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.

Chul Park (MIE) has been named U of T Distinguished Professor of Microcellular Engineered Plastics.

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, […]

Professor Doug Reeve has received the 2015 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award; one of four U of T Engineering professors who have won the award in the past seven years (Photo: Mark Balson).

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Professor Molly Shoichet is leading award-winning nano-material delivery research that could help restore brain and nerve connections damaged by stroke, spinal cord injury, blindness (Photo: L'Oréal).

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 […]

Professor Enright Jerger's new Sloan Fellowship is designed to 'stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise' (Photo: Roberta Baker).

ECE Professor Natalie Enright Jerger wins Sloan Research Fellowship

Two things we know: computers keep getting faster and smaller. Why? In large part because we continue to cram more processor cores on a single chip—but making all those processors talk to each other has become a key impediment to future progress. Professor Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) is discovering more efficient ways for on-chip networks to […]

Industrial engineering alumnus David Yao has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (Photo: Eileen Barroso).

U of T Engineering alumnus elected to U.S. National Academy of Engineering

David Yao (MASc 8T1, PhD 8T3), MIE alumnus and professor of industrial engineering at Columbia University, has been elected as Member to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Members—including U of T Engineering Dean Cristina Amon—rank among the world’s most accomplished engineers. NAE membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, […]

Swimmers racing throughout the lanes at the OUA Championships (Photo: Varsity Blues)

Nine U of T Engineering Varsity swimmers crowned OUA Champs

The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering extends its warmest congratulations to the remarkable athletes who competed with the Varsity Blues swimming team in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Championships on February 5 and 6, 2015. Nine Engineering students competed, and both the male and female swimming teams took home gold medals. The Blues women […]

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Three Engineering professors named Fellows of IEEE

Professors Deepa Kundur, Baochun Li (both ECE) and Yu Sun (MIE) joined an impressive roster of internationally renowned scientists this month when they were officially named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The three professors join 25 faculty members who currently hold the grade of IEEE Fellow. The grade of Fellow […]