OPEA 2022 – Dr. Janusz Kozinski, P.Eng. (The Gold Medal)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Janusz Kozinski, P.Eng., received the Gold Medal. Dr. Kozinski has a proven record of innovation and success as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Lakehead University and Dean of the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. We are pleased to share his citation […]
OPEA 2022 – Cory Jones, P.Eng. (The Engineering Medal – Engineering Excellence)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Cory Jones, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Engineering Excellence. We are pleased to share his citation for this coveted award. Cory Jones is Anishnaabe from the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. He has spent the past 25 years at Neegan Burnside Ltd. working with […]
OPEA 2022 – Dr. Robert Delatolla, P.Eng. (The Engineering Medal – Engineering Excellence)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Robert Delatolla, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Engineering Excellence. We are pleased to share his citation for this coveted award. Dr. Delatolla mobilized his engineering research group during the pandemic to develop a method to measure SARS-CoV-2 viral genetic signal in wastewater. He was […]
OSPE Restates Opposition to Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers is once again calling on the provincial government to defer its pending highway projects, specifically Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass. In a letter to Premier Doug Ford and Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney, OSPE has restated our opposition to these projects. Our letter follows a recent statement from Ontario […]
OPEA 2022 – Dr. Saad Younis Jasim, P.Eng. (The Engineering Medal – Entrepreneurship)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Saad Younis Jasim, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Entrepreneurship. We are pleased to share his citation for this coveted award. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Jasim has focused his professional engineering work on health and safety. Currently, he is working on a project […]
OPEA 2022 – Dr. Roderick C. Tennyson, P.Eng. (The Engineering Medal – Management)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Roderick C. Tennyson, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Management. We are pleased to share his citation for this coveted award. Dr. Tennyson was a professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies {UTIAS) for four decades and Director of UTIAS from 1985-1995. […]
OPEA 2022 – Dr. Kibret Mequanint, P.Eng. (The Engineering Medal – Research and Development)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Kibret Mequanint, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Research and Development. We are pleased to share his citation for this coveted award. A Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Western University, Dr. Kibret Mequanint is an internationally renowned innovator and scholar […]
Proposed Amendments to the Excess Soil Regulation
Last week (December 1, 2022), OSPE responded to the call for consultation for the Amendments to Certain Requirements under the Excess Soil Regulation. OSPE found the proposed revisions reasonable, but made the following comments: There is an opportunity to create a framework that offers clarity and efficiency to ultimately protect the public. OSPE is available […]
OPEA 2022 – Dr. Daolun Chen, P.Eng. (The Engineering Medal – Research and Development)
Last month at the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, Dr. Daolun Chen, P.Eng., received the Engineering Medal – Research and Development. We are pleased to share his citation for this coveted award. Dr. Daolun Chen is a world-leading expert in the field of materials science and engineering as well as a prolific researcher with a […]
Proposed Amendments to the Greenbelt Plan
Yesterday (December 1, 2022), OSPE filed a submission in stating that the Ontario engineering community strongly opposes the proposed building on protected Greenbelt lands. Converting Greenbelt lands to residential development will hinder Ontario’s carbon targets without providing enough economic return, nor reducing the cost of buying a new home. The Greenbelt is an asset to […]
