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

The IEEE Industry Academia Handshake Convention 2025 is a dynamic two-day event that brings together students, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals to bridge the gap between academic innovation and industrial implementation. This initiative is organized by Lakehead University’s Barrie STEM Hub and the IEEE Lakehead University Student Branch. The event provides a collaborative platform where students can engage with industry professionals through keynote talks, hands-on workshops, hackathons, panel discussions, and competitions. Participants will explore real-world challenges and build professional networks that spark innovation and future collaborations. To support student participation, IEEE is offering travel grants to selected attendees to help cover transportation and accommodation costs. Details about eligibility, application deadlines, and selection criteria can be found on the event website. At its core, the Industry Academia Handshake Convention 2025 embodies IEEE’s mission to advance technology for humanity, empowering the next generation of innovators to transform ideas into impact through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and applied problem-solving. 🌐 Event Website: www.ieee-iahc2025.ca Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRSHbVW2v3QHOrv0ZtMNkQsNXf7qt62pheJd1-lUDBmJ9ctWodXroQePLUXjTrXNg/pub Room: 229, Bldg: K, 1 Georgian Dr., Barrie, Ontario, Canada, L4M 3X9

Are you curious about embedded systems or looking to sharpen your programming skills while meeting awesome people? Join us for Zig Day, a full-day collaborative coding event led by Matt Knight, a BCIT alumnus and systems engineer, and one of the key contributors to the global Zig community! 🧠 What’s Zig Day? It’s all about learning by doing. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced coder, you’ll spend the day working in small groups to explore Zig, a modern programming language designed for performance, safety, and simplicity — especially in embedded systems. 💡 Why join? - Learn how to code for embedded systems (beginner-friendly!) - Collaborate with peers, hobbyists, and industry professionals - Work on real projects and share your results - Build your network and have fun doing it No prior Zig experience required. Just curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to learn, plus $5 cash for the SUSHI!! (for BCIT students only) [] Speaker(s): , Matt Agenda: Agenda - 09:30 - 10:00: Gathering and chit-chat - 10:00 - 10:30: Explain projects, form groups, set up workstations - 10:30 - 12:30: Work on stuff together - 12:30 - 02:00: Lunch break - 02:00 - 04:00: Timmies run and work on stuff together (continued) - 04:00 - 04:30: Show others what you built and what you learned Room: 2019, Bldg: SW1, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5G 3H2

A beginner-friendly technical workshop introducing students to the fundamentals of Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2). Participants will explore key concepts like nodes, topics, and visualization in RViz while working with both virtual robots and real sensors. This hands-on experience builds practical robotics skills and supports IEEE’s mission of advancing technical education and innovation 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Grid-forming (GFM) inverter research has accelerated as inverter-based resources (IBRs) become dominant. Unlike grid-following (GFL) units, GFM inverters establish their own voltage and frequency references, enabling operation at high IBR penetration. System operators, research institutions, and industry are therefore calling for GFM capabilities in grid-connected converters. Yet the transition from synchronous-generator (SG) dominated systems to GFM-rich grids remains challenging: open questions persist regarding desired GFM behavior during disturbances (balanced/unbalanced faults, frequency or phase jumps, and overloading), the system-level impacts on stability and protection, and the resulting control design implications. This talk addresses two of these questions. Part I examines the consequences of strictly limited overcurrent capability in power-electronic converters. To protect hardware, GFM inverters must implement fast current limiting; once engaged, however, the inverter departs from ideal voltage-source behavior and can destabilize the system. The presentation will review widely used current-limiting schemes, introduce a frequency-stabilization strategy tailored for large disturbances, and present a recently proposed equivalent-impedance framework that quantifies the resulting stability margins. A complementary small-signal model then explains voltage-oscillation mechanisms arising from limiter-stabilizer interactions. The analysis reveals key design trade-offs and leads to a practical control-tuning workflow. Part II explores using Stuart–Landau nonlinear oscillators as the synchronizing core of GFM control to enhance reliability, disturbance rejection, and dynamic performance under weak, non-ideal, or unbalanced conditions. A cascaded architecture is adopted: an outer GFM layer sets voltage/frequency references, while a nonlinear, passivity-based inner loop enforces them, providing global asymptotic stability, stronger damping, and faster transients than conventional linear approaches. To capture magnetic saturation in interfacing elements, a gray-box model combines physics-based relations with measured characteristics; a high-gain observer estimates nonlinear inductance online, enabling adaptive gain scheduling across operating points. MATLAB/Simulink and PLECS studies demonstrate robust regulation, strong disturbance rejection, and resilience to load changes, parameter uncertainty, and weak-grid scenarios. Speaker(s): Bowen Yang, Vikram Roy Chowdhury Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/514490

IEEE IAS/PES Committee Meeting Bldg: 140, 1500 Quebec Ave, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7K 1V7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487746

A recurring series of workshops and challenges covering cybersecurity fundamentals. From Capture the Flag competitions to physical security and phishing labs, students gain practical, hands-on security skills. This series includes: Capture the Flag (CTF): Digital Meets Physical Our CTF blends classic cybersecurity puzzles with real-world challenges. Participants will solve digital problems like cryptography, web exploits, and reverse engineering, with each solution unlocking clues that lead to hidden physical flags placed around the venue. This unique format brings together technical problem-solving and hands-on exploration, making it a fun, engaging way to learn practical security skills. Physical Security Workshop This workshop introduces participants to the tools and techniques attackers use to bypass physical defenses, from lockpicking and RFID cloning to social engineering tricks. Attendees will get hands-on experience with practice locks and demo devices, while also learning the countermeasures organizations use to defend against these threats 800 King Edward Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

PCB milling workshop, in partnership with CEED. Learn useful skills to take into the makerspace, that has a milling machine ready for use! 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The AGM is the grand finale of all our events of the year! It is the time to give ourselves a treat to a nice dinner and to catch up with all your old friends and fellow members, and meet new ones. At the AGM, we will be reporting on the activities that we have organized for the year, and we would like to hear your opinions and suggestions on what you would like the Section to do for you next year. The event is free for IEEE members and $40 for non IEEE Members. Your attendance is greatly appreciated to enable us to make quorum and pass motions. If you have not been active in the section, now is the perfect time to come get involved, and hear about what we have been up to! Agenda: 6:00pm Land Acknowledgement Welcome by Adam Tilson, IEEE South Saskatchewan Section Chair 6:15pm Dinner Ultimate Experience Catering 6:45pm Invited Talk 7:15pm Call to Order Establishment of Quorum 7:20pm Approval of Agenda and Minutes Motion: To accept the Agenda as circulated Motion: To accept the Minutes of AGM 2024 as circulated 7:25pm Chair’s Report Motion: To accept the Chair's Report 2025. 7:35pm Treasurer’s Report Motion: To accept the financial budget and actuals 2025 (to date). 7:45pm Presentation of Section Awards 8:00pm Motion to Adjourn 8:00pm-8:15pm University of Regina Student Chapter AGM (Optional) Room: CW 215, Bldg: College West, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

This is a joint meeting of Canadian Society of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Affinity Groups. This series of presentations has been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised to the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG's and IEEE members depending upon the topic. At the same time the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE) is using their national organization to provide information, the subject and speaker to members across Canada. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, November 20, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MST (2:30pm Eastern), with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EST). The meeting will be held via the Zoom platform with the actual invitations sent the afternoon of Wednesday, November 19. If you plan to attend and be included on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen, [email protected], before noon on Wednesday, November 19. Please note the meeting originates in Alberta which is in the Mountain Time Zone, so if you are in another province you must account any necessary time shift. Topic: ATCO's Affordable Housing Initiative Speaker: Benoît Gagné Bio: Benoît Gagné is the Senior Vice President of ATCO Structures, a company that has been a leader in modular building solutions since 1947. With over 28 years at ATCO, Ben oversees Canadian operations and contributes to the company’s strategic direction nationwide. Throughout his career at ATCO, Ben has continually advanced into roles of increasing responsibility. In his current position, he is focused on driving company growth by scaling advanced modular manufacturing techniques across ATCO’s four plants. Additionally, he is committed to enhancing the project delivery model, ensuring greater certainty and improved results for customers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/514768