Nadine Ibrahim

• PhD
• Chair at University of Waterloo

The authors of this paper are non-Indigenous educators who desire to introduce Indigenous Ways of Knowing into the engineering curriculum because they believe it can add value to the impact of engineering in society and positively influence approaches to sustainable engineering design. This is challenging as the authors do not have lived Indigenous...

The authors of this paper are non-Indigenous educators who desire to introduce Indigenous Ways of Knowing into the engineering curriculum because they believe it can add value to the impact of engineering in society and positively influence approaches to sustainable engineering design. This is challenging as the authors do not have lived Indigenous...

To provide a framework for engineering educators to map leadership and management skills development in the curriculum, the authors previously created a Leadership-Management Development Model (LMDM). In this paper we look to extend the model to include sustainability by using an “environmental limits approach”, creating a Leadership-Management -Su...

Engineering Deans Canada (EDC) recently articulated Grand Challenges that recognize the role of engineers and the specific needs of Canadians in the form of Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges (CEGCs). The CEGCs offer a unique framework to motivate and engage engineering students from different disciplines and encourage collaboration and the shar...

The understanding of how engineering education might evolve to prepare future students for the opportunities and challenges that society will face is of great interest to educators and to the engineering profession. A special interest group of the CEEA-ACÉG was formed in 2017 with a mandate to facilitate the discussion on the identity and attribute...

In order to provide a framework for engineering educators to map leadership and management skills development in the curriculum, the authors previously created a Leadership-Management Development Model (LMDM) [1]. In this paper we extend the model to include sustainability by using an "environmental limits approach", creating a Leadership-Managemen...

Engineering Deans Canada (EDC) recently articulated Grand Challenges that recognize the role of engineers and the specific needs of Canadians in the form of Canadian Engineering Grand Challenges (CEGCs). The CEGCs offer a unique framework to motivate and engage engineering students from different disciplines and encourage collaboration and the shar...

Can waste that possesses convenient structural properties be repurposed into modular structural assemblies and thus contribute to a circular economy in the built environment? This is a largely novel idea that is under-explored. A structured and generalized framework is presented to address and evaluate this idea. Validation of the efficacy of the f...

Strong leadership skills and an understanding of the engineering role in both technological innovation and stewardship are required to address global problems such as the grand challenges. Incorporating leadership skills development and connecting leadership to a broad awareness of socio-technical responsibilities can be complex in what is a very f...

Material stock accounting is a tool that can be utilized to provide insight into the past, current, and future material use in cities. Construction materials are the biggest contributors to material use in urban areas. Considering the rapid population growth and increase in urban land area, it is necessary to measure the construction material consu...

Growing worldwide population and expansion in urban land area are becoming global concerns. As a result of this growth, material consumption in cities is increasing to adapt with the needs and activities of the urban populations. Among the materials consumed, construction materials are responsible for the greatest share of material use in cities. T...

Open Education Resources are pedagogical resources which are available under open licences for reuse and remixing. These resources support collaborative development of education material, the ongoing evolution and improvement of the material and easy access to both educators and students. Several initiatives exist for OER in Canada, and resources s...

Distance education has come a long since the days of mailed correspondence, with little interaction and a timely delay. As technology continues to more robustly offer opportunities for instructors and learners to be distributed but still interactive, more options for course structures emerge. Open online course development for distance education is...

A new learning opportunity among civil engineering students is learning about urbanization in cities, which combines the sub-disciplines of civil engineering in a seamlessly interdisciplinary manner. One of the greatest benefits of learning about a global phenomenon such as urbanization is introducing the opportunities to offer examples of the tech...

Industry engagement in undergraduate engineering education is a community-centred approach to learning that is hands-on and links the engineering theory to practice. This paper provides a review of existing Engineer-in-Residence (EIR) programs in Canada, including the University of Manitoba, Dalhousie University, University of Calgary, Ryerson Univ...

Strategies that reduce fossil-fuel use can achieve both global carbon mitigation and local health-protection goals. Now research shows the dual benefits of compact urban design and circular economy policies in Chinese cities.

John Smeaton was the first to declare himself a civil engineer, wanting to differentiate his work as non-military. Smeaton is best known for the lighthouse that he designed on the Eddystone Rocks, nineteen kilometers southwest of Plymouth Sound in the United Kingdom. The lighthouse, which started operation on October 16, 1759, was the third structu...

As drivers of climate action, cities are taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which if left unabated pose a challenge to meeting long-term climate targets. The economics of climate action needs to be at the forefront of climate dialogue to prioritize investments among competing mitigation measures. A marginal abatement cost (MA...

Significance Our quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities is a major undertaking, not previously achieved. The sheer magnitude of these flows (e.g., 9% of global electricity, 10% of gasoline; 13% of solid waste) shows the importance of megacities in addressing global environmental challenges. In aggregate the resour...

We introduce a new 'multi-layered' indicator set for urban metabolism (UM) studies in megacities. The indicator set is designed for gathering information on the definition (spatial boundaries, constituent cities, population, economy), biophysical characteristics (climate, population density, building floor area), and metabolic flows (water, waste,...

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avert potentially disastrous global climate change requires substantial redevelopment of infrastructure systems. Cities are recognized as key actors for leading such climate change mitigation efforts. We have studied the greenhouse gas inventories and underlying characteristics of 22 global cities. These cities...

Credibly and consistently reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cities and urban areas enables policy-makers and practitioners to contribute to addressing the challenge of climate change by meeting mitigation targets, and is critical to overall good municipal management. Good reporting allows for transparency, verification, and replication...