ChemE Chair Wins LeSueur Memorial Award
Professor Grant Allen, Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, is this year’s recipient of the LeSueur Memorial Award, an honour presented by The Chemical Institute of Canada that recognizes the technical excellence in either a university/research institute or industrial setting in Canada. Professor Allen’s area of research is environmental bioprocess engineering, […]
Adel Sedra Appointed to Order of Ontario
Adel S. Sedra, professor and former chair of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been appointed to the Order of Ontario for 2013. The appointees were announced January 23 and invested by the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, at a ceremony at Queen’s Park. Professor Sedra […]
ChemE Professor Awarded PAPTAC’s John S. Bates Medal
Professor Honghi Tran (ChemE), Director of the Pulp & Paper Centre, has been awarded the John S. Bates Memorial Gold Medal by the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC). The Bates Medal is PAPTAC’s most prestigious award, instituted in 1989 to recognize the organization’s founder and first chairman, John S. Bates. The engraved […]
Bernard Etkin Honoured by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
University Professor Emeritus Bernard Etkin (UTIAS), an Engineering alumnus and former Dean of the Faculty, has been selected to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Guidance, Navigation, and Control Award for 2014. This award has been bestowed on Professor Etkin “for outstanding achievement in and dedication to research and education in […]
Three U of T Engineers Elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Professors Nasser Ashgriz (MIE), Shahrokh Valaee (ECE) and Christopher Yip (ChemE, IBBME) have been elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), on the basis of “exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada.” The EIC is a federation of Canadian engineering societies that sponsors education standards, recognizes individual engineers and records engineering history. Nasser Ashgriz […]
A Great Way to Start 2014: $3.6 Million for Research that Impacts Society
A total of $3,613,649 worth of grants has been awarded to U of T researchers, with the bulk of it directed to Engineering. The support comes from the Strategic Projects Grants (SPG) program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The funding was part of $43 million awarded to universities across the country. […]
Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards 17 Grants to Engineering
A boost of over $1.7-million worth of grants from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has been directed toward Engineering and will be used for infrastructure that will advance research in everything from testing drinking water to cancer. The funding comes from the CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program designed to help universities […]
Engineering Alumna Samantha Espley Named a ‘Global Inspiration’
London-based Women in Mining (UK), a non-profit association aimed at promoting the achievements and position of women in all levels of the global mining industry, has named Samantha Espley (GeoE 8T8) as one of their top 100 inspirational women in mining worldwide. Espley is part of a Canadian contingent of 12 honourees in the 100 Global Inspirational Women […]
U of T Engineers Win Grants from Grand Challenges Canada
U of T Engineers got a big boost for their work in the developing world, thanks to grants from Grand Challenges Canada (GCC). Four of eight grants awarded to U of T researchers go to Engineering faculty: Timothy Chan (MIE), Radhakrishnan Mahadevan (ChemE), Javad Mostaghimi (MIE) and Edmond Young (MIE). “This is a testament to the outstanding quality and standard of research here, […]
