About Us

Monique Frize is Distinguished Professor (retired) at Carleton University and Professor Emerita at the University of Ottawa. She was a clinical engineer (1971-1989) and a Professor since 1989. Monique published over 200 papers on artificial intelligence in medicine, infrared imaging, ethics, and women in engineering and science. She is Fellow and Life Member of IEEE (2012), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (1992), Fellow of Engineers Canada (2010), Officer of the Order of Canada (1993), and recipient of the 2010 Gold Medal from Professional Engineers Ontario and the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. In 2024, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Imperial College of Science and Technology en 2024. She received six honourary doctorates. Monique held the national Northern Telecom/NSERC Chair for women in engineering at the University of New Brunswick (1989-1997), and the NSERC/Nortel Chair for women in science and engineering for Ontario (1997-2002). A founding member of INWES (International Network of women engineers and scientists), she was president (2002-2008). A founding member of the INWES Education and Research Institute (now Canadian Institute for Women in Engineering and Science), she is president since 2007. Her books:The Bold and the Brave: A history of women in science and engineering was published by University of Ottawa Press in 2009 and her Memoirs (2019 in English and 2024 in French).

Claire Deschênes (she/her) is Professor Emerita of Mechanical Engineering at Laval University. The first woman hired as an engineering professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering (1989), she founded the Hydraulic Machinery Laboratory (LAMH) and the Hydraulic Machinery Consortium. She is a Fellow of Engineers Canada.

From 1997 to 2005, she held the first NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in the Québec region. She has served on numerous boards and co-founded three organizations dedicated to women in STEM: AFFESTIM, CIWES (formerly INWES-ERI), and INWES.

Author of many scientific articles and collective volumes, she is currently Director of the international journal Recherches féministes. She is a Past President of AFFESTIM and President of CIWES-ICFIS.

Her career has been recognized for both her engineering research and her commitment to women in STEM. She was appointed Member of the Order of Canada (2019) and Knight of the National Order of Quebec (2021). She received two honorary doctorates (University of Sherbrooke in 2019 and University of Ottawa) and was awarded the Prix du Québec Lionel-Boulet in 2020—the first woman to receive it. The Claire-Deschênes Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition at the University of Sherbrooke was named in her honor in 2019. In 2015, she received the NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation in the category “two or more companies.”

Marina Bokovay is a professional archivist with over 10 years experience working in the fields of archives and records management.  Marina has degrees from Queen’s University, Kingston and the University of Toronto.

Marina is the current Head of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Ottawa Library, a role she has been in since April 2018. In her short time at uOttawa, she oversaw the launch of the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM initiative and the building of a new database that amalgamates information about the archives of women in STEM from across the country.   

Prior to uOttawa, Marina was the Archivist and Records Manager for Victoria University in the University of Toronto and spent 7 years with the Ontario Government before that.  

Marina has a strong interest in preserving the documentary heritage of women in Canada and ensuring that researchers are connected with the information they need.  Besides the Archive of Women in STEM initiative, Marina’s current focus is around digital records preservation and ensuring that records on legacy formats are not lost.

Troy Eller English is the archivist for the Society of Women Engineers, based at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit. Since becoming the SWE archivist in 2008, she has worked to raise the profile and relevance of the archives in celebrating the achievements of the Society and its members, supporting the Society’s current mission, and informing its future decision-making. She is also producer for Tales from the Reuther Library, of a podcast featuring stories about labor history, Detroit, and Wayne State University, as told by the Reuther’s archivists and researchers. Outside the Reuther, Eller English is co-editor for the Michigan Archival Association newsletter; serves on the steering committee for To Boldly Preserve, an organization working to preserve the history of American space flight; and consults on archives for the Detroit Curling Club and the U.S. Women’s Curling Association.

Sandra Corbeil is the Director Strategic Partnerships and Networks for Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation. Sandra has more than 25 years working as an education, communication, and outreach leader and is a member of a number of national organisations that promote partnership and collaboration in STEM ecosystem.  She is responsible for the creation of Ingenium’s award-winning Summer Institute for Elementary Teachers and most recently led Ingenium’s Women in STEM initiative which includes a travelling exhibition, free online posters and resources as well as a series of Instagram Videos showcasing women in STEM.  She has a strong interest in advocating for equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

Colleen Ennett is a passionate Healthcare Data Scientist, who currently serves as the Director of a team of data scientists at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, Maryland. Along with software developers and data engineers, Colleen’s team works to solve challenging clinical and operational problems facing a hospital system using machine learning, statistics, operations research and generative AI. She is working to incorporate social drivers of health into healthcare assessments to improve access to care for marginalized populations and to improve their health state. Prior to UMMS, Colleen was a Senior Researcher at Philips Research in New York state, where her focus was developing algorithms to identify deterioration of a patient’s health status in the hospital. She has 4 issued patents related to her innovations at Philips Research.

Colleen received her PhD in Electrical Engineering majoring in Biomedical Engineering from Carleton University. Her graduate work focused on using data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict clinical outcomes for patients in the Neonatal ICU and patients undergoing cardiac surgery. She holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, and a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Guelph.

Kelsey Beauvais (she/her) is a professional archivist with over 10 years of experience working with documentary heritage. She obtained her BA (in History) from Laurentian University and Master of Arts (History) from the University of Ottawa (completing a portion at the Université de Haute-Bretagne 2, France). Kelsey previously worked at the Canadian War Museum as the oral history collections specialist, as an archivist on the former Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper’s Project at Library and Archives Canada; and at the Canadian Commission for UNESCO as a programme officer in documentary heritage. She’s been working as a portfolio archivist in Environment, Arctic, Medicine and Health Sciences at Library and Archives Canada since 2022.

Catherine Mavriplis is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Ottawa where she works on advanced numerical methods for aerodynamics simulations. After a 25 year tour in the US for graduate school (at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the first half of her career (mostly at George Washington University), she held the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering from 2011 to 2021: a program that aims to recruit, retain and advance women to leadership. She has served on the selection committee for the Museum of Science and Technology Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame and co-hosted the 2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-supported workshop for archivists, historians and women in STEM, which led to the establishment of the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM.

She has been the President of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada and sat on the Council of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute. She recently was awarded the King Charles III Coronation medal. She is a Fellow of Engineers Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In her spare time, she’s an avid skier, water sports enthusiast and painter.