Sustaining Tomorrow with Minimal Entropy Generation 2025
Symposium and Industry Summit
June 19-20, 2025
University of Windsor,
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Welcome to Eco-Friendly Engineering 2025
Who We Are
Engineering may be defined as improving the human living standard via the appropriate application of science and mathematics. Bettering the quality of life must encompass the lives of both current and, at least, their seven future generations. As such, eco-friendly engineering is the only way to forge ahead. Gro Harlem Brundtland put this eloquently when she proclaimed, “Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Eco-Friendly Engineering 2025 is about sustaining a pleasant living standard with reduced entropy production. While all processes faithfully follow the second law of thermodynamics in producing entropy, much can be engineered in lessening the amount of entropy generated. This symposium provides a venue for experts from diverse backgrounds to exchange knowledge about their respective state-of-the-art progress to foster interdisciplinary collaboration to solidify eco-friendly engineering. Topics of interest include sustainable living, cradle-to-cradle engineering, tenable development, and waste and pollution reduction and management.
Our Team
Honorary Chair: Rupp Carriveau, University of Windsor
Conference Chair: David S-K. Ting, University of Windsor
Technical Program Chair: Ahmadreza Vasel-Be-Hagh, University of South Florida
- Eco-friendly Farming: William David Lubitz, University of Guelph
- Nature & Nurture: Paul G. O’Brien, York University
- Sustainable Living: Yulin Hu, University of Price Edward Island
- Tenable Engineering: Himanshu Tyagi, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Logistics Chairs: Jacqueline A. Stagner, Marissa E. Hatt, Turbulence & Energy Laboratory
Conference Overseer: Jo Asuncion, University of Windsor
Sponsorship: Katie Mazzuca, University of Windsor
Media & IT: Naomi Pelkey, Mark Gryn, Srabanti Chitte, Lionel Beaudoin, University of Windsor
Paper/Abstract
March 7, 2025: Abstract Deadline
March 28, 2025: Notification of Abstract Acceptance
April 25, 2025: Final Paper Submission Deadline
Eco-Friendly Engineering Speakers
Dr. Graham Reader, BA, BTech (Hons), PhD, psc, FEC, PEng, CEng, CMarE, Eur Ing, FIMarEst
Sustain What? For Who?
From harnessing the power of human and animal muscles and burning wood, to steam driven and nuclear energy, ingenious people continue to find ways to produce more power for their communities’ needs and activities. However, to save the planet and all living things from potentially calamitous ecological harm, there are legislative decisions being made to stop generating power from environmentally unsound energy sources. These include, but are not limited to, sources that can damage the geological structure of the Earth, involve the formation of hazardous radioactive wastes, or whose use produces carbon emissions. Moreover, in many cases, such sources cannot be renewed and so, as their availability diminishes, alternatives will be needed to meet the energy demands of future generations. Energy and power play crucial roles in the provision of the basic necessities of life such as breathable air, nutritious food, clean water, and adequate housing. If these essentials are to be enjoyed by all people, they need to be affordable. Can all these needs be met and sustained in the near-future and for subsequent generations? A modest goal may be the adoption of the Haudenosaunee principle by which decisions made today should result in a sustainable future for the next seven generations. But it appears that the decisions made seven generations ago, at the start of the modern industrial period have led, probably inadvertently, to the ostensibly grim environmental and climate issues of today. Can the drastic mistakes made then, be corrected now, for future generations by using power generated from sustainable external energy sources and celestial phenomenon over which we have no direct influence, other than the methods of conversion?
Dr. Hossam A. Gabbar P.Eng., Fellow IET (FIET), Distinguished Lecturer IEEE NPSS, Director of Smart Energy Systems Lab (SESL), Director of Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab (APEL), Dept. of Energy and Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University, Canada.
Resilient Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems
This talk will present the integration of nuclear-renewable integrated systems to support energy infrastructure. Different coupling mechanisms will be presented to support different installations and user requirements. Design and operation strategies and various technologies will be illustrated to deploy nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems and their use for different applications in city, urban, and remote communities. Performance measures are proposed to evaluate different strategies. The talk will include techno-economic evaluation of interconnected nuclear-renewable micro hybrid energy systems with combined heat and power, and their impact on a number of implementation strategies. Stratgies will be illustrated to deploy nuclear- renewable hybrid energy system (N-R HES), with considerations on scalability, capital cost, project lifetime, and other implementation parameters. Nuclear technologies will be presented, including Small Modular Reactor (SMR) or Micro Modular Reactor (MMR), as integrated within micro energy grids. Resiliency and performance measures will be discussed in view of a number of operation and control strategies to meet user requirements.