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Newsletter 2019 - Issue # 2 (Fall 2019) 1
PEOSC Newsletter – 2019 Issue # 2 (Fall 2019)
PEOSC AGM
Date: Saturday, February 01, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Venue: Centre for Immigrant and Community Services (CICS), 2330 Midland Ave., Scarborough, ON
The Notice of AGM is being sent to all members as per our by-law requirements. It is also posted on our website: www.scarborough.peo.on.ca.
Chapter Activities – Fall Upcoming: ➢ Feb. 01, 2020 – Annual General Meeting
For details visit: www.scarborough.peo.on.ca Since Middle of July 2019:
➢ Jul. 20 – Annual Family BBQ ➢ Aug. 24 – Technical Tour #2 ➢ Sept. 19 – Seminar #3 (The Unseen World of
Private Radio Communication Systems) ➢ Oct. 5 to Spring 2020 – Licensure Assistance
Program ➢ Oct. 26 – Mathletics Competition ➢ Nov 18 – Seminar #4 (The Road to Becoming a
Licensed Professional Engineer: Processes and Requirements)
➢ Nov. 23 – Mechatronics Contest ➢ Dec. 7 – Volunteer Appreciation Event
Board of Executives 2019 Chair - Lin (Victor) Lan, P.Eng., LEED AP Vice-Chair - Peng Zhang, P.Eng., LEED AP Treasurer - Javeed A. Khan, PhD, P.Eng., SMIEEE Secretary - Rajendra Gadhvi, P.Eng. Past Chair - Murad Hussain, M.Eng., P.Eng., FEC Executive - Elvis (Pinjing) Wang, P.Eng. Executive - Santosh Gupta, PhD, P.Eng., FEC Executive - Rene Siguenza, P.Eng. Executive - Shinta Gragossian, EIT To contact the board, email: scarborough@peo.on.ca.
Chair’s Message Victor Lan, P.Eng., LEED AP,
Chair, Scarborough Chapter – PEO
would like to thank the board executives, councillors, volunteers,
and members for their efforts to make this year’s programs successful and spending their valuable time and energy for chapter activities.
The chapter had wonderful events for the remainder of 2019, including the Annual Family BBQ, Seminar #3, #4 and Technical Tour #2. The chapter board meeting was held every month. Several new volunteers and PEO Regional Councillors attended our meetings. To provide guidance to our EITs, the chapter held the Licence Assistance Program (LAP) this year as we have done for many years.
Enhancing a local presence for the engineering profession is one of the chapter’s goals. We successfully organized Mathletics and Mechatronics contests for school students. Local MPPs and city councillors were invited to these events. We also actively participated in MPP’s events. This year, four high school graduates received the Aspiring Engineer scholarship. The chapter held its annual volunteer appreciation lunch on December 7, 2019.
We organized several technical seminars that were well attended and appreciated by the members. The Chapter AGM will be held on February 1, 2020. We call our members to take active part in the chapter activities and inspire next generation of engineers. As you may be aware, the PEO Council Election will be held between January 17 and February 21, 2020, and we request all our members to participate by casting their valuable vote.
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We wish all our members, volunteers, well-wishers and families a
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Mathletics Peng Zhang, P.Eng., AP LEEDS
2019 Project Manager
EOSC conducted the 14th Annual Mathletics Competition at Scarborough Civic Centre on Saturday, October 26, 2019. A total of 24 junior
students and 17 senior students participated in this competition. The following special guests were present during the event: PEO Vice President Christian Bellini, P.Eng., Aris Babikian, MPP from Scarborough Agincourt, Christina Mitas, MPP from Scarborough Centre. In addition, we received greetings from MPP Raymond Cho. George Kralik, P.Eng., from PEO West Toronto Chapter observed the entire event.
Thanks for all the volunteers for your great contributions to make this event successful! For the event photos and more information about PEOSC 2019 Mathletics, visit our website at: www.scarborough.peo.on.ca.
Annual Family BBQ Rene Siguenza, P.Eng.
Event Organizer
he chapter held its 9th Annual Family BBQ on July 20, 2019 at the Adams Park. About 40 members and their families—including children
and grandchildren—got together to socialize and play games. The chapter has held the BBQ annually since 2011.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
M. K. Gandhi
COMING TOGETHER is the beginning.
KEEPING TOGETHER
is progress.
WORKING TOGETHER
is success. HENRY FORD
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GLP Activities at PEOSC Dr. Santosh Gupta, PhD, P.Eng., FEC
Chapter GLP Chair
all 2019 continued to be a busy time for PEOSC volunteers lead by GLP Chapter Chair Dr. Santosh Gupta and assisted by Rajendra Gadhvi,
Mathew Adekunle, Lan Victor and Samuel Jacob. The highlight of this period was the active participation of three of our members, Santosh, Rajendra and Samuel along with members in the EC and WC GLP Academy. This took place on Oct 05, 2019 at the PEO office and was well attended by other Chapter GLP members. The event saw three MPPs addressing the volunteers and providing insights as to how engineers could more effectively liaise with MPPs and their staff to get PEO’s message heard loud and clear with local politicians. Sarah Singh, MPP Brampton Center and Gurratan Singh, MPP Brampton East brought a lot of youthful sprit and vigour as they discussed new and progressive ideas on how engineers could make a difference in their communities. MPP Sheref Sabawy from Mississauga Erin Mills gave practical tips from his vast and long experience dealing with the community. The day was well spent with ample coffee breaks, breakfast and lunch sessions which gave time and opportunity to network with other GLP members and get to know of the issues faced and the solutions applied. GLP members carpooled to keep up the level of participation.
During the Academy, all participants were provided with a “Tool Box” kit and resources which, along with the day long training and networking, will go a long way towards enhancing GLP activities at the chapter level and encourage new volunteers and leaders for this activity.
There were discussions on the Do’s and Don’ts as well a session by Howard
Brown, the PEO GLP Consultant, on how to reach your MPPs effectively. The local chapters presented their reports and Samuel Jacob gave a report on the PEOSC GLP activities for the year so far.
GLP members Dr. Santosh Gupta, Lan Victor and Rajendra Gadhvi met with MPP Christina Mitas during the
Mathletics event held on October 26, 2019 at Scarborough Civic Center.
All in all, it was a very busy and active year for the PEOSC GLP team, and we look forward to doing more things better in the coming year to further the message of PEO to the community.
We look forward to reaching the PEO GLP goal of one representative per MPP structure in the coming years.
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“Next To Doing The Right Thing, The Most Important Thing Is
To Let People Know You Are Doing The Right Thing.”
John D. Rockefeller
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants
You are what you eat
Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother
wouldn’t recognise as food.
Michael Pollan
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Volunteer Appreciation Victor Lan, P.Eng., LEED AP,
Chair, PEOSC
n December 7, 2019, in keeping with the tradition of Scarborough Chapter, the active volunteers of our chapter, their spouses and
children met at the Mandarin Restaurant for a lunch and get-together. We recognized our volunteers’ contributions with jackets featuring our chapter logo. Our young volunteers were also appreciated with gifts.
Our special guest was PEO East Central Region Councillor Arthur Sinclair.
It was a very memorable event, and everyone had a good time.
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The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others.
Unknown
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Aspiring Engineer Scholarship Rajendra Gadhvi, P.Eng.
Project Manager, 2019
very year, PEOSC awards scholarships to one male and one female graduating high school student, each worth $750. Two consolation scholarships are also awarded by the
Scarborough Chapter. This year, PEOSC received five scholarship applications (Three girls and two boys) and all of them received the scholarships.
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Mechatronics Stephan Shatara, P.Eng.
Project Manager, 2019
N Saturday November 23rd, 2019, PEOSC conducted its sixth Mechatronics contest at Centre for Immigration and Community Services (CICS). The Mechatronics contest
was designed for Grade 9-12 students, attending Scarborough high schools or residing in Scarborough, interested in exploring science and engineering, and required applying concepts from various fields.
This year, the junior (Grade 9-10) project involved building an electrical crane system to test the heaviest weight it could carry. Students were asked to build a mechanical gear box, exploring the concept of increasing the torque of a simple DC motor. In addition, students had to build a motor controller circuit, as well as a rain detection circuit using transistors, diodes and resistors, interfaced to the Arduino controller board. Students programmed the Arduino with a simple program that sensed the presence of rain, and automatically triggered the motor controller circuit, starting the gear system.
The senior (Grade 11-12) project involved building an Internet-of-Things (IoT) weather station. Four sensors were provided (temperature, humidity, light intensity, atmospheric pressure). Students were also tasked to build a rain detection circuit using a transistor and resistors. Data from these five sensors were uploaded to a data logging website. Students also had
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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE GREAT TO START,
BUT YOU HAVE TO START TO BE GREAT.
Zig Zigler
The danger of the future is that men may
become Robots
Synthetic smiles have replaced genuine
laughter…dull despair has taken the place of
genuine pain.
Erich Fromm
Science can be used to build a better world
Difference between the sexes are cultural
creations Margaret Mead
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to build an enclosure to protect the circuitry, while adequately exposing the sensor to the elements.
Both junior and senior teams were judged on their project construction and knowledge on the presented circuitry, code, and mechanical aspect. In addition, each senior team submitted a schematic diagram representing their circuit, and gave a brief presentation speaking about their project.
Due to the complexity of the projects, PEOSC supplied a comprehensive project guideline, providing sample circuits and codes, to assist students in their project. In addition, PEOSC held two open sessions where students were helped on their project.
Seminars: Elvis (Pinjing) Wang, P.Eng., LEED AP
Project Manager, 2019
Seminar #3 The Unseen World of Private Radio
Communication Systems
Presenter: Stephan Shatara BSEE, MSEE, P. Eng.
Stephan Shatara is a radio system engineer, with over 11 years of
experiences in the design and
implementation of private (two-way)
radio systems. Stephan spent his first
10 years at Motorola Solutions, Inc.
as a Principal Staff Systems Engineer, and is currently
a Senior Sales Engineer with Hytera Communications,
Canada. During the seminar, Stephan delivered the
communication systems that public safety personnel
use, whether it be police, fire or emergency medical
services or police “walkie-talkies”. Behind all these communications is a whole infrastructure that’s been
carefully designed and deployed, as it’s the lifeline for
our first responders, and equally importantly, ensuring
YOUR safety. Beyond public safety, radio
communications are used by enterprises in many
sectors, including hospitality, industrial (construction /
oil & gas), retail, transport, etc, facilitating their day-to-
day operations.
Seminar #4 The Road to Becoming a Licensed
Professional Engineer: Processes and
Requirements
Presenter: David Kiguel, P.Eng., FEC
David Kiguel, P. Eng., FEC is the
Chair of PEO’s Experience
Requirements Committee. He was
involved in Reliability Modelling,
Assessments and Standards during
his 36-years career with Hydro One
Networks and its predecessor Ontario Hydro until his retirement in 2013. For the last
10 years of his Hydro career he was actively involved
in Reliability Standards development and compliance
activities in the North American Reliability Corporation
(NERC), the North East Power Coordinating Council
(NPCC), the North American Transmission Forum
(NATF) and the Ontario Independent Electricity System
Operator (IESO).
“Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.” - James Dyson .
The marriage contract is a work contract
Marriage enables the husband, as head of the
household, to exploit his wife, by benefitting
from her unpaid labour.
Christine Delphy
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Regarding the road to P.Eng, David’s topics were
covering: 1. What is Professional Engineering?
2. Licence Requirements: Good Character,
Academics, Professional Practice Exam
(PPE), Experience, Referees
3. Exam Programs to verify Academics
4. ERC Interview to confirm Academics
5. PPE Objective and format
6. Acceptable Experience Requirements: length
and quality
7. How to prepare the Experience Summary
8. ERC Interview to verify experience
9. ERC Interview preparation and expectations 10. Referee Requirements
Technical Article: HEALTH, SAFETY &
ENVIRONMENT: EFFECTIVE INSURANCE FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Mathew Adekunle (EIT), 2019
ealth, Safety and Environment (HSE) helps
ensure a healthy and safe workplace. Every
work activity has its own potential hazard –
which is source of harm or adverse effect to workers. Accidents or near accidents happen when
workers neglect or underestimate the workplace’s
potential hazards, which may be:
i. Acute Hazards - Have Immediate Impact
ii. Chronic Hazards - Have Long Term Impact
Health and Safety is a state of complete physical,
mental, social well being and absolute freedom from
accident, injury or illness that may pose deleterious
effects on the human body.
Environment is the worker’s immediate surroundings.
It may include living or non-living things, physical or
natural things such as: air, water, animals, plants, soil,
humans and natural resources. However, the wrongful
manipulation or interference with the natural
components of the environment introduce hazards that
make the environment unsafe. For this reason,
environmental protection has assumed greater
dimensions.
Hazards can be potential accident or near accident.
They are all around us – at workplace, at home and in
public places. Every worker has a role to play in
making the workplace as healthy and safe as possible.
Environment Management
Environment Management, the act of ensuring
monitoring and control for the use of the environment,
or the way of utilizing items of environmental nature so
that person’s activities do not have harmful impact on
the environment. Managing the use of environment
also controls noise, heat, light, vibration, spillage,
pollution, socio-economic and community impact.
MERITS OF HEALTH AND SAFETY, aim at:
a) Secure the health, safety and welfare of every
person at work.
b) Protect persons, other than employees at work,
against risks to health or safety arising out of or in
connection with the activities of persons at work.
Involve everyone both management and employees, to
educate them about the importance of safety and
health.
H ENGINEERS ARE OFTEN OVERLOOKED IN
THE STORIES OF GREAT EVENTS. THE
SCIENTISTS WHO PUSH BACK THE
BOUNDARIES OF KNOWLEDGE ARE
RIGHTLY APPLAUDED, BUT IT IS THE
ENGINEERS WHO TURN THAT
KNOWLEDGE INTO SOMETHING THAT
CHANGES THE WORLD. ENGINEERING IS
THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE, AND IT
HAS BEEN IMPROVING OUR LIVES SINCE
THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION.
From: Introduction - ENGINEERING
Newsletter 2019 - Issue # 2 (Fall 2019) 8
TECHNICAL TOUR #2
Jega Jeganathan P.Eng.
2019 Project Manager carborough Chapter organized a technical tour by bus to the Chocolate Factory, the Smallest Chapel, and Vineyard in Niagara Region for
chapter members and volunteers. About 50 members and volunteers participated. The tour began with a visit to the Welland Canals Centre and St. Catharines Museum. Members had an opportunity to stand on the Welland Canals Centre's Elevated Observation Platform and view the mechanism of the ship lock. Then participants visited the Chocolate Factory where members had a chance to learn about the chocolate making process. Then, we visited the smallest chapel in the world. The last part of the tour was a visit to Inniskillin Wines, where members learned about the fascinating history of the winery. Overall, members enjoyed the tour.
LICENSURE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Peng Zhang, P.Eng., LEED AP
2019 Project Manager
LAP Orientation was held on October 5, 2109. Seven guides and 20 interns participated in LAP 2019. The LAP 2019 will end in the spring of 2020.
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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
Advances in Technology leads
society in imaginative and
unpredictable new directions.
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