Workshops and Roundtable Discussions ♦
Monday, October 20
Open to all! Start your Monday with awards presentations to the winners
of the Student Competitions held on Sunday. Follow that up with a healthy dose of discussions - your P.Eng
license, how to get the career you want, what career is best for you, and what to do about the current energy
crisis. Don't miss the Poster Competition featuring a Graduate Studies Fair from 17:00 to 19:00
following the workshops and roundtables. Your monday wraps up with one giant networking party - the Student /
Professor / Industry mixer for the entire conference.
Résumé and Career
Workshop ♦ Monday,
October 20 ♦ 10:15–12:00
Your resume is the most important tool to
getting your career started. How good is yours? Come find out some of the tricks of the trade
from the industry professionals and make sure that your resume sells you to your future employers.
Given by an industry professional, this session will show how to construct a resume, extract relevant
experience from your past and present it in a concise and exciting manner which will make you irresistible to
employers.
Also, engineering is not easy. It is full
of challenges and it is sometimes hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This session will
help put things in perspective. Our Guest speaker will talk about what it means to be a chemical
engineer, how to get the most of this fantastic career and, most of all, how to achieve your full
potential.
Becoming a
Professional Engineer ♦
Monday, October 20 ♦ 12:00–13:00
This session aims to answer all of your questions about becoming a
professional engineer and getting your P.Eng license. Finishing your undergrad is just the first step
in your engineering career—come find out what’s next and how you can prepare for your
future. Find out what the requirements are to obtain your license, how long it will take, what exams
you have to write, where can you apply, how can you apply, and how to get relevant work
experience.
The Professional Engineers of Ontario will be present to discuss their
Engineer in Training program as well as the responsibilities of professional engineers and the importance of
obtaining your P.Eng license. Engineers Canada, formerly known as the Canadian Council of Professional
Engineers, will also be present to give a brief overview of licensing throughout Canada as well as the
process and the organizations responsible for licensing. Both speakers will also be discussing some of
their initiatives in the engineering community as well as ways that undergraduate students can get involved
before becoming a professional engineer.
Rountable: After Graduation?
♦ Monday, October 20 ♦
13:30–15:00
Graduation is just around the corner. Real life and all of the cold and harsh reality that it entails is
knocking on your door. Are you ready to answer it? Most of us have been so focused on just
graduating from an engineering program, we haven't really had the chance to look up and see the end
approaching or what comes after it.
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What will I do when I can no longer get my student discount on the
bus?
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Should I work for industry?
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Do I want to work in a huge factory or a start up
company?
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Do I want to work in an office or a plant?
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How can I get a government job?
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Where are the best benefits?
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Do I want to wear a suit or coveralls?
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Should I stick around to do my Masters? Or my Ph.D?
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Where will I make the most money?
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Where will I be the happiest?
We are all freaking out about all this stuff. This seminar is design
to address your fears. We are bringing in 4 different recently graduated chemical engineers (within the
last five years) who all took very different paths after their graduation; Government, Small Company,
Big Industry and Graduate Studies. They will be there to talk about their career so
far;
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What’s great about their jobs?
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What sucks?
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How profitable is it?
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How stressful is it?
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What are the benefits?
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Is it worth it?
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How to get in?
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How long does it take?
Afterwards, there will be an intensive question period where you can ask
the hard pounding questions. The goal: to find what career path is the best for
you.
Roundtable: The Future of
Energy ♦ Monday,
October 20 ♦ 15:00–17:00
In the past few years, energy has become a hot button issue. The
world is demanding more and more power and the result seems to be nothing but mounting problems. With
the IPCC recognition of the global warming phenomenon, the increase of smog and pollution in all major
cities, the melting of the polar ice caps and power outages become more and oil reaching sky high prices, it
would appear that we are tittering of the verge of an energy crisis. In Canada, we have the highest
energy consumption per capita but the rest of the world is growing and will be looking to match our
lifestyle. These are the issues that the next generation of chemical engineers will have to face.
Each energy sector seems to have their version of the answer but what is truly best for Canada, our planet
and humanity. This session aims to get some answers from experts in the energy field today and
determine what should be done for tomorrow. Speakers will come to you from the Oil industry, the
renewable energy sector, the Electricity production sector as well as the emerging biofuels industry.
The task is not small, but perhaps by having all the different points of view in one room, we can manage to
get answers to our questions:
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Are we going to run out of oil any time soon?
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Why are gas prices so high?
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How can we mitigate the effect of fossil fuel consumption?
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What is the best method of electricity production?
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How will electricity generation be able to match increasing
demands
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Is a lifestyle change needed or will the grid be able to
provide
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Are renewable energy sources a reasonable option for our future energy
mix?
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How much can they realistically provide?
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What are some of the most promising renewable technologies for the
future?
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Will biofuels be able to ease our oil craving?
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How well do biofuels compare to traditional oil products?
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How long and what is required to bring biofuels to the market
place?
