Dr. Liping Fang, as previous Associate Dean, Department Chair, and current Adjunct Professor, played a key leadership role in greatly expanding engineering programs at Ryerson University at the graduate and undergraduate levels and enhancing student curriculum choices across programs. He has significantly advanced the field of systems engineering through his pioneering work in devising conflict resolution methodologies, which are used in 28 countries, with applications in different areas of engineering for providing strategic advice to stakeholders. He is Fellow of EIC and the recipient of several awards from IEEE and INFORMS and Ryerson's most prestigious awards in academic leadership and research.