Posts Categorized: News

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…

May 30, 2017 – This month, dozens of U of T Engineering students boarded planes to spend four months conducting research or taking courses abroad. Some of these exchanges are organized by the Centre for International Experience, others are facilitated through…

May 30, 2017 – Professor Jason Bazylak is among six U of T Engineering faculty members who have been named the inaugural Hart Teaching Innovation Professors. Enabled by a landmark $20 million bequest from the estate of alumnus Erwin Edward…

May 30, 2017 – U of T recently hosted the 12th Annual Ontario-on-a-Chip Symposium, bringing together experts from government, industry and academia for a two-day forum on advances in microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip research. This year featured talks from the U…

May 29, 2017 – Professor Sanjeev Chandra has been named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME). The award recognizes engineers who have attained excellence in mechanical engineering and who have contributed actively to the progress of…