THE CSPE TRUST

 
Using funds set aside in 2000, when CSPE converted from a direct-membership society to a federally-incorporated umbrella organization for provincial societies, CSPE has created a $50,000 CSPE TRUST to grant annual awards to the Engineering Student Societies and their provincial federations, and to individual engineering students that make the best efforts to promote the values of Student Membership in organizations affiliated with CSPE. The CSPE TRUST recognizes and commemorates the contributions made by Canada’s professional engineers in the name of CSPE name its foundation in 1979. THE TRUSTEES - Chhottalal Vinodrai, P.Eng, Gary Macro, P.Eng and Anthony Bonney, P.Eng - serve until they resign or until they are replaced by the CSPE Board. THE BENEFICIARIES - The beneficiaries are the students who become members of a CSPE Corporate Member such as OSPE in Ontario; and the Engineering Student Societies (EngSocs) at the universities offering CCPE-accredited engineering programs within the territories of the CSPE Corporate Members. THE AWARDS - are given annually in the Spring, based on a competition starting in September of the previous year. The total annual Award amount is approximately $2,500. As with all competitions of this type, the trustees' decisions will be final. The awards may grow in value as the CSPE TRUST grows in value, commensurate with the 21-year term of the Trust. There are awards to individual students and/or awards to EngSocs themselves, and/or awards to the federations of the EngSocs. The awards to the EngSocs are intended to be used to support special projects, to assist students to find employment, to assist with travel meetings and seminars related to CSPE’s aims, to and generally promote the well-being of the student engineering community. THE CRITERIA – Awards to individuals and EngSocs are based on their support and promotion of student membership and activities of CSPE’s corporate members. CSPE TRUST 2011 News At the OSPE AGM on 04 May 2011 CSPE President, Anthony Bonney P.Eng, presented the annual awards totalling $2,456.50. $200 awards were given to 7 OSPE student members – two at McMaster and one each at Laurentian, Ryerson, Toronto, Western Ontario and UOIT- recognizing the best efforts made at these schools to increase OSPE’s student membership during the 2010/2011 year. At OSPE’s suggestion, we agreed to pay the $28.25 OSPE 2012 student membership fees for 2 students - one at Ryerson, the other at Ottawa, recognizing their special efforts in support of OSPE and OSPE-related events and activities in the past year. In recognition of its efforts to promote OSPE student membership, ESSCO (the Engineering Student Societies' Council of Ontario) was awarded $1,000 for its Travel Bursary Fund, to assist EngSoc members in attending ESSCO and OSPE meetings and seminars.