Posts Categorized: News

April 3, 2017 – For nearly 40 years, U of T Engineering’s Professional Experience Year (PEY) internship program has connected talented students with innovative companies looking to benefit from an influx of energy and new ideas. The paid internships — with an…

March 31, 2017 – Professor Chi-Guhn Lee has been appointed Interim Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering for a three-month term, effective April 1, 2017. Professor Lee joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in 2001. He was tenured and…

March 24, 2017 – Professor Jean Zu has been appointed Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science at Stevens Institute of Technology (US), effective May 1, 2017. She will end her term as Chair, Department…

March 21, 2017 – Students at U of T Engineering can now choose to learn how to manipulate the materials and methods that will shape future generations of everyday products, from wearable electronics and communications devices to self-driving vehicles and…

March 20, 2017 – ATMs and coffee shops such as Tim Hortons, Starbucks and Second Cup make ideal locations for placing automated external defibrillators (AEDs), according to a new study led by U of T Engineering researchers Professor Timothy Chan…

March 17, 2017 – A drone network could be deployed to speed defibrillators to bystanders trying to help people in cardiac arrest, getting the devices to the patient faster than emergency services, a recent Canadian study suggests. Researchers examined historical…

March 14, 2017 – When undergraduate engineering students wanted to know whether vibrating a cell would change its properties, Professor Craig Simmons let them use his latest lab technology to test their hypothesis. “They were doing something new!” he says. “It…

March 13, 2017 – The first time Huda Idrees (IndE 1T3) became a CEO she was just 12 years old. Having learned several computer-programming languages and Web design at school in Saudi Arabia, one day it dawned on the enterprising…

March 2, 2017 – Oil and water don’t mix — in theory. In reality, the two liquids can be almost impossible to separate, especially from complex chemical cocktails such as the wastewater produced by Alberta’s oil sands mining operations. Contaminated by…

March 2, 2017 – Five U of T students are headed to Shanghai with a single goal: to show that a simple mixture of used coffee grounds, wax and sugar can help restore the dignity of refugees around the world.…