USask Engineering professor wins international HVAC award

University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Engineering faculty member, Dr. Carey Simonson received the E.K. Campbell Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) at the 2026 ASHRAE Conference in Las Vegas. 

The E.K. Campbell Award is ASHRAE’s highest honour for teaching and recognizes exceptional service and achievement in heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) education at the graduate and/or undergraduate level. 

Award recipients must be an ASHRAE member in good standing who is associated with an institution that is accredited. All USask Engineering programs are accredited by Engineers Canada, which is a signatory to the Washington Accord, facilitating international recognition and mobility for USask Engineering graduates. 

With several thousand HVAC&R educators and researchers worldwide, receiving the E.K. Campbell Award stands as a rare and significant accomplishment. Dr. Simonson, a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is only the third professor from a Canadian university to receive the award since it was established in 1958 and the first from USask.  

In addition to the E.K. Campbell Award, Dr. Simonson is also a fellow of ASHRAE, a distinction held by fewer than one percent of the organization’s 50,000 members in over 130 countries. 

Simonson is USask Engineering alumnus (BSc, MSc and PhD) and is widely recognized as an outstanding researcher, a talented mentor and a strong leader. He is an internationally recognized expert in HVAC systems and has maintained a long-standing collaboration with the University of Oulu in Finland. He is also listed among the top two percent of most-cited scientists globally in his field, according to Stanford University’s international citation ranking.