Dean's Messages

Latest information for Engineering students, faculty & staff from Dean Chris Yip

Shared Service Reviews Announcement – Diversity, Inclusion and Professionalism Office

May 22, 2025

Shared Service administrative units are a critical part of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE), providing centralized services across the Faculty. Periodic reviews of these units are an important opportunity to reflect on successes and challenges and to strive for continuous improvement. 

A review of the Diversity, Inclusion and Professionalism Office will take place over the period June – August 2025.  The membership of the review committee is as follows:

Deepa Kundur
Chair, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milos Popovic
Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering

Hani Naguib
Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Heather MacLean
Vice-Dean, Strategy (VD-S)

Lisa Camilleri
Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)

Olenka Baron
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Geoff Wichert, Monica Flak
Staff Support

Members of the Faculty who would like to offer comments toward this review can do so by June 2, 2025, via the Diversity, Inclusion and Professionalism Office feedback survey.

General questions and comments regarding the reviews can be sent via email to SSReview.engineering@utoronto.ca.

Shared Service Reviews Announcement – Entrepreneurship Hatchery

May 22, 2025

Shared Service administrative units are a critical part of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE), providing centralized services across the Faculty. Periodic reviews of these units are an important opportunity to reflect on successes and challenges and to strive for continuous improvement. 

A review of the Entrepreneurship Hatchery will take place over the period June – August 2025.  The membership of the review committee is as follows:

Natalie Enright Jerger
Director, Division of Engineering Science

Greg Evans
Director, Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice

Chris Damaren
Director, Institute for Aerospace Studies

Heather MacLean
Vice-Dean, Strategy (VD-S)

Lisa Camilleri
Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)

Olenka Baron
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Geoff Wichert, Monica Flak
Staff Support

Members of the Faculty who would like to offer comments toward this review can do so by June 2, 2025, via the Entrepreneurship Hatchery feedback survey.

General questions and comments regarding the reviews can be sent via email to SSReview.engineering@utoronto.ca.

Announcement of Decanal Advisor on Innovations in Undergraduate Education

March 13, 2025

Professor Will Cluett has been appointed the Dean’s Advisor on Innovations in Undergraduate Education. In this new role, Cluett will be focusing on expanding opportunities in both curricular and co-curricular experiences for undergraduate students. These will include:

  • defining and implementing strategies for increasing the breadth, depth, and participation of students in international experiences, from academic and research exchange to focused minors, certificates and work-integrated learning, with the goal of helping prepare students for international opportunities upon graduation involving different cultures and languages;
  • working with departments and institutes on developing expanded and enhanced undergraduate experiential learning spaces;
  • exploring opportunities for longitudinal curricular experiences;
  • identifying new opportunities for expanding the scope and context for undergraduate engineering at the University of Toronto.

Cluett will start in this role on April 1, 2025, for a two-year term.

Cluett joined the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto in 1986 and has held numerous senior administrative roles in the Faculty, including serving as Chair, First Year (1997-2003), Vice Dean, Undergraduate (1998-2003), and the Chair/Director of the Division of Engineering Science (2005-2011 and 2019-2022).

He is a Fellow of Engineers Canada, the Chemical Institute of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been awarded the President’s Teaching Award, the Faculty’s Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award, the Department’s Bill Burgess Teacher of the Year Award for Large Classes, the OCUFA Teaching Award, and the Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education by Engineers Canada.