator to power e-bikes, audio equipment, food trucks and more. It will be available in multiple locations including farmers markets, community events and local concerts. Weighing only 42 lbs and conveniently packaged in a briefcase-style kit, the Sunstack folding solar kit can operate anywhere there is sunlight and deploys in seconds. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351747

Attention all aspiring cloud enthusiasts and tech aficionados! Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and learn about the leading cloud platform in the industry? Look no further than our tutorial on understanding the fundamentals of AWS, led by our very own IEEE president. With the rapid growth and demand for cloud technology, understanding AWS has become a crucial skill for any individual looking to succeed in the tech industry. By signing up for our tutorial, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of AWS, including the benefits of cloud computing, key AWS services, and how to deploy and manage applications using AWS. In this two part series we will have part I taking place on Tuesday March 21 and part II taking place on Thursday March 23, both from 6-8 pm in person. The classroom location and attedneace details will be sent to all those who register. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to enhance your skills and expand your knowledge in the world of cloud technology. Sign up for our tutorial today and take the first step towards becoming an AWS expert. We look forward to seeing you there! Speaker(s): Fozail Ahmad, Room: 1030, Bldg: Wong Building, 3610 University St, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 0C5

Attention all aspiring cloud enthusiasts and tech aficionados! Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and learn about the leading cloud platform in the industry? Look no further than our tutorial on understanding the fundamentals of AWS, led by our very own IEEE president. With the rapid growth and demand for cloud technology, understanding AWS has become a crucial skill for any individual looking to succeed in the tech industry. By signing up for our tutorial, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of AWS, including the benefits of cloud computing, key AWS services, and how to deploy and manage applications using AWS. In this two part series we will have part I taking place on Tuesday March 21 and part II taking place on Thursday March 23, both from 6-8 pm in person. The classroom location and attedneace details will be sent to all those who register. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to enhance your skills and expand your knowledge in the world of cloud technology. Sign up for our tutorial today and take the first step towards becoming an AWS expert. We look forward to seeing you there! Speaker(s): Fozail Ahmad, Room: 1030, Bldg: Wong Building, 3610 Rue University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 0C5

Ready to take your circuit designs to the next level? IEEE Concordia brings you: Printed Circuit Board Design using KiCad! What is PCB design? PCB design is the placement of components and their connections inside a delimited space using a computer-aided design software. IMPORTANT INFORMATION - No previous experience required. - For this event, you have to bring your own laptop. - Download KiCad BEFORE the tutorial, you can get your free copy at https://www.kicad.org/download/ In this two-part PCB tutorial series, you will learn how to design a printed circuit board (PCB) starting with the schematic drawing of your circuit. Part 1 will focus on creating the schematic diagram, which is the foundation for the layout and design of your PCB. PART 1 – INTRO TO SCHEMATIC DESIGN: - Introduction to PCB design - Overview of the schematic diagram and its importance in PCB design - Creating a new project and adding components to the schematic - Connecting components using nets and wires - Adding labels, values, and annotations to the schematic - Checking the schematic for errors and fixing them - Generating a netlist and saving the schematic file By the end of part 1, you will have a complete schematic diagram of your circuit design, ready to be imported into a PCB layout software for the next step in the PCB design process. Stay tuned for part 2, where we will cover PCB layout and routing! DETAILS Date: Wednesday March 29th, 2023 Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Location: H655 Tickets: 5$ on vtools Room: H655, Bldg: Hall Building, 1550 De Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 2E9

Speaker: Dr. Nalin Sharda, Distinguished Lecturer IEEE Education Society IEEE Education Society Yong Professionals (YP) Committee & IEEE Education Society Educational Activities came up with an interesting Distinguished Lecture on 'Human Aspects on Cyber Security' by Dr. Nalin Sharada, a Life Senior Member of IEEE, and an IEEE Education Society Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Nalin Sharada is a Lead Cloud Instructor in Australia. Working in cybersecurity requires the knowledge of the role of human factors in cyberattacks, as well as the importance of integrating soft and hard skills. A human-centric approach to cybersecurity is one of education, understanding, and changes the dial from a purely technical fix to one that more addresses that type of threats that modern cyber-attacks use. The IEEE EdSoc Montreal Chapter is proudly promoting the initiative led by the IEEE Education Society Yong Professionals (YP) Committee & IEEE Education Society Educational Activities. Speaker(s): Dr. Nalin Sharda, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/353885

It is well known that electromagnetic waves can penetrate many kinds of materials. When illuminated by electromagnetic waves, different materials will respond differently. Therefore, electromagnetic physics provides us with an essential tool for sensing and imaging. We can infer the properties of the targets under investigation from the measured electromagnetic signal. Electromagnetic sensing has been applied to hydrocarbon production, land mine detection, and many other areas since the 1920s. However, due to the limit in computing powers, researchers can only interpret the domain of investigation by directly browsing the recorded signal. Reasonable interpretation requires ample experience, but it still needs to be more accurate. In the 1970s, computers were used in data processing, and algorithms were developed to estimate the electromagnetic properties of the investigation domain from the recorded survey data. During this time, inversion algorithms could only reconstruct simple one-dimensional models with tens of unknowns based on linear approximation. Still, even so, it took a long time to compute. These days, nonlinear inversion algorithms can reconstruct three-dimensional models with millions of unknowns on high-performance computing platforms. Many new electromagnetic sensing methods were developed with these developments, such as the widely used marine-controlled source electromagnetic surveys for hydrocarbon explorations, breast cancer detection using microwaves, etc. With the help of new sensors, big data technology, massive parallelization, fast algorithms, electromagnetic sensing, and imaging has improved their effectiveness and gained more and more applications. In this talk, the presenter would like to discuss the fundamentals of electromagnetic sensing and imaging, the solution to electromagnetic inverse problems, and many practical examples from hydrocarbon exploration, radar imaging, biomedical diagnosis, non-destructive testing, etc. The presenter will discuss the challenges and new research directions for future electromagnetic sensing and imaging. Co-sponsored by: STARaCom Montreal Speaker(s): Prof. Maokun Li , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351678

In recent years, research in deep learning techniques has attracted much attention. With the help of big data technology, massively parallel computing, and fast optimization algorithms, deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of many problems in speech and image research. In electromagnetic engineering, physical laws provide the theoretical foundation for research and development. With the development of deep learning, improving learning capacity may allow machines to “learn” from a large amount of physics data and “master” the physical law in certain controlled boundary conditions. In the long run, combining fundamental physical principles with “knowledge” from big data could unleash numerous engineering applications limited by a lack of data information and computation ability. In this short tutorial, the presenter will share some of his learnings in deep learning techniques and discuss the potential and feasibility of applying deep learning in computational electromagnetics. The presenter hopes to explore the characteristics, feasibility, and challenges of deep learning methods in the field of computational electromagnetics through some examples, such as solving wave equations, array antenna synthesis, inverse scattering, etc. Co-sponsored by: STARaCom Montreal Speaker(s): Prof. Maokun Li , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351680

Wireless energy harvesting (WEH) and wireless power transfer (WPT) are two closely related topics: they both employ a critical device – a rectenna, which is defined as the combination of an antenna and a rectifier. It receives RF/microwave waves and converts them into DC energy/power which can then be stored or used by application devices. It is expected this technology would produce higher energy conversion efficiency than photovoltaic technology for electromagnetic waves in the future. Energy conversion efficiency is the critical and most important element for wireless energy harvesting (WEH) and wireless power transfer (WPT). How to design an efficient rectenna is a key challenge since this is a non-linear device whose performance is heavily affected by the input power and the load impedance. WEH is motivated by the demand for a low-cost and low-power supplier for many Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The conventional battery is good for many applications, but it has to be changed now and then which means a waste of human resources and materials. Due to the widespread use of wireless systems, a lot of electromagnetic energies are around us and available in the ambiance environment at different frequencies (such as FM, TV, mobile, and Wi-Fi signals). Rectennas, especially broadband rectennas, are the ideal device to harvest these energies. WPT is another major breakthrough that has made wireless charging possible and will enable many more anticipated ubiquitous IoT, EV, and medical applications. Unlike WEH, WPT is normally narrow-band and could be near-field or far-field. Thus the design requirements are different from WEH although they both use rectennas. In this Lecture, we are going to 1) introduce the rectenna and review major historical events and developments; 2) provide a comprehensive review of rectenna designs (including different topologies and their comparison); 3) discuss the state-of-the-art designs (including such as the application of metamaterials and surfaces) and challenges (e.g. how to make it compact and efficient); 4) explain its applications in a range of WEH and WPT, including some very ambitious projects in the world. Furthermore, it will include some life and video demonstrations produced by our research group. Co-sponsored by: Sataracom Montreal Speaker(s): Prof. Yi Huang, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351635

Antennas are normally made of metal in order to achieve high radiation efficiency. Unlike metal antennas, liquid antennas are a new type of antenna that has some unique features and gained a lot of attention recently. The University of Liverpool has been working in this area for many years. In this talk, the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges of using such a liquid antenna for real work applications will be discussed at the beginning, and then it will be followed by the latest development on the liquid material and the liquid antenna designs and development. A new concept of using gravity in making liquid antennas for beam-steering and GPS applications will be used as an example in this talk. Other antennas, such as a hybrid antenna of the dielectric resonant antenna (DRA) and magneto-electronic (ME) dipole will also be introduced and discussed. The talk will be finished with the introduction of a new design that is suitable for antenna diversity and MIMO applications. Some relevant activities at the High-Frequency Engineering Group at the University of Liverpool will also be introduced briefly. Co-sponsored by: Sataracom Montreal Speaker(s): Prof. Yi Huang, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351638

This event is organized by IEEE Education Society as part of IEEE Education Week 2023. Its objective is to provide an opportunity for student leaders participating in our society's activities to showcase their respective contributions and to continue the networking that is nowadays essential for lifelong professional development. Some contributions to our Education Society Standards development and to our Virtual Graduate Study Consortium will be presented. To the other participants in this session, it is an opportunity for us to encourage emulation among students and networking with faculty members and industries with these recent awardees. Recent activities: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/336353 Developed and awarded standards IEEE SA Std. 1876 - 2019 Standards on Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories: https://sagroups.ieee.org/edusc/ Under development standard : IEEE SA P2834 Project on Secure and Trusted Learning Systems: https://sagroups.ieee.org/2834/ Co-sponsored by: IEEE Education Society (Main Organizer); TELUQ University; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ; Univ of Maryland Eastern Shore; Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia Agenda: 8:00 am – 8:30 am Welcome and Introduction (Hamadou Saliah-Hassane V-P Educational Activities and Luis Felipe Zapata-Rivera, Chair of IEEE Education Society Standards Committee, Larisa Dunai, Vice-Chair of IEEE SA P2834 Working Group on Secure and Trusted Learning Systems) 8:30 am – 8:45 am Federated Online Synchronous Facial Recognition and Authentication (FOSFRA), (Hari Prasad) 8:45 am – 9:00 am Web Class Attention and Authentication System (WCAAAS), (Dube Prince Mbasa Cokile) 9:00 am – 9:15 am Decentralized Application for Secure Data Handling Using Ethereum Smart Contracts (DAPP), (Xavier Midhun & Parvathy Sobha) 9:15 am – 9:30 am A Conversational AI for Multifactor Authentication (ConvAuther), C.R. Algama, L. M. S. S. Gunasekara, Chandeepa) 9:30 am – 9:45 am Solidity based Authentication using Smart Contract NFT, (Ayushya Shah) 9:45 am – 10:00 am Brain Frequency-Based Evolutionary Encryption Method for IoT Devices, (Ahmet Furkan Aydogan) 10:00 am – 10:15 am Design and Implementation of Online Laboratory Composer Tool, (Jose Baca Bustillio) 10:15 am – 10:30 am What impact IEEE Education Society Standards and the Virtual Graduate Study Consortium (VGSC) initiative can have on my student life?, (Falmata Marthé) 10:30 am – 10:45 am On the Security and Privacy of Social Media applications – A pedagogical approach, (Kushi Gupta) 10:45 am – 11:00 am IEEE Education Society 2022 Student Leadership Award : “For promoting professional, personal, business, and technical development through educational projects and initiatives as member of the Education Society showing outstanding leadership capabilities within the IEEE”, (Alejandro Macho) 11:00 am – 11:15 am Closing Remarks, Hamadou Saliah-Hassane Vice -President IEEE Education Society Educational Activities Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/354498