OSPE Board Member Profile: Angela Wojtyla, P. Eng.
Angela Wojtyla is the Director of Consulting at CGI Group Inc., with experience at Redknee Inc., Hydro One, and Manitoba Hydro. Angela joined the Board in 2018 and is the current chair of OSPE’s Women in Engineering Advocacy Task Force (WE ACT). She has a history of supporting women in engineering through initiatives like: WE […]
Brian Bonnick, P.Eng., wins 2019 OPEA Gold Medal
Brian J. Bonnick, BESc, P.Eng. Executive Vice President, Technology & Chief Technology Officer, Imax Corp. Over four decades, Brian Bonnick has combined his engineering skills and business acumen with a superior work ethic to deliver success, innovation and profits to six Canadian corporations. With 20 years of engineering and senior management success at Nortel, […]
OSPE Board Member Profile: Anna Gkalimani, P.Eng.
Anna Gkalimani is a Structural Engineer with NA Engineering Associates Inc. She has years of international engineering experience from her work in Greece and Cyprus where she worked as an Assistant Engineer with Mac Beton, a Structural Engineer with Euroco SA and a Project Manager for Magico LTD. Anna is a newly elected Board member […]
Engineers & engineering graduates running in the 2019 Federal Election
Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and officially start the election campaign. With this in mind, party leaders and candidates will be seeking to grab the attention of Canadians, and ultimately votes. Now more than ever, candidates must explain how their parties will address complex societal, environmental and economic […]
Shoshanna Saxe, P.Eng., wins 2019 OPEA Engineering Medal – Young Engineer
Shoshanna Saxe, PhD, P.Eng. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto An assistant professor with the University of Toronto’s Civil and Mineral Engineering faculty, Dr. Shoshanna Saxe’s research examines the societal impact of infrastructure, with a focus on sustainable urban infrastructure, mega infrastructure, transit infrastructure and urban materials flows. Her main expertise is in life cycle […]
Seminar • Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise: Physics, Cells, Health and History
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 — 1:00 PM EDT Location DC – William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Avenue West, Rm. 1302 Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Mariana Alves-Pereira Lusófona University Mariana Alves-Pereira holds a B.Sc. in Physics (State University of New York at Stony Brook), a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (Drexel University) and a Ph.D. in […]
Celebration Engineering Excellence at the 2019 OPEA Gala
The Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Gala is the province’s most prestigious and anticipated engineering event of the year. Proudly co-presented by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), this annual gala brings industry innovators, business leaders and policy makers together to celebrate and be inspired by engineering excellence and achievement. This year’s OPEA […]
Asset Management: Is your service level meeting the expectations of your community?
In this fast-paced world, are you keeping up with your community’s expectations? As more city dwellers choose to move to a rural setting, they can sometimes bring with them higher levels of service expectations. Can you continue to afford delivering the level of services that your residents expect? OSPE has a course designed to help […]
Water & Human Health: Graduate Diploma Program at Queen’s University
Water is the essential foundation to all of nature’s living things. All of Earth and its inhabitants rely on water for survival and it plays many roles in our daily lives. As the environment becomes more complex, we will need leaders to deeply understand the many implications water has in the political, public health, engineering, […]
Should you renovate or relocate?
Housing needs change throughout your life. Whether you have a growing family or an empty nest, at some point you may have to renovate or relocate. To make your decision easier, ask yourself these 10 questions. 10 questions to ask What do you want in your new home? Start by compiling a list. Do you […]