Engineering to Adapt 2023 Symposium and Industry Summit
June 22-23, 2023
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Engineering to Adapt 2023 Symposium and Industry Summit
June 22-23, 2023
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Our Speakers
Dr. Graham Reader, BA, BTech (Hons), PhD, psc, FEC, PEng, CEng, CMarE, Eur Ing, FIMarEst
Engineering to Adapt: Waste Not, Want Not
Dr. Graham Reader is a professor of mechanical engineering, and a former Dean, at the University of Windsor in Canada, where he co-founded the Clean Combustion Research Laboratory complex. He has been involved in energy research for longer than he cares to remember both in industry and academia. He has held professorial and administrative appointments at several universities worldwide and has published many technical articles including almost 20 books and book chapters. A licensed professional engineer in Canada, the UK and Europe, he has also served on the boards of several engineering accreditation agencies. Before entering full-time academia, Dr. Reader worked in the coal mining industry and served as a commissioned officer in the British Royal Navy.
Dr. Marguerite Xenopoulos, PhD, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Change of Freshwater Ecosystems
Adapting together: Incorporating the complexity of aquatic ecosystems into Engineering
Dr. Marguerite Xenopoulos is full professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Change of Freshwater Ecosystems in the Biology Department at Trent University. Xenopoulos is an ecosystem ecologist whose research expertise centers on understanding how humans and their activities are affecting freshwater ecosystems at both local and global scales. Some of her current projects include the effects of urban and agricultural land use on the biogeochemistry and ecosystem function of aquatic systems, the effects climate extreme events (e.g., flooding) and hydrological variability in freshwater, and the investigation of state variables for the creation of early warning systems. Xenopoulos was formally the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Limnology and Oceanography and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. She has received several awards including a University Faculty Award from Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), an Early Researcher Award from the province of Ontario, she is a Sustaining Fellow for the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, and she shared the Zayed Prize for the Environment for her involvement with the United Nation’s Millennium Assessment. Xenopoulos is currently on the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, appointed by both Canadian and American Commissioners (2020-2026) to advise them on science priorities for the Laurentian Great Lakes.
Committee
Honorary Chair: Rupp Carriveau, University of Windsor
Conference Chair: David S-K. Ting, University of Windsor
Technical Program Chair: Ahmadreza Vasel-Be-Hagh, Tennessee Technological University
Electricity: Narayan Kar, University of Windsor
Engineering: Paul G. O’Brien, York University
Food & Renewable: William David Lubitz, University of Guelph
Sustainable Living: Lindsay Miller-Branovacki & Rajeev Ruparathna, University of Windsor
Logistics Chairs: Jacqueline Stagner & Marissa Hatt, University of Windsor
Conference Overseer: Jo Asuncion, University of Windsor
Sponsorship: Katie Mazzuca, University of Windsor
Media & IT: Naomi Pelkey, Mark Gryn, Srabanti Chitte, University of Windsor
