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National Engineering Month (NEM) occurring in March 2009, is a Canada-wide celebration designed to raise the awareness of engineering and engineering technology and the contributions they make to our daily lives, and to encourage young people to consider careers in the engineering field. On February 20, 2008, EIR Clayton Kotzer, P.Eng. of Royal Military College held a presentation about the EIR Program at the annual meeting of Kingston PEO Chapter at RMC's Senior Staff Mess Hall. The students of Christ the King Catholic School and Floradale Public School, both Mississauga schools, were treated to a short presentation and a tour of the engineering and production labs of Honeywell Aerospace on February 20 with the help of EIR Vesna Nikolic, EIT and EIR Anita Ramroop of Honeywell. . Defence R & D Canada and Dalhousie University's Centre for Foreign Policy Studies sponsored The First Northern Watch Conference on October 21 to 23 to understand the requirements needed for Arctic surveillance. On September 14, 2007, Burj Dubai, a business/hotel/residential building going up in the United Arab Emirates soared 555 meters into the sky and became the world's tallest freestanding structure, outstripping Toronto's CN Tower. In collaboration with the local PEO Chapters, the EIR Program is closing the 2006-2007 school year with two events. The first will be held in Kingston at Queen's University on May 30, 2007 with CMC's Jim Roche as a keynote speaker. The Engineer-in-Residence (EIR) Program held its first Community Event in Sudbury on November 30, 2006 at Laurentian University. Peter Liu-Ernsting of Hatch Engineering and a member of the executive of PEO's Sudbury Chapter hosted the event that drew some 30 attendees from the engineering, education and science outreach communities. The EIR Program is off to an excellent start: 10 new EIR/teacher teams have joined us for the 2006-2007 school year. We take this occasion to welcome the following engineer and teacher pairs in Kanata, Kingston, Milton, Ottawa, Richmond Hill, Stittsville and Waterloo. The United States Military Academy is pleased to offer the third annual West Point Bridge Design Contest. The purpose of the contest is to provide middle school and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering. This year's challenge is to design and build a Disaster Relief OPeration (DROP) vehicle. DROP'S purpose is to simulate supply transfers to survivors of natural disasters. Longtime friend of the Engineer-in-Residence Program, Conestoga Rovers & Associates (CRA) has renewed its financial commitment to EIR. CRA contributed to the very first EIR Community Event held in Waterloo in 2001 and supported the Program steadily for the next three years. Congratulations Wes Libbey! Wes Libbey, an EIR in Cornwall area since 2002, is the recipient of the 2005 Professional Engineers Ontario Citizenship Award. The EIR Program welcomes a new member to the team. Anton Ajon, a recent graduate of York University is the program's new volunteer liaison. The EIR Program Office is currently accepting applications from all Engineers and Schools. Sign up before September 20, 2005 for your best chances to be matched. Working with teacher Jeff Seed and the students at Rideau Vista Public School, EIR Bob Thomas has given "practical presentations" on the Rideau Canal as well as on cameras and fibre optics.. John Wynen, an engineer with RIM is EIR for two schools in the Waterloo area: Conostogo P.S. and St. EIR Lloyd Marshall and the grade 4 students of Whitchurch Highlands P.S. in Stouffville investigated the properties of rocks and minerals.. Derrick Oswald and David McKay, the EIR and the primary contact teacher at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, are working with a gifted Grade 10 science class to create The Lisgar Weather Station. The Engineer-in-Residence Program was awarded a prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) PromoScience Grant for its work in promoting science and engineering to young Ontarians.
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