MIE - newsletter 15

Funded Research
Prof. Mariano Consens, as a co-PI, with a group of 15 Canadian data management researchers received a $5 million Strategic Network grant from NSERC to develop next generation business intelligence techniques in collaboration with organizations that use, create, and deliver business intelligence solutions.

NSERC Eligibility
The internal deadline is Wednesday, October 21st; NSERC's deadline is October 25th. Please forward a signed RIS form and submit the application on line (if you have not done so) on the 21st. Scan and e-mail the completed and signed form or deliver it in person at the address below.

Research Services will not be reviewing applications. All submitted applications appearing online will be forwarded to NSERC starting October 21st.

Include any additional documentation required to support eligibility to apply to NSERC (i.e., letter of appointment for adjunct and non-tenured faculty members and, where applicable, the NSERC Form 100 signed Appendices B and/or C) attached to the RIS form. Refer to the attached eligibility table for more information.

If the lead UofT applicants have any co-applicants on their grant applications, Research Services will only check the eligibility of the UofT co-PIs. If they have co-applicants from other universities/institutions, attach a signed copy of Form 101 page 2 (co-applicant's page), showing their signature(s) and their university representatives, to the applicants' RIS forms.

If a UofT researcher is a co-applicant on another university's application, submit an RIS form and Form 101 page 2 for the UofT Representative's signature. The UofT researcher is responsible for sending this to the lead university.

Click here for more information. You will need a UTORid to sign in.

Please contact angie.agulto@utoronto.ca, Christine Kwan c.kwan@utoronto.ca, Sarah Scott, or Fred Zhu with any questions.

Please click here to see the NSERC Eligibility Checklist

MITACS Accelerate
A provider of antenna and filter products, systems, and coverage solutions for public safety and private wireless networks is seeking to collaborate with university researchers on an antenna project. The company is interested in sponsoring a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow through its internship program, with an expertise in computer modelling to work on these projects.

Please click here for further information, before contacting Claudia Krywiak.

International Conference on Composites and Nano Engineering

The ICCE-18 Anchorage, taking place from July 4 to 10, 2010 in Alaska, is calling for short-paper submissions.

Please click here for more information and submit papers, formatted according to
the ICCE Website to David Hui.

The International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics

Date: June 24 to 26, 2010
Location: Chengdu, China
Topics:

Laser Technology and Applications
Image Processing
Optical Communications
Optoelectronic Devices & Integration
Medical and Biological Applications

The deadline of full paper submission is November 27, 2009.
Notification of acceptance will be given by January 10, 2010.

Click here to visit the conference website.
For more information about this conference, please contact sopo@scirp.org

CISSE 2009
The Fifth International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2009) will be held December 4 to 12, 2009.

The CISSE organizing committee has decided to extend the paper submission deadline to October 26, 2009. Please note that this is a hard deadline, so that the technical committees can perform their paper reviewing duties in a timely manner.

Click here for full details.

Invited Seminar
Lecture Title: The Implications of Sustainability and Climate Change on the Practice of Engineering
Date: October 23, 2009, 2:10 PM
Location: MC102 (Mechanical Engineering Building, 5 King's College Road)
Speaker: John Boyd P.Eng. Ph.D.
Coffee and cookies will be served before the seminar and everyone is welcome to attend.

Click here for abstract and bio.

Click here to visit the seminar website and download the flyer.

Awards & Recognition

Share of Laugh
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Arbor Award winner Anton Davies (MIE 7T2, MASc 7T4, PhD 7T7) shares a laugh with Dean Cristina Amon and MIE Chair Jean Zu at the September 14th awards reception held at U of T President Naylor's residence.

Graduate Studies

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Henry Chu will present An Automated Micromanipulation System for 3D Parallel Microassembly
Date: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: RS207, Rosebrugh Building
Exam Committee: Professor W.L. Cleghorn, Professor J.K. Mills and Professor R. Ben Mrad and Professor J.K. Spelt.

Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Sherry Weaver will present Operations Research in Queue Management: Patient Scheduling Systems for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: MC331, Clarice Chalmers Conference Room, 5 King's College Road
Exam Committee: Professor M. Carter, Professor D. Frances and Professor K. Leonard and Professor B. Balcioglu.

Registration 2009/2010 deadlines
Last day to drop courses without academic penalty: Nov. 2, 2009

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 been registered full-time from the beginning of their program and their minimum period of registration (i.e. program length) will have ended by or before either August or December of the current year. Students receiving tuition fee bursaries will not be eligible for fellowships, scholarships and other awards. Essentially the bursary allows the recipient to pay the part-time fee for one term.

Click here for details.

Doctoral Thesis Completion Grant for 2009-10
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.

Click here for the application form, available on the SGS website.

Enter 5th/6th year of Doctoral Studies in January, 2010 - Application deadline: January 30th 2010.

Please click here for details.

Student Affairs

Experience the joy of UTFIRST!
The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering will be continuing its mentorship program this year to help high schools in the Greater Toronto Area participate in this year's "FIRST Robotics" competition. This highly successful annual event has been running for 19 years, and over 100,000 high school students have participated from across North America.

In this competition, teams of high school students, sponsored and assisted by local companies and volunteers, design, assemble, and test a robot capable of performing a specified task in competition with other teams. Skills in mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering are developed.

The Faculty is looking for undergraduate and graduate mentors to help high-school students in this year's build season. Over the past three years the program has worked with 13 schools and had over 70 mentors; however, this year we are looking to expand the program and help more high schools. We are looking for a commitment of a couple of hours per week in January and February. Please note that you do NOT need to have a robotics background to help.

If you are interested in joining the UTFIRST Mentorship program please email patricia@mie.utoronto.ca Click here for more information and sign. http://utfirst.mie.utoronto.ca/ For those who have experienced the excitement of FIRST in high school: continue the thrill in university, and for those who have not: come discover the energy of FIRST.

Job Opportunities

Research Positions
Organisation: MEDX Lab of Norwestern University
Location: Evanston, IL

Click here for more information

Announcements

Professor Dionne Aleman Participating in
200km Bike Ride to Find a Cure for Cancer
Prof. Aleman is participating in the The Ride to Conquer Cancer benefiting The Princess Margaret Hospital (one of the top five cancer research centres in the world). The Ride is a bicycle trek from Toronto to Niagara Falls to fight cancer. Funds raised will support breakthrough research, exemplary teaching, and compassionate care at PMH. Please click here if you want to help find a cure for cancer, learn more about why Professor Aleman is doing The Ride, help her reach the minimum fundraising requirement of $2500, or just ensure that she has the opportunity to have a major wipeout in front of lots of people.

Sandwich Run for the Homeless
All MIE students and staff members are invited to come to the upcoming sandwich runs on Fri Oct 23rd and Fri Nov 6th. During a sandwich run event, we walk around downtown Toronto to deliver meals to people in need, to check up on the homeless and to let them know that someone cares.

You can help us in two ways:

A - Packing Meals (4:00-6:30pm)
Before each run we prepare meals of bologna and cheese sandwiches,apples, juice and cookies and participating volunteers have a !!!Free!!! pizza dinner.

B - Attending Runs (6:30-9:30pm)
Click here to sign up for October 23rd.
Click here to sign up for November 6th.
The fee is $5 per person per event. The money is used to buy ingredients for the meals.

Please click here for more information and submit any questions to eyesofhope@utoronto.ca.

Take Our Grade 9 Kids to Work Day November 4, 2009
On Wednesday, November 4th, thousands of Grade 9 students across Canada will be taking part in the National Take our Kids to Work Day. While the University does not formally participate in this program, we are supportive of this initiative and are aware that a number of staff will bring their Grade 9 children to work on this day.

To ensure that students participating in the program have an experience that is both educational and safe, staff are reminded to discuss their involvement in this day with managers prior to November 4th. Managers should conduct a safety assessment of relevant work areas when considering requests from staff to bring their children to work.

Both managers and staff are asked click here to review the University of Toronto Environmental Health & Safety's guidelines for job shadowing prior to bringing a Grade 9 student to the University. The EHS guidelines provide important information for the safety of children who are visiting the University for formal job shadowing events and other occasions.

Take Our Grade 9 Kids to Work Day is a local school board initiated event, and students may have a paper or assignment to submit to their teacher after they participate in the day. Click here for more information on this event.

Should you have any questions, or require further information about job-shadowing, please contact Francesca Dobbin.

Vacations

Teresa Lai-Ho, Research Accounts: October 1st to 30th
Tom Bernreiter, Lab Manager: October 16th and 19th
Geoffrey Chow, Financial Administrator: October 26th to 30th

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