11 Engineering Staff Members Receive U of T Excellence Through Innovation Awards
Eleven Engineering staff members received one individual and four team Excellence Through Innovation Awards from U of T for their “above and beyond” contributions to the University and its mandate. These awards recognize the contributions of administrative staff in advancing the University’s strategic objectives; encouraging administrative innovation and providing a platform for sharing best practices. […]
Company With Roots in U of T Engineering Receives One of Canada’s Largest Healthcare Angel Investments
A University of Toronto spinoff company poised to radically improve HIV treatment in the developing world has landed one of the largest angel investments in Canadian health care. ChipCare Corporation, co-founded by University of Toronto PhD candidate in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, James Dou, is slated to receive $2.05 […]
Engineering Profs to Speak at TEDx Toronto 2013
Two of the 12 speakers chosen to present at TEDxToronto this fall are U of T Engineering professors. Professor Steve Mann (ECE), widely recognized as the father of wearable computing and inventor of the concept of ‘sousveillance’, will speak about his quest to “understand the world in more than one way” through technology. For more than 35 years Mann […]
U of T Awards Prestigious Quantum Mechanics Prize to Pioneering Physicists
U of T’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) has announced Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf, both of Yale University, as winners of the prestigious John Stewart Bell Prize for their enormous contributions to the field of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the theory physicists believe describes everything in nature, according to ECE […]
SAVI Demonstrates New Testbed at 2nd Annual General Meeting
What’s smarter than the Internet? It just might be the network demonstrated at the SAVI testbed workshop and annual general meeting, held Thursday and Friday in the Bahen Centre at U of T. “Keep in mind, the Internet itself was a testbed 50 years ago,” said Hadi Bannazadeh, SAVI’s testbed platform architect. “In 20 to […]
ECE Student’s Poster is One of the Best at Broadcom Competition
ECE PhD student Kevin Banovic’s poster was one of the top 12 posters from around the world in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition last month. Banovic’s poster, “Mixed-Signal Architectures for Spectrum Sensing,” was presented at a poster session at Broadcom’s annual Technical Conference June 5-6. The finalists shared insights into their engineering research and how […]
Students Show Off Apps to Change Your Life
New mobile applications developed by U of T Electrical Engineering students could change the way we treat addiction, teach kindergartners and even how we experience a night at the theatre. Students from Professor Parham Aarabi’s Mobile Applications Lab and Professor Jonathan Rose’s interdisciplinary app design class demonstrated nine new Android and iPhone apps at a showcase […]
Robots Help Celebrate the Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics
The appetizers may have been organic, but the server was mechanical at a reception held April 15 to celebrate the University of Toronto Engineering’s Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics. The reception was held to celebrate the Institute, which was established in 2010 to bring focus on research and education in the fields of robotics and […]
Got a Question? ECE Grad’s New Website Taps Professors and Other Experts for the Answers
How can we forgive people who commit atrocities? Is China the new model for state-run capitalism? Do the humanities matter anymore? For the answers to these and other questions, check out Vidoyen, a new interactive website created by ECE alumnus Arshia Tabrizi (CompE 9T5). Tabrizi, a technology lawyer and former software engineer, started Vidoyen because he felt there […]
