Pan Am/Parapan Am Games: this Engineering PhD student is ranked sixth in the world for the 1000m
Sasha Gollish (CivE MEng 1T0, EngEd PhD Candidate) is not a superstitious person. But when she had to run a 1000-metre race on Friday the 13th this past February, the Pan Am hopeful was not feeling particularly inspired. “I said to my coaches, Ross Ristuccia and Carl Georgevski, ‘I don’t feel well. I feel so heavy and slow.’” […]
Celebrating engineering excellence: U of T Engineering honours 11 faculty and staff
U of T Engineering has awarded 11 faculty and staff for their continued pursuit of excellence. Recipients were recognized for their leadership, citizenship and innovation at the “Celebrating Engineering Excellence” reception this week—an annual event to honour all those who’ve won awards in the Faculty over the past year. “It is my privilege to bring […]
16 U of T Engineering students receive Cressy Awards
Sixteen U of T Engineering students were celebrated at the 2015 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards on Thursday, April 16. A ceremony to honour the recipients was held at Convocation Hall. The prestigious award was established in 1994 and is named after Gordon Cressy, former U of T vice-president of development and university relations. It […]
U of T Engineering Supermileage Team wins Shell Eco-marathon in Detroit
Eighty-nine engines revved in Motor City this weekend, but they weren’t racing for gold—they were racing for green. The University of Toronto Supermileage team won this year’s Shell Eco-Marathon Americas in Detroit, Michigan, with an efficiency of 3,421 miles per gallon—the equivalent of 6.82 millilitres of gasoline per 10 kilometres. That’s less than five tablespoons […]
Chul Park named University of Toronto Distinguished Professor
Professor Chul Park (MIE) has been named a University of Toronto Distinguished Professor, an honour that recognizes individuals with outstanding career achievements and promise. Awarded by the U of T Office of the Vice-President and Provost, Park will hold the title of Distinguished Professor of Microcellular Engineered Plastics for a five-year term, beginning July 1, […]
Doug Reeve receives Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award
Professor Doug Reeve (ChemE) has received the 2015 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award from the University of Toronto Alumni Association. The distinction recognizes one U of T professor each year who has made rich and meaningful contributions across diverse spheres of the University, the community and the world. As founding director of both the Pulp […]
Two professors recognized by the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
Professors Kamran Behdinan and Sanjeev Chandra (both MIE) have been honoured by the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME). Professor Behdinan is the 2015 recipient of the C.N. Downing Award for distinguished service to CSME over many years, and Professor Chandra received the Jules Stachiewicz Medal for outstanding contributions to heat transfer in Canada. About […]
Three U of T Engineering professors honoured by the Engineering Institute of Canada
U of T Engineering professors Alberto Leon-Garcia (ECE), Baher Abdulhai (CivE) and David Sinton (MIE) have been recognized by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for their outstanding engineering achievements in the areas of Internet architecture, traffic reduction and bioenergy technologies, respectively. Leon-Garcia received the Julian C. Smith Medal “for achievement in the development of […]
U of T engineer takes L’Oréal-UNESCO honour for ‘stem cell space suits’
University of Toronto biomedical engineering professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) has been named the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science North American laureate for 2015. Already the only person ever elected to all three of Canada’s science academies, Shoichet is the innovative mind behind breakthroughs ranging from ‘space suits’ for fragile stem cells to polymer-based ‘vehicles’ that could […]
