PastEvents

Past Events

Engineers Without Borders Professional Networking Wine and Cheese

PEO Ottawa Chapter presented a Wine and Cheese gathering promoting Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and their theme of the evening: The Global Engineer and what it means to Engineering. The event was held on November 25, 2009 at the Officer's Mess, Gloucester Street. Guest speakers included: EWB Co-Founder and Co-CEO Parker Mitchell, and long-term overseas volunteer Jen Hiscock. Representatives of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE), Engineers Canada and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Ottawa Chapter were also present at the event.

PEO Ottawa Chapter & NRC Engineering Challenge – Information Sessions

Two information sessions were held on November 3 and 5 on the NRC Engineering Challenge to be held during National Engineering Week, 2010. If you are interested in volunteering for the Engineering Challenge, please email Chris Taylor for information at christophertaylor@rogers.com

The Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities in Canada's Backyard

This event, co-sponsored by PEO, the Ontario Center of Engineering and Public Policy (OCEPP) and the Institute of Public Administrators of Canada (IPAC), was held on October 28 at the Museum of Science and Technology. Dr Peter Harrison of Queen's University gave a very informative talk outlining some of the issues, challenges and opportunities facing Canada's Arctic. If you missed it, don't worry; a second presentation is being planned tentatively on Tuesday February 9, 2010. Please refer to updates to our 'Upcoming Events' section in January for registration information.

UNTD Rendezvous Ottawa 2009

"Old Oars" and "Breakout Educational Network" hosted University Naval Training Division (UNTD) Rendezvous Ottawa 2009 featuring a symposium on "Leadership, Citizenship and Nation Building for our Times" in the Historic West Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, on Wednesday, 21 October, 2009. The event was well attended with over 200 attendees.

PEO/OSPE Engineers in Training (EIT) workshop

The Ottawa Chapter PEO in conjunction with OSPE, held a workshop for EITs on Friday, October 9th, 2009 in the morning.

PEO/OSPE Internationally Trained Engineers (ITE) workshop

The Ottawa Chapter PEO in conjunction with OSPE, held a workshop for ITEs on Friday, October 9th, 2009 in the afternoon.

Technical Luncheon – Construction of the new Ottawa Convention Centre(OCC).

The Ottawa Chapter PEO hosted a technical discussion about the OCC at Capones on September 17, 2009. Approximately 30 people attended this event.

Museum of Science and Technology Tour

The Ottawa Chapter PEO hosted a tour of the Museum of Science and Technology on July 18, 2009.

Hope Volleyball Tournament

We had a team of six including one girl instead of the required two. As you may have heard, it was a rainy day on Saturday, July 11th and the games had to be cancelled half way through the day for safety reasons. This is the first time it happens in the last 26 years! We played only 2 games and a half instead of five. We won the first 2 games and were tied when asked to get off the courts during the 3rd game. In many cases we had to run for cover from the rain under trees and other people's tents between the games. But despite all that we all had fun. We kinda anticipated the rain. Players received free white PEO T-shirts.

Diefenbunker Tour

The Ottawa Chapter PEO hosted a tour on the Diefenbunker on July 4, for 26 attendees.

Ottawa Valley Engineers Golf Tournament

The Ottawa Valley Engineers Golf Tournament was held on June 22, 2009.

Ottawa Chapter New Member's Night

The Ottawa Chapter held a new member's night on June 10, 2009 at Restaurant International at the Woodroffe Campus of Algonquin College. A set of thumbnails of the photos, with links to full size images (about 2M per full sized) can be found here.

EWB/PEO Ottawa Chapters Joint Event

We held a joint event with Engineers Without Borders, on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at the Nepean Sailing Club.

Green Energy - Our Future: Workshop

We held a workshop on Green Energy on Wednesday, May 20, 2009, with over 100 attendees. The presentation is available as a pdf here.

Sugarbush Event!!

The Ottawa chapter sponsored a sugar bush visit on Sunday April 5, 2009. Despite the short notice, approximately 25 persons attended. We will likely hold this event again next March or April.

Ottawa Regional Science Fair (ORSF), Carleton University

The chapter donated $250 to the fair held on Saturday April 4, 2009, and the chapter gave $250 in Special Award prizes to students for our selected five projects.

Wenqin Shao and Sucha Mann attended the fair to judge for Special Awards for projects related to engineering principles.

They went with the intention of awarding only three projects. But, students participation in science and engineering was so good, they had a hard time selecting only three projects. In the end, they awarded five projects (total of 7 students) and distributed $50/project.

The criteria used were:

1. Project display including clear demonstration of project, materials used, conclusions and recommendation;
2. Methodology including the creative ideas, Internet search, latest technologies, hands on and models;
3. Conclusion and recommendations including results from the project, the feasibility to use and clear recommendations;
4. Strong oral presentation including strong knowledge of the project, and concise presentation.

The winners were:

Congratulations to all our winners for a job well done!!
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Town Hall presentation on National Framework for Engineering membership and Licensure.

On April 1, 2009, David Adams and Kim Allen gave an excellent presentation on the proposed National Framework for Engineering membership and Licensure. An overview of the presentation can be found here. The presentation slides are available in powerpoint format or as pdf.

Student Papers Night.

The student papers night -- a friendly competition held between the Engineering undergraduates from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University -- was held 2009-04-01 at Sala San Marco.

Fraser Smith and Frank Hendriksen organized this excellent event. Sucha Mann also participated as a judge. Wayne Bennett was thanked for his years of long service organizing this event. The event was well attended by over 80 people.

There were four student papers (two from Carleton University and two from Ottawa University. The overall best paper award went to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by Sean Clifford and Matt Holmes from Carleton. The other three excellent papers on Environmental Sciences also received awards.

This year the team Trophy was awarded to the team University of Ottawa.

The Engineering and Technology Labour Market Study, Nepean Sailing Club

The Ottawa PEO chapter hosted a presentation entitled "Engineering and Technology Labour Market Study" by John O'Grady of Prism Economics & Analysis, on Tuesday March 17, 2009 in the evening, at the Nepean Sailing Club. There were approximately 44 attendees, including many of our Chapter's professional engineers, EIT's, and others including representatives from Algonquin College. A special recognition should be made of Donald Wallace, the "Ontario Centre for Engineering & Public Policy" Executive Director who was immensely helpful with planning and organizing the availability of the speaker. John O'Grady gave a very good presentation with time for Q&A. He stated that "The ground has shifted" in Ontario for Engineering & Technology Labour.

Some highlights of the presentation includes:

• Who is doing Engineering work... 20% Domestic Engineering Grads, 20% International Engineering Grads, 20% Other professionals, 9% Domestic Tech. Grads & 5% International Technology Grads
• Women in Engineering... Female share of various engineering occupations, by discipline; Female undergraduate enrolment in engineering... Trends from 1991 to 2005, with the highest enrolment around 2002 & 2003, when it peaked at close to 23%
• Demographic Trends
• Immigration trends & their effect on engineering
• Ontario's share of engineering graduates - 57% International Grads, 40% Domestic Grads
• Types of occupations undertaken by engineering graduates
• Types of education pursued beyond the Bachelors Degree in Engineering => MBA, Grad Degree in Engineering, Trade qualification, College qualification
• Employer dissatisfaction with skills
• General communications => interpersonal, team working, working with non-tech staff, report writing
• Distribution of Engineering and Technology functions between Engineers and Technologists
• Canada's share of international market
• Key fields & Key skills in International market

You can view the slides as powerpoint or pdf.

Ottawa Chapter 49th AGM February 11, 2009, Travelodge Hotel

The 49th Annual General Meeting of the Ottawa Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario was held 2009-02-11 at the Talisman Hotel in Ottawa. Here are a few shots from the event.

Our outgoing Chair, Jeff Waara giving his Chair's report, and handing off to our incoming chair, David Grant.
  

David thanking our departing executives Fairouz Wahab, and Jeff Waara.
  

Dr. Gerald Oakham gave an excellent, informative and fascinating talk about the Atlas detector in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland/France.
His slides can be found here.

Our incoming Chair, David Grant, and a shot of the room.
  

We also welcomed several new members to our Chapter!
A set of thumbnails of the certificate presentation photos, with links to full size images can be found here. .

Ottawa Chapter New Member's night November 26, 2008

We held a New Member's night on November 26, 2008. A set of thumbnails of the photos, with links to full size images can be found here. Congratulations to our newest Professional Engineers!

Hope Volleyball Tournament, July 2008

The HOPE volley ball tournament was great fun for all!!

Ottawa Chapter New Member's night June 16, 2008

We held a New Member's night on June 16, 2008. A set of thumbnails of the photos, with links to full size images can be found here.

Ottawa Senators Hockey, Saturday February 16, 2008

We held our annual PEO Senators Hockey Night on Saturday February 16, 2008. A good time was had by all!!

Ottawa Chapter 2007 AGM February 13, 2008, Sala San Marco

We held our AGM wrapping up 2007, on February 13, 2008, combined with a new members night, at a new location, Sala San Marco. We had a good turn out.

We welcomed many new members at our 2008-02-13 AGM; thumbnails of their presentations, with links to the full-size shots can be found here. The 2008 executive looks forward to serving our chapter this year!

Ottawa Chapter New member's night October 23, 2007

We held a new member's night on October 23, 2007. A set of thumbnails of the photos, with links to full size images can be found here.

Ottawa Chapter New member's night May 29, 2007

We previously held a new member's night on May 29, 2007. A 2M set of thumbnails of the photos, with links to full size images can be found here.