June 2006 ISSUE
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BY FRANCINE MAXWELL
Editorial Assistant
√ Education Foundation Scholarships
Every year, the Education Foundation awards six types scholarships to deserving
students attending university in Edmonton and Calgary. Those scholarships are
University entrance scholarships
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Transfer scholarships (administered by the colleges that offer the first year transfer program)
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Undergraduate scholarships (administered by the U of A and U of C)
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Graduate scholarships
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Education scholarships
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APEGGA Millennium Scholarships (including the Dr. Norman Wagner, OC, Memorial Scholarship)
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Centennial Scholarships (administered by the U of A and U of C Engineering faculties).
Last year saw 12 applicants for the education scholarship, three applicants for the graduate scholarship, 152 applicants for the university entrance scholarship and 43 applicants for the Millennium and Dr. Norman Wagner scholarships. The university transfer scholarships are handled by other universities or colleges.
Deadlines to apply for the scholarships vary; please see the website for more information.
Related Web Pages
www.apega.ca/Members/Scholarships
Awards/toc.html
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√ APEGGA Hires Compliance Consultant
In accordance with Council’s goal of 100 per cent compliance with the reserved
practice and title provisions of the EGGP Act, the Compliance Department advertised
for three part-time consultants to work out of Calgary.
Joanne Phillips, P.Eng., has joined APEGGA in the Calgary office as a compliance consultant. She’s an electrical engineer with a broad range of experience that will help her be both proactive and reactive in consulting about and helping enforce the policies of compliance.
Compliance was looking to hire a professional engineer, a professional geologist and a professional geophysicist. The search for a geologist and a geophysicist continues.
More Information
Dave Todd, P.Eng.
Director, Compliance
dtodd@apega.ca
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√ Registration Department Shuffle
Registration has undergone a big shuffle of staff, with several new people hired.
The shuffle was necessitated by applications assistant Tracey Quesnell leaving
for a human resources position at Bantrel and Board of Examiners secretary Sarah
Sarich leaving for a position with the Solicitor General’s Office.
Joining the Registration Department in the Edmonton office are Jessica Almeida and Yen Ngan. Ms. Almeida, a NAIT grad, joins APEGGA as a new applications assistant. Ms. Ngan, a Grant MacEwan College grad, comes to APEGGA from the Chartered Accountants of Alberta registration department. Ms. Ngan will be the new Professional Practice Exams coordinator.
Nic Guindon moves from her position as membership coordinator to become board secretary. And Debbie Hemery moves from Professional Practice Exams coordinator to membership coordinator.
We’re not done yet.
Mia Atienza has assumed the role of research assistant for Executive Director & Registrar Neil Windsor, P.Eng. Her role will be to research APEGGA statistics, trends, fact and figures, then create reports from the information for Mr. Windsor.
Ms. Atienza was technical exams coordinator in Registration for two years. At press time, that position was still vacant.
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√ ASAP Program Advantages
Being enrolled in the APEGGA Student Advantage Program, or ASAP, has more advantages
than providing second-, third- and fourth-year undergraduate engineering and
geoscience students with a membership number.
ASAP members receive a subscription to The PEGG and are kept informed of their Association’s events. This includes branch luncheons, upcoming meetings and student mixers. ASAP members are also eligible to use APEGGA’s Resumé Referral service, which could help them locate that all-important summer job or, upon graduation, career starter.
ASAP members also qualify to use any of the benefits that members enjoy. These include a fuel discount, insurance discounts and travel savings.
Related Web Pages
www.apega.ca/PostSecondary/ASAP/toc.html
www.apega.ca/Members/Benefits/toc.html
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√ Salary Survey Deadline Coming Soon
Did you get your copy of the 2006 Salary Survey? If not, there is still time
to participate.
The annual Salary Survey lets employers of professional engineers and geoscientists share their compensation methods and deliverance. This helps keep the industries on an even playing field for those who work within them. APEGGA does not reveal the names of participants.
The end result is the Value of the Professions document, published in the fall.
If you haven’t received your package yet and want to participate, you can download the manual and survey forms from the APEGGA website. Deadline to submit is June 30.
More Information
Ross Plecash, P.Eng.
Director, Member and Corporate Services
rplecash@apega.ca
Related Web Page
www.apega.ca/SalarySurvey/index.html