U of T Student Team Takes Top Prize at Green Building Design Challenge
Civil engineering students Amanda Cirinna (1T3) and Steven Goldstine (1T3) recently took top honours at the Home Sweet Home Student Challenge, an annual competition developed by OntarioGreenSpec.ca and vied for by schools across the province. The competition, which is adjudicated by an advisory board of 12 academic leaders and green-building practitioners, was created to engage Ontario’s post-secondary students in the research, […]
EngSci Students Take Top Prize With Health & Safety App
Engineering Science students Sherri Cui (1T5) and Shen Wang (1T5) have won first prize in a national safe design award competition for their innovative mobile health and safety app. Cui and Wang were presented with the 2013 James Ham Safe Design Award by Minerva Canada Safety Management Education President Tony Pasteris at a ceremony at Ryerson University last week. […]
Five Engineers Honoured as U of T’s Inventors of the Year
Dietary advice tailored to your DNA. A ‘bio-printer’ that prints skin-like tissue that can be used to dress wounds. These are just two of the inventions that might change your life in coming years. They’re also two of 10 inventions whose creators were celebrated May 15 at the University of Toronto’s 2013 Inventors of the […]
U of T Shares in Federal ecoEnergy Grant Funding
U of T Electrical Engineering Professor Reza Iravani is one of several beneficiaries of federal ecoENERGY funding grants announced May 3. Iravani heads the Centre for Applied Power Electronics (CAPE), which received a $560,000 grant for circuit breaker technology for fast protection or isolation of battery storage systems. Thirteen ecoENERGY grants totalling over $21 million were announced […]
Sixteen Engineering Students Honoured for Outstanding Leadership
On April 29, U of T honoured students for their outstanding extracurricular contributions to improving the university’s community with the 2013 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards. The Faculty is pleased to present the 16 U of T Engineering students who were celebrated for their leadership. As the Vice President, Academics, of the Engineering Society, Yi-Wei […]
Four Engineering Professors Honoured by the Faculty for their Research Contributions
Four U of T Engineers were honoured by the Faculty at the 6th Annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence Reception for their world-leading research. Professor Joyce Poon (ECE) was announced as the 2013 recipient of the McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction. The BioZone team of Elizabeth Edwards, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan and Emma Master (ChemE) received the inaugural Research Leader Award. Professor Joyce […]
Five Engineers Recognized for Teaching Excellence
Five engineering educators across all stages of their careers have been honoured by the Faculty for excellence in teaching. PhD candidate Aaron Persad (MIE) received the Teaching Assistant (TA) Award, which recognizes TAs who demonstrate outstanding performance in classroom instruction, effective teaching methods and the development of course material. Assistant Professors Jason Anderson (ECE) and Timothy Chan (MIE) both garnered an […]
Professor Brenda McCabe Receives the SWAAC Recognition Award
Professor Brenda McCabe, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering (CivE), has been selected to receive the 2013 SWAAC Recognition Award from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada. This award is given to a SWAAC member who has continually demonstrated innovative leadership in advancing the mission of, and achieving outstanding contributions to, her institution. Professor […]
Next Generation of Inventors Lights Up Design Fair
Mind-controlled computing, an app for diversifying your stock portfolio, a new chip that could one day revolutionize airport security – these were just a few of the futuristic concepts brought to life by enterprising fourth-year undergraduates at this year’s ECE Annual Design Fair. More than 100 projects debuted over the three-day event, and the most spectacular finalists were featured […]
