Jay Nagendran's outstanding engineering career has been dedicated to protecting the environment and the public interest. He has provided leadership to environmental challenges, including those at Canada's first hazardous waste management facility at Swan Hills, and implementing stringent standards to protect the Athabasca River basin from pulp mills and oil sands development. Internationally, he facilitated major improvements in river pollution control in Indonesia and waste management in south India. A multiple award winner in Alberta and the U.S., Jay has now capped a distinguished career ...

Professor Farid Najm is Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Najm's research contribution is in the area of computer-aided design (CAD) for integrated circuits, with emphasis on circuit level issues related to power dissipation, timing, and reliability. His ground-breaking work is focused on managing the design challenges related to power dissipation and circuit timing. Professor Najm has authored over 125 journal and conference publications and contributed to 3 books. Much of his research is considered seminal and has been ...

Professor Nakhla has made major contributions to wastewater treatment research and practice. His original work has helped transform the wastewater industry in Ontario. His leadership in developing the first full-scale wastewater research facility in Canada significantly strengthened Canada’s position as a key player in the development of wastewater treatment technologies. Dr. Nakhla has also made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession through implementation of innovative wastewater and biosolids technologies and creative engineering process design, his infectious passion for ...

The career of IEEE Fellow, Michel Nakhla, Chancellor's Professor, Carleton University, spans 40 years of academic and industrial contributions. Winner of several best paper awards, he made trend-setting achievements to the state of the art in computer-aided design of large scale and high-speed VLSI circuits and systems. These include harmonic balance algorithms for fast simulation of radio frequency and microwave circuits, model-order reduction techniques to handle large-scale circuits, and innovative macromodeling algorithms to model high-speed distributed interconnects. He has published ...

Dr. Nandakumar has had a distinguished career in chemical engineering in Canada. Since receiving his PhD in chemical engineering from the Princeton University in 1979, he has made outstanding contributions to the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, spanning a broad range of studies from bifurcation phenomena to multiphase systems and its application to electrochemical, chemical, mineral, and polymer processes. He has published over 125 refereed journal publications and numerous conference presentations. He has received several awards in recognition of his outstanding research and teaching, ...

Panos Nasiopoulos, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, has made groundbreaking contributions to industry and academia in the areas of interactive digital video (DVD technology), 3D video, digital video compression, and video communications. As CEO and CTO of Daikin US, he led the company to develop the pioneering digital video authoring system known as Scenarist that enabled the DVD market, as well as subsequent digital video technologies (PVR set-top-box, interaction, video-on demand, streaming). Nasiopoulos' academic research in digital ...

Dr. Greg Naterer, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, has successfully led the significant growth of engineering enrolments, infrastructure, and research capacity at Memorial University. He has made significant contributions to mechanical engineering in the fields of energy systems, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Dr. Naterer has received numerous awards and he is a Fellow of CSME, ASME and EIC. He has held prominent leadership roles, including Chair of the National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science of Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of two international journals - AIAA ...

Professor Arokia Nathan is a visionary technologist as reflected in his 600 technical publications, 6 books, and over 150 granted patents. His approach to engineering research and development is broad and comprehensive, encompassing fundamental device science, process development and manufacturing, device and circuit inventions to achieve new systems in large-area and flexible electronics. He was awarded the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award. The impact of his research led to the formation of IGNIS Innovation (Founder), Cambridge Touch Technologies (Co-Founder), ACXEL (Co-Founder), CAM-XT ...

Professor Naylor's underlying philosophy is to understand the fundamental mechanisms of heat transfer based on measurements and numerical modeling. His innovative work on the thermal performance of windows and optimization of solar radiation has been incorporated within several industrial software packages. His pioneering development of an anti-icing system for gas turbines has been installed in almost 100 power plants across North America. A Past President of the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics and Fellow, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, he has authored over 150 ...

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 ...