June 16: Evolutionary Computing for Multi-objective Optimization
Members and guests are invited to our June 16 presentation on Evolutionary Computing.
Upcoming and recent events hosted by Chartered Engineers Pacific. Scroll down to the bottom for this year's list events calendar.
Members and guests are invited to our June 16 presentation on Evolutionary Computing.
Members and guests are invited to our May evening seminar on enhancing the performance and longevity of Sustainable Energy Systems by Engineering Interfacial Interactions.
We are constantly working on presenting more compelling seminars. Please see the Events Calendar for dates of future events.
Technical meetings typically commence at 7:00 pm, following Committee Meeting at 5:00 pm. Additions and amendments to the above schedule along with details on individual functions will be posted on this web page.
| 2021 | Venue | Event / Technical Meeting | Presenter | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 20 | MS Teams | Annual Meeting Presentation Dinner: The Rise of Canadian Shipbuilding | Russell Davison | Confirmed |
| March 17 | MS Teams | Annual General Meeting | Chairman CEP | Confirmed |
| April 21 | MS Teams | International Women's day Canadian Surface Combatant: Canada’s Future Ship |
Arlene McConnell | Confirmed |
| May 19 | MS Teams | Enhancing the Performance and Longevity of Sustainable Energy Systems by Engineering Interfacial Interactions | Sami Khan | Confirmed |
| May 22 | TBC | IET's PATW competition | Suresh Vishwakarma | Tentative |
| June 16 | MS Teams | Evolutionary Computing for Multi-objective Optimization | Dr. Anuradha D. Thakare | Confirmed |
| June 20 | TBC | IET 150th Aniversary Event (alternative date) | Tentative | |
| July 21 | TBC | Summer Appreciation Event | TBC | Tentative |
| August 21 | TBC | IMechE SOfE | Levis Judd | Tentative |
| September 15 | MS Teams | Designing and building Polar Class vessels | Russell Davison | Confirmed |
| October 20 | MS Teams | TBC | Dr. Solange Kelly | Confirmed |
| November 17 | MS Teams | Phytoremediation through genetic engineering | Ryan Lider | Confirmed |
| 2020 | ||||
| January 18 | Langara Colleage, Vancouver | Artificial Intelligence Awareness among Engineers and Students | Various | Completed |
| January 18 | Langara Colleage, Vancouver | Speak Out for Engineering Competition | IMechE/CEP | Completed |
| January 22 | Hart House, Deer Lake, Burnaby | Annual Members Dinner | Guest Speaker: Mr. Don Kennedy P. Eng. (2019 recipient of EGBC Gold Medal) |
Completed |
| February 19 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Annual General Meeting | Chairman CEP | Completed |
| March 18 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | The Renewable Energy Transition Reality for a Small North Atlantic Archipelago | Daniele Bortoli | Cancelled |
| May 20 | Online Webinar | The Rapidly Escalating Noscomial Infections | Ben Venktash | Completed |
| June 17 | Online Webinar | Why Hydrogen? | Mark Kirby | Completed |
| July 18 | Hart House, Deer Lake, Burnaby | Summer Appreciation Event | Chairman CEP | Postponed |
| September 23 | Online Webinar | Working from Home - A challenge Overcome by an Engineering Consulting Company | Jovan Kovacevic | Completed |
| October 21 | Online Webinar | An engineered Solution to Climate Change - Direct Air Capture (DAC) | Grant Connorts | Completed |
| November 18 | Online Webinar | Latest Technology and Trends in Energy Management for Buildings in Canada | Robert Greenwald | Confirmed |
| November 21 | Online Webinar | Speak Out for Engineering Competition | IMechE/CEP | Confirmed |
| 2019 | ||||
| January 23 | Pier 7 Restaurant, North Vancouver |
Annual Dinner | Guest speaker: RAdm. Richard W. Greenwood C.Eng | Completed |
| February 20 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | The History of Jaguar Cars and the Development of the V8 Engine for the 21st Century | CEP Committee | Completed |
| March 20 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | China's Engineers: from Li Bin (3rd Century B.C.) to today | Diana Lary | Completed |
| April 17 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | The History of Jaguar Cars and the Development of the V8 Engine for the 21st Century | Malcolm Clough | Completed |
| May 11 | Fred Kaiser Building, UBC, Vancouver | Present Around the World Competition (PATW) for students & young professionals | IET/CEP/ Dr. Suresh Vishwakarma |
Completed |
| May 15 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Capstone Design Course | Dr. Paul Lusina | Completed |
| May 25 | Fred Kaiser Building, UBC, Vancouver | Speak Out for Engineering Competition | IMechE/CEP/ Dr. Suresh Vishwakarma |
Completed |
| June 19 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Business Responsibility: Risk and Opportunity | Christie Stephenson | Completed |
| July 29 | Oceanic Plaza, Vancouver | ICE: 12th Brunel International Lecture: July 29th 2019 | Linda Miller | Completed |
| September 18 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Space Systems: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges, an Overview | David McQuiggan | Completed |
| September 21 | Langara College, Vancouver | Seminar- Artificial Intelligence | IMechE/IET/CEP/ Dr. Suresh Vishwakarma |
Completed |
| October 23 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Restarting Liberia's Electricity Sector | Paul Wilson | Completed |
| November 20 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Smart Water Infratructure | Prof. Dr. Joyanta Kumar Roy | Confirmed |
| 2018 | ||||
| January 24 | The Terminal Club, Vancouver | AGM & Dinner | Mr. Bob Stuart, BC Hydro |
Completed |
| March 14 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Fusion Energy | Mr. Michael Delage, General Fusion |
Completed |
| April 11 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Growing a Consulting Firm: Converting a Vision to Reality | Dr. Zak El-Ramly, ZE Power Group |
Completed |
| May 16 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Arthritis, Where Engineering Principles Play a Role | Dr. Barry Koehler, UBC Chemical Engineering |
Completed |
| June 27 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Influence Without Authority | Prof. Vijay Kumar Verma Research Emeritus |
Completed |
| July TBC | Felicos Restaurant, Richmond | Committee Appreciation Dinner | Completed | |
| September 19 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Modern Measuring and Sensing Devices: Spatial Technologies | Mr. Keith Belsham, Spatial Technologies |
Completed |
| October 17 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Battery-Powered Electric Vehicle | Mr. Bruce Stout, Vancouver Electrical Vehicle Association |
Completed |
| November 14 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Transit oriented development and North Vancouver transportation | Ms. Mowinnn Ma, North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA |
Confirmed |
| 2017 | ||||
| January 25 | The Terminal Club, Vancouver | AGM & Dinner | ||
| February 22 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | No technical meeting | Mr. Paul Fast C.Eng P.Eng FIStructE | Completed |
| April 12 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Non-Traditional Solutions to Tap Connect Transmission Generators |
Dr. Mukesh Nagpal | Completed |
| May 17 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Evening Discussion: A Debate on How We Fund Infrastructures | Hosted by Matthew Walton-Knigh and Marina Li | Completed |
| July 29 | Canada Place | Dinner Cruise with APEGBC Sea-to-Sky Branch | Host: APEGBC Sea To Sky Branch | Confirmed |
| September 19 | Christ Church Cathedral | Structural Renovations - Christ Church Cathedral | Ian Birtwell, Meredith Anderson and James Emery | Confirmed |
| October 18 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Distributed Fiber Sensing Systems | Dr. Sudhakar Cherukupalli | Confirmed |
| November 15 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Surrey Emergency Program | Mark Graffioen | Confirmed |
| 2016 | ||||
| January 27 | Royal Vancouver Yacht Club | AGM & Dinner - A Geologist's Quest to Understand Our Blue Planet | Dr. John Clague | Completed |
| March 16 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Robotic Submarines | Shane Jensen and Taylor Moore | Completed |
| April 27 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Autonomous Surface Vehicle | Jaclyn Tarnai, Graham Williamson, David Wong, and Yiran Zhou | Completed |
| May 18 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Imaging, Mechanics and Osteoarthritis | Prof David Wilson, UBC Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Centre |
Completed |
| June 29 | The Terminal Club, Vancouver | IMechE President's Dinner | Mr. Jonathan Hilton | Completed |
| July 16 | 760 Pacific Blvd. S, Vancouver | Dinner Cruise False Bay | Host: APEGBC Sea To Sky Branch | Confirmed |
| September 21 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | ZincNYX fuel cell storage systems: background, use and impact on global electrical generation | John McLeod, ZincNYX | Confirmed |
| October 12 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Injury Biomechanics – Is Prevention the Best Medicine? | Dr Peter Cripton, UBC Mechanical Engineering | Confirmed |
| November 23 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project | Edward Green, Charter Project Delivery | Confirmed |
| 2015 | ||||
| January 28 | Royal Vancouver Yacht Club | AGM & Dinner - Port Metro Vancouver | Robin Silvester, CEng, President & CEO Port Metro Vancouver | Completed |
| March 25 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Human-Robotics-Interaction | Prof Mike Van Der Loos, UBC | Completed |
| April 15 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Evergreen Line Project Overview | Meiric Preece, DBC Technical Director Evergreen Line | Completed |
| May 20 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Innovative Natural Gas Delivery System in the Australian Outback |
Dr Michael Wrinch, Principal, Hedgehog Technologies Inc. | Completed |
| July 18 | West Vancouver | Annual Summer BBQ | APEGBC Sea-To-Sky | Completed |
| September 16 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Wind Turbines - Design & Build Wind Turbines - Design & Build | Antonio Marchet, Endurance Wind Power | Completed |
| October 21 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Perspectives on Climate Change and World Energy | Stan Ridley, West 2012 Energy Management | Completed |
| November 18 | UBC Robson Square | Innovative Buildings and Structures in the Middle East | Eric De Fleuriot de la Coliniere, Associated Engineering (BC) |
Completed |
| 2014 | ||||
| January 29 | Royal Vancouver Yacht Club | AGM & Dinner - Meet the APEGBC Leadership Team | Ann English, P.Eng. and others | Completed |
| March 25 | Vancity Kingsway | Holistic Engineering | Alan Kay | Completed |
| June 11 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Christchurch Earthquake: Two Years Later | Prof. Ken Elwood | Completed |
| July 26 | West Vancouver | BBQ and Committee Meeting | Host: APEGBC Sea to Sky Branch | Completed |
| September 17 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Design of Theatre Motion Seating System | David Lo | Completed |
| November 18 | Accent Inns, Burnaby | Renewable Energy | Dr. Mehrzad Tabatabaian | Completed |
| 2013 | ||||
| January 30 | Royal Vanc Yacht Club | AGM & Dinner - Climate Change and Global Warming | Prof. Andrew Weaver | Completed |
| March 20 | Holiday Inn Metrotown | The Emerging Role of the Engineering Consultant - How to Find and Deliver Value | John Holland, C.Eng P.Eng | Completed |
| April 17 | Holiday Inn Metrotown | New Pitt River Cable-Stayed Bridge Design & Construction | Craig Schaper, C.Eng P.Eng. | Completed |
| May 15 | Holiday Inn Metrotown | BCSA 10 Year Strategy - as it relates to Risk Management | Catherine Roome, P.Eng | Completed |
| June 21, 24 | Vancity Kingsway | Successful interviewing | Wilma Marais, CHRP | Completed |
| July 27 | West Vancouver | BBQ with APEGBC Sea-to-Sky | Bill Vaughn | Completed |
| September 18 | Vancity Kingsway | Living Buildings Challenge | Gregory Snaith, P.Eng | Completed |
| October 23 | Holiday Inn Metrotown | Kinder Morgan Pipelines | Greg Toth, P.Eng | Completed |
| November 20 | Vancity Kingsway | Port Metro Vancouver Projects | Matthew Walton-Knight, C.Eng | Completed |