ENGINEERING INNOVATIONS FORUM PRESENTS

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ENGINEERING INNOVATIONS FORUMPRESENTS

ROBOTICS
Organized by Professional Engineers Ontario
Ontario Association of
Certified Engineering Technicians and
Technologists and Ontario
Society of Professional Engineers
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The role of the Engineering Innovations Forum as
part of National Engineering Week 2006 is to
foster educational dialogue and raise public
awareness of the creative role engineering plays
in linking science and technology.
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PROGRAM MODERATOR Bob McDonald Host, CBCs
Quirks and Quarks
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PRESENTATIONS Frank Ewasyshyn, P.Eng
Executive Vice President Manufacturing
DaimlerChrysler Corporation Robotics - The
Future of Flexible Manufacturing

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PRESENTATIONS Robert D. Richards, Ph.
D Director, Space and Atmospheric Division
Optech Incorporated Canada on Mars Our Role in
the 2007 NASA Phoenix Mars Lander

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PRESENTATIONS Dr. Craig A.
McKinley Professor, McMaster University North
Bay General Hospital Tele-Robotic Surgery and
NEEMO VII Experience

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We Thank our 2006 Platinum Sponsors
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We Thank our 2006 Gold Sponsor
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We Thank our 2006 Silver Sponsors
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We Thank our 2006 Sustaining Supporters
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We Thank our 2006 Supporters Katzs Deli and
Corned Beef Emporium Roman S. Lysiak, Energy
Consultant Smucker Foods of Canada Co. Technical
Standards and Safety Authority Weiss Systems Inc.
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We Thank our 2006 Exhibitors
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We thank the following PEO Staff for their
contributions to making this event a success!
ANGELA LEMAY IRENA LANGENFELDS ASH
KOUSA KEVIN WU CONNIE MUCKLESTONE MARC
BERNABE DAN ILIC PAULA HABAS DAVID
SMITH SHAHAB KHAN ERIC BROWN SOHAIL KHAN
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EIF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Nadeesha Amarasinghe Bat Le Daria Babaie,
P.Eng. Roman Lysiak, P.Eng Eddie Bromberg,
P.Eng. Andre Rudnicky, P.Eng. Patricia Cabeza,
P.Eng. Pat Scanga, P.Eng. Paul Di Novo,
P.Eng. Tuyen Tran, P.Eng. Bill Jablonsky,
P.Eng. Stan Weiss, P.Eng. Solomon Ko,
P.Eng. David Zackon, P.Eng. Rina Kulathinal,
P.Eng. Zeke Fedun, P. Eng. Kurt
Monteiro, P. Eng. John Turner, P. Eng.  
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What is Professional Engineers Ontario
(PEO)? Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is
the licensing and regulating body for engineering
in the province. 
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Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) regulates
the practice of professional engineering and
governs 68,000 engineers and engineering firms
which PEO licenses in order "that the public
interest may be served and protected.
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PEO has been delegated authority from the
government to protect the public interest, safety
and well-being through licensing and regulation
of the practice of professional engineering.
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As is the case with medicine and law, the public
needs PEO to ensure the highest standards of
practice among engineering practitioners. Please
visit www.PEO.on.ca for more information.
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What is the Ontario Society of Professional
Engineers?   The Ontario Society of Professional
Engineers (OSPE) is the voice of the engineering
profession in Ontario.
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The Society advances the professional and
economic interests of its members by advocating
with governments, offering valued member
services, and providing opportunities for ongoing
professional development.   Please visit
www.OSPE.on.ca for more information.
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What is The Ontario Association of Certified
Engineering Technicians and Technologists
(OACETT)?   OACETT is a non-profit,
self-governing, professional association of
approximately 20,000 members and a 42-year
history of certification in Ontario.
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What is The Ontario Association of Certified
Engineering Technicians and Technologists
(OACETT)?   OACETT promotes the interests of
engineering and applied science technicians and
technologists in industry, educational
institutions, the public and government.   Please
visit www.oacett.org for more information.
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"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not
a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not
a sociologist or a writer but he may use the
knowledge and techniques of any or all of these
disciplines in solving engineering problems. N.
W. Dougherty, 1955
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"When a train goes through a tunnel and it
gets    dark, you don't throw away the ticket
and jump off.You sit still and trust the
engineer."Corrie Ten Boom
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"The engineer is the key figure in the material
progress of the world. It is his engineering that
makes a reality of the potential value of science
by translating scientific knowledge into tools,
resources, energy and labor to bring them into
the service of man ... To make contributions of
this kind the engineer requires the imagination
to visualize the needs of society and to
appreciate what is possible as well as the
technological and broad social age understanding
to bring his vision to reality." Sir Eric Ashby
(1958)
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"Engineers participate in the activities which
make the resources of nature available in a form
beneficial to man and provide systems which will
perform optimally and economically." L. M. K.
Boelter (1957)
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of
thinking." Unknown
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"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the
story of engineering that long and arduous
struggle to make the forces of nature work for
man's good." L. Sprague DeCamp (1963)
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"Genius is one per cent inspiration and
ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Thomas
Edison
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not simpler." Albert Einstein
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"Experience is something you don't get until just
after you need it." Unknown
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"The engineer has been, and is, a maker of
history." James Kip Finch (1960)
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"Engineering is the art or science of making
practical." Samuel C. Florman (1976)
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"Engineering is the conscious application of
science to the problems of economic production."
H. P. Gillette (1910)
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"Engineering is a great profession. There is the
fascination of watching a figment of the
imagination emerge through the aid of science to
a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in
stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to
men or women. Then it elevates the standard of
living and adds to the comforts of life. This is
the engineer's high privilege." Herbert Clark
Hoover, Engineer President of the US from
1929-1932
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"Engineering is the professional and systematic
application of science to the efficient
utilization of natural resources to produce
wealth." T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish (1941)
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed
once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700
ways will not work. When I have eliminated the
ways that will not work, I will find the way that
will work. Thomas Edison
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"The man who makes the experiment deservedly
claims the honour and the reward." Horace
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"Engineering is the practice of safe and
economic application of the scientific laws
governing the forces and materials of nature by
means of organization, design and construction,
for the general benefit of mankind." S. E.
Lindsay (1920)  
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"The activity characteristic of professional
engineering is the design of structures,
machines, circuits, or processes, or of
combinations of these elements into systems or
plants and the analysis and prediction of their
performance and costs under specified working
conditions." M. P. O'Brien (1954)
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"I have hardly even known a mathematician who was
capable of reasoning." Plato
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"It is through science that we prove, but through
intuition that we discover." Henri Poincare
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"Engineering is the science of economy, of
conserving the energy, kinetic and potential,
provided and stored up by nature for the use of
man. It is the business of engineering to utilize
this energy to the best advantage, so that there
may be the least possible waste." Willard A.
Smith (1908)
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"Trying is the first step toward failure."
Homer Simpson
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Time is really the only capital that any human
being has, and the only thing he can't afford to
lose. Thomas Edison
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"Engineering is the professional art of applying
science to the optimum conversion of natural
resources to the benefit of man." Ralph J.
Smith (1962)
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"The life which is unexamined is not worth
living." Socrates
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"Engineering is the art of organizing and
directing men and controlling the forces and
materials of nature for the benefit of the human
race." Henry G. Stott (1907)
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"Scientists discover the world that exists
engineers create the world that never was."
Theodore Von Karman, Aerospace Engineer
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"In mathematics you don't understand things, you
just get used to them." John von Neumann
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it
up to the point where it looks impossible, and
then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to
become discouraged. Thomas Edison
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"Engineering is the science and art of efficient
dealing with materials and forces... it involves
the most economic design and execution...
assuring, when properly performed, the most
advantageous combination of accuracy, safety,
durability, speed, simplicity, efficiency, and
economy possible for the conditions of design and
service." J. A. L. Waddell, Frank W. Skinner,
and H. E. Wessman (1933)
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"I think most of us are looking for a calling,
not a job. Most of us have jobs that are too
small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for
people." Nara Watson, Author
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"It would be well if engineering were less
generally thought of, and even defined, as the
art of constructing. In a certain sense it is
rather the art of not constructing or, to define
it rudely but not inaptly, it is the art of doing
that well with one dollar which any bungler can
be with two after a fashion." A. M. Wellington
(1887)
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night
without moon or star.   Thomas Edison
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An engineer, a physicist, and a statistician were
moose hunting in northern Canada. After a short
walk through the marshes they spotted a HUGE
moose 150 meters away. The engineer raised his
gun and fired at the moose. A puff of dust showed
that the bullet landed 3 meters to the right of
the moose. The physicist, realizing that there
was a substantial breeze that the engineer did
not account for, aimed to the left of the moose
and fired. The bullet landed 3 meters to the left
of the moose. The statistician jumped up and down
and screamed "We got him! We got him!"