MUN

Department of Civil Engineering

Stephen Bruneau, Ph.D., P.Eng.

SB

Associate Professor
Ocean Engineering, Wind Engineering and Energy Policy
Director of Industrial Outreach

EN3007, Department of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1B 3X5, Canada
Tel: (709) 864-2119, E-mail: sbruneau@mun.ca

Research Expertise

  • Arctic ships and structures
  • Energy
  • Marine structural design and analysis

Research Interests

  • Ice loads on structures
  • Wind Engineering
  • Energy Policy
  • Industry Outreach

Research Highlights

  • Supervised 50+ capstone projects, in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, ONAE and OOGE
  • Developed:
    • designs for new Civil Engineering Homeroom EN2050
    • a new project office environment for STePS2
    • School curriculum science videos about flight
    • new instructional apparatus for beam bending
    • new tools and machines for creating and handling large scale ice samples for laboratory testing
    • container-based mobile office
    • vehicular wind turbine testing platform
    • instrumentation system for soffit vents in situ
  • Participate in several minor and 4 major funded research projects:
    • STePS2 – Sustainable Technologies for Arctic Ships and Structures - Joint Industry Project $5 mmCAD
    • NSERC CREATE – Development of HQPs: Ocean Engineering $1.6 mmCAD
    • HF-ROSA – High Frequency Radar Ocean Surface Applications $2.7 mmCAD
    • WAKE-UP - Mini UAV Wake Detection System - Project Raven +$2 mmCAD