The Complete Engineer - Fall 2019

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ENGINEER THE MAGAZINE OF THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE AT QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY

Celebrating 125 years of engineering excellence!

INSIDE We take a look at some of the joyous celebrations that took place during our 125th anniversary year

Over the past year, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science has celebrated its illustrious past, its dynamic present, and its inspiring future

PLUS Mitchell Hall This beautiful, stateof-the-art building is home to many exciting new facilities, including Ingenuity Labs and the Beaty Water Research Centre

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CONTENTS 1 Dean’s message Dr. Kevin Deluzio reflects on 125 years of engineering excellence and a year of triumphant celebrations

FALL 2019 DEAN

Kevin Deluzio Sc’88, MSc’90, PhD’98 DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

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How the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s came to be A look at the founding of this proud Faculty

9 Saluting student success Student winners at the 125th Anniversary Awards, and Queen’s Engineering students place first in the junior design category at the Ontario Engineering Competition

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Adam Walker COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Matt Mills CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Matt Mills Jordan Whitehouse

10 Honouring 125 Exceptional Alumni See the list of our Queen’s Engineering Excellence Awards winners and visit the website to read their stories 12 Queen’s Engineering celebrates Staff Appreciation Day Our staff are crucial to delivering the exceptional Queen’s Engineering experience to our students, and on May 2, we paused to thank them

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Walker Design + Communications PHOTOGRAPHY

Garrett Elliott Matt Mills

14 A Homecoming 125 Years in the making Every Homecoming is special, but this year’s was even more so!

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marks 125 years of engineering teaching and learning 125th Teaching awards honour exceptional educators

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

17 1 25th Anniversary Awards winners: Faculty and emeritus faculty Acknowledging excellence among our professoriate

Matt Mills CONTACT INFORMATION

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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Queen’s University Beamish-Munro Hall 45 Union Street Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Tel 613.533.2055 Fax 613.533.6500 Email complete.engineer@queensu.ca

itchell Hall opens!

M This beautiful building is home to the Beaty Water Research Centre and Ingenuity Labs, and it will usher in another 125 years of groundbreaking research

18 Alumni engagement Dean Deluzio visits Toronto, Sudbury, Calgary, Vancouver, and the United Kingdom

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Celebrating 125 years of engineering excellence!

INSIDE We take a look at some of the joyous celebrations that took place during our 125th anniversary year

Over the past year, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science has celebrated its illustrious past, its dynamic present, and its inspiring future

PLUS

Mitchell Hall This beautiful stateof-the-art, building is home to many exciting new facilities, including Ingenuity Labs and the Beaty Water Research Centre

Queen’s College Chancellor Sandford Fleming (centre with the tallest top hat) looks on as Canadian Pacific Railway Director Donald Smith drives the last spike on November 7, 1885, symbolizing the completion of the first Canadian transcontinental railway.

Mitchell Hall opens with a flourish of tri-colour!

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hat an amazing year this has been! We’ve had quite a time celebrating our 125th anniversary with events here at Queen’s, around the country, and overseas. The high point was definitely the grand opening of Mitchell Hall, a space that is already changing the way our students, staff, and faculty learn and collaborate. All in all, we’ve had a spectacular opportunity to reflect on our history and prepare for the future.

Last fall, we put out a call to alumni, faculty, staff, and students, asking, “Who is engineering a better world?”

We were overwhelmed by the number and quality of nominations from all audiences, including hundreds from alumni around the world. Through our 125th anniversary celebrations, we had the opportunity to honour the award winners for their commitment to our Faculty, engineering, their communities, and our world.

We hope you enjoy our photo galleries in this edition, including our Queen’s Engineering Excellence 125th Awards, Homecoming 2018, alumni events, and more.

This is also the last issue of The Complete Engineer—but don’t worry, we’ll still be keeping in touch. Along with our new monthly e-newsletter and podcast, we are thrilled to be introducing a new magazine that represents our spirit of curiosity and vision for the future. Watch for the first issue of this new and exciting publication this winter.

I hope you enjoy this edition, and I look forward to seeing many of you at Homecoming this October!

Dr. Kevin Deluzio Sc’88, MSc’90, PhD’98 Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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All in all, we’ve had a spectacular opportunity to reflect on our history and prepare for the future.

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How the Faculty of Enginee at Queen’s came to be At 9:22 am on November 7, 1885, in the jagged mountains of British Columbia, the last spike was pounded into the railbed on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). It was an act of ceremony that nicely epitomizes the historical context in which engineering education began here at Queen’s.

It was the Victorian era, the age of coal and steam, a period of galloping technological advancement and social and economic change. The CPR finally connected the Pacific Ocean and British Columbia with central Canada, completing the most difficult section of the first Canadian transcontinental railway. It fulfilled a central condition of British Columbia’s entry into Confederation, and allowed people

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Sir Sanford Fleming

and cargo to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific in about 10 days. Beyond the symbolism, it cemented Canada both as a North American nation within the British Empire and as a viable industrial economy.

Sandford Fleming, then a director of the CPR, looked on as the last spike was driven into the cold ground that day in 1885. A Scots-born surveyor and railway engineer, Fleming’s association with the transcontinental railway began almost a quarter-century earlier. He pitched a plan for a coast-to-coast railway to the Parliament of the Province of Canada in 1862. He worked as chief railway engineer on the Intercolonial Railway throughout that decade, connecting much of Atlantic Canada with Quebec.

He led an arduous expedition across the

AGE OF STEAM: When Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Director Donald Smith drove the last spike on November 7, 1885, it symbolized the completion of the first Canadian transcontinental railway. Standing behind Smith was Queen’s College Chancellor Sandford Fleming. He’s the man in the centre with the tallest top hat.

ring and Applied Science country and through the Rocky Mountains to find a viable route for a railway across the continental divide in 1872.

With him on that journey, serving as expedition secretary, was George Grant.

Grant was a Nova Scotian minister, writer, and speaker with a wide reputation as a passionate and influential proponent of Confederation. His literary account of Fleming’s expedition, Ocean to Ocean, was a bestseller upon its release in 1873. The book was an effective mover of public hearts and minds toward supporting Confederation for its moral and economic advantages.

A lifelong friendship blossomed between the two men on that expedition.

After Grant was appointed principal of Queen’s College in 1877, he ensured that

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Queen’s had a much smaller physical footprint in the 1880s than it does today.

With farmland immediately to the east, campus included lots of open, grassy space, bounded by Union, Stuart, Arch, and Gordon Streets.

Fleming was named chancellor at the earliest opportunity. Over the next two-anda-half decades, the two applied the same collaborative vigour to cementing a future for Queen’s, and for Queen’s Engineering, as they did for the transcontinental railway.

Queen’s had a much smaller physical footprint in the 1880s than it does today.

With farmland immediately to the east, campus included lots of open, grassy space, and was bounded by Union, Stuart, Arch, and Gordon Streets. The northfacing entrance to campus was on Union Street, leading onto what is now 5th Field Company Lane. The original limestone gate pillars are still in place there, no doubt smoother and more rounded now with the passing decades. Only Summerhill,

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CEMENTING A FUTURE: When George Grant became principal of Queen’s College in 1877, funding from the Presbyterian Church was drying up and the Province of Ontario did not support denominational schools. Grant and Fleming hatched a plan to offer applied science programs and to put Queen’s on course for growth and prosperity.

Theological Hall, and the Old Medical Building were in place then.

Ontario Street and the waterfront to the southeast was entirely industrial land with several railway sidings, piers, grain silos, a locomotive factory, a shipyard, and infrastructure for the coal economy.

Between 1876 and 1896, a series of four profound economic depressions, sometimes collectively called the Long Depression, afflicted North Atlantic economies and deeply impacted the future shape of Kingston and of Queen’s. One of the effects of those crises, and of changes in transportation technologies of the time, was a growing concentration of economic influence, industry, and population in Toronto and Montreal. Kingston struggled.

So did Queen’s.

When Grant became principal in 1877, the Presbyterian Church had virtually stopped providing financial support for Queen’s, but the school was ineligible for provincial government support because

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Opposition from the provincial government was fierce, but Grant was determined that Queen’s be independent and that it stay in Kingston, serving Eastern Ontario.

it was church-affiliated. Grant spent his first decade as principal fighting to find suitable funding while resisting significant political pressure to move Queen’s and any applied science programs to Toronto.

Queen’s College had academic chairs and offered honours programs in mathematics, chemistry, and physics, but it was a small

denominational school. Grant wanted to build a modern university with several diverse faculties.

By 1885 Grant had a plan for a college of practical science and agriculture that would bring needed operational funds to Queen’s and serve as a reputational departure from the school’s churchaffiliated roots. Opposition from the provincial government was fierce, but Grant was determined that Queen’s be independent and that it stay in Kingston, serving Eastern Ontario. He started a capital drive for a new science building, and in 1888 Kingston grocer, businessman, and philanthropist John Carruthers donated $10,000 to the cause. It was almost half the money needed for the job. The building was christened Carruthers Hall and opened by Fleming in 1891.

Despite the new purpose-built facilities, Ontario legislators were still determined that post-secondary institutions offering degrees in applied science belonged

MINING PIONEER: Dr. William Goodwin was among the first professors of the School of Mining and Agriculture, as well as the first dean of the Faculty of Applied Science. His pioneering work in the mining industry established Queen’s solid reputation for mining engineering.

It was the toehold that allowed the development of departments in all other engineering disciplines in the early years of the 20th century.

in Toronto rather than in Kingston.

Undeterred, Grant and his associates realized that, despite an obvious need for mining expertise in Ontario, there were then no mining schools in the province.

In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Ontario launched several royal commissions on the development of its natural resources in Northern Ontario, and this seeded a tremendous desire to train men to tap into these resources.

Further, a small mining boom north of Kingston at the time was attracting investor interest. If the province would not let Queen’s launch an official faculty of applied science, Grant reasoned, perhaps it would sanction and partially support a separate, unrelated, and non-degreegranting school of mining and agriculture in Kingston. Investors in need of skilled mine managers and builders could even be convinced to cover some of the costs of the venture. Once the school was open, Grant could press on with plans to build a faculty

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Once the school was open, Grant could press on with plans to build a faculty of practical science by conferring Queen’s College degrees upon graduates from the new school of mining and agriculture.

of practical science by conferring Queen’s College degrees upon graduates from the new school of mining and agriculture.

It was a scheme, a ruse, a fast one, crafted to circumvent government education policy and to establish a legitimate faculty of applied science at

Queen’s under the guise of an independent, semi-private, vocational school intended to train miners and farmers. It would never work today, but it worked then.

The School of Mining and Agriculture Act was passed in the Ontario legislature in 1893, and the School of Mining and Agriculture opened in Carruthers Hall, the same building in which Queen’s students were already studying math and science, in October of that year, 125 years ago this fall. There were three instructors attached to the new school: Dr. William Goodwin, Professor William Nicol, and Lecturer Willet Miller. Grant wasted no time developing Queen’s curricula and faculty — in deed if not in name — for the School of Mining and Agriculture. By 1894-95, the university calendar listed Queen’s Science Professor Nathan Dupuis as Dean of a Faculty of Practical Science at Queen’s, while students of the School of Mining and Agriculture could earn a four-year degree in Mining Engineering.

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SCIENCE BUILDING: Kingston businessman John Carruthers donated $10,000 toward the construction of a new science building, Carruthers Hall. It was an early necessary step in establishing applied science and engineering programs at Queen’s. For Carruthers, it was an investment in keeping Queen’s in Kingston.

Still, the new school and faculty was something of a wobbly bicycle for the first few years. Members of the first graduating classes could be counted on one hand. There were no academically trained engineers among the instructors, and courses and experts were cobbled together from whatever sources were available. There was solid expertise in geology and chemistry but large knowledge gaps in other engineering disciplines. That knowledge was needed.

In the late nineteenth century, the Second Industrial Revolution began, and it hinged, in part, on the application of chemicals and heat to industrial processes. This underscored the role of applied science and the need for properly trained engineers in this area.

Faculty members at the University of Toronto, now with their own mining engineering program, worked to discredit Queen’s fledgling Mining Engineering degree and to poach mining industry partnerships and related government contracts.

Goodwin, a New Brunswicker, was trained as a chemist at the University of Edinburgh, the University of London, and in Heidelberg, Germany, under the

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John Carruthers famous chemist Robert Bunsen. He started at Queen’s as a chemistry professor in 1883, and, 10 years later, served as the first director of the School of Mining and Agriculture. If Grant and Fleming masterminded the scheme and navigated the politics necessary to get the new school started, Goodwin kept it going from within.

He built the credible reputation it needed to survive and grow. He was passionate about mining, mentored students who helped shape the Canadian mining industry through the 20th century, and travelled the province offering instruction to miners and prospectors, earning friends and allies one handshake at a time. In the process he forged the industry and government partnerships that earned the school legitimacy even in the face of competition with the larger, better equipped, more established engineering schools at McGill and the University of Toronto.

By 1897 the Ontario government finally granted permission for the School of Mining and Agriculture to become officially affiliated with Queen’s College.

Provincial money began to flow, allowing Queen’s to offer expanded programs and to invest in new buildings and facilities.

Carruthers Hall was enlarged and Fleming and Ontario Halls were open for students by 1903. Though agricultural and veterinary programs failed to flourish, departments of Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical

Engineering, and Chemical Engineering emerged during the next few years.

There were a few further hurdles that needed clearing. Queen’s College remained a denominational university affiliated with a technically separate and nondenominational School of Practical Science until 1912. That’s when the link to the Presbyterian Church was formally broken and Queen’s College was renamed Queen’s University at Kingston. Then in 1916, in the thick of the horror of World War I, provincial and federal legislation added the Faculty of Applied Science to the Queen’s University charter. It was the last formality to establishing the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s.

Grant guided Queen’s though a period of uncertainty onto a real formative path, and he lived long enough to see the Faculty of Practical Science earn legitimate recognition. He died in 1902 after serving as Queen’s principal for almost 25 years.

Fleming’s legacy stretches far beyond Queen’s. From his contributions to the transcontinental railway, and later to the first transatlantic submarine telegraph cable, he is a significant figure in Canadian history. He saw more of Queen’s successful formative years and virtually all of the establishment of the Faculty of Applied Science, continuing as chancellor until his death in 1915.

Goodwin became dean of the Faculty of Practical Science after Dupuis retired in 1911. He later became the first dean of the Faculty of Applied Science before retiring in 1918. He died in 1941.

FIRST DEGREE: In 1894, the first year of operation for the School of Mining and Agriculture, Queen’s College offered honours degree programs in mathematics, chemistry, and physics, but there was only one four-year degree on offer, Mining Engineer (M.E.).

Further reading

Queen’s Engineers: A Century of Applied Science, 1893-1993

By W. George Richardson, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ont.) 1992

Queen’s Men, Canada’s Men: The Military History of Queen’s University, Kingston

By Kathryn M. Bindon, Trustees of the Queen’s University Contingent, Canadian Officers’ Training Corps 1978

A History of Mining Engineering at Queen’s: The First 100 Years, 1893-1993

By Charles F. Hews, Queen’s University (Kingston Ont.) 1993

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125th Anniversary Awards winners: Student individuals and groups It may appear that the lifelong spirit of comradery and the leading reputation for excellence among Queen’s engineers happens organically. In truth, those enviable attributes spring only from the

combined efforts of those who invest their personal time and energies to the benefit of fellow students and to wider communities.

Despite the rigours of a demanding course of study, these engineering students

have distinguished themselves early as community builders and ambassadors of reputation. To the few listed here, and to all those students who give back: thank you for engineering a better world.

Individuals:

Student groups:

Christian Baldwin Sc’19 Connor Blandford Sc’19 Carson Cook Sc’19 Matthew Gaiser Sc’19 Malek Karaim MSc’13, PhD candidate Sydney Robinson Sc’19 Emily Wiersma Sc’19

Engineering Society Executive: Carson Cook, President; Emily Wiersma, VP Student Affairs; Behshid Behrouzi, VP Operations Knights of the Purple Order: Tristan Brunet, Matt Boulby, Max Lindley-Peart, Leah Vignale, Jordan Pernari, Emily Wiersma, Jamil Pirani Queen’s Engineering Competition: Connor Blandford, Mukund Mauji — Co-chairs Angus McInnes, Helen Zhang, Jacob Johnston, Will Palmer — Consulting Winners Gavin McClelland, Luke Beelen, Pascal Girard, Axel Ouillet — Senior Design Winners

New honours for Queen’s Engineering Competition winners Last year marked a special edition of the Engineering Society’s Queen’s Engineering Competition (QEC), as it celebrated the 125th anniversary of engineering education and mining engineering education at Queen’s.

To mark the anniversary milestone, QEC winners were awarded the E.B. Wilson Memorial Cup to display in their respective engineering discipline building for the year.

Winners also had their names engraved on the Bauer Ring, displayed permanently in the foyer of Goodwin Hall, the home of the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining.

Axel Ouillet, Gavin McClelland, Pascal Girard, and Luke Beelen won top place in the senior design category. Axel Ouillet, Gavin McClelland, and Pascal Girard won in the communication and debate category. Paula Petkovic, Amanda Fawley, and Zane Maklin won in the innovation/ reengineering category. Angus McInnes, Jacob Johnston, Will Palmer, and Helen Zhang won in the consulting category.

Chas Meadows, Connor Chappell, Matt Julseth, and Justin Bonal won in the junior design category. And Joseph Grosso, Benjamin Beggs, and Kyle Singer won in the programming category.

Justin Bonal, Matthew Julseth, Connor Chappell, and Chas Meadows of the Queen’s Engineering Competition team gather for a photo after earning first place in thejunior design category of the Ontario Engineering Competition at McMaster University in January.

Eleven Queen’s teams advanced from the QEC to the Ontario Engineering Competition at McMaster University in January. Justin Bonal, Matthew Julseth, Connor Chappell, and Chas Meadows earned first place in the junior design category. Melissa Young and Felix LeClair earned second place in the debate category.

Leigh Dederer and David Hoskin earned an honourable mention award for technical excellence in communications.

Three Queen’s teams advanced to the Canadian Engineering Competition at the University of Waterloo in March. Melissa Young and Felix LeClair earned seventh place in the debate category.

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Queen’s Engineering Excellence: 125th Alumni Awards The Faculty celebrated 125 years of engineering excellence on Friday, March 29, with a special event honouring 125 alumni for their life and career achievements.

Alumni and their families from around the world, along with faculty and students, gathered to celebrate one another and share in the magical evening. We thank

Erum Afsar, BSc’95 Paul Amyotte, MSc’79 Eric Baker, BSc’56 Russ Barss, BSc’83 Robert Beamish, BSc’60, LLD’11 Ross Beaty, Parent Gordon Bell, BSc’80 Ed Birchnall, BSc’99 John Brace, BSc’80 Richard Brock, BSc’69 Robert Buchan, MSc’72 Jennifer Buechel, BSc’92, BA’97 Robert Burnside, BSc’56* Michael Carson, BSc’69 Bruce Chernoff, BSc’87 Michael Chernoff, BSc’59 Joan Chinnery, BSc’83 Andrea Corey, BSc’98 Katherine Crewe, BSc’81 Dessy Daskalov, BSc’08 Mitchell Debora, BSc’14 Shelly Deitner, BSc’03 Jerry del Missier, BSc’85, MBA’87 David Dempster, BSc’81 Robert Dengler, BSc’65, DSc’88 Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande, PhD’79, DSc’17 Mervin DeWasha, BSc’71 Richard Dobson, BSc’68 John (Jay) Doering, BSc’84 Hendrik Doornekamp, BSc’73 Kevin Doucette, BSc’02 Andrew Dunin, BSc’83, MBA’87 Vello Ehvert, BSc’83 Catherine Ella, BSc’83 Blair Erskine, BSc’54 John Estey, BSc’72 William (Mac) Evans, BSc’64, LLD’14 David Field, BSc’84 Don Gamble, BSc’68 John Gamble, BSc’87 Ryan Grant, BSc’04, MSc‘07, PhD‘12 Alan Hallworth, BSc’59 Caroline Hargrove, BSc’89 Keith Harman, BSc’67, PhD’72 Elizabeth Hartling, BSc’08

David Hayes, BSc’14 Evan Hazell, BSc’81 Greg Heath, BSc’96 Jerry Heffernan, LLD’79 Max Howarth, BSc’14 Jon Jennekens, BSc’56 Heather Kennedy, BSc’80 Tom Kennedy, BSc’73 Brenda Kenny, BSc’79 Peter Kenny, BSc’55 Lindley Kenny, BSc’15 Doug King, BSc’69 Tim Kitchen, BSc’86 F.C. Kohli, BSc’48, DSc’07 Marvin Kriluck, BSc’59 Bruce Lampard, BSc’91 Frank Lee, BSc’45* Brian Lee, BSc’88 Erica Lee Garcia, BSc’00 Douglas Little, BSc’92 Brian Livingston, BSc’76 Kathleen Llewellyn-Thomas, BSc’81 Norman Loveland, BSc’65 Stephen Lucas, BSc’84 Don MacDiarmid, BSc’82 Susan MacDougall, BSc’05 Allan MacRae, BSc’71 David Malcolm, BSc’80, MSc’94 Janet Mason, BSc’81 Thomas McCavour, BSc’52 Rick McCreary, BSc’85, MSc’90 Dave McDonnell, BA’92, BSc’93 Donald McGeachy, BSc’40* Michael McNally, BSc’68 Laurie Metcalfe, BSc’97 Bruce Miller, BSc’72 Bruce Mitchell, BSc’68 Kevin Musselman, BSc’04 Diane Neil Mills, BSc’81 Mark Nelson, BSc’08, PhD’13 Joel Nodelman, BSc’78, MSc’81 Michael Norris, BSc’75 Michael O’Connor, BSc’68, PhD’76 David Pakrul, BSc’69 Scott Parkes, BSc’92

these remarkable leaders, changemakers, philanthropists, and problem solvers for engineering a better world.

David Parkes, BSc’68 Robert Peterson, BSc’59, MSc’61 Jim Pillsworth, BSc’09 Anne Poschmann, BSc’78 Kalev Pugi, MSc’55* Veena Rawat, PhD’73 Donald Raymond, BSc’84, PhD’88 Theresa Redburn, BSc’85 Robert Rehder, BSc’50 Dave Reid, BSc’65 David Reid, BSc’67, MDiv’70 Sue Riddell-Rose, BSc’86 Ronald Roberts, BSc’65, MSc’67 H. Barry Robins, BSc’64 Michele Romanow, BSc’07 Phil Sager, BSc’03 Chris Sattler, BSc’98 Wayne Savigny, BSc’71 Nancy Scarth, BSc’49 David Scott, BSc’59, MSc’63 Mark Semple, BSc’12 Kathleen Sendall, BSc’77 Mike Serbinis, BSc’96 Ayon Shahed, BSc’08, MEng’10 William Slavin, BSc’84 Stephen Smith, BSc’72, LLD’17 Frank Smoke, BSc’45 Ted Splinter, BSc’91 Lora Sprigings, BSc’90, B.Ed’13 Robert Strickert, BSc’71 Kim Sturgess, BSc’77, DSc’16 Kathleen Surra, BSc’05, MEng’07 Michelle Thompson, BA’11, BSc’11 Adam Timmermans, BSc’11 Mary Ann Turcke, BSc’88, MBA’97 Jeff van Steenbergen, BSc’77 Anita Vandervalk, BSc’89 Bert Wasmund, BSc’61, MSc’63 Rebecca White, BSc’01 Alan Winter, PhD’74 William Young, BSc’77 Peter Zandbergen, BSc’03 * Awarded Posthumously

See more about the Queen’s Engineering Excellence 125th Anniversary Awards at engineering.queensu.ca/125-award-recipients.html

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Queen’s Engineering celebrates Staff Appreciation Day The Faculty celebrated the valuable contributions of Engineering staff at a special Staff Appreciation Day event on May 2 held at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston. The event included a series of fun and interesting activities, and several staff members were singled out for recognition with Staff Appreciation Awards.

Jacquie Brown

Eric Tremblay

Mofi Badmos

Undergraduate Studies Assistant

Engineering Teaching and Learning Team

International Student Experience Associate

Wanda Badger

Joanne Grills

Debra Fraser

Department Manager, Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining

Faculty Advancement Coordinator

Graduate Program Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graeme Boyd

Liann Joanette

Lloyd Rhymer

Department Manager, Department of Civil Engineering

Undergraduate Program Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering

Department Manager, Department of Civil Engineering

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Dean Kevin Deluzio (second from right) congratulates staff of the McLaughlin Hall Machine Shop

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A 125th anniversary Homecoming Hundreds of Queen’s Engineering alumni and friends gathered in Kingston between October 19 and 21, 2018, to celebrate Homecoming in our 125th anniversary year. New was the first-ever Dean’s Homecoming Breakfast, held under a giant tent behind Beamish-Munro Hall.

Student representatives from the design teams and student clubs were on hand to chat with alumni and showcase their projects. Feedback was very positive, and we look forward to the 4’s and 9’s joining us October 18-20 this fall. This year, the Dean’s Homecoming Breakfast will be in the new Mitchell Hall at 69 Union Street.

Plan your trip for Homecoming 2019 at queensu.ca/alumni/homecoming

“I thoroughly enjoyed the Dean’s pancake breakfast at Homecoming 2018. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear from current students about their enthusiasm for their program. I was particularly impressed with the extracurricular activities that were presented, from the concrete toboggan, to the biomedical innovation, to the women in STEM activities. The students were so engaged and it clearly demonstrated the heart of Queen’s—the collegial sense of belonging, along with innovation and engagement. The passport with free socks for completion was a great way to get those attending involved.”

—Pamela Eisener-Parsche Meds’90, via Michael Parsche Sc’88

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Congratulations Science 1968: Our first inductees into the Faculty of Engineering’s Millionaires’ Club!

At Homecoming 2018, the class of Science 1968 reached an incredible milestone: surpassing the $1 million mark for The Science ’68 Entrance Bursary in Applied Science. Thanks to the many efforts from class leaders and support from classmates, Sc’68 is now able to offer a renewable award that will provide over $10,000 of support to a student during each year of their studies. This is a remarkably generous and impactful gift that will help make an engineering education more accessible for many recipients.

In honour of their accomplishments, the Faculty was pleased to recognize the class as the first-ever inductee into our Millionaires’ Club. This is a new distinction that will be awarded to all classes with funds with over $1 million. We thank Sc’68 for their continued generosity and the life-changing gift they are giving our students.

Rick Dobson Sc’68, models the inaugural Millionaires’ Club scarf.

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Showcase marks 125 years of engineering teaching and learning The newly opened Mitchell Hall played host to the Dean’s Showcase Celebrating 125 Years of Teaching and Learning in Engineering event on February 20. It was an opportunity for Engineering faculty and staff to discuss and explore teaching and learning in engineering here at Queen’s.

Among the highlights was the presentation of three 125th anniversary teaching awards. Rob Knobel, an associate

professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, was awarded the Dean Nathan F. Dupuis Leadership in Engineering Education Award. Nicolas Hudon, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Mike Rainbow, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, were awarded the Professor Carolyn Small

Engineering Education Innovator Award.

The event also included special sessions entitled “Then and now: Teaching in FEAS over 50 years”, “Industry and student career insights in engineering”, “Innovations in teaching: Perspectives from today’s learners”, and “Envisioning the future of engineering education”.

Assistant Professor Nicolas Hudon addresses the gathering.

Dean Kevin Deluzio presents Associate Professor Rob Knobel (left) and Assistant Professor Mike Rainbow (right) with their awards

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125th Anniversary Awards winners: Faculty and emeritus faculty Congratulations to faculty and emeritus faculty who have helped engineer a better world.

Some have led the way in teaching, others with their contributions to human understanding through rigorous research. Some have distinguished themselves as partners to industry, others as senior administrators. All have acted as role models for the Queen’s engineers who come after them. Thank you for engineering a better world.

The following faculty members were honoured this year with awards in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Engineering at Queen’s: Dr. Genevieve Dumas Dr. John Cartledge Dr. John Hanes Dr. Kerry Rowe Dr. Mark Diederich

Dr. Mark Green Dr. Michael Cunningham Dr. Paresh Sen Dr. Patrick Oosthuizen Dr. Ralph Whitney

Dr. Raymond Price Dr. Tim Bryant Dr. Barrington Batchelor* Dr. Carolyn Small*

* Awarded Posthumously

Mitchell Hall opens!

Two brand new research centres are proud to call it home There were some giant leaps forward for the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science that coincided with the 125th anniversary year celebrations. The newly completed Mitchell Hall includes state-of-the-art facilities for two interdisciplinary research institutes that promise to further cement the reputation of Queen’s as having one of the top research-intensive engineering school’s in the country.

Water-related issues are a driving force for economic growth, social well-being, and a healthy population. The Beaty Water Research Centre (BWRC) was formed in 2012 as an interdisciplinary research centre committed to fostering a collaborative research environment spanning both traditional water-related disciplines and non-traditional and emerging disciplines.

The Centre was named in recognition of a $5 million gift from Queen’s parent Ross J. Beaty and his family. The Beaty gift supported the development of the sparkling new 8,000-square-foot laboratory and administrative space in Mitchell Hall

Beaty Water Research Centre

Mitchell Hall, home of the Ingenuity Labs research institute and the Beaty Water Research Centre for the BWRC. It will be home to more than 50 faculty members and graduate students conducting research in the field. Dr. Pascale Champagne, a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Bioscience Engineering, is director of the BWRC. The new Ingenuity Labs research institute was granted a two-year provisional status at Queen’s in September 2018. It is an interdisciplinary initiative focused on creating intelligent systems and robotic machines that enhance human productivity, safety, performance, and quality of life.

Membership so far includes 17 faculty members from disciplines across three faculties. Two new faculty members have been hired specifically for Ingenuity Labs and there are plans to add three more in the immediate future.

The physical home for Ingenuity Labs, an innovative, new 12,000-square-foot

research space in Mitchell Hall, is made possible by a generous philanthropic gift.

The space is designed to foster unfettered interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Joshua Marshall, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the interim director of the Ingenuity Labs research institute.

Ingenuity Labs research institute

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Alumni Engagement QYEA Fall Welcome Back Social Toronto: October 10, 2018

Queen’s Young Engineering Alumni (QYEA) held their annual Fall Welcome Back Social with keynote speaker Martha van Berkel Sc’00.

Sc’88 Mentorship event Kingston: October 19, 2018 In celebration of their 30th reunion, the class of Science 1988 launched a new mentorship program.

Members of the Sc’88 class volunteered as mentors and were then matched with interested students.

Mentorship pairs met at an event during Homecoming Weekend and then maintained virtual contact for the remainder of the year.

The program has received rave reviews from mentors and mentees, and will be continued by Sc’89 at Homecoming 2019.

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Queen’s Mining 125th Anniversary Symposium Kingston: October 18, 2018

The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining invited a number of industry leaders, including alumni, to speak to students, faculty, and other alumni about the future of the mining industry.

Sudbury area Engineering reception Sudbury: October 22, 2018

Dean Kevin Deluzio invited alumni and friends to share in 125 years of Queen’s Engineering at Verdicchio Ristorante and Enoteca.

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Life and Work in the Age of Disruptive Technologies Dean Kevin Deluzio, Associate Professor and Interim Director of Ingenuity Labs Joshua Marshall, and engineering students from QMIND 2018 (Queen’s Machine Intelligence and Neuroevolution Design) shared insights and updates with alumni in Calgary and Vancouver.

Calgary: November 20, 2018

Vancouver: November 21, 2018

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Engineering our students for global impact London, UK: May 29, 2019 Dean Kevin Deluzio travelled to the UK in May to meet with alumni in London and Cambridge. He also met with students participating in the Global Project Management course at the Bader International Study Centre.

Alumnus Jerry del Missier Sc’85 MBA’87, generously hosted a Queen’s Engineering alumni gathering at the Connaught Hotel in London.

Life and Work in the Age of Disruptive Technologies Toronto: June 6, 2019 Dean Kevin Deluzio, Associate Professor and Interim Director of Ingenuity Labs Joshua Marshall, and engineering students from QMIND 2019 (Queen’s Machine Intelligence and Neuroevolution Design) shared insights and updates with alumni.

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Engineering Excellence

Interested in being part of the next 125 years? Contact us: FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE – Development and Alumni Relations Beamish-Munro Hall, Room 200 Queen’s University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 www.inspiring.engineering.queensu.ca 613-533-6000, Extension 75248 Email: inspire@queensu.ca