Beth Weckman, PEng

Elizabeth Weckman is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, as well as a member of the Fire Research Group at the University of Waterloo. She is also a Professional Engineer of Ontario.

Professor Weckman’s research expertise lies in the development of improved diagnostic techniques for use in reacting and non-reacting flows, reacting turbulent flows, and stability considerations in turbulent flows. The Fire Research Group’s projects entail the application of basic principles of fire science in order to understand the behaviour of full-scale fires, the flammability and performance of materials and products, fire initiation and spread, methods for fire detection and suppression, and also several ancillary issues.

Research and educational activities of the Fire Research Group are supported by The UWaterloo Fire Research Facility, with its world-class fire research infrastructure. The Facility is associated with The Waterloo Region Emergency Services Training and Research Complex (WRESTRC). With the UWaterloo Fire Research Facility, Professor Weckman studies fire dynamics, pools fires, hot surface ignition, and diagnostics.

• Fires and Fire Modeling, Fire Performance Testing, Pool Fire and Fuel Spill Fire Research, Foam Flammability, Development of Improved Diagnostic Techniques, Reacting Turbulent Flows, Stability Considerations in Turbulent Flows, Fire Safety Engineering, Hot Surface Ignition and Automotive Fires, Fire Risk Analysis, Fire Safety, Fire performance of materials, Sensors and devices in fire protection system, Fire safety of infrastructure and the environment

• 1987, Doctorate Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 1982, Master's Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 1979, Bachelor's Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 1988 NSERC University Research Fellowship

• ME 203 - Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• ME 567 - Fire Safety Engineering
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ME 671 - Fundamental Fire Dynamics
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• ME 673 - Fire Modelling
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• ME 770 - Special Topics in Numerical Methods, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
  • Taught in 2020, 2021

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Researchers fight evolving wildfires with new data models