BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T221250Z UID:F6C67A2C-8AFB-48F2-BB7E-7C6B14EC5298 DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250918T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250918T140000 DESCRIPTION:This is a joint meeting of Canadian Society of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Affinity Groups.\n\nThis series of presentations ha s been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised t o the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG ) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG's and IEEE members depending upon the topic. At the same time the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE) i s using their national organization to provide information\, the subject a nd speaker to members across Canada.\n\nThe next meeting will be held on T hursday\, September 18\, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MDT (2:30 pm Eastern)\, with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EDT). The m eeting will be held via the Zoom platform with the actual invitations sent the afternoon of Wednesday\, September 17. If you plan to attend and be i ncluded on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen\, tcmadsen@telus.net\, before noon on Wednesday\, September 17.\n\nPlease n ote the meeting originates in Alberta which is in the Mountain Time Zone\, so if you are in another province you must account any necessary time shi ft.\n\nTitle: The Changing World for New Engineering Graduates\n\nPresente r: Bruce Peachey\, BScChE (U of S ‘76)\, P.Eng. - President of New Parad igm Engineering Ltd.\n\nSummary: The experiences of students graduating fr om Canadian Universities as engineering BSc graduates are continually chan ging as the industrial worlds they are entering have many new and continuo usly changing needs\, technological tools and technologies. Global and Reg ional politics are also creating new\, more demanding and often contradict ory demands on new grads\, while at the same time increasingly destabilizi ng the year to year demand for new engineering employees. Generally\, desp ite growing demands for employees\, many engineers now in the universities are having difficulty obtaining meaningful summer and co-op term employme nt opportunities\, and as a result get less out of their classes and have further difficulties finding permanent positions on graduation. Even if th ey find a position it is increasingly difficult for them to assess potenti al career options as the driving forces for projects and economics are hig hly variable due to political and societal changes that may or may not res ult in long term opportunities. This presentation will take a high-level l ook at how employment outlooks have changed for specific cases of Petroleu m Engineering roles and how the working environment has been more chaotic for Chemical Engineering design roles for industrial positions when succes s criteria and design criteria are being influenced by often illogical or unsupported external influences. This changing world can greatly influence career choices for grads and potentially lead them down blind alleys from which they may or may not emerge from as professionals. This will be cont rasted to the presenter’s own career progression since his 1976 graduati on.\n\nBio: Bruce Peachey\, BScChE (U of S ‘76)\, P.Eng. is President of New Paradigm Engineering Ltd. and has over 45 years of experience in the Canadian oil and gas industry. He spent 16 years with Imperial Oil\, in co nventional and oil sands operations. New Paradigm was formed in 1991 to en gineer “new paradigms” or new ways of looking at energy systems. He wa s a founding director of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC ) in 1996. He has served as Chief Warden of Camp 6 of the Corporation of t he Seven Wardens and is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the CSSE. Ove r the past 20 years\, he has provided over 50 unique design projects to 4t h year Chemical Engineering Students (U of A and U of S) and almost 130 ec onomic property evaluation projects for 4th year Petroleum Engineering Stu dents (U of A). These efforts all include mentoring of students and addres sing emerging industry issues which may help students understand potential career opportunities.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/499555 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/499555 ORGANIZER:jimellis@ieee.org SEQUENCE:44 SUMMARY:The Changing World for New Engineering Graduates URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/499555 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetic a\, sans-serif\; font-size: 14pt\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">This is a join t meeting of Canadian Society of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Af finity Groups.</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\ , sans-serif\; font-size: 14pt\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">This series of p resentations has been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being al so advertised to the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affin ity Group (LMAG) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG's and IEEE members dep ending upon the topic.&nbsp\; At the same time the Canadian Society of Sen ior Engineers (CSSE) is using their national organization to provide infor mation\, the subject and speaker to members across Canada.</span></p>\n<p> <span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 14pt \; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">The next meeting will be held on Thursday\, Se ptember 18\, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MDT (2:30pm Eastern)\ , with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EDT). The meeting will be held via the Zoom platform with the actual invitations sent the afterno on of Wednesday\, September 17.&nbsp\; If you plan to attend and be includ ed on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen\, <a s tyle="color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;" href="mailto:tcmadsen@telus.net" target="_b lank" rel="noopener">tcmadsen@telus.net</a>\, before noon on Wednesday\, S eptember 17.</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: a uto\; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\;"><span style="font-family: arial\, hel vetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 14pt\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;"><strong>P lease note the meeting originates in Alberta which is in the Mountain Time Zone\, so if you are in another province you must account any necessary t ime shift.&nbsp\; </strong></span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\; font -size: 14pt\;"><strong><span style="line-height: 107%\;">Title: The Changi ng World for New Engineering Graduates</span></strong></span></p>\n<p clas s="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; line-height: 107%\; color: rg b(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><strong>Pres enter:</strong> Bruce Peachey\, BScChE (U of S &lsquo\;76)\, P.Eng. - Pres ident of New Paradigm Engineering Ltd.</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" st yle="line-height: 1.1\;"><span style="font-size: 14pt\;"><span style="colo r: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;"><span s tyle="line-height: 107%\;"><strong>Summary:</strong> &nbsp\;The experience s of students graduating from Canadian Universities as engineering BSc gra duates are continually changing as the industrial worlds they are entering have many new and continuously changing needs\, technological tools and t echnologies. Global and Regional politics are also creating new\, more dem anding and often contradictory demands on new grads\, while at the same ti me increasingly destabilizing the year to year demand for new engineering employees. Generally\, despite growing demands for employees\, many engine ers now in the universities are having difficulty obtaining meaningful sum mer and co-op term employment opportunities\, and as a result get less out of their classes and have further difficulties finding permanent position s on graduation. Even if they find a position it is increasingly difficult for them to assess potential career options as the driving forces for pro jects and economics are highly variable due to political and societal chan ges that may or may not result in long term opportunities.&nbsp\;This pres entation will take a high-level look at how employment outlooks have chang ed for specific cases of Petroleum Engineering roles and how the working e nvironment has been more chaotic for Chemical Engineering design roles for industrial positions when success criteria and design criteria are being influenced by often illogical or unsupported external influences. This cha nging world can greatly influence career choices for grads and potentially lead them down blind alleys from which they may or may not emerge from as professionals. This will be contrasted to the presenter&rsquo\;s own care er progression since his 1976 graduation.&nbsp\;</span></span></span></p>\ n<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; line-height: 107%\; c olor: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;"><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans -serif\;"><strong>Bio:</strong>&nbsp\;<span style="font-size: 13.5pt\; fon t-family: 'Verdana'\,sans-serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos\; mso-far east-theme-font: minor-latin\; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'\; m so-ansi-language: EN-CA\; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA\; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\;"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: Aptos\, serif\; colo r: black\;"><span style="font-family: arial\, helvetica\, sans-serif\;">Br uce Peachey\, BScChE (U of S &lsquo\;76)\, P.Eng. is President of New Para digm Engineering Ltd. and has over 45 years of experience in the Canadian oil and gas industry. He spent 16 years with Imperial Oil\, in conventiona l and oil sands operations. New Paradigm was formed in 1991 to engineer &l dquo\;new paradigms&rdquo\; or new ways of looking at energy systems. He w as a founding director of the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTA C) in 1996. He has served as Chief Warden of Camp 6 of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens and is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the CSSE. Ov er the past 20 years\, he has provided over 50 unique design projects to 4 th year Chemical Engineering Students (U of A and U of S) and almost 130 e conomic property evaluation projects for 4th year Petroleum Engineering St udents (U of A). These efforts all include mentoring of students and addre ssing emerging industry issues which may help students understand potentia l career opportunities.</span></span></span></span></span></p>\n<p class=" MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3.0cm\; text-indent: -3.0cm\;">&nbsp\;</p>\ n<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.0pt 3.0cm\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n <p style="margin: 0cm\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-var iant-caps: normal\; font-stretch: normal\; font-size-adjust: none\; font-k erning: auto\; font-variant-alternates: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: n ormal\; font-variant-numeric: normal\; font-variant-east-asian: normal\; f ont-variant-position: normal\; font-feature-settings: normal\; font-optica l-sizing: auto\; font-variation-settings: normal\; min-height: 12px\;">&nb sp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR