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SUMMER 2016 Dr. Steve E. Hrudey, P.Eng. APEGA's 97th President The Association of Professional apega.ca Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta | WE SPECIALIZE IN SIMPLE, COST-EFFECTIVE AND RELIABLE FACILITY DESIGNS. Gold-plated designs are out of place under any market conditions. That’s why we focus on JVZ[LɈLJ[P]LLUNPULLYPUN[OH[ZPTWSPÄLZMHJPSP[`VWLYH[PVUZHUKTHPU[LUHUJL>LZ[YLHTSPUL LX\PWTLU[HUKKLZPNUZWLJPÄJH[PVUZ[VYLTV]LJVZ[S`V]LYKLZPNUHUKTPUPTPaLJVTWSL_P[` Put our experience to work for your project. Learn more at vistaprojects.com Contents PEG FEATURED PHOTO: SUMMER 2016 PAGE 10›› 34 52 68 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 8 & 9 New Council, Summit Recipients 4 President's Notebook 65 Viewfinder 10 Meet the President 6 Interim CEO’s Message 72 AEF Campaign Connection 15 Council Nominations Begin 20 Movers & Shakers 75 Focal Point 40 What’s Next in Legislative Review? 34 Professional Development 82 Member Benefits 49 All About apega.ca 52 Good Works 84 Record 68 Science Plus Youth Equals This 60 And You Are COVER PHOTO: Kurtis Kristianson, Spindrift Photography PRINTED IN CANADA SUMMER 2016 PEG | 1 US POSTMASTER: PEG (ISSN 1923-0044) is published quarterly in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, c/o US Agent-Transborder Mail 4708 Caldwell Rd E, Edgewood, WA 98372-9221. $15 of the annual membership dues applies to the yearly subscription of The PEG. Periodicals postage paid at Puyallup, WA, and at additional mailing offices. US POSTMASTER, send address changes to PEG c/o Transborder Mail, PO Box 6016, Federal Way, WA 98063-6016, USA. The publisher has signed an affiliation agreement with the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency. Please return Canadian undeliverables to: APEGA, 1500 Scotia One, 10060 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, AB T5J 4A2. Publications Mail Sales Product VOLUME 7 | NUMBER 2 | SUMMER 2016 Agreement No. 40062712 (Print) ISSN 1923-0044 (Online) ISSN 1923-0052 Opinions published in The PEG do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policy of APEGA or its Council. Editorial inquiries: [email protected]. Advertising inquiries: [email protected]. Editor George Lee [email protected] Administrative Assistant Catherine Hiemstra [email protected] COUNCIL STAFF LEADERSHIP President Dr. Steve E. Hrudey, P.Eng., FEC, FCAE, FSRA (Canmore) EXECUTIVE President-Elect Jane Tink, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) (Okotoks) Interim Chief Executive Officer Heidi Yang, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) Vice-President John Rhind, P.Geol. (Calgary) Director, Executive & Government Relations Pat Lobregt, FEC (Hon.), FGC (Hon.) Past-President Connie Parenteau, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) (St. Albert) Director of Operations Krista Nelson-Marciano, BA Councillors Natasha Avila, P.Eng. (Cold Lake) REGULATORY Dr. Jeff DiBattista, P.Eng., MBA (Edmonton) Registrar Carol Moen, P.Eng. Lisa Doig, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) (Calgary) MEMBER SERVICES Jennifer Enns, P.Eng. (Calgary) Acting Director, Member Services Mohamed El Daly, M.Sc. George Eynon, P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.) (Calgary) Darren Hardy, P.Eng. (Calgary) COMMUNICATIONS Dr. Brad Hayes, P.Geol., FGC (Calgary) Director, Communications Philip Mulder, APR, FEC (Hon.), FGC (Hon.) Dr. Timothy Joseph, P.Eng., FCIM (Edmonton) CORPORATE SERVICES Mahsoo Naderi-Dasoar, P.Eng., M.Sc., PMP (Edmonton) Director, Corporate Services D.S. (Pal) Mann, P.Eng. Manon Plante, P.Eng., MDS, CD1 (St. Albert) Art Washuta, P.Eng. (Edmonton) APEGA CONTACT INFO Terry Waters, P.Eng. (Calgary) Public Representatives Ross J. Harris, FCA, ICD.D HEAD OFFICE Robert Lloyd, QC 1500 Scotia One 10060 Jasper Avenue NW Mary Phillips-Rickey, FCA Edmonton AB T5J 4A2 PH 780-426-3990 NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TOLL FREE 1-800-661-7020 Engineers Canada Directors Connie Parenteau, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) FAX 780-426-1877 Larry Staples, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) www.apega.ca Geoscientists Canada Director George Eynon, P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.) [email protected] BRANCH CHAIRS CALGARY OFFICE 2200 Scotia Centre Calgary Johnathon Bain, P.Eng. [email protected] 700 Second Street SW Central Alberta , [email protected] Stephen Huber P.Eng. Calgary AB T2P 2W1 Edmonton Jim McCuaig, P.Eng. [email protected] PH 403-262-7714 Fort McMurray Jason Vanderzwaag, P.Eng. [email protected] TOLL FREE 1-888-262-3688 Lakeland Christopher Penny, P.Eng. [email protected] FAX 403-269-2787 Lethbridge Olivia Sieniewicz, P.Eng. [email protected] Medicine Hat Said Said Yussuf, P.Eng. [email protected] Peace Region Brian Morrison, P.Eng. [email protected] Vermilion River Kashif Dada, P.Eng. [email protected] Yellowhead Ana Paula Mayumi Tanaka, P.Eng. [email protected] 2 | PEG SUMMER 2016 Th ank You x 8,289 In this year’s APEGA Council Election, 8,289 Members cast their votes. That’s a turnout of about 15 per cent. If you’re represented in that group, we truly appreciate that you exercised your franchise. Still, we think an organization of APEGA’s stature can do much better. Each year, we work hard to provide more useful information about candidates. We also continue to refine the electronic voting process to make it more user- friendly. And after each election, we gather your comments to guide this program of continuous improvement. Would you help us? Please take the short survey at apega.ca to tell us why you did or did not vote. You can link to the survey through the election page of apega.ca. In the meantime, let’s hear it for the corporate leaders on this list. Each of the following major Permit Holders below had a professional turnout of at least 30 per cent. AMEC Foster Wheeler Canada Ltd. Evraz Inc. NA Canada Ryder Scott Company Petroleum Engineers ATCO Structures & Logistics Ltd. John Crane Canada Inc Scheffer Andrew Ltd. Beck Engineering (1992) Ltd Keywest Projects Ltd. Sproule Project Management Limited Belloy Petroleum Consulting MaXfield Inc Sproule U.S. Limited Canadian Fertilizers Limited Newalta Corporation Sproule Unconventional Limited Canbriam Energy Inc. OEM Remanufacturing Company Strathcona County Celanese EVA Performance Opus Stewart Weir Ltd. Polymers Inc. Teck Coal Limited Raytheon Canada Limited City of Lethbridge ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Canada) Inc. TR Canada Inc. Vantage Engineering Inc. Zedi Inc. Why did you vote in the 2016 APEGA Election? Or Why didn’t you vote in the 2016 APEGA Election? Visit apega.ca and take our short survey now APEGAMASTER President’s Notebook Let’s Apply our Knowledge and Innovation to Moving Alberta Forward BY DR. STEVE E. HRUDEY, P.ENG., FEC, FCAE, FSRA APEGA President As I contemplate the challenges I’ll face for an effective solution, even if it is not the ultimate chairing the governing Council for the truth. Engineers put people on the moon by relying on largest self-regulating professional calculations based on Newtonian mechanics, without organization in Western Canada, I'm needing the corrections arising from Einstein’s Theory reminded of what has always been at the of Relativity. Our judgment is essential in knowing when foundation of our professions — applying an answer is close enough to the truth to achieve our scientific knowledge and evidence to objectives. diverse problems. Most of us can likely As a retired academic, I readily acknowledge that agree that this essential skill is fundamental our professional education generally does not excel to what we find challenging and rewarding at fostering problem identification. More emphasis about our professions. tends to be placed on teaching an ever-expanding Whether large or small, complex or body of knowledge. (Student design projects simple, solutions must start with a serious and competitions, which require a major and comprehensive focus on defining investment of teaching resources to and thoroughly understanding the true deliver, are an obvious and effective dimensions of a problem. The most elegant exception.) One of the most compelling solution in history will have limited value, lessons I learned in my first job after possibly even negative consequences, if it is graduation is that there are no answers not directed at the authentic problem. When in the back of a textbook that solve we’re faced with the practical realities complex, real-world problems. Perhaps of providing professional services in an we need to let future Professional increasingly competitive and global market Members in on this insight, while they place, it can be challenging to avoid defining are still in primary learning mode as problems in terms of what we know best — students and Members-in-Training. the adage that if you are most skilled with a Our professions face enormous hammer, every problem may look like a nail. challenges caused by current Albert Einstein once said: “If I had economic conditions. We have been an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 subject to boom and bust cycles for minutes thinking about the problem and as long as I can remember. Only five minutes thinking about solutions.” a handful of my 50 graduating This particularly rings true as the pace classmates in mechanical of technological development continues engineering in 1970 had job offers. to accelerate. Focusing our intellectual Knowing that our professions are energy and adequate resources on problem strongly affected by economic cycles identification often gives rise to the insights allows us to be cautiously optimistic necessary to generate truly innovative about the future, because we know and effective solutions. One of the things that conditions inevitably change. that distinguishes applied scientists from However, we cannot simply presume theoretical scientists is the savvy to know that the boom of recent years will when our knowledge is close enough return to Alberta in the same fashion. 4 | PEG SUMMER 2016 President's Notebook APEGA We also need to be aware that bad economic times do not spread performance and conduct. That means APEGA itself cannot drive their pain equally among our Professional Members.