Posts Categorized: News

Moneyball was just the beginning. The 2011 film, based on a 2003 nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, introduced the world to the idea that, rather than obsessively trying to recruit and retain star players, baseball teams can improve their performance by…

Michael Carter (MIE) is an industrial engineering professor specializing in health care resource modeling. Recently, he has been advising on COVID-19 testing and shared his expertise with CBC News: He [Carter] suggests that in jurisdictions that continue to make tests…

Two U of T Engineering research projects have received a boost from Connaught New Researcher awards. Professor Merve Bodur (MIE) will investigate new ways to optimize strategic decisions for electric car sharing systems, while Professor Nicolas Papernot (ECE) aims to make machine learning more…

A new consortium — featuring players from industry, academia and government — will use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate design of the next generation of high-performance materials, with applications from renewable energy to consumer electronics. “Materials discovery…

Professor Aimy Bazylak (MIE) has been elected to the 2020 cohort of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Established in 2014, the College is the country’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation…

During a typical academic year, Professor Chirag Variawa’s (ISTEP) pre-lecture ritual involved taking a walk and listening to music before making his way into the Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium, a large collaborative space in the Myhal Centre that seats nearly…

Professor Javad Mostaghimi (MIE) and his team using coating expertise to enhance anti-microbial properties of face masks A U of T Engineering team is developing a new way to coat minute particles of copper onto the inside of fabrics, such…

The economic impact of COVID-19 has rippled through industries across the world. Businesses everywhere have dealt with sudden closures, new health and safety rules and disruptions to the supply chain. For alumnus Dan Chan (IndE 9T0), vice president of supply…

Building a car is hard. Building a propane/electric hybrid car from scratch using only volunteer labour in less than six months is, some would say, impossible. Luckily, nobody mentioned that to Douglas Venn (MechE 6T9, MEng 7T1). “We had no idea how…