Engineering alumni, friends and faculty inducted into Canadian Academy of Engineering
Eight McMaster-affiliated inductees to the Canadian Academy of Engineering. (Top row, left to right: Shaffiq Jaffer, Suzanne Kresta, Sean Donnelly, Catherine Booth. Bottom row, left to right: Joseph Liburdi, Angela Pappin, Michael Pley, Ray LaPierre.)
Eight McMaster Faculty of Engineering-affiliated engineers are among 59 people to have been inducted as Fellows into the Canadian Academy of Engineering. CAE fellows are nominated and elected for their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.
“The CAE comprises Canada’s most accomplished engineers,” said Ishwar K. Puri, dean and professor of the Faculty of Engineering, who was inducted as a fellow of the CAE in 2017. “There is no professional pleasure more rewarding than engaging daily in the greater good of Canada and the world with outstanding colleagues. Therefore, I am privileged to serve alongside these distinguished engineers.”
McMaster Engineering-affiliated CAE members include:
- Catherine Booth, president and owner of Booth Advisory Inc., and member of the Faculty of Engineering’s Dean’s Advisory Board.
- Sean Donnelly, president and CEO of ArcelorMittal Dofasco and McMaster metallurgical engineering graduate.
- Shaffiq Jaffer, vice-president of Corporate Science and Technology Projects for TOTAL SA and McMaster chemical engineering PhD graduate.
- Suzanne Kresta, dean of the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Engineering and McMaster chemical engineering PhD graduate.
- Ray LaPierre, professor and chair of McMaster’s Engineering Physics department and McMaster engineering physics PhD graduate.
- Joe Liburdi, president, Liburdi Group of Companies and member of the Faculty of Engineering’s Dean’s Advisory Board.
- Angela Pappin, vice-president Technology of ArcelorMittal Dofasco and mechanical engineering graduate.
- Michael Pley, CEO of COM DEV International (retired), electrical engineering and management graduate, McMaster honorary doctorate recipient and chair of the Faculty of Engineering’s Dean’s Advisory Board.
The Canadian Academy of Engineering has close ties with similar prestigious academies throughout the world, being an active member of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, and as one of three member academies of the Council of Canadian Academies, the other two being the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
For more information on McMaster’s new CAE fellows, go to the Faculty of Engineering’s website.
