I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Natalie Enright Jerger as Director, Division of Engineering Science for a five-year term, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2028.
Natalie joined The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2009 and was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2017. Since July 2022, she has held the role of Associate Chair, Years 1 and 2 in Engineering Science.
Natalie holds the title of Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture and has received several awards and honors, including Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow (2023) and IEEE Fellow (2021), to name a few. She is also actively involved in improving diversity and inclusion within the computer architecture community.Please join me in welcoming Natalie into the role of Director and thanking her for her continued leadership to the Division and to the Faculty.
On behalf of the Faculty, I also extend my gratitude to Professor Peter Grant who served as the Interim Director of Engineering Science since January 1, 2023. An additional thanks to the members of the Engineering Science Director Search Advisory Committee.
The external review of the Division of Engineering Science and its undergraduate program has been rescheduled to October 16-17, 2023. Four eminent colleagues have agreed to form the review team:
Rosalind Archer, PhD Professor and Head, School of Engineering and Built Environment Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Scott Moura, PhD Associate Professor and Chair, Engineering Science University of California, Berkeley
James Olson, P.Eng, PhD Professor and Dean, Faculty of Applied Science University of British Columbia
Bill Rosehart, P.Eng, PhD Professor and Dean, Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary
Members of the Faculty who would like to offer comments toward this review may send them via email to governance.fase@utoronto.ca.
Please circulate this memorandum to any member of the Faculty who may not have received it through the general distribution. Thank you.
Revised on March 22, 2023
In accordance with the Policy on Appointment of Academic Administrators, and following a Call for Nominations on January 24, 2023, the following Advisory Committee has been established to recommend the selection of a Chair, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering:
- Christopher Yip, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering (Chair)
- Kelly Lyons, Professor and Acting Vice Dean Research and Program Innovation, SGS
- Khandker Nurul Habib, Professor
- Robert Andrews, Professor
- John Harrison, Professor
- Kamran Esmaeili, Associate Professor
- Susan Andrews, Professor
- Daniel Posen, Assistant Professor (new)
- Ramin Farnood, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Sean Thomas, Professor and Associate Dean Research, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design (new)
- Juan Du, Professor and Dean, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
- Aly Abdelaziz, Graduate Student
- Alec Gilvesy, Undergraduate Student
- Michelle Deeton, Director, Finance & Administration
The committee welcomes nominations for the position of Chair, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering. Nominations along with justification for them, should be submitted to the attention of the Dean at dean.engineering@utoronto.ca by March 31, 2023.
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