David Lynch was born in the village of Minto, New Brunswick, received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in 1977, and completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta in 1982. He was appointed to the faculty at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor in January 1981, where he is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering. He has carried out research in the area of catalytic reaction engineering including during a stay in Germany during 1987-88 where he held a Humboldt Research Fellowship. Under Dr. Lynch’s leadership as ...

Dr. Leonard Lye, PEng, FEC, FCSCE, Emeritus Professor and former Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, is an inventor, entrepreneur, and mentor. His inventions have been commercialized and are being used worldwide by universities, professional coaches, and international companies. He established an innovative charity for which he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award. He has won multiple awards for teaching and community service including the PEGNL's Service, Community Service Teaching, and Merit Awards, and ...

John Luxat, Professor & Senior NSERC/UNENE Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Safety Analysis, McMaster University is internationally recognized as an expert in nuclear safety. He currently has a very active research program at McMaster studying many aspects of the safety of current and future reactors and nuclear fuel cycles. He was the Principal Investigator for the Ontario-funded Nuclear Ontario university research network and is Director of the Centre for Advanced Nuclear Systems at McMaster University. In 2008 he was appointed by the Government of Alberta to the Nuclear Power ...

Dr. Jingli Luo is a professor and was a Canadian Research Chair in Alternative Fuel Cells (2004-2015). An internationally known scholar, her outstanding achievements in research on fuel cells and corrosion control are widely acknowledged. She pioneered several non-conventional fuel cells that co-generate electricity and value-added products. Dr. Luo holds six patents and led three NSERC Strategic Projects. She has published over 270 papers in referred journals and received the Canadian Metal Chemistry Award and Morris Cohen Award from the Metallurgy and Materials Society. She has supervised ...

Earl Ludlow, originally from Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, NL, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Newfoundland Power. He is highly regarded and well-known in the Canadian utility industry for his operational and engineering knowledge and expertise. He is strongly committed to providing customer service excellence in a region that experiences some of the most severe weather conditions in North America. He has received many honours for both his service to Canada and the Province including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and named five times by Atlantic Business magazine ...

Dr. Luan proudly serves his engineering profession as an accomplished innovator, a passionate educator, and a visionary entrepreneur with original designs and scientific discoveries contributing to energy, environment, and health. His accomplishments and influence are recognized through leaderships in international initiatives, national green manufacturing demonstrations, industry consortiums, training of Highly Qualified Personnel, and commercialization of innovative technologies in advanced manufacturing, energy and environmental materials, and materials surface engineering. As a ...

Zheng-Hong Lu is the Canada Research Chair in Optoelectrical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lu has conducted pioneering research on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), resulting in the next-generation OLEDs which are far more energy-efficient and cost-effective to manufacture than their predecessors. Dr. Lu is Co-Founder of two spin-off companies, OTI Luminonics and Norel Optronics, and works with the major companies in the display and lighting sectors to commercialize the technology developed in the lab. He provides technology consulting to Huawei Canada, Lakeside ...

Dr. Lowther has made internationally recognized contributions to the development of computational methods and artificial intelligence techniques for electromagnetic device analysis and design both academically and industrially. He has been involved in the education of electrical and computer engineers both in university and industrial environments for twenty years, and continues to be involved as a Professor at McGill University.

Pierre Lortie is a Senior Business Advisor at Dentons Canada LLP, a global law firm recognized as a leader in business related legal matters across Canada and internationally. Pierre provides strategic advice in several practice groups such as major infrastructures and public-private partnerships, corporate and project finance, international trade and investments, mining, municipal affairs and public policies. He was appointed member of the Order of Canada in 2001.

Dr. Long is a world-leading expert in developing innovative technologies for effective recovery of bitumen from Canada’s massive oil sand resources. With 24 patents, his step-change inventions, most notably the Secondary Process Aids technology, resulted in revolutionary advances in oil sands processing, creating billions in value and helping secure Canada’s energy future by unlocking oil sands resources in a more efficient, sustainable, and environmentally responsible manner. Dr. Long also made substantive contributions to collaborative research and education in engineering through his ...