Posts Tagged: industrial engineering
Prompt use of an automated external defibrillator, or AED, can greatly increase the survival rates of people who suffer a cardiac arrest. And MIE Professor Tim Chan, working with Dr. Laurie Morrison at St. Michael’s Hospital, has developed a formula to…
How do you program a robot to navigate a zombie-infested campus? That was one of many problems that 80 high school students from grades 9 through 12, had to solve during the third-annual Operations Research Challenge (TORCH). TORCH is a one-day contest…
Although virtual keyboards are increasingly common, they can sometimes be frustrating to use. That frustration helps explain why the “Minuum”, a new keyboard developed by Will Walmsley (MASc IndE 1T2) and computer science assistant professor Khai Truong, is creating a lot of…
What can sports teams learn from the manufacturing industry? Plenty, according to Professor Timothy Chan(MIE) and Douglas Fearing, an Assistant Professor in Technology and Operations Management at the Harvard Business School. Professor Chan and Fearing took first place in the 2013…
University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented Feb. 27 in Ottawa. Among them are U of T…
Professor Chul B. Park (MIE) has been recognized by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Korea’s national society for science and technology. Professor Park is the Canada Research Chair in Microcellular Plastics and the founder and Director of the Microcellular…
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