Nanorobotic Manipulation Laboratory Established in MIE
Supported by Hitachi Inc. (Japan and Canada) as well as the federal and provincial governments, the Nanorobotic Manipulation Laboratory has been established as a new lab within MIE. The lab, directed by Professor Yu Sun, specializes in the manipulation and characterization of individual nanomaterials (e.g., nanowires and nanotubes) and sub-cellular structures of single biological cells, inside scanning electron microscopes. The laboratory welcomes collaborations from both inside and outside of MIE.

Call for Papers: EMS 2010
The International Conference on Engineering Management and Service Sciences is calling for papers.
Location: Wuhan, China
Date: August 24 to 26, 2010

This conference is sponsored by IEEE, Sichuan University, Wuhan University, James Madison University and Scientific Research Publishing. All papers accepted will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.

Technical areas to be covered are:

• Data Mining and E-Commerce
• Engineering Management
• Energy Engineering Management
• Human Resource Management
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Interactivity Multimedia Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Project and Quality Management
• Service Sciences and Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Urban Environment Management
• Other Related Topics

The deadline for full paper submission is February 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance will be given by April 15, 2010

Please contact mass@scirp.org or visit the website for more information about this conference.

MIE Team Won 3rd Place in 2009 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Student Design Competition
The U of T student design team won 3rd place out of the 16 teams that advanced to the final competition, and over 70 teams that participated in the 2009 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Design Competition. The final competition took place on November 15 during the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) at Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The U of T rover, named i87, a redesigned and upgraded version from its predecessor, i86, represented U of T and Canada in this international competition against other teams from around the world.

i87, a remote controlled 3-wheel rover, performed extremely smoothly during the beginning of its run. It was able to navigate through all of the obstacles and retrieve all of the rocks within 2 minutes; less than half of the allowed time. However, while on its way to the final parking area, after it had precisely placed all of the rocks into the retrieval area, the rover mistakenly made a sharp turn which caused the support wheel to land outside the field boundary. This mistake made by the team resulted in an automatic point deduction which probably cost them 1st or 2nd place in the competition.

Although there was a bit of disappointment when we made the mistake, which caused us a 1000 pts deduction during our run, said Jacky Lau, i87 team leader, the signs of relief and joy could still be seen on the entire team's face after the run, because our rover already performed above our expectation. The competition is so competitive that every single gram of extra weight and every extra mAh of battery capacity available to the rover can make the difference between a winning rover and a competition participant.

The design team, with their first rover i86, previously won 1st place in the ASME District B Student Design Competition back in March 2009. After reviewing the mistakes they made during the district competition and benchmarking themselves against other rovers in the competition, the team completely redesigned their first rover to come up with the new i87 design.

MIE Graduates in November 2009 Convocation
Forty-one MIE graduate students including 13 Ph.D. students, 13 M.A.Sc. students, and 15 M.Eng. students graduated in the November 2009 Convocation. The ceremony was held on November 13 in Convocation Hall and was followed by the Faculty Convocation Reception in GB202.

Congratulations to everyone for the successful completion of their studies at MIE. We wish you all the best in your future career and education endeavours.

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
Jake Wernik will present Multiscale Modeling of Nano-Reinfored Structural Adhesive Bonds
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: R.D. Venter Room (MB101), Mining Building
Exam Committee: Professor S. A. Meguid (Supervisor), Professor J.K. Spelt (Exam Chair), and Professor H. Ruda.

MASc Oral Exam
Eric Wu will present Automated Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Laser Scanning Cytometry
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Time: 5:10 PM
Location: R.D. Venter Room (MB101), Mining Building
Exam Committee: Professor Y. Sun (Supervisor and Exam Chair), Professor A. Bazylak and Professor F. Ben Amara

Master Tuition Bursary for 2009-2010
Tuition Fee Bursaries are awarded to master's students who still have a small amount of work outstanding. These students will have registered full-time from the beginning of their programs and their minimum period of registration (i.e. program length) will have ended on or before either August or December of the current year. Students receiving tuition fee bursaries will not be eligible for fellowships, scholarships or other awards. Essentially, the bursary allows the recipient to pay the part-time fee for one term.

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Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant for 2009-2010
The Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant is awarded to domestic and international doctoral students who are registered full-time, paying full-time fees, and currently in their 5th or 6th year of study. Students can receive the grant in both their 5th and 6th year of study and need to apply each year. The application form is available on the SGS website.

Enter 5th/6th year of Doctoral Studies in January 2010 - Application deadline: January 30, 2010
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Nortel Institute Undergraduate Scholarship
A $4,600 scholarship is open to applicants at the University of Toronto in 2nd or 3rd year of Engineering, Arts & Science, UTM, or UTSC. Applications will be accepted until November 30, 2009.

To apply, students must submit:

• A 500-word essay
• A transcript
• Two letters of reference
• Application form (available from Admissions & Awards)

For more information, including eligibility requirements, please visit the admissions and awards website.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
Research Field: Cleantech - Area of Smart Sensors for Intensive Combustion Processes based on novel applications of applied spectroscopy and other techniques for measurement of gas constituents, gas temperatures, and gas flows.

Please click here for more information.

Technical Sales Representative - Chemical Process/Mechanical Engineer
Organisation: Busch Vacuum Technics Inc.
Location: Mississauga

Busch Vacuum Technics Inc. is the Canadian subsidiary of a prominent European multinational corporation. We distribute to Canadian industries a variety of vacuum pumps manufactured by parent companies, and design and build vacuum systems to meet the needs of a diverse clientele, including the food, plastics, wood, packaging, printing and medical equipment industries, as well as the chemical, petrochemical, environmental and pharmaceutical sectors. We have branches throughout Canada. Our Mississauga sales team located at 111 Topflight Dr. requires the assistance of Technical Sales Representative - Chemical/Process or Mechanical Engineer.

A Technical Sales Representative is required to regularly visit existing client companies, prospective client companies and consulting engineering firms throughout Ontario in order to advise them on innovative tools that would increase performance. You could be part of an enthusiastic team if you are a professional engineer with at least five (5) years experience in industrial equipment sales, related to the above mentioned industries. You must be very autonomous, passionate about your work and demonstrate team spirit. You are recognized for your communication skills as well as for your determination to succeed.

If motivated by this outstanding challenge, offering both competitive compensation and growth potential, kindly send your resume, in full confidence, to the Human Resources Department via email.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected will be contacted.

TA Positions for Winter 2010
CUPE 3902 Unit 1 posting - TA requirements for undergraduate courses - Winter 2010
Applications must be submitted to RS 214, by Monday, November 23, 2009.

Click here to view available job posting.

Second Round of MIE Banner Competition
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering has opened the Banner Contest up for a second round! The competition is now open to undergraduate, graduate students and researchers in the MIE Department.

Please click here for details, including new design guidelines on what the committee is looking for.

AMIGAS Coffee Break!
The next coffee break will take place on Wednesday, November 25th at 2:00 PM in the MIE Graduate Common Room - MC330. Take a break from all your studying and researching to enjoy some delicious drinks and snacks with your friends and co-workers.

Bowling With AMIGAS!
Do you have a pair of bowling shoes collecting dust in the closet? Is that personally-embroidered, silk shirt with the 'strike out' pun getting no action?

Come to the AMIGAS bowling event! For a mere $5, you get shoe rental and three games of 10-pin bowling. Sign up as an individual or if you'd like to form a team of up to four people, send Hadi an
e-mail. The date is Thursday, December 3 at 7:00 PM, with a meet-up in front of MC at 6:00 PM to take the TTC together. All grad students, post docs, faculty and staff are welcome, along with families or one non-family guest. No bowling skills are required.

If you'd like to meet us there at 7:00 PM, make your own way to Bowlerama at 5429 Dundas Street West by Kipling Subway station.

Please buy your tickets by Monday, November 30th at 12:00 PM if you would like to go!
Tickets may be purchased online.

Final Days of Movember!!
For the Month of November, the Engineering Society's Community Outreach has been promoting Movember, a fantastic campaign where Skule's bravest gentlemen grow the best moustache they can during the month of November. This moustache is a lone stache, with no beard for backup. All money raised with this campaign goes towards Prostate Cancer Canada for cancer research and the promotion of men's health issues.
This is your last chance to support this important cause! If you want to donate, go to movember.com and click Donate. Then click Donate to a Team, and type Skule in the Find a Team search. You can then pay by Mastercard, Visa, or American Express.

Our Goal:
If we raise $20,000, Professor Beno Benhabib has agreed to shave his moustache (which he has been sporting since first year University!!) at Movember 27th Suds!

High Speed Imaging On-Campus Opportunity
On Thursday, November 26th, High Speed Imaging will be on campus from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM in MC331.

High Speed Imaging specializes in data collection of fast moving events and has worked with Academia and Industry on projects ranging from Aerospace Engineering to PIV. We would like to invite you to join us in MC331 anytime from 9:00 to 11:30 AM to see a collection of amazing videos taken for research purposes in labs like yours across Canada. We will have live demonstrations of high frame rate cameras, Q and A, as well as thousands of spectacular images you may have seen on TV shows like Timewarp and CSI!

No appointments are necessary, but in order to ensure ALL of your questions are answered you may feel free to contact us in advance and schedule a personalized demo in your laboratory! To get a sneak peek at what type of work we have done, feel free to visit us at www.hsi.ca or www.mitl.ca

We look forward to seeing you!

Professor Steinman Away
Professor Steinman will be away November 17 to December 3. He and Dolores Steinman will be presenting a paper at the Super Human Symposium in Melbourne, Australia, and attending Re:live, The 3rd International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.