Dr. Abatzoglou has demonstrated achievements with a very high level of impact in pedagogy, academic management and in industry. His main contributions to academia consist of a restructuring of the chemical engineering program and creating the biotech engineering program. As director, the department has seen a dramatic increase in faculty and enrollment. He is recognized as the most popular teacher by students. He developed a very high level research program in collaboration with industry and holds a Chair in pharmaceutical engineering with Pfizer. He is co-founder of two university spin-offs, ...

Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Barry Adams has had an outstanding academic career, first at McGill University and then at the University of Toronto where he served as both Chair of Environmental Engineering and Chair of the department of Civil Engineering. He has consulted widely in Canada and abroad on water resources and environmental engineering studies. Dr. Adams has supervised over 50 graduate students and has a prolific record of contributions to scholarly and professional organizations. He has developed a variety of sophisticated models that have been used to examine situations of engineering importance that ...

Dr. Agar has distinguished himself as an outstanding engineer, researcher, business leader and consultant. As a founding member and the previous 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 gas vapour extraction technology revolutionized the approach and cost-effectiveness of remediation in sites contaminated with volatile organics. He is a recognized expert who has freely shared his state of the art ...

Professor, University of Toronto

Professor D. Grant Allen is Chair of the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, a recent Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the former Director of the University of Toronto's Pulp and Paper Centre. Considered a leading expert on biofiltration, Professor Allen is conducting ground-breaking research on the use of advanced biotechnology to reduce the environmental impact of the pulp and paper and other industries. He has served as President of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and has a distinguished record of ...

Professor, University of Alberta

Dr. Tayfun Babadagli is a highly respected researcher with >12,500 citations and h-index of 60 from over 550 publications on aspects of petroleum engineering. He has supervised over 85 Highly Qualified Personnel and has held two consecutive NSERC Industrial Research Chairs in Unconventional Oil Recovery. He has given more than 100 talks at workshops, forums, symposia, and lectures. In 2019 alone, he completed three trips around the globe to deliver his research. Beyond a number of prestigious awards in Canada and worldwide, technologies he developed through his research have been applied ...

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 ...

Michael A. Ball, during his years with Transport Canada, made substantial and sustained contributions to the technical development of transportation systems in Canada. Given his extensive and responsible positions in industry prior to joining the department, he brought valuable perspectives to the evolution of transportation policy in the department, and into the wider federal government community. His contributions to numerous committees related to transportation, security, energy and environmental issues nationally and internationally have been well recognized. Michael Ball has also served ...

Consultante en génie de l'environment, Consumaj Inc.

Suzelle Barrington was recognized for her significant contributions to the engineering profession through a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. As Professor in Environmental Engineering at McGill University, she produced design criteria acknowledged worldwide, such as earthen wastewater storage facilities and odour-dispersing natural wind breaks. From 2010 to 2014, she held a International Research Chair with l'Université Européene de Bretagne, where she guided and coordinated the research efforts of 4 groups, and successfully introduced new management concepts in organic waste ...

Professor, University of Toronto

As Canada Research Chair in Clean Energy at the University of Toronto, Aimy Bazylak is working to advance fuel cells and electrolyzers for clean energy production and storage. She has partnered with leading automotive and energy companies to develop next-generation fuel cells and electrolyzers for zero greenhouse gas emitting power. Professor Bazylak has served as Director of UofT's Institute for Sustainable Energy and in several leadership roles in her research community. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the ...

Principal Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada

Dr. Noureddine Bénichou is an international expert in fire resistance, fire risk assessment and wildfires. His groundbreaking research has provided new solutions, tools and processes to keep buildings and people safe, avoid economic losses, and advance construction and engineering practices. His lead in developing Canada’s first National Guide for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires and associated implementation tools, is a major contribution to help mitigate damages and losses from wildfire risks. His influential work has contributed to standards and codes in Canada and internationally. In 2021, ...

Professor and Director of Institute, Western University

Prof. Berruti served as Dean of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Western Ontario. He is the Founding Director of the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR) and he currently holds the "NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass and Waste to Bioindustrial Resources". He has trained over 122 graduate students and 36 postdoctoral fellows, has contributed to over 320 refereed publications in prestigious journals, books and conferences, and he holds four patents. He received Bantrel Award in Design and ...

Chief Technology Officer, CelluForce

Dr. Berry has made exceptional contributions in process innovation and chemical process technology throughout his long career in the Canadian pulp and paper industry. His process innovations have been widely adopted by industry to reduce pulping & bleaching costs and environmental impacts. Dr. Berry also led the initiative to develop and commercialize cellulose nanocrystals, resulting in a manufacturing facility that is the first and largest in the world, and that allowed Canada to position itself as a world leader in this new nanotechnology industry. Dr. Berry has 36 patents, 159 ...

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 ...

Richard Boudreault is a recognized aerospace and energyauthority who has served on key international committees, and an accomplished teacher. His work in medical imaging led to a new optical platform for breast cancer imaging and for drug development. He is spearheading, scientifically and strategically, development of a new process for the production of alumina which will potentially displace billions of dollars of Canadian imports and impact the aluminum industry worldwide. He is also a recognized expert in venture capital and in the development of technology-based companies, having served ...

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. Steven Bryant's innovations in engineering, geoscience and materials science reduce and even reverse the environmental impacts of fossil fuels. His breakthroughs in carbon capture and storage remediate existing climate issues and prevent future problems, while his transdisciplinary approach gathers perspectives from the humanities, law, business, and communities, ensuring socially responsible development that considers the values of the people directly impacted by it. Industries, universities, and governments around the world seek his counsel on technical and policy solutions to combat ...

Professor, UQAT

Bruno Bussière is a Professor at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), where he holds the position of Scientific Director of the Research Institute on Mines and the Environment (RIME-UQAT-Polytechnique) and is the NSERC/UQAT Industrial Research Chair (IRC) on Mine Site Reclamation. His research activities relate to mining geotechnique and hydrogeology, including constitutive and numerical modeling of unsaturated flow in soils and mine wastes, and development of novel reclamation methods for control of acid mine drainage and contaminated neutral drainage.

Professor, Henan Polytechnic University

Prof. Cao has made major contributions to clean energy and safety engineering research and practice. He is the pioneer to establish the integrated geology and engineering as a solution system to enhance energy production while eliminating safety risks and carbon emissions. He is the innovator and published the first paper on CO2-fracking that launched this field of research for sustainable energy development. He has established companies to transfer his research to field application that demonstrated his leadership in engineering innovation. He has played active roles in promoting engineering ...

CEO, Kiwetinohk Energy Corp.

Pat Carlson is an internationally respected chemical engineer and business leader contributing to many successful start-up ventures enhancing the economic security of communities and connecting Canadians from coast to coast to great opportunities in innovation and entrepreneurialism. Spending much of his career building and leading oil and gas operating companies, Pat is known for his seamless integration of environmental and entrepreneurial themes leading to transformative disruption of the status quo. Passionate about the environment and making a broader social impact, Pat works to ...

Vice-chancellor, University of Western Australia

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 ...

Professor, Queen's University

Pascale Champagne is Director of the Beaty Water Research Centre, as well as aProfessor at Queen's University in the Civil and Chemical Engineering departments. She is an innovative and collaborative researcher and an internationally-recognized authority in the development of alternate water and waste management technologies and sustainable environmental approaches with a focus on integrated bioresource management. Her diverse background spanning biology, green chemistry, and environmental and civil engineering supports her creative approach to developing solutions to environmental problems. ...

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 ...

City University of Hong Kong

Dr. Guohua Chen is an outstanding chemical engineer, a renowned expert in electrochemical technologies for sustainable development, a highly successful mentor and university administrator. He leads the commercialization of proprietary technologies for energy storage applications, with world leading performance. He has published over 300 journal papers with very top academic impact. He is an assiduous advocate for global collaboration, serving ona number of international councils and editing for prestigious journals, including CanJChE,CJChE, SEPPUR and PSEP. He is a fellow of AIChE and HKIE, ...

Ingénieuret agronome, Consultants Lemay & Choinière Inc.

Yves Choinière, engineer and agronomist, B.Sc. (1983), M.Sc. (1991) received the honors of Young Engineer of the Year, the Turnbull Prize in Agricultural Structure, the Industrial Prize and the title of Fellow of the CSBE/SCGAB. Yves Choinière led the design of several research centres in animal production (McGill, Guelph, Saskatchewan, Agriculture Canada and others). Its notoriety has been established thanks to the multiple innovations and developments for modern agricultural buildings. Consultants Lemay & Choinière Inc., founded in 1995, now employs 45 people; including 25 project ...

During his 40 years aerospace engineering career, Somen Chowdhury has worked in HAL India and in Bell Helicopter Textron Canada. He has made important contributions that had significant impacts. Most notable among these has been the setting up of the International Helicopter Safety Team with a goal to reduce civil helicopter accidents by 80% in ten years starting in 2006. This international initiative resulted in setting up helicopter safety initiatives across the world. This data based approach has helped in developing mitigation strategies resulting in average accident reduction rate world ...