Promoting Nanomanufacturing
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Prof. Y. Sun
has a strong grip on the future of nanomanufacturing, thanks partly to
his development of microgrippers that may change the way scientists
probe the properties of biomaterials or create microscale and nanoscale
devices through nano assembly.
News story
in The Bulletin (or click
here for text only)
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Highrise Rescue Air Vehicle Competition
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MIE students in the Fundamentals of
Aircraft Design class accepted the challenge of designing and building
reusable rescue air vehicles capable of rescuing highrise fire victims,
going head to head in an April 10 competition.
Read
the news here. Visit Prof.
S.A. Meguid's website.
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Stepping up to Improve
Health Care
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Safety First at MIE
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Len
Roosman is serious about safety. The
MIE technician has been imparting comprehensive safety information to
new graduate students since 1984. His delivery method has changed
recently, moving from one-day group instruction to a new web-based
course. Roosman and Prof. J.K.
Mills, co-chairs of the MIE Health and Safety
Committee, developed the course, which covers electrical safety,
first-aid, flammables and explosives, Workplace Hazardous Materials
Information System (WHMIS) procedures, fumehoods, hearing protection,
personal protection, general safety issues, and departmental and
university safety policies.
Click
here for more details...
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Centre for Research in
Healthcare Engineering
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Prof.
Jean Zu elected AAAS fellow
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Prof.
Susan McCahan in Toronto Star article
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Prof.
Susan McCahan receives UofT President's Teaching Award
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Congratulations
to Professor Susan McCahan,
recipient of one of this year's President's Teaching Awards, U of T’s
highest teaching honour. The university-wide President’s Teaching Award
recognizes sustained excellence in teaching, research in teaching, and
the integration of teaching and research.
“The University of Toronto is very well known for its world-class
scholars, but we’ve always had more than our share of great teachers,”
said President David Naylor. “These awards give the university an
opportunity each year to honour five of our faculty who have excelled
in creating a rich learning environment for our students. This year’s
awardees are making stellar contributions. More generally, the nominees
have been outstanding and we look forward to the continuing growth of
our new Teaching Academy.”
Click here for
more details...
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Prof. Andreas
Mandelis receives Premier's Discovery Award
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Prof. Susan McCahan
awarded 3M Teaching Fellowship
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Professor Susan McCahan of
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and chair, first year for the
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, is the recipient of one of
this year’s 3M National Teaching Fellowships.
The 3M Fellowship is widely regarded as the top teaching award in the
country; it recognizes teaching excellence and educational leadership.
McCahan’s award is the first 3M Fellowship for U of T’s engineering
faculty and the sole 3M Fellowship awarded to a U of T professor for
2007.
Click here for
more details...
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New brake light
system could mean fewer collisions
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A dynamic
brake light system that enables rear lights on a leading vehicle to
contract or expand during hard braking could help lessen how often
rear-end automobile collisions occur, says new research from the
University of Toronto. Zhonghai Li and Paul Milgram worked with the
fact that drivers perceive the time separation between themselves and a
vehicle they are following based on the size of image of the leading
vehicle on the driver’s retina. They hypothesized that if it were
possible to exaggerate how quickly the retinal image expanded, drivers
might brake sooner in potential crash situations.
Click here for
full story.
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Quantum
Detection of Tooth Decay
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A newly
developed laser device that uses thermal radiation and light waves to
detect tiny, subsurface lesions in teeth could potentially unseat
x-rays as the diagnostic standard in dental care. Researchers at the Centre for Advanced Diffusion
Wave Studies say that the technology can spot lesions as small as
50 microns in between teeth, one of the most difficult spaces to spot
cavities, and up to 5 millimeters below the surface of a tooth. This is
well outside the boundaries of x-ray detection without exposing the
patient to radiation.
Click here for
full story.
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Blizzard Award
for Collaborative Teaching
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A
teaching team in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering,
including Prof. Susan McCahan
of MIE, is the recipient of the 2007 Alan Blizzard Award for
collaboration in teaching. This is the first time a team from U of T
has won the award, sponsored by the Society for Teaching and Learning
in Higher Education (STLHE) and McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
Click here for
more details...
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RWDI visit
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Undergraduate
and graduate students from the department toured facilities at RWDI on January 12. It was an
opportunity to see experimental facilities developed to test designs of
some of the world’s largest buildings. The tour group saw
facilities for wind tunnels and water flumes used for wind engineering,
air quality tests and pedestrian comfort studies. A presentation:
followed that discussed computational fluid dynamics work being
performed by RWDI. It was a
very informative and interesting tour.
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Professors
Ethier and Zu Elected ASME
Fellows
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Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering professors Ross Ethier, who is
also Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical
Engineering, and Jean Zu were
elected as Fellows of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in recognition of significant
achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Zu was
inducted at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and
Exposition on November 6, 2006 in Chicago; Ethier will be inducted as a
Fellow in the summer of 2007.
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Professor
Ethier’s contributions to understanding the role of
biomechanical factors in the pathogenesis of glaucoma (the second most
common cause of blindness) and also to the computational modeling of
blood flow and mass transfer in large arteries, have earned him
international respect. He received the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie and
Von Humboldt Fellowships in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 2001, he
was named the Canada Research Chair in Computational Technology. |
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Professor
Zu’s expertise in vibrations and dynamics has led to
several successful university/industry collaborations. Notably, her
long-term collaboration with the world-wide Litens Automotive Group
resulted in the development of a software package on dynamic analysis
of automotive accessory belt drive systems for daily in-house design.
She was also named a Fellow of the Engineering Institute (EIC) of
Canada this year, and has been a Fellow of the Canadian Society for
Mechanical Engineering (CSME) since 2001. She is currently President of
CSME. |
For more information on the 2006 ASME Fellows, visit: http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/Fellows/Fellows_Listing.cfm |
The Ministry of Research and Innovation
Honours Five UofT Engineering Professors and an Alumnus
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Five
professors from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of
Applied Science and Engineering were awarded “Early Research Awards” by
the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation on November 7, 2006.
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Professors Hans-Arno Jacobsen, of The Edward S. Rogers Sr.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) cross-appointed
to the Department of Computer Science; Nazir Kherani, cross-appointed
to ECE and Materials Science and Engineering; Craig Simmons, of the
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE), the
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the
Faculty of Dentistry; Yu Sun, of
MIE, IBBME and ECE; Wei Yu, of ECE,
were all recognized for outstanding achievements in their respective
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Also
recognized was alumnus Dr. John Yeow (MIE,
MASc 9T9, PhD 0T3).
Yeow, who earned his PhD under the supervision of Professor A.A.
Goldenberg, is now an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at
the
University of Waterloo, where he also heads the cutting-edge Advanced
Micro- and Nano-devices Lab. |
The Early Research Award program aims to
strengthen Ontario’s
economic advantage by investing in the province’s most innovative
thinkers.
For more information about the Early
Research Award winners, visit: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ResearchAwards110706_bd3.asp
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McCahan Elected as Fellow of AAAS
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Professor Susan McCahan, of
the Department of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering and also Chair, First Year in the Faculty of
Applied Science and Engineering, will be inducted as a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) during its
annual meeting in San Francisco on February 17, 2007. Fellows are
elected to the AAAS in recognition of their outstanding contributions
to science and technology.
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Professor
McCahan served as Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
from 2001-2004 and led the development of the Engineering Strategies
and Practice (ESP) first year course.
She received the 1999-2000 Engineering and
Applied Science Faculty
Teaching Award and is also a member of the American Society of
Engineering Education (ASEE). Her research interests include energy
systems and engineering education.
Read the story from News @ UofT: http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/061124-2761.asp
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