Moyra McDill
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Jennifer Moyra Jeane McDill is a Canadian mechanical engineer and a professor emerita in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University. Her research has involved thermomechanical analysis using the finite element method, with applications including welding and robotics.[1]
McDill is originally from South Ottawa,[2] one of four children[3] of a science teacher and a military mechanical engineer.[3][4] Her favorite childhood toy was a construction excavator. She was a student at Merivale High School in Ottawa,[2] and has a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. from Carleton University.[1] Between the master's degree and the doctorate, she worked in eastern and central Canada as an engineering analyst; after the doctorate, she continued at Carleton as a faculty member.[3] At Carleton, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mechanical engineering, the first woman on the mechanical engineering faculty, and the first woman to become a full professor of mechanical engineering.[5]
She served as a commissioner of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission from 2002 to 2015,[1] and as Doktorandombud (ombudsperson for the doctoral students) at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden from 2015 to 2022.[1][3]
