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

Dr. Mingjian Zuo is an internationally renowned expert in reliability analysis and engineering asset management. His major contributions include realistic reliability models, effective algorithms for early fault detection and diagnosis, and optimal predictive maintenance tools. He has published 230 peer-reviewed papers in top journals and four research monographs and delivered dozens of keynote speeches worldwide. His research output has provided effective tools and methodology for reliability enhancement and reduction of the operating/maintenance costs of engineering assets used in all ...

Lore E. Feiler Dean, Schaefer School of Engineering and Scie, Stevens Institute of Technology

Jean Zu became Dean of Stevens Institute of Technologyon May 1, 2017after serving as the department chair for Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2009.Her research focuses on vibrations and dynamics, particularly in relation to automotive belts and serpentine belt drive systems, and has resulted in a number of extremely successful partnerships with automotive firms. Professor Zu has served as President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) and as a member of the National Council of the Engineering Institute of Canada ...

Director of the Space Engineering Design Laboratory, York University

Professor Zhu is inaugural Academic Director of Research Commons at Office of Vice-President Research and Innovation, York Research Chair in Space Technology at York University. He was the Chair for Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is internationally acknowledged as a leader in astronautics, spacecraft dynamics and control, space debris mitigation. He has published over 300 papers and supervised over 100 high qualified personnel. He is the College Member of Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Fellow ...

Professor & Director of Clean Combustion Engine Laboratory, University of Windsor

Dr Ming Zheng is internationally renowned authority in cleaner combustion engines. He has made lasting significant impacts in automotive industry on fuel use including low-carbon engine development with biofuels through his reactivity-modulated low temperature combustion control, ignition innovations, and active-flow aftertreatment. His patented technologies showcase the design and development of sustainable and efficient products with ultra clean engine-out emissions. His breakthroughs in on-demand ignition energy management for adapting low-carbon fuels have effectively expanded current ...

Professor Mechanical Engineering, Division of Biomedical Eng, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Chris Zhang has made outstanding contributions to systems design, control or operation management technology, and robotics. His work pays particular attention to integrated design and control of dynamic systems for high performance with resilience. This has led to the improvement of disaster management practice and development of highly-resilient robots used for rescue during natural disasters. He has trained a large number of highly qualified personnel and is widely recognized as an excellent educator, having received the University of Saskatchewan's Distinguished Graduate Supervisor ...

Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

As an NSERC Industrial Research Chair since 2003, Professor Zhang is a world leading expert in applying image processing to process monitoring and performance evaluation in oil sands mining, an industry of vital importance to Alberta and Canada's economy. In the international robotics community, Professor Zhang is well known for his seminal work in collective robotics mapping behaviors of social insects to control algorithms of robots, and an exceptional record of service . His outstanding contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards including IEEE Fellow and Millennium Medal ...

Professor and Tier 1 York Research Chair, York University

Dr. Zhang is a well-accomplished educator and an internationally renowned expert in the areas of parallel robotic machines and their applications in manufacturing systems. His influential scientific contributions have led to novel robotic system designs and development of new comprehensive models for better understanding of globe stiffness and robotic calibrations. His research applications have tackled some of the world's most challenging problems in high dynamic performance manufacturing robotic systems. Additionally, Dr. Zhang has an outstanding track record in the successful training of ...

Professor and Assistant Vice-President (Research and Interna, University of Waterloo

Alfred Yu is internationally renowned as an outstanding innovator and leader in next-generation ultrasonics. He is a pioneer of high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging technology that has transformed clinical ultrasound scanners and cardiovascular diagnostics. His seminal discoveries in therapeutic ultrasound have established the mechanistic basis of ultrasound-mediated drug delivery. Dr. Yu’s achievements and impact have been recognized by many prestigious prizes, including NSERC Steacie Memorial Fellowship, IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award, Frederic Lizzi Award, and Ontario Early ...

Professor, University of Guelph

Professor Simon Yang is an internationally recognized researcher in intelligent robotics. His significant accomplishments include the original and innovative development of biologically inspired intelligent methodologies for real-time motion planning, control and cooperation of various robotic systems, and novel e-nose systems. He has made impactful contributions in developing engineering technologies for intelligent robots and e-nose systems with industrial and agricultural applications, and in training graduate students and research associates. He has published over 600 refereed papers in ...

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba

Dr. Malcolm Xing is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manitoba. He has made outstanding contributions to high-performance hydrogels for wound healing, hemostasis, myocardial infarction, and bone defect. Dr. Xing is a leading expert in developing nano-gel self-assembly on cells and drugs for hair regeneration, controlled release, and cancer therapy. He has also contributed to the sustainable environment by developing plant-wearable sensors for green agriculture and portable clean-water devices. Dr. Xing has played active roles and services in promoting biomedical ...

Professor, McMaster University

Dr. Peidong Wu is an internationally renowned expert in the constitutive modelling of materials and in metal forming. His constitutive models have been widely used in industry. He pioneered rigorous crystal-plasticity-based methodologies used to construct technologically important forming limit diagrams for metal forming, and to assess roping-type surface defects in aluminum. He has made significant contributions to enhancing the use of aluminum in automobiles and to reducing the mass of aluminum cans, minimizing resource usage and protecting the environment. He was the recipient of the 2009 ...

Drew Wilson has made national and international contributions for Canada and its engineering community in S & T policy, building research, technology transfer, human resource studies, professional engineering and engineering history. He has provided leadership to the profession through his presidencies of EIC, CSME, and the CCPE's Engineering Manpower Council and, during the 1980s, played a leading role in the founding of the Academy of Engineering. He is a Kennedy and Stirling Medalist of EIC and has received senior awards from CSME. He holds seven Fellowships and has authored over 300 ...

Head of the Metal Forming and Modeling Group in the Departme, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Dr. Lihui Wang, a registered Professional Engineer and active on the world stage, is an internationally renowned scholar in manufacturing research and education. With rich multi-national experience in Canada, China, Japan and now Sweden, he has been promoting Canada beyond the borders. His contributions to manufacturing science include a novel algorithm that enables adaptive mesh generation for dynamic finite element analysis, and methods for improving the responsiveness and dynamism of manufacturing operations under uncertainty conditions. He has been recognized with honors and awards, ...

Chair Professor, South University of Science and Technology

Dr. Haijiang Wang has over 30 years of practice in electrochemical engineering in prominent positions as a Senior Research Scientist at Ballard Power Systems, a Principal Research Officer at the NRC, and now, as Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He has made substantive contributions to the advancement and commercialization of modern fuel cell technology through his industrial, government, and academic work, and has been recognized by his peers as a world-renowned fuel cell expert. Through his efforts, Dr. Wang has helped to keep Canada a world-leader in ...

Robert Walsh is a technological entrepreneur, who built Walsh Automation; a leader in industrial automation. He has also developed Forensic Technology Inc, whose Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) products have revolutionized the way in which ballistics examinations are conducted around the world today. IBIS is the first fully automated and integrated system able to capture, store, retrieve and perform searches on bullets, bullet fragments and cartridge cases. providing law enforcement agencies in 80 countries, with an extremely valuable tool for criminal investigations.

Professor, Structural & Earthquake Engineering, UBC

A Professor of Civil Engineering and Founding Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility at UBC, Carlos Ventura has achieved world renown as a structural engineer. He is a well-recognized international consultant on vibration problems of structures and on seismic risk studies, and is recognized as a leader of earthquake engineering in Canada. He has accomplished global outreach to practicing engineers, including Technical Advisor to the United Nations and to the World Bank. His humanitarian work is far-reaching-he volunteers on a number of non-profit projects to aid ...

Professor, Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo

Ehsan Toyserkani, Canada Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing (AM), is world renowned for his pioneering contributions to the modeling, simulation, in-situ monitoring, and quality assurance of metal AM. He is founding director of the NSERC Holistic Innovation in AM Network, a pan-Canadian initiative connecting seven universities and >24 private companies. He has published >175 scholarly articles, authored the seminal textbook "Metal Additive Manufacturing" (Wiley, 2021), filed/received 18 patents, and has disclosed or transferred >35 technologies and recipes to industry. His ...

Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

University of Toronto professor Murray Thomson is an internationally known researcher in the areas of alternative fuels, pollution control and combustion sensors. He has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge in these fields and several Canadian companies have benfited from his research. Among his many accomplishments, he has developed four patented industrial sensors which allow reductions in energy consumption and emissions through better monitoring. Professor Thomson has also made extensive contributions to his professional community; he is Director of the NSERC CREATE ...

Professor, University of Alberta

Dr. Tian Tang is a Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta. Dr. Tang is a leading expert in the study of soft materials and interfaces, with an outstanding record of research and training that has made her an internationally recognized scholar. She is an exceptional engineering educator and has led the advancement of equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize, Killam Annual ...

Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Eng, University of Waterloo

Dr. Tan is an international authority on filtration and separation technologies. His scholarly publications have reached $1.7 million downloads globally; his award-winning research and innovation significantly strengthened Canada’s global leadership in sustainability, including a major patent licensed by Enersul Inc. As a visionary leader, Tan spearheaded multiple platforms, creating a positive and inclusive environment for knowledge mobilization, talent exchange, and training of the next generation of young engineers with a global vision. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical ...

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.

Full professor, McGill University

Maryam Tabrizian has pioneered many engineering concepts in the field of biomaterials and biointerfaces to promote the interactions and crosstalk between living and artificial systems. Of great significance are her approaches to layer-by-layer self-assembly of biopolymers on living cells and tissues and multifunctional nanosystems along with inventive microfluidic platforms to investigate this phenomenon at the single cell level. Her research has resulted in paradigm shifts in many aspects of regenerative and nanomedicine, acclaimed publications and research translation. Her impactful ...

Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Western University

Xueliang (Andy) Sun, PhD, is a Professor at Western University and Canada Research Chair in Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage. A global leader in developing solutions to solve critical and long-standing problems in clean energy, Sun is creating nanotechnologies and nanomaterials to develop fuel cells and lithium batteries better able to generate, store and conserve energy. This research will help address energy shortages and environmental challenges for transport applications in a cost-effective way. Sun?s research discoveries and innovative solutions have been published in top ...

Department Head Schulich School of Engineering, Department, University of Calgary

Dr. Qiao Sun is an established scholar, effective educator and academic leader. She has contributed to the field of dynamic systems modeling, control, and machinery fault diagnosis. She drives research that challenges assumptions and pushes performance boundaries in terms of precision, speed, and reliability. As an educator, she endeavors to create an inclusive space for all learners. As an academic administrator, she works to build bridges, foster understanding, and value differences with the goal to advance equity and diversity in engineering and society at large. She is highly regarded ...

Dr. Suleman is a Canada Research Chair who has conducted high impact and fundamental work in the area of Computational and Experimental Mechanics, with application to Aerospace Engineering such as: Aircraft Design, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, UAS, Experimental Flight Testing and most importantly Systems Integration of Complex Engineering Systems. He has made contributions to the engineering profession through the development of technologies, transfer of technology to industry and leadership in policy-making bodies such as NATO and UN-COPUOS. He has also demonstrated a commitment to ...