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November 2019
BioZone: Techno-Economic Analysis Primer Workshop
Techno-economic analysis (TEA) integrates process design and economic analysis techniques to assess the commercial viability of production processes. Understanding TEA is fundamental for researchers developing novel production methods and pathways. Workshop topics will include: •Process design fundamentals •Lab data for TEA and scale-up •Economic analysis tools for talking to industry •Estimating product price and feedstock costs •Cap-Ex, Op-Ex and project financing •Technology commercialization •Presentations by industry partners The workshop will focus on biotechnology applications. Allison Simmonds is a Professional…
Find out more »Urban Water Provision Amidst the Chaos of Emerging Markets
Join us this month as Prof. David Taylor discusses how engineering is solving the constant challenge of accessible, clean water to emerging markets. Servicing emerging markets requires products tailored to the challenges of their chaotic water systems, which are characterized by: frequently empty pipes, low pressure, high rates of contamination, high losses, and missing network information. Upgrading these intermittent water systems is a 70-billion-dollar market. Prof. Taylor’s talk introduces intermittent systems and their challenges, and describes the tools developed to…
Find out more »Partners’ Reception 2019
Connect with leading researchers from across U of T Engineering and join us in celebrating successful partnerships across our six Innovation Clusters. Keynote speaker – Building responsible AI together Gillian Hadfield, J.D., PhD Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM Register here today!
Find out more »Open Discussion on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
The First Year Office invites you to save the date email to the next Open Discussion on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for this academic year on Thursday, November 14 from 12-2pm in GB202. Lunch will be provided so if you plan to attend please register here. If you are not able to attend for the full two hours, that is fine you are welcome to join the conversation whenever your schedule allows. If there’s a topic you’d like included in this discussion you can email…
Find out more »PsychEng Seminar: Grouping visual elements in a meaningful way for human and computer vision with Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
Registration required. View all upcoming PsychEng seminars. Abstract: Research in the past three decades has propelled our understanding of both human and machine vision: We can describe much of the neural mechanisms of human visual perception, and state-of-the-art machine vision can detect objects with high accuracy. Yet research on both human and machine vision lacks a detailed understanding of how visual features are grouped with each other and linked to the rich details of meaning that humans naturally assign…
Find out more »Disruptors & Dilemmas: Robotics in Healthcare
Join us on November 26, 2019 to the launch of U of T Engineering’s newest premiere speaker series, Disruptors & Dilemmas, kicking off with our inaugural event featuring healthcare and robotics. Disruptors & Dilemmas: Robotics in Healthcare pulls together three panelists to focus the conversation on the innovations, challenges, and overall potential which comes with the continued adoption of robotics technology into healthcare. Our panel members will provide insights on how robotics can effect medical research, healthcare practitioners, and patients…
Find out more »LLE – Empowering Women and Children to Achieve their Full Physical and Mental Potential through Micronutrient-Enriched Salt (Venkatesh Mannar, University of Toronto)
Co-hosted with the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN) Host: Levente Diosady We all need food – so that we don’t go hungry, stay fit, active and healthy through our lives. But if the food we consume doesn’t contain essential vitamins and minerals, that our bodies need on a daily and consistent basis – we will never reach our full potential. One in three of us do not get enough micronutrients to survive and thrive. In large parts of…
Find out more »OR Seminar: Placement Optimization in Refugee Resettlement with Andrew C. Trapp
This event is open to the public and registration is not required. View all upcoming Operations Research Seminars Abstract Tens of thousands of refugees are resettled yearly from refugee camps to host countries. Local areas that host refugees are reluctant to open capacity, and most impose tight restrictions on the refugee family types they accept. We model this matching challenge as a 0-1 knapsack variant and explore outcomes-related objectives in the search toward an optimal allocation. Our employment optimization…
Find out more »MSE Distinguished Lecture Series – CIM Distinguished lecturer Dr Nathan Stubina: “At the Intersection of Technology, Innovation and Diversity in Mining”
Speaker: Dr. Nathan Stubina (MMS PhD 8T8) Affiliation: Vice president, Sherritt International Date and time: Friday, November 29, 2019, 12 – 1 PM Location: Galbraith Building, 35 St George St, Room 221 Abstract: It is well known that the mining sector is facing many difficult challenges: lower grade ores, smaller deposits, increasing costs, tighter margins, faltering capital markets, political risks, increased social/environmental demands, etc. If you ask senior mining executives, they generally agree that innovation is essential to…
Find out more »December 2019
Re-engineering Education for a Changing Landscape
Join us this month as Prof. Greg Evans discusses how U of T Engineering is redefining the teaching and practice of engineering. Major shifts are occurring in the teaching and practice of engineering. The quest to address complex societal needs is broadening the scope of engineering to bring in practices from domains such as design, leadership, communication, education, business, sustainability, globalization and entrepreneurship. Dr. Evans will introduce the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), launched in…
Find out more »PsychEng Seminar: Young drivers, distraction, and advanced vehicle technologies with Birsen Donmez
Registration required. View all upcoming PsychEng seminars. Abstract Distraction is a significant contributing factor to young driver crashes. Crash risk is known to decrease with driving experience, partly because of the improved skills to control the vehicle, but also because of the improved capability to distribute attention, even when distracted. A series of empirical studies will be presented evaluating young drivers’ attention allocation both for manual driving (i.e., no or low level of automation) and for high levels of…
Find out more »OR Seminar: Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University
This event is open to the public and registration is not required. View all upcoming Operations Research Seminars Abstract Coming soon... Speaker Bio Coming soon... —————————————————————————————- The Operations Research (OR) seminar series brings together graduate students, faculty and researchers from the University of Toronto community to interact with prominent scholars in the field of OR. Seminars feature visiting scholars from around the world as well as professors and post-docs. Topics include all variants of OR theory and their applications.…
Find out more »Holiday break
The university will be closed. Enjoy the holiday and see you in 2020!
Find out more »January 2020
LLE – Bridging Chemical Engineering and Quantum Nanotechnologies to Healthcare and Environmental Protection Applications (Frank Gu, University of Toronto)
Please check back soon for more details on this lecture. _______________________________________________________ Frank Gu is an NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair Professor in Nanotechnology Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the University of Toronto in July 2018, Dr. Gu was an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Gu received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University, Canada, where he…
Find out more »March 2020
20th Engineering Science Alumni Dinner
SAVE THE DATE! 20th Engineering Science Alumni Dinner Friday, March 27, 2020 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm Great Hall, Hart House Engineering Science and Engineering Physics graduates are invited to the 20th Annual Engineering Science Dinner. Join fellow alumni, faculty members and students for a lively cocktail reception where student clubs will show off some of their newest creations, followed by a festive dinner in the beautiful Great Hall at Hart House. See photos from last year's event. Ticket sales will open…
Find out more »April 2020
Engineering Science Praxis II Showcase
Come out and see what our first year students have been up to! 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 with directly accessible representation in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Focusing on the GTA allows students to gain first-hand experience with the issues confronting the City…
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