The Canadian Society for Bioengineering (CSBE), or La Société de génie agroalimentaire et de bioingénierie (SCGAB), is proud to announce the nominations of three new Council members: Garson Law from the Canadian Agri-Food Automation & Intelligence Network as Vice-President Industry, Prasad Daggupati from the University of Guelph as Ontario Regional Director, and Shahab Sokhansanj from the University of British Columbia as British Columbia Regional Director. We wish them success in their new roles and want to thank Eric Ouellette and Keith Duhaime for their dedication and years of service to our Society.

The CSBE/SCGAB is looking for motivated members to help us build a dynamic and sustainable organization. If you want to get involved, CSBE/SCGAB has currently two open positions on its Council: Social Media Manager and Editor-in-Chief. The Social Media Manager manages and maintains Society online social media activities, posts and shares bioengineering related content of interest on our social media. If you are interested in one these challenges, please contact the Society Manager, Sébastien Fournel, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Update on the name change process

Danny Mann presented Society name voting results in favor of Canadian Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers at the 2022 AGM. During fall 2022, the Council retained the attorney firm Taylor McCaffrey (Winnipeg, MB) for help in formalizing the name change for both Society and Foundation. Business Client Info Forms and 2022 Annual Returns were filled and sent to Taylor McCaffrey. The name reservation for "The Canadian Society for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering" by Corporations Canada was rejected in April 2023 because the name contains the word "Engineering". Despite it is the same business and model, in order to use this name or another name that includes the word "Engineering", we will require a Consent from Engineers Canada to operate as an engineering company. To do so, we need to obtain consents from each governing regulators (12 at the national level) that we intend to promote our entity. The Society manager then got information from each regulator and contacted them individually. To this date, we have received the consent from 10 provinces/territories. The process is still ongoing with the last two provincial bodies.