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Welcome
to the
Vancouver Branch of the Association of Professional Engineers and
Geoscientists of British Columbia.
The mission of the Vancouver Branch is “to promote solidarity and well
being among our membership by facilitating meaningful communication
between our membership, council, trainees, students, government, and
the public.” We accomplish this by organizing and hosting professional
development, outreach and networking events for all of our members. The
Vancouver Branch has come a long way from first conceiving a Mission
Statement in 2005. Over the past few years, our event attendance has
been steadily increasing and feedback from our members has consistently
been both positive and constructive. Our breakfast seminars and tours
are routinely sold out, our student and young member outreach events
continue to be extremely successful, and our annual ‘E-Fest’ is one of
the largest Engineering and Geoscience public awareness events in the
province. We are looking forward to providing more fellowship and
outreach for the 2009/2010 year.
Our continued success as a branch comes directly from the active
participation of our executive and by the increasingly open channels of
communication with members. We need new participants, new ideas, and
new issues brought forth from the APEGBC membership to build on our
past successes and to stay current as a profession. You are all part of
a noble profession, one which contributes to the betterment of our
province, country and civilization as a whole. There are many
challenges currently facing APEGBC, and as a self-regulated profession
it is our responsibility to ensure that we address these issues to
maintain our societal obligation of protecting the public. Simply put,
the governing practices of our profession lie in your hands. So if you
are interested in aiding the continued success of our profession by
volunteering with our branch, or if you feel that any issue relating to
APEGBC needs to be addressed, then please send us an email, or better
yet, come to one of our executive meetings – you can find the date,
time and location at the bottom of any page on this website.
I wish you all the very best in the upcoming year!
Sincerely,
Tomer Curiel, M.A.Sc., E.I.T.
Chair, APEGBC Vancouver Branch |
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It has been another successful year for
the APEGBC Vancouver Branch. I would like to take this opportunity to
highlight some of our successes.
In August at our annual planning BBQ we set our Year-at-a-Glance
calendar that indicated the number and types of events we wanted to
achieve for the upcoming year. We successfully executed each event we
planned to hold and in all, we engaged approximately one out of every
nine members of our Branch through our events.
This year we had breakfast seminars on the topics of “Risk in
professional Practice and the Role of Liability Insurance”, “Next
Generation of Sustainability and Green Buildings”, and “Thriving in the
Slowdown”. Our Branch facilitated tours for the Triumf facility at UBC,
Commissioning of a 5000 meter rated Remote Operated Vehicle hosted by
ISE, the Seymour Filtration Project and two tours of the nearly
completed Canada Line. Throughout the year our branch held a number of
other activities and events including a Logbook Seminar, a Cheeze mixer
for Engineering students at UBC, the annual “E-Fest” Public awareness
event at the Vancouver Public Library , and our branch Christmas Party.
Some other notable successes for our branch this year included hosting
a new event (STV Information Session), significantly improving in our
communications in all forms (surveys, newsletters, website and emails),
attracting several new volunteers to our executive, and maintaining
fiscal responsibility.
It has been a pleasure and an honor to be the Chair of the Vancouver
Branch and to work with such a dedicated group of volunteers.
Sincerely,
Kevin Riederer, M.A.Sc., E.I.T.
Chair, APEGBC Vancouver Branch
2008-2009 Vancouver Branch Executive Members:
| Kevin Riederer, EIT |
Chair
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| Thomas Diszhazy, EIT |
Past-Chair
(Immediate) |
| Angela Ho, EIT |
Vice
Chair |
| Tomer Curiel, EIT |
Vice
Chair / Treasurer |
| Yuko Watai, EIT |
Secretary
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| Nathan Ozog, EIT |
Communications
Coordinator |
| Joel Atwater, EIT |
Events
Coordinator |
| Henry Ho, P.Eng |
Tour
Coordinator |
| Mike Wrinch, P.Eng |
Council
Representative |
| Gordon Lindsay, P.Eng |
EIC
Liaison |
| Barry Huo |
UBC
Student
Representative |
| Joel Mertens |
UBC
Student Representative |
| Leonard Pianalto, P.Eng |
Past
Chair |
| Claudio Arato, P.Eng |
Past
Chair |
| Alain Bergeron, P.Eng |
Member-at-Large
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| Jason Currie |
Member-at-Large
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| Robin Norman, EIT |
Member-at-Large
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| Omar Ishkintana, EIT |
Member-at-Large
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| Balaram Ghosh, P.Eng |
Member-at-Large
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| Herman Hui, EIT |
Member-at-Large
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The Vancouver Branch Executive holds meetings on the first Tuesday
of every month from 6:00pm to 7:30pm at Read Jones Christofferson
(RJC)**
3rd Floor, 1285 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3X8
All Vancouver Branch Members are encouraged to attend Executive
Meetings, especially if they have an interest in volunteering or an
issue they wish to address with the executive.
**For more details, or to obtain a contact phone number in case you
are late for a meeting (the building is locked after business hours)
please email: van (at) apeg.bc.ca
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