Ottawa Chapter, I Recently Had the Privilege of Attending • Vice-Chair the PEO AGM Held in Toronto on May 8 & 9
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MAY 2009 NEWSLETTER 2009 Chapter Executive • Chair David Grant, P.Eng. CHAIR’S MESSAGE AECOM Canada Ltd. 613-820-7728 ext 229 As the new Chair of the Ottawa Chapter, I recently had the privilege of attending • Vice-Chair the PEO AGM held in Toronto on May 8 & 9. This year’s focus was the Fraser Smith, P.Eng. promotion of the new Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy (OCEPP). Jp2g Consultants Inc. This was one item of outgoing President David Adams’ “10-point plan”. The 613-828-7800 mandate of the OCEPP is to encourage engineers to engage their technical expertise • Treasurer David Nguyen, P.Eng. towards developing public policy on such social issues as water supply, electricity, Jp2g Consultants Inc. the environment, etc. The first Executive Director of OCEPP is Donald Wallace, 613-828-7800 PhD, and he was instrumental in organizing and coordinating this very informative • Secretary session, which included speakers such as Hon. John Wilkinson, Minister of Pierre Legault, P.Eng. Research and Innovation for Ontario, and Dr. Carolyn Bennett, MP, former PWGSC Minister of State for Public Health for Canada. More information on OCEPP can 613-993-5501 be found on the PEO home webpage. • Past Chair Jeffrey Waara, P.Eng. Stantec Consulting Ltd. I would like to extend my congratulations to a couple of Ottawa Chapter members: 613-724-4385 Colin Cantlie, P.Eng., a former director of the Ottawa Chapter who was appointed Directors: Officer of the Order of Honour on May 8; and Ishwar Bhatia, M.Eng., P.Eng., a • Sucha Mann, P.Eng. (Past Chair ’07) former City of Ottawa project manager who was appointed Councilor of PEO last Banga Group December. His term ends December 2011. 613-591-3002 • Ingrid de Buda, P.Eng. 2009 promises to be a very busy year for the Ottawa Chapter. I would like to take • Amjad Farran, P.Eng. this opportunity to thank all the volunteers for their tireless commitment and SkyWave Mobile Communications dedication. In particular, I would like to thank former Chair Jeffrey Waara, P.Eng., 613-836-6288 ext 305 for all his hard work during his term in 2008. I would also like to extend • Guy Boone, P.Eng. Nemko Canada Inc. recognition and gratitude to Fairouz Wahab, P.Eng., a former Treasurer of the 613 -737-9680 ext 290 Executive, who has decided to leave after eight years of dedicated service. Two EIT • Muna Albana, P.Eng. members have also decided to leave the Executive to pursue new endeavours: University of Ottawa Emily Saumure and Vijay Narasimhan. We wish everyone all the best for the future. 613-864-7789 I would also like to officially welcome aboard five new Executive Members: David • Wenqin Shao, P.Eng. Nguyen, P.Eng., our new Treasurer, and our new directors: Wenqin Shao, P.Eng., Health Canada Chris Taylor, P.Eng., Christian Tacit, P.Eng., and Ajith Stratton, P.Eng. 613-954-6125 • Chris Taylor, P.Eng. Your Chapter Executive team looks forward to hearing from you. If you have any Nortel Networks 613-271-8394 ideas for future events, tours or luncheons, please contact us at [email protected], • Christian Tacit, P.Eng. and please visit our website at www.ottawa.peo.on.ca. TacitLaw 613-599-5345 David Grant, P.Eng. • Ajith Stratton, P.Eng. Chapter Chair OTTAWA CHAPTER – PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ONTARIO Mailing Address: Suite 208, 1568 Merivale Road, Nepean, Ontario K2G 5Y7 [email protected] www.ottawa.peo.on.ca Page 2 What’s Coming Up! New Members Night PEO Ottawa Chapter Restaurant International HOPE Volleyball Team Algonquin College, The Iron Ringers Woodroffe Campus Saturday, July 11, 2009 Wednesday, June 10, 2009 A team of six to 10 players will play volleyball in the On Wednesday, June 10, the Ottawa Chapter will present 30 recreational league of the HOPE Summer Fest at Mooney’s Bay professional engineer licence certificates to new P.Engs. Beach in Ottawa. Come out for a day of fun and charity. Skill Congratulations to all new licensees. Special keynote address level varies – beginners are welcome, and both P.Eng. and EIT will be delivered by the Ontario Minister of Housing and members are eligible to join. Cost is $25 per player (includes Municipal Affairs Jim Watson, (MPP Ottawa West – lunch) by cheque payable to “PEO-Ottawa Chapter”. To Nepean). register, visit the Ottawa Chapter Website, Upcoming Events page. For more details about HOPE, visit www.hopehelps.com. Ottawa Valley Engineers Tour: Museum of Science & Golf Tournament Monday, June 22, 2009 Technology Saturday, July 18, 2009 2pm Now is the time to plan your participation in one of the most popular events on the Ottawa Chapter’s calendar. Come to Something new for the family this summer: a guided tour the Meadows Golf and Country Club in Gloucester on through the Museum of Science & Technology. Exhibits range Monday, June 22, where you will join other engineers and from “high-tech” Canadian communication technology to their friends and guests for 18 holes of golf complete with “low-tech” collection of huge locomotives. There’s a lot to power cart, buffet dinner and the usual stunning array of tease the brain and dazzle the eyes. Cost is $5 per adult, $4 for prizes. Shotgun is at 1:00 p.m. The course is conveniently students, seniors, and children (children under four years are located on Hawthorne Rd. south of Leitrim Rd. in free). The museum is located at 1867 St Laurent Blvd. at Gloucester. Get your foursome together now and submit the Lancaster Road. Registration details to be determined soon; entry form, which you can access from Upcoming Events please visit the Ottawa Chapter Website, Upcoming Events page on the Ottawa Chapter website, www.ottawa.peo.on.ca. page. For more information on the museum itself, please visit: www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca. For more information and entry details, contact: Dave Smith at 613-327-7627, or by email at: Movie Night [email protected]. Centretown Movies Outdoor Film Festival Tour: Diefenbunker Tentative Date: Friday, August 14, 2009 Saturday, July 4, 2009 2:00 p.m. The Ottawa Chapter is currently filing an application to Always one of the perennial favorites on our chapter participate in the 9th annual Centretown Movies Outdoor Film calendar, the Deifenbunker is a huge four-storey bunker, Festival (http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~arya/cm/) at buried deep under a hillside and meant to house crucial Dundonald Park. The movie we would like to promote is Flash elements of Canadian government in a nuclear war. Exhibits of Genius – a true story, staring Greg Kinnear as Dr. Robert and recreated areas provide a startling glimpse into Cold War Kearns, an inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper who history. The Ottawa Chapter is planning a tour for Saturday, battled (and won) against the Ford Motor Company over patent July 4; visit the Ottawa Chapter Website, Upcoming Events rights. The tentative date of the showing is Friday, August 14, page for registration. For more information, address and 2009, but confirmation will be announced later. Please visit the directions, please visit www.diefenbunker.ca. Cost is $5 per Ottawa Chapter Website, Upcoming Events page for updates person, payable at the door. Light refreshments will be and registration details. provided. OTTAWA CHAPTER – PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ONTARIO Mailing Address: Suite 208, 1568 Merivale Road, Nepean, Ontario K2G 5Y7 [email protected] www.ottawa.peo.on.ca Page 3 PAST EVENTS Senators Hockey Night Your Ottawa Senators vs PEO Ottawa Chapter Toronto Maple Leafs Monday, March 9, 2009 Annual General Meeting Wednesday, February 13, 2009 Once again, family and friends joined us for a fun night at The Ledge, which included dinner and the hockey game, but not just The Ottawa Chapter held its 49th AGM on February 13 at any hockey game – a Battle of Ontario hockey game, with the the Travelodge at Carling and Kirkwood. Our thanks to Senators battling it out with the Toronto Maple Leafs. A great Gerald Oakham, PhD, professor of Physics at Carleton evening was had by all 38 guests, with Ottawa winning the game University, who gave an interesting and informative 2-1. Unfortunately, the Sens did not make the playoffs, but we presentation on the preparation of ATLAS and its pioneering will support the team again next year. Go Sens Go! work with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. We would also like to extend thanks to the nearly 100 members and guests who attended that night. PEO Engineering Curling Bonspiel Friday, March 6, 2009 The 28th Ottawa Valley Engineers Curling Bonspiel was held on Friday, March 6 at the Nepean Sportsplex. Twelve teams participated in the event. The winning team (pictured at right) was from David McManus Engineering Ltd. (Mike Keating: skip; Mike Green: third (not in picture); Blair Pearen: second; and Alex Mcauley: lead). Second-place team was from Robinson Consultants Inc. and the third-place team was from J.L.Richards & Associates Limited. The bonspiel committee would like to thank IP Group, Golder Associates Ltd., Jacques Whitford Limited and J.L. Richards and Associates Limited for their generous donations for this event. Labour Market Study Tuesday, March 17, 2009 On March 17, the Ottawa Chapter hosted a presentation entitled “Engineering and Technology Labour Market Study” at the Nepean Sailing Club. The speaker was John O’Grady of Prism Economics & Analysis. Approximately 50 people attended, including many of our Chapter's professional engineers, EITs, and others, including representatives from Algonquin College. A special recognition should be made of Donald Wallace, Executive Director of the Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy (OCEPP), who was immensely helpful with planning and organizing the availability of the speaker.