Concordia University is an English-language public research university located in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University,Concordia is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction. As of the 2022–23 academic year,there were 49,898 students enrolled in credit and non-credit courses at Concordia,making the university among the largest in Canada by enrolment. The university has two campuses,set approximately 7 kilometres apart:Sir George Williams Campus is the main campus,located in the Quartier Concordia neighbourhood of Downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville Marie;and Loyola Campus in the residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. With four faculties,a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges,centres and institutes,Concordia offers over 400 undergraduate and over 120 graduate programs and courses.
Robert Ferguson Legget was a civil engineer,historian and non-fiction writer. He is internationally known for his contributions to engineering,geology and building research and standardization. He is credited with the establishment of co-operation among Canadian geotechnical engineers,geologists and pedologists.
The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) was founded in 1887 as the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers,renamed in 1918 as the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC),and re-established in June 1972 as a member society of the EIC under the slightly different but current name. It promotes advances in the field of civil engineering including geotechnical engineering,structural engineering,hydrotechnical engineering,environmental engineering,transportation engineering and surveying and geomatics engineering. Members who are professional civil engineers are usually categorized and may use the post nominals as associates (AMCSCE),members (MCSCE) or fellows (FCSCE). The grade of "Fellow" is achieved through election by one's peers within the CSCE.
Petar V. Kokotovic is professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at the University of California,Santa Barbara,USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control,singular perturbation techniques,and nonlinear control especially the backstepping stabilization method.
The Canadian Institute of Mining,Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is a not-for-profit technical society of professionals in the Canadian minerals,metals,materials and energy industries. CIM's members are convened from industry,academia and government.
Margaret Elizabeth Cannon is a Canadian engineer specializing in geomatics engineering and president Emerita of the University of Calgary. From 2010 to 2018,she served as the university's eighth president and vice-chancellor,the first alumna to hold that position.
Catherine "Cathy" J. Murphy is an American chemist and materials scientist,and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC,Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials,specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,National Academy of Sciences,and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Donald Van Norman Roberts was a civil,geotechnical and environmental engineer from the United States,and advocate for sustainability developments in engineering.
Ronald Kerry Rowe,OC,BSc,BE,PhD,D.Eng,DSc (hc),FRS,FREng,NAE,FRSC,FCAE,Dist.M.ASCE,FEIC,FIE(Aust),FCSCE,PEng.,CPEng. is a Canadian civil engineer of Australian birth,one of the pioneers of geosynthetics.
Gina Parvaneh Cody is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader.
Fariborz Haghighat is an Iranian-Canadian academic,engineer and Distinguished Professor of Building,Civil &Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. Haghighat has a Concordia University Research Chair in Energy and Environment and he was Inducted into the Provost's Circle of Distinction in 2009.
Margaret-Ann Armour was a Scottish-born Canadian chemist based at the University of Alberta. She is best known for her expertise in developing guidelines for hazardous lab waste disposal,and for being a vocal advocate for women in science. Armour founded the Women in Scholarship,Engineering,Science and Technology (WISEST) program,and served as the first and only Associate Dean of Science for Diversity at the University of Alberta. Among her many honors,she was named a member of the Order of Canada (2006),a 3M Teaching Fellow (1996) and a Canada 150 ambassador (2017).
Ranjith Pathegama Gamage,a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering,is an Australian academic based at Monash University,where he holds the position of Professor in Geomechanics Engineering. His research has significantly influenced understanding of the Carbon sequestration. He has also developed new sustainable technologies for extracting resources from deep earth and natural gas from coal seams,shale,and tight geological formations.
Jennifer Ann Clapp is a Canadian political economist. She is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo.
Georges John Kipouros is a Greek Canadian materials engineer,university professor,and former dean of the University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering. He presently serves as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Engineering of both Dalhousie University and University of Waterloo. He is the winner of the 20th Canadian Metal Chemistry Award,and is known as an ambassador for the engineering profession in Canada. At Dalhousie University he served as the vice chair of the Senate,assistant dean of the Faculty of Engineering,director of the Minerals Engineering Centre and head of the Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Department. He is known for his contributions to the processing of aluminum,magnesium,rare earth metals and molten salts,as well as the analysis of corrosion in additive manufacturing. In addition he is known as a major expert in powder metallurgy. He is the inventor of a technique for measuring metal corrosion in active pipelines,allowing for early detection of problem areas. At General Motors,he integrated the recovery and recycling of reactants into the production of neodymium from its oxide,rendering the process more cost-effective. He also led the technology transfer from laboratory research to plant production.
Catherine Potvin is a tropical forest ecologist and professor at McGill University in the Department of Biology. Her scientific research studies climate change,carbon cycling,and biodiversity in tropical rainforests with an additional focus on community empowerment and climate change policy. She was the first woman to receive the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal from the Royal Society of Canada,in recognition of her "significant contributions to the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems". In addition to her scientific research,she works on sustainable development with indigenous communities in Panama and on policy as a former UN climate change negotiator for Panama and leads climate change initiatives in Canada.
Charles Ng Wang-wai is the first CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability and Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also the vice-president of HKUST (Guangzhou) and the dean of the Fok Ying Tung Graduate School at HKUST,Clear Water Bay Campus. He is the immediate past president of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE),where he served as the 17th President from 2017 to 2022.
Geological engineering is a discipline of engineering concerned with the application of geological science and engineering principles to fields,such as civil engineering,mining,environmental engineering,and forestry,among others. The work of geological engineers often directs or supports the work of other engineering disciplines such as assessing the suitability of locations for civil engineering,environmental engineering,mining operations,and oil and gas projects by conducting geological,geoenvironmental,geophysical,and geotechnical studies. They are involved with impact studies for facilities and operations that affect surface and subsurface environments. The engineering design input and other recommendations made by geological engineers on these projects will often have a large impact on construction and operations. Geological engineers plan,design,and implement geotechnical,geological,geophysical,hydrogeological,and environmental data acquisition. This ranges from manual ground-based methods to deep drilling,to geochemical sampling,to advanced geophysical techniques and satellite surveying. Geological engineers are also concerned with the analysis of past and future ground behaviour,mapping at all scales,and ground characterization programs for specific engineering requirements. These analyses lead geological engineers to make recommendations and prepare reports which could have major effects on the foundations of construction,mining,and civil engineering projects. Some examples of projects include rock excavation,building foundation consolidation,pressure grouting,hydraulic channel erosion control,slope and fill stabilization,landslide risk assessment,groundwater monitoring,and assessment and remediation of contamination. In addition,geological engineers are included on design teams that develop solutions to surface hazards,groundwater remediation,underground and surface excavation projects,and resource management. Like mining engineers,geological engineers also conduct resource exploration campaigns,mine evaluation and feasibility assessments,and contribute to the ongoing efficiency,sustainability,and safety of active mining projects
Edward Kavazanjian Jr. is an American civil engineer who specializes in geotechnical engineering. He is the Ira A. Fulton Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Arizona State University School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environmental.
Manjusri Misra is an Indian engineer. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Biocomposites at the University of Guelph's School of Engineering. Misra is also the lead scientist at U of G's Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
