Canadian Academy of Engineering

06/06/2019

Congratulations to engineering students Keegan Richter and Keagan Shedden, winners of the 2019 CAE Belfry and Aubin scholarships, respectively.

Ringers — June 2019 Fine Arts, Humanities, Engineering June 6, 2019 Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email A UVic interdisciplinary field school on migration, xenophobia and Holocaust memorialization in Europe has won a national award for innovation. Charlotte Schallié (Germanic and Slavic studie...

06/05/2019

Every year the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE) bestows its most prestigious award, the H. Robert Burton Distinguished Service Award, which is named after a man who dedicated much of his life to the traffic engineering profession. This year the award was bestowed on Jeannette Montufar FCAE. Congratulations

06/04/2019

"(Prof. Slobodan Simonovic, FCAE) said that mapping flood plains, especially in areas that are near water, needs to be completed and updated on a regular basis."

The City of Ottawa has partnered with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority to update flood maps in neighbourhoods throughout the city’s booming south end.According to Ferdous Ahmed, senio…

06/02/2019

Kudos to Richard Boudreault FCAE on winning the IEEE EMBS Society 2019 Professional Achievement Award, “for the development of femtosecond laser in-situ bio-imagery, with application to the detection and characterization of breast cancer and to pharmaceutical research with a Small Animal Molecular Imager technology.”

“🏆 Congratulations 🎉 to all the 2019 EMBS Award Recipients!!! On behalf of , we would like to thank you for your continued service and support. https://t.co/4soYUg7Ksz”

05/30/2019

Professor Martha Salcudean, , is a valued Fellow of the CAE. Her remarkable Holocaust survival memoirs have recently been published.

By Martha Salcudean Martha Salcudean grows up in the small village of Chiochiș Romania, blissfully unaware of the fascist and antisemitic Iron Guard militia, and she quickly adapts to the abrupt change in her life when the town she lives in comes under the control of Hungary in 1940. But her childh

05/28/2019

Kudos to Andy Sun, FCAE on this notable Western University honour.

Education professor Peter Jaffe and Engineering professor Andy Sun have been awarded the 2019 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research.

05/27/2019

Toon Dreessen of Architects DCA attended our Resilient Infrastructure symposium in March. Here is one of his presentations and a blog he penned afterwards.

“ is everywhere and has a big part to play in making change, it affects all of us. In my latest blog, I recap the Canadian Academy of Engineers workshop I attended and my message to --> https://t.co/86fHZBqzlX https://t.co/wuHpBTXvQA”

05/26/2019

Nancy Hill is a Fellow of he Canadian Academy of Engineering

Nancy Hill, PEO's new president, emphasizes maintaining relevance as a regulator in an ever-shifting technological landscape. She outlines the 3 priority areas she would like to address during her term. Read her president's message: http://ow.ly/5YJA30oNCzy

05/25/2019

Chen Zhongwei, FCAE, professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, was one of 10 young innovators who spoke at the recent three-day Pujiang Innovation Forum. at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.

Young science stars are the new future of science and technology innovation.

05/23/2019

"(Axel) Meisen (FCAE) said nuclear power was studied to see if small plants — not giant reactors — would have the capacity to handle the oilsands' needs while moving toward Canada's low-carbon goals."

05/23/2019

"(Axel) Meisen (FCAE) said nuclear power was studied to see if small plants — not giant reactors — would have the capacity to handle the oilsands' needs while moving toward Canada's low-carbon goals."

Alberta's oilsands have been labelled as dirty by environmental activists and some politicians, but the sector might be able to clean up that reputation with help from the nuclear power industry.

05/22/2019

Robert Crawhall has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Canadian Academy of Engineering with a starting date of May 27, 2019. Robert has an excellent technical and executive leadership background and the Board believes that he fits well with the CAE and its ambitions for the future. Robert will be at our Quebec City AGM, Symposium and Induction Dinner and Fellows attending will be able to meet Robert in person. Read Robert’s biography here.