What's New at the Academy

A STATEMENT OF COMMON UNDERSTANDING

In 2011 the presidents of the Council of Canadian Academies, the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences worked cooperatively to develop a joint Statement of Common Understanding to guide their future collaboration.

Click here to read the statement

NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Michael A. Ball, FCAE, FEC, P.Eng., who had been the Executive Director of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) since 2006, stepped down from his position on December 31, 2011. The Academy’s new Executive Director is Kevin Goheen, Ph.D., P.Eng., who assumed his duties on January 1, 2012.

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2012 DINNER, INDUCTION OF NEW FELLOWS, ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, AND SYMPOSIUM ON 'CANADA IN AVIATION AND SPACE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE"

With our successful 2011 AGM and Symposium in Vancouver now over, planning has begun for the 2012 event. We have a working theme of "Canada in Aviation and Space: Past, Present and Future". With that in mind, the Induction of New Fellows and Dinner will be held on the evening of June 21st at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum among the collection, and the Symposium will be held all day on June 22nd in the new auditorium at the museum. The 2012 AGM Business meeting is scheduled for the early afternoon of June 21st at the Novotel Ottawa.

CAE ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT, MS. KIM STURGESS

Ms. Kim Sturgess, FCAE, P.Eng., was elected President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) at CAE’s Annual General Meeting held on June 3, 2011 in Vancouver.

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'TROTTIER ENERGY FUTURES PROJECT' LAUNCHED

Engineers, environmentalists and philanthropists are joining forces to develop solutions for Canada’s energy future. The Canadian Academy of Engineering, the David Suzuki Foundation and the Trottier Family Foundation have announced a formal partnership to launch the “Trottier Energy Futures Project”, named for entrepreneur, engineer and philanthropist Lorne Trottier, whose family foundation is providing major funding for a multi-year project.

Trottier Energy Futures Project website 

Dale Marshall (David Suzuki Foundation), Michael Charles (The Canadian Academy of Engineering), Lorne Trottier (Trottier Family Foundation) and Tom Gouldsborough announced on September 15, 2010 in Montreal the launch of the Trottier Energy Futures Project, a unique partnership with the goal of helping to build a clean and sustainable energy future for Canada.

THE CAE OFFICE HAS MOVED

As of August 16, 2010, the Canadian Academy of Engineering's address is:

1402 - 180 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2K3

Telephone and fax numbers remain the same.

ENERGY PATHWAYS PROJECT

Clean energy innovation is an issue that is of critical importance for the future well-being and prosperity of Canadians.  In March 2002, responding to the challenges being faced by the global energy industry, including regional instability, depleting conventional resources, climate change and price volatility, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) released a study titled, Energy and Climate Change - A Canadian Engineering Perspective. It concluded that, "A long-term, sustainable energy strategy needs to be developed, which will necessarily require a larger choice of energy sources and technologies than [are] presently available".  The Report noted that the CAE could play an important role in the assessment of technologies that are already available or entirely new energy technologies.

With support from a group of eight Sponsors: Alberta Research Council; Natural Resources Canada; Suncor Energy; Petro-Canada; EnCana; AECL; Hatch; and the Alberta Energy Research Institute; a Task Force was formed under the leadership of  Dr. Clem Bowman, FCAE, to continue the work of the Academy on this subject. The specific goal of the Energy Pathways Task Force was to define the barriers that are preventing the development of economic and environmentally acceptable energy sources and carriers in Canada and to identify the technologies that can overcome these barriers. The focus of this project has been on technology options that would permit Canada to achieve its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, while continuing to provide an adequate supply of energy, at competitive rates, to meet the growing demand for energy.

To read about the Energy Pathways Project and its reports, please click here.