Four Professors Elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Dean Cristina Amon (MIE) and Professors Michael Collins (CivE), Chul Park (MIE) and Peter Stangeby (UTIAS) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of Canada’s most prestigious academic honours. The RSC is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scholars, artists and scientists. It consists of nearly 2,000 Fellows, who are selected by their peers for outstanding contributions […]
New CFI Grants Benefit Three Engineers
Three assistant professors from U of T Engineering are among 17 researchers at the University of Toronto who are benefiting from new funding announced today by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The grants will provide support to: Professor Cathy Chin (ChemE) for the Multidisciplinary Laboratory for Innovative Catalytic Science; Professor Daman Panesar (CivE) for […]
Students Hope to Change the World One Drop of Blood at a Time
A group of engineering students from the University of Toronto have created a device that could revolutionize how malaria is diagnosed in developing countries. Joshua Dian (ElecE PhD candidate), Shyra Khosla (MechE 1T0), Martin Labrecque (ElecE 1T1, PhD candidate), Shervin Mehryar (ElecE 1T2) and Aaron Persad (MechE PhD candidate) received the 2010 James Dyson Award […]
Engineering student showcases business skills
When Oti Agbeyegbe (MIE 1T2) signed up for Impact Apprentice – a business competition based on Donald Trump’s famed Apprentice – he was excited. It wasn’t competing against peers from across Canada or possibly being named the best in the country that filled his stomach with butterflies, but the opportunity to prove that engineers posses […]
Meet Engineering’s 2011 Vanier Scholars
Four graduate students from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering are among the 167 individuals named recipients of Canada’s prestigious Vanier Graduate Scholarship this year. The scholarships, which have been likened to the Rhodes Scholarship, are part of an effort by the federal government to attract and retain top graduate students in Canada. To […]
$20 Million for Water Research Benefits U of T Engineering
University of Toronto researchers will benefit from a $19.58 million investment in water technologies announced today by FedDev Ontario, an agency created in 2009 as part of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. Peter Kent, Canada’s minister of environment, was on campus to announce funding to the Southern Ontario Water Consortium, an alliance of universities, companies, municipalities […]
New Funding Supports Engineering Outreach
The Engineering Student Outreach Office (ESOO) in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering will benefit from two new grants announced by governments in Canada. On August 17, the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario announced a grant of $1.25-million to support Actua, a national science, engineering and technology youth outreach network. These funds […]
47 Engineers Among U of T Recipients of $42-million in NSERC Funding
Federal Minister of State (Transport) Stephen Fletcher and Member of Parliament Mark Adler (York Centre) were on hand to celebrate the University of Toronto researchers and students who will benefit from more than $42-million provided through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The celebration was held on July 27 in the […]
U of T Engineering Mourns Passing of Professor Lavers
The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering mourns the passing of Professor J. Douglas Lavers of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Professor Lavers died on July 11, 2011 in an accident while on a 16-day canoe trip in the Yukon. Professor Lavers’ research focused on applications involving magnetic fields. […]
