2026 CSME Regular Award Winners

The CSME is pleased to announce that the following exceptional professionals, along with separately-announced winners of CSME’s technical medals, were presented with their awards on 26 May at the 2026 CSME International Congress hosted on 24-27 May by UBC in Vancouver. 

G.H. Duggan Medal

For the best paper in the Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering dealing with the use of advanced materials for structural or mechanical purposes.

Michael Benoit, Ph.D., MCSME

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

I.W. Smith Award

For “outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering within 10 years of PhD degree”

Yu Zou, Ph.D., MCSME

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

2026 CSME Fellows

For “excellence in mechanical engineering and significant contributions to the progress of the profession”

Mohsen Akbari, Ph.D., FCSME (2026)

University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Sunny (Ri) Li, Ph.D., FCSME (2026)

University of British Columbia
Kelowna Campus, BC

Kevin Pope, Ph.D., FCSME (2026)

Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John’s, NL

Dan Romanyk, Ph.D., FCSME (2026)

University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Norman Wereley, Ph.D., FCSME (2026)

University of Maryland, Maryland, MD