MIE Human Factors Interest Group (HFIG) Receives Gold Award
HFIG shares this honour with 13 student chapters recognized at the gold level including, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Virginia Tech. HFIG is the only Canadian chapter to be recognized by the Society this year. In 2012, HFIG received a bronze level award. Human factors – or ergonomics – is the scientific […]
ChemE Postdoc Receives Banting Fellowship
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program, administered through NSERC, provides $70,000 annually for two years to national and international postdoctoral applicants who positively contribute to the country’s economic, social and research-based growth. It is arguably the most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship available in Canada. Only 23 were distributed this year. Lessard plans to use the funding to […]
ECE Grad Wins City of Toronto Entrepreneurship Award
U of T Engineering alumnus Hargun Suri (CompE 1T3) won this year’s City of Toronto International Student Excellence Award in the entrepreneurship category. With ECE classmates Anirudh Ganti (CompE 1T3) and Ian Xiao (CompE 1T3), he co-founded Interngration.com, a web-based application to bring students seeking internships into contact with start-ups in need of talented people. The app is still in the beta […]
Till & McCulloch Award Goes to IBBME’s Peter Zandstra
A Canadian technology that has the potential to boost the number of stem cells given to patients undergoing transplants of the blood-forming system has been recognized as the most influential stem cell research paper authored by a Canadian in the past year. The University of Toronto’s Peter Zandstra (IBBME) is the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Till & McCulloch Award […]
Can Plants Teach Us How to Build Better Solar Cells?
What can we learn from plants about making the best use of the sun’s abundant energy? That’s the question underlying an ambitious new research project that has won $1 million in the 2012–13 Connaught Global Challenge funding competition. The project team director, Professor Ted Sargent of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, […]
11 Engineering Staff Members Receive U of T Excellence Through Innovation Awards
Eleven Engineering staff members received one individual and four team Excellence Through Innovation Awards from U of T for their “above and beyond” contributions to the University and its mandate. These awards recognize the contributions of administrative staff in advancing the University’s strategic objectives; encouraging administrative innovation and providing a platform for sharing best practices. […]
Two Second-year Students’ Photography Lighting System Wins the $20,000 Lacavera Prize at The Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s Demo Day
Creating a light, affordable camera lighting system to replace the heavy bulk of typical photographic equipment earned Anastasiya Martyts (EngSci 1T6) and Tiange Li (Life Sciences 1T6) The Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s first $20,000 Lacavera Prize. Martyts and Li presented Modly – their modular, customizable lighting system – at the Hatchery’s Demo Day on September 12, competing […]
New State-of-the-Art Materials Engineering Lab Opens at U of T Engineering
On September 5, the Walter Curlook Materials Characterization & Processing Laboratory was opened and unveiled to members of the Curlook family and the U of T Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) community. Hosted by MSE Professor Uwe Erb – invited guests and MSE community members had the opportunity to learn about the deep history and ongoing relationship […]
U of T Engineering Rises in International Ranking
The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has leaped forward on the world stage once again. According to the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (AWRU), which is prepared by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, U of T Engineering ranks 12th in the world, up from 13th in 2012. This is the seventh consecutive year U […]
