Professor John William Mossop

John William Mossop (1932-2021) received his Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering from McGill University in 1955. Beloved by his students, John was at the forefront of recruiting students into Mining Engineering at McGill and had an important role in increasing the number of women and non-engineers in the program.
 

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Professor David Selby

Professor David Adrian Selby (BEng ’49, MEng ’64) passed away on November 24, 2016, at ninety-one years of age. He had joined the Department of Civil Engineering in 1956, and until his retirement in 1990, he made great contributions to the Department, the University, and the Civil Engineering profession over his distinguished, 34-year career at McGill.
 

Professor Michael P. Paidoussis

Professor Michael P. Païdoussis joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of McGill University in 1967. In 1976, he was promoted to Full Professor and served as Department Chair from 1977 to 1986. Since 1960, Professor Païdoussis has worked on various aspects of fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibrations, aero- and hydro-elasticity, dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos.
 

Professor Raymond N. Yong

Professor Raymond Yong (MEng’58, PhD’60) is the William Scott Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering at McGill University. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering in 1959 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1965. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, he served as the Director of the Centre of Geotechnical Research, which provided basic and applied research in the area of earth and earth-associated sciences to industrial problems.

Professor Philip Distin

Professor Philip Distin passed away on January 12, 2016. He joined the Department of Mining & Materials Engineering in 1972 and for the next 30 years, he offered courses and conducted research in the area of hydrometallurgy and corrosion of metals. Phil was, first and foremost, a teacher committed to his students’ learning.

Professor Emeritus Tom Pavlasek

Tom Pavlasek was born in London, England in July 1923. He earned his B. Eng. (1944), M. Eng. (1948), and Ph.D. (1958) from McGill, and was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and Professor in 1962. He served as Secretary of the Faculty (1966-67), and Associate Dean for Planning and Development (1967-70).

Professor Dr. Gar Lam Yip

Dr. Gar Lam Yip (1937-1999) was a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University. He was an enthusiastic teacher, dedicated researcher, and pioneer in guided wave photonics.
 

Professor Emeritus Gerald W. Farnell

Professor Gerald Farnell (1925-2015) served in the Canadian Army and began his studies at the University of Toronto as a member of the Army Officer Training Course. In 1950, having earned a Master’s of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Farnell arrived at McGill as a lecturer and Ph.D. student.

Professor Martin Levine

Dr. Martin Levine received his BEng and MEng degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University in 1960 and 1963, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, England, in 1965. He was the first academic in Canada to teach courses on computer vision and artificial intelligence.
 

Professor William M. Williams

William (Bill) M. Williams (1927-2011), was born in Wales, the son of a coal miner. When his father fell ill, the family went through hard times and had little money for education. In 1944 Williams won a scholarship at the University of Bristol, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree and Master of Science in physics. In 1960, Williams earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto and started lecturing at McGill University.

Professor Eric L. Adler

Eric Adler (1930-2017) was born in Alexandria, Egypt and his early years were fraught. In May 1948 he was arrested after finishing his London Matriculation exams, as he was stateless. After successfully gaining freedom, he found Canada was welcoming to engineers and that he could receive financial support here. He received his Master’s in Applied Science from the University of Toronto in 1959 and joined McGill as Assistant Professor in 1961.

Professor Peter Silvester

Peter Silvester (1935-96) was an electrical engineer who contributed to the understanding of numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields and authored a standard textbook on the subject, Finite Elements for Electrical Engineering. Peter was born in Tallinn, Estonia. His education includes a Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-Mellon University), a Master’s in engineering from University of Toronto, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1964.