IEEE Southern Alberta Newsletter: Issue 2022-016 (Sep 21, 2022)
IEEE Southern Alberta Section Newsletter
Issue 2022-016 (Sep 21st, 2022)
announcement
IEEE Southern Alberta Section Scholarships
Application Deadline Sep 30th 2022
IEEE Southern Alberta Section Scholarships: The IEEE Southern Alberta Section offers 4 $1500 scholarships each year. These are open to IEEE members or student members attending a recognized post secondary institution within the geographic boundaries of the section.
- One Academics award is available for students enrolled in an undergraduate program.
- One Research award is available to students enrolled in a graduate program.
- Two Leadership awards are available and open to undergraduate and graduate students.
workshop
IEEE PES Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Collaboration with IEEE Smart Village, IEEE SB & SEDV at University of Calgary
Taking Place Sep 24th 2022
Registration Ends Today, Sep 21th 2022. Please contact the event organizers (see the event page for contact info) in case of any registration difficulties.
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 workshop titled: “Clean Energy Entrepreneurship”, on Sat., Sep. 24th, 2022, between 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (MDT), 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, 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.
Please also find the full Workshop Program included in an IEEE Event on the IEEE Southern Alberta Section (SAS) website: https://southern-alberta.ieee.ca/
webinar
How Robotics are Revolutionizing Rehabilitation
Taking Place Oct 20th 2022 from 6pm to 7pm MDT
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.
conference
2022 Annual PCIC conference Denver
Taking Place Sep 26th to 29th 2022
The annual IEEE-PCIC conference is an exchange of technical ideas that brings together professionals with a common focus on electrical installations and safety.
The Conference's mission is to provide an international forum for the exchange of electrical applications technology related to the petroleum and chemical industry, to sponsor appropriate IEEE Standards activity for that industry, and to provide opportunity for professional development.
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