Awards & honours news

From the U of T President's Teaching Award to the Order of Canada, our students, faculty, staff and alumni consistently earn some of the most prestigious honours in their fields. We are proud to celebrate their success.

ECE Professors Tony Chan Carusone (left) and Joyce Poon (right) have been named Fellows of the IEEE. (Photos: Chan Carusone; Poon by Katja Woldt)

ECE Professors Tony Chan Carusone and Joyce Poon named IEEE Fellows

January 6, 2022

Accomplishments in digital communications and integrated photonics earn U of T Engineering professors elevation to IEEE’s highest grade of membership

Left to right: Professors Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Vaughn Betz (ECE) and Frank Vecchio (CivMin) have been elected 2022 Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Three professors elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada

December 16, 2021

U of T Engineering faculty recognized for their contributions to advancing clean energy, computing hardware and safer infrastructure

Left to right: Professors Miriam Diamond (Earth Sciences, ChemE), Greg Evans (ChemE, ISTEP), Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivMin) and Senior Research Associate Dr. Cheol-Heon Jeong (ChemE) are some of the members of the multidisciplinary team that has earned NSERC’s 2021 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

U of T Engineering team earns Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering

November 17, 2021

NSERC award recognizes outstanding Canadian teams of researchers from different disciplines

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

NSERC Synergy Award celebrates decades of collaboration on nanoscale electron microscopy and robotics

November 17, 2021

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

The 2021 Engineering Alumni Network Awards winners were honoured for their contributions in a range of fields, from aerospace to sports medicine.

Alumni and students honoured with 2021 Engineering Alumni Network Awards

November 5, 2021

Awardees were celebrated for career accomplishments and community contributions

Stephanie Obeta (Year 4 ChemE) is one of two inaugural recipients of the CGI Scholarship for the Advancement of Black Women in Engineering. (Photo courtesy: Stephanie Obeta)

New scholarships support underrepresented groups in Engineering

October 27, 2021

The CGI Scholarship for the Advancement of Black Women in Engineering is one of more than 50 new awards created in the 2020–2021 academic year

Professor Micah Stickel (ECE) has served as Vice-Dean, First Year for U of T Engineering and Acting Vice-Provost, Students and Vice-Provostial Advisor on Students. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)

Professor Micah Stickel receives an OCUFA Teaching Award

October 21, 2021

U of T Engineering professor recognized for his integration of novel teaching methods and technologies in the classroom

Professor Mohini Sain’s (MIE) research focuses on the sustainable manufacturing of low-carbon and carbon-neutral materials. (Photo: University of Toronto)

Professor Mohini Sain elected to the Royal Society of Canada

September 7, 2021

Founding director of the Centre for Biocomposites & Biomaterials Processing recognized for his leadership in low-carbon materials engineering

Left to right: Michel Haché (MSE PhD candidate), Joseph Sebastian (BME PhD candidate), and Nebras Warsi (BMD PhD candidate) are three U of T Engineering students who have been awarded Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for 2021.

Three U of T Engineering students earn national scholarships for advanced materials, neuromodulation and heart modelling research

July 20, 2021

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, worth $150,000 each, will support projects on designing bulk nanomaterials, cardiac imaging and a closed-loop neurostimulation platform

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