By Carolyn Farrell Professor William Cluett (ChemE) has been recognized by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) with a 2020 OCUFA Teaching Award. This award recognizes university faculty who have made exceptional contributions to postsecondary education through teaching and leadership. Cluett is currently the Director of the Division of Engineering Science. He has […]
Bipasha Goyal (Year 3 EngSci) is working on a new tool to help defend against COVID-19. The smart UV lamp she is designing under the supervision of Professor Joyce Poon (ECE, EngSci 0T2) will use sensors for optimal disinfection in health care settings. The innovative system, called LumineSense, is one of dozens of student-led […]
By Tyler Irving aUToronto has placed first in an intercollegiate challenge to transform an electric car into a self-driving one — their third consecutive win. “All of us take pride in the work that we have done at aUToronto,” says Jingxing “Joe” Qian (EngSci 1T8 + PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate), Team Lead for aUToronto. “The […]
Year 4 EngSci student Cindy Chen (third from left in the above photo) is part of the team that won the top prize at the 2020 Hatchery Demo Day. The student-founded startup uses artificial intelligence to help lawyers draft legal contracts. Read how the team plans to use their $20,000 prize money.
A flexible plastic plate dotted with electrodes may not seem like something that belongs in a human mouth, but this student-developed device could help give some cancer patients back the ability to speak or swallow. The innovative team behind the device are recent graduates Betty Bingruo Liu, Netra Unni Rajesh, Sulagshan Raveendrakumar, Jacob Smith, […]
By Liz Do July 2, 2020 A study led by U of T Engineering alumna Kimberly Ren (EngSci 2T0) is the first to quantify predictors that could lead women towards, or away from, pursuing careers in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). A 2018 report by the World Economic Forum found that women make […]
EngSci alumna Inioluwa Deborah Raji (EngSci 1T9) has been named to this year’s list of Top Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, an impressive achievement for such a recent graduate. Raji was recognized for her impactful research on racial and gender bias in facial recognition services, such as those used by law enforcement […]
In 2016, an incoming Year 1 EngSci student was making news. At the age of just 14, Maddy (Xiaoxiao) Zhang (EngSci 2T0 Aerospace) was not only U of T’s youngest student, she was believed to be the youngest ever in U of T Engineering’s history. That she chose to enter one of the most […]
By Tyler Irving Lauren Streitmatter (Year 2 EngSci) thought she’d be heading to Imperial College London this summer, but the pandemic had other plans. “I was really looking forward to the hands-on experience working in a research lab, as well as going to Europe for the first time,” she says. “After that fell through, […]
Graduating student Netra Unni Rajesh (1T9 + PEY) has been selected from over 6,000 international applicants for a prestigious scholarship at Stanford University. She will join a cohort of students from around the world as a 2020 Knight-Hennessy Scholar as she pursues a PhD in bioengineering. Rajesh will focus her PhD research on designing […]