Service

Current internal service:

  • President of the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW). FAUW represents over 1300 faculty at the University of Waterloo. Sept. 2017 – present.  
  • Elected as FAUW Board Member. July 1, 2013 – June 2017.
  • Faculty Relations Committee FAUW representative (bi-weekly meetings between Provost plus various Deans and FAUW reps). July 2013 – present.
  • University of Waterloo Strategic Plan Advisory Committee member. Senior university leaders and administrators. June 2018 – present.
  • University of Waterloo Senate member:
    • Ex-officio as FAUW President. Sept. 2017 – present.
    • Faculty-at-Large representative. May, 2013 - April 2016.
  • UW Policy 14 (Pregnancy and Parental Leaves, including Adoption) Drafting Committee member. 2016-present.
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department Executive Committee member.  2016 – present.

Past internal service:

  • Vice-President of FAUW.  July 1, 2014 – June 2017.
  • Elected as FAUW Board Member. July 1, 2013 – June 2017.
  • Provosts Advisory Committee for Timetabling (PACT) – FAUW representative.  May 1, 2015 – June 30, 2017.
  • Senate Long Range Planning Committee.  Sept 1, 2013 – April, 2016 term.
  • Interim CEE Capstone Design Co-ordinator. Sept 2018 – Feb 2019.
  • CEE Capstone Design Co-ordinator. 2014-2016. Spent ~300 hours revitalizing the culture and practice surrounding the CEE Capstone courses, project selection and identification processes, the annual Capstone design symposium and then designing and delivering the first MTE Pitch Competition for CEE engineering programs in 2014.  The MTE Pitch Competition in CEE now happens twice a year every (from 2014-present).
  • DACA member for Turkstra Chair search in CEE. Sept 2017 – Sept 2018.
  • CEE department chair nominating committee #2 member.  Sept 2017 – Nov. 2017.
  • Department Tenure and Promotion Committee member. 2016.
  • CEE department chair nominating committee #1 member.  July 2015 – April 2016.
  • University Task Force on Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor (ADDS) – FAUW representative.  Dedicated ~100 hours to spearheading the formation and then participating as a member of this task force to change PhD sole supervision regulations at UW. 2013-2015.
  • CEE Task Force on Co-op Work reports. 2013.
  • CEE faculty representative for Campus Day/Fall Open House/March Break Open undergraduate recruitment events. 2010-2013.
  • Water group rep on CEE space committee. 2012-2013.
  • Vision 2015 CEE Undergraduate Planning Committee member. 2010-2011. 
  • DACA member for three other CEE faculty job searches between 2006 and 2013.
  • Co-chair of Women in Engineering (WiE) committee (in Faculty of Engineering).  Devoted more than 400 hours into this role from 2006-2008.
  • Department representative on Engineering Faculty Council. 2006-2007.