CEAB Accreditation Visit, October 19-21, 2025

The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board’s (CEAB) next visit will occur on October 19-21, 2025, covering all of our undergraduate programs.

The purpose of accreditation is:

“… to identify to the member engineering regulators of Engineers Canada those engineering programs whose graduates are academically qualified to begin the process to be licensed as professional engineers in Canada. The process of accreditation emphasizes the quality of the students, the academic and support staff, the curriculum, and the education facilities.” (CEAB Accreditation Criteria and Procedures 2023 PDF)

The visiting team chair is Julius Pataky, P.Eng., MBA, CEAB member and Management Consultant, KPMG (Vancouver, BC).

The vice-chairs are James Lee, Ph.D., FEC, P.Eng., Department Head and Professor, Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK) and Darlene Spracklin-Reid, P.Eng., Assistant Deputy Minister, Infrastructure, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s, NL).

Ann English, FEC, P.Eng., retired CEO and Registrar, Engineers & Geoscientists BC is an observer (Burnaby, BC).

The program visitors are:

• Chemical Engineering:
  • Andrea Julio, P.Eng.
    Program Manager, School of Engineering & Technology, Conestoga College; Lead Project Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace (Cambridge, ON)
• Civil Engineering:
  • Catherine Tatarniuk, Ph.D., FEC, P.Eng.
    Associate Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)
• Computer Engineering:
  • Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
• Electrical Engineering:
  • Mahda Jahromi, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Senior Lecturer, Sustainable Energy Engineering, Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC)
• Engineering Science:
  • Robert Holland, P.Eng.
    Specialist Engineering – Quality Assurance, BC HYDRO (Burnaby, BC)
    Common core (first 2 years); Engineering Mathematics, Statistics and Finance
  • Réda Fayek, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Management Consultant, Kimitek Inc. (Kitchener, ON)
    Biomedical Systems Engineering; Energy Systems Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Joshua Marshall, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Professor and Associate Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Queen’s University (Kingston, ON)
    Machine intelligence; Robotics Engineering
  • Simone Pisana, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University (Toronto, ON)
    Aerospace Engineering; Engineering Physics
• Industrial Engineering:
  • Ali Akgunduz, Ph.D., ing.
    Associate Dean-Academic Programs, Gina Cody School of Engineering and Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
• Lassonde Mineral Engineering:
  • Marek Pawlik, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Department Head and Professor, Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
• Materials Engineering:
  • Marilyn Spink, P.Eng.
    Operations Director, Canadian Critical Minerals & Materials Alliance (Toronto, ON)
• Mechanical Engineering
  • Robert Brennan, Ph.D., P.Eng.
    Professor, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary (Calgary, AB)