Satinder Kaur Brar is an internationally recognized environmental engineer, producing cutting-edge sustainable technologies for global health and environmental safety. She has pioneered innovative approaches in environmental engineering, bridging green chemistry and biotechnology. She has charted new directions in sustainable production and reusing bioproducts, giving new life to wastes by recycling them into industrial processes or back to the Earth. Using interdisciplinary evidence, Brar's groundbreaking work has fostered the value-addition of wastes and simultaneous decontamination in ...

Dr. Liang Song is a world-class engineer and entrepreneur in smart wireless systems, an emerging area of artificial intelligence (AI) and next-generation wireless systems. Due to his contributions in both L2 cognitive multi-hop wireless networks and distributed AI, large-scale and ubiquitous smart infrastructure can be possible, by interconnecting smart terminals with data sensing, wireless communications, and processing. His work represented Canada in 5G telecommunications, impacting all cellular subscribers; and is leading the development of global smart infrastructure. Dr. Song has ...

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 ...

Ian Moore, Professor, Queen's University, has made outstanding contributions to engineering design practice, research and education, particularly in relation to buried infrastructure. As a leading international expert on the analysis of soil-pipe interaction, his computer models and laboratory tests have permitted him to define collapse conditions for concrete, metal and thermoplastic pipes, including those repaired or constructed using trenchless technologies. His findings define how most major pipe manufacturing companies in North America design and utilize pipe products.

Dr. McBean is an eminent scholar, world-class expert and Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security at University of Guelph. He has authored two books, 17 edited books, over 280 journal papers and has received many awards. Ed has given expert advice to 65 countries and to organizations, including the World Bank, UNESCO, UNDP, & CIDA. During his nine year tenure as VP at Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, a consulting company providing diverse engineering services in Canada, USA and UK, the company grew from 800 to 2600 staff members and Ed is acknowledged as the individual who put the ...

Dennis Paddock is an exemplary practising engineer. He provided 24 years of significant pioneering engineering leadership in infrastructure development, resource planning and regulation throughout rural Saskatchewan. For the past 16 years, his valuable executive leadership in the regulation of engineering (and geoscience) professions within Saskatchewan and nationally have contributed significantly to national and international credential recognition, and to greater respect for the professions by legislators and the public.

Professor, Dalhousie University

Dr. Graham Gagnon, P.Eng. is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Water Resources Studies at Dalhousie University. Over his 25-year career, Graham's research program has trained 200+ students and secured over $50M to address drinking water safety with a focus on distribution system water quality and adaptation strategies to advance treatment processes to counteract the impacts of climate change. Beyond his service on NSERC, Canadian Water Network, and AWWA committees, Graham's contribution to the ...

Le Dr. Soucy s'est distingué pas ses contributions à l'étude de la pollution du Fleuve St-Laurent, à la solution des problèmes environnementaux associés aux projets hydro-électriques de la Baie James et à la formation des ingénieurs. Il est actuelllement un professeur honoraire à l'Institut national de la recherche scientifique.

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 ...

President and CEO, Royal Canadian Mint

Marie Lemay currently leads the Royal Canadian Mint as CEO. Mme. Lemay was previously CEO of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, where she contributed to its strategic planning initiatives, its oversight of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, other boards and committees and its continuing support of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Her extensive career in the public sector has also been one of outstanding service and accomplishments, in such environmental areas as waste management and pesticide control, as recognized by major professional awards, and in municipal ...

Shiping Zhu is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Department Chair of McMaster Chemical Engineering. He pioneered the reaction engineering research of controlled/living radical polymerization. He is a world leading expert and has made major contributions to understanding and development of advanced polymerization technologies and to establishing polymer structure-property relationships. His work emphasizes engineering fundamentals and problem solving, and is of high impact. He has trained over fifty highly qualified personnel and published over two hundred refereed journal papers. He is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Director, Engineering Services, Williams Engineering

Jim, Director of Engineering Services at Williams Engineering Canada (WEC), brings over 25 years in building design, focusing on sustainable infrastructure that meets immediate needs and community visions. He emphasizes stakeholder engagement to achieve inclusive solutions, guiding teams to consider diverse perspectives in design. His projects span Canada, from Vancouver Island to the Arctic, tackling unique environmental challenges with resilient designs suited for local conditions. Jim's innovations include designing buildings to resist progressive collapse and addressing Arctic ...

Dr. Zhu is a world-leading expert in urban drainage and sustainable hydropower. He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of air/water and sand/water multiphase flows. His research accomplishments have been globally recognized and applied in real-world engineering designs. He is a leading international figure in the modernization of urban sewer design and operations to face the challenge of climate change and stringent environmental regulations. His research has also significantly enhanced Canada’s reputation in sustainable hydropower and fishway designs. Dr. Zhu is also ...

Senator, Senate of Canada

Rosa Galvez, originally from Peru, is one of Canada’s leading experts in pollution control and its effect on human health. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from McGill University and has been a professor at Université Laval in Québec Québec City since 1994, heading the Civil and Water Engineering Department from 2010 to 2016. Dr. Galvez was appointed to the Senate of Canada as an independent senator for Québec on December 6, 2016.Senator Galvez specializes in water and soil decontamination, waste management and residues, and environmental impact and risk assessment. Throughout her ...

Dr. Ted Mao, past Vice president, Research and Chief Technology Officer at Trojan Technologies is an internationally recognized UV expert and water innovator. He led science and innovation to drive global business growth and technology adoption, aiding over 1 billion people with safe and clean water. He is a passionate talent developer and entrepreneur who has led 355 Mitacs units and has been helping Cleantech start-ups to commercialize game-changing technologies to reduce GHG emissions, half gigatonne per year by 2050. He has played a significant leadership role in IUVA to help UV get ...

With a passion for Redefining Possible, Michael Soligo is an Environmental Engineer specializing in the field of Climate/Microclimate impacts. He has worked on notable projects around the world, including the Burj Khalifa, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Shanghai Tower, and many others including those related to sports, entertainment, healthcare, and transportation. The President and CEO of RWDI since 2008, Michael has grown the company from a small Canadian niche wind engineering firm to an internationally recognized global specialty engineering consulting firm of approximately 700 employees. ...

Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering D, University of Alberta

Dr. Amit Kumar is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta and one of few researchers globally whose models integrating environmental and economic factors in energy systems assessment feed into government and industry decision-making. He is a highly cited expert in energy systems and an NSERC Industrial Chair. He has served on expert panels for the European Union, National Science Foundation-USA, House of Commons, Senate of Canada, and others. He received the 2020 Summit Award for Research Excellence from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of ...

Distinguished Professor, University of Windsor

Professor Nihar Biswas, University of Windsor, is a world-renowned expert on wastewater treatment. As a proli?c author of high-impact publications, his experimental and numerical research focuses on wastewater treatment with a signi?cant impact on the development of national and international technical standards through WHO/UNDP. Dr. Biswas's contributions to his ?eld extends well beyond academia, having led design teams in wastewater treatment engineering locally and globally. He is an academic leader with appointments as Head of Department, Associate Dean, Senior Associate Dean, Acting Dean ...

Dean (Interim) and Chair Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Dr. Chen is an internationally respected leader in environmental engineering. He has made significant contributions to oil spill response and persistent/emerging pollution mitigation in cold regions and oceans. He has (co-)authored over 470 publications and trained over 80 research graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He is the founding Director of a global Network on Persistent, Emerging and Organic PoLlution in the Environment (PEOPLE) a world-leading network in emerging pollution R&D. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and the Canadian Society for Civil ...

Paul Blanchard, PEng, has designed and/or led over 700 electrical engineering projects in British Columbia, Manitoba and the United States. Over the span of his 39 years of engineering practice, Mr. Blanchard has also contributed an extraordinary 150 committee years of professional practice service to numerous joint boards, committees and task forces of APEGBC and Engineers Canada including serving as President of APEGBC and as the BC and Yukon Member of the Canadian Engineering Qualifications Board. Paul has also contributed significantly to numerous community, sports, recreation and ...

Professor Emeritus and Director, McMaster University

A visionary, Dr. Brian Baetz pioneered modern techniques and thinking in Civil, Environmental,and Systems Engineering. A Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Baetz made pioneering contributions in solid waste management and later energy and environmental systems modelling and decision support frameworks. As a professor at McMaster and Tulane Universities, Baetz established groundbreaking programs to strengthen sustainability and societal dimensions in engineering practice at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Although his impact has been global, Baetz continues to ...