Posts Categorized: News

June 28, 2017 – MIE alumnus Som Seif (IndE 9T9), founder and Chief Executive Officer of Purpose Investments Inc., recently shared with The Globe and Mail his expert insights on how to invest in light of a looking interest rate…

June 28, 2017 – Only a year and a half after arriving in Canada, Levon Markarian feels at home on the factory floor of Rex Power Magnetics. In Syria, Markarian owned a small tool and die factory. In Toronto, he’s…

June 27, 2017 – Three MIE professors and alumni were recently inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Professor Sanjeev Chandra, Mark Hundert (IndE 7T1) and John Young (MMS 7T1, MIE MASc 7T4) are among the CAE’s 50 new fellows.…

June 20, 2017 – Few product tests are as emotional as the one Manmeet Maggu performed at his brother’s house near Delhi last summer. The U of T MBA student was watching as his eight-year-old nephew Praneit, who suffers from…

June 12, 2017 – On Tuesday, June 13, MIE is proud to graduate a new class of engineers who aim to change the world. Here are just a few of the amazing grads of 2017: Amreen Poonawala About Amreen: I…

June 12, 2017 – Hockey fans around the world are waiting anxiously to find out who will be drafted to the NHL’s new expansion team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Industrial Engineering Professor Timothy Chan and his team of students…

June 7, 2017 – Professor Craig Simmons is among six members of the U of T Engineering community to be honoured by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) with 2017 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards.…

June 6, 2017 – Christopher Sun (IndE PhD candidate) is among four U of T Engineering students who will each receive $150,000 from the 2017 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. The funding will support research into everything from faster download speeds to…

June 5, 2017 – MIE professors Eric Diller, Tobin Filleter and Edmond Young have been recognized with the Connaught New Researcher Award. The annual awards are only provided to U of T assistant professors within the first five years of a tenured-stream…

May 30, 2017 – Anna Jiang (MIE MASc candidate) cannot show off her thesis project because it is half-buried in the soil of Pedro Arauz, Nicaragua. “I can show you the graveyard of things that didn’t work,” she says. “It…