For contributions to the development of new electronic technologies and processes enhancing the export of Canadian products, the training of many successful graduate students, and especially for key-role in the growth of a new Canadian high tech company, Vecima Networks; Vecima has grown from a 3-person basement startup to a $150 Million publicly listed company in exporting Canadian designed and manufactured electronic and software products to the international telecommunications marketplace. Successful products include new technologies to deliver broadband data over wireless networks, and ...

Jack Young has been eminently successful in the generation and application of new knowledge associated with primary steelmaking operations. With over forty years' experience, he has provided exceptional engineering leadership in simulation modelling and commissioning of numerous steelmaking plants within Canada and abroad. He has coauthored a textbook entitled 'Metallurgical Plant Design' and made significant contributions to the training of engineers in industry as well as engineering students at both McGill and the University of Toronto. Throughout his distinguished career, Young has ...

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 ...

Alf Zeuner is a leader in innovation, entrepreneurship and manufacturing with a career developing advanced CNC control systems. As President and owner of AXYZ International, he developed systems based on microprocessor-based CNC controllers that disrupted the entire manufacturing industry, enabling a level playing field for smaller enterprises. Mr. Zeuner's made-in-Canada technology scaled domestically and internationally to an installed base of over 10,000 machines. He is a philanthropist whose work provides food security and basic jobs in priority urban areas in Hamilton, local "at risk" ...

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, ...

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 ...

Guy van Uytven is a leader in high voltage power transmission system planning, design and construction. As a consulting engineer, he has been instrumental in the provision of low cost electricity to citizens of 19 less developed countries, thereby improving living standards and contributing to global energy equity. He has ensured the sustainability of the electrical power infrastructure by establishing training programs for local engineers. Guy served as VicePresident Power, Eastern Region for Monenco. He is an advocate for a North American macro grid to enhance the resilience of electrical ...

Kenneth (Ken) G. Thomas, was formely Global MD, Hatch; COO, Crystallex International Corp (Gold); and for 14 years serving in progressively senior executive roles at Barrick Gold, finally as SVP Technical Services. He successfully developed from research through engineering, construction and commissioning, two of the world's largest gold processing plants for refractory ores; high-pressure autoclaving and oxygenated roasting. He has also written a book on Hydrometallurgical Engineering. He directed research into thiosulphate, a benign chemical, for the leaching of gold as an alternate for ...

Tamás Terlaky is a leading optimization expert with four authored books and over 180 scientific papers. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization and Engineering. Currently Endowed Chair Professor at Lehigh University, previously Canada Research Chair in Optimization at McMaster University, Founding Director of Canada's first School of Computational Engineering and Science. He received the MITACS Mentorship Award, the Award of Merit of CORS, the Egerváry Award of the Hungarian Operations Research Society,,the Wagner Prize of INFORMS, and the Outstanding Innovation in Service ...

Gina Succi's career in engineering spans over three decades in roles from design engineer to Executive Vice President of her own company. For the past 20 years, her focus has been on product development and commercialization in four vastly different market sectors including steelmaking, logistics, mining and construction. She is recognized for integrating technological innovation, operational excellence and customer pull as the basis of a successful corporate strategy. Gina is an inventor with three current patents-pending and more in the making. She mentors aspiring engineers and is a role ...