The 2015 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2015) (http://www.ccece2015.org or http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/ccece15/ ) will be held from May 3 to 6 at the World Trade Convention Center in the vibrant, beautiful, and tourist city of Halifax, Canada.

The theme of CCECE 2015 is Celebrating 30 Years of Ocean Frontiers, reflecting the ever growing interests in research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of Marine and Ocean Engineering. Halifax, coast city of Atlantic region in Canada, is the tourist city in the world and famed for its beautiful scenery and seafood, populated by visitors from all over the world and featuring attractive tourist spots, world class conference and hotel facilities, and beautiful beaches and golf courses. CCECE2015 promises to be a great event for all participants, with excellent technical and social programs.

Contributed Papers: Full papers must be submitted in PDF format prepared strictly following the IEEE PDF Requirements for Creating PDF Documents for the IEEE Xplore. For detailed format information, please visit the conference website. All accepted papers will be indexed by EI and included in IEEE Xplore.

Proposals for special sessions are welcome. The conference invites high quality original research papers in the broad areas related to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Papers are invited, in French or English, for the following symposia:
(https://www.softconf.com/e/ccece2015)
1) Power Electronics and Energy Systems
Chairs: Magdy Salama, (University of Waterloo) and Dr. Xiaoyu Wang, (Calreton University)
2) Communications and Networking
Chairs: Dr. Cheng Li (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Anader Benyamin-Seeyar, (Concordia University)
3) Signal and Multimedia Processing
Chairs: Gary Kenward, (Dalhousie University) and Ling Guan, (Ryerson University)
4) Biomedical and Health Informatics
Chairs: Hamid Mcheick, (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) and Jeremy Brown (Dalhousie University),
5) Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

Chairs: Adel, Merabet, (Saint Mary University) and Yuanlong Yu, (Fuzhou University)
6) Ocean Engineering and Marine Technology
Chairs: Dr. Ferial El-Hawary (Dalhousie University) and Michael Benjamin (MIT)
7) Circuits, Devices and Systems

Chairs: Kamal El-Sankary, (Dalhousie University) and Jie Chen, (University of Alberta)
8) Computers, Software and Applications
Chairs: Man Lin, (St. Francis Xavier University) and Danny Silver, (Acadia University)
9) Control and Robotics
Chairs: Howard Li (University of New Brunswick) and Greg Dudek, (McGill University)
10) Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Chairs: Sidney Givigi, (Royal Military College) and Yajun Pan (Dalhousie University)
Best Paper Competition: All submitted papers will be included in the evaluation for the Best Conference Paper and Best Student Paper Competitions.
Journal Publications: Expanded versions of the accepted and presented papers with excellent reviews will be invited for publication in leading SCI and EI journals.
Tour Packages: Tourist packages to local and nearby attractions will be available.

Important Dates:

Nov. 15, 2014 Submission of original PDF full papers in IEEE format
Dec. 1, 2014 Submission of organized invited session proposals
Jan. 15, 2015 Notification of paper and organized session acceptance
Feb. 28, 2015 Submission of final papers and advance registration
We look forward to meeting you in Halifax, Canada in May 2015.
For further information, please access the website http://www.ccece2015.org or http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/ccece15/
Kindest regards,
Advisory Committee:
Honorary Conference Chair
Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University, Canada
Steering Committee
Md Azizur Rahman, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Wahab Almuhtadi, Algonquin College, Canada

General Chair
Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada
Technical Program Chairs
Mae L. Seto, Defence R&D Canada
Ralf Bachmayer, Memorial University of Newfoundland Canada
Tutorials and Workshops
Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Finance
Michael G. Lamoureux, ToP KaTS Consulting, Canada
Local Arrangements
Dirke Werle, AERDE Research, Canada
Publications
Shuang Song, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Publicity
Wei Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Patronage / Exhibition Chair
Mr. Colin O’Flynn, Dalhousie University, Canada
Translation
Alain Beaulieu, Royal Military College, Canada
Student Activities
Denard Lynch, University of Saskatchwan, Canada
Webmaster
Scott Melvin ,University of Toronto, Canada
Vincent Zhang, NTT Data Inc. Canada
IEEE Canada President
Amir G. Aghdam, Concordia University, Canada