A Tribute to Professor Emeritus E. Stewart Lee
It is with deep regret that we announce the death on October 15, 2013 of Professor Emeritus Ernest Stewart Lee. E. Stewart Lee, Stewart to his friends, was born in Montreal on June 7, 1934. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Engineering Physics and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering at McGill […]
Post-doctoral Fellow Wins 2013 Colton Award
Dr. Muhammad Zulfiker Alam, a post-doctoral fellow in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been announced as the 2013 recipient of the Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence. Alam received the award at a ceremony Tuesday evening in Gatineau, Que. at CMC Microsystems’ 2013 Annual Symposium. The Douglas […]
TEDx Toronto Talks Provoke, Stimulate, Engage
Preserving food. The changing demographics of Canadian society. Horizontal enlightenment through meditation. These were just some of the topics attendees learned about at the fifth annual TEDxToronto conference last week. The University of Toronto co-sponsored the event, and U of T Engineering boasted two of the 12 provocative presenters: Professors Brendan Frey and Steve Mann from The Edward S. […]
ECE Grad Wins City of Toronto Entrepreneurship Award
U of T Engineering alumnus Hargun Suri (CompE 1T3) won this year’s City of Toronto International Student Excellence Award in the entrepreneurship category. With ECE classmates Anirudh Ganti (CompE 1T3) and Ian Xiao (CompE 1T3), he co-founded Interngration.com, a web-based application to bring students seeking internships into contact with start-ups in need of talented people. The app is still in the beta […]
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 […]
