Seneca College Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008 - (Page 43)

Alumni director ready for close up lumni board member and Seneca professor Paul Sloggett will be in your living room this fall. Paul and fellow Real Property Administration prof Mark Leavens have been cast in Income Property, a new HGTV series. The show helps firsttime home buyers build or renovate a rental unit in their homes to help pay the mortgage. The Seneca profs are brought in to assess the value of the renovated property and the potential income of the rental space. Paul says it’s been an amazing experience with great profile benefits for Seneca. “We appreciate this opportunity to reach out to future students who want to seek out this career opportunity.” The show launched September 29 and can be seen on HGTV Mondays at 10:00pm. Engineering Excellence eneca grad Dereje Tafesse (CVTM 1993) has been awarded the 2007 V Smith Award by Professional .G. Engineers Ontario (PEO) for the highest score on an examination paper. Dereje completed 10 papers with a top mark of 95 per cent. “I was shocked and thrilled when I heard,” he said. “It was unexpected.” Dereje is a Technical Coordinator in the Operations Department with the Town of Markham and credits Seneca for giving him the foundation for his engineering career. “I want to advise Seneca students that there are good opportunities to be an engineer after the Civil Engineering Technology program,” he said. Are you an aspiring engineer? Contact Derje at dtafesse@markham.ca or visit www.peo.on.ca. S A Funny pages ublic libraries across Canada were given a colourful boost over the summer through the comic illustrations of Seneca Graphic Design (2002) grad Patricia Storms. Patricia was chosen for the prestigious task of illustrating the poster, web site, stickers and activity booklets for TD’s Summer Reading Club. Patricia acknowledges there were “mostly self-inflicted” pressures in getting it right for a national audience. “Because it’s for kids, it’s important that they like what I do.” As the illustrator of many children’s books including 13 Ghosts of Halloween and Good Granny/ Granny, Bad Granny she’s no stranger to kid humour. Patricia’s cartooning was “on the side” while she studied at Seneca and then during her career as a magazine designer. Eventually, the illustration work took over. But she says her Seneca-built skills still guide her designs. “It’s crucial to know good design, the flow of white space and how to work within the context of the text.” With summer over, you’ll find the library posters in children’s bedrooms as a souvenir of the program of games, activities and author appearances (Patricia among them) focussed on boosting interest in reading. See more of Patricia’s work at www.stormsillustration.com and on page 37. 1 - 888 - ALUMNUS P 43 http://www.peo.on.ca http://www.stormsillustration.com http://www.stormsillustration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Seneca College Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008

Seneca College Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008
Contents
Team Makes a Difference on Campus
How Green is Your Workspace?
A New Approach to Environmentalism - the Revitalization Institute
Troy White Turns up the Heat with His Summer Job
Karen Eilersen Goes Beyond Recycling
Applied Research Solves Real Life Problems
Philip Sparks has it All Sewn Up
The Mehta Family Credits Seneca with Success
Diary of Desmond Duke’s Start Up
Support and Attitude Keep Visually-Impaired Student on Track
Honouring “the President”
New Grads Who Will Inspire You
What do the Argonauts and Mozilla have in Common?
Our Experts Show You How to Burn Calories and Shop While Going Green
Olympic Gold and Silver for Senecans
Boost Seneca’s Research Data Just by Saying “Yes”
Senecans Assessing on TV

Seneca College Alumni Magazine - Fall 2008

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