Fayek

Aminah Fayek is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. She earned degrees from McGill University, the University of British Columbia, and Melbourne University. She holds a Canada Research Chair and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Chair. She also is director of the Construction Innovation Centre, which brings together 30 faculty members and 50 industry research partners to develop interdisciplinary solutions to high-priority challenges in construction.

Aminah is well known in academia for her research on artificial intelligence. She is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), and Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). She has been recognized many times for her research and teaching. She is the recipient of the ASCE Peurifoy Construction Research Award, the Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA) Don Currie Award of Recognition, the APEGA Excellence in Education Award, and the CSCE Walter Shanly Award.

Aminah is an editor for four leading journals, including the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management and the CSCE Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering.