Faculty Directory

  • Adam Rysanek

    Adam Rysanek

    Architecture and Landscape Architecture

    Research/teaching areas

    Building performance simulation, energy systems, parametric design, sustainability metrics, urban analytics

  • Rehan Sadiq

    Rehan Sadiq

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Water supply systems; infrastructure management; environmental risk analysis; lifecycle thinking; water-energy nexus of built environment

  • Elizabeth Saewyc

    Research/teaching areas

    Health issues of youth, with a particular emphasis on how stigma, violence and trauma affect adolescent health and risk behaviours, and the environmental assets and protective factors that foster resilience among vulnerable young people in spite of stigma and trauma

  • Tim Salcudean

    Tim Salcudean

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Medical robotics, image-guided interventions, medical image analysis including cancer classification, ultrasound, elastography, teleoperation.

  • Joseph Salfi

    Joseph Salfi

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Quantum information science and technology: investigation, realization and assembly of building blocks for quantum computers, simulators and networks using solid-state and silicon-based approaches

  • Blair Satterfield

    Blair Satterfield

    Architecture and Landscape Architecture

    Research/teaching areas

    Use of second steam materials in construction; Computational design in fabrication and construction; Energy and material efficient methods for construction; General design and design pedagogy

  • Tarek Sayed

    Tarek Sayed

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Full Bayes safety models, automated safety analysis using computer vision techniques, safety evaluations, traffic conflicts techniques, pedestrian modeling, and ITS

  • Gary Schajer

    Gary Schajer

    Mechanical Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Developing methods to measure residual stresses suitable for industry use through ESPI and strain-gauge techniques, developing high-speed scanner to measure surface profile of rapidly moving lumber to enhance cut accuracy, and identifying lumber properties using microwave techniques

  • Rachel Scholes

    Rachel Scholes

    Civil Engineering

    Research/teaching areas

    Environmental chemistry, trace contaminants, water reuse, nature-based treatment systems, stormwater treatment.

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    Ashley Scott

    Nursing

    Research/teaching areas

    Evaluation of new learning technologies or tools and their integration into existing programs; Impact of learning technologies on students

  • Dimitry Sediako

    Dimitry Sediako

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Stress analysis in metal castings, components, and joints; Solidification, phase evolution and transformation; Lightweight alloy development for automotive and aerospace industries; Phase and structural transformation in metals; Material properties - ferrous and lightweight alloys and metal matrix composites; Ferrous and non-ferrous alloys: casting, heat treatment, and forming technologies; Thermal dynamics, heat transfer in metallurgical engineering.

  • Rudolph Seethaler

    Rudolf Seethaler

    Engineering (Okanagan campus)

    Research/teaching areas

    Mechatronics for automobiles; sensor less control of piezoelectric actuators, machine tool process control; optimisation of carbon nanotube reinforced composite materials

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