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| engineering iron ring canada: On Cold Iron Dan Levert, 2020-03-13 When engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” penned by none other than Rudyard Kipling, charges them with their Obligation to high standards, humility, and ethics. Each budding engineer then receives an Iron Ring to be worn on the small finger of the working hand as a reminder throughout their career. Through the story of the 1907 Quebec Bridge disaster, in which seventy-six men died, author Dan Levert teaches a powerful object lesson in what can happen when that Obligation is forgotten. Woven from transcripts of the inquiry into the collapse, the report of the commissioners, and other sources including the coroner’s inquest, On Cold Iron plays out like a fast-paced thriller. Levert recounts the original 1850s proposals to bridge the St. Lawrence near Quebec City, through the design and construction of what was to be the longest clear span bridge of any kind in the world, to its shocking collapse during construction in August 1907. The missteps, poor policies, hubris, and wrong-headed actions begin to build like a death by a thousand cuts, until its inevitable and horrifying culmination. The meticulously researched and deftly delivered story of this terrible historical event makes fascinating reading for anyone, but even more, it is a powerful cautionary tale and a clarion call for the obligation and responsibility of an engineer. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Lady with the Iron Ring Nattalia Lea, 2019-07-08 In 1978, Nattalia Lea became the first woman to graduate from the University of British Columbia with a bio-resources engineering degree – an era when less than 0.5% of Canadian professional engineers were female. Then 26 years later, in 2004, after four engineering job terminations and a 16-year journalism stint, this working-class woman makes a comeback into Alberta’s oil patch boardrooms. Lady with the Iron Ring is the heartwarming, witty and tell-all memoir of a woman with a mission who didn’t recognize it as one at the time. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Obligation: Kip A. Wedel, 2023-05-01 Engineering is more than a number-crunching business. It is a matter of life and death. In 1907, when engineering errors led to a Canadian bridge collapse that killed seventy-five men, the profession's moral obligations were stark and obvious. Engineers increasingly realized that technical expertise was not enough, and in 1925, a group of Canadian engineers formally and publicly promised to uphold the highest ethical standards. To remind themselves of their pledge, they fashioned iron rings to be worn on the outer finger. Unfortunately, for decades engineers in the United States had no similar institution. Then, on a summer day in 1970, 170 engineers, students, and teachers met on the campus of Cleveland State University for the first ceremony of what would become the Order of the Engineer. Today, the stainless steel rings worn by the Order's members are recognized throughout the world as the outward sign of an inward commitment to ethical engineering. This 50th Anniversary edition tells the story of the Order's origins and growth over half a century. Kip A. Wedel teaches American history at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. |
| engineering iron ring canada: An Engineer's Alphabet Henry Petroski, 2011-10-10 Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements. This work is organized alphabetically and more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be read from first page to last, but rather to be dipped into, here and there, as the mood strikes the reader. In time, it is hoped, this book should become the source to which readers go first when they encounter a vague or obscure reference to the softer side of engineering. |
| engineering iron ring canada: To Forgive Design Henry Petroski, 2012-03-30 When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and contradictions. Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Engineering-Business Nexus Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, Christelle Didier, Martin Meganck, Mike Murphy, 2018-11-14 Fascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a critical examination of the multilayered relationships between engineering and business. In so doing the study also stimulates ethical reflection on how these relationships either enhance or inhibit strategies to address vital issues of our time. In the context of geopolitical, economic, and environmental tendencies the authors explore the world that we should want to create and the role of the engineer and the business manager in this endeavor. Throughout this volume the authors identify periods of alignment and periods of tension between engineering and business. They look at focal points of the engineering-business nexus related to the development of capitalism. The book explores past and present movements to reshape, reform, or reject this nexus. The volume is informed by questions of importance for industry as well as for higher education. These are: What kinds of conflict arise for engineers in their attempts to straddle both professional and organizational commitments? How should professionals be managed to avoid a clash of managerial and professional cultures? How do engineers create value in firms and corporations? What kinds of tension exist between higher education and industry? What challenges does the neoliberal entrepreneurial university pose for management, faculty, students, society, and industry? Should engineering graduates be ready for work, and can they possibly be? What kinds of business issues are reflected in engineering education curricula, and for what purpose? Is there a limit to the degree of business hybridization in engineering degree programs, and if so, what would be the criterion for its definition? Is there a place in engineering education curricula for reflective critique of assumptions related to business and economic thinking? One ideal of management and control comes to the fore as the Anthropocene - the world transformed into an engineered artefact which includes human existence. The volume raises the question as to how engineering and business together should be considered, given the fact that the current engineering-business nexus remains embedded within an economic model of continual growth. By addressing macro-level issues such as energy policy, sustainable development, globalization, and social justice this study will both help create awareness and stimulate development of self-knowledge among practitioners, educators, and students thereby ultimately addressing the need for better informed citizens to safeguard planet Earth as a human life supporting system. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Lady with the Iron Ring Nattalia Lea, 2019-06-26 In 1978, Nattalia Lea became the first woman to graduate from the University of British Columbia with a bio-resources engineering degree – an era when less than 0.5% of Canadian professional engineers were female. Then 26 years later, in 2004, after four engineering job terminations and a 16-year journalism stint, this working-class woman makes a comeback into Alberta’s oil patch boardrooms. Lady with the Iron Ring is the heartwarming, witty and tell-all memoir of a woman with a mission who didn’t recognize it as one at the time. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Engineering Ethics Michael Davis, 2017-05-15 This volume is a collection of articles published since engineering ethics developed a distinct scholarly field in the late 1970s that will help define the field of engineering ethics. Among the perennial questions addressed are: What is engineering (and what is engineering ethics)? What professional responsibilities do engineers have and why? What professional autonomy can engineers have in large organizations? What is the relationship between ethics and codes of ethics and how should engineering ethics be taught? |
| engineering iron ring canada: Canada Diane Lemieux, 2016-01-07 Canada is the second-largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and spanning six time zones. From coast to coast lie vast forests, breathtaking mountains, flat, open plains, and thousands of lakes and rivers. It is also the world s second-most sparsely populated country. The Canadian psyche is deeply influenced by the size of the territory and the extremes of its climate. Canada s short history, and its relatively peaceful development, affects the way the Canadians view the world and their place in it. They are one of the world s wealthiest nations, with a quality of life to match, and are proud of their positive international reputation. Outsiders assume that Canadians are culturally similar to, if more modest than, their American neighbors. But Canadian society is more complex than that. This is one of the most multicultural societies in the world, due to its high level of immigration. In addition, its small population, spread thinly across a huge landmass, affects how Canadians communicate with each other. For instance, they identify more readily with their province or local community than they do with their nation. Politically and economically, the country is very decentralized. Culture Smart! Canada gives a broad overview of the geography, history, and politics of the land. It describes Canadian values and attitudes, how people relax in their spare time, and how you can make friends with them. There is a chapter on business for those who need to know what to expect in the corporate world. By preparing you for the reactions, emotions, and events that you will experience during your visit, it will deepen your understanding of the country. Canadians are open, friendly, and relaxed hosts. They will welcome you even more warmly if you demonstrate some depth of knowledge of their culture. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Engineering Institute of Canada, 1891 |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Bridge at Québec William D. Middleton, 2001 The Bridge at Quebec provides a full account of the long effort to build a bridge across the St. Lawrence at this difficult site, with particular emphasis on the extraordinary story of the failure of the first bridge, its engineers and their fateful decisions, the terrible collapse of August 29, 1907, and the human tragedies that accompanied it, and the lessons that its story holds even today for engineers and builders as they continue to extend the boundaries of technology. Fully illustrated, the book makes clear to the general reader and technical audience alike the engineering and technical issues involved in this story of one of the world's greatest bridges.--BOOK JACKET. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Leadership Contract Vince Molinaro, 2017-10-30 Step up, get tough, and commit to your decision to lead The Leadership Contract provides the manual that leaders around the world need. With only seven percent of employees feeling confident in senior leadership, the problem is evident: disappointing, and often disgraceful leaders. Employees deserve better than that; organizations need better than that—and this book provides a robust framework for stepping up and making the decision to lead. This new third edition has been updated, featuring a new foreword by Adecco CEO Alain Dehaze, new findings from the Global Leadership Accountability Study, and more insights to help you chart your own path to build strong leadership accountability at a personal and organizational level. Great leadership doesn’t happen by accident. It’s more than just being in charge; it’s a decision, an obligation and potentially your legacy. Mediocre is no longer good enough—in today’s business climate, organizations need stellar leadership. If you’re not exceptional, step up or step aside — this book helps you toughen up and put your commitment to great leadership in writing for yourself as much as everyone else. Learn how a leadership contract is vital for truly accountable leadership Discover the mindset and practices needed to be a deliberate and decisive leader Communicate to inspire, motivate, and drive high performance Become the leader your organization needs today and into the future Leadership is not a birthright, not an accident, and not for everyone. It is the only differentiator between an organization’s success and failure, and it has been entrusted to you. Can you step up to the challenge? Can you execute strategy while inspiring peak performance, nurturing top talent, managing complexity, creating value, conquering uncertainty, and yes, developing new leaders? Put your name on the line—literally—by drawing up a contract for leadership accountability. The Leadership Contract provides a proven and practical framework used by companies and leaders around the world. Join them and take your leadership to next level. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Engineering Education and Management Liangchi Zhang, Chunliang Zhang, 2011-11-23 This is the proceedings of the selected papers presented at 2011 International Conference on Engineering Education and Management (ICEEM2011) held in Guangzhou, China, during November 18-20, 2011. ICEEM2011 is one of the most important conferences in the field of Engineering Education and Management and is co-organized by Guangzhou University, The University of New South Wales, Zhejiang University and Xi’an Jiaotong University. The conference aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and students to present their new advances and research results in the field of Engineering Education and Management. This volume comprises 121 papers selected from over 400 papers originally submitted by universities and industrial concerns all over the world. The papers specifically cover the topics of Management Science and Engineering, Engineering Education and Training, Project/Engineering Management, and Other related topics. All of the papers were peer-reviewed by selected experts. The papers have been selected for this volume because of their quality and their relevancy to the topic. This volume will provide readers with a broad overview of the latest advances in the field of Engineering Education and Management. It will also constitute a valuable reference work for researchers in the fields of Engineering Education and Management. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers , 1927 |
| engineering iron ring canada: What Every Engineer Should Know about Ethics Kenneth K. Humphreys, 1999-07-07 This compact reference succinctly explains the engineering profession's codes of ethics using case studies drawn from decisions of the National Society of Professional Engineers' (NSPE) Board of Ethical Review, examining ethical challenges in engineering, construction, and project management. It includes study questions to supplement general engineering survey courses and a list of references to aid practicing engineers in exploring topics in depth. Concentrating primarily on situations engineers encounter on a daily basis and offering pragmatic answers to ethical questions, What Every Engineer Should Know About Ethics discusses recent headline-making disasters such as the Challenger explosion, the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, and the Hyatt-Regency Hotel collapse; considers the merits and drawbacks of professional codes of ethics; covers the application of the committee approach to specific cases; compares and contrasts ethical codes and personal values with alternative approaches to morality; defines professional licensing and registration and enumerates their prerequisites; outlines legal standards for liability; emphasizes the importance of communication, coordination, and documentation; includes a discussion of whistleblowing; defines the engineer's primary ethical responsibility; and more. |
| engineering iron ring canada: A Ring of Urgency George James Thomson, 1995 |
| engineering iron ring canada: Fundamentals of Biomechanics Duane Knudson, 2021-06-10 Blending up-to-date biomechanical knowledge with professional application knowledge, this second edition presents a clear, conceptual approach to understanding biomechanics within the context of the qualitative analysis of human movement. It develops nine principles of biomechanics, which provide an applied structure for biomechanical concepts, and the application of each principle is fully explored in several chapters. The book also offers real-world examples of the application of biomechanics, which emphasize how biomechanics is integrated with the other subdisciplines of kinesiology to contribute to qualitative analysis of human movement. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Paradise Found Robert Popple, 2023-10-27 When Robert and Heather Popple moved to the Pacific Northwest to live in British Columbia’s Fairwinds on Vancouver Island in 2003, it marked the beginnings of an exciting retirement adventure. This companion volume to Born in Huronia summarizes the past twenty years of Popple’s life in BC and includes nine first-hand stories by people he has met in that time. They include Shelly Stouffer’s stoke-by-stroke account of her 2022 victory at the Senior Women’s US Open and surrender of a Nazi submarine in 1945. From Popple’s description of the first Europeans arriving in the Pacific Northwest to avoiding insanity in retirement to his travel adventures, his summation of the Trump presidency, and the details of his Mother-of-all organ recitals, this book is simply a must read. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Canadian Engineer ... , 1927 |
| engineering iron ring canada: Centering Humanism in STEM Education Bryan Dewsbury, Susannah McGowan, Sheila S. Jaswal , Desiree Forsythe, 2024-09-24 Research demonstrates that STEM disciplines perpetuate a history of exclusion, particularly for students with marginalized identities. This poses problems particularly when science permeates every aspect of contemporary American life. Institutions’ repeated failures to disrupt systemic oppression in STEM has led to a mostly white, cisgender, and male scientific workforce replete with implicit and/or explicit biases. Education holds one pathway to disrupt systemic linkages of STEM oppression from society to the classroom. Maintaining views on science as inherently objective isolates it from the world in which it is performed. STEM education must move beyond the transactional approaches to transformative environments manifesting respect for students’ social and educational capital. We must create a STEM environment in which students with marginalized identities feel respected, listened to, and valued. We must assist students in understanding how their positionality, privilege, and power both historically and currently impacts their meaning making and understanding of STEM. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Ohio State Engineer , 1928 |
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| engineering iron ring canada: Writing in Knowledge Societies Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, 2011-11-15 The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers Krista Merry, Pete Bettinger, Michael Crosby, Kevin Boston, 2022-11-15 Geographic Information System Skills for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers provides a resource for developing knowledge and skills concerning GIS as it applies to forestry and natural resource management. This book helps readers understand how GIS can effectively be used by professional foresters and land managers to conduct spatial analyses or address management decisions. Through topics presented, readers will improve their ability to understand GIS data sources, identify GIS data types and quality, perform common spatial analysis processes, create GIS data, produce maps, and ultimately develop the skills necessary to use GIS analysis to answer real-world questions. This book will be of great benefit to GIS users looking to directly apply techniques to real-world data or foresters and natural resource scientists who use GIS in their research. - Presents unique reflections, diversions, inspections and translations within the text to encourage readers' critical thinking skills - Includes a companion website to enhance the reflections, diversions, inspections and translations with additional resources - Designed with examples, discussions and case studies from seasoned natural resource professionals with decades of combined professional experience |
| engineering iron ring canada: Loose Screws Gerry Tortorelli, 2009-10 Loose Screws is a collection of sixty-nine amusing, often touching, anecdotes from the life of a Bronx boy who has lived and traveled throughout the world. The author, Gerry Tortorelli, is a retired business executive, who immigrated to Switzerland in his thirties with his young family. With stints in England and Canada and frequent visits to the family roots in Italy, his stories explore many cultures. Whether it be the story of how his sister celebrates Christmas in The Twelve Weeks of Advent, or how German words can be misinterpreted in English in A Good Fahrt....and a Douche, the anecdotes have a personal touch with which the reader can connect. A 22-year-old grudge is settled in the story Toothpaste, Mayonnaise, and Big Ben while fundraising for a new church in Canada is detailed in A Pregnant Nun and a Chicken at Mass. Not far away from any story, is Gerry's wife (the Queen), his daughters (the Princesses), and his serf sons-in-law. Loose Screws is a unique view of a life through the eyes of the one who lived it, a kid from the Bronx. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Practical Ethics the late Henry Sidgwick, 1998-06-18 A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick's major treatise on moral theory, The Methods of Ethics. Reissued here as Volume One in a new series sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the book is composed chiefly of addresses to members of two ethical societies that Sidgwick helped to found in Cambridge and London in the 1880s. Clear, taut, and lively, these essays demonstrate the compassion and calm reasonableness that Sidgwick brought to all his writings. As Sidgwick explains in his opening essay, the societies he addressed aimed to allow academics, professionals, and others to pursue joint efforts at reaching some results of value for practical guidance and life. Sidgwick hoped that members might discuss such questions as when, if ever, public officials might be justified in lying or in breaking promises, whether scientists could legitimately inflict suffering on animals for research purposes, when nations might have just cause in going to war, and a score of other issues of ethics in public and private life still debated a century later. This valuable reissue returns Practical Ethics to its rightful place in Sidgwick's oeuvre. Noted ethicist Sissela Bok provides a superb Introduction, ranging over the course of Sidgwick's life and career and underscoring the relevance of Practical Ethics to contemporary debate. She writes: Practical Ethics, the last book that Henry Sidgwick published before his death in 1900, contains the distillation of a lifetime of reflection on ethics and on what it would take for ethical debate to be 'really of use in the solution of practical questions.' This rich, engaging work is essential reading for all concerned with the relationship between ethical theory and. practice, and with the questions that have driven the study of professional ethics in recent years. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Cold Iron and Lady Godiva Robin S. Harris, Ian Montagnes, 1973-12-15 The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This informal volume concentrates on the last half century. It examines the development of the Faculty and of its undergraduate and alumni organizations; the changing undergraduate scene since 1920, through a depression, the return of soldiers to university after two world wars, and the tempestuous sixties; the impact that the teaching staff and graduates of this one engineering school have had on their community and their nation through research and practice (including pioneer work in energy, transportation, construction, and industry); and ends with a look into the future of engineering education by the retiring dean of the Faculty, James M. Ham. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Canadian Encyclopedia James H. Marsh, 1999 This edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia is the largest, most comprehensive book ever published in Canada for the general reader. It is COMPLETE: every aspect of Canada, from its rock formations to its rock bands, is represented here. It is UNABRIDGED: all of the information in the four red volumes of the famous 1988 edition is contained here in this single volume. It has been EXPANDED: since 1988 teams of researchers have been diligently fleshing out old entries and recording new ones; as a result, the text from 1988 has grown by 50% to over 4,000,000 words. It has been UPDATED: the researchers and contributors worked hard to make the information as current as possible. Other words apply to this extraordinary work of scholarship: AUTHORITATIVE, RELIABLE and READABLE. Every entry is compiled by an expert. Equally important, every entry is written for a Canadian reader, from the Canadian point of view. The finished work - many years in the making, and the equivalent of forty average-sized books - is an extraordinary storehouse of information about our country. This book deserves pride of place on the bookshelf in every Canadian Home. It is no accident that the cover of this book is based on the Canadian flag. For the proud truth is that this volume represents a great national achievement. From its formal inception in 1979, this encyclopedia has always represented a vote of faith in Canada; in Canada as a separate place whose natural worlds and whose peoples and their achievements deserve to be recorded and celebrated. At the start of a new century and a new millennium, in an increasingly borderless corporate world that seems ever more hostile to nationaldistinctions and aspirations, this Canadian Encyclopedia is offered in a spirit of defiance and of faith in our future. The statistics behind this volume are staggering. The opening sixty pages list the 250 Consultants, the roughly 4,000 Contributors (all experts in the field they describe) and the scores of researchers, editors, typesetters, proofreaders and others who contributed their skills to this massive project. The 2,640 pages incorporate over 10,000 articles and over 4,000,000 words, making it the largest - some might say the greatest - Canadian book ever published. There are, of course, many special features. These include a map of Canada, a special page comparing the key statistics of the 23 major Canadian cities, maps of our cities, a variety of tables and photographs, and finely detailed illustrations of our wildlife, not to mention the colourful, informative endpapers. But above all the book is encyclopedic - which the Canadian Oxford Dictionary describes as embracing all branches of learning. This means that (with rare exceptions) there is satisfaction for the reader who seeks information on any Canadian subject. From the first entry A mari usque ad mare - from sea to sea (which is Canada's motto, and a good description of this volume's range) to the Zouaves (who mustered in Quebec to fight for the beleaguered Papacy) there is the required summary of information, clearly and accurately presented. For the browser the constant variety of entries and the lure of regular cross-references will provide hours of fasination. The word encyclopedia derives from Greek expressions alluding to a grand circle of knowledge. Our knowledge has expandedimmeasurably since the time that one mnd could encompass all that was known.Yet now Canada's finest scientists, academics and specialists have distilled their knowledge of our country between the covers of one volume. The result is a book for every Canadian who values learning, and values Canada. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Canada - Culture Smart! Diane Lemieux, Juliana Tzvetkova, Culture Smart!, 2023-03-23 Don't just see the sights&―get to know the people. Unsuspecting outsiders often assume that Canadians are just like their American neighbors, if perhaps a little more modest. However, there is much more to it than that. Canadian society is a complex mosaic of distinct cultural identities that vary from province to province, and with high levels of immigration, it is one of the most multicultural societies in the world. The country's unique development through devolution, rather than revolution, affects the way Canadians view the world and their place in it, and numerous events of the last decade have challenged their self-image and tested its substance. Culture Smart! Canada takes you to the heart of this diverse nation. It unpacks the key chapters in their history, describes the values that Canadians hold dear, and the attitudes that you are likely to encounter. It introduces you to the people and describes their way of life, at home, work, and play. Have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas. |
| engineering iron ring canada: A Woman in Engineering Monique Frize, 2019-12-17 Her goal: to become a world-renowned biomedical engineer working with scientific societies to improve the role of women in scientific fields and the way scientists and engineers integrate people and society into their work. By 1979, this goal had become a reality. In her memoirs, esteemed biomedical engineer Monique Frize recalls the events that taught her to over-come obstacles, become more resilient, recognize the importance of mentors and role models, and remain focused on the future. She also speaks of her appreciation of the critical role played by family and friends in maintaining the strength and determination required to succeed—and, above all, to succeed in a man’s world. Frize fondly remembers her youth in Montréal and in Ottawa, as well as her marked interest for math and science. Her entry into the world of engineering was both romantic—she met her husband—and tragic. She recounts the prejudice and stereotypes she faced. She pursued a challenging and rewarding international career in a very specialized field at a time when this was still very uncommon for a woman, acceding at the very moment of the tragic École Polytechnique massacre to key positions in support of women in science. These memoirs are sure to inspire young women who have a dream, and more specifically those who wish to enter sciences and engineering. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Engineering Index Bioengineering Abstracts , 1984 |
| engineering iron ring canada: Invisible Immigrants Marilyn Barber, Murray Watson, 2015-03-20 Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional naïveté, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other immigrants, they found they had to deal with separation from home and family while adapting to a new country, a new landscape, and a new culture. Although English immigrants did not appear visibly different from their new neighbours, as soon as they spoke, they were immediately identified as “foreign.” Barber and Watson reveal the personal nature of the migration experience and how socio-economic structures, gender expectations, and marital status shaped possibilities and responses. In postwar North America dramatic changes in both technology and the formation of national identities influenced their new lives and helped shape their memories. Their stories contribute to our understanding of postwar immigration and fill a significant gap in the history of English migration to Canada. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Journal of the Engineering Institute of Canada Engineering Institute of Canada, 1925 |
| engineering iron ring canada: Canadian Engineer , 1913 |
| engineering iron ring canada: Engineering a Safer World Nancy G. Leveson, 2012-01-13 A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety—more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world—based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causality are inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, or STAMP), then shows how the new model can be used to create techniques for system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safety in operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques to real-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first Gulf War; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a public water supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for “reengineering” any large sociotechnical system to improve safety and manage risk. |
| engineering iron ring canada: STEM-Professional Women's Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry Stefanie Ruel, 2019-01-21 STEM-Professional Women’s Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry: Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space showcases the ‘how’ of exclusion of STEM-professional women from management and executive positions. |
| engineering iron ring canada: New Zealand Journal of Forestry , 2004 |
| engineering iron ring canada: Thinking Like an Engineer the late Henry Sidgwick, 1998-06-18 A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick's major treatise on moral theory, The Methods of Ethics. Reissued here as Volume One in a new series sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the book is composed chiefly of addresses to members of two ethical societies that Sidgwick helped to found in Cambridge and London in the 1880s. Clear, taut, and lively, these essays demonstrate the compassion and calm reasonableness that Sidgwick brought to all his writings. As Sidgwick explains in his opening essay, the societies he addressed aimed to allow academics, professionals, and others to pursue joint efforts at reaching some results of value for practical guidance and life. Sidgwick hoped that members might discuss such questions as when, if ever, public officials might be justified in lying or in breaking promises, whether scientists could legitimately inflict suffering on animals for research purposes, when nations might have just cause in going to war, and a score of other issues of ethics in public and private life still debated a century later. This valuable reissue returns Practical Ethics to its rightful place in Sidgwick's oeuvre. Noted ethicist Sissela Bok provides a superb Introduction, ranging over the course of Sidgwick's life and career and underscoring the relevance of Practical Ethics to contemporary debate. She writes: Practical Ethics, the last book that Henry Sidgwick published before his death in 1900, contains the distillation of a lifetime of reflection on ethics and on what it would take for ethical debate to be 'really of use in the solution of practical questions.' This rich, engaging work is essential reading for all concerned with the relationship between ethical theory and. practice, and with the questions that have driven the study of professional ethics in recent years. |
| engineering iron ring canada: The Whistleblowing Guide Kate Kenny, Wim Vandekerckhove, Marianna Fotaki, 2019-04-25 Choose the best speak-up arrangements for your organisation The last five years have seen dramatic and fundamental changes in whistleblower procedures for organisations. Prompted by a spate of important public disclosures, organizations are now mandated by law to implement effective arrangements enabling employees to speak up about perceived wrongdoing. Currently few resources exist to help with this. To help fill the gap, The Whistleblowing Guide examines the opportunities and challenges associated with different types of whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements, making recommendations based on best practices you can trust. Identifies the major organisational, structural and cultural obstacles to speaking up through speak-up arrangements Proposes effective whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements Explains the specific policy and legislation requirements that can promote or impede the effective implementation of speak-up arrangements, and how these can be translated into commercial and public organizations across sectors and cultures Makes a clear distinction between internal and external reporting arrangements The Whistleblowing Guide offers conceptual clarification about these key issues, including a focus on internal and external speak-up procedures, organisational response and communication, impartiality and trust. |
| engineering iron ring canada: Academic Integrity in Canada Sarah Elaine Eaton, Julia Christensen Hughes, 2022-03-03 This open access book presents original contributions and thought leadership on academic integrity from a variety of Canadian scholars. It showcases how our understanding and support for academic integrity have progressed, while pointing out areas urgently requiring more attention. Firmly grounded in the scholarly literature globally, it engages with the experience of local practicioners. It presents aspects of academic integrity that is specific to Canada, such as the existence of an honour culture, rather than relying on an honour code. It also includes Indigenous voices and perspectives that challenge traditional understandings of intellectual property, as well as new understandings that have arisen as a consequence of Covid-19 and the significant shift to online and remote learning. This book will be of interest to senior university and college administrators who are interested in ensuring the integrity of their institutions. It will also be of interest to those implementing university and college policy, as well as those who support students in their scholarly work. |
Canadian engineers wear the iron ring with pride. Why some …
Canadian engineers wear the iron ring with pride. Why some are sparring over the mysterious ceremony that comes with it. While there is much respect for the ring itself, the ritual …
The Ritual of The Calling of an Engineer
• An Iron Ring is given as a reminder and a symbol • Other “landmarks” also used during the ceremony
Seven Wardens Approve Modernized “Calling of an Engineer”
In late 2024, the Corporation of the Seven Wardens voted to accept a revised version of the Calling of an Engineer, known informally as the Obligation Ceremony.
Canada Post Issues Commemorative Iron-Ring Stamp
This uniquely Canadian Ritual, written by Rudyard Kipling, is intended to bind Canadian engineers of all levels of experience together, the centrepiece of the ceremony being a formal obligation …
INFORMATION BRIEFING CAMP 5 - VANCOUVER
Taking the obligation and receiving the ring are voluntary – you are not required to wear a ring to practice engineering in Canada. However, you must take the obligation and adhere to it to …
Canada’s Iron Ring rite of passage is a solemn reminder of
students are given their ring by an already ringed engineer with at least four years of experience. The ring is worn on the pinky finger of the dominant hand, a tactile symbol of an engineer’s …
Build Your Own Ring Sizer - The Iron Ring
Consult the “Ring_Sizes_ID-mm.pdf” post on the “Replacements” page on our web site (camp4.ironring.ca) which shows the actual inside diameter of our iron rings. Cut the strip to …
PERSPECTIVE Engineering’s Professional Obligation
For students in engineering schools throughout Canada, this duty is brought home to them by the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, also known as the Iron Ring Ceremony, which is held …
LightTra c(IEEECommunicationsMagazine,December1993) THE …
is the Iron Ring ritual in Canada. Many aspects of the ritual, such as its connection to Rudyard Kipling and the Bible give the story an universal appeal. During the nal year many Canadian …
The Ritual of The Calling of an Engineer - University of Toronto
Allied Nations cut off from all major sources of natural rubber within 90 days of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Polymer Corporation Limited erected a plant in Sarnia termed a "miracle of engineering", …
Seven Wardens Announce Review of the Ritual of the Calling …
Over 500,000 engineering graduates have attended a Ritual ceremony. An iron ring has been given to each one, serving as a constant reminder to them and others of their obligation. The …
IRON RING INFORMATION SESSION - McGill University
You can attend another McGill iron ring ceremony up to 1 year after you have graduated. Email us and let us know about your situation: ironring-info.engineering@mcgill.ca
Faculty of Engineering - University of Alberta
Kipling specifically for the first Canadian Iron Ring Ceremony in 1925, “The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” is the obligation and traditional ceremony meant to symbolize and enforce the …
CORPORATION OF THE SEVEN WARDENS / SOCIÉTÉ DES …
On behalf of the Wardens of Camp No. 3 (Kingston), I am pleased to announce that we will be conducting the March 2022 Iron Ring Ceremonies in person at Grant Hall on the campus of …
The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer - UMES
The ring is a symbol of the engineer's having obligated his or herself to a code of conduct. Only engineers having partaken in the ceremony are eligible to wear the iron ring. The ceremony …
Seven Wardens Provide Update on Ritual Review - ironring.ca
In June 2023, a Plenary meeting in St. John’s, NL, was attended by over sixty wardens representing almost all Camps across Canada as well as wardens of the Corporation. They …
THE ORDER OF THE ENGINEER - University of Alabama in …
In Canada, the Engineer’s Ring is a wrought iron ring accepted by engineers inducted into the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer in a secret ceremony. Q. Who can participate in an …
Call for Expressions of Interest - The Iron Ring
Iron Rings are worn on the little finger of the working hand by many engineers in Canada. They serve as reminders of their ethical obligation to live by a high standard of professional conduct …
Call for Expressions of Interest Historical Video for the …
Jan 28, 2023 · Canadian engineering graduates receive their Iron Ring at a ceremony known as the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, a uniquely Canadian tradition that started in 1925. The …
Finding Aid - Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, Office of the …
The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, also known as the Kipling Ritual, or the Iron Ring Ceremony, is a private ceremony to initiate newly qualified engineers to the social and ethical responsibilities …
Canadian engineers wear the iron ring with pride. Why some …
Canadian engineers wear the iron ring with pride. Why some are sparring over the mysterious ceremony that comes with it. While there is much respect for the ring itself, the ritual …
The Ritual of The Calling of an Engineer - adminca.imodules.com
• An Iron Ring is given as a reminder and a symbol • Other “landmarks” also used during the ceremony
Seven Wardens Approve Modernized “Calling of an Engineer”
In late 2024, the Corporation of the Seven Wardens voted to accept a revised version of the Calling of an Engineer, known informally as the Obligation Ceremony.
Canada Post Issues Commemorative Iron-Ring Stamp
This uniquely Canadian Ritual, written by Rudyard Kipling, is intended to bind Canadian engineers of all levels of experience together, the centrepiece of the ceremony being a formal obligation by …
INFORMATION BRIEFING CAMP 5 - VANCOUVER
Taking the obligation and receiving the ring are voluntary – you are not required to wear a ring to practice engineering in Canada. However, you must take the obligation and adhere to it to …
Canada’s Iron Ring rite of passage is a solemn reminder of
students are given their ring by an already ringed engineer with at least four years of experience. The ring is worn on the pinky finger of the dominant hand, a tactile symbol of an engineer’s …
Build Your Own Ring Sizer - The Iron Ring
Consult the “Ring_Sizes_ID-mm.pdf” post on the “Replacements” page on our web site (camp4.ironring.ca) which shows the actual inside diameter of our iron rings. Cut the strip to the …
PERSPECTIVE Engineering’s Professional Obligation
For students in engineering schools throughout Canada, this duty is brought home to them by the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, also known as the Iron Ring Ceremony, which is held during …
LightTra c(IEEECommunicationsMagazine,December1993) …
is the Iron Ring ritual in Canada. Many aspects of the ritual, such as its connection to Rudyard Kipling and the Bible give the story an universal appeal. During the nal year many Canadian …
The Ritual of The Calling of an Engineer - University of Toronto
Allied Nations cut off from all major sources of natural rubber within 90 days of Pearl Harbour in 1941. Polymer Corporation Limited erected a plant in Sarnia termed a "miracle of engineering", …
Seven Wardens Announce Review of the Ritual of the Calling of …
Over 500,000 engineering graduates have attended a Ritual ceremony. An iron ring has been given to each one, serving as a constant reminder to them and others of their obligation. The original …
IRON RING INFORMATION SESSION - McGill University
You can attend another McGill iron ring ceremony up to 1 year after you have graduated. Email us and let us know about your situation: ironring-info.engineering@mcgill.ca
Faculty of Engineering - University of Alberta
Kipling specifically for the first Canadian Iron Ring Ceremony in 1925, “The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,” is the obligation and traditional ceremony meant to symbolize and enforce the ethics …
CORPORATION OF THE SEVEN WARDENS / SOCIÉTÉ DES …
On behalf of the Wardens of Camp No. 3 (Kingston), I am pleased to announce that we will be conducting the March 2022 Iron Ring Ceremonies in person at Grant Hall on the campus of …
The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer - UMES
The ring is a symbol of the engineer's having obligated his or herself to a code of conduct. Only engineers having partaken in the ceremony are eligible to wear the iron ring. The ceremony and …
Seven Wardens Provide Update on Ritual Review - ironring.ca
In June 2023, a Plenary meeting in St. John’s, NL, was attended by over sixty wardens representing almost all Camps across Canada as well as wardens of the Corporation. They reviewed the work …
THE ORDER OF THE ENGINEER - University of Alabama in …
In Canada, the Engineer’s Ring is a wrought iron ring accepted by engineers inducted into the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer in a secret ceremony. Q. Who can participate in an Engineer’s Ring …
Call for Expressions of Interest - The Iron Ring
Iron Rings are worn on the little finger of the working hand by many engineers in Canada. They serve as reminders of their ethical obligation to live by a high standard of professional conduct in …
Call for Expressions of Interest Historical Video for the …
Jan 28, 2023 · Canadian engineering graduates receive their Iron Ring at a ceremony known as the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, a uniquely Canadian tradition that started in 1925. The …
