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The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Board of Directors would like to congratulate the 2009 award winners.
Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice
Prix Bantrel de la conception et de la pratique industrielle
Sponsored by / Parraine par Bantrel
The Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice is given to a Canadian citizen or a resident of Canada for innovative design or production activities accomplished in Canada.
Le Prix Bantrel de la conception et de la pratique industrielle est presente a un citoyen canadien ou une personne qui reside au Canada pour souligner une conception ou des activitds de production novatrices effectuees an Canada.
Zhonghe Xu, MCIC
University of Alberta
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Zhenghe Xu is a Teck Professor at the University of Alberta. He obtained BSc and MSc degrees in minerals engineering from Central South University (China) in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and then PhD in materials science and engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1990. After a short stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a postdoctoral fellow, Xu joined McGill University as an assistant professor in 1992. He then moved to University of Alberta in 1997 and became full professor in 2000.
Xu's research is built on interfacial science and engineering with emphasis on natural resources processing and utilization. He has authored or co-authored 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers and over 45 technical proceeding conference papers, along with eight book chapters and two US patents. He served as NSERC-EPCOR-AERI Industry Research Chair in Advanced Coal Cleaning and Combustion Technology from 2002-2008. Xu was awarded a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Mineral Processing in 2006 and an NSERC Industry Research Chair in Oil Sands Engineering in 2008. He was elected to Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2008.
D. G. Fisher Award
Prix D.G.Fisher
Sponsored by / Parraine par
The department of chemical and materials engineering, University of Alberta, Suncor Energy Foundation and Shell Canada Limited / Le department de genie chimique et des materiaux de la University of Alberta, Suncor Energy Foundation et Shell Canada Limitee.
The D. G. Fisher Award is awarded to an individual who has made substantial contributions to the field of systems and control engineering. The award is given in recognition of significant contributions to any, or all, of the areas of theory, practice and education.
Le Prix D.-G.-Fisher est decerne a une personne qui s'est distinguee par ses contributions importantes dans le domaine du genie des systemes et des controles. Il couronne les apports importants dans certains ou Was les domaines suivants : la theorie, la pratique et l'education.
Michel Perrier, MCIC
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Department of Chemical Engineering
Michel Perrier obtained his BIng and MScA degrees from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and his PhD from McGill University in chemical engineering. He began his career in 1986 with Shell Canada as a process control engineer where he worked on design and implementation of control systems. He then worked for two years as a research associate at the Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal developing control strategies for the operation of bioprocesses. From 1990-1993, he worked for the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada as a research engineer on monitoring of control loop performance and on the development of adaptive control techniques. He has been a professor of chemical engineering at Ecole Polytechnique since 1993. He was an invited professor in 2001-2002 at the Centre for Integrated Dynamics and Control in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle in Australia, at the Centre for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium in 2002, and at the Advanced Control of Energy Systems Group of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain in 2008-2009. His research interests are in the field of dynamics, control and optimization of biotechnological processes. He has been chair of the International Federation for Automatic Control technical committee on biosystems and bioprocesses from 2003-2006. He received the Teaching Excellence Award from Ecole Polytechnique in 2005. He was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium in 2008 for his contribution to adaptive control and on-line optimization of bioreactors
Process Safety Management Award
Prix de gestion de la securite operationnelle
Sponsored by / Parraine par AON Reed Stenhouse Inc.
The Process Safety Management Award is presented as a mark of recognition to a person who has made an outstanding contribution in Canada to the Process Safety Management (PSM) Division of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, recognizing excellence in the leadership and dedication of individuals who have led Canada in the field of process safety and loss management (PSLM).
Le Prix de gestion de la securite operationnelle est decerne a titre de reconnaissance & une personne qui s'est distinguee au Canada par sa contribution exceptionnelle au sein de la Division de la gestion de la securite operationnelle de la Societe canadienne de genie chimique. Il reconnait l'excellence de leadership et le devouement des personnes qui ont ete des chefs de file dans le secteur canadien de la gestion, de la securite operationnelle et des pertes.
John Shrives
Environment Canada
John Shrives is head of the Emergencies Prevention Section with the Environmental Emergencies Division of Environment Canada in Gatineau, QC. He joined the department in 1983 and has been with the environmental emergencies program since 1990. His interests include risk assessment, chemical process safety management and environmental auditing. He participated in the development of the s200 environmental emergency planning regulations under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 in 2003 and is currently involved with their implementation and proposed amendments.
Previously, he worked in the electric power sector both for Environment Canada and as a consultant. He began his career in 1973 with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in Toronto working on the development of regional water supply and sewage treatment systems and later environmental assessments.
He holds both a BSc and MSc in environmental engineering from The University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the CIC and chairs the Process Safety Management Committee of the CSChE. Shrives was also active with the Partnerships Toward Safer Communities Program of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and the Technical Management Committee of the former Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada (MIACC).
He lives in Ottawa, ON with his wife, Gall, and their 3 children.
R.S. Jane Memorial Award
Prix commemoratif R.-S.-Jane
Sponsored by / Parraine par CIC Chemical Education Fund / donds de l'enseignements de la chimie de l'ICC
The R.S. Jane Memorial Award is the premier prize of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and is awarded for exceptional achievement in chemical engineering or industrial chemistry.
Le prix commemoratif R.-S.-Jane est le prix principal presente par la Societe canadienne de genie chimique pour souligner une contribution exceptionnelle au domaine du genie chimique ou de la chimie industrielle.
Pierre Carreau, FCIC
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Department of Chemical Engineering
Pierre Carreau is professor of chemical engineering at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He is internationally recognized for his scientific contributions in polymer processing and rheology, an area in which he has published more than 250 scientific papers in journals and authored or co-authored two books. He has received many awards and distinctions. He is a Fellow of the CIC and was CSChE president from 1977-1978. He was recently appointed Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Canada. He has received many other awards, in particular, the Urgel-Archambault Medal of the Societe francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) and the 2007 Society of Plastics Engineers' Research Award. He received honourary doctorates from the University of Grenoble (in 1989) and l'Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquees (INSA) de Lyon in 2007. He has trained some 48 masters students and 34 PhD students.
He was a founder of the Center for Applied Research on Polymers and Composites (CREPEC). CREPEC groups together over 50 individuals: professors from Ecole Polytechnique and governmental investigators in Quebec, working on polymers and composites. He was editor of the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering from 1996-2006. He has organized many conferences including the 2nd World Congress of Chemical Engineering that attracted more than 3,000 delegates to Montreal in 1981. He was head of the chemical engineering department at Ecole Polytechnique from 1973-1978 and a member of the administration board of Ecole Polytechnique from 1996-2000 and from 2002-2006.
Syncrude Canada Innovation Award
Prix d'innovation Syncrude Canada
Sponsored by /Parraine par Syncrude Canada Limited
The Syncrude Canada Innovation Award is presented annually to a resident of Canada, who has made a distinguished contribution to chemical engineering before the age of 40.
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