Dr Sue Molloy

Dr Sue Molloy, BSc, BEng, MEng, PEng, PhD

Sue Molloy, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is President of Glas Ocean Electric and is an active consulting engineer, researcher and adjunct professor in Ocean Engineering. Sue specializes in Electric Boats and Ships, Marine Renewable Energy and Sustainable Engineering. Through both Glas Ocean Electric and her consulting company, Sue’s current and recent projects have been for clients including the Canadian Space Agency, Transport Canada and Black Rock Tidal Power. Sue’s doctoral work focused on ship propulsion and diesel-electric propulsion. Sue has produced a number of reports for provincial and federal agencies that address marine testing facilities, tidal power, electric boats and marine noise. She is the international chair for the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) River Turbines Project Team (PT), a Canadian delegate on the Design PT of IEC TC114 Marine Energy and is a board member of Marine Renewables Canada. Sue has taught over 20 university courses including sustainable engineering and turbomachines for Dalhousie University, Faculty of Engineering and sustainable industrial design and renewable energy at OCAD University in Toronto. As an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie and also in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Sue is working on a range of tidal power research projects. Sue has been publishing regularly in Journals and at conferences since 2001, is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Ocean Technology and the SUT Journal of Underwater Technology and regularly reviews for Elsevier and IEEE. Sue’s consulting clients include ocean related SMEs, tidal power project developers, non-profits, academia and government.