Four Faculty Members Receive Collaborative Health Grants
U of T Engineering professors have been awarded four out of 31 new research grants offered through Canada’s Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program, an initiative of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Faculty recipients are: • Professor Moshe Eizenman (IBBME), awarded $353,597 over three years […]
Julie Payette Promoted to Officer, Order of Canada
Alumna Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0) has been promoted to an officer of the Order of Canada, one of 74 new appointments announced on June 30 by Governor General Michaëlle Jean. An astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, Payette was described as “a source of inspiration and an international ambassador for engineering in Canada” in a news […]
David Castelino Achieves Gold Level in Duke of Edinburgh Awards
David Castelino, a second-year ChemE student, was honoured today with a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award of Achievement alongside 199 other young people from across Canada. On a visit to Canada, the Duke of Edinburgh handed out the awards before leaving Toronto the following day. Castelino, who was interviewed along with another award winner on […]
Dean Amon Among Most Important Hispanics in Technology, 2010
Dean Cristina Amon has been selected for the “Most Important Hispanics in Technology” list for 2010. The honour, from American magazine Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology (HE&IT), was bestowed on the Dean today at an awards dinner in Baltimore, Maryland. Extensive research was performed on thousands of employees from 100 candidate companies; HE&IT editors then evaluated and ranked the highest-achieving Hispanic […]
Two Engineering Researchers Win NSERC Discovery Accelerator Grants
Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) has been awarded $120,000 over the next three years by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) program. The grant will assist Professor Radisic to hire more students and commit more resources to her research into the development of new therapies for heart disease. The grant recognizes […]
U of T Wins Five of Nine Ontario Professional Engineers Awards
Five members of the U of T Engineering community have been selected by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) to receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards, out of a total of nine recipients province-wide. Stephen Armstrong, an instructor in our ELITE program, received the Engineering Excellence Medal. Professor Mansoor Barati (MSE) received […]
PhD Candidate Earns ITF Young Researcher of the Year Award
U of T Engineering student Hossam Abdelgawad (CivE) received the Young Researcher of the Year Award 2010 at the International Transport Forum, the leading global mobility summit, held in Leipzig, Germany on May 27. The 27-year-old PhD candidate was recognized for his study of mass evacuations of major cities in the event of a catastrophe. The paper […]
Engineering Dean Emeritus Michael E. Charles Elected CAE President
Former Dean and Professor Emeritus Michael E. Charles, FCAE, PEng, has been elected President of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and started his presidency on June 4, 2010 at the conclusion of the CAE’s Annual General Meeting in Toronto. The CAE is an independent, self-governing, non-profit organization serving the technological development of Canada by marshaling […]
Assistant Professor Milica Radisic Named a “Scientist to Watch”
The prestigious life sciences magazine, The Scientist, recently named Assistant Professor Milica Radisic of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry (ChemE) as the “Scientist to Watch” for her research involving engineered cardiac tissue called the “heart patch.” The idea for the heart patch first came to Radisic […]
