M. Sauriol préside l'un des plus importants bureaux d'ingénieurs-conseils au Canada. Il a réalisé d'importants projets, tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger. Il s'est impliqué activement dans des activités profesionnelles et communautaires, à titre de président de l'Association des Ingénieurs-conseils du Canada, de président de la Chambre de Commerce de Laval, etc.

Chair Professor/President, Southeast University/Henan University of Technology

Dr.Wu is a world-renowned expert who has pioneered the growth of the emerging fields of Structural Health Monitoring and Fiber Reinforced Polymers for Sustainable, Resilient and Intelligent Infrastructure in Civil Engineering. He has also made seminal contributions to the creation, manufacturing and application of advanced basalt fibers, as well as the establishment of the global basalt fiber industry. Dr.Wu's innovations are evidenced by over 700 publications and 100 patents. Additionally, he has promoted strong and sustained international collaborations through his leadership roles in three ...

Professor, UBC

Prof. Yang is a preeminent leader in structural and earthquake engineering, acclaimed for his ground-breaking innovation in performance-based design, structural simulation and testing, robotic inspection and construction, and high performance, carbon-neutral and resilient infrastructure. He has led many large research projects, collaborated with many leading engineering firms worldwide and made significant impacts to the national and international codes. His exceptional leadership and mentorship have inspired and trained numerous highly qualified personnel. His outstanding achievements earned ...

Dr. Gina Cody is a prominent business leader and engineer. She started her career as the first woman to be awarded a PhD in building engineering by Concordia University and went to conquer the business and engineering world as the principal shareholder of a national engineering firm. Throughout her career, Dr. Cody made it a priority to raise the status of the engineering profession with women and minorities, while working with numerous professional associations. In 2018, Concordia University renamed its engineering and computer science faculty in her honour, Gina Cody School of Engineering ...

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

Pierre Tremblay has pioneered the use of innovative maintenance processes and practices at Ontario Hydro/Ontario Power Generation (OPG) which have significantly improved the quality and cost-effectiveness of maintenance activities within OPG's nuclear fleet. His exceptional leadership in introducing innovative human performance methodologies resulted in a ten-fold reduction in disruptive events in the fleet within a five year period, resulting in significant improvements in overall nuclear plant performance and availability.

Kenneth (Ken) G. Thomas, was formely Global MD, Hatch; COO, Crystallex International Corp (Gold); and for 14 years serving in progressively senior executive roles at Barrick Gold, finally as SVP Technical Services. He successfully developed from research through engineering, construction and commissioning, two of the world's largest gold processing plants for refractory ores; high-pressure autoclaving and oxygenated roasting. He has also written a book on Hydrometallurgical Engineering. He directed research into thiosulphate, a benign chemical, for the leaching of gold as an alternate for ...

Professor Emeritus, UBC

Alan D. Russell, holder of the Chair in Computer Integrated Design and Construction at UBC, is a world-renowned expert in economic modeling and risk analysis of large engineering projects with special emphasis on public-private partnerships. His REPCON Construction Management System has been used on over $2 billion worth of notable projects in Canada, the U.S. and Hong Kong. As an academic he was responsible for creating the construction engineering and management concentrations at both Concordia University and UBC. He is a Fellow of the CSCE as well as recipient of both the E. Whitman Wright ...

President, MHJ Consulting Inc.

Brent Smith has for almost twenty years carried significant responsibilities in the technically exacting nuclear power industry, at the Point Lepreau Generating Station. In addition to his day job, he has made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession through his extensive volunteer service, both provincially and nationally. In addition to leading numerous committees and high profile task forces, he was elected as President of Engineers and Geoscientists New Brunswick in 2005, and elected as President of Engineers Canada in 2011. He is respected by peers across Canada as a ...

University of Calgary

Janaka Ruwanpura, introduced as a Top 25 Canadian Immigrant by the Prime Minister in 2022, is an internationally-renowned award-winning scholar, leader, consultant, and entrepreneur in construction automation and productivity. Janaka, former Canada Research Chair in Project Management Systems, now serves as the University of Calgary’s Vice-Provost International and Associate Vice-President Research. He is also the President of JYR Consultants and i-Booth, Inc., A member of the US National Academy of Construction and a fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, his outstanding ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Professor Sheikh has made outstanding contributions to engineering education, research and practice that are recognized worldwide. His achievements include development of new materials, rational procedures for the design of concrete structures under extreme loads and environment, innovative techniques for life extension of existing structures and the application of structural engineering research in practice with the goal of creating sustainable infrastructure. He has also made extensive contributions to the design codes in North America and around the world. He has trained excellent ...

Chairman, Vector Construction Limited

Donald Whitmore, President of Vector Construction Group, has for forty years, successfully balanced the management, growth and diversification of a private, closely-held firm in the construction industry. Starting as a local firm in highway construction, Vector is now internationally recognized for its expertise in the restoration and rehabilitation of concrete infrastructure, particularly regarding corrosion mitigation and the monitoring and strengthening of facilities using composite materials. Donald Whitmore has been very active in industry associations, serving as a volunteer at the ...

President, Structural Engineer, Roney Engineering Ltd.

Chris Roney is the recent Past President of Engineers Canada, the national organization of the 12 engineering regulators that license Canada's more than 290,000 members of the profession. He chaired its Lessons Learned Task Force, preparing recommendations from the outcome of the Charbonneau Commission in Quebec, the Mount Polley Tailings Dam Failure in BC, and the Algo Mall Collapse in Elliot Lake Ontario. Chris is also President of Roney Engineering Limited. He frequently serves as a consultant to municipal Building Departments on building code related structural issues. He has been ...

President, C-FER Technologies

Larry Staples is retired after a professional career which encompassed over 40 years of leadership for engineering consulting and research organizations. He served for many years as Chair of the respective Boards of the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company and of WaterSMART Solutions. He was CEO of C-FER Technologies, an entrepreneurial R&D organization which he helped to found in 1984, and was cross-appointed as Vice President, Engineered Products and Services of the Alberta Research Council (now called Alberta Innovates). Larry is also known for his volunteer leadership, spanning five ...

Dr. Aminah Robinson Fayek's innovative use of fuzzy logic to model subjective variables and uncertainty allowed the creation of construction management solutions previously thought inaccessible to researchers and practitioners. Credited with developing fuzzy hybrid decision support systems as a new area of study within construction, Dr. Fayek's tools and approaches have helped improve the productivity and competitiveness of the Canadian construction industry. As Vice-President (Research and Innovation), she substantially increased the university's annual research revenue. Dr. Fayek was ...

Chair of the Board of Directors, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Madame Thibodeau-DeGuire s'est distinguée par sa contribution à la renommée et au rayonnement de sa profession et par son rôle dans la promotion du génie pour les femmes. Elle a été la première femme diplômée en génie civil à Polytechnique. Elle est actuellement la Présidente du Conseil d'administration à l'École Polytechnique.

Professor, University of Waterloo

Dr. Maria Anna Polak is renowned in the field of structural engineering, with pioneering contributions to the design and testing of concrete and reinforced concrete structures. Her innovations include new technologies for the retrofit of concrete slabs, powerful analysis tools for evaluation and testing of design standards, global structural damage assessment methods, and fibre-reinforced polymers. Implemented worldwide, Dr. Polak’s work has directly contributed to international standards for infrastructure design. She sits on numerous international standards committees, is a Fellow of the ...

Professor, University of Victoria

Professor Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya's research activities in the areas of novel construction materials, material testing, and innovative design for building envelopes and structures are ground-breaking and transformative for the stakeholders of the construction industry. He has produced seminal research outputs and applied them to solve many practical engineering problems. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated an exceptional ability to identify and find solutions for the infrastructure challenges faced by society and transfer his knowledge to stakeholders in a thoughtful style through the ...

Retired City Manager, City of Calgary

For ten years, Owen Tobert, P.Eng., MBA, has been the City Manager for The City of Calgary, with an annual operating budget of almost $3 billion, a yearly capital budget of $2 billion and 15,000 employees. He reached this highest non-elected position in the City through many years of excellence in increasingly senior engineering positions within the City. Owen has made significant impacts on the City of Calgary through the introduction of a corporate project management framework, increased financial planning, fostering of a culture that puts citizens first, and the City's excellent response ...

President and Chief Technology Officer

Gina Succi's career in engineering spans over three decades in roles from design engineer to Executive Vice President of her own company. For the past 20 years, her focus has been on product development and commercialization in four vastly different market sectors including steelmaking, logistics, mining and construction. She is recognized for integrating technological innovation, operational excellence and customer pull as the basis of a successful corporate strategy. Gina is an inventor with three current patents-pending and more in the making. She mentors aspiring engineers and is a role ...

Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto

Chul Park has identified the fundamental mechanisms of cell nucleation and growth in plastic foaming, and has designed systems that measure the critical thermophysical properties of polymer-gas mixtures. Based on his findings, a number of industrially viable foaming technologies have been developed. Chul Park has invented technologies that have significantly improved plastics' properties such as impact strength, toughness, fatigue life, elasticity, and heat- and sound-insulation. Moreover, environmentally hazardous blowing agents have been replaced with inert gases. The transfer of knowledge ...

Professor, UBC

Dr. Sadiq is a leading researcher in the field of environmental risk analysis and lifecycle assessment of built environment. His pioneering work on asset management of water distribution networks is a basis for policy-making in countries around the world. Dr. Sadiq has been instrumental in building the School of Engineering at The University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus as a leading incubator for high quality engineering education and research. He is a member of many engineering societies, and sits on the editorial board of leading journals in his field. He is one of the top cited ...

Andrew Pape-Salmon has 21 years of experience in energy efficiency and clean energy strategies for buildings, equipment and communities. He is a Commissioner with the BC Utilities Commission and is an Adjunct Professor with UVic Civil Engineering. He specializes in energy economics, sustainable energy and building codes and standards; along with policy analysis for energy efficiency and climate leadership at all levels of government. He works extensively on projects pertaining to energy efficiency and carbon management for new construction and existing buildings. Andrew is a Professional ...

Principal Research Fellow, Orica

Dr. Ruilin Yang has had a long and extremely productive career conducting research in the fieldof explosive technologies. Following a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Queen's University,he joined ICI Canada (now Orica Inc., the world's largest provider of commercial explosives and innovative blasting systems) at the level of scientist. He has steadily risen through the Orica organization, ultimately being promoted to 'Principal Research Fellow', the highest technical position existing in the Orica organization. His research work has had transformative impact on blasting technologies and ...

Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University

Professor Moselhi is an engineer and scholar who made significant contributions to practice and research, in engineering and construction in Canada, the United States, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He contributed to training of leaders in industry and in academic institutions of higher learning in Canada, the United States, and in other countries in the middle-east and the far-east. He authored and coauthored over 350 scientific publications and received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Walter Shanly Award of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering in recognition of Outstanding ...

Power Systems Consultant for the African Development Bank, Guy Van Uytven Consultant Inc.

Guy van Uytven is a leader in high voltage power transmission system planning, design and construction. As a consulting engineer, he has been instrumental in the provision of low cost electricity to citizens of 19 less developed countries, thereby improving living standards and contributing to global energy equity. He has ensured the sustainability of the electrical power infrastructure by establishing training programs for local engineers. Guy served as VicePresident Power, Eastern Region for Monenco. He is an advocate for a North American macro grid to enhance the resilience of electrical ...