Posts Tagged: women in engineering
Four dozen girls, largely from Toronto’s inner-city Regent Park neighbourhood, converged on Google Canada’s Toronto offices in early November to see its innovative architecture and design, and engage in a “design challenge” with the help of U of T Engineering…
The number of women getting into engineering in Canada has been on the decline, despite a decade of efforts to encourage more girls to think of technical careers. Even though women currently make up more than half of the undergraduate…
On Oct. 16, girls in grades 7 to 10, along with their parents, took part in the first Go Eng Girl at U of T, an event that aims to educate aspiring engineers about the exciting career opportunities that await them.…
“Murphy’s Law: his eyelids aren’t working today.” Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) fusses over Brian’s facial features, adjusting his pliable, rubbery skin, pushing it up over his eyeballs. Dr. Nejat, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University…
Evelyn Mukwedeya (EngSci 1T0+PEY) has taken another award, this time the William Peyton Hubbard Memorial Award. Mukwedeya, who took the CEMF women in engineering award in April, accepted her new award at a luncheon in Toronto on July 15th, hosted by…
Alumna Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0) has been promoted to an officer of the Order of Canada, one of 74 new appointments announced on June 30 by Governor General Michaëlle Jean. An astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, Payette was described as…
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