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Sixteen Engineering faculty and staff have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to U of T Engineering with teaching, research, and administrative staff awards. These awards recognize exceptional faculty and staff members for their leadership, citizenship, innovation and contributions to…
Two U of T Engineering professors and three alumni have been honoured by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) with Ontario Professional Engineers Awards. These awards recognize professional engineers in Ontario who have made outstanding contributions to the profession and to society. Professor Baher Abdulhai (CivMin) won the Engineering Excellence medal, recognizing…
Kyra Nankivell (IndE 2T3) keeps herself very busy. In addition to studying industrial engineering, she’s actively training as an Engineering Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) with 32 Combat Engineer Regiment. “I think the military is a real curiosity for…
Eldan Cohen joins MIE as an Assistant Professor after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Previously, he obtained his PhD in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University…
Professor Michael Carter (MIE) is among this year’s recipients of the University of Toronto President’s Impact Award. The award recognizes faculty members whose research has made a significant impact outside of academia. Recipients receive $10,000 per year for five years to be…
Engineering can take you places. Just ask Ben Sprenger (Year 4 MIE), who spent two weeks in the summer of 2019 talking to Mongolian nomads about portable solar generators. “I wanted to apply the skills that I had learned through classes and…
It may make you squirm to think about it, but your insides are home to trillions of organisms from hundreds of different species. Scientists are studying this “gut microbiome” as a factor in a range of human health conditions, but…
You can’t grow food without water, and in many parts of the world, there isn’t a lot to spare. Two U of T Engineering graduates have a solution they think could help. Austin Mclean (MechEng 1T5+PEY, MEng 1T9) and Rashmi Satharakulasinghe (ChemE 1T7)…
Many buildings in Las Arrugas, Guatemala are supplied with water pipes. The challenge is that most of the time, they are empty. “Each house only has about three hours of water being supplied to their faucet, every two days,” says Kejdi Kola (Year 4 ChemE). “Families collect as…
How do you possibly balance the demands of an engineering degree while doing sports at U of T? On a windy yet pleasant Thursday afternoon, I sat down with my teammate, Rena Nakajima, to chat about it. Growing up in…
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