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Conference Guide
Programme de la Conférence
Sutton Place Hotel
Edmonton, Canada
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 1
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Contents IEEE Canada President’s Welcome Message ........................................................................................... 4 IEEE CCECE Chair’s Welcome Message .................................................................................................... 5 Sponsor and Supporters .......................................................................................................................... 6 Floor plan................................................................................................................................................. 7 Program at a Glance .............................................................................................................................. 8 Program at a Glance: Monday May 6th, 2019 .................................................................................... 9 Program at a Glance: Tuesday May 7th, 2019 ........................................................................................ 9 Organizing Committee Members .......................................................................................................... 10 Members of the Technical program committee ................................................................................... 12 General information .............................................................................................................................. 13 Conference Venue ................................................................................................................................. 14 Social Functions ..................................................................................................................................... 15 Keynote Presentations .......................................................................................................................... 16 Tutorials ................................................................................................................................................. 23 Industry Sessions – May 6th and 7th ....................................................................................................... 36 Humanitarian Technology Workshop – May 6th 10AM-5PM ............................................................... 40 Women in Engineering / Young Professionals Forum – May 6th ........................................................... 43 Canada Technology Leadership Forum – May 7th 1PM-5PM ............................................................... 44 Technical Program and Sessions............................................................................................................ 45 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 3
IEEE Canada President’s Welcome Message
CCECE 2019
Energizing the Future
Welcome to CCECE 2019 in Edmonton
It gives me great pleasure to extend sincere greetings to all delegates and
participants attending the 32nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering (CCECE 2019) in Edmonton, Alberta. And ‘Welcome to Canada’ for those
of you who have travelled from abroad.
CCECE, this IEEE Canada conference is, by design, broad and international in scope. It
brings together researchers, designers, engineers, implementers, practitioners,
educators, and students from different disciplines and a variety of backgrounds:
from universities, institutes, industry, and government; and from a diversity of
geographical locations. CCECE is a leading forum for the exchange of research ideas
and results and knowledge sharing; the conference is a catalyst for the inception of
collaborative projects and partnerships; an opportunity to develop linkages to transform ideas, research
outcomes and knowledge into innovation.
Energizing the Future
CCECE 2019 challenges all of us to innovate: to transform / commercialize / deploy research results and
knowledge into products and services that truly “Energize the Future” in many sectors: communication,
transportation, health, education, manufacturing, food/agriculture, construction and power, to name a few.
The United Nations have expressed the changes needed for a better future for humanity in the Form of the
‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) – 17 Goals to be met by 2030. The availability of clean, low-cost,
plentiful, reliable electrical power for all plays a dominant role in attaining the ‘Sustainable Development
Goals’.
Innovation is one of the keys to achieving these goals; commitment is another.
IEEE and its members are committed to “foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of
humanity”.
Congratulations and Thank You
On behalf of IEEE Canada, IEEE Region 7, Congratulations and ‘Thank You’ to all participants, authors,
sponsors, exhibitors and patrons for their contributions to this conference. ‘Thank You’ to all the volunteers:
members of the conference organizing committees, the reviewers and, especially, all the student volunteers.
Thank you for your commitment.
I wish you all a very successful and enjoyable conference in beautiful Edmonton.
Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, FEIC IEEE Canada
President, 2018-2019
IEEE Region 7 Delegate/Director, 2018-2019
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IEEE CCECE Chair’s Welcome Message
Welcome to CCECE 2019!
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IEEE Canadian Conference on
Electrical and Computer Engineering, we warmly welcome you to Edmonton,
Alberta’s capital city.
This 32nd edition of CCECE is the second time that IEEE Canada has held its flagship
national conference in Edmonton. The 12 th edition of the CCECE was held in
Edmonton in 1999, 20 years ago, and the local Section has ever since intended
to host it again. This year, our CCECE will feature more than 200 paper
presentations, mostly from Canada but also from several other countries. These
papers, together with half-day tutorials, four special sessions, two panels, four
plenary keynote talks, and two guest speakers, are a representation of the latest
technical developments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, covering theory,
applications, and future visions.
Our Conference theme for this year, “Energizing the Future”, reflects the current
Canadian landscape of mandating energy diversification and all technological
foundation required to make it a success. Our choice of keynote speakers will
address future paradigms that will shake the utility business in electricity and
telecommunications industries. These world leading experts are contributing to
make the 32nd CCECE a memorable experience.
The CCECE 2019 organizing committee is also running two Industry Forums, a
Technology Panel, and a Women in Engineering / Young Professionals Forum with
accomplished speakers and leaders. Another highlight is the Humanitarian Technology Forum, bringing in
strong alignment with UN goals and displaying advances in Education, First Nations engagement, renewable
energy, and Artificial Intelligence. All these activities are open to conference attendees at no extra charge.
The Women in Engineering / Young Professionals panel will explore the power of a diverse engineering
workforce as a driver of technological advancement, business excellence, financial performance and
innovation that tangibly improves the human experience.
On the financial side, the IEEE Canada, IEEE Northern Canada Section and the IEEE Southern Alberta Section are the
main supporters of the conference. We also gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support from our
all our sponsors: Telus, the University of Alberta ECE, and all the exhibitors.
Finally, we would like to acknowledge the tremendous voluntary efforts of the Organizing Committee
members and all other volunteers, including the volunteer students of our ECE Department who have
generously donated their time and expertise. We would also like to thank the chairs of the program committee
and the reviewers. We are also grateful to the plenary keynote speakers, tutorial instructors, and forum
panelists and we thank them for helping to make the conference a success. Authors and participants are also
key elements and we thank them too.
The Committee's goal has been to make the conference a real interesting event for all the attendees. We hope
that you will enjoy the technical and social programs that we prepared. Please take some time also to stroll
around Edmonton’s attractions and enjoy its beautiful, outdoorsy region.
Alexandre Nassif and Horacio Marquez
General Chairs, CCECE 2019
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Sponsor and Supporters
Platinum Sponsor: TELUS
Lunch Sponsor: The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
University of Alberta
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Floor plan 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 7
Program at a Glance 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 8
Program at a Glance: Monday May 6th, 2019 Program at a Glance: Tuesday May 7th, 2019 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 9
Organizing Committee Members General Chairs Alexandre Nassif, ATCO Electric Horacio J. Marquez, University of Alberta Technical Program Chairs Ali Khajehoddin, University of Alberta Masoud Ardakani, University of Alberta Tutorials & Panels Chairs Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta Sanjay Kumar, ATCO Electric Publications Chair Gregory Kish, University of Alberta Industry Chair Ahsan Upal, Burns and McDonnell Publicity Chair Jeremy Sit, University of Alberta Finance Chair Thomas Jones, University of Alberta Patronage & Exhibits Chairs Jim Ellis Mohamad Deera Local Arrangements Chair Aleksandar Pecuh, City of Edmonton Volunteers Manager Natalie Hilbrecht, ATCO Electric WiE/YP Forum Chairs Tessa Ryan, EPCOR Anna Salim, ATCO Electric Technology Panel Chair Kexing Liu, OSC Committee Chair 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 10
Registration Chair Cathie Lowell, CL Consulting IEEE Canada Representatives Raed Abdullah, CONAC Chair Maike Luiken, President, IEEE Canada 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 11
Members of the Technical program committee
Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta
Bioengineering
Kourosh Zareinia, University of Calgary
Power & Energy Circuits and Yunwei (Ryan) Li, University of Alberta
Systems Carl Wang, Altalink LP
Hao Liang, University of Alberta
Communications and Networks
Lin Cai, University of Victoria
Kambiz Moez, University of Alberta
Devices, Circuits and Systems
Leonid Belostotski, University of Calgary
Signal Theory & Signal Mirinal Mandal, University of Alberta
Processing Khan Wahid, University of Saskatchewan
Hamzeh Khazaei, University of Alberta
Computer & Software
Co-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta
Techniques
Hadi Hemmati, University of Calgary
Qing Zhao, University of Alberta
Controls & Robotics
Yang Shi, University of Victoria
Jason Myatt, University of Alberta
Photonics and Plasmas
Andrew Longman, University of Alberta
Electromagnetics and Mojgan Daneshmand, University of Alberta
Microwaves Nicola De Zanche, University of Alberta
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 12General information Registration time Sunday May 5th 13:00 – 17:00 Monday May 6th 08:00 – 21:00 Tuesday May 7th 08:00 – 17:00 Wednesday May 8th 08:00 – 12:00 Webpage https://ccece2019.org/ Name Badges, Lunch, Coffee Breaks Name badges must be worn at all time for access to the sessions, lunches, coffee breaks and social events. Badges will be color-coded according to what access each category of registration entitles the bearer to. Additionally, the award gala dinner ticket will be handed out to registered participants. These tickets must be presented for administration to the dinner room and social events. The conference registration includes the following: - Breakfast on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday - Lunch on Monday and Tuesday - Dinner on Monday Internet Access/Wi-Fi Free internet access on site. Conference Proceedings Proceedings of the conference will be available on the website in electronic form (zipped file). Speakers Presentations The length of presentations is 15 minutes, including Q & A (12 minutes for the main presentation, plus 3 minutes for Questions & Answers). Failure to present the paper will result in non-inclusion in the IEEEXplore conference proceedings. Conference speakers should submit their presentation in .ppt and/or .pdf format along with 2-3- line bio to the session chair by minimum 15 minutes before the start of the session. All presentations need be loaded on presentation laptops the day before the session takes place. Speakers must be present in the room of their session minimum 15 minutes before the start of their session. On site emergency number For assistance, please contact the hotel staff. For all life-threatening emergencies, dial 911. 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 13
Conference Venue Sutton Place Hotel The 2019 CCECE venue will be the Sutton Place Hotel Edmonton located at 10235 – 101 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3E9. The Sutton Place Hotel Edmonton, situated in the heart of downtown and immediately adjacent to the brand-new ICE District, combines the perfect location, convenience, and modern renovated guest rooms all into one. Connected by an indoor pedway to Edmonton City Centre Mall, major office towers, 400 stores, and the Light Rail Transit (LRT), the hotel is an easy 10-minute walk to Rogers Place, the new home of the Edmonton Oilers, Shaw Conference Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Square, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Art Gallery of Alberta, and Winspear Centre for the Performing Arts. Joining offices, condos, a public plaza, sports, entertainment, and shopping all into one location, the state-of-the-art ICE District is one of North America’s most vibrant urban centres. The 313 newly renovated guest rooms range in size from spacious contemporary accommodations to the luxurious two-storey Royal Suite and the premium corporate floors. 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 14
Social Functions 1. IEEE Canada Award Banquet is taking place in the main Ballrooom on Monday evening 2. Lunch will be served in the main Ballrooom on Monday and Tuesday 3. Breakfast will be served in the main Ballroom on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 4. All coffee breaks are to be held at the foyer (morning and afternoon Monday and Tuesday) 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 15
Keynote Presentations
May 6 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Plenary – François Blouin, Director of Innovation,
ATCO
Title: Energy in a changing world
A disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or
a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry. The electricity sector stands to be
significantly disrupted by a number of technologies and emerging business model. This will both
create opportunities and pose challenges.
This presentation will focus on several key questions:
• What are the technologies and business models that may disrupt the electric utility industry?
• What factors may alter the impact and timing?
• What will be the best way to respond?
Bio:
François joined ATCO in April 2016 to lead the innovation practice in
the Electricity Global business unit where his focus is on utility of the
future business models, new disruptive products and services. Key
priorities include electrification of transportation, net zero housing and
communities, energy orchestration and data platforms. François
received his Electrical Engineering degree from Laval University and has
been engaged in the field of Information Communications Technology
and Innovation for over 25 years including 17 years at Bell-Northern
Research and Nortel where he co-authored a book entitled Essentials
of Real-time Networking, and has authored more than 75 internal
technical reports, customer consulting reports, and external
conference papers.
François was Awarded “Prolific Inventor” for contributing to Nortel’s
intellectual property with twenty combined patents and filings in the area of high-performance
networking, wireless technologies, real-time system design, quality of experience (QoE) & user-
centered design methodologies.
Prior to Joining ATCO, François was the Director of Corporate Architecture & Innovation at VIA Rail
Canada, supporting executive management in strategy formulation and digital business-technology
process improvements. François created and led VIA Rail innovation program, VIA innovation lab,
leveraging ideation and experimentation to continually offer new, validated product fit to evolving
customer needs.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 16May 6 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Keynote – NSERC, Flora Marguerite and Jamie Cousineau (Program Officers) Title: NSERC Updates & How to Apply for a Discovery Grant Abstract: NSERC Staff will present NSERC Updates and Discovery Grants Competitions Results 2019. Afterwards, they will give an overview of the peer review process and advice will be given on how to prepare a Discovery Grant application. The workshop will cover topics such as Discovery Grants Evaluation Groups, criteria for evaluation and ratings, tips on how to prepare an application. NSERC staff will be on site the rest of the morning following the presentation to discuss and answer additional questions. Biographies: Flora Marguerite joined NSERC as a Program Officer in 2017. Flora was previously a Research Facilitator and facilitated several Tri-agency projects. She comes from the research administration and management world where she advised researchers on grants and contracts in Canada but also in France within several post-secondary institutions. She is currently working with the Engineering team for the Discovery Grants program. Jamie Cousineau obtained her BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering and her MASc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In her time at NSERC, Jamie has worked with a variety of Discovery Grant programs, including the Subatomic Physics Evaluation Section and the Engineering Research Tools & Instruments program. Most recently, Jamie has been the Program Officer for the Electrical and Computer Evaluation Group for two and a half years. 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 17
May 6 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Keynote – Dr. Maureen Kolla, Senior
Manager, Alberta Innovates
Presentation Title: Innovation in Alberta’s Electricity Sector
Abstract:
How we generate and use electricity is changing. Globally, we are seeing a shift from large
centralized generation to more distributed generation being produced by residential, commercial or
industrial consumers. The need for electricity will continue to increase as industries and consumers
use more digital and data-enabled technologies. These changes will fundamentally change how the
electricity system is used and will create opportunities for innovation. During my presentation, I will
highlight the work that Alberta Innovates is doing with our partners to advance the understanding of
how grid modernization technologies can be integrated into Alberta’s distribution system, what
impacts these technologies might have on the grid and the opportunities they create through the
deployment of pilot and demonstration projects.
Biography:
Maureen Kolla is Senior Manager of Renewable Energy within the
Clean Energy Division of Alberta Innovates. She leads the Renewable
and Alternative Energy program and is responsible for leading
initiatives, developing partnerships, evaluating technologies, and
managing projects ranging from applied research to technology
demonstration. She works closely with industry, technology
developers, government, and other stakeholders to advance clean
energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and diversify
Alberta’s economy.
Maureen has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Alberta and received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Ryerson University.
Maureen is an avid outdoor enthusiast and an accomplished skier,
hiker, and cyclist. When not working, you will often find her seeking adventure in the mountains.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 18May 7 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Opening Keynote – Prof. Nader Behdad, F’IEEE,
University of Winsconsin
Title: Minimally-Invasive Microwave Ablation Antennas for Thermal
Treatment of Cancer
Abstract:
Microwave ablation (MWA) employs an interstitial antenna to deliver microwave energy directly into
the tumor and heat it to cytotoxic temperatures. This thermoablative approach to cancer treatment
is a promising alternative to surgical resection. MWA avoids the high costs, invasiveness, prolonged
use of general anesthesia and other risks, and long recovery times associated with surgery. In
comparison to other thermal ablation technologies such as radiofrequency ablation, MWA achieves
higher temperatures, larger ablation volumes, and shorter ablation times. The vast majority of prior
MWA studies have made use of frequencies below 2.5 GHz, in part due to concerns that smaller
penetration depths of electromagnetic waves at higher frequencies would preclude the creation of
sufficiently large ablation zones. However, we have demonstrated that these concerns are not valid
and higher microwave frequencies (e.g. 10 GHz) can indeed be used to perform efficient MWA. At
higher frequencies, tissue heating can be performed more rapidly and smaller antennas can be used
to perform ablation. In this talk, I will present the results of our investigations in the area of high-
frequency MWA and discuss the potential clinical benefits of this approach. I will also present several
new types of miniature interstitial antennas recently developed in out group, which can considerably
reduce the invasiveness of microwave ablation as a potential treatment for cancer and offer
capabilities such as directional heating or local sensing of the tissue properties that are not available
from conventional MWA antenna designs.
Bio: Nader Behdad received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) in 2000 and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of
Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Currently he is
a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and the Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar in the College of
Engineering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2009-2013
he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering of the University of Wisconsin and from 2006
to 2008, he was as an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of
Central Florida in Orlando, FL. Dr. Behdad’s research expertise is in
the area of applied electromagnetics. In particular, his research
interests include electrically-small antennas, antenna arrays, antennas for biomedical applications,
biomedical applications of RF/microwaves, periodic structures, frequency selective surfaces, passive
high-power microwave devices, metamaterials, and biomimetics and biologically inspired systems in
electromagnetics. Over the years, Dr. Behdad’s research has been sponsored by various U.S. Federal
agencies including the U.S. Navy, Air Force, National Science Foundation, and the National Institute
of Health.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 19Dr. Behdad is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was named the Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar by the College of Engineering (2016-2019) and the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellow (2016-2021) by the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE) of the University of Wisconsin. He is the recipient of the Vilas Associates Award from the OVCRGE of UW-Madison in 2016, the 2014 R. W. P. King Prize Paper Award, and the 2012 Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. In 2011, he received the CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Young Investigator Award from the United States Office of Naval Research. Prior to 2009, he received five different fellowships and awards from the Office of Naval Research, the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor among others. His graduate students were the recipients of the 13 different awards/recognitions at the IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (2018), IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science (2013), and the Antenna Applications Symposium (2008, 2010, 2011). Dr. Behdad served serving as the general co-chair of the 4th Arab-American Frontiers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2011-2015) and as the co-chair of the technical program committee of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 20
May 7 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Morning Plenary – Mr. Ravinder Shergill,
Principal Technology Architect, Telus
Title: Cities of the future
Abstract:
The Network is the foundation for connecting People, Machines and Things. We are at the cusp of
realization of mass IoT solutions exploiting 5G and fiber based connectivity. These, and the cloud,
softwarization and virtualization concepts are primed for realization of the Smart Cities vision. While
the mass adoption maybe a foregone conclusion, challenges remain ranging from the business
models to the security and management of massive volumes of data.
This talk will explore the next-generation city infrastructure, and the role of the broadband network
for the connectivity of IoT, underpinned by next-generation networks. It will look at how the network
becomes the ‘distributed’ cloud, facilitating the next wave of services in the Smart Cities domains.
Bio:
Ravinder Shergill is the Principal Architect, responsible for Smart
Cities Reference Architecture. With his deep, 30 year experience
in networking, he helps set the strategy for next-generation
architectures that promote industry ecosystem adoption, builds
cross-segment synergies between different ‘tenants’ of the
network.
He has served in a variety of lead roles at TELUS, including
Software Defined Networking (SDN) Strategist, Converged Core
Architect, Converged Edge Architect, IPv6 Enablement Program
lead, CO Rationalization – defining the next generation topology in
an all-Fiber and all-IP ‘application centric’ infrastructure.
As the Chief Architect, he is presently the technical prime for the Smart Cities Architecture and
Strategy for TELUS. Having lead a highly converged architecture from the core of the network to the
edge over the past decade+, now he’s rationalizing Smart Cities paradigm leveraging Cloud, IOT, 5G,
Virtualization and Softwarization trends, paving the way for a Smarter future.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 21May 7 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Keynote – Prof. Raafat Mansour, F’IEEE
Dr. Raafat Mansour (IEEE Fellow) is a Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and holds Tier 1 -
Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Micro-Nano Integrated RF Systems since
2010. He held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for two terms
(2001-2005) and (2006-2010). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo
in January 2000, Dr. Mansour was with COM DEV Cambridge, Ontario,
over the period 1986-1999, where he held various technical and
management positions in COM DEV’s Corporate R&D Department.
Professor Mansour holds 37 US and Canadian patents and more than 380
refereed publications to his credit. He is a co-author of a 23-chapter Book
published by Wiley and has contributed 6 chapters to four other books.
Since joining the University of Waterloo in 2000, Professor Mansour has graduated 35 Ph.D., 31
M.Sc. students and trained 14 Postdoctoral Fellows. His students hold key positions in academia and
industry, including 5 holding faculty positions. Professor Mansour founded the Centre for Integrated
RF Engineering (CIRFE) at the University of Waterloo https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-integrated-rf-
engineering/. It houses a clean room and a state-of-the-art RF test and characterization laboratory.
Professor Mansour has acted as a catalyst for ideas inspiring the next generation of Waterloo
entrepreneurs to bring their work to market. Out of research carried out in his research Lab at the
University of Waterloo, Professor Mansour and his graduate students jointly co-founded two
companies: AdHawk Microsystem http://www.adhawkmicrosystems.com/ and Integrated Circuit
Scanning Probe Instruments (ICSPI-Corp) https://www.icspicorp.com/.
Professor Mansour is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the
Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). He was the recipient of the 2014 Professional Engineers
Ontario (PEO) Engineering Medal for Research and Development.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 22Tutorials
Design Methodology and Circuit Techniques for Any-Load Stable LDO Regulators with Instant
Load Control
Presenter: Igor Filanovsky
Room: Emily Murphy Suite
Date and Time: Sunday, May 5th, 1:00 PM
Description
Modern LDO regulators should have the following characteristics: any load stable, nearly instant
transient response, large power supply rejection ratio and low noise. The LDOs satisfying these
characteristics should be built using two-loop architecture, the loop transfer function should be of
the second order, the buffer output impedance should be strongly reduced, and the pass transistor
should also have a local feedback for reduction of the output impedance.
The tutorial starts by reviewing the LDOs subcircuits which contribute to improvement of the
performance parameters. After that a thorough consideration is given to the LDO circuits which
include the above-mentioned features. The circuit techniques demonstrated during this course is
proven in design of industrial LDOs.
Bio:
Igor M. Filanovsky is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada. His research interests include network analysis and
synthesis, oscillation theory and applied microelectronics. Dr. I.M.
Filanovsky published more than 200 papers on these topics in the IEEE
Transactions and Conference proceedings. In addition, he is a co-author
of three books: Operational Amplifier Speed and Accuracy Improvement,
Kluwer, 2004, Analysis and Design of Quadrature Oscillators, Springer,
2008, and Quadrature RC-Oscillators, Springer, 2019. Dr. I.M. Filanovsky
has served two terms as an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems Part 1. He is currently an Associated Editor of the
International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 23Apocalypse or Utopia?: Building engineering capacity to maximize the positive impacts of
technology
Presenter: Mark Abbott and Arlene Williams
Room: Rundle Suite
Date and Time: Sunday, May 5, 1:00 PM
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytical scandal, nanoparticle impacts, CRISPR babies -- issues
highlighting the negative consequences of technology are all over the news. Technologies have the
promise to address key issues and create a better future, yet new developments often amplify
inequities and create new kinds of risk. What does this mean for how to move forward?
Technological Stewardship is a new concept intended to focus attention on this issue -- and start to
address it. The many examples of our struggles to deal with issues connected to specific technologies
points to a crucial need to build the broad capacity of all key actors in technological development to
maximize the positive impacts of technology.
Through this interactive workshop, you will learn about Technological Stewardship and develop your
ability to ensure technology makes the world a better place for all. After learning more about
Technological Stewardship, you will engage in reflective activities that will help you envision how the
positive impacts of technology can be realized, and be supported in taking meaningful action.
You will leave this 4-hour tutorial with an enhanced understanding of technology and Technological
Stewardship, as well as concrete next steps on how to move forward to ensure the technology is
beneficial to all.
Bios:
Mark Abbott, P.Eng., MBA currently serves as the Executive Director of the
Engineering Change Lab, which serves as a catalyst for evolving the
engineering community to reach its full potential as stewards of technology for
the benefit of humanity. Over the past 4 years, over 80 organizations and
200+ individual leaders (CEOs, VPs, Deans, Directors) have collaborated using
the Lab’s platform, advancing understanding and action to evolve engineering.
Previously, Mark served as a member of the Executive Team at Engineers
Without Borders for several years. Before that, Mark spent fourteen years working for a heavy
industrial consulting engineering firm based in Vancouver. Mark and his wife Colette live in Toronto
with their 4.5-year-old Felix and 2-year-old Stella.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 24Arlene Williams, MA, is the Director of Strategic Communications and
Engagement for the Engineering Change Lab, a social change lab working to
catalyze culture change in the engineering community in Canada and help
ensure technology is beneficial for all. She has over 20 years of experience
working in the education sector, and brings a strong background in strategic
action, communications, and learning facilitation. She believes that good
intentions, honest conversations and vulnerability are crucial to making
progress and to living a good life. Also, red wine, chocolate and poetry. She
holds an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Alberta and a
Master’s degree in Communication and Culture from York University/Ryerson University, is a
certified leadership coach, and thinks work is fun.
Advanced Alarm Management Techniques
Presenter: Wenkai Hu, Fan Yang, Bhushan Gopaluni, Tongwen Chen, and Sirish L. Shah
Room: Rowand Suite
Date and Time: Sunday, May 5, 1:00 PM
Alarm systems are indispensable assets in modern industrial facilities to ensure process safety.
Development of industrial distributed control systems (DCS) and availability of software alarms
have made it easy to add alarms at no costs. This has caused a substantial increase in the number
of configured alarms. Consequently, plant operators receive far more alarms than they can handle,
and are often overwhelmed by massive number of nuisance alarms that could often mask more
serious situations, such as alarm floods. Therefore, it is of great demand to develop advanced
alarm management techniques to address existing issues and improve the performance of
industrial alarm systems.
The objective of this workshop is to introduce participants to ideas and solutions for improved
alarm management based on seamless integration of information from process and alarm
databases complemented with process connectivity information. Process-data based alarm
system design aims at obtaining optimal alarm parameters for filters, deadbands, delay timers, and
alarm limits, based on evaluation metrics, including the false alarm rate, missed alarm rate, and
alarm detection delay. The advanced alarm analytics detect nuisance alarms and discover hidden
patterns from alarm and event historian using statistical learning and data mining approaches.
Historical datasets combined with process topology information make it possible to capture
propagation paths of abnormalities and thus can help with root cause analysis.
The focus of this workshop is to present recent advances and new techniques of industrial alarm
management. The emphasis in this workshop will be on how to conduct advanced data analytics to
understand data and extract useful information that should help in designing alarm systems,
finding out problems, and discovering hidden patterns. Interesting topics covered in this workshop
include correlated alarms, alarm floods, alarm system design, causality inference, root cause
analysis, and visualization.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 25Bios:
Tongwen Chen is presently a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in
Intelligent Monitoring and Control in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He
received the B.Eng. degree in Automation and Instrumentation from Tsinghua
University (Beijing) in 1984, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1988 and 1991, respectively. His
research interests include computer and network-based control systems,
process safety and alarm systems, and their applications to the process and
power industries. He has served as an Associate Editor for several
international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control and Automatica. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, as well as the Canadian Academy of
Engineering.
Sirish L. Shah has been with the University of Alberta since 1978, where he
held the NSERC-Matrikon-Suncor-iCORE Senior Industrial Research Chair in
Computer Process Control from 2000 to 2012. He is the recipient of the
Albright & Wilson Americas Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical
Engineering (CSChE) in 1989, the Killam Professor in 2003, the D.G. Fisher
Award of the CSChE for significant contributions in the field of systems and
control, the ASTECH award in 2011 and the 2015-IEEE Transition to Practice
award. The main areas of his current research are process and performance
monitoring, analysis and rationalization of alarm systems. He has co-authored three books, the first
titled, Performance Assessment of Control Loops: Theory and Applications, a second titled Diagnosis
of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction: Data Driven Approaches, and a more recent monograph
on Capturing Connectivity and Causality in Complex Industrial Processes. He is Emeritus Professor at
the University of Alberta, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Chemical
Institute of Canada.
Wenkai Hu received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in power and mechanical
engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, in 2010 and 2012,
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of Alberta in 2016. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow
from Oct. 2016 to Sep. 2018, and a Research Associate from Nov. 2018 to
Feb. 2019 at the University of Alberta. He is currently a Professor with China
University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. He is supported by the CUG 100-
Talents Program. His research interests include advanced alarm monitoring,
process data analytics, and data mining for complex industrial processes.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 26Fan Yang received the B.Eng. degree in Automation and the Ph.D. degree in
Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in
2002 and 2008, respectively. After working as a Postdoctoral Fellow with
Tsinghua University and the University of Alberta, he joined the
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University in 2011, where he is
currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include topology
modeling of large-scale processes, abnormal events monitoring, process
hazard analysis, and smart alarm management. He was a recipient of the
Young Research Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society Beijing
Chapter in 2006, the Outstanding Graduate Award from Tsinghua University
in 2008, the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Chinese
Association of Automation in 2018, and the Teaching Achievement Awards from Tsinghua University
in 2012, 2014, and, 2016 and from the Chinese Association of Automation in 2016.
Bhushan Gopaluni is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and
Biological Engineering and an Associate Dean for Education and
Professional Development in the Faculty of Applied Science at the
University of British Columbia. He is also an associate faculty in the Institute
of Applied Mathematics, the Institute for Computing, Information and
Cognitive Systems, Pulp and Paper Center and the Clean Energy Research
Center. He was the Elizabeth and Leslie Gould Teaching Professor from
2014 to 2017. He is currently an associate editor for Journal of Process
Control, the Journal of Franklin Institute and a guest editor for Canadian
Journal of Chemical Engineering. He received a Ph.D. from the University of
Alberta in 2003 and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras in 1997 both in the field of chemical engineering. From
2003 to 2005 he worked as an engineering consultant at Matrikon Inc. (now Honeywell Process
Solutions) during which he designed and commissioned multivariable controllers in British
Columbia’s pulp and paper industry, and implemented numerous controller performance monitoring
projects in the Oil & Gas and other chemical industries. He is the recipient of several awards that
include Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship, Captain Thomas Farell Graduate Memorial
Scholarship from the University of Alberta and the prestigious Killam Teaching Prize and the Dean’s
service medal from the University of British Columbia.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 27Engineering Education: Towards New Personalized Education Involving Digital Twins Presenter: Witold Kinsner Room: Northcote Room Date and Time: Sunday, May 5, 1:00 PM This workshop deals with the need for a new educational system to match the exponential growth of new knowledge, as well as the disruptive change in the job market and the concept of a job. We have been using the Prussian classroom since 1770 after the first industrial revolution. The revolution accelerated the demand for new replaceable workers on assembly lines and in maintenance. A body of knowledge (BoK) was first developed to fit all students in their education. This one-fits-all (1FA) model of education is still being used in our educational curricula. Although this 1FA model has been improving due to successive industrial revolutions, continuous developments in computing, machine learning, and automation have introduced new and even unexpected conditions. Jobs that require repetitious operations have already been taken over by robots. More complicated jobs like driving vehicles are being replaced by self-driving machines. Jobs dedicated to data analytics are being taken over by new classes of computing. As a result, one job for a lifetime is becoming more of a dream. In fact, many young professionals (YP) will have three to ten jobs in their lifetimes. In the past, knowledge doubling occurred over several lifetimes, but is now doubling in few years or even months. Thus, teaching one curriculum to be used in a single lifetime is no longer appropriate. How can the educational system change from the old one-fits-all to an agile one-fits-one (1F1) approach? The system will have to be personalized, adaptive predictive, and continuous inorder to match the diversity of individual abilities, styles of learning, and the current gaps in knowledge. It should be implemented with new concepts and tools. We envisage that the new personalized system of education should be sufficiently agile and interactive so that it could be evolving in its symbiosis with humans. For that to happen, we must coexist with symbiotic autonomous cognitive systems, specifically involving digital twins [Kins019], [DKFK018]. Schools, colleges and universities will have to change fundamentally. Some of the changes are already happening, others are developing. For example, the role of experience in education has been growing in importance. The final-year capstone projects have been in place for a number of years now. Experiential learning is being developed at different levels. However, the experience of seasoned professionals (SP) is not transferred to the educational system yet. This body of experience (BoX) should augment the BoK and be used in closing the educational loop. Another fundamental advancement must occur in the outreach to the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers, artists, and mathematicians (STEAM) in high-schools, primary schools and pre-schools. This outreach must also evolve from direct contacts with students to indirect impact through teachers. This workshop also demonstrates one of such tools: teaching teachers how to develop, implement, and test a tiny smart robot. This example focuses on how to teach the concepts, while enjoying the experiential learning. 32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 28
Bio:
Witold Kinsner is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Manitoba (UofM), Winnipeg, Canada, and Director
of the Cognitive Systems Group. He was a co-founder of the first
Microelectronics Centre in Canada and was its Director of Research from
1979 to 1987. He is a Co-founding Member of the International Institute of
Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC), Calgary, and the
Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA). Since 1971, he has been
very active at all the IEEE levels, including IEEE International, Region 7 (IEEE
Canada), Society, Council, Section, Chapter, and Student Branch. He has organized many
conferences and has been on numerous editorial boards of journals and magazines. He is a member
of 10 IEEE Societies and many committees. In 2013, Dr Kinsner was elected IEEE Canada President
Elect 2014-15 and IEEE R7 Director/Delegate Elect 2014-15. He was IEEE Canada President 2016-17
and IEEE R7 Director/Delegate 2016-17, and he is now Past President 2018-2019. In 2017, he was
elected IEEE Vice President of the IEEE Educational Activities for 2018 and was re-elected for 2019.
His current research focuses on entropy-based mono-scale, multi-scale, and poly-scale complexity
metrics for cognitive systems. He has been involved in research on robust algorithms and
software/hardware computing engines for real-time multimedia, using wavelets, fractals, chaos,
emergent computation, genetic algorithms, rough sets, fuzzy logic, higher-order statistics, neural
networks, and deep learning. He has authored and coauthored over 780 publications in the above
research areas, as well as supervised over 76 Master’s and Doctorate graduate students, over 210
undergraduate final-year thesis/capstone project students and mentored over 35 summer research
students. He has received a number of awards. Since 2010, he has been the University Advisor for
the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) University of Manitoba team consisting of over 100
students from 16 departments and 50 advisors from the academic, aerospace, industrial, business,
and military sectors. In 2018, the fourth implementation of the University of Manitoba Space
Applications and Technology Society (UMSATS)s satellite, TSat4, has won the CSDC competition.
IEEE Standards Association
Presenter: Lloyd Green
Room: Winterland Suite
Date and Time: Sunday, May 5, 1:00 PM
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 29Space Radiation Effects and CubeSat: Environment, Effects, Design, Analysis, and Test
Techniques
Presenter: David Hiemstra and Li Chen
Room: Winterlake Suite
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 8, 8:30 AM
The tutorial will include the following items:
1) Overview of the space and terrestrial radiation environment
2) Describe the radiation effects observed in semiconductor devices
3) Provide examples of radiation effects on complex microcircuits
4) Describe modeling techniques for single event effects
5) Describe examples and results of radiation hardened by design techniques
6) Review of radiation effects test techniques
7) An overview of Canadian facilities available for radiation effects testing
The tutorial will be divided into 3 parts, the first part will introduce the space and terrestrial radiation
environment, and the radiation effects in semiconductor devices. Some examples will be presented
to the audience about radiation effects on complex microcircuits. The first part will be delivered by
Mr. David Hiemstra, who has extensive industrial experiences in this area. The second part will
discuss the approaches to model the radiation effects and some mitigation approaches. This part will
be delivered by Dr. Chen. The last part will cover the radiation test techniques and overview of test
facilities in Canada. This will include proton/neutron radiation facility in TRIUMF and the pulsed laser
facility at University of Saskatchewan. This part will be introduced together by Mr. Hiemstra and
Chen. The tutorial will take 3 hours, and will be delivered through power point slides, about 150
slides. The slides will be printed out and handed to the audience before the tutorial.
Bios:
David Hiemstra, Senior Staff Engineer, Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates
(MDA) Co., Brampton, ON, Canada
David received his B. Eng. & Mgt. (1984) and M. Eng. (1993) degrees in
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, respectively from McMaster
University. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. David joined MacDonald,
Dettwiler & Associates (MDA), formally Spar Aerospace, in 1984, where he is a
Senior Staff Engineer. He is involved in radiation effects and embedded
avionics hardening for space, nuclear, and military applications, systems
engineering, advanced infrared and visible focal plane array technology,
analog circuit design, and electromagnetic compatibility. His current area of
research is Single Event Effects in commercial off-the-shelf, system on a chip, microelectronics.
David has taught space radiation effects on embedded avionics at York University and aerospace
firms. He coordinated radiation effects test programs at the University of Toronto Institute for
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 30Aerospace Studies, University of Waterloo, and York University. He is currently collaborating with the
University of Saskatchewan on the study of single event effects in programmable devices for space
instrumentation.
David has been active with IEEE and NSREC, serving as Member-at-Large Radiation Effects Steering
Group (2000-2003), Awards Committee (2002, 2005), Devices and Integrated Circuits Session
Chairman (2000), Radiation Effects Data Workshop Chairman (2006), Local Arrangements Chairman
(2009), voting member IEEE NPSS AdCom Radiation Effects (2013-2017) and as a reviewer on an
ongoing basis. He has presented papers at every Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference
(NSREC) since 1995. David prepares a Guide to the Radiation Effects Data Workshop each year. The
guide is available on the NSREC website. He has authored/co-authored more than 50 papers on
radiation effects.
David is a Senior Member of IEEE, he is currently the technical lead for EXOMARS Actuator Drive
Electronics and radiation effects consultant to Canadian Aerospace firms.
Li Chen, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Li Chen received the B.S degree from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China in
1991, and M.Eng and Ph.D. degree from University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Dr. Chen has been the faculty
member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan since 2006, where he is endowed with the
Barbhold Chair Professor in Information Technology. He was promoted to
Associate Professor and Professor in 2011 and 2016, respectively. His
research interests are in radiation- and fault-tolerant microelectronics, and
low-power microelectronics. He has more than 100 publications in referred
journals and conferences proceedings, and received the best paper award in 2015 IEEE Nuclear and
Space Radiation Effects conference (NSREC). His research has been supported by a wide scope of
funding agencies and industry, such as NSREC, CFI, NASA, ESA, Cisco, MDA, Microsemi, etc.
Prof. Chen and his research group have extensively studied radiation effects in digital and
analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits for space and commercial ground-level applications, and have
introduced cost-effective and novel mitigation techniques. The circuits include flip-flops, SRAMs,
ARM and LEON microprocessors, Altera and Xilinx FGPAs, DC-DC converters, bandgap references,
phase-locked loops, etc. His research group was the first one who extensively studied the radiation
effects in 28nm FDSOI and bulk CMOS technologies. He has established a radiation effect research
laboratory which includes a fento-second pulsed laser facility, alpha source, Co-60 sources, space-
simulation chamber, and various simulation tools.
Dr. Chen has given tutorial sessions on radiation effects and mitigation techniques for several
workshops. He delivered tutorial sessions on radiation effects at CIAE 2014, Shanghai 2015,
CCECE2015, and Chengdu 2016 respectively. He also was invited to give talks about radiation effect
by various institutions, such as ESA, Cisco Canada, and CMC Microsystems.
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 31Microgrids Control and Power Quality Improvement
Presenters: Yunwei (Ryan) Li and Farzam Nejabatkhah
Room: Rowand Suite
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 8, 8:30 AM
Today, conventional power systems are evolving into modern smart grids, where interconnected
microgrids may dominate the distribution system with high penetration of renewable energies and
storage elements. The hybrid AC/DC systems with DC and AC sources/loads are considered to be the
most likely future distribution or even transmission structures. In such hybrid AC/DC microgrids,
power quality control is one of the most critical operation aspects, and the high penetration level of
power electronics interfacing converters creates great potential to control the power quality.
This tutorial focuses on the power quality control in hybrid AC/DC microgrids. It includes both
converter level control design and system level management and coordination. It will cover four
main topics: i) overview of hybrid AC/DC microgrids; ii) power management strategies and grid
support control in hybrid microgrids; iii) control strategies for single-phase and three-phase
interfacing converters to compensate for the unbalanced voltage in hybrid AC/DC microgrids; and iv)
harmonic compensation in hybrid microgrids.
The tutorial will be suitable for engineers and researchers who are working on microgrids and grid
interfacing converters, as well as those who wants to learn more about smart converters controls
and hybrid AC/DC microgrids operations.
Bios:
Yunwei (Ryan) Li: received the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, in 2006. In 2005, Dr. Li was a Visiting Scholar with
Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral
Research Fellow at Ryerson University, Canada. In 2007, he also worked at
Rockwell Automation Canada before he joined University of Alberta, Canada
in the same year. Since then, Dr. Li has been with University of Alberta,
where he is a Professor now. His research interests include distributed
generation, microgrid, renewable energy, high power converters and electric
motor drives.
Dr. Li serves as Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Letters. Prior to that, he
was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in
Power Electronics. Dr. Li received the Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer
Award from IEEE Power Electronics Society in 2013. He received three prize paper awards from
technical journals and conferences in the past 5 years.
Dr. Li is among the first few researchers on microgrid work in early 2000, and his research on
microgrid, power quality control, and virtual impedance control has led to over 100 IEEE Transaction
papers. His work is well cited with over 10000 citations (google scholar).
32nd IEEE CCECE – 2019 32Farzam Nejabatkhah (S’09-M’2017) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc.
(Hons.) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tabriz,
Tabriz, Iran, in 2009 and 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 2017. Since then, he has been a Postdoctoral
Research Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada. Also, since January
2019, he is a sessional instructor at the University of Alberta. His research
interests include hybrid AC/DC microgrids, smart grids, power quality,
renewable generations and energy storages, and power converter topologies
and control.
Dr. Nejabatkhah received the Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship for three years from
2014 to 2017 from Alberta Government & University of Alberta, and the Most Cited Paper Award in
2016 from MPCE journal. He is a reviewer of several IEEE Transactions and conferences and awarded
the Best Reviewer Award of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid in 2016. Since 2019, he serves as a
committee member of the Awards and Recognition Committee (ARC) of IEEE Northern Canada
Section and the ARC of IEEE Canada.
Dr. Nejabatkhah has worked on microgrids, power quality control, and interfacing power electronic
converters for more than eight years, and he has published his research results in 25 IEEE
Transaction journals and international conferences.
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