Educational Activities: Latex Hands-On Workshop

IEEE Windsor Section and Educational Activities presents:

“Latex Workshop for Reports and Thesis”

LATEX (pronounced “lay-tek” or “lah-tek”) is a free program for making scientific and technical documents, and is the standard for professionals in many STEM fields. Its purpose is to make it easy to write elegant technical documents. The topics in the workshops will range from  introductory to advanced, and the sessions will include topics such as making problem sets, lab reports and more. Finally, preparation of final thesis based on UWindsor thesis template will be reviewed.

Who Should Attend:
Undergraduate, Graduate Students and Researchers who need to write a technical and scientific report or papers. The attendees should bring their own laptop with installed TEX editor, or using the online LATEX editor (needs opening account at www.sharelatex.com). The online LATEX editor is highly recommended. The workshops are engaging and interactive, and students should bring their laptops in order to follow along with the instructors. Integrating both lecture and hands-on time, students will be able to apply what they are learning and get individual help from the instructors.

Speakers: Dr. Luay Taha & Dr. Mojtaba Kordestani

Event Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 2018

Time: 11:0o AM to 1:00 PM

Location: Centre for Engineering Innovation (CEI), Windsor, ON

Venue: Room 2103

Registration Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/178490

For questions, contact Dr.Luay Taha for more information.

University of Windsor of IEEE YP, Student Congress and WiE at Summit in Toronto

University of Windsor IEEE Young Professionals, Women in Engineering, and Student Congress at IEEE ILS International Summit in Toronto 

It was a privilege for our Windsor students to attend this event, which has brought together engineers, scientists, business leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, and many more professionals. It was awesome collaboration of all the affinity groups of IEEE Sections of Canada; including ones from Windsor (Women in Engineering, Young Professionals, and Student Branches). The summit has featured many inspiring keynotes, focusing on hot topics like artificial intelligence and machine learning. These keynotes have aided in the students’ knowledge and helped unlock their potential in these technical fields. It was really interesting to see various leading industries and universities exchange ideas on innovative topics by discussing them with all the students and professionals present in the event; which was facilitated with knowledge and empowerment.

 

IEEE Day at Green Sun Rising Company

IEEE Young Professionals presents

“IEEE Day With the Green Sun Rising Company”

 

IEEE YP group plans to visit Green Sun Rising Company on October 2nd. The event will consist of a talk at the university, then we will go to the company by bus, right after the talk. Please note that only 45 seats are available on this trip; therefore registration is required.

Event Date: October 2nd, 2018

Time Schedule: 

  • 8:30 – 9:30 AM : Presentation about the Company (@ Room 100, Toldo Building)
  • 9:30-10:00 AM : Departing from University (by bus)
  • 10:00-11:00 AM : Visiting Green Sun Rising Company
  • 11:00 AM : Coming back to the University (by bus)

Registration: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/tego_/event/manage/177680

For more information, please contact Dr. Mojtaba Kordestani.

 

IEEE CIS & SMC

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and IEEE Windsor Section presents:

” Health Informatics: Overview, Approaches, Challenges, and Applications ”

Since its emergence in the 1950s and 1960s, Health Informatics (HI) has become a hot and challenging interdisciplinary field in all three pillars of medical care, education and research. With the advent of the Internet, supercomputers, cloud computing, smartphones, and many other technological innovations that have made their way into our everyday lives, HI has become an even more complex and multifaceted field and will only continue to grow with future advancements. Therefore, it will not only attract more health professions, but will also continue to appeal to scientists and researchers from a variety of other disciplines to make itself more enriched, with the ultimate goal of directly improving people’s quality of life in an equitable and cost-effective fashion, as well as to increase health literacy and consumer education. On its way to reach these objectives, HI is facing many challenges, including, but not limited to, storing and linking health data, converting health data to information and knowledge for decision support systems, data privacy and security, ethical concerns, cost of adopting technologies, lack of knowledge and education about new technologies and available tools, and many more. In this talk, Dr. Samet will briefly go through an overview of HI, and some of its challenges, approaches, and applications, followed by a review of his previous and current research in this multidisciplinary field.

About Speaker:Dr. Samet is a faculty member at the School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, and an adjunct professor at the e-Health Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, where he was an assistant professor from 2012 to 2017. His research interests and activities are in privacy-preserving and security aspects of various applications, especially in health sector, and health informatics. Prior to that, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the e-Health Information Laboratory at the Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute from 2010 to 2012. During his post-doc fellowship, he designed and developed several secure protocols for various health applications. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa in 2010 and his thesis title was “Privacy-Preserving Data Mining”, in which he proposed and designed some protocols on privacy-preserving methods for standard data mining and machine learning techniques.

 

Event Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Time: 11:3o AM to 1:30 PM

Location: Centre for Engineering Innovation (CEI), Windsor, ON

Venue: Room 3000

Registration Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/175492

For questions, contact CIS & SMC for more information at: cissmc@uwindsor.ca

SAEED SAMET, Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science, University of Windsor

Phone: (519) 253-3000×3782,

Email: Saeed.Samet@uwindsor.ca

www.cs.uwindsor.ca/~ssame

IEEE Women in Engineering Technical Event

IEEE Women in Engineering presents:

“Personal Development Planning”

Personal development planning (PDP) is the process of creating an action plan based on awareness, values, reflection, goal-setting and planning for personal development within the context of a career, education, relationship or for self-improvement. Personal development plans may also include a statement of one’s career and lifestyle priorities, career positioning, analysis of opportunities and risks, and alternative plans (Plan B), and a curriculum vitae (CV). Human-resource management also uses PDPs.

About Speaker: Dr Sadaf Zahoor, has her PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Loughborough, UK. She’s doing her Post-Doc Fellow in MAME, here, at the University of Windsor. She has contributed in international collaboration in technical research, at the University of Loughborough and at the University of Greenwich London, UK. Dr.Zahoor is also a member of technical committee of ICAMM Guangzhou, China. In addition, she has trained experience in Allied Engineering Pakistan, and Professionals of Various Industries in Pakistan.

Refreshments will be provided! Looking forward to meeting you!

 

Event Date: Friday, August 24, 2018

Time: 2:3o to 3:30 PM

Location: Centre for Engineering Innovation (CEI), Windsor, ON

Venue: Room 3007

Registration Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/176203

For questions, contact the Maryam Farajzadeh-Zanjani at: farajza@uwindsor.ca

 

IEEE Computer Society Southeastern Michigan

IEEE Southeastern Michigan Computer and Education Section presents:

“Embedded Systems Workshop 2018”

IEEE South East Michigan Computer Chapter is offering a one-day (free) workshop on Embedded Systems on Saturday, October 20th, 2018. This workshop is open to all engineers and students. This is the 16th year that the event is being held.

The aim is to disseminate knowledge, directly benefiting the IEEE members, at the same time improve the technology skills pool, indirectly boosting the Michigan economy. Speakers and experts from the embedded systems industry will be making presentations, and will also be available for discussions and networking throughout the day. In addition to the technical presentations, there will be industry information display and professional recruitment
tables. Use this opportunity for networking with other engineers, industry experts and embedded enthusiasts.

Please confirm your participation by registering on the IEEE events web site (Deadline is 18th October 5 pm!)

Sponsors: Vector CANtech, Infineon and many others…
Vendor tables with demos, technical booklets, and job recruiting opportunities will be available. There is no cost to attend. A complimentary lunch is provided. Random raffle and door prizes representing the embedded controllers & systems industry will take place. All are welcome. Do post this flyer in your workplaces, share/inform your peers & colleagues about this event. It is a great way learn not only what is going on, but network with other professionals as well.

 

Event Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018

Time: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Lawrence Technological University (LTU) — 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075

Venue: Architecture Bldg, Room A200 

Registration Deadline: October 18, 2018 @ 5 PM

Registration Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/175036

For Technical questions, contact the Program Committee at: esw2018@1eee-sem.org

Workshop

Professional Activities Committee and IEEE Windsor Section presents:

ACADEMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

 

Writing a paper, thesis or even a technical report and struggling with citing your sources? Having concerns regarding paraphrasing and plagiarism? Confused about the citation methods?

Join us for free to know more about:

– what, why, when and how to be cited

– academic integrity

– how to do the references

– formatting and in-text citation

Speaker: Mr. Jason Horn

Speaker Bio: Mr. Horn is currently working as a Writing Advisor at University of Windsor’s Writing Support Desk for over five years. Having a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature, and History; as well as Masters in English Language and Literature from University of Windsor.

Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Time: 12:30-2:00 PM

Where: E.D. Lumley Center for Engineering Innovation (CEI) Room 2103

Registration: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/175217

Technical Talk

IEEE Young Professionals, Windsor Section presents

“Positive Control and Estimation of Dynamic Systems with Applications”

Abstract: Positive systems are rapidly gaining more attention and popularity due to their appearance in numerous applications. The response of positive systems to positive initial conditions and inputs remains in the positive orthant of state space. They offer nice robust stability properties which can be applied to solve many control and estimation problems not only for positive systems but also for general dynamic systems with positivity constraints. This talk will give an overview of positive systems and provide variety of models having positivity behaviors. Several illustrative examples with simulation results support the theoretical development.

Speaker: Bahram Shafai, Professor at Northeastern University. 

Speaker Bio: Bahram Shafai, professor at Northeastern University is also the Director of the ECE Capstone Design Program. He is also a member of the organizing committees for various international and IEEE-conferences. Dr. Shafai is Life Senior Member of IEEE.

Date: Friday, July 20th

Time: 2PM EDT/EST

Location: Room 3000, CEI, University of Windsor

Please register here to book your seats!

Refreshments will be provided.

Please contact Mojtaba Kordestani for more details.

Technical Talk

IEEE Young Professionals, Windsor Section presents

“Machine Learning Approaches for Data Analysis”

Abstract: Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada, responsible for nearly 30% of all deaths, the advances in technology help in analyzing the disease. More recently, Next-generation sequencing technology (NGS) has emerged, decreasing the cost and increasing the speed of genome and transcriptome sequencing. However, sequences come with artifacts, and hence
preprocessing the reads is required for downstream analysis. The analysis can determine which genes and transcripts are relevant for different cases, which can provide some biological insight for each case, leading to improved diagnosing and treatment of different diseases including
cancer based on those transcripts and protein products. On the other hand, machine learning methods have been used to classify different conditions such as survivability and subtypes in breast cancer, and stages and location in prostate cancer.Using supervised learning techniques,
transcript expression profiles as features or biomarkers have be found to be key indicators for different conditions. Similarly, unsupervised methods have been used to group similar trends of profiles throughout different cancer stages. In this talk, how these methods are used to analyze prostate cancer progression throughout different stages will be discussed. The main purpose is to find genes, transcripts that have similar trends, and promoters. Clustering approaches used to find patterns in expressed transcripts among the different cancer stages will also be discussed.

Speaker: Abed Alkhateeb, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science  

Speaker Bio:Abed Alkhateeb is a Ph.D. candidate in the Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics lab in the School of Computer Science, working under the supervision of Dr. Luis Rueda. He completed his Bachelor in the department of Computer Science at University of Jordan, and his M.Sc. in computer science in the School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. He has had positions in Blackberry as Business Systems Developer, and before doing his Ph.D.as Analyst/Programmer in Emaratech and UAE University in the United Arab Emirates. Abed’s research interests include machine learning, bioinformatics, health informatics,  pharmacogenomics, and RNA sequencing and cancer progression. He has many publications and presentations in most top-ranked conferences in bioinformatics and reputable journals. Abed has recently obtained the Ontario Government Scholarship and the Faculty of Science Going Above and Beyond award, among other awards.

Date: Wednesday June 20th

Time: 12:00PM-1:30PM

Location: Room 3003, CEI, University of Windsor

Please register here to book your seats!

Refreshments will be provided.

Please contact Mojtaba Kordestani for more details.