IEEE Day Celebrations: Inspire, Design & Win
Join us for IEEE Day 2025 at Memorial University! This year's theme, "Ocean, Arctic & Remote-Tech", highlights the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration in tackling real-world challenges. Let's celebrate and explore new ideas, connect across fields, and shape solutions for our region, and who knows, maybe spark ideas for your own research, too.
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IEEE Day is a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and the power of technology to shape a better future. This year, our focus is on the theme "Ocean, Arctic, and Remote-Tech", areas of profound importance for our region and the world. Our goal is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals across disciplines to explore challenges and opportunities in these domains. From climate change and sustainable oceans to connectivity in remote regions, these are global issues that demand multidisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.
The event will begin with an Inspiration Session, with contributions expected from Civil, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, and Computer Science, as well as other related fields.
Speakers will share their perspectives in 10–15 minute talks, ranging from ongoing research and open issues to useful tools, datasets, and examples that can spark new ideas. The goal is to encourage students to look across disciplines, connect the dots, and imagine creative ways to tackle real problems that matter for our region and beyond.
In short, the Inspiration Session will:
- Highlight key challenges and open questions in ocean, Arctic, and remote technologies.
- Share research directions, tools, and datasets to spark curiosity.
- Encourage grad and undergrad students to think across disciplines to find creative solutions.
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Looking Ahead
After the Inspiration Session, students will have the chance to develop their ideas further and later showcase projects inspired by the talks. More details about this follow-up activity will be shared soon.
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- 240 Prince Phillip Drive
- St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Canada A1B 3X5
- Building: S.J. Carew Building
- Room Number: EN2006
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- Co-sponsored by Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Starts 03 October 2025 02:30 AM UTC
- Ends 15 October 2025 05:30 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Agenda
6:00 – 6:10 PM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
6:10 – 7:00 PM
Inspiration Talks (10-20 min each)
Q&A at the end of each presentation
- Civil Engineering (Speaker: Dr. Kshama Roy): Monitoring and Modeling the Lifelines Beneath the Sea and Arctic
- Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering (Speaker: Dr. Mihiran Galagedarage Don): Digital Twinning of Marine Propulsion Systems
- Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering (Speaker: Dr. Heather Peng & Yousra Abdelhady): From Ship Design to Arctic Innovation
- C-CORE (Speaker: Pamela Burke): Applications and Research in Arctic Monitoring: Harnessing the Power of Freely Available Imagery
Inspirational talks designed to spark curiosity and foster a multidisciplinary culture, not deeply technical, but engaging and thought-provoking.
7:00 – 7:15 PM
Headshots for IEEE Photo Competition
🍕 Pizza & Networking
7:15 – 8:00 PM
Inspiration Talks (continued)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (Speaker: Abdulmohsen Alsaui): The Role of Quantum Computing in Maritime
- Quantum Coding Workshop Open to Everyone: From Fundamentals to Hands-On Coding
PS: Follow-up on November Competition details to be announced at the end of the event.
Proudly hosted by IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Section -- Bringing students, researchers, and professionals together as one IEEE family.