CONGRATULATIONS

Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu, Professor and iCORE Research Chair in Broadband Wireless Communications at the University of Alberta has been awarded the 2010 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Silver Medal “for outstanding contributions in wireless communication theory” by IEEE Canada. The R.A. Fessenden silver medal is presented to outstanding Canadian engineers for their important contributions to the field of telecommunications. Dr. Beaulieu will accept this prestigious award at the 23rd Canadian Conference for Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2010) to be held in Calgary, Alberta, May 2-5, 2010.

EIC President Marc Rosen will present the recipients at the Institute’s Annual Awards Banquet at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa on Saturday evening, 27 February 2010, an event that helps mark Canada’s Engineering Week.

Several CAE Fellows are among the honorees:

Chul Park - Julian C. Smith Medal                     Levente L. Diosady - K.Y. Lo Medal

New EIC Fellows

   Digvir Jayas          Javad Mostaghimi       Douglas Ruth   Abdulmotaleb El Saddik      Larry Seeley

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On July 1, 2009, Savvas Chamberlain was appointed as a Member to the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canada’s reputation as a global leader in high-performance imaging and semiconductors."

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Wagdi Habashi is among five prominent scholars to receive the 2009 Killam Prizes, Canada’s most distinguished annual awards for outstanding career achievements in health sciences, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Each Prize is worth $100,000 to the recipient. The announcement was made on May 11, 2009. In addition to his role as professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill and his post as NSERC - Bombardier - Bell Helicopter - CAE Industrial Research Chair for Multidisciplinary CFD, Dr. Habashi established and directs the McGill CFD Laboratory. He also founded and directed the CLUMEQ (Consortium Laval, Université du Québec, McGill and Eastern Quebec) Supercomputer Center, which has been funded twice by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. He serves as Research Fellow of Pratt & Whitney Canada, consults for many companies, and heads up Newmerical Technologies International, a company he established to develop software and provide services for multidisciplinary applications of CFD.

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Dr. John Leggat, Past-President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, served as President of the Board of CAETS (International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences Inc). Dr. Leggat’s term as President began January 1, 2009 and lasted until December 31, 2009.

CAETS is an independent non-political, non-governmental international organization of engineering and technological sciences academies, one member academy per country, with the following objectives:

(a) Prepared to advise governments and international organizations on technical and policy issues related to its areas of expertise;

(b) Contribute to the strengthening of engineering and technological activities to promote sustainable economic growth and social welfare throughout the world;

(c) Foster a balanced understanding of the applications of engineering and technology by the public;

(d) Provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering and technological issues of common concern;

(e) Foster cooperative international engineering and technological efforts through meaningful contacts for development of programs of bilateral and multilateral interest;

(f) Encourage improvement of engineering education and practice internationally; and

(g) Foster establishment of additional engineering academies in countries where none exist.

CAETS is a non-profit corporation, incorporated in the District of Columbia, USA.

E-mail contact: caets@nae.edu

The Canadian Academy of Engineering hosted the CAETS 2009 Convocation July 13 -17, 2009 in Calgary, Alberta at the Calgary Westin Hotel.

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 The Engineering Institute of Canada has announced the 2009 recipients of its honours, awards and fellowships.  Among the 6 senior medals recipients, three are Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering: 

• Sir John Kennedy Award – John D. Mollard
• Julian C. Smith Medal – Delwyn G. Fredlund
• John B. Stirling Medal – Suzanne Lacasse

• Savvas Chamberlain
• Victor C.M. Leung
• Nimal Rajapakse
• Lotfollah Shafai
• Jingxu Zhu

EIC President and CAE Fellow Marc Rosen presented the recipients at the Institute’s Annual Awards Banquet at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa on Saturday, March 7, 2009.

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On January 1, 2009, CAE Fellow Michel Aubertin became the new President of the Canadian Geotechnical Society. Dr. Aubertin is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Geological, and Mining Engineering at École Polytechnique, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He also holds the Industrial NSERC-Polytechnique-UQAT Chair in Environment and Mine Wastes Management.   The Canadian Geotechnical Society is Canada’s foremost professional organization for engineers and geoscientists dedicated to the advancement of geotechnical knowledge and research. Since 1946, CGS has provided a valuable forum for the exchange of geotechnical knowledge and professional development opportunities for members from across Canada, and around the world. The Society operates through regional groups in over twenty Canadian cities from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and facilitates direct member involvement through its many specialized Divisions and Committees: soil mechanics, rock mechanics, engineering geology, hydrogeology, geosynthetics, geoenvironmental studies, cold regions geotechnology, computing, education, landslides, and professional practice.

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Clarence W. de Silva, Wagdi G. Habashi, Hussein T. Mouftah and Kenneth W. Neale have been elected as Fellows by RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada. The induction took place in Ottawa on November 15, 2008. In keeping with the motto of the Society, “Different paths, one vision”, the 72 newly elected Fellows have diverse backgrounds and disciplines but they have been elected to the Academies of RSC by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement.

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Clement W. Bowman, who last year was named the first recipient of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding leadership of the Academy's Energy Pathways Task Force, has been named a Laureate of the prestigious Global Energy International Prize “for the development of highly efficient technologies and utilities for extracting oil from oil shale and oil sands, thus contributing to the energy saving problem of humanity”. The Global Energy International Prize is a unique award intended to assist international cooperation in solving the most important problems in the field of power generation.

THIRTY-SIX NEW FELLOWS INDUCTED INTO THE CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

President Ravi Ravindran inducted 36 new Fellows into the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 17, 2008. The ceremony took place in Montreal, in conjunction with the Academy’s 2008 Annual General Meeting and Seminar.

Fellows & Citations:

John Gordon Agar

Dr. Agar has distinguished himself as an outstanding engineer, researcher, business leader and consultant. As a founding member and the current chief technical officer of O’Connor Associates Environmental Inc., Dr. Agar has continued to push back the boundaries of geo-environmental science and engineering for almost 3 decades. His pioneering work as a co-inventor of soil vapour extraction technology revolutionized the approach and cost-effectiveness of remediation at sites contaminated with volatile organics. He is a recognized expert who has freely shared the knowledge gained from his applied research and development of state of the art geo-environmental remediation technologies in many publications, thus providing scientific leadership to North America’s environmental consulting industry.

 Kamal Al-Haddad

Dr. Al-Haddad is an international leader in the advancement of power electronics technology and its practical applications in traction, power utilities, and lighting and telecommunications industry. He has natural ability to understand practical problems, provide innovative solutions for complex problems and apply them to practical applications. Dr. Al-Haddad has published over 50 journal and 247 conference papers reporting the scientific advances in the field. He has shown the technical leadership and has the credit of applying some of the published and classified research in industry in the design and development power electronic converters. He has supervised and guided over 60 graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and power electronics engineers in academic and industrial research. 

Amit Chakma

Amit Chakma has shown outstanding academic and engineering leadership and has made extensive research contributions in the areas of green house gas issues and environmental system modeling. He has attained a unique balance between national and internationally recognized technical accomplishments and providing scholarly and administrative direction at the University level. As well he has contributed substantively to community boards, research networks and national innovation initiatives. Engineer Chakma has a remarkable record of scientific, academic, societal and professional achievements which clearly speak to his being an unparalleled credit to his field and to our country.

Savvas Chamberlain

During the past 35 years, Dr. Savvas Chamberlain has led the development of imaging sensor technologies. His research and business innovation has established Canada’s dominance in the CCD and CMOS market. Now a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo and Chairman of the DALSA Corporation, Dr. Chamberlain has created and commercialized technology that has revolutionized digital imagery and produced fundamental advances in vision for machines, professional imaging, medical imaging, imaging for the cinematography and vision for remote systems in space. His leadership has touched many people and organizations and has contributed to successes large and small across many dimensions of Canadian society.

Jamal Chaouki

Jamal Chaouki is internationally known for his expertise in fluidized beds, and particularly for his innovations involving the methods of measuring multi-phase flows, the fluidization of fine dust particles, the production of new composites by polymerization of compounding, the development of 4th generation high temperature fibre optics, and new energy producing technologies through natural gas.  He holds nine invention patents, has authored 5 book chapters and more than 250 articles published in committee-assessed scientific journals.  In addition to being a skilful contractor and a high level consultant, he has delivered more than 100 lectures, is involved in learned societies and presently coaches 15 graduate students.

Patrick Darold Daniel

Patrick Daniel, President & CEO of Enbridge Inc., has led the development and evolution of one of the most respected corporate performers in the Canadian oil and gas industry over the past decade. Starting with process engineering and information technology, he moved on to progressively more senior corporate planning and operating positions with Enbridge and its predecessor companies. He has given extensive service to the profession, via participation on the UBC Engineering Advisory Council, and chairmanship of the U of A Business Advisory Council; he was recently honoured as "Canadian Energy Person of 2007", in tribute to his clear and articulate vision of Canada's energy future.

Levente László Diósady

Professor Diosady is an engineer, researcher and educator. He developed the first Canadian food engineering program in an engineering faculty. The author of 120 research publications, 18 patents, he guided 60+ graduate students, nine of whom have become professors. He developed widely used technologies for oilseed processing. His work on salt fortification enables the reduction of the incidence of iodine and iron deficiency disease affecting some 2 billion people in the developing world. His work has been recognized and honoured by both the engineering and food science communities, with the Engineering Medal and the W.J. Eva Award.

Eric Dubois

Prof. Dubois has made pioneering research contributions to the fields of digital video communications, high-definition television and the analysis and processing of time-varying imagery, especially in sampling theory and motion analysis. He has led numerous major research projects in collaboration with Canadian industry and government laboratories. He has also made outstanding contributions to the Engineering profession through the organization of major international conferences, as an educator and mentor of many students for more than 25 years, and to Engineering academic administration as Vice Dean, and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Director, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa.

Stephen George Dunn

Stephen Dunn, Director of Process Design and Development with Hatch Ltd., is a world authority on the development of innovative process technologies for both the metallurgical and petroleum industries. His achievements have led to new and advanced processes based on targeted pilot test-work and data interpretations that provide confident commercial scale-up. These development programs have successfully enabled substantial energy savings, major reductions in environmental pollution and improvements in the clients’ product quality. Over a 25-year period, Dr. Dunn has pioneered contributions to the development of novel solvent-based processes for the in- situ recovery of bitumen from Alberta oil sands. He is a devoted supporter of engineering education and recently founded the James W. Smith Scholarship at the University of Toronto.

Fernand Ellyin

Dr. Fernand Ellyin has distinguished himself in fundamental and applied research in materials performance evaluation; development of mechanical / structural design technology for energy / power industry, and reliability of these installations. He is recognized internationally for his original contributions in materials deformation behaviour, fatigue and fracture, creep and stress corrosion cracking. The extensive publication record of his research and development attests to the breadth and depth of his contributions in varied engineering disciplines. He has also endeavored to transfer these research results to industry by various means. Dr. Ellyin has participated in the design and analysis of Bruce B, Gentilly-2, and Point Lepreau nuclear power plants, and has been a consultant to Exxon, Syncrude, Nova Chemicals and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, among others. He has delivered various keynote lectures and invited papers in international forums. He has also received various prestigious awards.

Richard Allan Fletcher

Richard A. Fletcher, P.Eng. is recognized for his 30 plus years of significant professional engineering accomplishments in delivering municipal, provincial and first nations infrastructure, for his ethical and visionary business practices, for his sustained and continuing leadership of the engineering profession at the provincial, national and international levels, for his dedication to advancing the delivery of undergraduate engineering education and for his commitment to the enhancement of his community.

Robert Milton Woodrow Frederking

Bob Frederking has a world reputation in ice mechanics and design, based on deep and discerning knowledge of engineering problems in the ice environment, and their solution. His thirty years of experience range from laboratory to field experiments, from fundamental research to engineering design, including definition of global ice loads and local ice pressures on offshore structures and ships. His leadership of major field programs in the Arctic has resulted in important advances in understanding the ice environment. He has led standards development for safe design and advanced Canada's offshore industry exemplified by the current ISO and CSA work on the arctic structures.

Kamiel Samy Gabriel

Dr. Gabriel is the founding Associate Provost, Research & Graduate Programs at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.  He has been instrumental in rapidly moving UOIT into a culture of research intensiveness.  His tireless efforts led to UOIT being widely respected in the academic community and among stakeholders in governments, industry and the public at large. Dr. Gabriel is an internationally renowned researcher. He is specially known for his pioneering work in the area of thermal management systems for space applications.  He holds a US patent for a heat-recovery system which regains over 60% of heat from exhaust waste air and recycles it back to buildings.  Dr. Gabriel is the co-founder and current President and Chair of the Board of the Durham Strategic Energy Alliance (DSEA) which leads energy initiatives in the Durham region.

Howard D. Goodfellow

Dr. Howard Goodfellow, PhD, P Eng, 2007 winner of the PEO Entrepreneurship Award, is recognized world-wide for his innovations, publications and leadership in developing environmental control technologies. Currently he is President and CEO of Tenova-Goodfellow, responsible for leading this “Centre of Excellence” in the development and demonstration of clean technologies in other industrial fields including BOF steelmaking, cement, and fossil fuel power plants; for global markets based on Goodfellow EFSOP™ technology. EFSOP™ is the world’s most effective and reliable process control system for Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel-making and is already operating successfully in over ten EAF’s around the world.

Gordon Alexander Irons

Gordon Irons is an outstanding metallurgical professor at McMaster who vigorously interacts with industry leaders worldwide to innovate improved technologies. He is a world authority on Injection Metallurgy, a field of research he has pioneered for 25 years during which his achievements have greatly improved numerous industrial processes. Dr. Irons had the vision to leverage his own research excellence to develop the McMaster Steel Research Centre into a world-class venture comprising multidisciplinary members drawn from industry and academia globally. Dr. Irons' achievements in academia are monumental in both magnitude and innovative quality. In addition to numerous technical publications, he has been active in chairing numerous university and industrial committees worldwide. His achievements are widely recognized, most recently with CIM's prestigious Alcan Award.

Eddy E. Isaacs

Over his thirty year career in the energy industry, Dr. Isaacs has distinguished himself as a leader and innovator in technology and engineering. As the Executive Director of AERI, he directs Alberta’s investments in energy and environmental research and technology. He served for 20 years with ARC with responsibility for programs in heavy oil and oil sands. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Material Engineering, University of Alberta. He has over 70 publications and 6 patents in the energy field. Eddy serves on the Boards of PTAC, CONRAD and NRC’s Fuel Cells Innovation Institute and is cochair of the Energy Technology Working Group of the Canadian Council of Energy Ministers. He co-authored the Canadian Academy of Engineering’s Energy Pathways Study.

Peter Donald Lawrence

Peter Lawrence of UBC is internationally recognized as a leading researcher in the area of robotics and telecontrol. His achievements have led to numerous new and advanced technologies that have greatly impacted the field of rehabilitation engineering. He has contributed significantly to the literature; and his research has led to 16 patents and 7 technology transfers to industry. He is a dedicated and excellent teacher, having received a UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 1997, the APEGBC Teaching Award of Excellence in 2002, as well as being appointed the NSERC Chair in Design Engineering from 2002-07.

Victor C.M. Leung

Victor Leung, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, is a leader in the development of protocols and management techniques for mobile communication systems. His pioneering research on control algorithms and protocols for the management of user access, mobility, handoff, and quality of service in wireless networks has inspired the work of many researchers and influenced commercial product developments. He has provided strong mentorship to many students and budding researchers. Through his tireless volunteer work in many editorial boards and conference technical program committees, he has provided outstanding services to the international telecommunications research community.

John L. Mann

Dr. John Mann brings to the Academy 31 years of engineering and executive experience at all levels of technological and managerial tasks in the automotive industry: R&D and new technologies, engine control systems, electric/electronic systems, vehicle dynamics, alternative fuels, etc. As Director of Engineering & Regulatory Affairs for Chrysler Canada, as well as Chairman of the Board of the University of Windsor/Chrysler Canada Automotive R&D Centre in Windsor, he has made major contributions to Canada's automotive industry.  He is the key artisan of the best-practice partnership established between the University of Windsor and Chrysler Canada in 1996. He has also contributed to many research and charitable organizations and has pioneered strong university-industry partnerships in Canada.

Jon W. Mark

For more than three decades, Jon Mark has made significant research contributions and provided eminent leadership in the fields of computer communication networks and wireless communications. He is an outstanding teacher of electrical and computer engineering students, and has provided training to many highly qualified personnel in telecommunications research. Jon Mark’s teaching and training have been enriched by his tremendous research findings, publications, and the establishment of the Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Waterloo as the training ground. He is an asset to the engineering profession in Canada, and a leader in the global evolution of societies through communication.

Alexander McLean

Professor McLean is recognized worldwide as Canada’s most distinguished scientist in the field of physical chemistry of steelmaking. Additional contributions have included plasma processing, sensor development and net-shape casting of novel materials. His philosophy has been to develop fundamental understanding of scientific phenomena and facilitate implementation of the acquired knowledge within production systems. He has authored over three hundred technical papers and six books. The numerous honours and awards which he has received from institutions and societies in Europe, Japan and the Americas are evidence of the high regard in which Professor McLean is held by the international metallurgical community.

Nairn Melbourne McQueen

Nairn McQueen has been a leader for the past 30 years in the development of innovative and environmentally beneficial processes in resource industries. He has successfully commercialized these processes and holds a number of patents for his innovations. In addition to his contributions in Engineering, Nairn has also contributed immensely in the development of talent in Canada and abroad. He has generously provided assistance to Canadian and foreign graduates and trained engineers in Canadian Universities. For nearly 20 years, he has worked with youth, many from disadvantaged families, to develop leadership and life skills.

Daniel Allison Meneley

Dan Meneley’s national and international achievements are exceptional. Some of these achievements, (Argonne National Laboratory, Ontario Hydro, UNB and AECL) led to international advisory appointments of considerable importance to Canada. While the Principal of D.A. Meneley & Associates, he served as a Professor and Departmental Chairman at UNB. His contributions as DND’s Director General, Nuclear Safety prompted his appointment in 1993 as a member (later Chairman and Life Member) of DND’s Defence Science Advisory Board. Upon retirement as AECL’s Chief Engineer, Dan was appointed Engineer Emeritus. Concurrently, Dan serves as an Adjunct Professor at UOIT.

Rajnikant Patel

Dr. Patel is a pre-eminent scholar and an internationally recognized leader in robotics and control. His outstanding contributions in these fields place him among the most influential leaders in the design and control of advanced robotic systems. His work has resulted in the most thorough treatment to date of redundant and flexible robotic systems. Through highly successful technology transfer, several methodologies resulting from this work are being utilized by the Canadian Space Agency. Dr. Patel’s pioneering contributions focusing on numerical and computational issues in control have helped to bridge the gap between theoretical advances in control and their practical applications.

Doug Dragan Perovic

Internationally recognized for his innovative work in the fields of scanning and transmission electron microscopy applied to semiconductors and metallic alloys, thin film nanostructures and failure analysis, Douglas Perovic is in the midst of an outstanding career as Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto. He led the creation of the multi-industry, multi-university Centre for Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging based in Ontario. With over 150 refereed publications and 5 patents, Douglas Perovic has created new fundamental knowledge and applied it to understanding the failure of engineered structures through over 100 forensic analyses. He has explained his work in many media interviews and articles in magazines and newspapers.

Samuel Pierre

Dr. Pierre has particularly contributed in two specific fields of computer engineering where he can be ranked near the top of those in his discipline: (i) Wired and Wireless Network Design; (ii) Mobile Computing Architectures and Services. His engineering achievements result in over 400 technical publications, including 126 journal papers (published or accepted), 6 textbooks, 17 edited books and conference proceedings. Over the past decade and a half, he has successfully supervised 110 graduate students and 15 researchers. Dr. Pierre is recognized for his innovative contributions to the advancement of engineering, science and technology, for his commitment to bring together various cultural communities and his fruitful actions in that respect, and for his numerous contributions to our society.

Kenneth Walter Putt

Kenneth Putt served 27 years with Imperial Oil Limited and consulted on technological change. A past Senator of the University of Calgary (Engineering Faculty) and APEGGA Volunteer Award recipient, Putt led many industry advisory committees. He’s a founding director, honourary member and lifetime achievement award recipient of Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada. Ken is an Independent Director of Maxxam Analytics International. He served on many NSERC strategic and industrial grants committees and CANMET's MNACC. Putt is President of the CSSE and a Past-President of CSEM and EIC. He is a Fellow of the CSSE and the EIC.

Abdul Ghani Razaqpur

Before becoming Chair for Effective Design of Structures and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University, Ghani Razaqpur was Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University. As a world authority in concrete materials and structures, advanced finite element modeling and design of structures using fibre reinforced polymers (FRP), he has over 130 publications in journals and conference proceedings and has supervised 40 master’s and doctoral students. Dr. Razaqpur chaired the Technical Committee for CSA Standard S806 for the Design of FRP Reinforced Structures. He is a Fellow of the CSCE (President 2006/07) and the EIC, and is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Cement and Concrete Composites.

Douglas Warren Ruth

Dr. Ruth is known internationally as a visionary and a “shameless promoter of all things engineering”. He has been successful in waking the public to the importance of engineering with his challenging and provocative talk “Engineers: Enablers of Civilization”. Dr. Ruth is a ground-breaker in raising the profile of engineering being a key component of an “innovation economy” and has been invited to speak internationally on this pivotal topic. Dr. Ruth’s work in the area of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media Research is leading-edge. He is responsible for introducing and championing many innovative analysis techniques in the petroleum-core analysis industry.

Malcolm James Scoble

Malcolm Scoble, inaugural holder of the Robert E. Hallbauer Chair in Mining and Sustainability at UBC, is a renowned expert in a number of areas related to mining engineering. Throughout his academic career, he has maintained close links with industry and has had extensive consulting experience in Canada and overseas. His tireless efforts to bridge high-calibre university research with industrial practice have led to numerous fruitful industry collaborations. He is recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Lecturer Award (1996) and Fellowship Award (1994) “for outstanding contributions to the Canadian minerals industry”, both from the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Adriaan R.P. van Heiningen

Dr. Adriaan van Heiningen is recognized internationally as a pre-eminent authority in chemical reaction engineering related to manufacture of chemical papermaking pulps, bleaching of these pulps, related chemical recovery processes and the forest biorefinery. His ground-breaking fundamental research has led to profound changes in the pulp manufacturing industry and its environmental impact. He is recognized internationally as the leading proponent of the Integrated Forest Bio-Refinery for producing biofuels and biomaterials. In Atlantic Canada, he is recognized as the founding director of the world-class Dr. Jack McKenzie Limerick Pulp and Paper Centre at the University of New Brunswick.

Pieter Van Vliet

Pieter Van Vliet's contributions in engineering, management and executive functions at SaskTel were of fundamental importance to creating a world-class telecommunication system with national and international links. As President of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers and the Engineering Institute of Canada he provided constant leadership and encouragement to his colleagues. His active and enthusiastic participation in industry-based organizations over many years contributed substantially to the advancement of technological and economic development in Saskatchewan and Canada generally. Within his local community Pieter Van Vliet has served extensively on advisory boards and committees dedicated to the broad public interest.

Kimberly Ann Woodhouse

Dr. Woodhouse has contributed to both the technical and educational advancement of engineering in Canada through her pioneering work in the development of biodegradable polymers for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and awarding winning initiatives in curriculum and engineering design. In addition to her international recognition as a scholar, Dr. Woodhouse holds several patents and is a Director and shareholder in an early stage Ontario company. She was awarded the PEO medal in engineering excellence in 1997, was recently a member of a team of professors who were awarded the Allan Blizzard award for initiatives in engineering design, and in recognition of her deep commitment to engineering education, the Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education from Engineers Canada.

Bin Wu

Bin Wu is an NSERC Industrial Research Chair and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. He is well recognized for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of power converter technologies and variable speed drives. He was one of the pioneers in developing large commercial electric drives in the megawatt range using current source converter technology. His research results have been used by Canadian companies, which has assisted them in achieving technical and commercial success in the global marketplace.

Zhenghe Xu

Dr. Zhenghe Xu is among the very few engineers who applied at a molecular level the state-of-the-art instrumentation, such as atomic force microscope (AFM) and zeta potential distribution measurement to study of industrial processes related to mineral processing and oil sands extraction. His fundamental research provided scientific insights into industrial processes, which helped the industries to resolve challenges in fine particle flotation and improve processability of poor oil sand ores. His innovative approach in hydrophobic extraction of coal from coal tailings ponds by waste oil led to licensing of his technology to Energy Pacific. His novel aeration concept in flotation led to great improvements in bitumen recovery and commercialization of column flotation at Suncor Energy, which is being tested by other producers.

Jesse Zhu

Dr. Jesse Zhu has made major contributions to the application and understanding of particle technology. Working closely with students, colleagues and industry, he has made significant advances in many areas of powder technology, including handling of cohesive particulate materials, powder coating, circulating fluidized beds, and downer reactors, and developing innovative technologies. His work has contributed in particular to the materials, pharmaceutical and environmental industries, with several technologies licensed in Canada and internationally. At the same time he has provided effective linkages between the Chinese and Canadian engineering and research communities.  Zhu has also won many awards, including 2 of the 3 major awards sponsored by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.