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Ching O'Malley is a pseudonym.

Ontario Young Professional Engineers Award won by Waterloo student

Ching O'Malley - 2A Civil
Posted on: May 24, 2014

This year’s OSPE (Ontario Society of Professional Engineers) award for accomplished professional engineers under 35 was won by Faizul M. Mohee, P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc., a PhD student in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo. According to OSPE, “the Young Professional category recognizes an exceptional OSPE volunteer who has served as an advocate for the engineering community through various roles during academic studies and following graduation.” According to Mr. Mohee (P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc.), this award is “more than just money.”

Faizul M. Mohee (P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc.) is doing his PhD in Civil Engineering, with a major in Structural Engineering. He earlier finished his masters degree at U of T. Furthermore, he is also a licensed Engineer, Project Manager, and LEED Green Associate in Canada, which explains his wanton use of the alphabet. He started his PhD in Waterloo in January 2013 with the late Professor Khaled Soudki. Currently, he is working with Professor Adil Al-Mayah (Civil Eng.) and Professor Alan Plumtree (Mechanical Eng).

Mr. Mohee (P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc.) was also delighted to be congratulated by some federal MPs, one of whom who paid him the singular honour of mentioning him in a monthly newsletter. Not to be outdone by politicians, we also congratulate Mr. Mohee, (P.Eng., PIMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc.) on his achievement. We predict that he will go far, due not only to his long list of achievements (and it is indeed staggeringly long; check him out on LinkedIn), but also due to his indefatigable self-promotion. We can all take a lesson from the proactive route Mr. Mohee (P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc.) has taken in getting his name out there.
With unabashed self-confidence that is rarely seen, Mohee (P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, M.E.Sc.) has expressed a hope that his achievements will “inspire” current Waterloo undergrads, and has been eagerly forthcoming with information. Thank you very much, Mr. Mohee (P.Eng., PMP®, LEED® GA, .Sc.).

Anyways the EIC sent word that he's just won another award and would like another article written about him.

On Tuesday I bought a Garmin etrex 20 GPS unit on the assumption that it would be probably better than my dad's tablet. Since then I've been clomping around Scarborough looking for caches.

Some of note -

Unguided tour of Milliken Park - my first multicache! fun and easy.
Kitaro - This cache has been active for nearly 11 years. I'm not sure the tree listed in the "hint" even exists anymore. Also if you want to see what a rotting logbook looks like this is the place to go.
Seeing you GO at Milliken - Someone put a decoy cache there. Ha. Yeah. I'm starting to feel like this is a video game, in which you feel up every lamppost hoping for loot to fall out.

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Devika asked me (!) to be a reference for her co-op application and

Eeeee I WILL DO IT FOR YOU

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Also I've been playing a lot of Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer lately.

Just finished my first wave of exams - next two won't be until next Monday! To celebrate I am drinking peach cider and watching Say Yes to the Dress. Yep. Watching women get bullied by their friends and family. Moms passive-aggressively sniping about their daughters' fashion choices. "It's just my opinion, honey." A girl that loves a dress one minute, listens to the peanut gallery and changes her mind. Ah. And then "I met my husband at the supermarket." "Ah, so that's the place to be!" SO CUTE.

Also upcoming
- get started on Season 5 of Game of Thrones!
- pastries
- the end-of-term dinner is happening!
- study
- production notes for Issue 5 of the IW.

Well, I can tackle the last one today.

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Regarding this article.

In case you forgot:

Corporate buyout! The [new building] study space naming rights have been purchased by local business tycoon Vi B. Rator, CEO and President of Operations for The Shag Stop Inc. Ms. Rator, a noted businesswoman and philanthropist in the community, may be known to students through her work with Nothing-But-Love charity homes throughout Southwestern Ontario, or as the owner of over 20 Shag Stop locations within the province. As she likes to put it “We seem to, in this day and age, have the market all tied up.” Rator hopes that students will be able to “work long into the night on their very, very hard assignments, and try to release the throbbing in their heads” in the new study space, which will be called The Shag Stop’s Engineering Dungeon.

Students are waiting for the study space, which will be opened 6/9/2017, with bated breath and hope to christen it that very day. A small shift in the budget, recommended by Ms. Rator, will see the lighting levels in the room lowered, the auto-playlist of the room’s study music reduced to Barry White’s greatest hits, and a significant increase to the structural supports of the couches, tables and chairs of the space. The purchase also comes with the right to name the orientation theme in 2017, which will be "50 Shades of Edcom."

To celebrate the announcement, The Shag Stop location at King and Columbia will be raffling off a $690 gift card. To qualify for entry to the raffle one must present the clerk with a negative STD test record from the past 48 hours. Ms. Rator hopes that students will seize this opportunity to show that its easy to be clean, while still getting dirty.

The dean was not in. But the student relations officer said:

• The article might be sexist against women


• The new building is a touchy subject right now


• Edcom (orientation leaders who dress in black, have chains, are addressed as SIR EDCOM SIR or MAAM EDCOM MAAM, and yell at people, and humiliate other orientation leaders, who VOLUNTEER themselves for special humiliation) should not linked in any way to anything remotely off-colour because the university is always on the verrrrgeeee of shutting them down and replacing them with nerds in lederhosen.


• The article is sexist.


• Engineering has a reputation as being an oversexed bunch of bigots and therefore articles (even parody articles) portraying us as such should not be published.

I am not a happy camper.

Honestly there is a lot of vaguely sex-related content in the parody edition right now. "Yanky McCranky, 2T Wanky." A guest appearance by Pintsize the anthroPC. Light bondage in the Tribunal. So why this one? Because it mentions the new building? THE OFFICIAL ENGINEERING MASCOT IS A TOOL CALLED THE RIGID TOOL.

Meeting was rescheduled. And yknow I don't have a very strong negotiating position. I have some ideas for additional oversight for the tin soldier but man seriously does the VP internal / other exec really read this stuff so late in term? Somehow I doubt it.

Fuck politics.

There comes a time where an XL tims and a triple-triple starts tasting reallllly good.

Anyways today I did an accidental all-nighter. By accidental I mean "Oh I had an assignment and it was actually pretty short so I put it off until 2 and then when I looked up it was 5 and I was afraid I might miss class by accident again so I didn't go to sleep."

Also I get the feeling that Fiona the counsellor knows me better than I know me. Yesterday I told her things which, while not particularly inspiring or good, were kind of optimistic. No particular problems to report, just meandering about Kanye ("I ain't saying I'm a gold digger...") and schaedenfreud and stuff.


"Mercy is the mark of a great man."
*poke*
"Guess I'm just a good man."
*poke*
"Well, I'm all right."

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Also I'm in shit with the Dean.

"The dean has asked that I contact you to arrange a meeting to discuss the recent Tin Solider edition. I realize you're probably very busy with end-of-term projects and preparing for finals, but we would like to meet with you as soon as possible."

Uh oh.

Uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh.

Applejacks, Leafy Fifi, and I discussed this and we've concluded that she's out for blood over the Shag Stop article. Dean's probably a bit sensitive nowadays about the building funding referendum. Yep.

The article, for posterity, is copied below.

Corporate buyout! The [new building] study space naming rights have been purchased by local business tycoon Vi B. Rator, CEO and President of Operations for The Shag Stop Inc. Ms. Rator, a noted businesswoman and philanthropist in the community, may be known to students through her work with Nothing-But-Love charity homes throughout Southwestern Ontario, or as the owner of over 20 Shag Stop locations within the province. As she likes to put it “We seem to, in this day and age, have the market all tied up.” Rator hopes that students will be able to “work long into the night on their very, very hard assignments, and try to release the throbbing in their heads” in the new study space, which will be called The Shag Stop’s Engineering Dungeon.

Students are waiting for the study space, which will be opened 6/9/2017, with bated breath and hope to christen it that very day. A small shift in the budget, recommended by Ms. Rator, will see the lighting levels in the room lowered, the auto-playlist of the room’s study music reduced to Barry White’s greatest hits, and a significant increase to the structural supports of the couches, tables and chairs of the space. The purchase also comes with the right to name the orientation theme in 2017, which will be "50 Shades of Edcom."

To celebrate the announcement, The Shag Stop location at King and Columbia will be raffling off a $690 gift card. To qualify for entry to the raffle one must present the clerk with a negative STD test record from the past 48 hours. Ms. Rator hopes that students will seize this opportunity to show that its easy to be clean, while still getting dirty.

Honestly it's nowhere as offensive as the Caz in Kazakhstan article. 

I was wrong. I wasn't ready. Somehow my paper ballooned from 4000 to nearly 6000 (which isn't bad, necessarily). Also I have no idea if I'm hungry or cranky or tired or thirsty or overcaffeinated. Argh. Argh. Argh.

Maybe I should eat something. But I had a donut and extra large coffee earlier...

I should eat something.

Despite the MASSIVE PANIC about WHAT IS A COLOUR PLATE the paper turned out ok though ^__^

Still working on the paper but I realized that I can just crib the format of my Biomech paper and get the "critical thinking" in that way. So that's what I'm doing.

Anyways earlier I failed to figure out why the PC wasn't detecting the speaker in the monitor. So I elected to hook up the ancient office boombox to the PC. Last used circa 2012 by Apple Jacks, I think. It has an audio jack, a cassette player, and lots of dust.

Works great though. I have music again. But I should figure out what's going on with the drivers before I hand in the keys.

Guess whose paper just got a request to place an exorbiantly expensive full-page colour ad (~350+200 colour surcharge!!!) ~~~~~~ Might break even for the issue, if not the term!

Eeek!

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Also I want to make a mix but really I just want to listen to Plans while making last minute 4YDP edits, and it's a no-no to repeat artists. 

PDF link

Page 1. Caitlin was chuffed to see I put her on the front cover! She actually wants to be editor, but not for a few terms... And I was happy that the NO committee won.
Page 2. I have stuff to say this week. About the incredibly heteronormative Ontario action plan against sexual harassment and violence.
Page 3. Ah yes, thanks Elizabeth, you sass me every meeting but unlike SOME people (*cough* Nachi) you always write great stuff.
Page 4. Everything is going to be alright.
Page 5. The Mars One contestant came forward and said it was a scam right when we published the Mars One: deathtrap? article. Great going, Bryan. And ONE TIME. ONE TIME, I'd like to see tech ethics come in on time.
Page 6. Oh professor you so cute like a first year and Civilization IV habit! So cuuuuute.
Page 7. The deal on that coupon is really good.
Page 8-9. Converting every page of the General Meeting appendix to PDF was a real bitch but it helped in that I didn't have to expand the kerning on everyone else's report to +50 with a massive picture to take up space.
Page 10. It's really not called the iWatch.
Page 11. Sufjan Stevens is what people recommend when I say I like Death Cab.
Page 12. Everything is going to be alright... Also, yeah, Jessica Jones (Alias) had a great comic.
Page 13. That roundworm article was originally one long ass paragraph.
Page 14. Great articles, great comic.
Page 15. In real life, David lined up a job at Harvard and like a 95% average. He doesn't get to complain. Also, everything is going to be alright.
Page 16. I'd have gunned for "Temple of broken dreams."

Thank you- this is very helpful. I just have a few follow up questions I'm curious about...

4. What is the main reason students read your newspaper?

I can't just say "because they're bored and we're fun." But, yeah, I dunno. I'm sure it's the location of the racks.

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And then I get into an internet pissing match over the E7 referendum. Highlights:

"Can you comment on the student-university solidarity that this donation will bring and its relevance/irrelevance?"
"I'm paying tuition and WEEF and I'm not feeling any solidarity."

"I am liking the way Scott is setting the tone, and Nancy as an active member of the IW over the years, do you have any solid counter argument to oppose Scott on this matter? To point out the E7 referendum has been a sensitive case both in EngSoc and the student senate over the past two terms."
"I'm NOT speaking as the editor and my views do NOT represent that of the IW, and really I don't see what my extracurricular activities has to do with anything. That being said,
- A donation is NOT a guarantee that we'll get a study room, since it costs 2.4M to construct anyways. However the plans have been set and the study room WILL be built with student input regardless or not if the 2018s pony up the donations.
- It's symbolic and I am not impressed.
- Touche.
- Why isn't it opt-in?
I would like to reiterate that my opinions DO NOT reflect the position of the IW in any way."

Yeah what would you know about this? You haven't been to an EngSoc meeting since ~2013.