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.

U of T research teams led by Brent Sleep (CivE, pictured at centre), David Lie (ECE) and Mark Fox (MIE) are winners of this year's Connaught Global Challenge Awards. The internal awards are designed to support new multidisciplinary collaborations involving U of T researchers. (Photo: Roberta Baker) .

Interdisciplinary U of T Engineering projects receive funding from relaunched Connaught Global Challenge Award

February 13, 2017

U of T research teams led by David Lie, Brent Sleep and Mark Fox are winners of this year’s Connaught Global Challenge Award

Professor Craig Simmons (MIE, IBBME, centre) is one of four engineering educators honoured with the 2016 Faculty Teaching Awards.

Engineering educators recognized by the Faculty for teaching excellence

January 30, 2017

Three professors and one teaching assistant have been honoured with the 2016 Faculty Teaching Awards.

Dean Cristina Amon speaks with students at the site of the new Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a vibrant hub for engineering education, innovation and commercialization by entrepreneurship. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

Cristina Amon reappointed Dean of U of T Engineering

January 26, 2017

Special third term builds on a decade of leadership and innovation in engineering education and multidisciplinary research excellence at Canada’s premier engineering school

University of Toronto, as a leader in ASME and the broader engineering community, and as a champion for increased diversity in the profession.” (Credit: Roberta Baker).

U of T engineers honoured by Engineering Institute of Canada

December 19, 2016

Dean Cristina Amon, Professors Jean Zu and Tony Easty recognized for exceptional contributions to the profession

“Receiving this appointment is an opportunity to advance research in an area of growing concern for rapidly expanding world cities,” said Hatzopoulou, who was named CRC in Transportation and Air Quality. The CRC program aims to help Canada attract and retain research leaders in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences. (Photo by Tyler Irving)

Two U of T Engineering researchers awarded Canada Research Chairs

December 2, 2016

CRC program aims to help the country attract and retain research leaders in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences

Nathalin Moy (pictured centre) accepts her U of T Engineering Varsity Blues Academic Excellence Award

Academic excellence and athletics: 25 U of T Engineering students recognized

November 25, 2016

Awards honoured student athletes who earned an 80 per cent or higher average during the 2015-2016 academic year and participated in a varsity sport

Alexander Ip and his U of T research team, led by Professor Ted Sargent, will receive nearly $1 million from the Ontario government for the semi-final round of the Carbon XPRIZE competition (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

U of T team advances to next round of Carbon XPRIZE competition

November 23, 2016

A team of U of T researchers led by Professor Ted Sargent had advanced to the second round of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE international competition.

Stephanie Gaglione (Year 4 ChemE) has been named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. She plans to use the all-expenses scholarship to continue postgraduate study in engineering. She hopes one day to advance biomaterial platforms for vaccines and drug delivery as an academic. (Courtesy: Stephanie Gaglione)

U of T Engineering student earns Rhodes Scholarship

November 22, 2016

Chemical Engineering student Stephanie Gaglione, who loves to rock climb and canoe, wins scholarship to Oxford

Professor Jeffrey Packer, at right, is a world leader in tubular steel structures. (Credit: Neil Ta).

Four Engineering professors elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

November 21, 2016

AAAS is the largest international organization dedicated to advancing science or its applications on a global basis

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