Annual Report 2011 - CSCE â¢ Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

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Report of the Vice-PresidentTechnical Programs — Programs Coordinating CommitteeTechnical Programs consists of three committees: Career Development, Educationand Research, and International Affairs plus individual program officers responsiblefor conference monitoring, national lecture tours, and the editorial functions of theCanadian Journal of Civil Engineering (CJCE). Whereas Technical Committees aremandated to deal with technical subjects common to several areas of specializationdealt with by the Technical Divisions, Program Committees and the work of ProgramOfficers are intended to be function oriented, i.e. the delivery of a specific serviceor type of service to CSCE members. This report includes a brief statement of thepurpose and recent activities of the Program Committees and Program Officers.Career Development Committee (CDC)The CDC has a threefold mandate: monitoringof the state-of-the profession, promotionof the profession by the developmentand dissemination of public information,and the development of CSCE policy pertainingto continuing education and professionaldevelopment. The CDC is assistingwith the organization of the 2nd CSCEForum on Professional Practice and CareerDevelopment as part of CSCE 2013 AnnualGeneral Conference, where issues concerningthe profession are to be discussed.The CDC also carries out planning, reviewand endorsement of continuing educationand professional development. Committeemembers identified potential professionaldevelopment technical courses that couldbe offered through the National Office. TheCDC is working on the summer 2012 issueof CIVIL on the theme: Practical ProfessionalDevelopment for Practising Engineers,Guest editor – Bhuwan Devkota.CDC will be working with the InternationalAffairs Committee (IAC) on a 2013issue on the theme: Challenges to CanadianEngineering: Global Trends in ProfessionalDevelopment.The CDC will be working with IAC on aTask Force on Globalization. The TaskForce is to consider what activities can becarried out to improve the competiveness ofCanadian Civil Engineers, disseminate informationon international mobility agreements,and explore means to help Canadiancivil engineers acquire international workexperience. The CDC invites interestedCSCE members to join the Task Force.Education and Research Committee (ERC)The mandate of the ERC is the development,promotion, and advocacy of issues relatedto national education strategies andengineering research. The Committee hasbeen re-formulated in the past year.Eighteen universities replied to an ERCquestionnaire on engineering education.Concerns were voiced about several issues,among which the principle concerns were:budget cuts and associated space issues, increasingenrolments without commensurateresources, inability to plan replacement offaculty (budget issue), and difficulties in attractingquality applicants for new positions.The committee worked with the Heads andChairs in preparation for the Heads andChairs meeting held in conjunction withthe 2012 CSCE Annual Conference in Edmonton.The Committee will be workingwith the Heads and Chairs to formalize therelation between them and the CSCE.CSCE International Affairs Committee(IAC)The IAC is dedicated to advancing theCSCE as a Canadian engineering societywith a strong international presence. It isresponsible for international activities of theCSCE except those pertaining to CSCEmembership in foreign countries (whichfalls under the CSCE Vice-President – International).IAC has ongoing contact anddiscussions with several engineering societiesin many parts of the world, and hascarried out international development andcapacity building projects in several countries.Some projects during the past year arementioned below.Cameroon: The Kumbo Water ImprovementProject was undertaken pursuant toan agreement with CIDA which came intoeffect in October 2009. There were 11 assignmentsinvolving Canadians going toCameroon and two assignments involvingCameroonians coming to Canada. Theproject was completed successfully in October2011 and included the production ofa manual to be distributed in Cameroon.China: The People’s Republic of Chinacontinues to be a major area of IAC activity.IAC has good relations with three engineeringsocieties, in particular, the Chinese HydraulicEngineering Society (CHES), theChina Civil Engineering Society (CCES)and the China Highway and TransportationSociety (CHTS). In addition, IAC has heldtalks with Chinese government organizationssuch as the State Administration ofForeign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), the Ministryof Water Resources, the China SouthNorth Water Diversion Project Office, andthe Gansu Research Institute for WaterConservancy (GRIWC). The CSCE has aspecial envoy (Dr. Jeanne Huang) residentin China and two Liaison Officers (Dr.Todd Chan and Dr. Andrew Liu), membersof IAC.During June and July 2011, CSCE officialsand representatives had meetings with theCHTS and universities to discuss future cooperationand attended CSCE-sponsoredconferences. The CSCE delegation attendedthe ICTIS-2011, June 29 to July 2,2011, which was sponsored by China Communicationsand Transportation Association(CCTA), ASCE, and CSCE, andorganized by Wuhan University of Technology(WUT). Presentations by CSCE delegateswere given also at a one-day workshoporganized by CSCE Transportation Divisionand UT-MOELAB of Beijing JiaotongUniversity, which was held June 27th 201114
at Beijing Jiaotong University. An MOUbetween CSCE and Beijing Jiaotong Universitywas signed for future cooperation inthe transportation sector. A transportationworkshop involving CHTS will be held atthe time of the 2012 CSCE Annual Conference.On October 9, 2011, a meeting was heldwith the Hai River Water Commission inTianjin where Dr. Ghani Razaqpur (aCSCE past president) gave a brief presentationabout the CSCE. Two CSCE memberspresently are involved with projects forthe Commission.On October 11 and 12, 2012, severalCSCE members participated in the 80thAnniversary Conference of the CHES. Atthe conference award ceremony, a Class 1Award was given for the Gansu (ShiyangRiver) Project jointly undertaken by theGRIWC, CHES and the CSCE from 2008to 2010. The CHES will send a senior delegationto the CSCE 2012 Annual Conference(CSCE 125th Anniversary).CSCE members met with the China StateAdministration of Foreign Experts Affairs(SAFEA) in Beijing on Oct. 11, 2011 todiscuss the possibilities of the CSCE identifyingtechnical experts from Canada towork in China for periods of nine or moremonths. IAC hopes to have SAFEA certifythe EIC and CSCE as one of their OverseasTraining Institutions.At the CSCE Annual Conference in Ottawain early June 2011, Mr. Li Yong, director-generalof China South-to-NorthWater Diversion Project Office in Beijinggave a keynote lecture on the water diversionproject, currently the largest water resourcesproject in China. On Sept. 18, inMontreal, the CSCE President and severalmembers met with the Minister and severalsenior staff from the Project Office. Discussionsconcerning possible CSCE involvementin this project are ongoing.In March 2012, IAC Deputy Chair, Dr.Rishi Gupta welcomed, and made an introductorypresentation on the CSCE, to ahigh level delegation (Including the President)from the Hong Kong Institution ofEngineers when they visited Vancouver.Presentations were made also by HKIE officialsto foster an exchange of technical information.Haiti: A CSCE proposal for a project to developupdated building codes for Haiti toallow construction to withstand expectednatural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes,mudslides, and flooding is ongoing,as are other efforts to initiate projects in theCaribbean.India: CSCE’s Liaison Officer for India, Dr.Rishi Gupta, met with the directors and executivesof the Delhi State Centre of the Institutionof Engineers India (IEI) in NewDelhi on Saturday, July 2, 2011. He gave apresentation followed by discussion aboutpotential IEI-CSCE joint activities, especiallythe hosting of workshops and conferenceswith the CSCE.Domestic activities: IAC organized the summerissue of CSCE’s magazine CIVIL, withIAC Chair Ron Droste as Guest Editor, onthe theme of International Development.IAC Deputy Chair Rishi Gupta, will beguest editor for the fall 2012 issue with atheme of Civil Engineering Lessons fromAbroad.Conference MonitorThe conference monitor provides generaladvice early in conference planning on conferenceorganization and budgeting toCSCE Technical Divisions planning a conference.The conference monitor is to identifypotential problems with conferenceorganization as they arise, and to ensurethat the CSCE and CSCE members-ingood-standingremain prominent in the organizationof CSCE events. During thepast year, the Conference Monitor has focussedon the planning of the CSCE 2012and 2013 annual conferences and associatedspecialty conferences.The Conference Monitor maintains for theProgram Coordinating Committee the conferencematrix, which is a listing by year ofthe CSCE’s annual conferences and associatedspecialty conferences, separate (standalone)conferences/symposia/ workshops,and regional conferences, as well as, CSCEsupportedinternational conferences/symposia/workshops. This is an importantfunction with respect to coordination ofCSCE activities.The position also serves as an unofficial ombudsmanfor CSCE members to contact onmatters concerning CSCE conferences. It ishoped that CSCE members will use theservices of the Conference Monitor moreeffectively in the future.National Lecture Tour (NLT) CoordinatorThe NLT Coordinator works with theTechnical Divisions in identifying potentialspeakers for the CSCE series of NLTs, andthen assists the National Office with the coordinationof lecture delivery at selectedvenues across Canada.The Fall 2011 NLT featured Dr. Ioan Nistor,Associate Professor of Hydraulic andCoastal Engineering at the University ofOttawa, presenting “Engineering Significanceand Lessons of the March 11, 2011Tsunami in Japan: Tsunami Impacts on Infrastructure.”The NLT was presented in 11cities from coast (Victoria, BC) to coast (St.John’s, NL) over a ten-day period. It was thesecond most successful NLT on record interms of overall attendance (567).A 2011-2012 NLT is being planned relatedto comparing and contrasting building designand construction using masonry andtimber. Members are always encouraged tocontact the CSCE National Office to providesuggestions for topics and speakers.Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering(CJCE) Published since 1974, the CJCE isthe official journal of the CSCE and theonly journal presently affiliated with theCSCE. The 2010 Memorandum of Understandingbetween the CSCE and CanadianScience Publishing was renewed to continueto offer subscriptions to the electronic andprint versions of the CJCE to CSCE membersat rates substantially below non-membersubscription rates.The transfer of the CJCE from NRC ResearchPress to the not-for-profit companyCanadian Science Publishing continuedsmoothly. The website used to submit, reviewand manage all submissions waschanged from Osprey to ScholarOne. Anew Editorial Assistant, Donna Hartson,has been hired. The CJCE Editors(Dr.Tarek Sayed and Dr. Mike Bartlett) areextremely grateful for the long service providedby the previous Editorial Assistant,15
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