Bob Manavi, M.Eng, P.Eng

Bob Manavi holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Carleton University and a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He began his career in the nuclear industry working on General Electric mechanical fuel handling systems. He continued his career in the automotive industry with Ford Motor Company as a Chassis Systems Design Engineer before going to Tier 1 automotive supplier Arvin Meritor, where he held the position of Product Design Engineer working on suspension components for the heavy truck and recreational vehicle markets.  

Bob is presently the Staff Structural Design Engineer for the Compressor Rotor Structures Department at Pratt and Whitney Canada, a global leader in the development of gas turbine engines for the aerospace industry. His experience includes mechanical design and manufacturing methodologies, metal fatigue, non-destructive test methods, finite element analysis and heat transfer.

Bob has a patent for a novel air suspension design, a technical publication outlining a methodology developed for failure prediction in titanium centrifugal rotors with the ASME and has presented at the ASME Gas Turbine and Aero Engine Technical Congress Turbo Expo.

Andrew Shaw

 
Andrew Shaw completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2005.  He is currently employed by Hatch Ltd. as a junior engineer in the furnace group. Andrew has worked on a variety of projects, including thermal modeling of furnace refractory, design of air and water cooling systems, and on-site monitoring of furnace startups in South Africa and Indonesia.

Company Description

Hatch is a leading global consulting, engineering, technologies, information systems, procurement, project and construction management, and startup and commissioning firm. The company is dedicated to three sectors: mining and metals; energy; and infrastructure.

The business units and affiliates of the Hatch Group provide a full range of innovative process consulting, technology-driven solutions, technologies and business and technical services through a network of 7,000 employees in 80 permanent offices on the six industrial continents.

Programs and projects under management have an aggregate value in excess of US$20 billion. Consulting fees for 2005 exceeded $1,000,000,000.

Mark Browne

Mark Browne is a senior mechanical engineering/lead engineering at Shaw Stone and Webster, a consulting engineering company located in Toronto. He holds a bachelor and masters degree both in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

He has 12 years experience much of which has been in the energy industry and is currently one of the company’s heat balance and power plant common studies technical experts.

Mark has been involved in all stages of development of numerous national and international power projects from marketing and conception to development of heat balances, financial evaluations and major equipment selection to detailed engineering, procurement and construction. 

His area of expertise is fossil fuel based plants especially gas turbine based simple cycle, combined cycle and co-generation systems but also has experience in nuclear and others.

Company Description

Through our acquisition of assets of Stone & Webster, Inc. in 2000, The Shaw Group inherited the legacy of a world-renowned leader in the power and process industries. Today, Shaw Stone & Webster is a leading global provider of full-service, value-added engineering, design, procurement, construction, and maintenance services to the energy industry.

Shaw provides new nuclear plant design and construction services worldwide. Of recent note is our role as part of the AP1000 Consortium with Westinghouse Electric Company, of which we are a 20 percent owner. This consortium was selected by the People's Republic of China State Nuclear Power Technology Company (SNPTC) to build four new nuclear power plants using Westinghouse's AP1000 passive Generation III technology. This groundbreaking contract will provide a sustainable source of critically needed power generation for the People's Republic of China.

With nearly 120 years of major project experience that has spanned six continents and 50 countries, Shaw offers unique insight into the complexities of consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction projects.

Professor Sefton

University Professor MICHAEL V. SEFTON is Michael E. Charles Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto. He was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc., 1971) and at M.I.T. (Sc.D., 1974) and has been at the University of Toronto since 1974. He was Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto from 1999-2005. He was named University Professor in 2003 in recognition of his contributions to bioengineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2005. He has spun off a company Rimon Therapeutics to commercialize novel therapeutic polymers.

Dr. Ksenia Slywynska

Ksenia was born and bread in Toronto, and is of Ukrainian background. She completed her Industrial engineering degree in 2002 at the University of Toronto. Upon graduation Ksenia worked in the Trillium Health Centre for the Director of Quality Control and in the fall of 2002 she began medical school at the University of Western. She completed her medical degree in 2006 and is now is in her second year as a pediatric resident at The Hospital for Sick Children. Ksenia’s other interests include volunteer and development work in Eastern Europe where she helps improve standard of living for children living in orphanages, through the organization Help Us Help the Children.