Chris Tattersall is an internationally recognized tunneling expert. For 31 years Chris and his teams have applied innovative design, state-of-the-art tunneling technology, and highly developed construction-management skills, to help in the delivery of prominent global infrastructure projects such as the English Channel Tunnel, Alaska's Whittier Tunnel, and the St. Clair River CN Rail Tunnel. The Whittier and St. Clair River tunnels were both winners of the Schreyer Award, the most prestigious of Canadian engineering project awards. Chris and his teams have resolved several tunneling ...

Carole Wilson is a strategic thinker with a global mindset and entrepreneurial focus who has implemented change nationally and abroad. She has developed stratagems and driven organizational change during a dynamic career in the automotive industry touching on manufacturing, product development, finance, marketing, sales and service. She developed the market equations for all current and future model Lincoln vehicles sold in Canada, successfully launching two new nameplates and three redesigned vehicles. Her philanthropy touches women in engineering at McMaster University. She has volunteered ...

Dr. Michael Worswick is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering of the University of Waterloo and holds a University Research Chair in Light Weight Materials Under Extreme Deformation. His research activities encompass forming, joining and machining for automotive manufacturing. He was the founding Director of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research and is Executive Director of the Waterloo Node of the Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium. These successful collaborative efforts have brought together diverse groups of researchers to provide essential ...

Ted Robertson is, without question, one of the most eminent automotive engineers worldwide. He has risen to the most senior engineering executive positions in the automotive industry and was responsible for the design and production of over 15 million vehicles on the road. As a leader, he has been invited by the top associations to sit on their boards, including the Society of Automotive Engineers International, the International Federation of Automotive Engineers Worldwide, and AUTO21. His many honours include the Green Car Vision Award, Truck of the Year, SUV of the Year, Hall of ...

A professor at the University of British Columbia and Senior Editor of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Tarek Sayed is world-renowned for his research on road safety analysis and evaluation. His work on automated road safety analysis using video sensors is being applied in projects in six countries and is considered by many as the future of road safety analysis. He has a number of prestigious awards including the appointment as a UBC Distinguished Scholar, the Award of Academic Merit from the Transportation Association of Canada, and the ITE Wilbur Smith Distinguished Transportation ...

Gerald James Maier is a petroleum executive. He is the former Chairman, President and CEO of TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. In 2003, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada as a recognized leader in the exploration, acquisition and sustainable development of our natural gas and crude oil reserves. He is currently Chairman of Granmar Investments Ltd..

Executive VP, Corporate Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, Engineers Canada

Award-winning professional engineer and leader, Jeanette Southwood is Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Strategic Partnerships at Engineers Canada,the national organization of the 12 engineering regulators that license Canada's more than 300,000 members of the engineering profession. Before joining Engineers Canada, she led the Canadian Urban Development & Infrastructure Sector and the Global Sustainable Cities teams at an international consulting firm where she was the first Black woman to be appointed to the senior leadership position of Principal globally. Jeanette is ...

Professor Heather MacLean is an internationally recognized leader in sustainable systems analysis, including life cycle assessment and its application to energy systems and transportation vehicles. Her research has informed the decisions of industry, government and other organizations and has guided regulations such as California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Because she is able to bring together disparate groups such as oil-sands producers and NGO's to collaborate on research studies, her work is often instrumental in securing support from regulators, local communities and other stakeholders. ...

Lloyd McCoomb has had an outstanding career in transportation and engineering management spanning more than four decades. In his roles as Vice-President, Planning and Development, and later President and Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Dr. McCoomb successfully managed the $4.4 billion airport modernization and expansion program of Toronto Pearson International Airport. His previous senior positions have involved airport planning, operations and marketing, traffic and transit research, and environmental engineering. Dr. McCoomb received the Ontario ...

Howard Shearer is nationally recognized for his contributions made at the forefront of nuclear power and energy engineering in Canada. As a business leader, he has worked to make Canada a world leading powerhouse in smart systems and big data by helping build capacity for Canadian innovation in the digital world. His outstanding and selfless service on boards, committees and councils is notable. As one of a few Black engineers who is a corporate leader in Canada, Howard Shearer is a role model for the engineering community through his technical work, strategic thinking, business leadership ...

Dr. Hutchinson has made significant contributions to transport planning and engineering education, particularly in the areas of urban transport, research and practice, and airports and highway engineering. He is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Pekguleryuz's engineering career has spanned 12 years in Canadian industry and 15 years in University where her creative and innovative research in light metal alloys has directly resulted in commercially successful products with significant impact to reduce environmental pollution. She developed Noranda's Mg engine alloy used on all BMW models since 2004 and established a high profile for Canada in Mg materials research taking active role in numerous industrial international/national projects, light metals programs and committees. In academia, she held two industrial research chairs, ...

M. Lamarre a dirigé le plus grand bureau d'ingénieurs-conseils du Canada. Il a eu une prestigieuse carrière au sein de Lavalin et était responsable des activités de construction du Groupe Lavalin. Après la fusion de SNC-Lavalin, il a été responsable de la mise en place de la division Transport et a réalisé de très grands projets d'infrastructures, tels que le métro d'Ankara. Depuis 2009, il est président de Jacques Lamarre Management inc., une société privée d'investissement.

Jeannette Montufar has demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation in the areas of road and pedestrian safety, commercial vehicle operations, traffic engineering and education. She is past President of the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers, past Chair of the US Transportation Research Board's Truck Size and Weight Committee, founder of the Team Canada Alliance for Transportation Teaching, and recipient of TAC's Educational Achievement Award in 2013. Her contributions have been recognized with various honours and awards, including a YMCA/YWCA Woman of Distinction Award and ...

Jacques Laparé, auparavant associé à la firme Bombardier depuis plus de 18 ans, a imposé sa marque dans la vente, la conception et la fabrication de matériel ferroviaire, à l'échelle mondiale.  Il a dirigé les équipes qui ont participé à la réalisation des projets de métro d'Ankara (Turquie) et de Kuala Lampur, et qui réalisent les projets de train à grande vitesse pour Amtrak.

Professor, École de technologie supérieure

Dr. Al-Haddad is an international leader in the advancement of power electronics technology and its practical applications in traction, power utilities, renewable energy, smart micro/nano grids, 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 100 journal and 500 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 ...

Dr. John Mann brings to the Academy 34 years of engineering and executive experience in all technical aspects of the automotive industry: R&D and new technologies, engine control systems, electric/electronic systems, vehicle dynamics, vehicle safety, alternative fuels, etc. As Retired Vice President of Engineering & Regulatory Affairs for Chrysler Canada, as well as Retired Chairman of the Board of the University of Windsor/Chrysler Canada Automotive R&D Centre in Windsor, Past Chair of the Board of the Auto21 NCE, he has made major contributions to Canada's automotive industry. ...

Dr. Xue (Steve) Liu is a Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University and VP R&D, Chief Scientist, and Co-Director of the Samsung AI Center Montreal. He is a prominent researcher, mentor, and entrepreneur. He is an international authority on intelligent and autonomic computing, focusing on power and performance management. He published over 300 highly-cited research papers in premier journals and conference proceedings. His inventions have been engineered into real-world systems and impact on the lives of tens of millions of people worldwide. He is an IEEE Fellow and has ...

For many pioneering contributions to (1) Smart Grid concepts and modern Distribution Systems development and (2) practical solutions to power system aspects re: integration of distributed renewable energy and energy storage systems. A unique "Utility-University-Industry-Government-Professional Associations" collaborative model of pooled expertise, shared vision and financial risk sharing was developed which allowed for understanding, modelling, specification development and larger demonstration projects to be showcased in Ontario, and elsewhere. This "Shared RD&D" model involved many ...

Heather Kennedy is a champion for strong communities responsible development of communities associated with Canada's resource development. A career that spans operations and project management, corporate executive, regulator hearing commissioner and assistant deptuty minster. Heather has strong commitment to safety, operational excellence and the development of local people and healthy local communities. Close collaboration, planning, adaptability and commitment from key stakeholders are all elements of her approach. Heather is a pioneer for women in the resource sector and has coached and ...

Tamás Terlaky is a leading optimization expert with four authored books and over 180 scientific papers. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization and Engineering. Currently Endowed Chair Professor at Lehigh University, previously Canada Research Chair in Optimization at McMaster University, Founding Director of Canada's first School of Computational Engineering and Science. He received the MITACS Mentorship Award, the Award of Merit of CORS, the Egerváry Award of the Hungarian Operations Research Society,,the Wagner Prize of INFORMS, and the Outstanding Innovation in Service ...

Mr. Triffo pioneered the use of computers to simulate urban transportation systems and has led professionals in the design of several large projects including highway and light rail transit systems, pulp mills, world scale bridges (PEI-NB), etc. He is currently Chairman of the Board at Stantec Inc and has previously worked as President and Vice President of other companies, demonstrating his expertise in his field.

Dr. Jonathan Li is a world-class researcher in geomatics and remote sensing. His pioneering contributions in AI-based earth-observation image understanding have substantially impacted the development of high-definition mapping technology in Canada and beyond. His innovations include the generalized point-cloud descriptors and the intelligent point-cloud to 3D model convertors, which have significantly advanced the field of 3D vision. He has published 320 journal papers and trained 120 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He received the Samuel Gamble Award and the Geomatica Award. He ...

Dr. Xianguo Li is a world-renowned leader in the fields of clean energy research. A professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, and University Research Chair Professor, at the University of Waterloo, he has made outstanding contributions to his research field of clean energy, including fuel cells, liquid atomization and sprays, and low-emission combustion engines; and to engineering and society through his extensive research publications, activities and professional services, the development of clean energy technologies through technology transfer to industry and ...

Robert Reid is a most talented professional engineer who has the unique capability of resolving not only highly technical challenges but also complex, multi-disciplined and extremely contentious issues, many with major political and national overtones. Mr. Reid has utilized his skills and leadership in many ways. His most recent stunning success brought the NWT Aboriginals into a one-third ownership interest in the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline without major capital outlays or commitments. For the benefit of Canadians Reid's creative, intellectually sound, politically endorsed, and economically ...