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AwardsFellows IEEE 2006 newly-elected Felows from Region 07The IEEE Fellow Committee has named 271 Senior Members to Fellow Grade, effective January1 st , 2006. The number of new Canadian Fellows is quite impressive at 15, in proportion to ourtotal membership in the organisation, and the Review is proud to number one of its pastManaging Editors amongst them. Sincere congratulations to our eminent new Fellows.Prof. Jorge AngelesMcGill UniversityMontreal, QuebecFor contributions to the kinematics,dynamics and design of roboticmechanical systems.Dr. Tongwen ChenUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, AlbertaFor contributions to sampled-datacontrol and multirate systems.Dr. James DymondGeneral Electric CanadaHammonds Plains, Nova ScotiaFor contributions to the analysis,design, optimization, testing andapplication of large AC Machines.Dr. George EleftheriadesUniversity of TorontoToronto, OntarioFor contributions to conception,analysis and fabrication ofelectromagnetic materials and theirapplications.Prof. Geza JoosMcGill UniversityMontreal, QuebecFor contributions to the theory andapplication of high power convertersin power systems.William LockleyLockley EngineeringCalgary, AlbertaFor leadership in the developmentand application of large electricdrive systems for gas compression.Prof. Alex GershmanMcMaster UniversityHamilton, OntarioFor contributions to adaptivebeamforming and sensor arrayprocessing.Prof. Frank KschischangUniversity of TorontoToronto, OntarioFor contributions to trellis structures,graphical models and iterativedecoding techniques for errorcorrectingcodes.Dr. Douglas O’ShaughnessyINRS-EMT Université du QuébecMontréal, QuébecFor contributions to education inspeech processing andcommunication.Prof. Andre IvanovUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaFor contributions to infrastructureintellectual property (IP) for systemon a chip (SoC) testing.Dr. Ellsworth LeDrewUniversity of WaterlooWaterloo, OntarioFor contributions to environmentalremote sensing sciences.Dr. Resve SalehUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, BCFor contributions to mixed-signalintegrated circuit simulation anddesign verification.Dr. Vijay SoodHydro-Québec (IREQ)Varennes, QuébecFor contributions to modeling andsimulation of high voltage DC(HVDC) transmission systems andcontrollers.Dr. Dennis WoodfordElectranix CorporationWinnipeg, ManitobaFor leadership in the development ofdigital simulation of DC links andflexible AC transmission devices.Dr. Qi-jun ZhangCarleton UniversityOttawa, OntarioFor contributions to linear andnonlinear microwave modeling andcircuit optimization.Complete list of IEEE Fellows 2006 at http://www.ieee.org/fellows20IEEE Canadian Review — Fall / Automne 2005