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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: [email protected].

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


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


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.

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi


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.


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


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


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


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


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: [email protected]; Website: www.scarborough.peo.on.ca

Advances in Technology leads

society in imaginative and

unpredictable new directions.

Daniel Bell





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