Movers & Shakers
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away from the purely technical side of things led him to pursue an MBA at the Haskayne School of Business. In addition to his work with Autopro, Mr. Couto owns and operates his own company, Couto Consulting Ltd., in Calgary. With a goal to combine his passion for engineering with a desire to drive renewable energy innovation in Canada, he is currently involved in a new Canadian renewable energy start-up company called Solerta. Outside of work, Mr. Couto has supported World Vision Canada, Engineers Without Borders, and the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer. Sean Mascarenhas, P.Eng. , progressed very quickly in his career, leading major projects in his first five years. Also on the Leaders Under 40 list, Mr. Mascarenhas graduated with a bachelor in electrical engineering from McMaster University. As a senior engineer with Autopro Automation Consultants Ltd., Mr. Mascarenhas has proven his ability to lead large projects, such as a large distributed control system upgrade. He is known for consistency when it comes to getting projects done on schedule, and on budget, and to a level of quality that often exceeds expectations. Recently he was electrical lead on a greenfield project for a major petrochemical producer — the largest project in Autopro’s 25-year history. In this role he managed a team of more than 20 technical staff and interfaced with the client and subcontractors to ensure quality standards were met. Mr. Mascarenhas is also an avid football enthusiast, volun- teering as a high school football coach for the past six years and winning a city championship in 2015.
industry. He has used science and technology to advance bitumen recovery and reduce its environmental impact. Dr. Xu’s projects always include a path to industrial practice, and his research has been utilized in fields such as oil sands separation, mineral processing, surface and interfacial science, absorption of environmental pollutants, and clean coal science. In 2009, Dr. Xu was chosen to be part of a Royal Society panel led by Steve Hrudey, P.Eng., PhD, FEC , that looked at the environmental and health impacts of Canada’s oil sands industry. Dr. Hrudey is President-Elect of APEGA. Dr. Xu has published over 330 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers and holds three U.S. and one Canadian patent. He is the NSERC Industry Research Chair in Oil Sands Engineering at the U of A and the Canada Research Chair in Mineral Processing. He is a past recipient of the Frank Spragins Technical Award of the APEGA Summit Awards and this year also received the Syncrude Award for Excellence in Sustainable Development.
QUEST TO CAPTURE CARBON
A project by Fluor Canada Ltd. has been named Global Best Project for 2015 by Engineering News-Record . As reported on Business Wire , the Quest Carbon Capture and Storage Project is a commercial processing facility that captures direct carbon dioxide emissions from Shell Canada’s Scotford upgrader near
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ROYAL WELCOME FOR INTERFACIAL EXPERT
He’s a world-renowned expert in interfacial sciences known for the quality, importance, and impact of his work. Zhenghe Xu, P.Eng. , has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Xu studied minerals engineering at the Central- South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in China, before moving to the United States to complete his PhD in materials engineering science. He was an assistant professor at McGill
PRACTICAL INNOVATOR Zhenghe Xu, P.Eng., elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has a long record of undertaking research with practical applications for industry.
University before moving to Edmonton to join the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta. A professor and researcher there for the past 15 years, his main research area is interfacial sciences as applied to natural resources processing and utilization. Dr. Xu’s expertise in mineral processing technology has allowed him to address challenges faced by the oil sands
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