Date:

Thursday February 2, 2012
6:00 p.m. Reception, 7:00 p.m. Dinner

Location:

Canad Inns Fort Garry, 1824 Pembina Hwy, Winnipeg, MB

Abstract:

APEGM’s Annual Networking Dinner is held to help encourage student engineers and geoscientists to become more involved in their profession before graduation. The dinner features a delicious meal, a guest speaker, and activities to encourage interaction between the students and professionals. The networking dinner is a great way to promote yourself and your company and support the future of engineering and geoscience in Manitoba.

The networking dinner is a great way to promote yourself and your company and support the future of engineering and geoscience in Manitoba:

• Excellent networking and business development opportunities.
• Exposure to seniot decision-makers in the industry.
• Association with a well-organized and productive event.
• Recognition as a supporter of excellence in engineering and geoscience.
• Exposure to new talent through students in the engineering and geoscience fields.

Speaker:

George Trachilis

Speaker Bio:

George Trachilis is a highly experienced Business Executive, Coach, and Leader who has demonstrated the ability to solve complicated business problems with a collaborative team-based effort. George has focused on personal mastery techniques,and implemented tools that align management teams to focus on common goals.

George’s main objective is to find and lead the right organization towards sustained growth, profit, and business systems. During this venture, he will develop a team of leaders to communicate with respect, trust, and honesty during their journey towards achievement of these goals.

George has experience with leading executive teams, being part of a high-performing executive environment, problem solving/root cause elimination, coaching by asking questions, project management, and 5S workplace organization

Registration:

Registration is $80 per person or $300 per table. Details can be found in the Dinner Brochure [168KB PDF].

Contact:

For more information contact the APEGM office at 474-2736.

Date:

Sunday, October 16, 2011 from 9:30-12:30pm

Location:

Heritage Victoria Community Club
950 Sturgeon Rd., Winnipeg, Manitoba.
(2 blocks north of Ness Avenue)

Abstract:

Yes, it is that time of year again! The WARC Flea Market is rapidly approaching. As I write this announcement, (Sept 16) it is only 30 days away!

WARC’s favourite semi annual get together, also known as the WARC Flea Market, is scheduled for Heritage Victoria Community Club, on Sunday, October 16. The Community Club is located at 950 Sturgeon Road, just a hop, skip, and a jump north of Ness Avenue.

Do you have a basement cluttered up with high class junque, looking for a new home? Do you want to sell some excess ham gear? Do you want to make a few dollars, to spend on newer and better “stuff”? Do you want to make the XYL happy? The WARC Flea Market is the perfect place to look after all that, and more. Simply phone or e-mail Ruth VE4XYL to book your table. She can be reached at 837-6915 or ve4se@mts.net.

Tables are only $5.00 each for WARC members, and $10.00 each for everyone else. There are only 30 tables available for sale, so better hurry.

Admission is unchanged at $3.00 per person.

Plan to arrive at 9:30 am. Ruth’s Kitchen will be on hand, with the best coffee in town, along with delicious muffins, and Ruth’s fabulous bunwiches, made with TLC. Have a nice visit with all those folks you never see, except at the Flea Market!

Doors open for buying at 10:30. The sale should last til about noon.

Be sure to visit the Manitoba Repeater Society table to prepay your 2012 dues. Stop by the Winnipeg ARES table, as well, for a chance to win a nice prize. Don’t forget to ask Adam VE4SN, who has the QSL: bureau for Manitoba, to check for your outstanding QSL cards.

Be sure to mark your calendar, right now, for Sunday, October 16 !!

73
Dick Maguire VE4HK
Flea Market Coordinator

On May 19, 2011, the IEEE Winnipeg Section handed out the awards to the best Capstone Design Projects from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Manitoba.

2011 IEEE Winnipeg Section Undergraduate Thesis Ted Glass Award:

• Students: Kane Anderson, Tahir Diop, and Yin Fei Meng
• Project: “Variable lift controls in weather balloons for near space applications”
• Advisor: Dr. Witold Kinsner

2011 IEEE Winnipeg Section Undergraduate Thesis Award:

• 1st Place Award
  • Students: Sumek Elimban, Vivek Elimban, and Benjamin Gustave
  • Project: “Real-time hardware-in-Loop induction motor drive”
  • Advisor: Dr. Shaahin Filizadeh

• 2nd Place Award
  • Students: Kane Anderson, Tahir Diop, and Yin Fei Meng
  • Project: “Variable lift controls in weather balloons for near space applications”
  • Advisor: Dr. Witold Kinsner

• 3rd Place Award
  • Students: Rebecca Joseph, Samantha Olson, and Kristy-Lee Trembley
  • Project: “Design and construction of a laryngoscope training tool”
  • Advisor: Dr. Zahra Moussavi

The 16th annual Manitoba Robot Games will be held on Saturday, March 19 at Tec Voc High School. Once again, a number of volunteer positions are available – judge, timekeeper, security, registration, etc. So, if you have a few hours to spare, please come out, make new friends, and have fun in an environment that promotes science and technology to youth in MB!

If you would like to volunteer, send me an email with:

Your availability:

• Training is Wednesday, March 16, 7 – 8:30 PM at Tec Voc
• Set-up is Friday, March 18, 5 – 7 PM
• Games are Saturday, March 19, 8 AM – 6 PM

Your t-shirt size

Your contact information

Looking forward to seeing you at the Games!

Jelena Piplica
Volunteer Coordinator
MB Robot Games
www.mbrobotgames.ca

Letter from Jim Graham:

You will know that the provincial government has instructed Manitoba Hydro to build a new transmission line to Winnipeg from the Nelson River dams near Hudson Bay on a route down the west side of the province. The line is known as BiPole3.

Hydro engineers originally proposed a route down the east side of Lake Winnipeg. This instruction by the government is a difficult issue for our engineering colleagues in Hydro.

The ADDITIONAL cost of the west-side route over the east-side route is somewhere around $1.4 -$1.7 billion dollars over 20 years. This figure includes additional construction costs for the longer line, reduction of earnings because of line losses, and additional costs of financing.

A number of retired engineers from Hydro, the University of Manitoba, and other backgrounds feel that the east-side route is much to be preferred because it • is much shorter and involves smaller ongoing line losses

• will be significantly less expensive
• produces higher revenues from the same amount of generated power
• is in an area with lower frequency of tornados and lightning strikes
• impacts a smaller number of land owners and existing infrastructure
• through the combination of decreased hazard and impact, has lower risk of breakdown and higher reliability
• involves essentially similar distance in boreal forest as the West Side route and has broadly similar environmental impact.
• brings economic opportunities to East Side communities.
   

This consensus is based on the Code of Ethics of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba (APEGM), and the Engineering Obligation adopted by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) in relation to the environment.

Engineers supporting the consensus include Mr. Len Bateman, former CEO of Hydro and Mr. Dave Ennis, former Executive Director of APEGM. Members attending the recent Annual General Meeting will know that the APEGM Council has been asked to consider whether they will undertake advocacy to reverse the decision favouring the west-side route. Significant opposition has developed among the affected farming community in SW Manitoba.

To promote the preferred east-side route, a group known as the BIPole III Coalition has been formed to raise public awareness of the issue and hopefully to lead to a return to the route originally proposed by Hydro engineers. The coalition currently includes retired professional engineers, landowners, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, and the Manitoba and Canadian Aerial Applicators Associations. Contacts have already been made with APEGM. The Chamber of Commerce will also be approached for their support.

I have attached the following files:

• A PowerPoint presentation that outlines the relative merits of the east-side and west-side routes. [download]
• A letter signed by six senior retired engineering professors from the University of Manitoba. [download]
   

I ask that your organizations, as local sections of major national technical societies, agree to be included as supporting the objectives of the Coalition. As I understand, the support would be in the form of a listing of your organization (not individual members) in promotions of the Coalition’s objectives. There would be no financial commitment, though donations to offset expenses would no doubt be welcomed. What we want is your support for the technical case we will present.

If I may, I ask that you take this request to the Executive Committee of your local section and have them consider it. I hope the Committee’s response will be favourable.

Regards
Jim Graham, PhD DSc FEIC PEng,
Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba.
jgraham@cc.umanitoba.ca, 204-269-0424

Documents:

• Bipole3: Presentation on the merits for each route [2MB PDF]
• Bipole3: Letter from six senior retired engineering professors from UofM [45KB PDF]