Posts Tagged: research
Former MIE Chair David Sanborn Scott is set to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria (UVic) on June 13, 2012. Professor Scott, who is being recognized for his groundbreaking work in energy systems, is humbled by the honour. “It…
Professor Vaughn Betz (ECE) has been named the NSERC/Altera Industrial Research Chair in Programmable Silicon. The five-year renewable chair provides support for Professor Betz’s research on programmable computer chips, known as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Professor Betz is one of the world’s…
What the heroes of Moneyball did for baseball, Industrial Engineering Professor Timothy Chan and undergraduate engineering student David Novati are doing for hockey. As retold in the Oscar-nominated movie, Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta used statistical analysis and nuanced metrics such as on-base…
In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing the finely tuned particles of light is a complex and time-consuming process, until now. Thanks to the work by a team of engineers led by Professor Amr Helmy of The…
The fuel cell holds great promise as a technology that could well provide a way of powering our vehicles with much less energy use and environmental damage. But the technology isn’t quite right – yet. Fortunately, U of T Mechanical…
The substantial role that University of Toronto researchers are having in the development of Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – the ‘chameleons’ of computer chips – was evident recently when more than half of the top 25 papers published on the…
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