This Chair is one of the five NSERC Chairs in Environmental Design Engineering in Canada. The Chair has received strong support from Atlantic universities and industry. The mandates of the Chair are to develop broad-based collaborations with industry and other institutions, to conduct high quality R&D in innovative and environmentally friendly products and technologies, to serve as a centre of interdisciplinary expertise, a training centre for design engineers, and a service centre for Atlantic industry, in the areas of environmental design engineering