[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Deen_Jamal.jpg” caption=”Jamal Deen (above), David Weaver and Max Wong (below) were inducted to the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 1. Photos courtesy of Faculty of Engineering.”]Three members of McMaster's Faculty of Engineering were inducted to the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 1. Members of the Academy are nominated and elected by their peers to honorary Fellowships for their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.

This year, Jamal Deen, professor, electrical and computer engineering, David Weaver, professor emeritus, mechanical engineering, and Max Wong, chair, electrical and computer engineering, were inducted to the Academy.

Deen is internationally recognized for his outstanding and seminal contributions to the analysis, modeling and applications of microelectronic and optoelectronic devices.

He has developed powerful models for the curate analysis and design of high-performance semiconductor devices and circuits. These contributions build on his innovative experimental techniques to study important device properties.

A highly accomplished researcher, inventor, and a prolific scholar, his device models and experimental innovations are used worldwide. He is also noted for his mentoring of engineers and scientists, his competency and proficiency as a teacher, and his effectiveness in technology transfer to industry.

Weaver is a leader in the research of flow-induced vibrations. His research encompasses fluid excitation mechanisms and structural response to turbulent pressure fluctuations or periodicity.

He is developing structures that will withstand destructive flow induced vibrations. Applications of his research are seen in heat exchanger tube arrays, commonly with nuclear steam generators, hydraulic gates and valves, bellows expansion joints and acoustic excitation in pipelines.

He served as President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers (CSME) and was a two-time recipient of the McMaster Student Union's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Wong is a leader in the research of signal processing. His research ranges from development of fundamental theory and algorithms in signal processing to applications and designs of signal processors in communication, radar and sonar systems.

His research in sensor array processing brought high resolution processing methods into practical use in non-ideal noise environments. His more recent work pioneered the application of convex optimization techniques to signal processor designs and made great impacts in line and wireless communications.

Author of more than 200 technical papers, his inventions include the transmultiplexer and the wavelet echo canceller used in daily telephone systems while his algorithms in target detection and estimation are implemented in defence systems. Wong is currently the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and held the NSERC-Mitle Professor of Signal Processing.