Dear colleagues,It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our chapter’s newsletter. We had a very busy year organizing and promoting many successful events. We have organized six speaking events on technical topics, six facility tours, two certificate ceremonies, the Mathletics and the Bridge Building Challenge for school students, two high profile town hall meetings with Leader of the Federal Opposition Michael Ignatieff and Ontario Environment Minister John Wilkinson, engineering management seminar, two networking events, annual picnic, volunteer recognition event, and two newsletters. Based on our pioneering mentorship program, PEO has now initiated a province-wide men-torship program starting phase one with five chapters, including our chapter, with very successful result. Our chapter has been very active in the PEO gov-ernment liaison program (GLP) and received a Chapter GLP Award this year. This outstanding record of achievement has been accomplished due to the hard work, dedication and team spirit of our board members and volunteers. Please join me in applauding this dedicated group of people who are giving society a very good perspective of the engineering profession. You are always welcome to attend and help in our events.

Wish you all Happy Holidays.

Tapan Das, Ph.D., P.Eng.Chair, PEO Mississauga Chapter

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IN THIS ISSUE: »» CHAIR’S MESSAGE »» A LITTLE HUMOUR »» RUNNING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEE »» MISSISSAUGA CHAPTER BOARD LIST »» BILL 72, THE WATER OPPORTUNITIES AND WATER CONSERVATION ACT, 2010 »» MISSISSAUGA CHAPTER REDESIGNED WEBSITE »» RE-ENGINEERING, REVERSE ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT TEARDOWNS »» THE MENTORING COMMITTEE »» THE FALL EVENTS »» FUTURE EVENTS »»

Chair’s Message

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A Little HumourThe Centre for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly dangerous virus, called “Weekly Overload Recreational Killer” (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss–DO NOT TOUCH IT!!! This virus will wipe out your private life entirely. If you should come into contact with WORK, you should immediately take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and take one or both of the antidotes–”Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract” (WINE) or “Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter” (BEER)–until WORK

has been eliminated from your system. Please forward this medical alert to your friends. If you do not have enough friends, you already have the symptoms that you may have already been infected and WORK is sadly controlling your life. Get help.

“It is not uncommon for engineers to accept the reality of phenomena that are not yet understood, as it is very common for physicists to disbelieve the reality of phenom-ena that seem to contradict contemporary beliefs of physics” – H. Bauer

Running for Public School TrusteeRecently, I embarked on a campaign to become the next elected Public School Trustee for Wards 2 and 8 in Mississauga’s municipal elections. Aware of the odds, I still wanted to send a message establishing my interest in providing the necessary and fun-damental education that incorporates extracurricular activities for the chil-dren of grades 3 through to 8, which I believe will encourage a child to seek a college or university education.

During the course of the campaign, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and interacting with people. This helped a great deal in opening up the lines of communications, surveying current concerns, facing criticisms and achiev-ing a better understanding of realities of the position. The Public School Trustee position is not simple; there are over 100,000 students in the Peel District alone. This is a critical and important position that has a trustee play a most significant role to ensure that our kids receive a quality education.

Ironically, regarding the public trustee position, the media has not shed much light on the calibre of the people standing. Media has dedicated much of its time and attention to the mudslinging candidates for mayor and council. I personally never had any exposure to the media in any form such as a candidate debate where vot-ers would be allowed the courtesy to receive sufficient information to make an informed decision. Several trustees did not have a website but gained lots of votes through friends and family, thereby making the “trustee” election a bit of a joke. Going to the voting booths and looking at several unfamil-iar names, voters tend to lean toward familiar people in their community, or they vote the incumbent. Mississauga is well known for voting for the incumbents as most of the them have been in office for more than 15 years, including our very own mayor.

I had a small army of volunteers, some from Kananada Sangha and some

professional engineers, who helped in spreading my message to Wards 2 and 8 in Mississauga. I feel every one of the candidates should go through the chal-lenges of a campaign without having to worry about the result. I may not have won the election, but definitely I won the hearts of some and spread my mes-sage, which was my primary focus.

Prepared by Pappur Shankar, P.Eng., Past Chair of the Mississauga Chapter

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Position Name E-mail

Chair Tapan Das, P.Eng. tkdas@rogers.com

Vice Chair & Education Coordinator

Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng. khaledelrahi@clearwaygroup.com

Treasurer Jana Havard, P.Eng. jhavard@rogers.com

Secretary & Environmental Committee Chair

Amalesh Chakraborty, P.Eng peoamalesh@mechatrosoft.com

Past Chair Pappur N. Shankar, P.Eng. papupeo@gmail.com

Newsletter Editor Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng. allan.PEO@rogers.com

Mentoring Committee Rishi Kumar, P.Eng. Rishi.kumar@sympatico.ca

Certificate Ceremony Chair& GLP Committee

Galal Abdelmessih, P.Eng. galal.abdelmessih@sympatico.ca

Women In Engineering Committee & Awards Committee

Katherine Diep, EIT Katherine_mh_diep@hotmail.com

GLP Committee Chair Wafik El-Sunbaty, P.Eng. Wafik.sunbaty@rogers.com

Communication Committee Chair

Art Kirnichansky, P.Eng. artemy@kirnichansky.com

Senior Regional Councillor Phil Maka, P.Eng. pmaka@peo.on.ca

Junior Regional Councillor Colin Moore, P.Eng. c_moore@rogers.com

EIT Committee Chair Brett Chmiel, EIT bchmiel@vcn.bc.ca

Privacy Officer Mirko Manojlovic, P.Eng. manojl6842m@hotmail.com

Mentoring Committee Vice Chair

Amr Kaoud, P.Eng. Amr.kaoud@gmail.com

Mississauga Chapter Board List

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Mississauga Chapter Redesigned Website

The Communication Committee is excited to announce that PEO–Mississauga Chapter Webs had been completely rede-signed!

Visit www.mississauga.peo.on.ca or www.peo-mc.caThis new, simple, yet functional, design of the web portal is

intended to improve communication and collaboration between chapter members.

Please take a look! We hope that you like what you see. First of all, please register on the site. From now on, all event registration will be done on the portal. Please feel free to send comments and/or concerns to support@peo-mc.ca.

Note: All bookmarks made on the original website are still functional. Also, you can find links to the old contents in the “Archive” section of the new portal.

In addition, you can follow us on Twitter. Just go to http://twitter.com/peomc, or click on the “Twitter” icon on our website.

Prepared by Art Kirnichansky, P.Eng., Communication Committee Chair

Re-engineering, Reverse Engineering and Product TeardownsThis article discusses a common area of product design and development that has generated the interest and curios-ity of product developers for decades and centuries., While the terms re-engineering, reverse engineering, and product teardowns are used widely, and commonly in the same breath, in the product development industry there are more dissimilarities between them than there are commonalities. Although they may all have the same goal of improving a product in terms of its performance, utilization, or productiv-ity, for many manufacturers the first two methods are integral to their cor-porate practice and culture to improve their products. Increasingly, however, many manufacturers are looking into product teardown outsourcing with the same purpose as the above in mind, but with an additional goal of reducing the burden of information collection and packaging to a third party. There are numerous advantages to this method. The author in this article explains how these methods are adopted, why they are adopted and what the benefits of these processes are. Giving increasing focus on the three topics, in the given order, the author explains his position for the three routes for product devel-opment realization.

Prepared by Amalesh Chakraborty, P.Eng.,

Secretary of the Mississauga Chapter & Chair of the

Environmental Committeer

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The Mentoring Committee

The committee organized several events to support nationally and internationally trained engineering graduates. On June 8, 2010, the committee organized a great net-working event with an attendance of 120 people. Major local engineering companies, such as SNC Lavalin and HATCH Associates, participated in this event. Their representative pro-vided positive feedback to all attend-ees regarding the recruitment selec-tion process in a competitive market.

Insert Picture of the Networking Event

In addition to the commit-tee efforts at the chapter level, the Mentoring Committee has been working actively with PEO head office. The committee organized several events under the mentors

and mentees relationship pilot study that included around 50 P.Engs and EITs. The feedback so far is positive and it is hoped the program will be expanded to absorb a larger number of engineers and to accommodate the demand for this program. This program included a mentors and mentees training workshop, a men-tors exchange workshop and a future mentorship dinner.

In addition to the networking events and mentoring program, the Mentoring Committee provides con-tinuous support for internationally trained engineering graduates on a weekly basis. The committee provides excellent support in terms of the professional engineer licence process, Experience Requirements Committee interview tips, technical exams and

Facility Tour: Algonquin Power–Energy from Waste (EFW) Facility

This facility tour was organized by the Environmental Committee of Mississauga Chapter for September 21, 2010. There were 40 people on this tour. On arrival, members were received by Peter Bulionis, P.Eng., Senior Project Manager–Thermal Power. Attending members were divided into three groups, with each group being guided by a tour guide. Members saw the control room first, where they learned how this plant worked in an integrated manner with five of its incinerators.

Algonquin Power Systems Inc. operates the Energy from Waste facility in Brampton. This facil-ity has been open since 1992. Of the 174,000 tons of solid waste being processed each year at this facility, approximately 160,000 tons is residential waste from the Region of Peel. The remainder of the waste processed at the facility is international airport waste and industrial, commercial and insti-tutional waste.

About 150 tons of garbage, recyclables and organic wastes are

Professional Practice Exam preparation.For further details and information

about the Mentoring Committee, please contact: Rishi Kumar, P.Eng., PMP, CMC, Mentoring Committee Chair. Rishi.kumar@sympatico.ca or Amr Kaoud, EIT, MBA, Mentoring Committee Vice Chair, amr.kaoud@peo-mc.ca.

Prepared by Amr Kaoud, EIT, Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee

The Mississauga Chapter Mentoring Committee would like to thank all the volun-teers that continually support the program. In particular, we express our gratitude to: Bassam Ahmad, P.Eng., Khurram Akhtar, P.Eng., Shahzad Alim, P.Eng., Waseem Botros, P.Eng., Monique Chugh, P.Eng., Steven Li, P.Eng., Yu Li, P.Eng., Joan Lin, P.Eng., Elizabeth Maryan, P.Eng., Ujjal Mondal, P.Eng., Atul Navadiya, P.Eng., Chandrakant Pandya, P.Eng., Subba Raghavan, P.Eng., Ishan Roy, P.Eng., Jim Vo, P.Eng., Kevin Wang, P.Eng., Benny Zhang, P.Eng., Mehul Shah, P.Eng., Albert Law, P.Eng., Rishi Kumar, P.Eng.

Our volunteers are the main factor of our success and in this program we have found it is beneficial for both mentors and mentees.

Amr Kaoud, EIT, Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee

The Fall Events

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The Physics of Machining and the Evolution of Carbide Cutting Tools

On September 28, 2010, Sandvik Coromant Canada opened its facility in Mississauga to 33 members of the Mississauga Chapter for a presenta-tion on machining and tungsten car-bide cutting tools. Doug Harker and Bill Ottney gave the presentation, which covered the science of machin-ing and the development of tungsten carbide cutting tools.

The presentation began with the history and background of Sandvik A B. Sandvik started in Sweden as a steel proces-sor. Later in the 19th century, Sandvik began manufacturing high speed tool cutting tools. In the mid-20th century when tungsten carbide became available, Sandvik began making cemented tungsten carbide cutting tools. In the late 1950s, Sandvik added the cemented tungsten carbide insert to its product line.

The presentation covered how Sandvik over the years improved the quality of the tungsten carbide insert. Included were details on the manufacture of tungsten carbide inserts and how coatings improved the cutting performance of the tungsten carbide inserts. Both Doug Harker and Bill Ottney covered the mechanics of cutting metal and the challenges that new high temperature alloys present in machining and tool life.

After the presentation by Doug Harker and Bill Ottney, the participants walked over to the Sandvik workshop to see a demonstration of the cutting tools on CNC machine tools. The demonstrations covered turning, milling and drilling.

Prepared by Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng., Newsletter Editor

The Mathletics Challenge is one of many events that the Mississauga Chapter’s Education Committee holds every year as part its educational outreach program. The Mathletics Challenge 2010 was the third annual Mathletics event organized by volun-teers of this chapter in collaboration with the Peel District School Board and teachers from Tomken Road Middle School. The main objectives of the event were to create a passion for applying mathematics in solving day-to-day scientific and engineering problems, to create an interest in active

Mathletics Challenge 2010

thinking and problem solving, and to provide hands-on experience in engi-neering problem solving.

The event took place on November 6, 2010, and was conducted in an exciting and entertaining way. It was divided into two tests: one for Senior Level (grades 7 and 8), the other for Junior Level (grades 6 and 5). The students were provided with calculators and “clickers” to use to answer the questions being displayed on the screen. The tests were conducted one after the other and the winners from each level were announced at the end of the event. Prizes and certificates were handed out to the top five winners from each level. Participation Certificates were also given to every student who showed up for the event. We had 55 students from Senior Level and 35 students of Junior Level who participated in this event.

Prepared by Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng., Vice Chair of the Mississauga Chapter &

Chair of the Education Committee

collected from 1.2 million residents in 375,000 households in the Peel Region (Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon) and brought to this facil-ity by conventional two compart-ment garbage trucks. Here, these are burnt in two-stage incinera-tors. There are five incinerators at this facility, of which at least one is always in standby maintenance mode. The waste matters are first burned for about five hours at 850 C in an oxygen-starved condition, before burning them at the second stage above 1000 C in and oxygen-ated environment.

The heat generated from this burn-ing is used in generating superheated steam in boilers. This steam is then used in a 9 MW generator to generate electricity, enough to provide for the electricity needs of about 600 homes. The 3.5 soccer-field facility produces more steam than the generator can use. This surplus steam is piped into a local nearby paper mill for consump-tion. The used steam is sent back to the facility for recirculation

About 30 per cent of the burn-ing waste remains as ash. This ash is screened for ferrous metals and separated. The separated larger size ashes are then used in landfill. Smaller size ashes are sometimes used in construction materials for experimental purposes.

The stack of this power plant hardly emits any flue material. The gas from the burning passes through catalytic converters to remove various contaminants. Whatever is emitted is tested on a routine basis by indepen-dent laboratories against Ministry of Environment emission standards.

Prepared by Amalesh Chakraborty, P.Eng., Chair of the Environmental

Committee and Secretary, Mississauga Chapter

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Lego League

Robotics

Challenge 2010

The main objective of this powerful program is to engage younger children in playful and meaningful learning, while helping them to discover the fun in science and engineering. Children are our role models because they are curious, creative and imaginative. They are natural learners and they embrace discovery and wonder. PEO Mississauga Chapter is keen to hold and par-ticipate in events like this to nurture and stimulate these precious qualities of our kids.

This First Lego League Peel Tournament took place on November 27, 2010. The teachers from Tomken Road Middle School, in partnership with the Mississauga Chapter, organized this event. There were 160 students, ages 9 to 14 from the Peel region and surrounding areas, divided into 16 teams, who participated in this tournament. Mississauga Chapter volunteers were trained by a judging advisor and participated as judges in this tournament. The event went very smoothly and the students in attendance had a fabulous time. Many awards were handed out and four teams were selected to continue on to the provincial competition.

Special thanks to all those who organized, volunteered and participated in this valuable event. We are also grateful to the PEO Mississauga Chapter executives who invested some of their pre-cious time in our Education Committee school outreach programs like this.

Prepared by Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng., Vice Chair of the Mississauga

Chapter & Chair of the Education Committee

Engineers as Managers

On Saturday, October 2, 2010, the Mississauga Chapter, with the collaboration of major local engineering companies, put together a conference addressing a wide-ranging variety of topics that were targeted to bridge the gap in the managerial experience levels of engineers in different arenas.

The all-day conference brought together a series of industry leaders to impart personal experiences and address issues common-ly experienced from a variety or perspectives. “Companies currently are facing a management void in finding and nurturing new, much younger managers then they are used to while ignoring the tradi-tional years of experience they would normally expect. At the same time, young engineers looking to grow in their careers have to learn and absorb the soft skills of management and leadership without the benefit of years of “the school of hard knocks” Pappur Shankar, Organizer and Conference Chair, said in his opening address.

Panel discussions featured panelists from all areas of man-agements–human resources, operations and asset management–highlighted diverse strategies, building skills, assimilating qualities for overcoming challenges to achieve personal and professional success. The panel discussion addressed the key skills and attributes that engineering companies look for in future leaders and manag-ers. David Purvis, VP of Technology with Shaw Group and key-note speaker, discussed the opportunities in engineering in North America and touched upon how one can function in all kinds of organizations and industries.

While participants had the opportunity to gain insights into the inner workings of organizational structures and employment opportu-nities in various industries, perhaps the most important thing for engi-neers to hear was that their concerns were a shared platform. Much of the conference provided support to the participants to help them work out their own place in their current situations. As was reinforced at the conference, many of the concerns are not gender-specific, but pertain to the creation of a supportive environment for engineers. Furthermore, the free-form networking opportunities throughout the day afforded the attendees and speakers an opportunity to benefit from others’ experiences and opinions in an informal setting.

The conference engaged a very diversified and multicultural audience and was a sell-out success with a record 350 attendees. It spoke volumes about the potential of the engineering profession and the cumulative enthusiasm to build upon prospects and take away valuable new perspectives, advice and inspiration.

Prepared by Pappur Shankar, P.Eng., Past Chair of the Mississauga Chapter

Being an Effective Manager

On November 9, 2010, Joanne Diamant-Boustead (Chief Engineer-Airworthiness, Pratt and Whitney Canada) gave a presentation on being an effective manager. The event was organized by the Mississauga Chapter Women in Engineering Committee. The response was overwhelming.

Ms. Boustead began her presentation by giving an overview of her different positions in the aerospace industry, and a comment on working with tremendous managers and not so great managers throughout her career. The perspective of working and managing in the private and public sectors was also discussed, with the pros and cons of each segment outlined. The importance of teamwork and communication skills was also discussed. It was also stressed that as a manager, it is important to bring solutions, not problems, to your team. Another note was that not all engineers make good managers. Being able to admit your mistakes and limitations was also stressed.

Following Ms. Boustead’s formal presentation, several audience members asked questions about managing others and suggestions were given on how to improve their own management skills.

Prepared by Lisa MacCumber, P.Eng., Chair, Women in Engineering Committee

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Bill 72, the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act, 2010

The Environmental Committee of PEO Mississauga Chapter organized a town hall meeting on November 25, 2010 on the topic of “Bill 72, Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act, 2010”. The event was held jointly with Oakville Chapter at the Capitol Banquet Centre.

The keynote speaker for this town hall meeting was the Minister of the Environment, Honourable John Wilkinson. The event was moderated by Sean Mallen, producer and host of the popular show Focus Ontario on Global TV. There were five experts on the panel to answer questions about Bill 72. These were:

• Ms. Sharon Bailey, Director, Land and Water Policy Branch, Ontario Ministry of the Environment

• Dr. Manuel Alvarez Cuenca, Professor, Ryerson Chemical Engineering

• Dr. Monica Emelko, Professor, Waterloo Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Bob Goodings, P.Eng., Former President of PEO and Former Chair of Gore and Storrie Ltd.

• Mike Hribljan, P.Eng., Regional Vice-President, GE Power & Water

The session started with introductory remarks by Organizing Chair Amalesh Chakraborty, P.Eng., who is the Chair of the Environmental Committee of PEO Mississauga Chapter, as well as the Secretary of the chapter. His message was followed by Mississauga Chapter Chair Dr. Tapan Das, P.Eng., and Oakville Chapter Vice-Chair Anthony Chryssafis, P.Eng.

PEO President Diane Freeman, P.Eng., was unavailable for the event as she was out of the province on PEO business. Councillor-at-Large Bruce Clarida, P.Eng., stepped in for her and congratulated the chapter for its initiative on this town hall meeting. Bruce also conveyed a message from President Freeman on her behalf. At the conclusion of his introductory remarks, Bruce introduced the keynote speaker to the audience.

In his 15-minute speech, Minister of the Environment Wilkinson emphasized the importance of Bill 72 and how this bill would bring changes in the way citizens look at water resources. He also noted the improvement this bill would bring in water-related technologies and processes, not only at the industrial development level, but also

at the municipal level for ensuring safe and clean water through proper treatment of water, storm water and waste water.

The Minister took some questions from the audience and spent sufficient time to answer these questions to the satisfaction of the audience mem-bers. Organizing Chair Chakraborty presented the minister with a plaque in appreciation of his sup-port for this event.

The Minister’s speech and question-answer ses-sion was followed by the brief narratives of the panel members. At the end of these narratives, audience members were able to ask questions to the panel members. Numerous important ques-tions were raised from the floor, all of which were answered by the panelists to the audience’s satisfac-tion.

Towards the end of the event, the sponsors were presented with plaques for their support of the event. Sean Mallen and Councillor Clarida were also each presented with plaques for their contribu-tions and support.

Prepared by Amalesh Chakraborty, P.Eng., Chair of the Environmental Committee and Secretary,

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Volunteer Night

On October 26, 2010, the Mississauga Chapter held its Volunteer Night at the Coptic Centre. Despite the storm that night, there were 20 members, 10 board members and special guest Howard Brown in attendance.

The presentation began with Katherine Diep, EIT, introducing Mississauga Chapter Chair Dr. Tapan Das, P.Eng., and welcom-ing the guests and members. Then, there was a brief introduction of the chapter committees and an outline of future plans for each of the committees. Vice Chair and Education Committee Chair Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng., described the Education Committee and outlined its future plans.

Wafik El Sunbaty, P.Eng., Chair of the Government Liaison Program Committee, gave a pre-sentation about his committee and introduced Howard Brown of Howard Brown & Cohen Communications and Public Affairs, a political consulting group. Mr Brown congratulated and applauded all the engineers who were nominated and elected to public office.

Other committee chairs described their committees and talked about their future events. Amalesh Chakraborty, P.Eng., talked about the Environmental Committee, Amr Kaoud, EIT, talked about the Mentoring Committee, Lisa MacCumber, P.Eng., talked about the Women in Engineering Committee and Brett Chmiel, EIT, talked about the Engineer-in-Training Committee and the Certificate Ceremony committee.

The event concluded with the Mississauga Chapter Chair and Vice Chair presenting cer-tificates of appreciation to the dedicated volunteers who worked hard in 2009 and 2010 for the Mississauga Chapter.

Prepared by Katherine Diep, EIT, Women in Engineering

Committee & Awards Committee

Future EventsFebruary 3, 2011

Mississauga Chapter Annual

General Meeting

LOCATIONCredit Valley Golf and Country Club

CONTACT Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng.

COST Free

Sunday February 20, 2011

The Robotics Challenge

LOCATIONTomken Road Middle School, Mississauga

CONTACT Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng.

COST Free

Wednesday February 23, 2011

Combined Cycle Power Plant

LOCATIONArbor Green Room, South Common CC

CONTACT Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng.

COST Free

Saturday March 5, 2011

Bridge Building Challenge

LOCATION Tomken Road Middle School, Mississauga

CONTACT Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng.

COST Free

April 7 and 8, 2011

Tour of Bombardier

Aerospace

LOCATION Toronto

CONTACT Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng.

COST $10.00

Saturday April 24, 2011

The Flight Challenge

LOCATION Tomken Road Middle School, Mississauga

CONTACT Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng.

COST Free

For more information on future events from the Mississauga Chapter, go to www.peo-mc.ca and click on “Events”. For other Chapters go to www.peo.on.ca and click “Chapter”.

Credit Valley Golf and Country Club

2500 Old Carriage Road, Mississauga

Business casual NO BLUE JEANS, PLEASE

Come and meet your Chapter Board. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved in our activities for next year. You can share your ideas and vision for the chapter with our Board as they begin their new mandate. Light refreshments will be served.

Agenda♦ Introduction of Executive and Guests

♦ Greetings from Tapan Das, P.Eng., Chapter Chair

♦ Keynote Speaker, Mr. Dave Adams, PEO President Elect

♦ Approval of Minutes from the 2010 Annual General Meeting

♦ Treasurer’s Report for Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2010

♦ Chair’s Report

♦ Committee Reports (Awards, Licence Certificate, Communication, Education, Environment, Mentoring)

♦ Election of the 2011 Board

♦ Approval of Amendments to the Chapter By-Laws

PEO Mississauga Chapter Annual General Meeting February 3, 2011

6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Executive Board nominations may be proposed by the chapter membership in accordance with the Chapter By-Law, Article 4. Board candidates must be nominated by one and seconded by another member in good standing of Professional Engineers Ontario. The nominee must sign the nomination form to signify acceptance. The term of the Board is one year. All nominations must be received by the Election Officer, Matthew Ng, P.Eng., mng@peo.on.ca at least two weeks before the AGM (i.e. by January 20, 2011).

AGM general audience must confirm attendance by on-line registration. Due to space limitation, unregistered attendees might not be admitted to the AGM.

Both nomination and attendance registration forms will become available on January 3 at the chapter’s website at http://peo-mc.ca.

Note: Proposed amendments to the Chapter By-laws will be available on the chapter’s website.

The Combined Cycle Power Plant

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Arbour Green Room at the South Common C C, 2233 South Millway, west of Erin Mills Parkway,

north of The Collegeway, near the South Common Mall

Registration from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Presentation starts at 7:30 p.m.Speaker: John Mikkelsen, P.Eng., Manager, Eastern Canada, Power Development, TransCanada Corp.

Contact: Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng., at allan.peo@rogers.com

A combined cycle power station employs more than one thermo-dynamic cycle for the generation of electricity. One common com-mercial combination has been the use of the Brayton Cycle with the Rankin Cycle. This type of power plant uses a gas turbine as the primary power source to generate electricity and then uses the waste heat from the gas turbine to heat a fluid, such as water, to produce steam that powers a steam turbine to generate electricity. With this combination, such a power plant can have efficiencies of 50 per cent or greater in converting the potential energy of the fuel (natural gas) into electricity.

TransCanada is the largest independent power producer in Ontario with 4,330 MW of generating capacity in service, under con-struction, or in development. This includes three combined cycle facilities located in the GTA. John Mikkelsen, P.Eng., will discuss in his presentation the principles, design and operation of a combined cycle power plant. Also, his presentation will include a discus-sion of the environmental impact of such a power station.

There is a limit of 120 spaces at this event. To reserve your spot, please contact Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng., at allan.peo@rogers.com.

P.S.: The Portlands Energy Centre will be having an open house on May 28, 2011 and May 29, 2011. This is your opportu-nity to visit a combined cycle power plant. For more information, go to www.portlandsenergycentre.com.

Bridge Building Bridge Building Challenge for Challenge for

National Engineering National Engineering Week 2010Week 2010

Saturday, March 5, 2011 Saturday, March 5, 2011 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Tomken Road Middle School, Tomken Road Middle School, 3160 Tomken Road, 3160 Tomken Road,

MississaugaMississauga

The Mississauga Chapter, in collaboration with Peel District School Board, will host the Region of Peel’s second Bridge Building Challenge. This event, in celebration of National Engineering Week, is to introduce the engineering profession to grades 7 and 8 students and help these students develop hands-on skills through bridge design and construction. The main purpose is to raise public awareness of the importance of engineering and technology in our daily lives and to encourage young people to consider careers in engineering and technology.

The grade 7 and the grade 8 students will participate in teams (maximum three students) to design and build a bridge consisting of 100 Popsicle sticks, glue and construction papers. Bridge Kits, including all required materials, design specification, and judging criteria, will be provided to students free of charge and delivered to their participating schools. Teams will build their bridges at home and make ready for judging and destructive testing on March 5, 2011–Challenge Day.

For more information on the Bridge Building Challenge, please go to the Mississauga Chapter web page at www.peo-mc.ca. or contact Khaled El-Rahi, P.Eng. at bbc.peel.2011@gmail.com.

April 7 and April 8, 20112:00 p.m.

Tour of Bombardier Aerospace Toronto Plant

LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario

CONTACT: Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng.

The Bombardier Aerospace Plant in North Toronto is the location that manufactures the Q400 series turboprop commercial aircraft. This is the same aircraft used by Porter Air to move passengers on short haul flights. Join us on this tour as we learn the history, design and manufacture of this aircraft.

Bombardier has set aside two days in April for the members of the Mississauga Chapter to tour its Toronto facility. There is a limit of 20 people for each tour. Also, Bombardier’s health and safety policy requires the wearing of hard toe safety shoes and safety glasses with side shields. The receptionist has a limited supply of these items for visitors, so all participants of this tour are advised to bring their own safety gear.

For more information, please go to the chapter web page at www.peo-mc.ca, or wait for the future email blast. There will be a $10 fee to reserve a place on this tour.

To reserve a spot for this tour, please send cheque made payable to PEO Mississauga Chapter, post-dated to April 7, 2011, to Allan Giacomelli, P.Eng., at 974 Lucerne Cr., Mississauga, ON L5C 3Y6. Also include your email address and phone number for a speedy response.