Awards

2025 CSME Regular Award Winners

March 25, 2025
CSME Executive Director
ResearchEngineering

CSME announces recipients of its 2025 regular awards, to be presented during the 2025 International Congress banquet at ETS in Montréal.

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The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), founded in 1970, is pleased to announce the winning recipients of its 2025 regular awards. These awards may be bestowed annually to members of the society for their outstanding contributions to specific areas of mechanical engineering in Canada.

The following exceptional engineers will be presented with their awards on 27 May 2025 during the banquet of the CSME International Congress hosted by ETS in Montréal, QC.

Clifford N. Downing — For “distinguished service to the CSME over many years.”

Jerzy Maciej Floryan, Ph.D., FCSME — University of Western Ontario, London, ON

I.W. Smith Award — For “outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering within 10 years of PhD degree”

Cuiying Jian, Ph.D., MCSME — York University, Toronto, ON

2025 Industrial Innovation Award — For “outstanding contributions to innovations in industry within the discipline of mechanical engineering in Canada”

Serge Lalonde — Pratt & Whitney, Longueuil, QC

2025 CSME Fellows — For “excellence in mechanical engineering and significant contributions to the progress of the profession”

Martin Agelin-Chaab, Ph.D., FCSME (2025) — Ontario Tech University, Toronto, ON

Hamid Akbarzadeh, Ph.D., FCSME (2025) — McGill University, Montréal, QC

Tobin Filleter, Ph.D., FCSME (2025) — University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

John Wen, Ph.D., FCSME (2025) — University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

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