Posts Categorized: News

June 8, 2015 — Eight members of the U of T Engineering community have been inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Professors Kamran Behdinan (MIE), Greg Evans (ChemE), Vladimiros Papangelakis(ChemE), Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) and Jim Wallace…

June 8, 2015 — Three promising new technologies from U of T engineers are one step closer to market thanks to the latest round of Heffernan Commercialization Fellowships. Researchers are awarded $17,000 per year, with the possibility of a one-year…

June 8, 2015 — GLEE is part of the Faculty’s strategy to increase diversity, particularly gender diversity, which is a key goal of the Academic Plan. In 2014-15, women made up 30.6 per cent of the first-year class, the highest proportion…

May 22, 2015 — MIE Professor Andrew Jardine is the industry expert on predicting manufacturing failure risk, replacing or repairing at the optimal moment. Needless to say, his software innovation is a hit with manufacturers. Read more.

May 22, 2015 — Fifteen years ago, the da Vinci system of robotic surgery rocked the medical world with its ability to assist surgeons with difficult surgeries on organs and tissue. Today, MIE Professor Yu Sun is taking robotic surgery…

May 22, 2015 — Hani Naguib’s smart materials group is building artificial muscles, electronic skins and an array of other cool products. Read more.

May 22, 2015 —  Have you ever been on a plane and marvelled over the fact that a 400-ton hunk of metal can get off the ground? As you peered out the window at the wing flaps, you probably thought about…

May 21, 2015 — According to recent studies, texting while driving has surpassed drunkenness as the leading cause of death for teen drivers. But even as public service campaigns plead with drivers to relinquish their devices, cars are increasingly loaded up with…

May 11, 2015 — MIE Professor Kamran Behdinan has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his outstanding achievements in the engineering profession. Professor Behdinan is the NSERC Chair in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design and…

April 29, 2015 — When Patricia Sheridan (MechE 0T9, MASc 1T1, ILead PhD Candidate) was an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at U of T, she loved working on team projects. Most of her fellow classmates, however, were less than enthused.…