| Chair | Raju Chander, P.Eng |
| Vice Chair | Madu Suthanan, P.Eng. |
| Past Chair | Ranee Mahalingam, P.Eng. |
| Secretary | Asogan Narayanapillai, P.Eng. |
| Treasurer | Tom Fernandes, P.Eng. |
| Executive | Ken Chiu, P.Eng. |
| Executive | Whitefield Ye, P.Eng. |
| Executive | Murad Hussain, P.Eng. |
| Executive | Kwame Johnson, E.I.T. |
AGM 2009 Event Pictures (click to see)
| When | Saturday, January 31, 2009 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Where | Malvern
Library Auditorium, 30 Sewells Rd.
Toronto, ON M1B 3G5 |
| Map | |
| Nomination Committee & Nominees | Nominating Commitee:
Chair: Gordana Nikolic, P.Eng. Members: Jim Wang, P.Eng. and Bhadresh Modi, EIT. The nominees proposed by the nomination committee are: Officers: Chair – Raju Chander, P.Eng. Vice Chair – Madu Suthanan, P.Eng. Past Chair - Ranee Mahalingam, P.Eng. Secretary – Asogan Narayanapillai, P.Eng. Treasurer – Tom Fernandes, P.Eng. Executives: Ken Chiu, P.Eng. Whitefield Ye, P.Eng. Vajahat Banday, P.Eng. Kwame Johnson, E.I.T. Any members interested in joining the Board should file nominations in the application form as per the PEO Scarborough Chapter by-laws. |
| Registration | Sunaina Menezes
agm@peoscarborough.ca 416 648 3664 (emergency contact only) |
| Cost |
Sponsored by Scarborough Chapter. Light refreshments and snacks will be served. |
| Agenda
1:30 p.m. Registration and networking M.C: Asogan Narayanapillai, P.Eng. 2:00 p.m. AGM 2009 Conducted by: Raju Chander, P.Eng. 1. Call the meeting to order 2. Appointment of minute taker 3. Approval of the agenda 4. Approval of 2008 AGM minutes 5. Welcome address by Chair 6. 2008 Activity Report by Jim Wang, P.Eng., Secretary 7. 2008 Financial Report by Ken Chiu, P.Eng., Treasurer 8. Approval of the By Law amendment Proposed Amendment to By Law 9. Election for 2009 Board conducted by: Nomination Committee Chair i. Dissolve 2008 Board ii. 2009 Nominations and elections 10. Incoming Chair's address Introduction of new Board Members 11. Other business 12. Adjournment of AGM 2009 13. Group picture of the outgoing and incoming Board 3:15 p.m. Technical Talk Introduction of Speaker by Ranee Mahalingam, M.Eng.,P.Eng. 3:20 Fuel Cell: Today’s Technology for Alternative Technologies by: Ms. Janaki Balakrishnan, M.A.Sc., P.Eng. Engineer, Toronto Hydro and President, TDND Canada,(a charity International Development Organization) 4:00 p.m. Vote of Thanks by Asogan Narayanapillai, P.Eng. |
Janaki Balakrishnan, P.Eng. graduated from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka obtaining B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering in 1977. She completed her M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Currently Janaki is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
She is presently employed by Toronto Hydro and engineer responsible for distributed generation and protection & controls. She is the President of Transnational Diaspora Network for Development Canada - TDND Canada, a charity international development organization for sustainable development. She has worked in National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Sri Lanka, Consulting Engineering Firms in Toronto and has taught at Universities and Colleges in Sri Lanka and Canada.
Her current interest is international development in distributed generation installations using renewable energy sources. She presented papers at IEEE conferences ICIIS2006 and ICIIS2007 held in Sri Lanka, EPC07 held in Montreal, Canada and ICIAfS2007 held in Australia. She presented a paper at ICIIS2008 in West Bengal India in December 2008. She has also served on the International Advisory Committee of ICIIS2007. She made a presentation on Fuel Cells at the “Climate for Change Symposium” held by OSPE in October 2008.
Janaki has also served Professional Engineers of Ontario in 1990s holding various positions including the position of Chair in the Willowdale/Thornhill chapter.
