YOU'RE INVITED! Join the IEEE Queen's Branch in welcoming Dr. Jawad Siddiqui from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society to speak with students about new work in antennas for the space domain, as well as the opportunities available to students through the IEEE. All students are welcome! The talk will explore the evolving role of antenna technologies in modern space applications, with a particular focus on CubeSats and rocket platforms. It will discuss key challenges such as size constraints, thermal management, deployment mechanisms, and radiation effects, as well as emerging trends in adaptive, reconfigurable, and additive-manufactured antennas designed for the space environment. The presentation will also highlight opportunities for students and professionals to engage with the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), including the benefits of membership and participation in its SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) initiatives that apply antenna and propagation technologies for societal impact. The speaker will welcome questions from the audience. The seminar will end with an interactive discussion with the speaker about opportunities for students in the IEEE. These include best practices for achieving funding awards through the IEEE, with a focus on the AP-S. Co-sponsored by: Abedal Rahman Shehabi Speaker(s): Dr. Siddiqui Room: 314, Bldg: Walter Light Hall, 19 Union St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2nd Annual ECESS × UBC IEEE Career Fair Date: November 26, 2025 Location: University of British Columbia Campus (TBD) After the huge success of last year’s inaugural event, we’re thrilled to bring back the 2nd Annual ECESS × UBC IEEE Career Fair, co-hosted by the UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Society (ECESS) and the UBC IEEE Student Branch. This flagship recruiting event connects UBC’s top electrical, computer, and software engineering students with leading companies across technology, energy, and engineering sectors. Last year’s fair welcomed 1000+ students and 20 industry partners. This year, expect an even bigger turnout, new exhibitors, and more opportunities to network, explore internships and learn about the latest innovations in industry. For Students: - Meet recruiters and engineers from top tech companies - Explore internship, co-op, and new-grad opportunities For Companies: If your organization is interested in recruiting, sponsoring, or partnering, please contact us at [email protected] for more details! Highlights from Last Year: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Technical Seminar by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Tony Chan Carusone, with the following abstract: In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, chiplets are emerging as a transformative technology, paving the way for the next generation of AI systems. Chiplets permit the integration of more processing power within a single package, and allow for new connectivity solutions so that thousands of AI accelerators can work as a cohesive unit. Optical connectivity, facilitated by chiplets, offers high-speed data transmission with lower power consumption, crucial for handling the massive data loads in AI applications. The emerging chiplet ecosystem, underwritten by high-performance die-to-die interfaces, is throwing open the doors of innovation and facilitating the next wave of AI scaling. Speaker(s): Tony Chan Carusone, Room: 3038, Bldg: Macleod Building, 2356 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4

Precision agriculture (PA) combines technologies and practices that assure the optimization of the operations associated with agricultural production through specific farm management. Regarding the technologies used, distributed smart sensing systems characterized by fixed and mobile nodes (initiated on remote sensing and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)) are employed to turn the farming operations into data, and to optimize the future operation based on data driven models that can be part of digital twins applied in precision agriculture. Edge and cloud computing platforms that are capable to run AI/ML algorithms may contribute to helping human decisions. The presentation is focusing on digital transformation of agriculture in the context of heavily uncertainty associated with climate change. The IoT ecosystem technologies for precision agriculture will be discussed including multimodal sensing and artificial intelligence. In-situ and remote sensing are considered special attention being granted to the soil characteristics monitoring (moisture and macronutrients concentration). The agriculture UAV imagery and satellite imagery solutions as well as the relation between the data coming from the in-situ distributed smart sensors and acquired images using multispectral and thermographic camera and imagery techniques will be part of the presentation, including elements of virtualization in the case of digital twins implementation. AI multiple sources data driven models for an increased crops quality through the optimization of farming operations as examples of data driven models for smart irrigation and nutrients will be discussed. Speaker(s): Dr. Octavian Postolache Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/516805

Dear IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section Members : On behalf of the IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section, we are pleased to welcome you to the 2025 IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Dinner event. This year’s AGM is a great opportunity to get together with friends and celebrate the achievements of the Kitchener-Waterloo Section, made possible by its dedicated volunteers and members. Date: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 Time: Start at 5:30 pm (ET) Venue: (https://maps.app.goo.gl/sVSLCGoEUW2zKF1f7) University of Guelph 50 Stone Rd E Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Building: Engineering Atrium Parking: P8: Visitors Parking (Free after 5 PM) https://maps.app.goo.gl/HQzfRMt1unghgSUdA Agenda: 5:30 pm - Reception and Networking 6:00 pm - AGM Overview and Opening 6:05 pm - Address by IEEE Canada representative 6:15 pm - Talk by Key Speaker 6:45 pm - Dinner 7:45 pm - AGM Business 8:15 pm - Awards and Closing Remarks The number of seats is very limited. Please register to secure your spot. Please also be advised of the following: Fee: - $10 for IEEE student members - $25 for IEEE members. - Fee for one guest for IEEE ExeCom members is $10 Dress code is elegant casual—online registration deadline: 11:59 p.m., November 23, 2025. We look forward to seeing you at the AGM. Best Regards, IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section (https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieeekw.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cazaman%40wlu.ca%7Cb64adab6cba846e63bd808de1a2cf4c4%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638976977576193882%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VG%2B0Vty5cezfEaLC%2FZLEEpDBWSiAHD4RWF2kODmIW7s%3D&reserved=0) Co-sponsored by: IEEE KW Section Agenda: Agenda: 5:30 pm - Reception and Networking 6:00 pm - AGM Overview and Opening 6:05 pm - Address by IEEE Canada representative 6:15 pm - Talk by Key Speaker 6:45 pm - Dinner 7:45 pm - AGM Business 8:15 pm - Awards and Closing Remarks Bldg: Engineering Atrium, Albert A. Thornbrough Building – Adams and Linda Atrium, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1

The event/AGM will take place on the posted date; however, this notice has been cancelled to make a change in the registration process. Thanks so much for your understanding. Annual General Meeting for the Kitchener-Waterloo Section - 2025 ***CANCELED*** Agenda: TBA Bldg: Engineering Atrium, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E , Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1

Speaker: Professeur Barry Sanders, University of Calgary Abstract: Coherent states conveniently represent the classically meaningful wavelike states of light, as opposed to the corpuscular number states, but superposing coherent states is mind-bogglingly unclassical, including as examples "cat states", "comb states" and "compass states". I present a history of superposing coherent states, especially for oscillators (including electromagnetic field states) and for spin, and extend to entangled coherent states. I then show that superposed coherent states are a viable path for photonic quantum computing and for reaching towards the ultimate limits of sensing. Finally, I discuss our experimental realizations (at University of New South Wales) of superposed coherent states in a spin-7/2 Antimony nucleus in a silicon substrate. Short biography: Barry Sanders holds two Diplomas, a PhD and a DSc from Imperial College London and holds fellowships with Optica, the American Physical Society, the UK Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Canada, and he received the 2022 City of Calgary International Achievement Award. His research is on quantum science and technology and on strategic guidance for emerging dual-use technologies. Sanders is Scientific Director of the Calgary’s “Quantum City”. In Waterloo he is a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Centre for International Governance and Innovation and a Scholar with the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Prior to returning to the University of Calgary in 2003, he was professor & Head of Physics at Macquarie University and held distinguished international visiting positions in several countries. Sanders is an expert mentor for the Creative Destruction Labs in Toronto and Calgary and advisor for CERN’s Open Quantum Institute and for the Google-GESDA quantum computing XPrize. He is co-lead of the Canada-France CNRS International Research Network, a member of quantum and nano standards bodies, a deep-tech evaluator for funding agencies and for venture funds, a member of three editorial boards, and has trained a hundred graduate students and postdocs. Breakfast will be served! Co-sponsored by: OPTICA-SPIE Student Chapter at INRS Room: Tudor Johnson, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Quebec, Canada, J3X 1P7

This talk focuses on how AI and data science can be effectively applied to solve real problems in scientific and engineering contexts. It will cover practical examples of using machine learning for modeling and prediction, automating data analysis workflows, improving experimental design through data-driven insights, and communicating results clearly with visualization tools. Attendees will learn which AI and data skills are most valuable for research and industry, how to choose the right methods for their data, and what approaches truly make an impact in advancing innovation and efficiency. Speaker(s): Sylvie, 300 Ouellette Ave, University of Windsor- Advanced Hub, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

The Poly-Grames Research Centre has acquired major millimetre-wave infrastructures, enabling it to further advance its modelling, manufacturing, and measurement capabilities. Ongoing research in the millimetre-wave domain will be significantly strengthened thanks to the new hybrid and monolithic fabrication technologies now available. In this talk, an overview of the various microwave circuit manufacturing technologies accessible at Poly-Grames will be presented, including printed circuit boards on Duroid substrates, thin-film MHMICs on ceramics, laser machining of metals, ceramics, and TMM materials, as well as high-precision CNC machining. The vision of integration, along with the constraints imposed by manufacturing limitations, will also be discussed. Co-sponsored by: Staracom, INRS Speaker(s): Traian Antonescu, Room: 18, Bldg: Bureau 6900, INRS, 800, De La Gauchetière Ouest , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H5A 1K6

What is 3-MUC? The 3-MUC gives undergraduate students a chance to share an interesting piece of work they have accomplished and practice their communication skills. It follows the scope of the 3 minute thesis style, but relaxes the requirement for novel research to allow a broader section of the undergraduate student body to participate. As a successful applicant, you will prepare a 3 minute presentation about your work. You are only allowed one slide to accompany your presentation as a visual aid. You will present your work to a panel of judges who will select three winners based on our judgement criteria. The winners are invited to the annual Kingston IEEE banquet dinner, where they will be awarded their prize. Who can apply? All undergraduate students who have an interesting piece of work to share. For example, summer research students, QUIP interns, design team members. By no means is that an exhaustive list. If you are unsure, feel free to reach out to the event organization team. IEEE membership is required to participate in the competition, but students receive discounted membership as well as many other perks, including: - Discounts at conferences - Access to technical talks from experts - Networking - IEEE’s dedicated job board - Competitions for students hosted by the IEEE - Scholarships You can register for IEEE membership at the link below. https://www.ieee.org/membership/join Co-sponsored by: Abedal Rahman Shehabi Kingston, Ontario, Canada