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 papers, articles and other written contributions. He was a longtime member of the Committee of Parliamentarians, Scientists and Engineers and is an Honorary Member of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome. For the past 40 years he has been unusually active in the engineering history field and, for this work, has received the ASME Engineer-Historian Award and the Plewes Award of CSCE.