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
Ladan Tahvildari
Zhou Wang
En-hui Yang
Alfred Yu
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
The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Teaching Excellence recognizes educators who excel at unlocking the potential of Ontario’s young people.
2020
- Mohammed Nassar
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