Greetings!
It is my pleasure to offer this message as your new President. For the past year, my efforts were focused on providing leadership to the Local Arrangements Committee at the University of Manitoba to oversee the 2017 Annual General Meeting which was held last month in Winnipeg.
Hello.
I recently attended our 2017 AGM and Technical Conference held jointly in Winnipeg with the Commission Internationale du Génie Rural (CIGR) Section VI: Postharvet Technology and Process Engineering. Attached is a trip report to fill you in on what I would classify as an excellent conference! Some of you may be receiving it for a second or third time, for which I do sincerely apologize.
The format of the technical conference was commendable. We had plenary and invited speakers (professionals, industry, government, non-academic researchers, etc.) every morning from Monday to Wednesday, followed by technical presentations (primarily graduate students from academic institutions) in the afternoons on each of those days. We also had an engaged undergraduate student presence. What a wonderful event!
You are more than welcome to share the report with your peers in engineering, agriculture, forestry, food processing, medicine, economics, and several other endeavours. It’s amazing to learn just how much we are interconnected, and the opportunities that exist towards exponential integration across disciplines, especially here in Canada! Incidentally, the most recent edition of ASABE’s Resource magazine lauds the benefits associated with bioengineers that are educated in “systems management”.
Hope you enjoy the report!
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT (PDF, 385 ko)
Yours truly,
Ike Edeogu
VP Membership
Canadian Society for Bioengineering (CSBE|SCGAB)
Congratulations to all the 2017 Awards and Fellows recipients for their outstanding contributions through work and achievements!
For the 2017-2018 term, several elected and appointed positions were opened. The Society would like to thanks the candidates who volunteer to keep our Society active!
Elected:
- President-elect: Suresh Neethirajan
- Vice-President Regional: Hugh Fraser
- Vice-President Industry: Paul ONeill
- Regional Director Alberta: Karen Yakimishyn
Appointed:
- Webmaster: René Morissette
- CIGR representative: Stéphane Godbout
- Journal Editor: Ranjan Sri Ranjan
- Awards Committee: Valérie Orsat and Lope Tabil
- Nominating Committee: Israel Dunmade
NOTICE TO MEMBERS: There is still one position left for the Nominating Committee. If you are interested in this volunteer position, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Profs. Oon-Doo Baik and Lope Tabil of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Prof. Scott Noble of the Department of Mechanical Engineering together with their graduate students and researchers attended the Annual General Meeting and Technical Conference of CSBE in Winnipeg, MB on August 6-10, 2017. There were 10 graduate students (Charley Sprenger, Obiora Agu, Shola Kareem, Jason Cousins, Shuyao Dong, Shamim Ahamed, Roland Macana, Tolen Moirangthem, Saeed Ghanbari, Jingjing Cabahug) and 2 researchers (Majid Soleimani and Bagher Emadi) in the group.
