Montreal: Our IEEE Sister Section

We recently signed an agreement with the Montreal Section to become sister sections for the next three years. This is an opportunity to develop a relationship with another IEEE Section of a similar size and composition. According to their website they have twenty five technical chapters and six student branches.

The Montreal website is http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/

We have already received a request for some assistance with providing some contact information at some of Boston's colleges and universities. The Montreal Student Branch at Sherbrooke University has started to plan a one-day trip to Boston in May 2009 and hope to visit a number of schools while they are in town.

In the words of Laurent Lamarre, the 2009 Section Chair, in a recent email to me he said "IEEE Sherbrooke(Student Branch) is interested in visiting some of your most prestigious universities. Our preliminary plan is to go to Boston on May 2th in bus, spend the whole day visiting universities, laboratories and/or industrial organisations and to come back in Sherbrooke during the night. It should be very easy to find interested people for this activity but we plan to limit the number of places in order to fit in one bus.

I would really appreciate if you could help study the feasibility of the project. For now, my main concerns are about the access clearance we need to visit the universities and the possibility to visit laboratories/industrial organisation during the weekend.

Our first idea was to concentrate our efforts on the MIT and Harvard but I would appreciate if you could give us suggestions on which university/labs/companies to visit."

Obviously I will be respondeing to Laurent and offering help on bealf of the Boston Section memebrs.