Staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the public are invited to attend this annual event.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 | 8-11 AM and 1-5 PM EDT
Registration is required – find event details and registration here.
Due to public health restrictions the 2021 Praxis II Showcase will take place online.
At the Praxis II Showcase, student teams present and demonstrate their designs to stakeholders and the general public. Attendees will be able to ask questions and talk to the teams in small group chats.
Read about a previous Praxis II Showcase in the U of T Engineering News.
Praxis II is a Year 1 course that allows Engineering Science students to refine and apply their engineering, design, and communication skills. The students are given a single challenge:
Effect a verified and validated improvement in the lived experience of a community.
Focusing on a community allows students to gain first-hand experience with the issues confronting real groups of people and to engage one-on-one with stakeholders and community representatives.
The course culminates in the public Praxis II Showcase. At the event, students share their refined understanding of their opportunity and their proposed engineering designs with a wide audience through posters, prototypes and presentations.
Learn more about the course and event here.
This event is open to the public but registration is required. Registration will open at the end of March. Please check back at that time.
Media enquiries are welcome. Please visit the link above for contact information.
This year’s virtual event will feature the award-winning Indigenous author, teacher and poet Lee Maracle. Orange Shirt Day virtual backdrops and profile icons are also available for download.
Other ways to participate
We also invite and encourage all members of the U of T community to use the Orange Shirt Day icon as their profile photo and use the virtual backdrop (available for download here) on Teams or Zoom calls the week of September 27.
Learn more about Orange Shirt Day and the legacy of Canada’s residential school system.
EngSci students, thinking of going to medical school after graduation?
Join us for a panel discussion with EngSci alumni with medical degrees.
Zoom link will be emailed to you after registration.
Every year a number of our graduates enter medical school with the goal of becoming physicians or medical researchers.
Learn more about the varied career paths of our alumni panelists as clinicians and/or researchers, and get advice on how to apply to medical school in Canada and abroad.
Find full details and registration at uoft.me/after-engsci-med.
This year’s Praxis III students worked closely with business peers from the United States on projects based in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Yemen, Bangladesh.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends are invited to see what our Praxis III students have been up to.
Virtual Praxis III Showcase Session
Tuesday – Friday, April 5 – 8, 2022 | various times | Zoom
You will receive links after registering.
Registration is required!
Can’t make it to virtual session? Check out the in-person Praxis III Showcase Apr. 18.
Learn more and register here.
Media enquiries are welcome. Please visit the link above for contact information.
This year’s Praxis III students worked closely with business peers from the United States on projects based in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Yemen, Bangladesh.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends are invited to see what our Praxis III students have been up to.
Virtual Praxis III Showcase Session
Tuesday – Friday, April 5 – 8, 2022 | various times | Zoom
You will receive links after registering.
Registration is required!
Can’t make it to virtual session? Check out the in-person Praxis III Showcase Apr. 18.
Learn more and register here.
Media enquiries are welcome. Please visit the link above for contact information.
This year’s Praxis III students worked closely with business peers from the United States on projects based in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Yemen, Bangladesh.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends are invited to see what our Praxis III students have been up to.
Virtual Praxis III Showcase Session
Tuesday – Friday, April 5 – 8, 2022 | various times | Zoom
You will receive links after registering.
Registration is required!
Can’t make it to virtual session? Check out the in-person Praxis III Showcase Apr. 18.
Learn more and register here.
Media enquiries are welcome. Please visit the link above for contact information.
This year’s Praxis II Showcase will not be open to the public.
Registration is required for Praxis II project stakeholders who are not members of the U of T community. Please register by Thursday, April 14.
Drop-ins will not be admitted.
Monday, April 18, 2022 | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM EDT
Project stakeholders: find event details and registration here.
At the Praxis II Showcase, student teams present and demonstrate their designs to stakeholders and the general public. Attendees will be able to ask questions and talk to the teams in small group chats.
Read about a previous Praxis II Showcase in the U of T Engineering News.
Praxis II is a Year 1 course that allows Engineering Science students to refine and apply their engineering, design, and communication skills. The students are given a single challenge:
Effect a verified and validated improvement in the lived experience of a community.
Focusing on a community allows students to gain first-hand experience with the issues confronting real groups of people and to engage one-on-one with stakeholders and community representatives.
The course culminates in the public Praxis II Showcase. At the event, students share their refined understanding of their opportunity and their proposed engineering designs with a wide audience through posters, prototypes and presentations.
Learn more about the course and event here.
Media enquiries are welcome. Please visit the link above for contact information.
This year’s Praxis III students worked closely with business peers from the United States on projects based in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Yemen, Bangladesh.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends are invited to see what our Praxis III students have been up to.
In-person Praxis III Showcase
Monday, April 18, 2022 | 9 AM to 5 PM EDT | on campus
PLEASE NOTE: Vaccine and mask mandates are in effect on campus.
You will receive instructions and COVID guidelines after registering.
Registration is required!
Can’t make it to campus? Check out the Praxis III virtual sessions Apr. 5 – 8.
Learn more and register here.
Media enquiries are welcome. Please visit the link above for contact information.
Honour the experiences of residential school survivors by joining a University-wide event to recognize Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Students, librarians, faculty and staff may register to attend this event in-person or watch the livestream.
The University of Toronto will commemorate this day of recognition with remarks from Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Vice-President, People Strategy, Equity & Culture, and Alexandra Gillespie, Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga, in The Great Hall at Hart House. Andrew Wesley, former Elder-in-Residence at First Nations House, will provide the keynote address: “Twelve Steps to Spiritual Renewal, Healing, and Forgiveness: Reflections on my Residential School Experience.”
Visit the event website to register to attend in person, or watch the livestream on YouTube.
Other ways to participate
Purchase an Orange Shirt Day Shirt:
All members of the University community—and Canadians nationwide—are encouraged to wear an orange shirt on September 30 in the spirit of reconciliation. Doing so affirms that “Every Child Matters.”
The University of Toronto Bookstore, in partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, will have a limited supply of Orange Shirt Day shirts available for purchase.
All proceeds from the sales of the shirts are being directed to Indigenous community organizations—no proceeds will go to the U of T Bookstore or the University of Toronto.
Participate virtually:
We also invite and encourage all U of T community members to use the Orange Shirt Day icon as their profile photo and use the virtual backdrop (available for download below) on Teams or Zoom calls the week of September 26.
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Learn more about Orange Shirt Day and the legacy of Canada’s residential school system.
U of T Engineering alumni, you’re invited to this monthly series.
Join fellow graduates to learn about exciting research in diverse subjects from U of T Engineering professors.
Experiential Learning in Engineering Education: “A Golden Age for Makers”
In society, the growing demands placed on individuals are becoming increasingly more complex and challenging to handle. However, hands-on learning opportunities can help prepare students with the competencies required to devise effective solutions to real-world problems.
In January 2022, the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with Professor Sean Hum, launched an exciting new second-year course, ECE295 – Hardware Design and Communication, which has students working in teams to design, build and test a complete electronic system from scratch. “Students are involved from the conceptual and computer-aided design right down to the mounting of components on the circuit boards, as well as using a variety of modern test and measurement equipment and debugging their designs,” Professor Sean Hum says. “That end-to-end experience isn’t available at other universities — not at the second-year level.” Join us on April 5 at the Faculty Club to hear Professor Sean Hum share his rationale for implementing this innovative new course in our curriculum and how it advances student success. Guests will have an opportunity to network with some of the talented students from ECE295 and to to view some of the final hardware design products created by the students themselves!