External awards

9 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
30 Fellows of the Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
17 Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
8 Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
2 Engineering Emmy Award

Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)

Election to the Canadian Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honours accorded an engineer. Fellows have distinguished themselves in different sectors including business, academia and government and in different roles such as business management, executive management, technical, and university faculty. Fellow of the CAE are nominated and elected by their peers (current CAE Fellows) to honorary fellowship in the Academy in view of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.

Fellows

Gord Agnew

Ian Blake, Retired Professor

Claudio Canizares

Savvas Chamberlain, Retired Professor

Mohamed Elmasry, Retired Professor

Karim Karim

Fakhri Karray

Raafat Mansour

Jon Mark, Retired Professor

Catherine Rosenberg

Manoj Sachdev

Adel Sedra

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

Zhou Wang

En-hui Yang

Ming Yu, Adjunct Professor

Weihua Zhuang

Engineering Emmy Award

An Engineering Emmy Award is bestowed upon an individual, company or organization for developments in engineering that are either so extensive an improvement on existing methods, or so innovative in nature, that they materially affect the transmission, recording or reception of television.

Award winners

2021 - Zhou Wang

2015 - Zhou Wang

Engineering Institute of Canada

Fellows

2022 - Alfred Yu

2021 - Karim S. Karim

2019 - Fakhri Karray

2015 - Manoj Sachdev

2012 - Weihua Zhuang

2011 - Sherman Shen

2008 - Mohamed Elmasry

2008 - Raafat Mansour

2007 - Mohamed Kamel

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation

Fellows

2023 - Alfred Yu

2022 - Zbig Wasilewski

2020 - Fakhri Karray

2019 - Kerstin Dautenhahn

2019 - Pin-Han Ho

2018 - Ehab El-Saadany

2017 - Kankar Bhattacharya

2017 - Amir Khandani

2016 - Liang-liang Xie

2015 - John Long

2015 - Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

2014 - Guang Gong

2014 - Zhou Wang

2012 - Manoj Sachdev

2011 - Catherine Rosenberg

2009 - Omar Ramahi

2009 - Sherman Shen

2008 - Shesha Jayaram

2008 - Weihua Zhuang

2008 - En-hui Yang

2007 - Claudio Canizares

2005 - Mohamed Kamel

2005 - Ravi Mazumdar

2002 - Magdy Salama

2001 - Raafat Mansour

2001 - Victor Quintana

1997 - Edward Cherney

1991 - Robert Macphie

1988 - Mohamed Elmasry

1988 - Jon Mark

1984 - Adel Sedra

1982 - Jiri Vlach

NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation

Innovation paves the road to success in the new global economy. The Synergy Awards for Innovation were launched in 1995 by NSERC to recognize partnerships in natural sciences and engineering research and development (R&D) between universities and Canadian industry. In 2014, a category for colleges was added. Since their inception, the Awards have honoured the most outstanding achievements of these collaborations in the natural sciences and engineering. By working together, award-winning companies and post-secondary institutions have proven that effective partnerships are the foundation of achievement. Their success has enriched the academic and research programs within Canadian post-secondary institutions while providing tangible benefits to Canadians.

2018 - Slim Boumaiza

Professional Engineers Ontario Awards (PEO)

The PEO recognize outstanding individuals for engineering excellence and community service. Engineering Medals are presented for Engineering Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Management, Research and Development, and Young Engineer, in addition to the Citizenship Award and the premier award, the Professional Engineers Gold Medal.

Engineering Medal - Research and Development

2014 - Raafat Mansour (Watch the video)

Engineering Medal - Young Engineer

2016 - Lin Tan (Watch the video)

Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Teaching Excellence

Order of Canada

Established in 1967 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Order of Canada is the cornerstone of the Canadian Honours System, and recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. The Order recognizes people in all sectors of Canadian society. Their contributions are varied, yet they have all enriched the lives of others and made a difference to this country. Since its creation, more than 6 000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order.

Appointees

2009 - Savvas Chamberlain

Order of Ontario

The Order of Ontario is the province’s highest honour. It is reserved for Ontarians from all fields of endeavour and backgrounds, whose excellence has left a lasting legacy in the province, Canada and beyond.  Members of the Order are a collective of Ontario’s finest citizens, whose contributions have shaped – and continue to shape – the province’s history and place in Canada.

Appointees

2013 - Adel Sedra

Premier's Catalyst Award

The Premier's Catalyst Awards help build a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Ontario by recognizing excellence and leadership in innovation. The Catalyst Awards provide five awards of $200,000 for developing a commercially successful new, or significantly improved, product or service based on a breakthrough technology. Innovations must have the potential to impact Ontario's economy, society and/or sustainable development.

There are five categories: The Best Young Innovator Award; The Innovator of the Year Award; The Lifetime Achievement in Innovation Award; The Start-up Company with the Best Innovation Award; and The Company with the Best Innovation Award.

Innovator of the Year Award

2007 - En-Hui Yang

Lifetime Achievement in Innovation

2007 - Savvas Chamberlain

Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA)

In the May 5, 1998 Ontario Budget speech, the Minister of Finance announced the Premier’s Research Excellence Awards (PREA) to help gifted researchers (i.e., principal investigators at universities, colleges, hospitals, research institutes) attract talented graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research associates to their research teams.

2004 - Krzysztof Czarnecki

2002 - Siva Sivoththaman

2001 - Guang Gong

2000 - Fakhri Karray

Royal Society of Canada (RSC)

Fellows

The fellowship of the RSC comprises distinguished men and women from all branches of learning who have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.

2023 - Kerstin Dautenhahn

2018 - Zhou Wang

2017 - Weihua Zhuang

2015 - Sherman Shen

2014 - Mohamed Kamel

2012 - Claudio Canizares

2010 - Savvas Chamberlain, Retired Professor

2009 - En-hui Yang

2003 - Adel Sedra

1998 - Mohamed Elmasry, Retired Professor

Members of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership.

The Members of the College are Canadians and Permanent Residents who, at an early stage in their career, have demonstrated a high level of achievement. The criteria for election is excellence, and membership is for seven years.

2015 - Zhou Wang