PEOSC Newsletter 2019 – Issue 1 (Spring 2019) 1

PEOSC Newsletter – 2019 Issue 1 (Spring 2019)

Chapter Activities – Summary From January 2019

➢ January 12: Annual General Meeting

➢ March 30: Bridge Building Competition

➢ March 30: Seismic Resistance Structure Contest

➢ April 13: Modular Electronic Contest

➢ June 8: Licence Presentation Ceremony

➢ May & June: Technical Seminars/Tours

➢ July 20: Summer BBQ Event

Details on events are on the chapter website www.scarborough.peo.on.ca

Board of Executives 2019 Chair – Lan (Victor) Lin, P.Eng

Vice-Chair – Peng Zhang, P.Eng

Past Chair – Murad Hussain, M.Eng., P.Eng, FEC

Treasurer – Javeed Ahmed Khan, Ph.D, P.Eng

Secretary – Rajendra Gadhvi, P.Eng

Executive – Elvis (Pinjing) Wang, P.Eng

Executive – René Siguenza, P. Eng

Executive – Santosh Gupta, P.Eng, Ph.D, FEC

Executive - Shinta Gragossian, EIT

To contact the board: Email: scarborough@peo.on.ca.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2019

1 Technical Seminars/Tour –July 2019 to December 2019

2 Licensure Assistant Program – September, 2019

3 Mathletics – October 26, 2019

4 Mechatronics – November 16, 2019

Chair’s Message Lin (Victor) Lan, P.Eng

Chair, Scarborough Chapter – PEO Thank you for electing me. Scarborough Chapter is one of the most active chapters in the PEO. In the past decade, we have successfully run many outreach programs for school students. In addition, we also have hosted great events for our members. Without the hard work of our board of executives and great efforts put on by our volunteers, these successes could not have been made. I thank all our volunteers and members of our board of executives.

In the remainder of 2019, we will focus on outreach programs that will increase number of participants, increasing public involvement, and we may also start outreach programs for the public so that the public can learn more about engineering.

This year, we will continue member service programs. We may have more seminars. If you are in knowledge of someone who can deliver on subjects of technical importance, please let us know. We are very keen on organising seminars for the benefit of our members. In this newsletter, I would like to specifically mention about the Licensure Assistance Program (LAP), which provides guidance to EITs. I request to the Professional Engineers to come forward and assist in the program by increasing our pool of mentors. Currently, Scarborough Chapter has 2296 engineers. Hope that more engineers will volunteer for the LAP program this year.

We, at Scarborough Chapter, constantly endeavor to offer professional networking opportunities. We welcome new ideas and suggestions and the board of executives look forward to working together so that we, the engineers, can be better known in the public. Please visit our website to get to know your chapter activities and how to get involved.

A gentle word, like summer rain, May soothe some heart and banish pain. What joys or sadness often springs From just the simple little things!

Willa Hoey

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PEO Scarborough Chapter 2019 Annual General Meeting

he Annual General Meeting (AGM) of PEO

Scarborough Chapter was held at Albert Campbell

Library, 496 Birchmount Rd, Scarborough, ON M1K

1N8 on Saturday, January 12, 2019. About 50 members and

PEO elections candidates attended.

Chair welcomed the gathering and presented the welcome

speech. Chair also took the opportunity to thank all the past

chairs and in recognition of their contribution presented Pins and

Certificates. Peng presented the 2018 Treasurer’s report of the

Chapter. Javeed presented the 2018 Secretary’s report to the

august gathering. Changiz Sadr, P.Eng., FEC, TOGAF, CISSP

(GDPR) gave a special presentation.

“Social media and technology are not agents of change. They are just tools. We the connected

people are the agents of change - Stuart J Ellman

National Engineering Month 2019 Events: Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Competition Seismic Resistance Structure Contest

EO Scarborough Chapter held its 16th Bridge

Building Competition (BBC) for grade 3 to grade 6

students on March 30th, 2019 in Scarborough Civic

Center. 18 junior teams and 32 senior teams

registered for the competition, where students made

various kinds of bridges with popsicle sticks.

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BBC is one of most popular programs in the elementary

schools in Scarborough. Through the contest, students learn

basic knowledge of structural mechanics and loads.

n the same day, PEO Scarborough Chapter conducted

the Seismic Resistance Structure Contest (SRSC)

simultaneously with Bridge Building Competition

(BBC). It was the 3rd year of the event. This event is conducted

for grades 7 and 8. 13 teams (35 students) participated in the

competition. Parents and teachers as well as city councillors

and MPPs attended the meeting.

The event consisted of four sections. The 1st section is a

presentation about seismic structure and earthquake. The 2nd

section is inspection. The 3rd section is judge evaluation. The

last section is testing.

There are two categories of prizes: judges prizes and

performance prizes.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom – George Washington Carver

The 5th Modular Electronic Engineering (MEE) Competition for Grade 5 & 6

very year PEO Scarborough chapter hosts MEE

competition for Grade 5 and 6 students to introduce

them to the concept of building electronic modules

using electronic components in the circuits. Students are

taught how different components are assembled in a circuit

to create simple devices that perform certain functions on

command. Each year a different challenge is brought for

the students to make the involvement interesting for the

participants.

In the first year we provided a challenge for the students

to build an ROV i.e. a remotely operated vehicle which was

run on a track with obstacles. The judging criteria was the

length of travel, time taken to travel that length, and the

obstacles cleared or met. In the second year we brought

the challenge for the students to build an amphibian

vehicle, one that operates on land as well as water. The

judging criteria were again the distance travelled, time

taken, and the obstacles covered or met.

In the third year, we will bring the concept of driverless

cars.

Driverless cars would have a lot of sensors with

programming which control the various functions of the

cars. The presentation to students imparted the knowledge

of sensors and modular electronic engineering to build an

autonomous vehicle. Students enthusiastically built an

autonomous vehicle which was tested on 3 tracks prepared

by us.

This year students built a droid and had to maneuver the

droid remotely through different tasks. Students

outperformed the expectations and completed the tasks in

very short time.

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A Doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so the Doctor gave him another 6 months.

I married Miss. Right. I just didn’t know her first name was Always.

Where should an older man look for his glasses? On his forehead.

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Volunteer Awards at PEOSC

Congratulations to Dr. Santosh Gupta. P. Eng. and Narayana

Asogan, P. Eng. for receiving Volunteer Awards in 2019. Governor

General of Canada awarded to Dr. Gupta Sovereign’s Medal for

Volunteers. Mr. Asogan received Order of Honour award from the

PEO.

Licence Presentation Ceremony

pring Licence Presentation Ceremony (LPC) was

held on Saturday, June 8, 2019 at The Brighton

Convention & Event Centre. Forty newly licensed

engineers received their licence certificates in person, while

two received them in absentia. Our Guest of Honour was

MPP, Aris Babikian.

Master of Ceremonies for the event was Dr. Santosh Gupta, P.Eng, FEC. Our Keynote Speaker was PEO President Elect, Marisa Sterling, P.Eng., FEC, who delivered a speech on Engineering for Sustainable World. Two PEO Councillors Dr. Keivan Torabi, PhD, P.Eng., and Arthur Sinclair, P.Eng. attended LPC and presented the certificates to the recipients.

Congratulations to our recipients and thanks for all the great work to our LPC Committee members!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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GLP Activities at PEOSC

he Government Liaison Program popularly known as the GLP in PEO circles, was initiated in 2005 with well defined goals and objectives as to the role of PEO Chapters and their members, in furthering the role of

PEO by communicating effectively with the elected representatives. The primary goal of the GLP is to encourage members to establish and nurture relationships with the MPP’s in the different ridings that come under the chapter’s jurisdiction. To achieve this every chapter has a GLP team which has a chair who is normally a member of the Executive, with 2 to 3 volunteers. These volunteers actively involve themselves in attending the different events that the local MPP’s conduct for the community as well as invite and encourage MPP’s to attend the Chapter events. The Scarborough Chapter has had a very longstanding commitment to actively further the Chapter’s goals and bring its activities in the community. The Chapter members have from time to time taken efforts to monitor policy proposals and express their views to the MPP’s regarding proposals that affect the PEO and its regulatory role. They also endeavour to provide clarity on PEO’s policy positions to government policy makers. This years GLP activities started off on a loud note with the Annual Bridge Building competition and the Structural Resistance Competition conducted on March 30’th at the Scarborough Town Center, Council chambers which had an almost complete turnout of MPP’s and City Councillors. We are yet to establish contact with MPP Christina Mitas (Scarborough-Centre) and MPP Dolly Begum (Scarborough West) and look forward to more events in the Fall and winter and meaningful contacts and interactions with the MPP’s and the community. A PEO Scarborough Chapter table manned by volunteers and a banner at public events will help better showcase our Chapter’s events. Let’s get involved and make our GLP activities rise to higher levels of accomplishments. More information on GLP is available in the GLP manual on the PEO website.

Present were Hon Raymond Cho (MPP- Scarborough North), Hon Vijay Thanigasalam (MPP-Scarborough Rouge Park), Hon Mitzie Hunter (MPP-Scarborough Guildwood) , Hon Michael Thompson ( Deputy Mayor of Toronto), Hon Jim Karygiannis (Councillor for Scarborough Agincourt) and the newest Councillor from Scarborough Rouge Park, Hon Jennifer McKelvie. The Chapter executives had ample opportunities for networking as the MPP’s stayed for a while and participated in some testing, awarded certificates to the winners and interacted with students and parents as well. GLP members present were Chapter chair Victor Lin, Chapter Executive Rajendra Gadhvi and GLP member Samuel P. Jacob.

On May 22, Chapter GLP member Samuel Jacob represented the Chapter GLP team at the Scarborough Business association BBQ at Victoria Pub in Midland Ave. MPP Aris Babikan was present as well as longstanding PEO Scarborough member Jamie Libaque P.Eng. On June 23rd MPP Vijay Thanigasalam had his first Community BBQ at Adams Park which was well attended by over a thousand community members. Games, food, coffee and ice cream and other attractions provided an atmosphere of friendship and fellowship. Samuel Jacob once again took this opportunity to share some thoughts with the MPP and invited him to attend Chapter events. On June 8th we once again had the privilege of having MPP Aris Babikian (Scarborough-Agincourt) as the Guest of honour at the Annual License Certificate presentation of the new Professional Engineers of the Scarborough Chapter. This event was held at the Brighton Convention and event centre in Scarborough and was attended by GLP members Santosh Gupta and Rajendra Ghadvi. The PEO GLP program led by Jeanette Chau P.Eng. has allowed a budget of $200 per riding in the Chapter’s jurisdiction and is planning to provide lapel pins to members for better recognition and visibility in public spaces and functions. Members interested in joining this team are welcome to contact the Chapter chair, Lin Victor, Santosh Gupta (Chair-GLP) or any of the GLP sub committee.

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PEO Scarborough Chapter Seminars and Technical Tours Seminar 1. Fire Protection Engineering - March 13th, Agincourt Public Library Presenter - Lui Tai, P. Eng. Mr. Lui delivered our first seminar of 2019 on “Fire Protection Engineering”. Lui Tai, P. Eng., an electrical engineers with over 30 years of experience working in fire protection in Canada, currently the Chair of PEO York Chapter, and also a Director for Canadian Fire Alarm Association (Ontario Chapter), has been a committee member for OBC Part 3 Technical Advisory Committee and ULC S524 sub-committee. Through this seminar, Lui introduced the fire protection engineering concept and Ontario Building Code requirement, which involves many traditional engineering disciplines: Civil, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Material Sciences. The seminar explained the fundamentals of Fire Protection Engineering, and how it is helping to shape the construction industry and the future of our cities. The seminar was very successful with more than 100 engineering professionals registered and participated on March 13, at Agincourt Public Library. Seminar 2 - Structural Strengthening Systems with Carbon

Fiber – July 15, 2019 Presenter - Gregor Dolenc. Greg talked about How to Use, Design Details, and Case Studies of carbon fiber resin polymers in structural repairs. About 30 members take part in the seminar.

Technical Tour 1 - Toronto Pan Am Sports Center Building Services Plant Technical Tour – June 19th, TPASC On June 19th, Elvis Wang, P.Eng, chapter seminar & technical tour chair, led our 12 engineers to TPASC and completed a technical tour at Toronto Pan Am Sports Center Building Services Plant. During this tour, the world class swimming facility pool services room, heating boiler and cooling chiller plant rooms and solar green roof were visited and related building mechanical systems were introduced to our Scarborough chapter engineers. The TPASC building services system are outstanding with its scale and most latest building technologies, like high standard swimming water treatment and building energy efficiency, like green roof and solar panels. Elvis liaised with TPASC facility and extended special thanks to facility business director Catherine Hughes and Michael Cassano.

Editor: Rajendra Gadhvi, M.S. (Civil), P.Eng. We welcome our readers’ contributions:

❖ Articles of engineering interest (recommend 500 words or less), and subjects of interest to the engineering community with guidelines of PEO)

❖ Suggestion for future events – seminars/ technical visits/ workshops, etc. ❖ Suggestions for improvement of newsletter/ website.

Notes:

1) Editor reserves the right to accept, reject or edit articles received.

2) Opinions expressed by authors are their own and are not necessarily those of PEO or PEOSC.

Contact: peoscarchapter@gmail.com; Website: www.scarborough.peo.on.ca