Engineering Institute of Canada
The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) (French: l'Institut canadien des ingénieurs; ICI) is a federation of fourteen engineering societies based in Canada,{{cite web|url=http://www.eic-ici.ca/member_societies.html |title=Member Societies |publisher=Engineering Institute of Canada |access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004225504/http://www.eic-ici.ca/member_societies.html |archive-date=October 4, 2011 }} covering a broad range of engineering branches, and with a history going back to 1887.{{cite web|url=http://www.eic-ici.ca/ |title=The Engineering Institute of Canada - since 1887 |publisher=Engineering Institute of Canada |access-date=January 30, 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://archive-it.org/collections/9932|title=Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Engineers|author=Rod Millard|publisher=University of Western Ontario|access-date=January 30, 2011}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.ieee.ca/canrev/canrev39/plant.pdf |title=The Engineering Institute of Canada, Its History and Importance in 2002 |author=B. John Plant |journal=IEEE Canadian Review |pages=29–30 |publisher=IEEE Canada |date=Winter 2002 |access-date=January 30, 2011}}{{cite journal |url=http://history.csce.ca/docs/History%20Notes%20feb01.pdf |title=History Notes - A Background History of the CSCE |author=Pieter R. Hart |journal=Canadian Civil Engineer |publisher=Canadian Society for Civil Engineering |date=February 2001 |access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706173930/http://history.csce.ca/docs/History%20Notes%20feb01.pdf |archive-date=July 6, 2011 }} First known as the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, it became the first national professional engineering society in Canada.{{cite web |url=http://www.engineeringhistory.on.ca/ |title=Contributions to Professional Engineering from the Western Region. Introduction: The Centennial of Engineering in Canada, 1887-1987 |last1=Coghlan |first1=Peter C. |last2=Chisholm |first2=Peter S. |publisher=Professional Engineers Ontario |access-date=February 3, 2011 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706192102/http://www.engineeringhistory.on.ca/ |url-status=dead }}
History
The organisation was founded in 1887 under the name Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (not to be confused with the more recent Canadian Society for Civil Engineering). Co-founder Thomas C. Keefer was elected as the first president. Walter Shanly, who helped with the incorporation, became one of the first vice-presidents, together with Casimir Gzowski and John Kennedy. And Henry T. Bovey was the first secretary and treasurer. In 1918 the society was renamed Engineering Institute of Canada with the goal to represent all engineering branches. Later the organisation converted into a federation of more independent member societies, starting with the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering in 1970.
From 1951 until its conclusion in 1970, the Institute managed the Athlone Fellowship, a two-year post-graduate program to bring Canadian engineers to the United Kingdom for additional studies or industry experience.{{Cite web|last=Office of the Governor General of Canada|title=Governor General > Former Governors General > Major General The Earl of Athlone|url=http://www.gg.ca/gg/fgg/bios/01/athlone_e.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090211100844/http://www.gg.ca/gg/fgg/bios/01/athlone_e.asp|archive-date=11 February 2009|website=Queen's Printer for Canada}}
Member societies
The fourteen member societies of the Engineering Institute of Canada are:
- Canadian Dam Association (CDA){{cite web|url=http://www.cda.ca/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Dam Association |access-date=February 4, 2011}}
- Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS){{cite web|url=http://www.cgs.ca/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Geotechnical Society|access-date=February 2, 2011}} Founded in January 1972 as a member society of the EIC but with a history going back to 1946 when the "Associate Committee on Soil and Snow Mechanics" was created by the National Research Council of Canada.{{cite web |url=http://www.cgs.ca/cgssociety/060821briefhistorycgs.pdf/view |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100907203937/http://www.cgs.ca/cgssociety/060821briefhistorycgs.pdf/view |archive-date=September 7, 2010 |title=A Brief History of the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) |access-date=February 2, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
- Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES){{cite web|url=http://www.cmbes.ca/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society|access-date=February 4, 2011}}
- Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS){{cite web|url=https://www.cns-snc.ca/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Nuclear Society|access-date=March 1, 2017}}
- Canadian Society for Bioengineering (CSBE){{cite web|url=http://www.bioeng.ca/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Society for Bioengineering|access-date=February 4, 2011}}
- Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) The CSCE was established in June 1972 as a constituent society of the EIC. Its membership has roots in the original founding of the EIC in 1887 (whose initial name until 1918 was the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers).
- Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE){{cite web|url=http://www.cheminst.ca/about/cic/csche/|title=Official website of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering|access-date=February 4, 2011}}
- Canadian Society for Engineering Management (CSEM){{cite web|url=http://www.csem-scgi.org/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Society for Engineering Management|access-date=February 4, 2011}}
- Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME){{cite web|url=http://www.csme-scgm.ca/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering|access-date=February 2, 2011}} Founded in January 1970 as first constituent society of the EIC.
- Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE){{cite web|url=http://seniorengineers.ca/csse/ |title=Official website of the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers|access-date=March 1, 2017}}
- IEEE Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.ca/ |title= Official website of IEEE Canada |access-date=February 4, 2011}} The Canadian section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member society of the EIC "for the technical fields of electrical, electronics, and computer engineering".{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.ca/about.htm |title= About IEEE Canada |publisher=IEEE Canada |access-date=February 6, 2011}}
- IISE Canadian Region{{cite web|url=http://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=13558 |title= Official website of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers IISE Canada Region}}
- Tunnelling Association of canada (TAC){{cite web|url=https://www.tunnelcanada.ca/index.php |title= Official website of the Tunneling Association of Canada}}
- Canadian National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (CNC-URSI aka URSI Canada){{cite web|url=https://ursi.ca/ |title= Official website of the Canadian National Committee of URSI}}
Fellows
- List of EIC Fellows (FEIC){{cite web |url=https://eic-ici.ca/fellows/ |title=EIC Fellows |publisher=Engineering Institute of Canada}}
Starting in 1963, the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) has yearly elected some members to the level of Fellow, to recognize "their excellence in engineering" and "their services to the profession and to society".{{cite web |url=https://eic-ici.ca/fellows/ |title=EIC Fellows |publisher=Engineering Institute of Canada}} Initially, Fellows were members of the EIC with the annual number honoured and elected as FEIC varying between one (1967) and seventy-eight (1980). Since then, they are members of their nominating EIC member society with a maximum of twenty elected FEIC annually.
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