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Official Call for Nominations 
Do you believe in recognizing the top projects and accomplishments of your professions? In honouring the brightest and most deserving of your peers? In building the value and image of engineering, geology and geophysics?
Do you believe in celebrating excellence?
Then prepare a Summit Awards 2009 nomination today.
Click here to view the award categories — and give the best their due.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Award nominations must be submitted by electronic mail to Sandy Roth at sroth@apegga.org
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2008 Salary Survey: The Results Are In
We’ve got another great batch of data to help you determine what your compensation should be. In fact, our survey experienced growth in participation of nearly 25 per cent over last year.
A big thank you goes out to the 164 employers that took part this year, as well as
those that have contributed in the past.
Click here to download a PDF of the full report or the survey highlights.
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Third Annual Mentoring  Conference
Don’t miss our line-up of dynamic presenters at the third annual National Mentoring Conference, Oct. 14 and 15. Every Move Has a Consequence is the theme for the conference, which shifts back to Edmonton this year.
Click here for more info.
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Geoscientist Volunteers Urgently Needed
ROCK-IT SCIENCE
Geoscientists in Canmore, Calgary and Edmonton will celebrate International Year of Planet Earth, as well as Science and Technology Week, by hosting the popular Rock & Fossil Clinics in Canmore and Edmonton.
Volunteers are needed to help identify rocks, fossils and other earthly delights brought in by the public and to conduct fossil making workshops (training provided). This is an opportunity to showcase your profession and to share information about the great work you do.
Volunteers always report that they had fun at this event and would do it again. Please sign up to work at the clinic or to lead a workshop. See details below.
APEGGA Rock & Fossil Clinic (Edmonton)
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 18
TELUS World of Science Edmonton, 11121 142 St.
Contact Lindsay Malden to volunteer and for more details at lmalden@apegga.org
APEGGA Rock & Fossil Clinic (Calgary and Canmore)
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 18
Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre
Canmore Civic Centre, 902 – 7 Ave
Contact Lindsey Collins to volunteer and for more details at lcollins@apegga.org
Help advertise the event at your workplace and to family and friends.
Click here for ad copy.
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Blogging With APEGGA
Are you heading to Africa to help create better lives through engineering? Are you one of the professionals working on a spectacular project in Dubai? Are you scrabbling through caves in South America or mining diamonds in the Northwest Territories?
We’re featuring APEGGA members on our new blog website, Where in the World. It’s designed to showcase interesting projects and experiences, as well as the members involved in them, no matter how far flung the locale.
Interested? Please e-mail Joanne Blomert, jblomert@apegga.org, and tell us about your adventure. We’re looking for first-person accounts of experiences had from around the world. How long each blog we select appears will depend on the duration of the assignment.
Click here to view the blog website.
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Continuing Series: What’s In It For Me?
The APEGGA Mentoring Program
What is mentoring? And why is it important to your career and your company?
Those are questions we can answer in the mentoring section of our website.
Designed to transfer work-related soft skills from more experienced members to less experienced members, the APEGGA Mentoring Program has a proven track record.
Matching is a formal process with a coordinator creating pairs based on completed self-assessment forms. We provide training and coaching with an emphasis on written goals and objectives. These are the keys to our program’s effectiveness.
To learn more, click here.
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Quebec Becomes First Jurisdiction
To Legislate Quality-Based Selection
In June, the Government of Quebec introduced new regulations that will require government bodies in the province to award contracts following quality evaluation. Effective Oct., the policy will make Quebec the first province in Canada to mandate a qualifications-based selection procurement process.
Click here for more info.
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The Science of Big Waves
The geoscience community will once more strut its stuff for the general public (yes, engineers are welcome) on Oct. 28 at the Calgary Jubilee Auditorium.
This year the star attraction will be water and how to use it for fun when it goes vertical. Entitled The Science of Big Waves, the CSPG Honorary Address (co-sponsored by CSEG and APEGGA) will be presented by a team consisting of surfing guru Jeff Clark and sedimentology/mountain biking guru Dr. Stephen Hubbard. Jeff will tell everyone how to have fun with big waves and Dr. Hubbard will talk about the significance of big waves to the sedimentary record.
There will be two presentations – a daytime edition for junior high school students and an evening version for the general public. Lobby exhibits for the evening presentation will include one from APEGGA.
More information is available at the CSPG website.
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Indoor Air Quality - Volunteer, Exhibitor, Sponsorship Opportunities
Volunteer – The Clean Air Strategic Alliance is seeking an APEGGA member working in a field directly related to indoor air quality to sit on a multi-stakeholder project team developing a strategic plan to improve indoor air quality in Alberta. The team meets every second month in Edmonton and is currently identifying priority sources of indoor air quality issues in Alberta, developing a jurisdictional decision tree and convening a science symposium on indoor air quality in April.
An Alberta-based non-profit organization, composed of government, industry and non-government organizations, CASA develops recommendations for managing air quality issues. CASA acts as an advisory committee to the Government of Alberta to recommend strategies to assess and improve provincial air quality.
Sponsorship and exhibitor – CASA is convening a Science Symposium on Indoor Air Quality on April 26-28, at the Westin Hotel in Calgary. The symposium will feature experts from home and abroad speaking on a wide range of indoor air quality issues. It’s designed to attract professionals in monitoring, building and health from across Alberta and North America. Conference registration will open in early 2009.
For more information please contact Jennifer Allan, project manager, at jallan@casahome.org or 780-427-9793.
Click here for more.
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APEGGA
Head Office
1500 Scotia One
10060 Jasper Ave. NW
Edmonton AB T5J 4A2
Tel: 780-426-3990 1-800-661-7020
(within North America)
Fax: 780-426-1877
E-mail: email@apegga.org
Website: www.apegga.org |
Calgary
Office
2200 Scotia Centre
700 2nd Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 2W1
Tel: 403-262-7714
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THE PEGG ONLINE– The Mentoring Effect, Guarantor Policy Update, Canadian Mobility, President's Notebook, Geo Beat: The Ghost of Field Trips Present, EWB Series: Global Engineering - The Profession's Next New Discipline? The Keyser File: Mainstream Catches Existing Practice, International Issues: The United Nations Needs You, Member Trains With Al Gore For Climate Message, Summit Series: A Great Environment for Children, 2008 Employer Salary Survey Highlights, Summit Series: Network, Heal Thy Self, University News: Spirited Crowd Welcomes Home Solar Racecar, Geoscience: Elementary Students Get Up Close Look At Earth Sciences, Women in Science: Keep Promoting Engineering as Career, Minerva Winner Says, World Watch: Motor Sports Engineering Gets Green Flag, Good Works: Rescue Team Seeks APEGGA Volunteers
These headlines and more await you in the September PEGG Online.
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LUNCHEON |
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OCT. 1 – Calgary
PD Evening - Internationally Educated Graduates - Licensing Requirements
Facilitator:
Bill Santo, P.Eng.
Assistant Director of Registration
APEGGA
Click here for more.
OCT. 14 – Calgary
Luncheon - Carbon Engineering
Facilitator:
Dr. David Keith, P.Eng.
University of Calgary
Click here for more.
SEPT. 30– Edmonton
Luncheon - Turning Garbage into Fuel
Facilitator:
Jim Schubert, P.Eng.
Project Manager, Capital Projects, Edmonton Waste Management Centre
Click here for more.
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PRESIDENT'S VISIT |
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NOV. 17 – Lethbridge
NOV. 18 – Medicine Hat |
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Coming in the Oct. PEGG
- How a Summit Award changed their lives – The PEGG speaks with past winners.
- Water management for the mighty Athabasca – our series of Environment Committee articles resumes with a look at what government and industry are doing.
- Western Canada underlines its place on the cardiac map with the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute.
- A flexible pipe solution makes it big at wellsites.
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The electronic version of the 2007-2008 Engineers Canada Annual Report is now available.
Click here to view.
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Professional Engineers Wanted
The University of Calgary Engineering Students present their annual Engineering Mixer.
Wanted: Professional Engineers
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 15
Place: Alberta Room, Dining Centre,
University of Calgary
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Click here to find out more.
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