Connaught Fund Supports Six U of T Engineers for Society-Changing Research
Six U of T Engineers have received research funding for projects that tackle major societal challenges – from reducing traffic congestion and improving spinal surgery, to understanding the world at the nanoscale. And the source of the investment? U of T itself, specifically the Connaught Fund, the university’s premier source of internal research funding. The […]
Adel Sedra Appointed to Order of Ontario
Adel S. Sedra, professor and former chair of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been appointed to the Order of Ontario for 2013. The appointees were announced January 23 and invested by the Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, at a ceremony at Queen’s Park. Professor Sedra […]
Three U of T Engineers Elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada
Professors Nasser Ashgriz (MIE), Shahrokh Valaee (ECE) and Christopher Yip (ChemE, IBBME) have been elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), on the basis of “exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada.” The EIC is a federation of Canadian engineering societies that sponsors education standards, recognizes individual engineers and records engineering history. Nasser Ashgriz […]
A Great Way to Start 2014: $3.6 Million for Research that Impacts Society
A total of $3,613,649 worth of grants has been awarded to U of T researchers, with the bulk of it directed to Engineering. The support comes from the Strategic Projects Grants (SPG) program of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The funding was part of $43 million awarded to universities across the country. […]
Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards 17 Grants to Engineering
A boost of over $1.7-million worth of grants from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has been directed toward Engineering and will be used for infrastructure that will advance research in everything from testing drinking water to cancer. The funding comes from the CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program designed to help universities […]
New Metamaterial Lens Allows for Lighter, Thinner Solar Panels
Researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed a new way to focus light over extremely short distances, technology with big applications in photovoltaics and optical imaging. Picture a typical lens, shaped like half a grapefruit lying face-down. Light rays pass through the lens and focus some distance away […]
Connect6 Competition a Hit with U of T Engineering Students
When you win a competition by time measured in milliseconds, it’s like being in the Olympics. That’s what happened to Shang Wang (ECE 1T7) at the first Connect6 game competition, organized as part of Engineering’s APS105 computer programming course. Connect6 is a cross between the popular Chinese board game Go, and tic-tac-toe. The board measures 19 squares […]
New Algorithm Finds You, Even in Untagged Photos
A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. This month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue a patent on this technology. Developed by Parham Aarabi, a professor in […]
‘Invisibility Cloak’ Demonstrated for First Time
Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff of science fiction: two researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have demonstrated an effective invisibility cloak that is thin, scalable and adaptive to different types and sizes of objects. Professor George Eleftheriades (ECE) and PhD student Michael Selvanayagam have designed and tested a new approach […]
