Engineering Newsletter – April 2017

1.  Dave Noble, a city engineer in Illinois, explains why code compliance and hurricane clips can prevent tornado damage.

2.  Rigoberto Carvajal Pérez, a computer engineer and data expert from Costa Rica, was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He was a member of the team that exposed the Panama Papers.

1. UPRIGHT GO - Fix Your Screen-Slouch, Correct Your Posture. If you suffer from stiff body parts due to poor posture, this team from New York might have the solution. A wearable device placed on your back vibrates when you slouch.

2. Welle: Turn Any Surface Into A Smart Interface - A team from Hong Kong has created a device that allows you to control a variety of things (e.g. TV, lights) by simply swiping a table or surface.

What technology or gadget are you currently enjoying and would recommend to other aspiring and licensed engineers? Let us know in the comments below.

Here are the news links to every Canadian association. If there is anything beyond the normal stuff (elections, new appointments), I'll try to list them below. During certain parts of the year (e.g. Summer, X-Mas), the news tends to slow down.

1.  APEGA news - The deadline to submit your Work Experience Record (WER) is the end of April 2017, before it is replaced with a more thorough Competency Based Reporting System.  If you would like to submit under the WER system (I recommend it), be sure to download my free WER cheat sheet here.
2. APEGBC news - Learn what changes are coming to the BC Building, Plumbing, and Fire Codes.
3.  APEGNB news
4.  APEGS news
5.  APEY news
6.  ASET news
7.  EGM news
8.  Engineers Nova Scotia news - Changes to the Nova Scotia building code have come into effect starting April 1st.
9.  Engineers PEI news
10.  NAPEG news
11.  OACETT news
12.  PEGNL news
13.  PEO news

Did I miss your association or something about your association for this month? Leave a comment so I can add it next month.

Career tip of the month - What should you do when your workload doesn't line up with your job description?

Here are a few jobs that caught my eye across Canada. Most were posted within the last week. 

1. Electrical Engineering Lead, Corvus Energy, Richmond, BC

2. Mechanical Engineer (Reliability), Imperial Oil, Edmonton, AB

3. Senior Linear Rehabilitation (Water) Engineer, CH2M, Toronto, ON

4. Mechanical Engineer, ARXIUM, Winnipeg, MB

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Working overtime?  Here are 4 reasons to stop. 

1. Don't Fear Super-Intelligent AI - Scientist Grady Booch explains how we will teach super-intelligent computers to share human value.  

    
2. A Robot That Eats Pollution - Roboticist Jonathan Rossiter has created his "row-bot" designed to eat pollution and power itself by drinking dirty water. He hopes his invention is the beginning of an army of autonomous pollution-fighting robots. 

Have you seen an interesting TED talk lately? Share it in the comments below. 

I'm getting ready to offer new courses for the technical exam licensing step. Would you like to be paid to help create a course?

If you have a B.Eng, M.Eng. or P.Eng. and would like to be paid to help me develop a course for one of these exams, please contact me by April 30th and tell me your discipline, hourly rate and a brief bio on your work experience.

"As an engineer, I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them."

--James Dyson