Seven CGS Members to Receive 2018 EIC Medals and Fellowships
The Engineering Institute of Canada has announced the recipients of the 2017 EIC Medals and Fellowships. The CGS is very pleased to report that CGS members will receive two of the five EIC Medals, and five of the 20 EIC Fellowships.
CGS members receiving 2018 EIC Medals are:
- Delwyn Fredlund, CGS Legget Medal Recipient (1998) and Senior Geotechnical Engineering Specialist at Golder Associates in Saskatoon, who was awarded the K.Y. Lo Medal “for significant engineering contributions at the international level.”
- Catherine Mulligan, CGS VP Communications (2013-2016), Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University in Montreal and Director of the Concordia Institute for Water, Energy and Sustainable Systems, who was awarded the John B. Stirling Medal “for leadership and distinguished service at the national level within the Institute and/or its Member Societies.”
CGS members who were awarded 2018 EIC Fellowships include:
- Kevin Biggar, K.W. Biggar Engineering Consulting Ltd, St. Albert, AB
- Richard Brachman, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
- Michel Julien, Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd, Toronto, ON
- Robert Kenyon, KGS Group, Winnipeg, MB
- Dharma Wijewickreme, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Since 1965 when the EIC began awarding medals and fellowships, CGS members have been awarded 64 EIC medals and 152 EIC Fellowships. The CGS would like to thank the CGS members who prepared the nominations and those who wrote letters of support. Without nominations and letters of support there would be no recipients.