Movers & Shakers
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NEWLY MINTED FELLOWS: FIVE APEGA MEMBERS JOIN THE FELLOWSHIP RANKS OF THE CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Five APEGA Members — all engineering professors and leaders in their fields — were among 50 new Fellows inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in June. Fellowships are awarded for distin- guished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession. William (Bill) Rosehart, P.Eng., PhD , Dean of the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, is deeply committed to teaching and learning. He’s received two Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Awards and has twice been named Professor of the Year in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He’s a founding member of the Canadian Engineering Association, and he recently led the creation of an energy engineering program that allows technology grads to complete an engineering degree in only two additional years. A volunteer with APEGA on the Board of Examiners, Dr. Rosehart received the APEGA Early Accomplishment Summit Award in 2006. puter modelling and coding, she’s had the opportunity to experience other sides of the discipline, too. In the sum- mer of 2016, she worked in the U of A’s paleomagnetic and petromagnetic lab on plate tectonic reconstruction of the South China block during the Paleozoic Era. Science. In January, he served as President of the Western Inter-University Geoscience Conference (WIUGC) — while tackling a full course load and completing an undergraduate thesis. This summer, he worked with APEX Geosciences Ltd. in Nunavut, doing field work for the company. He’ll return to the U of A to embark on a master’s in geology and geostatistics. Outside school, he enjoys hiking, backpacking, and skiing. Says Mr. Lybbert: “My curiosities have fueled my desire to learn and develop my understanding of what lies beneath our feet.” Jessica Zerb will graduate from the U of A Faculty of Science this April with a degree in geophysics. “My passion for hiking, backpacking, and the outdoors in general motivated me to pursue geoscience as a career,” she explains. While geophysics is heavily geared towards com-
After completing summer research, she participated in a WIUGC poster presentation, winning the award for best undergraduate poster. Over the summer, she expe- rienced a different branch of geophysics, working on a team researching signal processing for seismic data. Also studying at the U of A, Daniel Baker will graduate from the Honors in Geology program next April. He has completed his undergraduate thesis on sedimentology and ichnology (which looks at the behaviour of organisms in the geologic record) in the Stephen Formation. Mr. Baker has been active in the Ichnology Research Group at the U of A. He has helped map a portion of the Beaulieu River Greenstone Belt for the Northwest Terri- tories Geological Survey, and he was a host for WIUGC. He also attended the 2017 Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop. To further develop what he calls his “geo-brain,” Mr. Baker spent the summer as a boulder mapper and glacial prospector in Nunavut, searching for economically viable gold deposits. “My experience within soft rock and hard rock has fired my passion for the geological profession. I cannot wait for future opportunities and challenges to increase my knowledge and adaptive skillsets.”
NEW FELLOW Dr. Bill Rosehart, P.Eng., University of Calgary Schulich School of Engineering, right, receives his fellowship from Canadian Academy of Engineering President Douglas Ruth (P.Eng.-MB)
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