FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT/VICE-PRESIDENT Steve E. Hrudey, P.Eng., PhD, FCAE
Steve E. Hrudey, P.Eng., is a retired University of Alberta professor and currently principal of his own environmental risk consulting firm. Steve has been a Member of APEGA for almost 45 years and an APEGA Permit Holder with his consulting firm for 33 years. He was born, raised and initially educated in Edmonton,
Steve and his wife, Elizabeth, have two sons, both Professional Engineers (in computer engineering and engineering physics) — one works in Alberta and the other in Boston; and a daughter, who is a pharmacist currently working at the University of Amsterdam Medical School. In 2004, Steve co-authored with Elizabeth Safe Drinking Water: Lessons from Recent Outbreaks in Affluent Nations , the best- selling book ever for IWA Publishing. In June 2014, they published a case-study sequel for frontline drinking water personnel with the American Water Works Association. Steve is completing his three-year term on APEGA Council — a professional career highlight. This service has included contributing to a major re-focusing of APEGA governance to allow greater opportunities for Council to deliberate major issues facing Professional Engineers and Geoscientists. Given that the APEGA membership of about 75,000 is almost two per cent of Alberta’s population, Professional Engineering and Geoscience judgment has an unacceptably low profile within provincial government decision-making. APEGA needs to build on and expand efforts to make Professional Engineers and Geoscientists as influential in government policy as Member numbers and contributions to Alberta’s economy clearly warrant. APEGA Activities • Acting Chair, APEGA Council Governance Committee (2013-2014) • Chair, Public Issues Committee (2013-2014) • Member, APEGA Council (2012–2015) • Member, Subcommittee of the Practice Standards Committee to prepare the Guideline for Management of Risk in Professional Practice (2004–2006) • Member, Environment Committee (1995–1998) • Member, Subcommittee of the Practice Standards Committee to prepare the first edition of Environmental Practice — A Guideline (1990–1993) • Presenter, four technical seminars at branch meetings and APEGA venues Affiliations, Corporate or Community Service • Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta (2008–present) • Member, Management Advisory Board, Alberta Water Research Institute (2007–2009) • Chair, Environmental Appeals Board (2005–2009) • Member, Science Advisory Council, Public Health Agency of Canada (2005–2007) • Board Member, Environmental Appeals Board (1996–2009) • Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (1988–1992) • President, Steve E. Hrudey & Associates Ltd. (1981–present) • Presenter, over 190 invited presentations worldwide to scientific, professional and public groups in the past 20 years
and he is now based in Canmore. Steve obtained his B.Sc. in mechanical
engineering at the University of Alberta before earning an M.Sc. and a PhD in public health engineering from Imperial College, University of London. He was awarded a career academic degree of D.Sc. from the University of London in 2002 and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 2012. He has been awarded the 1991 Berry Medal from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for significant contributions to environmental engineering in Canada, the 1995 Emerald Award for environmental research, the 2012 A.P. Black Award of the American Water Works Association — its top research award — the 2013 APEGA Summit Award for Research Excellence and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006, of the Society for Risk Analysis in 2007, of the International Water Association in 2010, and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2014. He worked as an environmental regulator with B.C. and Environment Canada before joining the University of Alberta in 1975. Steve spent 13 years in the Department of Civil Engineering, and then moved to the Faculty of Medicine in 1988 to establish an interdisciplinary environmental health program (now the Division of Analytical and Environmental Toxicology). He spent 13 years as a cabinet-appointed member of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), the last four years as Chair. At the EAB, he served on 36 public hearing panels, 19 of them as Panel Chair. He has also served on 25 expert panels, eight of them as Chair. These panels include • Chairing a March 2014 international expert panel in Washington for the Water Research Foundation of Denver • Serving on an expert management panel on risk for Calgary City Council following the June 2013 flood • Chairing the Royal Society of Canada expert panel on environmental and health impacts of the oil sands industry (2009-2010) • Serving on a three-member expert panel conducting nine public hearings across Canada on safe drinking water for First Nations, for Jim Prentice, then the federal Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs • serving the research advisory panel to the Walkerton Inquiry (2000-2002) His diverse, interdisciplinary career has provided Steve with a unique perspective on the roles and responsibilities to society of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists.
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