Posts Categorized: News

January 9, 2016 – TVO recently interviewed MIE PhD student Justin Kim, to learn more about his engineering passions and his swarming robots research. Swarm robotics is a potentially lifesaving technology, and U of T’s Justin Kim is leading the field. Read…

January 4, 2017 – MIE alumna Caroline Cao (IndE PhD 0T2) was recently honoured with a Fulbright US Scholar Fellowship, and hopes to use the grant to introduce the subject of human factors engineering to local academic communities in Vietnam.…

December 19, 2016 – Dean Cristina Amon, IBBME adjunct professor Tony Easty and MIE Chair Jean Zu have been recognized by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for their exceptional contributions to the profession. Amon has been selected to receive the Sir…

December 15, 2016 – A group of recent MIE alumni have designed a portable scissor lift that is not only economical, but easy to use and could improve mobility for the elderly and disabled. Eraj Ahmed (MechE 1T6), Pritam Das (MechE 1T5+PEY),…

December 8, 2016 – In 2018, Canada will issue a new $10 banknote bearing the likeness of Viola Desmond, a businesswoman and black civil-rights activist. Joining her on the shortlist was Elsie MacGill(ElecE 2T7), Canada’s first female electrical engineering graduate,…

December 5, 2016 – The University of Toronto’s Varsity Blues recently honoured top student athletes at the seventh annual Academic Excellence Breakfast held at the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport. The awards honoured student athletes who earned an 80 per cent…

December 1, 2016 – MIE’s Susan McCahan on the refocused world of academia and preparing students for life beyond university. “Previously, we thought of the university experience as consisting of a set of courses tied together with a curriculum, and everything else…

November 24, 2016 – U of T Engineering recognized two landmark partnerships with its inaugural Industry Partnership Awards announced Wednesday. Hatch, a global engineering and management consultancy, received the Corporate Academic Citizen Award. IBM Canada was presented with the Corporate…

November 23, 2016 –  For several years, health-care teams at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto focused on speeding up turnaround times in operating rooms to avoid having to postpone surgeries at the end of a shift. But there were still days…

November 21, 2016 – Professors Kamran Behdinan and Yu Sun have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest international organization dedicated to advancing science or its applications on a global basis. They are among four…