From his experience as Military Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force to professor and researcher at the Royal Military College of Canada and Polytechnique Montreal, to Polyplan Technologies, a spin-off company he created in 1999, to his leading role as President and CEO at the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec (CRIAQ), Dr. Fortin has demonstrated a unique and extraordinary passion for education and for pushing scientific frontiers and finding engineering sustainable solutions, notably in the field of Product Life Cycle Management and Manufacturing Management (PLM).