INNOVATION-May-June-2020

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FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE TO TRICIA J. COOK, P.ENG.: ENGINEER, ATHLETE, MOTHER

Her mentors, colleagues, friends, and proteges, who will all miss her, recognized that Tricia’s commitment to her achievements was unprecedented, yet she was able to maintain an enviable work-life balance. Tricia is survived by her husband, Tony, her sons Adam and Sean—whom she guided in their outstanding academic performance in pursuit of university engineering programs—and her mother, Pat, and brother, Tay. Anthony Rice, P.Eng./P.Geo.; Mike Miles, P.Geo.; Paul Turje, P.Eng.; Frank Huber, P.Eng.; Colin Wong, P.Eng.; Richard Butler, P.Eng.; Trevor Fitzell, P.Eng.; Selina Tribe, P.Geo.; Tonia Jurbin, P.Eng. To donate to the Engineers and Geoscientists BC Foundation in Tricia Cook’s memory, visit egbc.ca/foundation.

On March 19, 2020, Tricia Cook, P.Eng., an Engineers and Geoscientists BC registrant since 1983, passed away peacefully at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband of 35 years by her side. She was just 60 years old, and had fought a courageous six- year battle with breast cancer. Tricia will be remembered as an accomplished engineer, an intense athlete, and a loving mother. Tricia was born in 1959, in London, Ontario. During grade school, she developed a love for mathematics, a passion for understanding how things work, and a dream of becoming an engineer. She received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at Queens University in 1981. Her family moved from Streetsville to Vancouver in the summer of 1979. She followed and began her engineering career immediately after graduation working for two geotechnical consulting firms, first Golder Associates and then Stewart-EBA. In 1984, she found her true calling as an engineer when she was hired by David Nairne & Associates, where she worked for 15 years, while earning her MBA at UBC. In 1999, at age 40 she moved to Phoenix. As an experienced Canadian civil engineer, she was immediately offered a position by Stantec Consulting, which she held for 21 years, until just before her passing. During this period, Tricia earned Professional Engineer (PE) registration in both Arizona and Washington State.

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CORRECTION In the last edition of Innovation , we incorrectly referred to Allegra Whistler’s designation as “P.Geo.”; in fact, her designation is “GIT”. The error was the magazine’s, not Ms. Whistler’s.

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