RON BRITTON

Dr. M.G.(Ron) Britton, P.Eng., ., is the Associate Dean (Design Education) in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Manitoba and Texas A&M University. Ron spent five years working in industry between his BE and his MSc. During that time he was employed by Shell Oil, the Plywood Manufacturers Association of British Columbia and Beaver Lumber. His work took him from Winnipeg to London, England and Toronto. During that time he concentrated on the design of buildings, with an emphasis on wood, and ultimately focusing on agricultural buildings.

Ron has held academic appointments at both Texas A&M and the University of Manitoba. He rose through the ranks in the Agricultural Engineering (now Biosystems Engineering) departments. He now holds appointments in both Civil Engineering and Biosystems Engineering in addition to his administrative responsibilities. In 2001 he was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Chair in Design Engineering.

Professionally, he is a member and past President of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba (APEGM), and served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE). He is a Fellow and past President of the Canadian Society of Bioengineering (CSBE, formerly the Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineering), an honorary lifetime member of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), and a member of numerous other technical and education related societies.

Ron is a 3M Teaching Fellow and has received a number of other awards including the CCPE Medal of Distinction in Engineering Education, the CSBE Maple Leaf Award, the APEGM Merit Award and Outstanding Service Award and the University of Manitoba Dr. & Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Dr. & Mrs. D.R. Campbell Outreach Award.

Away from the campus Ron and his wife Dorothy are the proud grandparents of four and sometimes obsessive baseball fans. He is probably one of the few to include questions on baseball in his final exams.