Improving energy efficiency and enabling environmental adaptation
- Facilitating and conducting research to promote energy efficiency
- Focusing on renewable energies
- Providing solutions for industrial ventilation and HVAC systems
- Optimization of Oil, Gas, petroleum refining and petrochemical operations
- Promoting environmentally friendly technologies
- Sustainable and alternative energy sources e.g. solar, wind and wave energy, geothermal, photovoltaics, biofuels, CHP
- Energy storage
- Power systems
- Alternative fuels
- Energy related environmental systems
- Carbon capture, management and sequestration
- Process systems engineering
- Process modeling, simulation and optimization of complex systems
- Industrial ventilation and HVAC sustainable development
- Optimization of oil, gas, petroleum refining and petrochemical operations
- Oil sands, shale gas and energy policy
- Geo-mechanical aspects of mining, petroleum
- Oil and gas well integrity – oil reservoir monitoring methods
- Deep waste disposal technology for solid and liquid wastes
- Compressed air energy storage
- International collaborative projects
- Winter and summer schools
- Online courses
- Dual degree programs
- Conferences, workshops and talks
Steering Committee Members
IEEE
Dr. Madjid Soltani
Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran.
- Bio-Engineering
- Bio-Chemical Engineering
Dr. Pu Chen
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.
- Materials
- Bio-Medicine
- Energy
Dr. Maurice B. Dusseault
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences , University of Waterloo, Canada.
- Hydraulic fracturing of naturally fractured rock masses
- Work, energy and stress-strain responses of stresses rock masses
- Rock-cement-casing interaction and gas seepage along oil and gas wells
- THM coupling in naturally fractured rock masses
- Deformation monitoring of rock masses
- Remote non-destructive assessment of solid infrastructure condition
Dr. Ioannis (John) Chatzis
Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Waterloo, Canada.
- Interfacial Phenomena, Colloids & Porous Media, Separation Processes
- Flow in Porous Media, Heavy Oil Recovery, In-situ soil remediation
- microfluidics and heat transfer aspects, pore network micromodels, Flow properties
- Sweep efficiency studies, Environmental engineering technologies, Characterization of pore structure and modelling of capillary and transport phenomena
- EOR technologies associated with oil recovery, Vapour Extraction (VAPEX), Solvent-Aided Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SASAGD)
- Water
Dr. David Johnson
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Waterloo, Canada
- Wind Energy and Wind Turbines
- Large Scale PIV and Measurement Techniques
- Development and Application of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to Flows
- Incompressible Flow Turbomachinery (Turbines, Fans and Pumps)
- Fan Design and Testing
- Pump Design and Testing
- Jet and Nozzle Flows
Dr. Xianguo Li
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Energy Systems and Energy Policy/Planning
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Conversion Technologies
- Energy Conservation and Management
Dr. Greg F. Naterer
Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- Energy Systems
- Heat Transfer
- Multiphase Flows
- Entropy and the Second Law
Dr. Kobra Gharali
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Wind Turbines
- Renewable Energies
- Experimental Measurements and Visualization Techniques
Dr. Alireza Dehghani Sanij
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- Renewable Energies
- Passive Cooling Systems
Dr. Ali Elkamel
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, Canada
- Process Systems Engineering
- Process Analysis and Improvement
- Planning and Scheduling of Process Operations
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Product and Process Design
- Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization
- Waste Utilization and Management
- Planning for Energy Production (Oil, Gas, and Biomass Energy)
- Robust Optimization
- Soft Computing
- Combinatorial Optimization
Dr. Nasser Lashgarian Azad
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, Canada
- Automotive powertrain control, Vehicle dynamics, Controls
- Model predictive control, Automotive, Autonomous and connected car
- Unmanned vehicle systems, Intelligent transportation systems, Electric and hybrid vehicles
- Artificial intelligence, Optimization, Optimal and nonlinear control
Dr. Vahid Vakiloroaya
Centre for Infrastructure Engineering, Western Sydney University, Australia
- Solar Energy Technologies
- Thermodynamics
Dr. Sohrab Zendehboudi
Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- Reservoir Analysis
- Energy and Environment
- Transport Phenomena
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- Process Systems Engineering
Dr. Seyed Bijan Mahbaz
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Geomechanics
- Non-destructive testing
- Geophysics
- Geothermal energy
- Mechatronics
Dr. Hadi Bordbar
Departments of Energy, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
- Energy
- Numerical Simulation
- Heat and Mass Transfer
- Two Phase Flow
- Modeling of Radiative Heat Transfer
Dr. Dipanjan Basu
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, Canada
- Soil Behavior
- Pile Foundations
- Constitutive Modeling
- Soil Structure Interaction
- Geothermal Energy
- Sustainability Assessment
- Soil Dynamics
- Load and Resistance Factor Design
- Ground Improvement
- Probabilistic Analysis
- Energy harvesting/bio-energy
- Energy storage
- Renewable energy
Dr. Robert F. Mudde
Department of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Very Uniform Bubbly Flow
- Fast X-ray Tomography