Awards and Honours 2012

International Awards

Clemson Award: Society for Biomaterials
Molly Shoichet, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Institute for Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering

Fellow: American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Milos Popovic, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering

Fellow: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
David Steinman, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Konstantinos Plataniotis, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Elvino Sousa, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Joseph F. Keithley Award: American Physical Society
Andreas Mandelis, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Shortridge Hardesty Award: American Society for Civil Engineers
Jeffrey Packer, Civil Engineering

National Awards  

C.N. Downing Award: Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering
Chul Park, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 

Fellow: Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering
David Sinton, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Pierre Sullivan, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Murray Thomson, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Fellow: Engineering Institute of Canada
Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Brent Sleep, Civil Engineering
Murray Thomson, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Harry Jerome Young Entrepreneur Award: Black Business and Professional Association
Andrew Forde (MSE 1T1)

Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics: Canadian Association of Physicists
Andreas Mandelis, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering   

John C. Polanyi Award: NSERC
Brendan Frey, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Benjamin Blencowe, Medicine

Julian C. Smith Medal: Engineering Institute of Canada 
Javad Mostaghimi, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

K.Y. Lo Medal: Engineering Institute of Canada 
Phillip (Rocky) Simmons (ChemE 6T4, MASc 6T5, PhD 6T9)

Officer: Order of Canada
Thomas Jenkins  (MASc ElecE 8T5)
Jeffrey Skoll (ElecE 8T7)

Robert W. Angus Medal: Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering
Jean Zu, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering


Provincial Awards

Recipients: Early Researcher Awards (Ontario)
Aimy Bazylak, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Timothy Ching-yee Chan, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Natalie Enright Jerger, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Khandker Nurul Habib, Civil Engineering
Sean Hum, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Ashish Jagadish Khisti, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Daman Panesar, Civil Engineering


University of Toronto Awards

Recipients: Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards
Amir Allana (EngSci 1T2)
Michelle Chen (MechE 1T2)
Janice Cheng (ChemE 1T1 + PEY)
David Cheung (CivE 1T1 + PEY)
Stephanie Chow (IndE 1T1 + PEY)
Damian Durlik (MSE MEng 1T2)
Tulika Gupta (ElecE 1T2)
Moontasir Kabir (MechE 1T1 + PEY)
Sami Khan (ChemE 1T1 + PEY)
Wayne Lin (IndE 1T1 + PEY)
Graham Morse (ChemE PhD 1T2)
Andrew Oldham (MechE 1T1 + PEY)
Marc Pilon (MechE 1T0 + PEY +1)
Wen Song (EngSci 1T2)
Jonathan Sun (EngSci 1T1 + PEY)
Kathryn Tang (MechE 1T1 + PEY)
Sabrina Tang (IndE 1T1 + 1)

Innovation Award: Connaught Fund
Stewart Aitchison, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Tim Bender, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
Constantin Christopoulos, Civil Engineering
Milos Popovic, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
Molly Shoichet, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
Yu Sun, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
Shahrokh Valaee, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Northrop Frye Award
Division of Engineering Science

President's Teaching Award
Jim Wallace, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award
Michael Charles, Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering Awards

Agnes Kaneko Citizenship Award
Giovanni Buzzeo, Civil Engineering

Early Career Teaching Award
Micah Stickel, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Emerging Leader Award
Harpreet Dhariwal, Office of the Dean

Faculty Teaching Award
Jonathan Rose, Electrical & Computer Engineering
 
Influential Leader Award
Austra Ozolins, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Innovation Award
Jay Li, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Quality of Student Experience Award
Shannon Osborne, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Teaching Assistant Award
Drew Cheung, Civil Engineering