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 […]
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 […]
