Technical Committee (interim)

Composition: "There shall be a Technical Committee consisting of four officers (Chair, Past-Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary) and seven additional members in good standing. The expertise of the seven members should conform to the Technical Areas of Publishing the Society Journal as follows: Biological Systems; Information Systems; Bioprocess Systems; Machinery Systems; Waste Management Systems; Building Systems; and Soil and Water Systems. The Vice-President (Technical) shall serve as the Chair and recommend the appointments of the Vice-Chair, Secretary and members to the President.  The Committee shall be responsible for the development and conduct of the technical program for the Society and work with the Local Arrangement Committee on developing the technical program for Society’s Annual Meeting." [By-Law 19(c)]

Terms of Reference/Duties:

• To be responsible for the development and conduct of the technical program for the Society.
• To work with the Local Arrangement Committee on developing the technical program for Annual Meeting

Standards Committee

Composition: "There shall be a Standards Committee consisting of four officers (Chair, Past-Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary) and minimum of four and a maximum of ten additional members to propose, promote, and manage engineering Standards and Practices." [By-Law 20(d)]

Terms of Reference/Duties:

• To maintain an overview of standards and practices which apply to engineering activities in agricultural, food or biological systems in Canada.
• To bring to the attention of members standards being developed by other organizations where input from CSBE/SCGAB is desirable.
• To suggest technical programs, including seminars or workshop, on Standards.

Membership Recruitment Committee

Composition: "There shall be a Membership Recruitment Committee consisting of the Regional Directors, with the Vice-President (Membership) as Chair." [By-Law 20(e)]

Terms of Reference/Duties:

• To enhance visibility of the society to recruit members
• To assist university representatives in recruiting student members.
• To review membership lists whenever they are issued and inform the Secretary of corrections, changes of address, etc.
• To prepare or direct the preparation of information for recruitment.
• To oversee the advertising of professional development and other services to members
• To maintain contact with our retired members
•  Oversee all student awards within the bioengineering programs and the conference student competitions 

Awards Committee

Composition: "There shall be an Awards Committee consisting of Chair, Past-Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and two additional members in good standing and the Awards Officer who shall be ex officio members of the committee." [By-Law 20(f)].

Duties:

• To solicit nominations for and select the recipients of the following awards: (click the award for details)

• To edit citations for recipients of CSBE/SCGAB awards, and make arrangements for the presentation ceremony.
• To forward to the ASABE Office for publicity purposes immediately following the Annual Meeting, a list of awards presented, including a description of the award and a statement of each award winner's qualifications for the award and, if possible, any photographs of the presentation.
• To coordinate with the CSBE/SCGAB Society Manager to ensure the material is used for other purposes especially the CSBE/SCGAB Newsletter.
• To consider and propose to CSBE/SCGAB Council new awards or other methods of recognition of members.

Awards: Awards are given for outstanding contributions through work in one or more of the following:

• Design and development based on originality, practicality, and applicability; the awardee must have made the major contribution to the concepts, design or development recognized.
• Extension and management based on a record of high quality work in agricultural, food, and/or biological engineering extension such as leading in extension education through groups or T.V., or by assisting farmers in innovation of new farmstead systems or components. Alternatively, the awardee may be recognized for outstanding managerial work in the food processing industry, building firms, machinery firms, irrigation firms or land drainage.
• Teaching and/or research based on a record of good teaching involving innovation in teaching or course development, and professional and enthusiastic leadership to students. Alternatively, the Awardee may be recognized for research abilities and achievements through the development of new theoretical concepts, or the design and execution of good experiments to prove conclusively the answer to some questions of value to agricultural, food and/or biological engineering.

Preparing Nominations for CSBE/SCGAB Awards

Click on the chosen award above to get details on the award, previous winners and forms for submission.

Nominations for awards shall:

• Meet all the requirements for the particular award as described above.
• Emphasize the contributions of the individual or company being nominated.
• Be sent to reach the Chair of the Awards committee by the published deadline date. Prior notification, to the Chair of the awards committee, of intent to submit a nomination would be appreciated. An e-mail or FAX when the nomination process is started would suffice.
• Consist of a maximum of 6 pages (letter size) with a minimum of 10 pt typeface single-spaced.
• Provide an additional 200-word citation suitable for publication and publicity purposes.
• Be sent to the Awards Chair in six (6) copies.

Publicizing CSBE/SCGAB Awards

The committee will prepare a suitable one-page news release for each award recipient. Media releases should be available at the media room at the annual meeting.

It is recommended that pictures be prepared at the same time, by having the printer of the Awards Bulletin run 10 extra pages of each citation.

Three weeks prior to the annual meeting, the Society Manager will send the media releases to the various newspaper and radio/TV media identified by the awardee:

• the newspaper(s) where the awardee resides,
• the "home town paper" where he/she grew up, went to school, parents still farm, etc.
• the Professional Engineering newspaper or newsletter in the awardee's provincial engineering association. (and the awardee’s association of Professional Agrologists if appropriate)
• the alumni association of his/her alma mater university.
• Radio and Television stations as suggested by the awardee

Committee Procedures

• Individual members of the committee shall provide a) a ranked rating; or b) abstain from voting; or c) reject the nomination, for each candidate for an award.
• The Chair shall tally the votes, and return the results to the members for consideration. Members of the committee may change their vote for a second or subsequent round.
• The decisions of the committee shall be sent to the President by the deadline date.
• The President shall inform the nominees of their award and that the Awards committee will be in contact in regard to publicity.
• The committee shall send the suggested citation to each award winner and request any revisions he/she wishes to make.
• The committee shall send a publicity release form to each award winner, requesting name and address details for publicizing the award and a suitable photograph for such publicity and for the awards ceremony at the Annual meeting.
• The committee shall inform nominators of actions taken on their nomination. For unsuccessful nominations, nominators will be advised that the nomination will be kept for the subsequent year only. For nominations that were considered unsuccessfully the second time, nominators will be advised that a completely new nomination would be required at the next nomination period.

Awards Committee (2009-2010)

Fellows Committee

Composition: "There shall be a Fellows Committee consisting of a Chair, Past-Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and two additional members in good standing, and the Past President and the Awards Officer who shall be ex officio members of the Committee. The Fellows Committee shall act as the Nominations Committee for election of members as Fellows by the Council." [By-Law 19(g)] .

Fellow Requirements

The designation "Fellow" shall have honorary status, to which members of distinction may be elected, but for which they may not apply. A Fellow shall be a member of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in the field of agricultural, food, and/or biological engineering, and shall have met all the requirements for the grade of member. A Fellow shall have been a member of the Society for ten years, and have twenty years of active practice in the profession.

Nomination as a Fellow may be made to the Fellows Committee by ten members in good standing. To be elected, a nominee must be unanimously approved by all ballots received by the ballot return deadline, provided that at least two-thirds of the ballots are returned.

Requirements for nominations for the grade of Fellow

The following information is required by the Fellows Committee to evaluate candidates for the grade of Fellow:

• Nominee's full name, title, professional affiliation and address.
• Nominee's date and place of birth. Educational record including schools attended, years and degrees received.
• Professional record in chronological order.
• Description of honors and awards already held.
• Reasons for nomination. These should be statements describing the scope and nature of achievements on which the recommendation is based; the personal character and qualities of the candidate; professional ability, influence and recognition by peers; and any contributions the nominee has made to CSBE/SCGAB.

These statements should tell specifically why the nominee deserves to receive the award.

• List of significant published writings, including both popular and technical articles with emphasis on those pertinent to the award. Copies of the publications are not required.
• Membership and activities in social, civic, fraternal and religious organizations. Offices held and special recognitions should be included.
• Membership in scientific and honorary societies.

Nominations for awards shall be submitted to the Chair of the Fellows Committees on or before the published deadline.

Fellow committee (2009-2010)

John Feddes – Chair : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Myron G. Britton: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Jan Jofriet: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Vijaya Raghavan: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Shahab Sokhansanj: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Editorial Policy Board

Composition: "There shall be an Editorial Policy Board consisting of a Chair and at least five other members. The Chair of the Board shall be appointed for a three-year term after having served one or more terms as a member of the Board. A member of the Board shall be appointed for three years with the opportunity of being reappointed for one additional term." [By-Law 19(h)]

Terms of Reference: The Chair of the Editorial Policy Board is the Editor of "Canadian Biosystems Engineering / Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada" and the other members are Associate Editors.

Duties of the Editor/Chair of the Editorial Policy Board :

• Receive and acknowledge receipt of manuscript.
• Check manuscripts for correct format (abstract, figures, etc.).
• Assign Associate Editor and submit copy of manuscript to reviewers.
• Assist Associate Editor.
• Prepare report for annual meeting.
• Ensure decisions of the Editorial Policy Board are communicated to CSBE/SCGAB office.
• Submit accepted manuscripts to CSBE/SCGAB office together with completed form with pertinent data such as date of receipt of manuscript, name of person to communicate with and whether or not the manuscript is a paper or note.

Duties of Associate Editors/Members of the Editorial Policy Board

• Review manuscript returned from reviewers.
• Submit reviews and decisions to the authors.
• Accept or reject manuscripts for publication in Canadian Biosystems Engineering / Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada.
• Submit copies of correspondence to the Editor so a record of the disposal of manuscripts can be maintained.
• Submit accepted manuscripts to the Editor with all pertinent data and related information.

Editor and Associate Editors (2006-2007)

The Editor of the journal is Ranjan Sri Ranjan.
(Tel: 204-474-9344; fax: 204-275-7512;  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Mailing address for the editor is:
Ranjan Sri Ranjan
CSBE/SCGAB Journal Editor
Biosystems Engineering
E2-376 EITC
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg MB R3T 5V6

The Associate Editors are:

Soil and Water Systems Engineering
Ingénierie de la gestion des ressources sol et eau
Abdirashid Elmi - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Machinery Systems Engineering
Ingénierie de la mécanisation et des équipments
Ying Chen - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Bioprocessing Systems Engineering
Ingénierie des bioprocédés
Lope Tabil - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Biological Systems Engineering
Ingénierie des systèmes biologiques
Michael Ngadi - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Building Systems Engineering
Ingénierie des bâtiments et des constructions
Jan Jofriet - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Waste Management Engineering
Ingénierie de la gestion des sous-produits
Abdel Ghaly - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Information Systems Engineering
Ingénierie des systèmes d'information
Jitendra Paliwal - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Bylaws Committee

Composition: "There shall be a Bylaws Committee consisting of the immediate Past- President as Chair, the past Past-President and President-Elect and additional members as required, to be appointed by the President." [By-Law 20(i)]

Duties: