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As cars keep getting smarter, automation is taking many tricky tasks — from parallel parking to backing up — out of drivers’ hands. Now, a U of T Engineering study is underscoring the importance of drivers keeping their eyes on the road…
Professor Cristina Amon (MIE), Alumni Distinguished Professor in Bioengineering and Dean Emerita of U of T Engineering, has been named a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours. The new appointees were announced today by Governor…
Liping Wang has had a remarkable career by many standards but he says it’s just the beginning as he graduates from the flex-time PhD program this November. Wang and his family moved to Canada in 2000, partly for the educational…
Professor Chul Park has been elected as Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC). Established in 2003, EURASC is made up of the most distinguished scholars and engineers whose research is at the forefront of their field and…
Eleven outstanding members of the U of T Engineering community were recognized Nov. 5 at the 2020 Engineering Alumni Network (EAN) Awards. The evening awards ceremony, held virtually this year, celebrated alumni and students for their accomplishments and their contributions…
Editor’s note: Just days prior to publishing this story, Frank Milligan passed away on what would have been his 95th birthday. The U of T Engineering community mourns this substantial loss. He would have been delighted to meet and hear…
Professor Yu Sun is the recipient of the 2021 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Mechatronics Medal. The society distributes these technical awards biannually to CSME members that have made outstanding contributions to specific areas of mechanical engineering in Canada.…
A new software platform, created by two U of T Engineering alumni, aims to make virtual classrooms more functional by providing real-time feedback and specific insights into how student understanding of mathematics is changing. Last March, Nived Kollanthara (IndE 1T7 + PEY) was living in New…
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…
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