Posts Categorized: News

January 30, 2017 – Two MIE professors are among four of U of T Engineering’s most outstanding educators honoured with 2016 Faculty Teaching Awards. PhD candidate Mohamed Abdelfattah (ECE) received the Teaching Assistant Award, which recognizes TAs who demonstrate excellence…

January 26, 2017 – Professor Cristina Amon (MIE) has been reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto for a special third term to June 30, 2019. In addition, Dean Amon will serve…

January 26, 2017 – In many ways, George Klein (MechE 2T8) rivaled Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and other icons in the scope of his inventiveness and impact — certainly in his effect on society. His project areas ranged from…

January 25, 2017 – In cities from coast to coast, condominium towers are being constructed at an unprecedented rate, with 30,000 new units added in 2015 to the Toronto market alone. This is driven both by recent advances in the…

January 25, 2017 – Interdisciplinary research from U of T Engineering is helping us live longer, healthier lives. These projects from across our Faculty illustrate leading-edge innovations that will improve health care, from planning and prevention to diagnosis and treatment:…

January 23, 2017 – Research by MIE professor Craig Simmons at the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, supported by a visionary gift from the Rogers family, could one day eliminate the need for infants with heart defects to have more than one…

January 23, 2017 – IndE student and U of T MasterCard Foundation scholar Sylvia Mwangi hopes to improve health care in Kenya. When it comes to demonstrating the transformative power of higher education, it’s hard to find a better example than…

January 9, 2016 – TVO recently interviewed MIE PhD student Justin Kim, to learn more about his engineering passions and his swarming robots research. Swarm robotics is a potentially lifesaving technology, and U of T’s Justin Kim is leading the field. Read…

January 4, 2017 – MIE alumna Caroline Cao (IndE PhD 0T2) was recently honoured with a Fulbright US Scholar Fellowship, and hopes to use the grant to introduce the subject of human factors engineering to local academic communities in Vietnam.…

December 19, 2016 – Dean Cristina Amon, IBBME adjunct professor Tony Easty and MIE Chair Jean Zu have been recognized by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for their exceptional contributions to the profession. Amon has been selected to receive the Sir…