Lieutenant-general Paul Wynnyk serves as Vice Chief of Defence Staff. In doing so, he has shown exemplary leadership and commitment representing Canada by leading or overseeing military missions in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, while earning the respect and accolades of Canadian allies and the troops under his command. He is an impressive role model for all engineers, not only those serving in the military, and is a wonderful public example of the value of engineers and engineering within the Canadian military.

Wei Yu has made influential contributions to the field of information theory and communication engineering. His theoretical research addressed fundamental limits of information transmission in communication networks. He proposed dynamic spectrum management methods that have been used in millions of digital subscriber lines worldwide and also contributed significantly to the capacity analysis and optimization techniques for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication channels. Dr. Yu has been named a highly cited researcher. He is a Fellow of the Institute of ...

Jennifer Williams has made exemplary contributions to the field of power systems operation, maintenance and leadership. As President of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro, as well as through her other leadership roles, she has made significant impact in the province, both technical and through her leadership, on the planning for and efficient and reliable generation, transmission and distribution of electricity by hydro plants, thermal plants, and diesel plants, as well as the purchase of electricity from other renewable producers. In addition to her professional leadership roles, Jennifer has ...

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 ...

Bin Wu is an NSERC Industrial Research Chair and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. He is well recognized for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of power converter technologies and variable speed drives. He was one of the pioneers in developing large commercial electric drives in the megawatt range using current source converter technology. His research results have been used by Canadian companies, which has assisted them in achieving technical and commercial success in the global marketplace.

Dr. Q. M. Jonathan Wu is a University of Windsor Engineering Professor and a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair, first awarded in 2005 and renewed in 2012. He is a world-leading expert in the field of computer vision and machine learning with one book and 350 publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings. His works have been cited more than 7,300 times. He has developed many novel methodologies and systems for a wide variety of real-world applications, ranging from machine vision systems for manufacturing automation, machine learning and sensor fusion for autonomous driving to big ...

David Wilkinson is internationally recognized as a researcher specializing in the effect of thermomechanical processing on the properties of metals and alloys, the incorporation of damage into models of deformation and ductile fracture and the creep behaviour of structural materials. He has authored over 200 scientific publications specializing in the mechanical behaviour of both metals and ceramics, as well as an undergraduate textbook published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Wilkinson was the founding Director of the McMaster Center for Automotive Materials and PI of the Initiative for ...

Dr. Xiao has made significant contribution to polymer and pulp & paper science and engineering. His research on multidisciplinary areas is unique and enables his to develop various cutting edge technologies that have remarkable benefit to papermaking, polymer and packaging industries. The various functional polymers and nanoparticle systems Dr. Xiao developed not only addressed the issues related to industrial demands from a fundamental point of view, but also are implementable and feasible for commercialization. Apart from the excellent track record of research in terms of the number and ...

Dr. Yiyan Wu is a principal research scientist at Communications Research Centre Canada. He is highly respected world-wide in broadcasting industry for his research and standards development activities in digital TV/HDTV and broadband multimedia communications. His research works on OFDM, OFDMA, and SFN have been adopted in digital TV transmission, equalization and transmitter identification systems. Dr. Wu has been awarded numerous prestigious awards and honours for his outstanding achievements, including Fellow of the IEEE (2001), Emmy Award 2009, The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee ...

Dr. John Yeow is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to the fields of microsystems and nanodevices research, particularly as they apply to medical and therapeutic instruments. His work has had a broad and seminal impact - from discovery to industrial innovation. He was the first to develop a 3-dimensional (3D) micromachine-based optical coherent tomographic (OCT) imaging system that acquired the world's first 3D-OCT images of the central nervous system of a fruit fly. This technology enabled the realization of a highly miniaturized catheter for early cancer diagnosis in human ...