Russell Oye is the Interim Associate Dean of the BCIT Marine Campus. A National Council member of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering, CIMARE representative to the Canadian Marine Careers Foundation and Chair of the Vancouver Mari Tech 2023 Conference. Russell has a Masters degree in education, diploma in leadership and development and a certificate in post secondary administrative justice. Within BCIT Russell has taught at the Marine Campus, in the Engineering Cadet Program, Motive Power Center of Excellence and has performed applied research at the Emission Reduction and Research Test Hub.