Geotechnical News • March 2018
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Mr. Kwok graduated from the Civil
Engineering program at the University
of Manitoba with a B.Sc. in 1982 and
a M.Sc. in geotechnical engineering in
1984. He is a registered professional
engineer in Alberta, British Columbia
and Saskatchewan.
Mr. Kwok is a Senior Geotechnical
Engineer with 35 years of experience
working on a wide variety of geotech-
nical engineering projects. His main
areas of expertise include foundation
geotechnique, slope stability assess-
ments and stabilization, retaining
structures, and linear corridor assess-
ments for a wide range of municipal,
industrial and commercial projects. He
also has a special interest in provid-
ing expert opinion in forensic geo-
technical reviews. Mr. Kwok started
his geotechnical career with Fugro
Consultants in Hong Kong before
starting his M.Sc. program. Immedi-
ately after graduation, he worked with
ID Engineering in Winnipeg before
joining Jacques Whitford in 1988. He
was employed 28 years with Jacques
Whitford (acquired by Stantec in
2009), based in Halifax and Ottawa
before relocating to Calgary in 1997 as
a Senior Project Engineer and Prin-
cipal. In 2016 he joined the Calgary
office of Thurber Engineering, where
he currently practices.
Mr. Kwok is well known and well
respected in the geotechnical engi-
neering community in Canada. He
has given freely of his time to learned
societies, in particular, the CGS. He is
the recipient of the Calgary Geotech-
nical Society Award in 2008 and the
A.G. Stermac Award from the CGS in
2012 for his outstanding service and
excellent leadership as Chair of the
63rd CGS Conference in Calgary in
2010.
Mr. Kwok will be honoured by the
Canadian Foundation for Geotech-
nique at the 71st Canadian Geotechni-
cal Conference’s Awards Banquet at
GeoEdmonton in September 2018.
The following is some background to
the Legacy Donor Program. Contribu-
tions can take the form of cash, stocks,
securities or bequests. Contributions
can be made by an individual or by
a group of individuals to honour
another’s passing. Contributions can
be targeted to one of the Foundation’s
existing initiatives or to the Founda-
tion for unspecified purposes.
Legacy Donors will be honoured at a
Canadian Geotechnical Conference
Awards Banquet, in the Geotechni-
cal News and on the Foundation’s
website. Each year, when the Founda-
tion honours its new Legacy Donors,
all previous Legacy Donors will be
recounted. The amount of the contri-
bution will never be disclosed.
Provided by Dennis Becker
Board Member - Canadian
Foundation For Geotechnique
2018 Michael Bozozuk National
Graduate Scholarship
Dr. Kevin Biggar,
President of the
Canadian Foundation for Geotech-
nique, is pleased to announce the call
for nominations for its annual
Michael
Bozozuk National Graduate Schol-
arship
.
The $5,000 scholarship was estab-
lished by the Canadian Foundation for
Geotechnique in 2007, on the occa-
sion of the 60th Canadian Geotechni-
cal Conference in Ottawa. The 2018
scholarship will be presented this fall
at the Canadian Geotechnical Confer-
ence in Edmonton, Alberta.
Any graduate student entering or
registered in a Canadian univer-
sity Masters or PhD program that
is directly related to an identified
field of geotechnique, is eligible.
Programs include geotechnical
engineering, geological engineering,
mining engineering, geoenvironmen-
tal engineering or geoenvironmental
geoscience, engineering geology and
hydrogeology. Nominees must have
high academic standing and preference
will be given to those who have some
practical experience and are active, or
show leadership, in the geotechnical
community.
Nominations are limited to
one per
academic department
and require
a letter, accompanied by rationale,
written
and signed
by the gradu-
ate supervisor. Rationale should
include evidence of academic stand-
ing, research output, contributions
to practice, and leadership/activity
in the geotechnical community. A
nomination package is limited to
five
pages
. For award ceremony purposes,
the nomination package should also
include a digital image (300 dpi) of
the nominee.
Nominations for the 2018 Scholar-
ship will be accepted by the Selection
Committee Chair,
Dr. Paul Simms
(c/o Carleton University, Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineer-
ing, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
ON. K1S 5B6, telephone (613) 520
2600 ext. 2079, paul_simms@car-
leton.ca) up
until May 1, 2018
. If sub-
mitted by email, nominations
must be
signed
by the supervisor and include
the words “Canadian Foundation
for Geotechnique National Graduate
Scholarship” in the subject line.
For further information, refer to the
Foundation’s website
or contact Dr. Kevin Biggar,
kbig-
Provided by Kevin Biggar,
President of the Canadian Foundation
for Geotechnique
Charles Kwok
