Suzanne Kresta
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Suzanne Marie Kresta is a Canadian chemical engineer known for her research on mixing in turbulent fluids including drinking water, molten metals,[1] and in industrial processes.[2] She is dean of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island,[2] and a professor emerita in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan.[1]
Kresta is originally from Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island; her mother and uncle were on the faculty of the University of Prince Edward Island.[2] She was an undergraduate at the University of New Brunswick, graduating in 1986. After a 1987 master's degree in England at the University of Leeds she returned to Canada for a doctorate at McMaster University, completed in 1992.[2][3]
She was a faculty member at the University of Alberta beginning in 1992,[4][3] promoted to associate professor in 1993 and full professor in 1996. She was McCalla Professor in 2008–2009 and Killam Annual Professor in 2012.[3] She became associate dean of graduate studies there in 2015 before moving to the University of Saskatchewan as dean of engineering in 2018.[2][3] In 2024 she moved again, to her present position as dean of the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island.[2]