Nadine Ibrahim, Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, shares her insights in Urban Infrastructure: Reflections for 2100, a collection of science fiction short stories, essays and poems.
Climate change, sustainability, resilience and technology are recurring themes as contributors explore how infrastructure, described as the pillar of civilization, might change in the next 80 years.
Ibrahim holds the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering at Waterloo.
The book is available as an ebook or in paperback from Amazon.
Nadine's research contributes to a wide spectrum of urban engineering fields and a broad range of global cities, megacities, and most recently megaregions, appearing in leading journals including Nature Climate Change, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has been active in futures research on engineering education for the future and co-authored a book chapter “Educating Engineers for the Anthropocene” which appeared in the State of the World 2017: EarthED: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet, published by the Worldwatch Institute in 2017. She currently chairs a special interest group on the Engineer of 2050 at the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA).