UBC Okanagan Civil Engineering Professor Dr. Zheng Liu
A UBC Okanagan School of Engineering professor has been awarded one of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)’s highest honours.
Dr. Zheng Liu, Professor of Civil Engineering, has been elected a CAE Fellow for 2026.
The Canadian Academy of Engineering is the national institution through which individuals, who have made outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada, provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada and to Canadians. The CAE is an independent, self-governing, and non-profit organization established in 1987.
Fellows of the CAE are nominated and elected by their peers, in view of their distinguished achievements and career-long service. Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering are committed to ensuring that Canada’s engineering expertise and experience are applied to the benefit of all Canadians.
On May 11, CAE President Catherine Karakatsanis announced the election of fifty new Fellows and six new International Fellows at the Academy’s annual general meeting in Edmonton.
“I am delighted to welcome the new Fellows to the Academy whose impressive accomplishments and leadership in their respective fields have significantly advanced engineering in both Canada and around the world,” said Karakatsanis. “Their outstanding contributions and dedication to excellence serve as an inspiration to us all.”
Read the full announcement from CAE.
“I am deeply honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering,” said Dr. Liu. “This honour reflects the work of an outstanding community, i.e., my collaborators across industry and academia, the remarkable students of my research group, and UBC’s supportive environment that has allowed our research to flourish. I share this recognition with all of them.”
“Congratulations to Dr. Zheng Liu on this exceptional and well-deserved recognition,” said School of Engineering Director Dr. Will Hughes. “Zheng’s career reflects not only extraordinary technical expertise and research leadership, but also a deep commitment to service, mentorship, collaboration and community impact. His dedication to excellence continues to elevate our School and inspire those around him. We are proud and grateful to count Zheng among our faculty.”
This prestigious award is not the first for Dr. Liu this year in recognition of his extraordinary impact in research, industry engagement and leadership in the field:
In March, he received the Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Lifetime Achievement Award from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics and was also named a Boeing Visiting Professor. He also recently received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Best Application Award for “Multi-Measurement and Instrumentation Fusion for Pipeline Integrity Management.”