Topic: SPAR Aerospace was the Canadian company that produced equipment for the Canadian Space Agency, associated with the NASA Space Shuttle missions. It is most famous for developing the Canadarm (Shuttle Remote Manipulator System). Canadarm 2 is still in use on the International Space Station. (SPAR Aerospace is now part of MDA.)
Lorne Keyes will be reminiscing on his 40 year career at SPAR during this presentation.
As an IEEE Member, in good standing of the IEEE Southern Alberta Section (SAS), you are cordially invited by the SAS Executive Committee (ExCom), to the IEEE SAS, 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM). This meeting, in virtual format, (as hosted by the IEEE Webex app), will provide the Section Membership with an update over the past year, (from Nov. 2021 to Nov. 2022), on the activities of the following groups:
The IEEE Southern Alberta Section, as a whole, … (via the Chair’s Report, the Treasurer’s Report),
The various IEEE Southern Alberta Technical Chapters:
(inc. the Jt. PES/IAS, Jt. CSS/IMS, Jt. CAS/SSC, Jt. AP/COM/MTT, CS, EMBS Chapters)
Furthermore, during the IEEE SAS 2022 AGM, we will also recognize the IEEE SAS 2022 Award Recipients, including IEEE SAS 2022 Scholarship Award Winners/Recipients, for the IEEE SAS 2022 (AGM/Awards) Calendar Year (Oct. 01th,, 2021 to Sep. 30th, 2022).
Lastly, there will be some discussion, at the end of the AGM meeting, related to the new IEEE “on-line” e-voting processes, being first introduced within the IEEE here in late 2022, at the Section level, and will be in full effect, … to the best of our knowledge, … within the IEEE, as a whole, in 2023, 2024 and beyond. [See: Latest 2022 IEEE Southern Alberta Section ExCom Officer Election Voting Rules/Guidelines]
Topic: How Robotics are Revolutionizing Rehabilitation
Capitalizing on the new understanding of brain plasticity, we introduced a paradigm shift in clinical practice in 1989 when we initiated the development of the MIT-Manus robot for neuro-rehabilitation and deployed it into the clinic. Since then we collected evidence to support the potential of enhancing and augmenting recovery following a stroke, first during the sub-acute and then the chronic phase. Our efforts and that of others led to the endorsements starting in 2010 from the American Heart Association, the American Stroke Association, and the Veterans Administration for the use of rehabilitation robots for the Upper Extremity, but not yet for the Lower Extremity. AHA recommendations were the same in the 2016 revision. Furthermore, it was demonstrated in the VA system that upper extremity robotic therapy has an economic advantage over manual therapy. More recently we completed a pragmatic study RATULS under the auspices of the National Health Service of the United Kingdom and its NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, which enrolled 770 stroke patients. Thus, we have developed novel robotic treatment and evaluation tools and have managed to collect the experimental evidence that demonstrates the unequivocal therapeutic benefits stemming from robot-aided rehabilitation for the upper extremity as well as present shortcomings. This talk will present an overview of our past rehabilitation robotics efforts and more recent efforts addressing the identified shortcomings.
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department and the Director of The77Lab. the77lab.mit.edu He holds affiliate positions as an Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and as a Visiting Professor at Fujita Health University, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Japan), at Osaka University, Mechanical Science and Bioengineering Department (Japan), at Keio University, System Design Engineering Department (Japan) and at Loughborough University, The Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical, and Manufacturing Engineering (UK). Dr. Krebs is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the 2015 IEEE-INABA Technical Award for Innovation leading to Production “For contributions to medical technology innovation and translation into commercial applications for Rehabilitation Robotics.” Furthermore, he was one of the founders and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Interactive Motion Technologies from 1998 to 2016. He successfully sold it to Bionik Laboratories, a publicly traded company. He later founded 4Motion Robotics.
The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Entrepreneurship Committee, the IEEE Smart Village initiative, the IEEE Student Branch (SB), at the University of Calgary (U of C), along with the Sustainable Energy Systems Development (SEDV) MSc Program at the University of Calgary, will be holding a day long workshop titled: “Clean Energy Entrepreneurship”, on Sat., Sep. 24th, 2022, between 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (MDT), same as 4:00 PM Central (CST), at the EEEL Bldg., Rm. 161 venue/classroom, on the University of Calgary Campus, Calgary, AB, Canada.
The main objective of this workshop is to inspire the next generation of Southern Albertans to consider clean energy entrepreneurship as a career choice. The other sub themes of this workshop are indigenous clean energy perspectives and access, the creation of sustainable and socially responsible enterprises and a low carbon future for Alberta.
Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided, during the event, along with a Certificate of Completion for the workshop.
There will be a “virtual” option available for those who cannot attend “In Person”. Please see the full Workshop Program below and then please register via the link included above.
See additional contact info’, for the event organizers, on the event poster below and on the IEEE vTools event registration page.
*** Update: If you wish to attend this event in Calgary in person, as of Wed. Sep 21st, 2022, please e-mail Niru Kumar at np328@cornell.edu***
The annual IEEE-PCIC conference is an exchange of technical ideas – not a trade show – that brings together professionals with a common focus on electrical installations and safety. The PCIC Executive and Local Committees take great pride in providing a high quality conference while keeping registration and participation costs reasonable.
The spectrum above 100 GHz offers plentiful bandwidth for ultra-high-speed communication and high-resolution sensing, thereby providing a promising foundation for realizing unprecedented capabilities in next-generation wireless networks. In this talk, I will begin by presenting emerging transceiver architecture that can enable directional sub-THz steering without traditional multi-antenna arrays. I will discuss how to exploit the key characteristics of sub-THz signals and the proposed architecture for high-resolution localization. Such sensing modalities can then be exploited to enable highly directional, high data rate links that are robust to client and environmental mobility. I will address one of the main concerns with sub-THz networking which is high power consumption by introducing the first ultra-wideband retro-directive backscatter above 100 GHz. Finally, I will discuss new security paradigms in this regime: while the conventional wisdom suggests that physical layer security improves with narrow beams, I will explain new vulnerabilities introduced by the control plane as well as emerging low-cost smart reflecting surfaces. I will conclude the talk by illustrating fundamentally new techniques for wireless authentication and security.
This presentation will provide a behind the scenes look at the challenges and opportunities of working on three vastly different projects, all leading toward potential scientific studies in space. Attendees will learn about the technical innovations and obstacles associated with building and launching a private interplanetary lander, which in 2019 was the first private mission to reach the moon. The presentation will then talk about the development of a STEM project that was launched to the International Space Station in February 2022. The goal of this project is to study and control the growth of biological organisms in space. Lastly, the presentation will discuss a molecular imaging system to study living organisms at the cellular level. This system based on Optical Coherence Tomography and machine learning is capable of providing non-invasive imaging of living tissue at the molecular level, allowing longitudinal studies of healthy and diseased tissue over time to better understand the development, progression and potential treatment response for diseases such as cancer. These projects work toward a long-term goal of future lunar missions providing scientific platforms for molecular biology experiments studying the development, progression, and treatment of disease in space.
The IEEE Young Professionals Committee, Southern Alberta Section invites you to AI & Data: Transforming the Healthcare Industry.
Join us for a one-hour virtual webinar featuring Utpal Mangla, General Manager at IBM, and Atul Gupta, Lead Data Scientist at IBM.
Utpal and Atul will take us on a journey through Healthcare Initiatives in AI and data focusing on imaging, new drug discovery and prescriptive diagnosis. During this webinar, we will learn how AI solutions are human centric and should “augment” intelligence. We will explore how data can help transform the patient experience and bring together multi-disciplinary health institutions across the industry. We will dive deep on Healthcare initiatives in AI and Data focusing on
Imaging
Discovery of New drugs
Prescriptive Diagnosis
Attendees joining will be entered into a door prize draw for the event!
Abstract: Machine learning requires assumptions and data, with the assumptions based on domain knowledge. With the exponential increase in dataset set and computation we’ve been able to reduce the domain expertise and inductive bias we integrate in computer vision models, from manually designed features such as SIFT, to learning representations with deep learning. Recently this approach has been pushed even further, with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), integrating strong inductive bias in their structure, being replaced with Vision Transformers (ViT), or even fully-connected neural networks with alternative training regimes. In this talk, Dr. Yanni Ioannou, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, will discuss the current limits of this approach, and the need for more domain-agnostic learning.
Sponsored locally by the IEEE Southern Alberta Section (SAS) Computer Society (C16)
Abstract: Join us to learn, from Leanne Dawson, how Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning is used to improve the planning and operation of electrical records. The talk will also cover one case study of how weather data and ML techniques can be used to increase the capacity of the existing electrical grid.
Sponsored locally by the IEEE Southern Alberta Section (SAS) University of Calgary, Student Branch
