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APEGA STORIES REACH SUMMIT OF SUCCESS
They’re inventors, they’re Innovators, they’re influencers — and they’re also recipients of APEGA’s 2016 Summit Awards. If you haven’t heard about them yet, here’s your chance to find out more about these high-achieving Members, their projects, and why they were honoured for professional, technical, and community excellence. You can also visit apegasummit- awards.ca to watch short videos that highlight their achievements. Note: Nominations for the 2017 Summit Awards closed September 15. Recipients will be honoured at a gala awards night, April 27, 2017, in Calgary.
PEAK PERFORMANCE Recipients of 2016 APEGA Summit Awards and project recipient representatives pose for a group photo with the Honorable Lois E. Mitchell, CM, AOE, LLD, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. Back row: (from left) are Karen Sagar, P.Eng., Kamal Botros, P.Eng., PhD, Arden Spachynski, P.Eng., APEGA Past-President Connie Parenteau, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.), Russ Wlad, P.Eng., Aminah Robinson Fayek, P.Eng., PhD, Leon Prebeau-Menezes, P.Eng., and Lourdes Lugue, P.Eng. Front row: (from left) J.J. Roger Cheng, P.Eng., PhD; Paul Bauman, P.Eng., P.Geoph.; Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell and her husband Doug Mitchell; Robin Gardiner; and Jacques Georgy, P.Eng., PhD.
Centennial Leadership Award Presented to Members who have
attained the highest distinction relating to engineering or geoscience through directorship of an outstanding project, original research, or invention, or an exemplary career in teaching At first, others called him crazy, but Dr. J.J. Roger Cheng, P.Eng. , proved them wrong. When he became chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Engineering, he set a goal to raise $25 million in five years. “We not only made that goal, we surpassed it.” The funding helped transform the department into one of the largest for civil engineering in North America. It also consistently ranks as one of the top 100 places to study civil engineer- ing in the world. Over Dr. Cheng’s term, undergraduate enrolment has more than
Early Accomplishment Award Presented to Members recognized by peers for their integrity, expertise, and outstanding accomplishments in fields related to engineering or geoscience at an early stage in their professional career Since joining Statoil International in 2012, Leon Prebeau-Menezes, P.Eng. , has already demonstrated high levels of achievement in his field. As a senior well engineer with Statoil ASA, a Norwegian multinational oil and gas company, he works mainly with platform and subsea wells in the North Sea area. He was on
doubled to more than 1,000 students, and graduate enrolment has seen a 50 per cent increase to almost 500 students. Dr. Cheng’s other accomplish- ments include a 56 per cent increase in faculty positions and the establish- ment of the Nasseri School of Build- ing Science and Engineering. The department used to have one industrial research chair under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) — now it has eight.
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