Posts Tagged: graduate

Bicycle Built by U of T Engineering Students Reaches 117 km/h

The University of Toronto’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team placed third overall at the 2011 World Human-Powered Speed Challenge, held in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The competition took place from September 12 to 17 on a flat and almost perfectly straight eight-kilometre stretch…

Five U of T Engineers Named to the 2012 Clean50

Professors Brenda McCabe (CivE), Kim Pressnail (CivE) and Ted Sargent (ECE), as well as CivE PhD candidates Marianne Touchie and Ekaterina Tzekova, have been named to the Clean50, an initiative by the Corporate Knights honouring outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism in Canada. Professors McCabe and Pressnail, along…

Students Hope to Change the World One Drop of Blood at a Time

A group of engineering students from the University of Toronto have created a device that could revolutionize how malaria is diagnosed in developing countries. Joshua Dian (ElecE PhD candidate), Shyra Khosla (MechE 1T0), Martin Labrecque (ElecE 1T1, PhD candidate), Shervin…

Engineering Students Lauded for Bicycle Design

A group of 12 graduate and undergraduate students from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering are headed to Battle Mountain, Nevada on Sept. 12 to compete in The World Human-Powered Speed Challenge. At the competition, teams from around the…

Meet Engineering’s 2011 Vanier Scholars

Four graduate students from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering are among the 167 individuals named recipients of Canada’s prestigious Vanier Graduate Scholarship this year. The scholarships, which have been likened to the Rhodes Scholarship, are part of an…

Engineering Students Win Pride Parade Award

Engineering students at the University of Toronto have won the Special Judges’ Award for Shock and Awe at the 2011 Toronto Pride Parade, the city’s annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities. The contingent was organized by…
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