Geotechnical News June 2011
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CGS NEWS
à participer cette année, ce devrait être
votre choix.
Venez à vos présentations des sec-
tions locales pour apprendre sur les
nouvelles technologies et échanger des
idées. J’espère de voir des membres
CGS en grand nombre à la Conférence
PanAm-CGS et j’espère que vous trou-
vez notre nouveau site web aussi effi-
cace que nous espérons qu’il soit.
From the Society
Call for Nominations for
Awards from the Engineering
Institute of Canada (EIC)
Canadian
Geotechnical
Society
(CGS) members are invited to submit
nominations for EIC Awards to the
Society Secretariat (
) or the
Secretary General (vsowacgs@dccnet.
com) by not later than August 1, 2011.
Members of the Society are eligible
for awards, prizes and honours from
the Engineering Institute of Canada,
from any of the member societies of
EIC (
), and from other
institutions. By EIC Policies, all can-
didates nominated by CGS members
to EIC awards must be members of the
CGS.
The CGS Executive Committee re-
views all nominations submitted by
members, as well as other possible
candidates by not later than August 15,
2011. Supporting documents are then
prepared and forwarded to the Hon-
ours and Awards Committee of EIC for
consideration. All constituent societ-
ies of EIC participate in this program.
More information on the procedure,
details and schedule for EIC honours
and awards can be found in Section
D-3 of the Canadian Geotechnical So-
ciety’s Awards and Honours Manual.
This information is available to CGS
members in the Members Section.
CGS members can log-in at
.
ca/login.php then proceed to Online
Member Resources, find CGS Manu-
als, and then proceed to the Awards and
Honours Manual.
Members of CGS are eligible for the
following EIC honours and awards:
• The
Sir John Kennedy Medal
is
the most senior award of the Insti-
tute. This medal is awarded in rec-
ognition of outstanding merit in the
engineering profession, or of note-
worthy contributions to the science
of engineering or to the benefit of
the Institute.
• The
Julian C. Smith Medal,
estab-
lished in 1939 by a group of senior
members of the Institute to perpet-
uate the name of a Past President of
the Institute. The medal is awarded
for “achievement in the develop-
ment of Canada”.
• The
John B. Stirling Medal
was
established in 1987 through the
generosity of E.G.M. Cape and
Company Ltd. to honour a former
President of the Company who was
President of the Institute in 1952. It
is awarded “in recognition of lead-
ership and distinguished service at
the national level within the Insti-
tute and/or its Member Societies”.
