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Nov 2012
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The November 15, 2012 application deadline for McNaughton Centre Grants,
Special Grants & Vehicular Technology Travel Grants has been postponed to
January 12, 2013 due to disruptions in electronic services hosted in Piscataway,
NJ caused by hurricane Sandy
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Oct 2012
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Obituary for Ossama Iskandar
Ossama (Sam) Iskandar suffered a brain hemorrhage
and was on life support for a few days until Sunday October 7 when he passed away
peacefully at the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga. A funeral mass was held at
St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church, 2300 Burnhamthorpe Road West in Mississauga,
on Wednesday October 10, 2012 at 12:30 p.m. Consistent with the wishes of the family,
a donation has been made on behalf of the IEEE Canadian Foundation to the Canadian
Diabetes Foundation in his memory.
We will miss our colleague and his considerable volunteer service. Sam, an
IEEE Senior Member, was introduced to the IEEE Canadian Foundation in 2001
by Miro Forest, the first ICF President. In 2004 he was elected Secretary and
served in that position until his passing. Last April he added the responsibility
of Webmaster while he also continued as the vice-chair of our Grants Committee.
Prior to becoming Webmaster and as part of his work with our Grants Committee,
Sam rewrote the coding for all of our web forms to use the new forms processor
and produce the formatted output corresponding to grant request submissions.
In this regard he worked closely with Khan Luu, the IEEE EWH server manager,
who assisted Sam in learning this new coding.
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Sept 2012
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The ICF Board held a 2-hour teleconference on September 12 and approved
- One IEEE Canada Vehicular Technologies travel grant to a McGill University
student to attend and present a paper at a conference in Quebec City
- One ICF Special Grant to the Carleton University Ballistics Group
related to their entry in the 2012 International CanSat competition.
- One ICF Special Grant to Bayview Secondary School (Richmond Hill, ON)
towards their participation in the First Robotics competition.
The Board also receive their Treasurer’s reports and discussed planning
reports submitted by all 12 directors.
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April 2012
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The Annual Membership meeting is held on April 11 and;
- ICF AGM attendance: 9 in person + 15 by teleconference + 9 by Proxy
- receives the President's annual report
- receives the report of the Grants committee summarizing that in 2011, the IEEE Canadian Foundation awarded Scholarships, Learning Centre Upgrade Grants, Special Grants, Women in Engineering Prize, Vehicular Technology Travel Grant, Power Quality Scholarship, IEEE Canadian Foundation Québec Science Fair Prizes and funded IEEE Canada medals - totaling $57,035.
- receives the audited financial statement and investment report for 2011
- approves the 2012 operating budget and appoints the auditors for 2012
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The Board of Directors meeting is held on April 11, after the Annual Membership meeting and;
- re-elects members for 5 years term:
- Eric Holdrinet
- Elmer Bourque
- David Kemp
- Maike Luiken
- Denard Lynch
- elects new members for 5 years term:
- Aaron Gulliver
- Nazih Mallat
- Mazana Armstrong
- Anader Benyamin-Seegar
- expresses appreciation to members who are leaving the foundation:
- David Gregson
- Guy Olivier
- Dominic Rivard
- Vijai Sood
- elects emeritus member:
- elects members to the operating committees
- approves establishment of three subcommittees of the development committee:
- Member Communications Subcommittee
- Unit Communications Subcommittee
- Capital Campaign Subcommittee
- receives the treasurer 2012 preliminary budget
- awards five IEEE Canadian Foundation Scholarships at $5,000 each;
- William York, University of Alberta
- Devyn Farr, UBC Okanagan
- Crystal So, University of Saskatchewan
- Abdulhak Nagy, Carleton University
- Apaula Kabir, University of British Columbia
- awards seven IEEE Canadian Foundation Special Grants;
- Communicate your research conference
- UBC Okanagan student branch
- UBC Okanagan Solar Energy and Water Diversion
- Robo Bros of Vernon BC
- McGill University Electronics and Robotics group
- University of Waterloo Robocup Small Size League
- Glebe Collegiate FIRST Robotics Team
- awards two Endowed Award:
- Women in engineering award to Zahra Ahmadian
- Power quality award to Michael Nare of university of Calgary
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