Eugene Pik

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Eugene Pik

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The Society’s records

Everything the Society’s own records say of Eugene Pik: the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won. Where the records are silent, so is this part of the page.

Branch

Mississauga · member since 2013

Certification

Associate of the CSCL 2015
The 2017-67th-annual-meeting-reports document (minutes of the 66th Annual General Meeting, May 2016, pp.3-4,7) itself lists this same presentation as pending "at the Banquet" for that (2016) meeting, a year after the 2015 date given here: most likely the minutes recap the previous year's honour rather than record a second one; both dates are kept.
Fellow of the CSCL 2016

His prize-winning quiver took both the Robert Muma and Betty Heacock awards as a novice in 2013.

From Summer 2013, page 3.

Holds the Society's professional stamp No. IX, issued in 1956 to “R K Larmour and Rita”, returned in 1973 and marked available in the register of May 2012; it was later given to him.

From Register of professional stamps, May 2012.

Served the Society as

Website 2015–2024
Electronic Communications Officer 2016–2025
Workshop Leader (Pewter Casting) 2016
Membership 2018

Awards

Best Fellow 2021
Best in Show 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021
Betty Heacock Memorial Award 2013, 2014
Craftsman Ribbon 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022
Hard Sculpture Award 2016
Irva Ford Award 2017
Non-Traditional Piece Award 2014, 2016
Ontario Crafts Council Award 2017
Robert Muma Award 2013
Salon Awards 2017
Salon Ribbon 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021
Wearable Award 2015

Work shown in competition

Demonstrations given

Pewter Casting, Part 1: polymer clay model making, at Focused on Food, Rangeview Road, Mississauga 2016
CSCL Workshop, Mississauga, 16 April 2016
From Workshop: Pewter, part 1, page 1.
Demonstrating leathercraft, showing members' work from the Mississauga Guild 2018
Burlington Applefest, September 2018
From 69th Annual Meeting: Reports, page 12.
Round, or Mexican, braiding on a belt strip 2018
Mississauga Branch meeting, March 2018
From 69th Annual Meeting: Reports, page 6.
Making a bracelet by the Japanese Kumihimo technique 2019
Mississauga Branch meeting, January 2019
From 69th Annual Meeting: Reports, page 12.

Where this comes from

Life and work

Eugene Pik's life and work outside the Society, in his own account.

Background

Born in the USSR, he moved to Israel at the time of Perestroika and immigrated to Canada just before 2000. He studied robotics in the USSR and computer programming in Israel, and has worked in IT since 1992.

From Summer 2013, page 3.

Work

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mevocopter Aerospace since 2022

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Uniqopter 2021–2024

Study

Doctoral Researcher (Data Science), Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Essex

M.Sc. in Aviation and Aerospace Sustainability, specialization in Aviation Cybersecurity, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 2024

Practical Engineer in Computer Science, The Open University of Israel 1999

Professional bodies

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2023–2025

Fields

Aviation cybersecurity; Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B); GNSS interference and spoofing; Data science; Air traffic data analysis; Uncrewed aircraft systems regulation; Aviation and aerospace sustainability; eVTOL aircraft; Leathercraft; Pewter casting

In the press