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Engineers Canada Award Recipient — Cristina Amon

This video was shown at the Engineers Canada Awards Gala in Vancouver on May 29, 2010.  Video courtesy of Engineers Canada. Engineers Canada honoured Cristina Amon (MIE) with the Award for the Support of Women. As Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science…

Two CivE Professors work to improve transit in Mecca

Eric Miller and Amer Shalaby from the Department of Civil Engineering are part of a worldwide group of transport engineers working with the Hajj Center of Research Excellence to find solutions to Mecca’s dense traffic, especially during the hajj, the world’s largest pilgrimage. The…

MIE Professor Studies How Personality Influences Blog Writing

Professor Mark Chignell from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and graduate student Jamy Li authored a study, “Birds of a Feather: How personality influences blog writing and reading,” evaluating whether aspects of a blogger’s personality can be gleamed from his/her posts. The…

CivE Professor studies how greenhouse gas emissions affect cities worldwide

Professor Chris Kennedy (CivE) published study,  “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities” examined ten global cities’ greenhouse gas emissions.  Professor Kennedy believes cities can learn best practices and strategies for reducing air pollutants by comparing and understanding why different cities generate the…

Omni-focus video camera to revolutionize industry

University of Toronto, a world-leading research university, announces a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both near and far field images, simultaneously, in high…
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