Thursday, May 28, 2009
Va asteptam la Intalnirea AREC-VIP Roman - 3 Iunie 2009
Association of Romanian Engineers in CanadaTogether We Are Stronger!
Dragi prieteni,
Avem placerea de a va invita Miercuri 3 Iunie, la intalnirea cu Dr. Ing. Mircea Mihaescu, din cadrul intalnirilor AREC cu VIP Romani.
Avem placerea de a va invita Miercuri 3 Iunie, la intalnirea cu Dr. Ing. Mircea Mihaescu, din cadrul intalnirilor AREC cu VIP Romani.
Mircea are peste 20 de ani de experienta in software engineering, in dezvoltarea si implementarea proiectelor de software de scara larga. Mircea este Directorul departamentului WebAhead Development and Security Innovations in IBM's CIO Head Office in New York, USA. Departamentul lui Mircea este responsabil cu previziunea modului in care software-ul & hardware-ul vor fi folosite in viitor, ce aplicatii vor fi necesare, cum vor inter-reactiona ele, etc. - o activitate foarte "futuristica" si interesanta.
Inainte de a ajunge Director la WebAhead Development and Security Innovations, Mircea a fost Director al departamentului Software Development la IBM Tivoli, dezvoltand produse care se ocupau cu automatizarea centrelor de date. Mircea a ocupat mai multe pozitii de conducere in IT, consulting si software development, avand o cariera de succes in companii de dezvoltare de software, incepand cu start-ups si continuand cu dezvoltarea firmelor pana la maturizarea lor, realizand o crestere exceptionala a firmelor in care a lucrat.
In unul din mesajele postate pe blog-ul lui, Mircea spune:
"One possible way is to think of connections as career, task, and social relationships. A career relationship is with someone that you will continue to keep in touch as you move from job to job -- a mentor, a technical guru, etc. A task relationship is with someone you work together on a project -- you may bump into each other ten years later and chat, but the relationship is essentially short-lived. A social relationship is with your social network as you would consider it before the birth of "social network sites" -- people you know and keep in touch outside work." Do You Want To Be My Friend?
Tema prezentarii lui Mircea la intalnirea cu membrii si suporterii AREC este Innovation and Transformation:
-- how to manage the innovation process to transform a company
-- how the innovation process is applicable to an engineer's career management
-- how the innovation process is applicable to an engineer's career management
Mircea va face si o scurta prezentare a carierei sale profesionale, urmata de sfaturi/recomandari pentru cei interesati.
Costul de participare la intalnirea cu VIP-ul Roman este $10 pentru ne-membri, si GRATUIT pentru membri AREC (mai jos sant informatii cum puteti deveni membri AREC).
- Membrii noi vor plati $40 daca inscrierea se va face pana in luna Iunie a fiecarui an, iar daca inscrierea se face dupa luna Iunie, vor plati $5 pentru fiecare luna completa ramasa pana la sfarsitul anului.
AREC: VIP Roman Meeting
When: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 starting at 6.00 p.m. with networking and light refreshments.
Where: George Kelk Corporation 48 Lesmill Road, Toronto, Ontario M3B 2T5
When: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 starting at 6.00 p.m. with networking and light refreshments.
Where: George Kelk Corporation 48 Lesmill Road, Toronto, Ontario M3B 2T5
Nu uitati cartile de vizita!
Va asteptam cu drag,
Executivul AREC
Executivul AREC
PROCEDURA DE A DEVENI MEMBRU AREC
1. Trimiteti prin e-mail datele de contact (nume complet, adresa, telefon acasa si celular, adresa de e-mail) precum si diploma de absolvire a facultatii, in forma scanata, la AREC@sympatico.ca
2. Faceti plata de $40 in modul urmator:
A) Plata prin e-mail (valabila pentru cei ce fac Internet banking):
- Log into your bank account.
- Go to "Email Money Transfers" or something similar (each bank has a different description for sending money by e-mail)
- Go to "Add a new recipient" and add AREC with e-mail address AREC@sympatico.ca
- Go back to "Email Money Transfers"
- Under "Message to recipient" write "AREC membership for Your Name" (put your name)
- Under "Amount": $40
- Under "Create your own security question" write "AREC"
- For "Security answer" or "password" write "Engineer"
- Send
B) Trimitand un cheque pentru "AREC" la:
AREC, 7377 Sandhurst Drive, Mississauga, ON L5N 7G7
C) Plata cu cec sau cash la intalnirea AREC cu VIP Roman – vedeti anuntul de mai sus.
In cateva zile dupa plata, vei primi un e-mail cu chitanta confirmand plata cotizatiei (si care confirma de asemenea ca ai devenit membru AREC). In cazul in care aveti asigurarile cu TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, numarul chitantei va va fi necesar la reinoirea asigurarii sau la inceperea unei sigurari noi cu ei. Meloche Monnex au rate preferentiale pentru membrii AREC (ca si pentru membrii PEO).
PEO Executive Committee 2009-2010
Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), the licensing body for professional engineers in the province, installed the 2009-2010 Council. See more details at PEO Council
Vice president (elected)
Major (retired) Corneliu Chisu holds a BEng from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and an MEng in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. He has been a military engineer and served with the Canadian Forces in
CATHERINE KARAKATSANIS, P.ENG.
President
Catherine Karakatsanis is a senior vice president and board member at Morrison Hershfield Limited. She heads up the building and facilities division, which provides multi-disciplinary engineering expertise to the commercial,
institutional, residential, industrial and public sectors. After graduating with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering science from the University of Western Ontario (UWO), Karakatsanis was a research assistant at UWO’s Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory. In 1989 she joined Morrison Hershfield, where she
has had a diversified career with extensive engineering and management experience. She has
been a structural engineer, project manager and construction manager; conducted specialized engineering research for litigation; and held several management positions. Karakatsanis has been an active volunteer in the engineering community for over a decade, having served on the board of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) for five years and as OSPE president and chair. She has chaired and been a member of numerous PEO and OSPE committees. In addition to her role as president of PEO, she is a member of the boards of the Ontar
io Professional Engineers Foundation for Education and UWO’s faculty of engineering advisory committee. Karakatsanis is also active in her community. ckarakatsanis@peo.on.ca
DIANE L. FREEMAN, P.ENG.
President-elect
Diane Freeman graduated with a civil
engineering degree from the University of Waterloo in 1992 and was licensed in 1994. An associate with Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Ltd., working in the area of air quality, Freeman was elected in 2006 as a City of Waterloo councillor. She served as a PEO Western Region councillor for four years and is active on the Discipline Committee, and as a professional practice exam invigilator. In 2005-2006, she was appointed vice president on the Executive Committee, and chaired the Regional Councillors Committee. In 2004, she was vice chair of the Regional Councillors Committee and chaired the Chapter Leaders Conference. A past me
mber of the Professional Engineers Awards Committee, Freeman was also active on the Grand River Chapter executive as chapter education coordinator from 1994 to 2000. Dedicated
to science awareness and enriching learning environments for children, Freeman is president of the board of directors for the Butterfly Learning Centre. In 2007 and 2008, she was elected a director on the board of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, where she is a member of the Large Urban Caucus. She is also a director and secretary of the Air and Waste Management Association (Ontario section). dfreeman@peo.on.ca
J. DAVID ADAMS, P.ENG., MBA
Past president
Dave Adams, past president PEO 2008-2009, studied arts and science at Carleton University before earning a BEng in mechanical engineering at
McGill University, and an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Western Ontario. Involved extensively in mechanical engineering
design and production management, and acquisition analysis and business operations, he has worked at the National Research Council, in the Alberta oil fields, CIL, Cockshutt, Abitibi and Rio Tinto (England), and held senior positions with Canadian Gypsum and Massey Ferguson before acquiring the 140-employee Canada Spool & Bobbin Company. Adams is president of Maple Leaf Engineering, a consulting firm specializing in lean design and manufacturing, wood processing machinery, and sawmill and dry kiln design. He was twice elected a regional councillor and has many years of chapter, committee and task force service. He chaired both the Governance Task Force and the Audit
Comm
ittee. A past president of the Rotary Club and elder of Lutheran Church Canada, Adams is a member of Gideon International, Canadian Who’s Who since 1989 and Marquis Who’s Who (US) since 1984. Adams was made a member of International Men of Achievement in 1986.
CORNELIU E. CHISU, P.ENG.
Major (retired) Corneliu Chisu holds a BEng from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and an MEng in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. He has been a military engineer and served with the Canadian Forces in
Bosnia Herzegovina (2004) as an engineer advisor to the NATO Multinational Task Force (NW) and in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2007), as a requirements officer of Task Force
Afghanistan’s Engineer Support Unit. Chisu has served as a public member of the Building Materials Evaluation Commission and was an application process administrator at PEO. Until 2004, he was the honorary consul of the Republic of Moldova (head of the consular post in Toronto) and secretary of the Consular Corps Association of Toronto. He served with the Italian Trade Commission in Bucharest and Toronto as technology transfer advisor. He worked as a research scientist and teaching assistant at the Energy Research Institute and Polytechnic University of Bucharest. Chisu was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration; Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; NATO medal for Balkan Operations; Canadian Peacekeeper Medal; and General Campaign Star Medal Afghanistan.
He was inducted into PEO’s Order of Honour in 2006. cchisu@peo.on.ca
Afghanistan’s Engineer Support Unit. Chisu has served as a public member of the Building Materials Evaluation Commission and was an application process administrator at PEO. Until 2004, he was the honorary consul of the Republic of Moldova (head of the consular post in Toronto) and secretary of the Consular Corps Association of Toronto. He served with the Italian Trade Commission in Bucharest and Toronto as technology transfer advisor. He worked as a research scientist and teaching assistant at the Energy Research Institute and Polytechnic University of Bucharest. Chisu was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration; Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; NATO medal for Balkan Operations; Canadian Peacekeeper Medal; and General Campaign Star Medal Afghanistan.
He was inducted into PEO’s Order of Honour in 2006. cchisu@peo.on.ca
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Romanian Canadian Day
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Pe ce pariaza cel mai bogat roman din Statele Unite
Pentru George Haber, cel mai bogat roman din Statele Unite, succesul inseamna 90% inspiratie si 10% ratiune. Antreprenorul, care a construit in Silicon Valley patru companii pe care le-a vandut, a ratat o afacere cu Bill Gates si o listare la Bursa, crede ca aceasta criza financiara pe care o traversam inseamna incheierea capitalismului si inceperea unei noi etape a dezvoltarii umane.
(citeste continuraea aici Pe ce pariaza cel mai bogat roman din Statele Unite)
(citeste continuraea aici Pe ce pariaza cel mai bogat roman din Statele Unite)
Friday, May 01, 2009
Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?
Dr. Mercola is providing in this article a much needed natural and integrative medicine perspective to the Swine Flu (and Flu in general) paranoia. Education is Power and the best form of prevention. Thanks.
Read the full extensive article here.
Read the full extensive article here.
