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The Canadian Council of Land Surveyors …
… a national consensus based enabling forum providing proactive leadership to its member associations. Its prime objectives are to provide national strategies, and national and international representation for land surveyors within the geomatics profession.
The CCLS Forum:
In our ongoing efforts to facilitate communication, CCLS will be producing a periodic electronic newsletter highlighting new and current initiatives, developments, and opportunities for involvement. Forum will be aimed at Councils, Executive, and Committees of the Member Associations and CCLS.
It will be distributed by email through the association offices and posted on the
CCLS web page.
Please let us know if you have anything that you would like included in the Forum.
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Youth Focused Career Web Site –
Photos Needed:
The CCLS
Career Awareness Task Force
needs photos, short video clips, and short anecdotes from surveyors that illustrate what surveying is all about and what they enjoy about their chosen profession.
The task force has contracted a design consultant to create a website that will encourage teens to explore a career in land surveying and a simple marketing campaign to promote the website. The target audience is teens at an age when they begin to explore career opportunities and need to make appropriate educational decisions, namely 13-18 years of age (high school years). The site and its design components will be available to all Canadian surveyors and surveying associations to incorporate into their own career awareness efforts.
The site will include images and text that reflect:
- Streams of a land surveying career – cadastral surveying; engineering and construction surveying; geodetic and hydrographic surveying; photogrammetry and remote sensing; applications in GIS and GPS
- Industry applications such as natural resources (oil & gas, mining, forestry), land-use planning & development, real estate, construction, environmental assessments, etc.
- Dynamics of a career in land surveying – using computers, GPS, GIS, LIDAR, and other high-tech and leading edge equipment; working outdoors and at the office, project management, working with clients and other professionals (i.e. architect, engineers, developers, lawyers) etc.
- Range of career options from technologist to professional, employee to consultant to business owner, small firms to large corporations, private or public sector.
For more details, please contact
Ria,
telephone (613) 226-5110
or
Sarah,
telephone (780) 470-5110 or 800-241-7200.
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Core & Options Syllabus Proposal:
A revised academic syllabus for the surveying profession has been developed by the
Syllabus Review Task Force
and the Board of Examiners Coordinating Committee.
The proposed syllabus is being considered by the Boards of Examiners and by the individual Associations where the legislated responsibility to set entry requirements for their members rests. The proposed syllabus differs from the current syllabus in that it has a core elements which will be required of all candidates to the profession and elective elements that will provide some flexibility and potential for specialization in academic qualifications.
The following principles guided the syllabus review process:
- The syllabus is and will be used for multiple purposes including:
- the technical diploma/syllabus examination candidate stream,
- the full degree program candidate stream through the accreditation process, and
- more frequently in the future, as a measure of foreign trained professionals.
- A university baccalaureate degree is the academic baseline.
- The overriding objective is to examine the academic standards bar to ensure it is the correct bar; not to lower the bar but to adjust it for current conditions.
- An individual does not know today what or where they will practice tomorrow and so needs to have solid background knowledge as a basis for lifelong learning.
- What current surveyors need to survive is not the best yardstick for what tomorrow’s surveyors will need to thrive.
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2008 National Surveyors' Association Forum and Future Working Session:
CCLS hosted the 2008 annual
National Surveyors’ Association Forum
on September 6, 7, and 8, 2008 in Winnipeg, MB, immediately following the Association of Manitoba Land Surveyors annual meeting.
The meeting format was expanded to include a working session on the
Future of the Profession initiative.
The session, designed to create specific models, plans, and/or strategies endorsed by the CCLS Directors and other Association representatives, will move the Future Initiative forward in a direction endorsed by the Associations. Most Associations arranged for both their CCLS Director and their President to participate in the session.
The meeting concluded with the CCLS
Annual Directors’ and Members’ Meetings.
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David Thompson National Geomatics Awards:
The second annual
David Thompson National Geomatics Award
were presented at the National Surveyors’ Conference in Victoria, BC. Awards were presented to Bill McIntosh, W. D. McIntosh Land Surveying Ltd. of Vanderhoof, British Columbia for in the category of Innovation in Geomatics and to John Blair, McElhanney Associates of Vancouver, British Columbia in the category of Contribution to Society.
Unlike many other Surveyors’ awards that involve a nomination process, the process for these awards is modeled after an industry or academic awards process. In this model, the individual surveyor makes an application for the award by submitting a description of a survey project that he or she was involved in. All commissioned surveyors, who are members of a Canadian surveying association, and who submit projects that have been completed within the last three years are eligible. Categories include
Innovation in Geomatics, Contribution to Society, and Unusual Applications in Geomatics.
Start thinking of project that you have been involved in during the last 2 years that deserves recognition for the 2009 awards!
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Current Leadership for CCLS:
The current CCLS Board of Directors is a dynamic and varied representation of the Canadian surveying community.
The Directors are:
Colin Atkinson, APEILS
Norm Coté, NBLS
Guy Craig, SLS
Jim Gunn, NSLS
Alvin Hayes, NLS
Wayne Leeman, MLS
Dave McWilliam, ALS
Jacques Patenaude, a.-g.
Marie C. Robidoux, CLS
Jim Statham, OLS
Richard Wey, BCLS
Current CCLS Executive is:
President Selwyn Sanderson, MLS
Vice-President Denis Blais, OLS
Past President Bert Hol, BCLS
Secretary-Treasurer Jim Gunn, NSLS.
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Contacting CCLS:
The
CCLS website
has detailed information on all CCLS initiatives including contact information for those involved in each committee and task force.
Contact information for the CCLS office, Executive, Directors and Member Associations can be found on the
contacts page.
Suggestions, comments, and participation are always welcome.
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