#BuildingTomorrows is a series that highlights the important contributions of engineers and the many ways they help to make our world a better place – from rethinking communities to make them more liveable, to designing novel treatments that cure disease, to building online protection systems to safeguard Canadians from cyberattacks. Because that’s what engineers do. They build hope for a better world and a better future for us all.
Mary Alexander brings her passion and love of conquering challenges to create beautiful and functional community spaces.
John Desnoyers-Stewart uses his engineering background to apply creative, artistic processes to his technological investigations.
Jean-Paul Pinard has a plan to help the Yukon and the North wean itself off fossil fuels through renewable wind energy.
Quazi Hassan uses information from the past and present to predict future disasters and develop resiliency plans for mitigating the increasing risk of wildfires.
Ijeoma Omodu is a mechanical engineer and an environmentalist who works in the oil and gas industry, focusing on reducing emissions and environmental impact.
Lauren Hutchinson is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer and one of several engineers that tackle the geological problems that underpin communities.
Steve Auger is one of many experts who works at the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority to create innovative methods of stormwater management.
Alan Carter is a professor in the Department of Construction Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS). He applies his extensive knowledge to developing asphalt pavement that is less harmful to the environment.
Rob Langlois specializes in safety critical systems and has joined his community in making transport safer for fragile newborns.
When engineering fails, forensic engineers like Matthew Obach investigate to understand what went wrong and how future failures can be prevented.
From noisy seas to whale strikes to navigation systems, autonomous systems engineer Amy Deeb, breaks down problems to their base components to build innovative solutions.
Sumi Siddiqua, a geo-environmental engineer at the University of British Columbia, is researching how to use soil and industrial byproducts to create low-carbon construction materials.
Sports engineer Sean Maw has worked on improving the safety, performance, and regulation of multiple sports in Canada and is now using lessons learned from his career to support future engineers.
Giovanni Beltrame, ing, a computer engineer with a background in the European Space agency, now works at the Polytechnique Montreal to develop multi-robot systems that are used to explore space.
A mechanical engineer with a specialization in HVAC systems, used creativity and perseverance to create an innovation that has changed cooling systems around the world, including the data centres that power Meta.
