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 ...

Dr. Michael Worswick is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering of the University of Waterloo and holds a University Research Chair in Light Weight Materials Under Extreme Deformation. His research activities encompass forming, joining and machining for automotive manufacturing. He was the founding Director of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research and is Executive Director of the Waterloo Node of the Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium. These successful collaborative efforts have brought together diverse groups of researchers to provide essential ...

Dr. Malcolm Xing is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manitoba. He has made outstanding contributions to high-performance hydrogels for wound healing, hemostasis, myocardial infarction, and bone defect. Dr. Xing is a leading expert in developing nano-gel self-assembly on cells and drugs for hair regeneration, controlled release, and cancer therapy. He has also contributed to the sustainable environment by developing plant-wearable sensors for green agriculture and portable clean-water devices. Dr. Xing has played active roles and services in promoting biomedical ...

A Professor of Civil Engineering and Founding Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility at UBC, Carlos Ventura has achieved world renown as a structural engineer. He is a well-recognized international consultant on vibration problems of structures and on seismic risk studies, and is recognized as a leader of earthquake engineering in Canada. He has accomplished global outreach to practicing engineers, including Technical Advisor to the United Nations and to the World Bank. His humanitarian work is far-reaching-he volunteers on a number of non-profit projects to aid ...

Dr. Zhang is a well-accomplished educator and an internationally renowned expert in the areas of parallel robotic machines and their applications in manufacturing systems. His influential scientific contributions have led to novel robotic system designs and development of new comprehensive models for better understanding of globe stiffness and robotic calibrations. His research applications have tackled some of the world's most challenging problems in high dynamic performance manufacturing robotic systems. Additionally, Dr. Zhang has an outstanding track record in the successful training of ...

Dr. Haijiang Wang has over 30 years of practice in electrochemical engineering in prominent positions as a Senior Research Scientist at Ballard Power Systems, a Principal Research Officer at the NRC, and now, as Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He has made substantive contributions to the advancement and commercialization of modern fuel cell technology through his industrial, government, and academic work, and has been recognized by his peers as a world-renowned fuel cell expert. Through his efforts, Dr. Wang has helped to keep Canada a world-leader in ...

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 ...

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, ...

Robert Walsh is a technological entrepreneur, who built Walsh Automation; a leader in industrial automation. He has also developed Forensic Technology Inc, whose Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) products have revolutionized the way in which ballistics examinations are conducted around the world today. IBIS is the first fully automated and integrated system able to capture, store, retrieve and perform searches on bullets, bullet fragments and cartridge cases. providing law enforcement agencies in 80 countries, with an extremely valuable tool for criminal investigations.

As an NSERC Industrial Research Chair since 2003, Professor Zhang is a world leading expert in applying image processing to process monitoring and performance evaluation in oil sands mining, an industry of vital importance to Alberta and Canada's economy. In the international robotics community, Professor Zhang is well known for his seminal work in collective robotics mapping behaviors of social insects to control algorithms of robots, and an exceptional record of service . His outstanding contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards including IEEE Fellow and Millennium Medal ...