Many thanks to the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering, which is sponsoring the attendance of two young Canadians to Young Engineers Leadership Day, which will be held just before the CAETS 2016 Convocation. The Canadians are Mr. Andre Marchildon and Ms Annalies Tjebbe. They will be joined by 18 other delegates from around the world.
Mr.Marchildon is a final year student on the Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Manitoba. He is currently working as an intern summer student at Magellan Aerospace, working in automation of some manufacturing processes for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. He has been President of the University of Manitoba Engineering Society for the past two years. He has won a number of external awards and scholarships, including the Engineers Canada Gold Medal. He is active in the Winnipeg community, having volunteered a number of years at St. Amant, a center for mentally and physically disabled individuals.
Ms. Tjebbes has been involved with Engineers Without Borders Canada since her very first year at the University of British Columbia in 2007. She went on to serve as the chapter president and an EWB executive member at UBC, completed a junior fellowship in Burkina Faso, and was a Social Change Fellow at EWB’s National Office. Annelies currently serves as the Community Director for EWB responsible for supporting a Canada spanning network of 40 chapters and over 1,000 active EWB members. Annelies holds a Biomedical Electrical Engineering Degree from UBC and is a UBC Electrical Engineering Industry Advisory Council Member.
