Dr. Sarah Dickson-Anderson
Associate Dean, Undergraduate and Professor, Civil Engineering
Confronting global challenges
Climate change, waste, sustainable food production, land management and safeguarding water supplies are real and pressing challenges to the global environment.
Water is essential for life and yet it is often a wasted resource. Demand for a limited amount of water continues to grow. Pollution threatens supplies.
McMaster engineers are working with academics, governments and industries around the globe to safeguard humanity’s access to clean water and air while protecting the environment, all while working closely with industry to find solutions that are both environmentally friendly and cost effective.
Key areas: Safe drinking, climate change, reusing wastewater, improved water testing, sustainability, pollution
Internally, McMaster institute for Energy Studies (MIES) provides a forum for cooperation and interdisciplinary interactions between McMaster faculty members in the energy area and acts as a point of contact at McMaster for energy-related opportunities and to communicate them to the McMaster community. It encourages and fosters an interdisciplinary systems approach to the solution of energy problems in order to establish a credible capability for the assessment and evaluation of energy systems, thus providing authoritative advice to governments and industry.
Director
Dr. Dave Novog
Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair, Department of Engineering Physics
Dr. James S. Cotton
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
The interface institute is focused on integrating research on multi-hazard, interdependence and system-level risk to address societal grand challenges with respect to different natural, built and cyber infrastructure systems. The institute is a multi-disciplinary platform for knowledge mobilization across the tri-council agencies and has members from across the university who specialize in studying different forms of hazards, component and system vulnerabilities, as well as system interdependencies and risk evaluation.
Director
Dr. Wael El-Dakhakhni
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
The Steel Research Centre develops research leading to commercially relevant new approaches to ironmaking, steelmaking process control, waste processing, steel product design and metal forming technologies. It also trains highly qualified personnel to provide the means of transferring new technology to the steel industry and develops continuing education for steel industry engineers to enhance the receptor capacity for innovation.
Director
Dr. Joseph McDermid
Professor, Associate Chair – Undergraduate Department of Materials Science and Engineering
