IEEE University of Toronto Student Branch

The annual election successfully took place on March 28 and the following positions have been determined:

Chair - Reynold Xin
Vice Chair Public Relations - Mehdi Shafiei
Vice Chair Professional Development - Haojun Liu
Secretary - Ali Rezaee
Treasurer - Hu Hong
Chief in Technology - Babak Farahanchi
Off Campus Rep - Payam Izadpanah

WIE Chair and WIE Vice Chair are still open for nominations.

The elections for next year's executive board will take place on Friday March 28th 7-9pm in room SF2110 (the new IEEE office). Since the majority of you are from PEY we have decided to schedule the elections later in the evening. The following positions are available:

Chair
Vice Chair Professional Development
Vice Chair Public Relations
Secretary
WIE Chair
Chief in Technology
Off Campus Rep

Dear IEEE Chapter Leaders, Advisors, and Students,

Happy Holidays! I would like to introduce you to an opportunity for you and your members to win up to $3,000 in a contest sponsored by several organizations here at MIT. Please pass this information along to whomever might be interested (like your chapter members). We need to know if you are interested in participating by January 3rd.

FPGA accelerators are the trend for next-generation computing. If you want to show-off your exceptional programming skills and your creativity, and even change the world, participate in Innovate Canada FPGA Programming Competition! This event is sponsored by Altera, Impulse and IEEE.

You have to come up with an innovative idea to develop applications on Altera FPGAs. Examples include medical imaging, financial modeling and face recognition. The deadline to submit your proposal is January 25, 2008. Once your proposal is accepted, you will receive educational material, development software from Altera and Impulse, and a DE1 Altera Development kit to keep.

Thanks to Impulse, you don't have to be a HDL (Hardware Description Language) expert to win. The Impulse software is able to convert your code in C into HDL, with optimization in parallelization and pipelining.

Event time: 6 - 8PM, Tuesday, January 15
Venue: BA1190
Limited seating, please pre-register below.

If you are wondering...
- whether you should go to PEY or get out of school as fast as possible
- which positions you should apply for
- what impact will PEY have on your career
- what professionals from Altera, AMD and IBM think about the PEY program