IEEE Seminar – New Innovative Projects for All of Us – August 29, 2017

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TITLE: New Innovative Projects for All of Us

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SPEAKER: Marina Ruggieri, PhD, Fellow IEEE Professor, Telecommunications Engineering

Department of Electronics Engineering / CTIF

University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

Via Politecnico, 1

Roma 00133 Italy

DATE: August 29, 2017 (Tuesday)

TIME: 9:30 – 11:00 AM

PLACE: E1-270 EITC Atrium (Alan Borger Executive Conference Room)

Engineering and Information Technology Complex (EITC)

University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus

SPONSORS: – University of Manitoba

– University of Winnipeg

– IEEE Computer & Computational Intelligence Chapter

– IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Chapter

– IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Chapter

REGISTRATION FEE: None

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ABSTRACT:

IEEE is the largest technical organization in the world, with over 420,000 members. The depth of the organization comes from the knowledge and professional practice it has generated through its members since 1984.

Dr Marina Ruggieri, the current IEEE VP of the Technical Activities Board (TAB), introduced four new technical multi-disciplinary projects this year through four TAB ad-hoc committees. Our enthusiastic multidisciplinary members, together with many local representatives of the communities, commenced participating in the projects by contributing technical expertise to find solutions to major contemporary problems.

The projects are:

1. FOOD ENGINEERING: IEEE to play a role in the worldwide technological and social challenge of preparing a healthy and enjoyable future for mankind on Earth (and in exploring new planets).

2. DIG ONCE: IEEE to play a role in the worldwide technological and social challenge to connect the next billion individuals to the Internet by an effective and holistic digging for the deployment of network infrastructures.

3. IEEE AT THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES (INSP): IEEE to play a role in the worldwide technological and social challenge of the new Arctic shipping routes and in supporting the enormous multi-continent community behind the 4000+ technical and scientific personnel in the Antarctica bases.

4. DESIGN FOR ETHICS: IEEE to play a role in the worldwide technological and social challenge of having ethics as a basic requirement in the design of all devices, systems and applications.

Under the INSP project, we are planning an expedition to Churchill and Nunavut in order to (i) develop awareness of the project mission; (ii) establish personal contacts; (iii) explore possible collaboration with IEEE; (iv) improve transportation to the North (to deliver food and medicine to remote communities); (v) improve diet (diabetes is rampant, as an apple costs as much as a can of pop); (vi) strengthen education in the communities by providing new opportunities; and (vii) enhance research of the North (in view of the changes in cargo transportation and climate).

An overview of other new IEEE initiatives will also be provided.

BIO:

Dr Marina Ruggieri is the 2017 IEEE Vice President of Technical Activities Board (TAB). She is a Past Director of IEEE Division IX (2014-2015), and a Sr. Past President of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS). As a Fellow of IEEE, she is a member of the IEEE Fellow and Public Visibility Committees. She is proboviro (arbitrator) of the Italian Industries Federation for Aerospace, Defense and Security (AIAD); member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Center for Aeronautical Military Studies, and she has been Vice President of the Roma Chapter of AFCEA (2006-2015). She is co-founder and Chair of the Steering Board of the interdisciplinary Center for Tele-infrastructures (CTIF) at the University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, that belongs to the CTIF global network, with nodes in USA, Europe and Asia. Above all, she has been very enthusiastic and dedicated to promoting four fundamental and visionary new directions in IEEE: Food Engineering; Dig Once; IEEE at the North and South Poles; and Design for Ethics.

Dr Ruggieri is Full Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Roma “Tor Vergata” and a member of its Board of Governors. She is the Principal Investigator of the 40/50 GHz TPD#5 Communications Experiment on board AlphaSat (launched on July 2013). She is author/co-author of 340 papers, 1 patent and 12 books in her research areas.

She received many awards and honours, including: the 1990 Piero Fanti International Prize; the 2009 Pisa Donna Award as Women in Engineering; the 2013 Excellent Women in Roma Award; and Excellent and Best Paper Awards at international conferences.