Engineers take aim at childhood hunger and unclean water with Grand Challenges Canada grants
In Canada, we often take safe drinking water and a stable food supply for granted. But in many parts of the world, people are much less fortunate. Two recently announced Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) grants will allow U of T Engineering researchers to bring their expertise to bear on some of the most urgent global […]
U of T Engineering alumni celebrated at 25th annual Arbor Awards
For the better part of six decades, alumnus Donald Dowds (MechE 5T3) has been giving back to U of T Engineering. As a member of multiple awards committees, the host for many student recruitment events and an organizer of the Skule Lunch & Learn speaker series, his personal service to the engineering community is exemplary. […]
Ontario’s Campus-Linked Accelerator Program gives $3 million boost to U of T entrepreneurs
The time has never been better to be an entrepreneur at the University of Toronto. Yesterday, U of T announced that it will receive more than $3 million in funding from the Ontario government to increase training and support for student entrepreneurship. Offered through the Ontario’s new Campus-Linked Accelerator Program (CLA), the $3,056,000 of funding […]
Micah Stickel named to Top 20 Under 40 by American Society for Engineering Education
He pioneered U of T Engineering’s “inverted classroom”, was one of the first in the Faculty to teach entirely using a tablet PC, and he calls himself “a facilitator of experiences, not a deliverer of content.” Dr. Micah Stickel (ECE), a senior lecturer in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, […]
3D skin printer wins engineering students Canada Dyson Award
While some of us are using the new power of 3D printers to make smartphone cases and chocolate figurines, two engineering students from the University of Toronto are using them to print functional human skin. On September 18, Arianna McAllister (IBBME MASc 1T4) and Lian Leng (MIE MASc 1T0, PhD 1T5) were named the Canadian winners […]
Student startups compete for $42,000 in funding at Entrepreneurship Hatchery demo night
Aiming for more than $42,000 in prizes, young U of T entrepreneurs pitching to investors packed their presentations with 3D animations, live classical guitar serenades, product giveaways hidden under audience chairs – and one very efficient mop bucket. Welcome to demo night at the Entrepreneurship Hatchery, U of T Engineering’s startup incubator, where 13 companies […]
First-year engineering student wins Schulich Leaders Scholarship
First-year engineering student Quinton Lowe (EngSci 1T8) holds a black belt in karate, is a political advocate and is passionate about engineering. Now, he’s also one of two U of T students to receive the Schulich Leaders Scholarship, a prestigious $80,000 award started by business mogul and philanthropist Seymour Schulich. Supporting 40 students annually across […]
Milica Radisic named to Royal Society of Canada’s new interdisciplinary college
Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) is among three U of T researchers named to the inaugural cohort of the Royal Society of Canada’s new College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists – an initiative that recognizes the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leaders. Radisic, a researcher in both the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering […]
Students design innovative, low-cost solution for tricky tracheal intubation
A piece of string, a $1 spring and some 3D-printed plastic – it doesn’t sound like much. Yet, when brilliantly combined, these items can make a new tracheal intubation guide system for hard-to-intubate patients costing under $20. It’s an innovative design that has netted its designers, then-fourth-year engineering students Qian (Linda) Liu (EngSci 1T3 + […]
