Steacie Award of the Canadian Society of Chemistry (1995), the Montreal Medal of the Chemical Institute of Canada (1996), the Purvis Award of the Society of Chemical Industry (1997), and the National Merit Award of the Ottawa Life Sciences Council (2000).
Trepanier is active in a number of other industry organizations including the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada, the Chemical Institute of Canada, the Association of Chemical Professionals of Ontario, the Canadian Association of Physicists, Sigma Xi Research Society, the Canadian Advisory Council (SCC) to ISO/TC6, and the International Association of Scientific Paper Makers.
Canada 1989-2000; consultant for over 60 companies; authored 2 books and over 60 book chapters, edited or co-edited over 50 books and journals; published more than 300 research papers, presented over 200 conference papers; external reviewer for various research councils; founder, chair or member of organizing panels for numerous major international conferences; elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Chemical Institute of Canada and Inst.
The Third Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, taking place from July 11 to July 14, 2006 in Toronto, Canada, hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), American Chemical Society, the National Agriculture Biotechnology Council, the Agri-Food Innovation Forum, the Chemical Institute of Canada, BIOTECanada and EuropaBIO, is the premiere gathering of thought leaders, investors, researchers and business executives in industrial biotechnology, bioenergy and bioprocessing.
van Engelen, a respected chemist, who earlier served as a consultant to the company in 2000-2001, is a former owner of Chauncey Assay Laboratories in Toronto and is a member of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
