Suzanne Marie Kresta is a Canadian chemical engineer known for her research on mixing in turbulent fluids including drinking water, molten metals, [1] and in industrial processes. [2] She is dean of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island, [2] and a professor emerita in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. [1]
Kresta is originally from Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island; her mother and uncle were on the faculty of the University of Prince Edward Island. [2] She was an undergraduate at the University of New Brunswick, graduating in 1986. After a 1987 master's degree in England at the University of Leeds she returned to Canada for a doctorate at McMaster University, completed in 1992. [2] [3]
She was a faculty member at the University of Alberta beginning in 1992, [4] [3] promoted to associate professor in 1993 and full professor in 1996. She was McCalla Professor in 2008–2009 and Killam Annual Professor in 2012. [3] She became associate dean of graduate studies there in 2015 before moving to the University of Saskatchewan as dean of engineering in 2018. [2] [3] In 2024 she moved again, to her present position as dean of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island. [2]
Kresta co-edited the Handbook of Industrial Mixing: Science and Practice (Wiley, 2003, with Edward L. Paul and Victor A. Atiemo-Obeng). [5] She was the chief editor of Advances in Industrial Mixing (2015), a companion to the Handbook of Industrial Mixing. [1]
Kresta is a 2014 Fellow of Engineers Canada, a 2016 Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), [2] [3] and a 2018 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. [2] [6]
She was a 2004 recipient of the Senior Moulton Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), [7] the 2006 recipient of the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, [8] the 2008 recipient of the NAMF Forum Award for Excellence and Sustained Contributions to Mixing Research and Practice of AIChE, [9] and the 2014 recipient of the Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education of Engineers Canada. [10]
Her book Handbook of Industrial Mixing was recognized in the 2004 PROSE Awards as the best scholarly or technical book in engineering in 2004. [3]
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