2008
Dear Colleagues,
The Council of the Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada
– ABEC is sending a most cordial Christmas Greetings to all
Bulgarian Engineers in Canada.
Wishing you peace, joy and friendship for the Christmas Season
and throughout the New Year!!!
Let the ambitions and perseverance lead to fulfillment of our
family’s and professional dreams. Merry Christmas and a Happy
2008 New Year!!
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Vessela Koleda! |
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Pauline
Loultcheva Lawrence |
Nikolay Paskalev Vice President of ABEC Tel: 416 839-1569 |
Negotiations are in progress for the ABEC’s Christmas Party and we will announce it shortly.
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Job search for Southern Ontario
Applicants Inc., www.applicants.ca
CAES Career Advancement Employment Services Inc.
Caledon Community Services and Upgrading
Canadian Executive Consultants Inc.
Canadian Jobs Catalogue Table of Contents (D)
Careerclick.com | Welcome | Careers, Resumes, Jobs
EngCen.ca - jobs and resumes for Canadian Engineers
GOjobs -- Government of Ontario Job Opportunities
HRDC Labour Market Information
Visit the Career Resources for valuable resume writing tips, networking tips , interviewing tips and more.
http://www.possibilitiesproject.com/index.asp
Canadian Recruiting Firm WWW Site Links http://www.directoryofrecruiters.com/wwwsites.html
Stoakley-Dudley Consultants Ltd.
The Toronto Star Careers - a workopolis.com Community
Workopolis.com - Canada's Biggest Job Site
The Liberal and The Era Banner
CSME -- Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
http://www.brainhunter.com/bhnh/eng/index.html
http://www.applicants.ca/joblistings.html
http://www.maple-reinders.com/careers.php
http://toronto.ieee.ca/careers/index.html
Canadian
Technoskill Jobs Listing http://www.technoskill.com
Canadian
Career Click Jobs Listing http://working.canada.com/toronto/index.html
Canadian
Technical Employment Network CTEN) http://www.cten.ca
T-Net
- British Columbia
http://www.bctechnology.com/frameset_emp.html
See also jobs in Canada
http://engineering.thingamajob.com
http://www.infomine.com/careers/
http://www.pythonrecruiting.ca:8080/careers.html
http://www.northernminerjobs.com
This list is ours – ABEC’s and is the product of many hours of volunteer work collecting
and organizing information for the benefits of our newcomers Colleagues- Bulgarian Engineers.
NEWS
Cooler, Faster, Cheaper: Clemson Researchers Advance Process to Manufacture Silicon Chips
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by Staff
Writers
Clemson SC (SPX) Dec 05, 2007
The next generation of laptops, desk computers, cell phones and
other semiconductor devices may get faster and more
cost-effective with research from Clemson University. "We've
developed a new process and equipment that will lead to a
significant reduction in heat generated by silicon chips or
microprocessors while speeding up the rate at which information
is sent," says Rajendra Singh, D. Houser Banks Professor and
director for the Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics at Clemson
University.
The heart of many high-tech devices is the microprocessor that performs the logic functions. These devices produce heat depending on the speed at which the microprocessor operates. Higher speed microprocessors generate more heat than lower speed ones. Presently, dual-core or quad-core microprocessors are packaged as a single product in laptops so that heat is reduced without compromising overall speed of the computing system. The problem, according to Singh, is that writing software for these multicore processors, along with making them profitable, remains a challenge.
"Our new process and equipment improve the performance of the materials produced, resulting in less power lost through leakage. Based on our work, microprocessors can operate faster and cooler. In the future it will be possible to use a smaller number of microprocessors in a single chip since we've increased the speed of the individual microprocessors. At the same time, we've reduced power loss six-fold to a level never seen before. Heat loss and, therefore, lost power has been a major obstacle in the past," said Singh.
Participants in the research included Aarthi Venkateshan, Kelvin F. Poole, James Harriss, Herman Senter, Robert Teague of Clemson and J. Narayan of North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Results were published in Electronics Letters, Oct. 11, 2007, Volume: 43, Issue: 21,? pages: 1130-1131. The work reported here is covered by a broad-base patent of Singh and Poole issued to Clemson University in 2003.
The researchers say the patented technique has the potential to improve the performance and lower the cost of next-generation computer chips and a number of semiconductor devices, which include green energy conversion devices such as solar cells.
"The potential of this new process and equipment is the low cost of manufacturing, along with better performance, reliability and yield," Singh said. "The semiconductor industry is currently debating whether to change from smaller (300 mm wafer) manufacturing tools to larger ones that provide more chips (450 mm). Cost is the barrier to change right now. This invention potentially will enable a reduction of many processing steps and will result in a reduction in overall costs."
South Carolina has a growing semiconductor related industry, and the developers of this new process and equipment say it provides the potential for creating new jobs in the allied semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry.
The Hills and Valleys of Earth's Largest Salt Flat
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by Staff
Writers
Oxford, UK (SPX) Nov 29,
2007
Using a new twist on standard Global Positioning System (GPS)
technology, a team of scientists has found that Earth's largest
salt flat is rougher than expected, according to a new report
led by Adrian Borsa of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC
San Diego and published in Geophysical Journal International.
Borsa and his team studied the salar de Uyuni in southwestern
Bolivia, which is both a popular tourist destination and a
potential calibration site for Earth-orbiting scientific
instruments.
It had never before been surveyed on this scale using modern techniques. Although the salar appears to be perfectly flat to the eye, by applying an innovative method of error correction to their data, the team was able to identify broad features ranging in height from a few centimeters to half a meter and extending over distances of tens of kilometers or more.
Earlier maps do not show any surface relief on the salar de Uyuni. By mapping the surface to the accuracy of a few centimeters, the research team uncovered previously hidden features -- hills, ridges and valleys -- and opened the salar for use as a ground reference site for highly accurate satellite-based ranging instruments. "We had no idea these features existed," said Dr. Borsa, "but they matter to anyone who uses the salt flat to calibrate satellite altimeters."
The scientists' most unexpected finding was that the broadest topographic features on the salar correlate well with the increase in the strength of gravity at the surface that results from dense rock buried underneath salar sediments. Just as the ocean surface rises over denser seamounts, the salar surface also rises and falls to reflect the subsurface density variations. This effect has never before been observed on land.
http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/The_Hills_And_Valleys_Of_Earth_Largest_Salt_Flat_999.html
New space mission aims to broaden Europe's ISS role
by Staff
Writers
Washington (AFP) Dec 4,
2007
Europe aims to broaden its participation in the work of the International Space Station with the upcoming mission of the US space shuttle Atlantis, which is scheduled for takeoff on Thursday.
Atlantis is to deliver to the ISS a European-built space laboratory named Columbus. Until now, only the United States and Russia have had their own laboratories, which form the heart of the ISS.
"We have never had a permanent base in space before and I see that like a first step for Europe in the real spaceflight activities compared to what we had in the past," said Leopold Eyharts, a French astronaut who works for the European Space Agency.
Eyharts is part of the Atlantis crew and will stay behind at the ISS for two and a half months to prepare Columbus for future scientific work.
For his German counterpart, Hans Schlegel, also of the ESA and a member of the Atlantis crew, the mission will mark "a tremendous step."
"We are becoming a more important partner for the international spaceflight community," he said.
With Columbus, Europe hopes to become an integral part of the only functioning orbital outpost, whose scientific experiments with microgravity are considered essential to prepare human kind for long-term life and work in space and subsequent journeys towards Mars and beyond.
Columbus will allow astronauts to conduct hundreds of experiments a year, notably in areas of biotechnology, medicine, materials and fluids.
The Japanese laboratory Kibo, the fourth planned component of the ISS which is to be the largest and most sophisticated of all, should be delivered in three shuttle flights, the first of which is scheduled for February 2008.
Schlegel will carry out two out of three spacewalks planned for the Atlantis mission. He will be accompanied by astronaut Rex Walheim, who will help Schlegel attach Columbus to the Harmony module, which will also serve as a port for the Japanese laboratory Kibo.
During the third spacewalk, Walheim and American Stanley Coils will set up two research platforms outside of Columbus: SOLAR, a solar observatory and EuTEF (European Technology Exposure Facility), which will help conduct eight different research experiments aimed at studies of life in space.
Designed to be carried in the hold of the shuttle, the European laboratory is cylindrical shaped; 6.87 meters (yards) long and 4.49 meters in diameter. Columbus weighs 10.3 tons when empty and 19.3 tons fully loaded.
It can accommodate up to three persons and carry 10 research equipment units.
Construction of the space laboratory, which cost close to a billion euros, began in 1992.
Initially it was planned that Columbus would be flown to the ISS at the end of 2004.
But the tragic end of the shuttle Columbia in February 2003 had resulted in the grounding of the three remaining shuttle orbiters for two years, which in turned delayed the laboratory's launch.
Columbus will be controlled from a German space operations center located in Oberpfaffenhofen, close to Munich.
Germany is by far the biggest contributor of this project, financing 41 percent of the total cost. Italy contributed 23 percent and France 18 percent.
In all, 10 European countries participate in the program.
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gave the green light Friday to Atlantis's launch, which is scheduled for December 6 at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2131 GMT.
The 11-day mission calls for three spacewalks aimed at attaching Columbus to the ISS, and possibly a fourth one could be added in order to inspect a faltering mechanism in one of three solar panels serving the station.
A fourth walk could lengthen Atlantis's stay in orbit.
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/New_space_mission_aims_to_broaden_Europes_ISS_role_999.html
AFRL and Boeing Demonstrate That UAVs Can Perform Automated Aerial Refueling
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The Automated Aerial Refueling system, or AAR, developed by a government-industry team led by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Boeing Phantom Works, precisely maneuvers a Calspan Learjet, equipped to fly as a UAV, into one of seven refueling positions behind a U.S. Air Force KC-135R tanker during a recent flight test. The AAR program is developing and demonstrating systems that will enable UAVs to safely approach and maneuver around tanker aircraft so they can successfully perform boom and receptacle refueling operations. The systems -- including a flight control computer and control laws developed by Boeing -- are demonstrated using the Learjet, which is equipped to fly autonomously as a UAV. Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force |
by Staff Writers
St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 05, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports
Can an UAV - unmanned
air vehicle be made smart enough to autonomously
rendezvous with a tanker aircraft and refuel? Based on recently
concluded flight tests by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
and Boeing [NYSE: BA], it can. "By adding an automated aerial
refueling capability to UAVs, we can significantly increase
their combat radius and mission times while reducing their
forward staging needs and response times," said David Riley,
Boeing Phantom Works program manager for the Automated Aerial
Refueling (AAR) program.
The goal of the government-industry AAR program is to develop and demonstrate systems that will enable UAVs to safely approach and maneuver around tanker aircraft so they can successfully perform boom and receptacle refueling operations. The systems -- including a flight control computer and control laws developed by Boeing Phantom Works -- are demonstrated using a Calspan Learjet specially equipped to fly autonomously as a UAV.
During a recent flight test, the AAR system autonomously guided the Learjet "UAV" up to a Boeing KC-135R tanker and successfully maneuvered it among seven air refueling positions behind the tanker -- contact, pre-contact, left and right inboard observation, left and right outboard observation, and break away. The system controlled the Learjet for more than 1 hour and 40 minutes and held the aircraft in the critical contact position for 20 minutes.
While a pilot flies the Learjet to and from the vicinity of the tanker and stands by to take over if necessary, he does not otherwise control the aircraft during the refueling maneuvering portion of the experiment.
"These tests show that we are making great advancements in system integrity, continuity and availability through improved relative navigation algorithms, control laws and hardware," Riley said. "They also show we are making great strides toward transitioning AAR technology into production."
Plans call for a follow-on Phase II program that will include autonomous multi-ship operations and delivery of fuel to the surrogate UAV.
The AAR team includes a diverse set of government and contractor organizations. The U.S. government team includes:
- The Air
Vehicles, Sensors, Human Effectiveness and Information
Directorates at the Air Force Research Laboratory
- Air Force Flight Test Center and Air Force Test Pilot School
at Edwards Air Force Base
- Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
- 107th Air Refueling Wing, New York Air National Guard
- 827th Aircraft Sustainment Group at Tinker Air Force Base
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information
Exploitation Office
- Aeronautical Systems Center
- Air Mobility Command
The AAR industry team includes:
- Boeing
Phantom Works, which built the AAR flight control computer and
developed the AAR control laws Calspan, which operates the
Learjet
- Rockwell Collins, which supports KC-135 operations, builds the
Tactical Targeting Network Technologies data link, and produces
the GPS receiver card
- L3 Communications, SySense and the Illinois Institute of
Technology, which work with NAVAIR to develop the precision
global positioning system-based relative navigation system
- Northrop Grumman, which built the INS/GPS, developed PGPS
algorithms, and developed an EO/IR position sensing system
- General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, which provides
systems engineering and flight test management assistance
- Syngenics, which coordinates the AAR trade studies
- Bihrle Applied Research, which integrates simulation
environments
- The Institute for Scientific Research, which develops image
processing algorithms
- Coherent Solutions, which develops required navigation
performance
ABEC NEWS
Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada – ABEC
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