 What
Are Your Skills Worth?
Here's What the Marketplace
Has to Say
Our annual salary
survey, the Value of Professional Services 2004, is complete.
Watch the APEGGA website for the full version, which will be available
soon. But for now, have a look at the summary, which you’ll
also find in the October print PEGG.
Summary
version here. . .
Various
Messages, Same Vehicle
What’s
the e-PEGG all about? Does it replace the print PEGG? How does
it fit into APEGGA’s e-mail policy and where will it
go from here? Positive responses jammed our in-box after the
launch of the Sept. 1 e-PEGG – and so did the questions,
which we try to answer this month.
Full
article here . . .
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Who's
Reached the Summit?
Honour
your peers. The deadline for nominations for the annual APEGGA Summit
Awards has been extended to Oct. 31. And we need nominations
now.
Nomination information
here ...
Coming
Soon in the Online PEGG
All hardcopy PEGG
stories are reprinted in the PEGG Online, every month. Watch for
stories early next week on the University of Alberta’s newest
engineering facility, on how we’re helping you improve your
insurance options, on 100 years of Edmonton development and much,
much more.
Contacts
APEGGA HEAD Office
1500 Scotia One
10060 Jasper Ave. NW
Edmonton AB T5J 4A2
Tel: 780.426.3990 1.800.661.7020 (within North America)
Fax: 780.426.1877
E-mail: email@apegga.org
website: www.apegga.org
Calgary
Office
2200 Scotia Centre
700 2nd Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 2W1
Tel: 403.262.7714
Fax: 403.269.2787 |
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Ethics
for Professionals – EUB
Chairman Neil McCrank, P.Eng., discusses the honours, privileges
and obligations of being a professional. Edmonton District
Luncheon,
Tuesday, Oct. 12.
more
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More
than 100 years have passed since the tragic Frank Slide. Yet
the internal structure of Turtle
Mountain is still not understood. Oil and gas exploration in
the Crowsnest, says Peter Jones, P.Geol., of International Tectonic
Consultants Ltd., could help change that. Calgary Branch
Luncheon,
Thursday, Oct. 14. Registration Deadline: Friday,
Oct. 10.
more
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Black
boxes in your car and post-impact trajectory analysis – welcome
to the fascinating world of forensic collision analysis and
the role computer technology
plays in it. Patrick Ryan, P.Eng., of Graham Ryan Consulting
Ltd., presents at the Calgary Branch Luncheon on Thursday, Nov.
4.
Registration Deadline: Monday, Nov. 1.
more
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The
Special Areas Water Supply Project will be presented by Andrew
Durham, P.Eng., of Alberta
Environment, at the Central
Alberta Branch Lunchtime Forum, Tuesday,
Nov. 2. This is part of the branch’s successful lunchtime
forums series. more |
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| Professional
Development |
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chance to learn something new and refine your existing
skills. |
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Strategic Planning,
with Katharine Bondy; Managing Risks of Climate Change in
Alberta, with moderator Paul Hunt; Protocol for Building
Business Relationships, with Joanne Blake; Loss and Risk
Management, with Dr. George Jergeas, P.Eng.; luncheon speaker,
Billy Strean, PhD, Difficult Conversations.
Edmonton – Nov.
9
Calgary – Nov. 22
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M.I.T.
Seminars
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Five
days of seminars. Make the most of your time as an M.I.T.
Learn about business writing, networking, conflict management
and more.
Edmonton – Beginning
Oct. 5
Calgary – Beginning Oct. 18
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| Rock & Fossil
Clinics |
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Bring
your found rocks and fossils to one of three Rock & Fossil
Clinics, in celebration of Science and Technology Week,
Oct. 8-17. Professional geologists and university geology
students will be on hand to identify rocks and fossils
brought in by the public.
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| Iron
Ring Ceremony |
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| Camp
#6, Saturday Dec. 11.
more |
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