Professor Emeritus Awarded Ig Nobel Prize for “Improbable Research”
Professor Emeritus John Senders (MIE) is among a number of U of T professors who took home a 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for their “improbable research.” The awards ceremony, which takes place at Harvard University, proves that research can be fun – and funny. Professor Senders won in the “public safety” category for “conducting a series of safety […]
Bicycle Built by U of T Engineering Students Reaches 117 km/h
The University of Toronto’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team placed third overall at the 2011 World Human-Powered Speed Challenge, held in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The competition took place from September 12 to 17 on a flat and almost perfectly straight eight-kilometre stretch of highway in the Nevada desert. The U of T team had a top speed […]
U of T Engineer Named Chair of SERA Technical Advisory Group
Not-for-profit organization, Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregates (SERA), has named Professor Brenda McCabe, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, as its Chair of its newly formed expert technical panel. Professor McCabe leads a group of experts – representing municipal, industry, community and environmental interests – who will produce a final voluntary standard that establishes credible, […]
Professor Emeritus Gordon R. Slemon Passes Away
The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Gordon R. Slemon (ECE). Professor Slemon, who died on September 26 at age 87, served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1966 to 1976, and Dean of U of T Engineering from 1979 to 1986. He was highly regarded as the […]
Engineering Professor Part of Team Awarded Research Grant
Researchers at the University of Victoria and U of T Engineering Professor David Sinton (MIE) will design a new fibre-optic system to monitor carbon dioxide (CO2) at underground storage sites. Carbon Management Canada will provide the team with a $983,578 grant to research ways CO2 can be safely injected into storage formations, which has the potential to […]
Five U of T Engineers Named to the 2012 Clean50
Professors Brenda McCabe (CivE), Kim Pressnail (CivE) and Ted Sargent (ECE), as well as CivE PhD candidates Marianne Touchie and Ekaterina Tzekova, have been named to the Clean50, an initiative by the Corporate Knights honouring outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism in Canada. Professors McCabe and Pressnail, along with Marianne Touchie and Ekaterina Tzekov, were recognized as a group for their creation of […]
Accomplished Alum Talks Global Engineering to First-Year Students
This year, the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering was proud to present Paul Cadario (CivE 7T3), Senior Manager at the World Bank, as guest speaker of U of T Engineering’s annual plenary speech. On September 8, first-year students ushered in their first week of classes with inspiring words from both Cadario and Dean Cristina Amon. “More than […]
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 […]
