Posts Tagged: David Sinton

From the mysteries of the knuckleball to perfecting sales pitches

Whether it’s an app to help patients navigate Toronto General Hospital, better planning tools at Salesforce.com, or a machine that throws the elusive knuckleball, this year’s MIE Design, Research & Innovation Showcase was overflowing with ingenuity and new ideas. On…

Can Plants Teach Us How to Build Better Solar Cells?

What can we learn from plants about making the best use of the sun’s abundant energy? That’s the question underlying an ambitious new research project that has won $1 million in the 2012–13 Connaught Global Challenge funding competition. The project…

MIE Professor Elected ASME Fellow

Professor David Sinton (MIE) has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Fellowship is the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, the attainment of which recognizes outstanding engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Professor Sinton’s…

Meet the 2013 McLean Award Winner and his Photosynthetic Friends

Professor David Sinton is a mechanical engineer. So at first glance it seems odd his lab is full of algae. Sinton’s research has always focused on small-scale plumbing, or fluidics — the movement of fluid at the micro- and nano-scale. Traditional applications have…

Supermileage Team Determined to Make an Impact in 2014

High expectations. That’s what Mengqi Wang (ECE 1T3) has for the University of Toronto Supermileage Team in 2014. Wang is co-president of the team, which competed for the first time ever in the Shell Eco-Marathon Challenge held in Houston earlier this month,…
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