Bernard Etkin Honoured by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
University Professor Emeritus Bernard Etkin (UTIAS), an Engineering alumnus and former Dean of the Faculty, has been selected to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Guidance, Navigation, and Control Award for 2014. This award has been bestowed on Professor Etkin “for outstanding achievement in and dedication to research and education in […]
Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards 17 Grants to Engineering
A boost of over $1.7-million worth of grants from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has been directed toward Engineering and will be used for infrastructure that will advance research in everything from testing drinking water to cancer. The funding comes from the CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program designed to help universities […]
Pilotless Planes May Hold Key to Spotting Forest Fires
Every year Ontario experiences more than 700 forest fires, affecting more than 120,000 hectares of woodland. Finding those fires and alerting fire rangers is a daunting task in a province as large as Ontario. But UTIAS Professor Hugh Liu thinks he may have a solution – UAVs – pilotless airplanes armed with thermal cameras. Professor Liu, who […]
UTIAS Student Caught Up in Boston Bombing Aftermath
When Lana Osusky (AeroE PhD candidate) went to Boston to present her research, she didn’t expect to end up presenting in her hotel room, while under lockdown. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT)Women in Aerospace Symposium, which took place on April 18 and 19 at the MIT campus, was an opportunity for female doctoral candidates from across […]
UTIAS Invaded by Crawling, Swimming, Flying Robots!
Robots of all shapes and sizes crawled, swam and flew at U of T’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and York University recently as the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) field trials came to town. The field trials took place from April 17–23 and featured talks and presentations, workshops, networking events, and opportunities for […]
Communitech and UTIAS: Tapping the Potential of Space
The first things you notice upon entry to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Space Flight Laboratory are the bright flecks twinkling against the inky blackness – in the granite floors, not the sky. This is, after all, an Earth-bound facility, though its work is all about space. It is here that […]
Robots Help Celebrate the Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics
The appetizers may have been organic, but the server was mechanical at a reception held April 15 to celebrate the University of Toronto Engineering’s Institute for Robotics & Mechatronics. The reception was held to celebrate the Institute, which was established in 2010 to bring focus on research and education in the fields of robotics and […]
National Engineering Month 2013
National Engineering Month (NEM) is the biggest national celebration of engineering and technology. Across Canada, engineering schools and volunteers stage more than 500 events and activities to bring more awareness to the exciting and rewarding world of engineering. This year’s NEM theme is Design the Future – something U of T Engineering certainly knows a […]
No Robots? No Problem!
When UTIAS Professor Reza Emami began teaching a new AER525 Robotics course recently, he had a problem: No robots. At first, Emami and his students had to make do with rudimentary simulations. Eventually he managed to procure a few tabletop robots. However, these were too simple to allow him to demonstrate all aspects of industrial robotics. But […]
