Posts Categorized: News

September 13, 2017 – Startups founded by engineering students are poised to address challenges from sustainability to surgery. Twelve companies pitched their vision to a room of judges, investors and faculty members at the fifth annual Hatchery Demo Day, held…

September 8, 2017 – On September 6, faculty and staff had the pleasure of welcoming students to their first year at MIE. Nearly 200 students attended the department’s orientation session, which introduced them to resources readily available to them, including…

August 16, 2017 – Caring for individuals with dementia often involves managing residents’ disruptive and sometimes dangerous behaviors, including screaming, hitting or kicking. Common measures used in long-term care to circumvent these aggressive acts include antipsychotic medications and personalized therapy…

August 8, 2017 – Professor Mark Fox recently co-wrote an op-ed in The Globe and Mail on the country’s intellectual property strategy, and the need for Canada to to become an innovation-based economy. “To be blunt, Canadians operate in a world…

August 3, 2017 – Marianne Touchie, an assistant professor in MIE and CivE, is quoted in Motherboard, talking about how climate change and the ensuing increase in temperature is going to cause problems for people living in highrises. About 1,200 apartment towers in Toronto…

June 30, 2017 – U of T Engineering alumni George Myhal (IndE 7T8) and Bert Wasmund (ChemE PhD 6T6) have been named Members of the Order of Canada, two of 99 extraordinary Canadians to receive one of the nation’s highest civilian honours. Myhal was named…

June 28, 2017 – MIE alumnus Som Seif (IndE 9T9), founder and Chief Executive Officer of Purpose Investments Inc., recently shared with The Globe and Mail his expert insights on how to invest in light of a looking interest rate…

June 28, 2017 – Only a year and a half after arriving in Canada, Levon Markarian feels at home on the factory floor of Rex Power Magnetics. In Syria, Markarian owned a small tool and die factory. In Toronto, he’s…

June 27, 2017 – Three MIE professors and alumni were recently inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Professor Sanjeev Chandra, Mark Hundert (IndE 7T1) and John Young (MMS 7T1, MIE MASc 7T4) are among the CAE’s 50 new fellows.…

June 20, 2017 – Few product tests are as emotional as the one Manmeet Maggu performed at his brother’s house near Delhi last summer. The U of T MBA student was watching as his eight-year-old nephew Praneit, who suffers from…