Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb (born 1953) is an Egyptian-born Canadian mechanical and consulting engineer and former executive at the Régie du Bâtiment du Québec (RBQ),[1] who served as 132nd president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2013–2014.
[2] Born in Giza, Egypt,[3] Kotb attended the Lycée Français du Caire, and studied materials engineering at The American University in Cairo in the early 1970s.
[7] In the 1990s she joined the Régie du bâtiment, the engineering safety watchdog of the Government of Quebec, where she eventually headed of the Pressure vessel Technical Services Division.
[8] From 1989 to 2015 Kotb also served on the Canadian National Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessels Inspectors,[9] and in the year 2013-2014 she served as 132nd president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Kotb was the 2024 recipient of the Ralph Coats Roe Medal of the ASME.