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. […]
IBBME Professor Wins Analytical Chemistry 2011 Young Innovator Award
Professor Aaron Wheeler (IBBME) has won the Analytical Chemistry 2011 Young Innovator Award. This award honours exceptional technical advancement and innovation in the field of micro- or nanofluidics early in the investigator’s career. Wheeler’s innovative research explores the relationship between traditional enclosed microchannels and digital microfluidics, in which discrete droplets are manipulated on open devices […]
IBBME Professor’s Start-Up Earns $2-Million Licence Fee
Another technology commercialization success story emerges from U of T. Interface Biologics Inc (IBI), a company founded by Professor Paul Santerre, Director of the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), announced the successful conclusion of a licensing evaluation period with Fresenius Medical Care. Fresenius Medical Care, the largest provider of dialysis products and services, […]
CivE Professor Awarded $3 Million Ontario Research Fund Grant
Lead researcher and Principal Investigator Professor Brent Sleep (CivE) has been awarded $3,213,700 by the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) Water Round program. He and his team, made up of seven co-investigators from Queen’s University, University of Waterloo and U of T, will investigate combined treatment technologies for remediating contaminated groundwater in Ontario. […]
Engineering Professor Receives CSCE Camille Dagenais Award
Professor Barry Adams (CivE) has received the 2011 Camille Dagenais Award from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the development and practice of hydrotechnical engineering in Canada. Barry Adams has served the Faculty with distinction as Chair of the Environmental Engineering program and Chair of the Department […]
