MIE - newsletter 17

MIE Graduate Student Travel Grant Established!
The New Graduate Student Travel Grant has been newly established with the help of Lorna Wong, Mike Marr and the Graduate Studies office. With a value of $750, the grant is designed to support conference-related expenses for MIE Graduate Students. There will be 24 grants awarded each year and three calls for travel grant applications: December 1, April 1, August 1. Each call will allocate 8 grants.

Please click here for complete details.

MIE Flickr Account Opens
collage MIE now has a Flickr account to provide an ongoing photo album of department events.

Please click here for the Faculty Meet and Greet event.
Please click here to see photos from all events.

Away for Conference
Professor David James will be away from November 2 to 13, to participate in the Australia Korea Rheology Conference in Sydney, where he will collaborate with colleagues at Monash University in Melbourne.

ASPE 2010 Call for Papers
The Americal Society for Precision Engineering is accepting papers for the 2010 Spring Topical Meeting, held April 18 to 20, 2010, on the Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.

Important Dates:

January 29, 2010 is the deadline for submission of a 400-500 word abstract;
February 9, 2010 is the notification date of results of the selection committee, to all authors submitting abstracts;
March 15, 2010 is the deadline for submission of an extended 4 to 6 page abstract, to be included in the conference PROCEEDINGS.

Please click here for full details.

APPEEC Submission Deadline Extended
The submission deadline for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Conference has been extended to November 8, 2009.

Click here for for information on this opportunity.

Seminar: New Development in Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer CFD (or CMFD) Applied to Thermal-hydraulics Problems
Speaker: Dr. Djamel Lakehal, ASCOMP GmbH & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Clarice Chalmers Conference Room (MC 331), Mechanical Engineering Building, 5 King’s College Road

Please click here for abstract and speaker bio.

HFES/HFIG Awarded 2009 Silver Level Award by HFES
We are proud to report that the University of Toronto Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), otherwise known as HFIG (the Human Factors Interest Group), based out of MIE, has been awarded the 2009 Silver Level Award by HFES for its outstanding accomplishments and activities. Congratulations to Winnie Chen, 2008-9 President of HFIG, and her intrepid Executive of fellow graduate students!!

Ph.D. Departmental Oral Exam
Hanif Montazeri will present A Consistent Numerical Method for Simulating Interfacial Turbulent Flows
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Time: 2:15 PM
Location: White Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, CCBR, 160 College Street
Exam Committee: Professor J. Mostaghimi (supervisor and exam chair), Professor P. Sullivan and Professor M. Bussmann.

Registration 2009/2010 deadlines:
Last day to drop courses without academic penalty: November 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 registered full-time from the beginning of their programs and their minimum period of registration (i.e. program length) will have ended by or before either August or December of 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.

Please 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. The application form is 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.

Engineering Marching Band Invades Class
marchingband As is tradition, the Engineering Marching Band toured the engineering buildings in celebration of Halloween, invading classrooms to entertain students and likely irritate their instructors. As always, the band put on an excellent and deafening show.

Position: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Tenure-stream
Location: University OF Toronto
Submission Deadline: Search will continue until position is filled

Please click here for details of this opening.
Visit the department website for further information.
Forward inquiries to the department Chair.

EngCom.Net Presents Weekly Engineering Trivia
EngCom.Net is an Engineering News aggregation web site, linking to selected Engineering News web pages from around the world. The sight provides a weekly Engineering Trivia Quiz and would like to invite students and faculty to take the weekly challenges.

Click here to challenge yourself with this weeks quiz.

Skule Movember! 2009
For the Month of November, the Engineering Society's Community Outreach will be 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.

Sign Me Up!
If you would like to be one of these moustached crusaders (a MoBro, if you will), or if you are unable to grow a moustache, but would like to support these brave men (I'm looking at you, MoSistas), then go to movember.com and register on the Skule Team. From there, you can send out emails to get your family and friends to sponsor you.

I want to Donate!
If you want to support the cause by donating, 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.
pumpkin Our Overall 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!