Murray MacDonald, London Section Life Members Chair murraymacdonald@dmichaelson

During the early-1950’s, the operational feasibility of using inter-city microwave relays for telephone and television transmission was proven, first in Atlantic Canada and later in Central Canada. The effort soon shifted to overcoming the various financial and regulatory hurdles that made deployment of a coast-to-coast telephone and television network a truly daunting task.

On 8 March 1955, construction of the national system began. Just over three years later, on 18 June 1958, operation of the entire network was successfully demonstrated. The system was officially opened on 1 July 1958 via a live coast-to-coast television broadcast called “A Memo to Champlain” and celebrated by a commemorative booklet.

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London Section held our 76^th Annual General Meeting on Nov 20.  This was a virtual event but had all the usual activities except the meal.

Executive elections were held and the executive slate for 2021 will be:

Chair, Xianbin Wang

Vice-Chair, Murray MacDonald

Treasurer, Allan VanDamme

Secretary, Dimitri Manias

Maike Luiken, Past IEEE Canada President and VP-Elect of IEEE MGA for 2021, gave an informative presentation on IEEE activities and plans.

A copy of the presentations are added to the media for the vTools Event at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/247350.

A recording of the virtual event can be viewed at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-jtk72Y9peMyucI_UkWJRt7onRDuXGiA?usp=sharing.  You may need to copy the link into your browser.

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The winners of the IEEE London Award at the annual Thames Valley Science and Engineering Fair in April 2019 were Reza Mozaffaripour with a study entitled “Electric Cars: A Fad or the Future?” and Shayan Mahmood with a research project entitled “DeepWave; An Early Diagnostic Tool for Cardiovascular Diseases using and an Intelligent ECG System.  They are shown in the photo below – Shayan on the left, Reza on the right, with IEEE award presenter Murray MacDonald.

IEEE London Section is proud to celebrate the recognition two IEEE WIE Awards:

The Women in Engineering affinity group of the IEEE London Section has been recognized with the WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award for 2018! Honourable mentions went to the WIE Toronto AG and the WIE Honduras AG.

In addition, Elena Uchiteleva, past (and founding) chair of WIE London section has been selected for the Inspiring Student Member of the Year Award!

Our IEEE section once again sponsored 2 awards for Engineering projects at the Thames Valley Science and Engineering Fair at Althouse College, Western on April 7 and 8.  Here is a photo of IEEE member Khaled Alhazmi, Western, who presented the awards to Emma Ross, H.Beal Secondary, and  Aditi Basdeo, A.B. Lucas Secondary, for their project “Panda – Efficiently monitoring and reducing energy use on HVAC” and Julia Guerten, Kensal Park F.I. for her project “Solar Tracking Panel”  Congratulations to the winners!