Speaker/Lectures

Invited Lectures and Panel Speaker

I-18   “Overview of Robotics Evolutions Emphasizing 

     Underwater Applications”, invited talk by HKUST Univ.

     Hong Kong, January 2018

I-17   Underwater Robotics: “Status, Trends and Forecast”,

     Invited talk by WOC/SOS’2017,Halifax, NS, Canada,

     December, 2017

I-16  “Overview of Robotics Evolutions Emphasizing 

     Underwater Applications”, invited Panel session by

     SMC’2017, Banff, Canada, October 2017

I-15  “Overview of Robotics Evolutions Emphasizing 

     Underwater Applications”, invited talk by ICCAR’2017,

     Nagoya, Japan, April, 2017

I-14   “Overview of Robotics Evolutions Emphasizing 

     Underwater Applications”, invited talk by Guangdong

     Univ. Guangzhou, China, April, 2017

I-13 “Overview of Robotics Evolutions Emphasizing 

     Underwater Applications”, invited talk by IEEE- 

     Industrial Applications International Conference,

     Curitiba, Brazil, December, 2016

I-12“Celebration of IEEE125th. Anniversary of Technological Inovations”

       Invited talk by the IEEE/Image Signal Processing Society at their Annual

       Conference (ICIP’2009) held in Region-8 Cairo, Egypt, November’2009.

I-11 “Celebration of IEEE125th. Anniversary of Technological Inovations” 

        invited talks by the IEEE/NCS Edmonton, September 24, 2009, IEEE/Toronto

        Section September 25, 2009, IEEE/Ottawa Section, December’2009, and

        IEEE/Canadian Atlantic Section, Halifax, Dec.’2009

I-10  “Pre-University Education” invited talk by the IEEE/Educational Activities

       Board (EAB) at the two days Training Workshop, Montreal, May’08.

I-9 “Winning In Life”, Banquet Presentation For Electrical Engineering Students

      Graduation, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., March 2005.

I-8   “Challenges for EE Students  in the Oceans and  Role of  IEEE”,

        IEEE/France Section Lecture, TELECOM Institute, Brest, France, June 1993.

I-7  “Counting  Down  to  2000”:  An  Overview  of  Signal  Analysis  in  Marine

      Applications, Oceanography Institute of  the Italian Navy, Genoa, Italy May’91

I-6  “Ten Years to 2000”: An Overview of Signal Analysis in Marine Applications

     IEEE Miami Section Engineering Lecture Series, May 1990

I-5  “Deep Underwater Target  Tracking Using the  Iteratively Reweighted  Least

       Squares Approach”, Sixth SEG/USN Joint Technical Symposium, Stennis

       Space Center, Mississippi, February 1990

I-4  “Applications of Kalman  Filtering in Marine  Seismic Exploration”, 

      Unocal Science and Technology Division, Brea, California, October 1989.

I-3  ” Systolic  Array Implementation  of Parallel  Kalman Filtering for Heave

         Compensation in Underwater Acoustic Data Processing”,

      NATO Advanced Study Institute, Underwater Acoustic Data Processing, RMC,

      Kingston, Ontario, July 1988

I-2 ” Role of  Peak Detection and Parameter Estimation  in Nondestructive

Testing of Materials,

      NATO Advanced Workshop on Signal and Pattern Recognition in

      Nondestructive Evaluation, St. Castin  at Lac Beauport, Quebec, August 1987

I-1  “Systolic Array Implementation of Kalman  Filter”, 1986 Bay States Skills

      Corporation Special  Institute  on  Knowledge  Based  Signal  Processing,

      Southeastern  Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, MASS, June 1986

Briefs

BF-1 “Engineering as a Rewarding Experience  for Both Sexes”, presented to 

         the Canadian Committee  on  Women  in Engineering, Atlantic  Region 

         Public Forum, at the WTCC, Halifax, N.S., March 26, 1991

Theses

T-2   El-Hawary, Ferial, ” Modeling and Signal Processing for Identification of

      Ocean Subsurface  Features From  Acoustic  Reflections”, Ph.  D.  Thesis,

      Memorial University of Newfoundland, May 1981.

T-1   El-Hawary, Ferial, ” Transient Analysis  of Transmission Lines “, M.  Sc.

      Thesis, University of Alberta, 1971. Part of this work is reported in  V.

      Dvorak: ” Computer Simulation of Signal Propagation through a Non-uniform

      Transmission Line”,  IEEE Trans.  on  Circuit Theory,  Vol. CT-  20,  pp.

      580-583, 1973.