About the Southern Ontario Section
Formal Name: Southern Ontario Section
Primary Centre: Toronto, ON
Approximate Catchment Area: Southwest-central Ontario
The Southern Ontario Section of the Canadian Geotechnical Society is an active professional group whose mandate is to provide continued education and encourage constructive dialog amongst our members. In this role, we facilitate monthly presentations, annual educational seminars, a Cross-Canada Lecture Tour, graduate student competition, CGS-SOS Undergraduate work term scholarship and our annual golf tournament. CGS-SOS continues to organize and fund the annual Graduate Student Competition and invites students to attend our monthly dinner presentations at no charge. Registration for all events are now booked solely online using Eventbrite.
Please go to
www.cgs-sos.ca for detailed CGS Southern Ontario Section information.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the Southern Ontario Section consists of the following members:
Chair
Bill Li
Keller - North America
Past Chair
Amir Poshnejad
EllisDon Corporation
Vice Chair
Pedram Molkara
Jacobs Engineering
CGS Section Director
Charles Crans
C.G. Crans Geostructural Project Services
Treasurer
Alex Szot
GeoSolv Design-Build
Secretary
Daniela Xavier
InGeo Engineering
Communications
Pedram Molkara
Jacobs Engineering
Sponsorship
Jeff Lam
Geokon
Membership and Awards
Vivian Weihong Li
Metrolinx
Student Liaison
Amin Jafari
University of Toronto
Event Lead and Women in CGS Lead
Atieh Shooshpasha
EllisDon
Event Lead
Hassan Ali
Thurber Engineering
Event Lead
Reza Mahmoudipour
Englobe Corp.
Event Lead
Jack Guo
AECOM
Event Lead
Trevor Bruce
Menard Canada