Thank you to Mr Kim Allen, CEO of Engineers Canada for his presentation "Strengthening Confidence in Engineering" at the 2013 Hearn Dinner and Lecture on 10 August. It was an excellent evening and we appreciate the support of our sponsors IEEE, Morrison Hershfield, Ontario Power Authority, Ontario Power Generation, IMechE, CIBSE, CREE, Cooper Lighting,Rutenberg Sales, and Salex.
Thank you to the members of the Hearn Planning Committee: Jenny Yu, Mohamed Nizam, Jim McConnach, and Tony Cutner (not shown in photo George Chelvanayagam).
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Here are more photos from the evening. Greg Duggan, Tony Cutner, and Alyssa Randall were recognized for their assistance with the planning of the volunteers conference.
There was a special award to longstanding members of the Institution: Michael Henville (member since 1964), George Woolley (1953), Thomas Rowlands (1943), Jim McConnach (1964). Not shown Melvin Chan (1962), Eric Blanchard (Montreal, 1958), Anthony Bonney (1962).
Jim received the unofficial award for "Best Kilt".
Earlier in the day, Cody participated in the regional final of the Present around the World competition. His presentation was entitled, "The Bunsen Bag: An Aid for Solar Water Disinfection in Developing Nations". He received is B.Eng. in environmental engineering from University of Guelph and is currently working for Kilmaat Consulting and Innovation.
Toronto was well represented at the volunteers conference the same weekend. George Chelvanayagam, Tony Cutner, Greg Duggan, Charles Gilmour, Michael Henville, Matthew Jelavic, Jim McConnach, Mohamed Nizam, Alyssa Randall, and Nigel Schofield attended. Tony opened the conference with a hilarious icebreaker with Mia Jovic from Calgary. Jim was a panelist on the discussion on how the IET can work with other technical organizations.
Welcome to new member Shawn Wasserman! Within hours of signing up as a member, he became the newly elected secretary of the Toronto Network!