Marcia Friesen

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Marcia R. Friesen is a Canadian engineering educator and academic administrator, the dean of the Price Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba. The topics of her research have included engineering education, the professional development of engineers and the experiences of immigrant engineers, and agent-based modeling of health-care systems. [1]

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Education and career

Friesen was an undergraduate student of agricultural engineering at the University of Manitoba, [2] graduating in 1993, [3] and worked in industry as an environmental engineer and agricultural engineering consultant. [4]

Returning the University of Manitoba, she received a master's degree in engineering education in 2003, [5] and completed her Ph.D. in biosystems engineering in 2009, with the dissertation Participant outcomes, perceptions, and experiences in the Internationally Educated Engineers Qualification Program, University of Manitoba: An exploratory study. [6]

She directed the Internationally Educated Engineering Qualifications Program from 2003 until 2017, directed the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education from 2017 until 2020, and held the NSERC Chair in Design Engineering from 2018 until 2023. [1] She was named dean of engineering in 2020, becoming the first woman dean of engineering at the University of Manitoba. [7] Under her leadership, the faculty of engineering founded a new engineering education department in 2025. [8]

Recognition

Friesen is the 2016 recipient of the Champion of Engineering Education Award of Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba. [4] The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – Canada gave her their 2021 ACEC Chair's Award. [9]

She was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2023, [10] and as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2024. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Marcia Friesen", Price Faculty of Engineering Faculty and Staff, University of Manitoba, retrieved 2025-09-13
  2. 1 2 Award Citation: EIC Fellow, Marcia R. Friesen (PDF), Engineering Institute of Canada, 2024, retrieved 2025-09-13
  3. ↑ "Marcia R. Friesen", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 2 October 2020, retrieved 2025-09-13
  4. 1 2 Champion of Engineering Education Award (PDF), Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba, 2016, retrieved 2025-09-13
  5. ↑ Friesen, Marcia R. (2003), A qualitative analysis of engineering design education in a biosystems engineering department at a Canadian university (Master's thesis), University of Manitoba, hdl:1993/19845
  6. ↑ Friesen, Marcia R. (2009), Participant Outcomes, Perceptions, and Experiences in the Internationally Educated Engineers Qualification Program, University of Manitoba: An Exploratory Study (Ph.D. thesis), University of Manitoba, hdl:1993/3168
  7. ↑ "Marcia Friesen named 1st female dean of engineering at U of Manitoba", CBC News, 12 November 2020, retrieved 2025-09-13
  8. ↑ Rosen, Kayla (3 January 2025), "U of M creating standalone engineering education department", CTV News, retrieved 2025-09-13
  9. ↑ Dr. Marcia Friesen receives ACEC–Canada Chair’s Award (PDF), Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – Canada, 28 October 2021, retrieved 2025-09-13
  10. ↑ "Marcia Friesen elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering", UM News, University of Manitoba, 7 June 2023, retrieved 2025-09-13
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