Patricia Shaw is a mechanical engineer and a graduate of Queen''s University in Kingston, Ontario (B.A.Sc.). She is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, where she has worked as a project engineer for Monenco and as a sales engineer for Quadro Engineering Corporation of Waterloo. At Monenco, she developed engineering designs and analyses of co-generation facilities; she also worked on the construction planning for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, pictured on the cover. Ms. Shaw is currently the president of a software engineering company, MotionPro Inc.

John McPhee is a Canada Research Chair and professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is a graduate of Acadia University (Cert.A.Sc.), the Technical University of Nova Scotia (B.A.Sc.), and the University of Waterloo (M.A.Sc., Ph.D.). He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Ontario) and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He has collaborated with many industry partners on dynamics and control, including Toyota, Maplesoft, Magna, Multimatic, Cleveland Golf, aboutGolf, the Canadian Space Agency, Bombardier, and the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario. Dr. McPhee has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, supervised 80 graduate students and researchers, and served as an expert witness to the Federal Court of Canada. In 2014, he received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Synergy Award for Innovation from the Governor General of Canada.