Professor, Concordia University

Radu Grigore Zmeureanu, an accomplished researcher and educator, has made significant contributions in the area of energy analysis of buildings by developing sophisticated computer modelling software applied successfully to several major buildings in Canada and internationally. He is considered an authority in the area of energy analysis of buildings. He has received several awards of distinction including Life Membership in ASHRAE and Fellowship in the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).


Concordia University

Professor Emeritus, Polytechnique Montreal

An expert on Materials and Plasma Sciences, Michael R. Wertheimer has shown strong leadership both in academia - through teaching, research and scientific publishing- and in industry as a founder or co-founder of four Canadian companies. A Professor at École Polytechnique in Montreal since 1973, he has published extensively and has been granted 26 patents. His work has resulted in the development and commercialization of new plasma technologies and new protective coatings for, among others, space applications.


École Polytechnique de Montréal

Founder & CEO, positron access solutions corp

Reginald Weiser of Positron has contributed significantly to the field of modern telecommunications. He is an imaginative entrepreneur and a revolutionary leader. Based on engineering knowledge and entrepreneurial know-how, he has created in Canada a group of technologically-based companies which employ approximately 550 people (including over 100 engineers), and serve customers world-wide with highly reliable products. He has been involved at a high level with organizations that promote the education and employment of engineers, as well the development of technologically based industries in ...


Positron Group Inc.

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biocolloids and Surfaces and, McGill University

Nathalie Tufenkji is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and Member of The College of the Royal Society of Canada. She is recognized for her exceptional contributions towards sustainable development of nanotechnology, solving problems linked with plastic pollution, and the control of harmful bacteria. Her creative and prolific research activities are recognized with several prestigious awards including the CSChE Hatch Innovation Award. She is very active in public outreach aimed at broadening appreciation for engineering as demonstrated by the global coverage of her discoveries. She is also a ...


McGill University

Full Professor Department of Civil, Geological and Mining En, École Polytechnique de Montréal

The applicant is a world-class leader in structural engineering and has contributed exceptionally to the Canadian engineering practice through the development and code implementation of comprehensive seismic design provisions for steel structures. He has trained over 1,000 practising engineers to the state-of-the-art in seismic design, 70 graduate students, designed and started up the largest research laboratory in structural engineering in Canada, authored more than 200 peer reviewed scientific publications, as well as the worldwide reference on the seismic stability of structures. He ...


Professeur titulaire, Université Laval

Professor René Therrien has established himself as a national and international leader in the simulation of complex hydrogeological problems. He has developed state-of-the art, efficient numerical simulations and that are currently used worldwide to address real water resources issues, for example, in the long term storage of nuclear waste and in contaminant remediation. His work is extensive and frequently cited. He has served on expert panels and advisory boards for the Royal Society of Canada, the Council of Canadian Academies and NRCan. Dr. Therrien has also made extensive contributions ...


Université Laval

Le professeur Terreault  s'est distingué pas son apport à la recherche-développement industrielle au Canada, par ses contributions techniques, son leadership, et par la fondation et gestion de trois laboratoires affiliés à Bell Canada et à Bell Northern Research. Il a reçu plusieurs prix et distinctions pendant sa carrière pour ses services. 


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Assistant Director of Engineering, Rolls Royce Canada

Reda Tadros, Assistant Director of Engineering at Rolls Royce Canada, is an aeronautical engineer of international reputation, well known for his expertise in turbomachinery. His new technologies have led to very safe, highly efficient and high quality advanced engines and space vehicles. He is often asked to represent Canada in major technology meetings around the world. He is the author of 25 patents and some 200 high-technology papers and technical reports, and the recipient of several international awards.


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Professor, Polytechnique Montreal

After graduating from McGill University, Paul had a successful engineering design consulting career working for the forest sector across Canada and around the world, at Beak Consultants Limited and HA Simons Limited. During this time he was sought after to provide innovative process and environmental engineering solutions for his clients, and worked at over 70 pulp and paper mills and companies. In 2000, he joined École Polytechnique to become the first NSERC Environmental Design Engineering Chair, and since has impacted the Canadian forestry sector through the application of advanced product ...


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

Theodore Stathopoulos, as Professor and former Director of Concordia's Centre for Building Studies, is an accomplished researcher and educator, whose work in the area of wind engineering and building aerodynamics has received national and international recognition.  His research results have been utilized extensively in the formulation of wind design provisions adopted for US and Canadian building standards.


Concordia University

Professeur honoraire, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)

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.


3711, chemin Sainte-Foy, app 611

Mohamad Sawan, Professeur titulaire à l'École Polytechnique, est un ingénieur microélectronicien biomedical reconnu mondialement pour son rôle de pionnier en dispositifs médicaux intelligents (DMI). Il a su équilibrer sa carrière avec rigueur, étant tour à tour enseignant, formateur de spécialistes de l'électronique et du biomédical, chercheur, inventeur, innovateur, entrepreneur, rassembleur et agent de transfert de ses nouvelles technologies vers l'industrie canadienne. Il a reçu un budget de recheche plus que 40 M$ pour opérer son Laboratoire de neurotechnologies (Polystim) incluant deux ...


Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal

Professor Savaria has made outstanding contributions to microelectronics. He recently obtained a NSERC industrial Chair and was the scientific leader of several large projects producing a dedicated wafer-scale integrated circuit and a prototype technology that predated similar Graphic Processing Units. He co-founded MiroTech Microsystems that commercialized early FPGA-based reconfigurable computers, and LTRIM that commercialized a laser trimming technology for analog integrated circuits. He served CMC Microsystems supporting 10000 participants, as a Board member for 20 years and was a ...


Polytechnique Montréal

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.


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President, KoanTeknico Solutions Inc.

Dr. N.A. Poirier has distinguished herself as an exceptionally creative and eclectic innovator, an entrepreneur and a respected R&D manager. She developed and commercialized new paper drying technologies. She co-founded an environmental technologies company which commercialized a small-scale gasification unit, and developed an innovative electrochemical approach for treatment of wastewater, which is particularly useful for applications with situational constraints, such as military installations, ships, or isolated northern communities. As Scientific Director of a Business-led research ...


KoanTeknico Solutions Inc.

Professor Emeritus, Polytechnique Montreal

Through his outstanding contribution to the practice and theory of systems engineering, Professor Perrier has made it possible to push the limits of automatic application to chemical and biochemical processes both at a laboratory level and at an industrial level. He also significantly contributed to the ways of teaching engineering to make knowledge integration easier. His ideas on teaching assessment have resulted in the creation of an institutional policy which is now being quoted as an example beyond our borders.


École Polytechnique

Professor, McGill University

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, ...


McGill University

Professor of Civil Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke

Patrick Paultre is an internationally recognized expert in structural dynamics, reinforced concrete structures and dam engineering. His research results have been adopted in codes and standards, nationally and internationally. A dedicated teacher, he has written textbooks on design of concrete structures and dynamics of structures and has developed design tools that are widely used by the profession. He spearheaded and directed the Interuniversity Research Center on Structures under Extreme Loading (CEISCE) for 12 years. He is the recipient of the Armand-Frappier Quebec Prize, one of the ...


Professor Emeritus, McGill University

Michael Paidoussis, as Thomas Workman Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at McGill, has conducted pioneering research in fluid-structure-interaction and flow-induced vibration.  He has successfully brought together designers, researchers and academics to devise guidelines in this field, via special conferences and seminars, and by founding a specialist journal (J. Fluids and Structures).


McGill University

Kenneth Neale, retired from the University of Sherbrooke, is interested in a wide range of fields covering civil engineering structures, solid mechanics, metal forming processes, and composite materials. In solid mechanics and materials, he has made major contributions spanning numerous topics such as structural instability theory, material formability analysis, the modeling of microstructural phenomena, and the optimization of metal forming processes. His recent work in civil engineering dealt with the development and implementation of novel structural rehabilitation technologies. Kenneth ...


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Professor Emeritus, McGill University

Richard Munz, Professor, McGill University, is internationally recognized as a researcher and consultant in the field of thermal plasma technology. He has developed applications of plasma in metallurgical processing waste treatment and nanoparticle manufacture. He has made important contributions to the control of electrode erosion, and he is a co-inventor on four patents on inventions based on his research, carried out in collaboration with industry. He has served the engineering community through his numerous activities on behalf of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.


McGill University

Professor, Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies, Concordia UniversityUniversity

Professor Catherine Mulligan of Concordia University is an exceptional educator, an internationally recognized expert in the decontamination of water, soils, and sediments, and a pioneer of green remediation technologies. She is the Founding Director of the Concordia Institute of Water, Energy and Sustainable Systems, and has taken numerous leadership roles in engineering societies and editorial boards of which she is a member. Her fundamental and applied contributions to research and her service to the engineering profession have been recognized with prestigious awards, most recently the ...


Concordia University

Professor of Civil Engineering, McGill University

Denis Mitchell has been recognized, nationally and internationally, for his innovative research on reinforced concrete structures and for his significant contributions to codes of practice. His expertise is sought after for the design of complex concrete structures and for the investigation of structural failures and structures in distress. He is the recipient of 11 awards from various technical societies. He is currently a professor at McGill University.


McGill University

Professeur titulaire, Département de génie physique, Polytechnique Montreal

Michel Meunier is a specialist in the field of laser micro/nano engineering of materials for nanotechnology, biomedical and microelectronic applications. Holder of a Tier I Canada Research Chair, he developed new plasmonic nanostructure manufacturing techniques for biomedical imaging and cancer treatment and devised new methods of changing microelectronic devices using lasers. He is also known for his recent discoveries in the field of plasmonic biocaptors.


École Polytechnique de Montréal

Director and Full Professor, Université Laval

Diego Mantovani is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biomaterials and Bioengineering for the Innovation in Surgery. He is recognized for seminal contributions in using materials engineering to innovatively solve clinical problems linked with congenital diseases in children and adult patients, including cardiac, neurological, dental and musculoskeletal applications. His interdisciplinary, creative and project-oriented research lead to the commercialization of medical implants worldwide. He is very active in public outreach aimed at broadening the role of engineering in medicine, and a ...


Université Laval