Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP)

Professor Jason Bazylak (MIE) is one of three U of T Engineering professors who have recently been inducted as fellows of the Canadian Engineering Education Association. (Photo: Jeremy Sale)

Canadian Engineering Education Association honours three U of T Engineering professors

July 15, 2021

Fellowships recognize noteworthy service to engineering education, engineering leadership, or engineering design education

In this photo, taken in February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Chirag Variawa (left) speaks with a student at Chestnut Residence, a home for many engineering students. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

U of T Engineering professor recognized for early career contributions to engineering education

June 30, 2021

The Ron Britton Engineering Education Vanguard award from the Canadian Engineering Education Association recognizes commitment to the development of this field in Canada

Left: Professor William Cluett (ChemE), Director of the Division of Engineering Science. (Photo courtesy Will Cluett) Right: Claire Kennedy (ChemE 8T9), outgoing Chair of U of T’s Governing Council. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Engineers Canada Awards honour U of T Engineering professor and alumna

June 28, 2021

Professor William Cluett (ChemE) receives the Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education; Claire Kennedy (ChemE 8T9) receives the Meritorious Service Award for Community Services

SmartSpouts — low-cost sensors embedded in these water filters — can track when and for how long the spigot is open. More than 200 of them have been successfully deployed in a radomized controlled trial in South Africa's Limpopo Province. (Photo: David Meyer)

This low-cost smart sensor can help optimize interventions to improve water quality and public health

June 17, 2021

Data gathered from large-scale field trials can indicate which technologies or social interventions provide maximum benefit

Professor Lydia Wilkinson joined ISTEP as a faculty member in January 2021 after nearly 15 years of teaching at U of T Engineering. (Photo courtesy Lydia Wilkinson)

ISTEP welcomes new faculty member Lydia Wilkinson

March 10, 2021

Informed by her academic background in education and the humanities, Wilkinson says she’s excited to help ISTEP redefine engineering education

As an ISTEP faculty member, Professor Shai Cohen hopes to improve how mathematics is taught to engineering students. (Photo courtesy of ISTEP)

ISTEP welcomes new faculty member Shai Cohen

March 8, 2021

“I believe in challenging students to perform at a level they did not think they could reach,” says Cohen, who joined ISTEP in January 2021

From top left, clockwise: Professors Chirag Variawa (ISTEP), Marianne Touchie (CivMin), Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) and Elham Marzi (ISTEP). (Photos: Laura Pederson, Kevin Soobrian, Neda Demiri and Roberta Baker)

Five U of T Engineering professors on how they’re preparing for an unprecedented Back to Skule™

August 27, 2020

Instructors reimagine approaches to teaching as the Faculty gears up for a remote start to fall term

A steel-tethered airship, known as an aerostat, designed by Solar Ship, Inc. The company is one of several clients whose projects are facilitated by U of T Engineering’s International Virtual Engineering Student Teams (InVEST) initiative. (Photo: Solar Ship, Inc.)

How to work effectively when your team is both global and virtual

August 20, 2020

InVEST program enables engineering students to gain experience collaborating across cultures and disciplines

Professor Philip Asare (ISTEP, EngSci). (Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher)

Meet Professor Philip Asare

July 24, 2020

The newest professor to join the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) and Division of Engineering Science (EngSci) sees engineering as a “humanist enterprise”

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