PEG Magazine - Spring 2017

FOR COUNCIL Terry Waters, P.Eng., M.Sc.

Terry has more than 45 years of engineering and managerial experience in project and construction management, over 30 years in a senior capacity. Most of this experience has been in Canada, and in his various assignments he has been an active Professional Engineer in five provinces in addition to Alberta, where he was registered in 1978. He was a Councillor in the Association of Professional Engineers of

In his career he has strived to strengthen the Professional Engineer’s role and obligations during construction, through to commissioning, operations, and maintenance of industrial facilities and infrastructure. Terry wants to continue for three more years on Council to support the Association in its mission to improve its regulatory competence in Alberta and become more transparent and up-front with the general public in matters of public concern and safety. He supports APEGA initiatives in promoting diversity in the Association and improving feedback from the membership at large. Nearly half of the Association’s membership was educated outside Alberta and our careers have become more global. As APEGA Members become more involved outside Alberta, he believes that more attention must be directed to the offshore and pan-Canadian work managed by Alberta professionals. Terry also would like to continue his support of the APEGA legislative review, which will present the Government of Alberta with a detailed proposal to revise the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act , making it more suited to the next 100 years of the Association.

Newfoundland in the ’70s and has been on APEGA Council since 2014. He is now a non-practising Life Member of APEGA. Terry attended three universities for his education in chemical engineering: University College London in England, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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