Instructor Profile: Seth Dworkin
Seth Dworkin
Ph.D., P.Eng., FCSME (he/him)
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Mec
Dr. Seth Dworkin is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Canada Research Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has over ten years of teaching experience in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, including industry applications. He is also an active consultant for industry in the sustainable energy and geothermal sectors, having delivered more than twenty consulting reports for clients across Canada.
After completing his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in 2003, Dr. Dworkin pursued a combined Masters and Ph.D. at Yale University, focusing on Computational Fluid Dynamics and combustion. He returned to Canada in 2009, taking a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 2011, where he has trained more than 40 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers in combustion and sustainable energy technologies. Dr. Dworkin has received numerous awards for his scholarly work, including the Professional Engineers of Ontario Young Engineer’s Medal.
In 2019, Dr. Dworkin was named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. In 2020, he received a Research Excellence Award from the International Combustion Institute, recognizing his career research achievements.
