Papers

Papers published here are by CSSE Members and need not be of an engineering topic but should be of interest to other members of CSSE and the public.

Papers can be submitted by the members or the Branch to the Secretary at info@seniorengineers.ca

SUBMITTED BY CSSE MEMBERS

HVDC and the Need for North American Macro Grid
An opinion presentation by Guy Van Uytven, P.Eng, (Ret), M.Eng, MBA, FCSSE

The Case for a BC to California Link
An opinion presentation by Guy Van Uytven, PEng, MEng, MBA, FCSSE

Emerging small modular nuclear reactors: A critical review.

This paper published in Elsevier Physics Open volume 5 is a review of the terms used and features of reactor-design aspects of emerging small nuclear reactors.

By Esam Hussein Ph.D. P.Eng FCSSE

On Strengthening North American Electrical Energy Security With a View on Net-Zero Emissions

Power System Net-Zero Emissions by 2050. How can we get there?

By Guy Van Uytven, P.Eng., FCSSE

Our Main Infrastructure Works-Whose Responsibility?  is available at https://www.apega.ca/news/csse-infrastructure-brief/

WHY NUCLEAR ENERGY IS ESSENTIAL TO REDUCE ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION RATES
CSSE member Dan Menely and 5 others have prepared a paper on the many ways nuclear energy can reduce  greenhouse gas emissions. Download the complete paper.

50 YEARS OF NUCLEAR – ELECTRIC POWER IN CANADA: TWO INCOMPARABLE FRIENDS AND THE MCMASTER CONNECTION
Presented at McMaster University October 3, 2012
By Jon Jennekens

THE COUNCIL OF PROFESSIONALS
By Ed Davies P.Eng.

PERSONS WHO PERSEVERED and Personal Perspectives
about the World of 2012

Presentation to the UOIT Branch of the CNS, March 21, 2012
By Jon Jennekens

ENERGY COMPASS 2020
A Recommended Canadian Energy Decision Framework
By the Canadian Society for Senior Engineers
October, 2010

SUBMISSIONS TO THE UOIT LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (UOIT) LIBRARY
Evidence of engineering done in Canada in years past is recorded principally through printed or spoken words and photographs and through  buildings and other structures, preserved machinery and components. The historical writings, artifacts etc. relating to past engineering activities are important as a guide to what actually happened as well as to  lessons that can be learned for future application.

Buildings and other structures remain in place. Machinery and component artifacts are usually found in museum collections. Sources of printed, spoken and photographic records belonging to engineering companies, societies and individuals, are to be found in books or preserved in their original form in a formal archive. Early archival material on the activities and members of Engineering Institute of Canada, for example, is preserved and is available for research  at Library and Archives Canada, and more recent material at the Library of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Several of the EIC Societies have also placed material at UOIT. Indeed, the present collection there is intended to become the principal depository for primary archival material for Canadian engineering.

The UOIT Library has recently begun to accept the personal professional papers of individual engineers, who are encouraged to take advantage of this generous offer. Contact may be made with UOIT & Durham College Library at 2000 N. Simcoe St., Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4; tel. (905) 721-8668-ext 2348; fax (905) 721-3029 or by contacting the Archivist (Brenda.Jackson@uoit.ca).

A fuller note on the EIC’s archives  has been included in the History Section of the EIC website (www.eic-ici.ca) under Article 25.