Achievements & awards

Fellows of the Academy are nominated and elected by their peers, in view of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession. Fellows work closely with the other national engineering associations in Canada, and with the other Canadian academies that comprise the Council of Canadian Academies.

Established in 1967 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Order of Canada is the centerpiece of Canada’s honors system. It recognizes a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to the nation.

The Royal Society of Canada recognizes merit and achievement by electing to its membership distinguished individuals from all branches of learning who have achieved distinction, both nationally and internationally, by publishing learned works or original research in the arts, humanities and sciences. Election to Fellowship in the Society is the highest academic accolade in Canada that is available to scientists and scholars.

Awarded to those who have made a distinguished contribution to the University through research, scholarship, and/or education and demonstrate exceptional achievement by distinction in research, scholarship, and education such that the work has made a major impact on a given field of study, and/or the work has had a major impact across disciplinary boundaries.

The MSU Teaching Awards recognize and encourage excellence in teaching at McMaster University, by acknowledging the contributions and hard work of professors and teaching assistants.

The President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning demonstrates the value McMaster attaches to its educational function and recognizes those who, through innovation and commitment, have significantly enhanced the quality of their students’ learning experience.

President’s Awards for Outstanding Service provide an annual recognition for employees or groups of employees who have made an outstanding contribution to the mission of McMaster University beyond that normally expected for their position.

For information on the Arch Award, Alumni Gallery and LW Shemilt Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipients, please navigate to the Alumni Relations.

Established in 2017, the award will be granted occasionally as merit warrants.

Recipient

Heather Sheardown, Professor, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University (2017)

Established in 2017, the award will be granted occasionally as merit warrants.

Recipients

David Wilkinson, Former Provost and Vice-President, Former Dean (2008-2012), Distinguished University Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University (2022)

Arthur Heidebrecht, Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, McMaster University (2017)

Established in 2004 to recognize an outstanding citizen who has contributed to engineering, the university and the community.

Established in 2010 to honour a faculty member whose accomplishments and contributions are of national and/or international significance and/or have had a transformative impact on their field of research endeavour.

Established in 2012, this award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary teaching practices.

Recipient

Douglas Barber, Department of Engineering Physics

Distinguished Engineering Fellows acknowledges outstanding rising scholars who have the potential to be internationally recognized for being research and learning focused, and student centred.

Distinguished Engineering Professors acknowledges leading internationally recognized scholars who show evidence of transformative scholarship that is research focused and student centred.

Distinguished Engineering Educators acknowledges outstanding student centred teachers who are recognized not only for their contributions in the classroom and their interactions with students but also for transformative pedagogical improvements.

2019-2020 Term 1 (Fall)

Chemical Engineering

Drew Higgins
Vincent Leung
Jacob Nease

Civil Engineering

Cameron Churchill
Mohamed Hussein

Computing and Software

Douglas Down

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed Bakr
Mehdi Narimani
Nicola Nicolici

Engineering Physics

Matthew Minnick

Mechanical Engineering

Philip Koshy
Greg Wohl

Materials Science and Engineering

Hatem Zurob

Walter G. Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Zhen Gao
Fei Geng
Michael Justason
Moein Mehrtash
Amin Reza Rajabzadeh
Chi Tang
Timber Yuen

Dean’s Large Section Teaching Honour Roll

Recognizing excellent teaching evaluation scores for classes with greater than 100 students

Chemical Engineering

Jacob Nease

Civil Engineering

Cameron Churchill
Mohamed Hussein
Zoe Li
Moataz Mohamed

Computing and Software

Ryan Leduc

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohamed Bakr

Mechanical Engineering

Mohamed Hamed
Philip Koshy
Eu-Gene Ng
Greg Wohl

Each academic year, the Faculty of Engineering identifies the top doctoral mentors who are recognized on the Dean’s Doctoral Mentoring Honor Roll.

Chemical Engineering

• Tom Adams
• Todd Hoare
• David Latulippe
• Prashant Mhaskar
• Robert Pelton
• Heather Sheardown
• Christopher Swartz
• Michael Thompson

Civil Engineering

• Wael El-Dakhakhni
• Saiedeh Razavi
• Michael Tait
• Lydell Wiebe

Computing & Software

• Antoine Deza
• Rong Zheng

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Jennifer Bauman
• Jamal Deen
• Steve Hranilovic
• Thia Kirubarajan
• Mehdi Narimani
• Michael Noseworthy

Engineering Physics

• Qiyin Fang
• Ray LaPierre
• David Novog
• Leyla Soleymani

Materials Science and Engineering

• Gianluigi Botton
• Joseph McDermid
• Igor Zhitomirsky

Mechanical Engineering

• Ali Emadi
• Saied Habibi
• Mukesh Jain
• Ravi Selvaganapathy
• Stephen Veldhuis
• Fengjun Yan

An annual recognition of Faculty of Engineering staff members who have made an outstanding contribution beyond the normal expectations will be honoured. Staff may be acknowledged for their exceptional quality of service, for their improvements of daily operations of their department or division, or through their contribution, which has enhanced the reputation of engineering.

Recipients