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February 2019
Open Discussion on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
We invite you to our Faculty’s next “Open Discussion on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” event, which is taking place Monday, February 25, 12-2pm in GB 202. At these discussions we invite all U of T Engineering community members to share their thoughts on how the Faculty could create a more welcoming and inclusive environment. Since lunch is included, if you do plan to attend, please register here. While this will be an open discussion, there will be a focus on…
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ECE: Decentralization in Energy Systems: Absorbing Solar and Storage into Grids
DUNCAN CALLAWAY, University of California, Berkeley As prices for solar photovoltaics and battery energy storage plummet, grids around the globe are undergoing tremendous changes. How should we design and operate grids in the future in the presence of these technologies? This talk will cover some of my group’s recent efforts to answer this question. First, I will focus on a new approach to decentralized network optimization – a variant of the primal-dual subgradient method – that can be used to…
Find out more »MIE: Bone Bioengineering: Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Beyond
EDWARD GUO, Columbia University Bone Bioengineering Laboratory is developing innovative technology in microstructural assessments, biomechanical modeling, multiscale and mechanobiological approaches in skeletal research. Bone Bioengineering has both basic science and clinical significances in many medical fields, such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, or intervertebral disc degenerations. I will highlight our development of a three-dimensional imaging analysis and modeling technique for trabecular bone microstructure, its applications in basic science research of bone mechanics, and clinical applications in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. In parallel to…
Find out more »CHEME: Metabolic Imaging at the Single-Cell Scale: Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Mass Spectrometry Imaging
IAN GILMORE, National Physical Laboratory, UK Metabolic Imaging at the Single-Cell Scale: Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Mass Spectrometry Imaging Super-resolution optical microscopy using fluorescent labels has been transformational in allowing the machinery of life, e.g. proteins, to be seen at the nanoscale. There is a great desire in the life-sciences to achieve this level of insight for metabolites. This will allow unprecedented ability to understand rewiring of metabolic networks involved in disease, understanding of the uptake of drugs in…
Find out more »ECE: Wireless Bioelectronics
ADA S. Y. POON, Stanford University Miniaturized electronics, when placed inside the body, can wirelessly monitor and modulate internal activity and thus hold promise as a new class of treatments for disorders. The development of such bioelectronic medicines requires wireless interfaces that are tiny and operate deep in a complex electromagnetic environment. In this talk, I will describe a new method for electromagnetic energy transfer that exploits near-field interactions with biological tissue to wirelessly power tiny devices anywhere in the…
Find out more »CHEME: Microbial Electrosynthesis for a Carbon-Neutral Energy and Chemicals Economy
ALFRED SPORMANN, Stanford University Microbial Electrosynthesis for a Carbon-Neutral Energy and Chemicals Economy
Find out more »19th Annual Engineering Science Alumni Dinner
Engineering Science and Engineering Physics graduates are invited to the 19th Annual Engineering Science Dinner. Join fellow alumni, faculty members and students for a lively cocktail reception at 5:30 pm where student clubs will show off their newest creations, followed by a festive dinner at 7:00 pm in the beautiful Great Hall at Hart House--this year with a special entertainment! We are delighted to welcome EngSci alumnus Professor Donald Sadoway (7T2) as our keynote speaker. To learn more, visit the…
Find out more »April 2019
CHEME: Going Beyond the Fads and Jargon: What Does Research Tell Us about Teaching for High Quality Learning in Science and Engineering?
JENNIFER CASE, Virginia Tech Going beyond the fads and jargon: What does research tell us about teaching for high quality learning in science and engineering? There is much contemporary talk on how university teaching is outdated, and how radical change is needed to accommodate the needs of current students and the expectations of the workplace. Many of these calls, whether for active or problem-based learning fall into a longer and broader tradition of progressivism in education. To interrogate their applicability, a…
Find out more »ECE: Nanocarbon Interconnects
CARY YANG, Santa Clara University Continuous downward scaling in silicon integrated circuit technology into the sub-20 nm regime has created critical challenges in chip manufacturing, among them, reliability and performance of on-chip interconnects. Current interconnect materials, Cu and W, face increased reliability challenges in the nanoscale as a result of electromigration failures at high current densities. Materials such as nanocarbons, metal silicides, cobalt, ruthenium, and metallic nanowires are being considered as potential replacements for Cu and W. In particular, due…
Find out more »MIE: Making Haptics and its Design Accessible
KARON MACLEAN, University of British Columbia Today’s advances in tactile sensing and wearable, IOT and context-aware computing are spurring new ideas about how to configure touch-centered interactions in terms of roles and utility, which in turn expose new technical and social design questions. But while haptic actuation, sensing and control are improving, incorporating them into a real-world design process is extremely difficult and poses a major obstacle to adoption into everyday technology. In this talk I’ll overview highlights chosen from of…
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