Microwave Applications in Mineral Processing: Opportunities for Energy Savings and Smart Beneficiation

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

Join us this month as Professor Erin Bobicki discusses new innovations in sustainability. The depletion of high-grade ores, rising production costs, climate change, the increasing scarcity of fresh water, and the need for a social license to operate all necessitate the development of efficient and sustainable mineral processing technologies. The application of microwaves in mineral […]

Engineering Tissues for Medical Discovery and Therapy

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

Join us this month as Prof. Milica Radisic discusses tissue engineering, a branch of engineering science that focuses on developing living tissue matrices in the laboratory. With the ultimate goal of using these tissues for drug testing and to repair injured tissues and organs, Dr. Radisic will review recent progress in developing living tissue supplements […]

Urban Water Provision Amidst the Chaos of Emerging Markets

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

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 […]

Disruptors & Dilemmas: Robotics in Healthcare

Bennett Jones, 3400 One First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario, M5X 1A4, Canada

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 […]

Re-engineering Education for a Changing Landscape

5th Floor Atrium, Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneuship, 55 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A4, Canada

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, […]

Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience of Smart Grid Infrastructure

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

***THIS EVENT IS SOLD-OUT***To be added to the waiting list for this event, please contact events@ecf.utoronto.ca.Join us this month as Prof. Deepa Kundur, Chair of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, discusses how engineering is addressing the threat of cybersecurity attacks on our electrical grid. How secure is the most […]

Waste to Value

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

Join us this month as Prof. Mansoor Barati, discusses how society can address the challenges for developing sustainable materials in the future. Resource scarcity has reached a critical point where the earth’s capacity to support modern human life is rapidly disappearing. Space mining, resource efficiency, alternative materials, and recycling are the proposed solutions, the latter […]

Skule™ Lunch & Learn presents: 3T5, 5T0, 5T3 and 5T6 Engineering Student Awards Lunch

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

Join us for lunch on Wednesday, March 11 to celebrate four exceptional U of T Engineering students as they receive a prestigious award generously provided by the classes of 3T5, 5T0, 5T3 and 5T6. The Class of 3T5 has been awarding outstanding students with the Second Mile Award since 1945. The award is presented to […]

POSTPONED: Skule Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning for Medical Imaging with Imbalanced Data

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, Toronto, M5S 3G3

***The in-person portion of this event has been canceled. A livestreamed version of this event will be rescheduled for a later date.*** Join us this month as Prof. Shahrokh Valaee, discusses the challenges at the forefront of medical imaging for the future. The success of machine learning in tackling challenging problems has made it the […]

LIVESTREAM: Skule Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning for Medical Imaging with Imbalanced Data

Join us online this month as Prof. Shahrokh Valaee, discusses the challenges at the forefront of medical imaging for the future. The success of machine learning in tackling challenging problems has made it the focus of research in academia and industry. The popularity of machine learning is indebted to the emergence of deep neural networks—networks […]

LIVESTREAM: Skule Lunch & Learn: The Development of the Entrepreneurial Human Capital – The Entrepreneurship Hatchery

Join us online this month as Joseph Orozco, Executive Director of the U of T Engineering Entrepreneurship Hatchery, discusses the value of entrepreneurial human capital to our evolving economy, and the opportunities given to our students and alumni. Founded in 2012, The Entrepreneurship Hatchery has been driven by the ideal that students  should leave University […]

Skule Lunch & Learn presents: Trip the Light Fantastic

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Skule Lunch & Learn presents: Trip the Light Fantastic Featuring Professor Joyce Poon   Join fellow Skule alumni online for our next edition of Skule Lunch & Learn!   Join us this January as Professor Joyce Poon discusses how innovations in internet technology are creating the potential to map the human brain. Integrated photonics technology […]

Skule Lunch & Learn presents The Sustainability Lab: Accelerating Environmental Research and Education

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Join us this February as Professor Timothy Bender discusses the Sustainability Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry. Learn how the S-Lab reinforces U of T Engineering’s place at the forefront of environmental stewardship. Located on the roof of the Wallberg Building, Professor Bender will detail how the S-Lab will provide a […]

2021 Skule Lunch & Learn Student Awards Ceremony & Reception

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Join us Wednesday, March 10 to celebrate four exceptional U of T Engineering students as they receive a prestigious award generously provided by the classes of 3T5, 5T0, 5T3 and 5T6. The Class of 3T5 has been awarding outstanding students with the Second Mile Award since 1945. The award is presented to a student in […]

Skule Lunch & Learn presents Bridging Engineering & Entrepreneurship: Tackling Global Challenges in Sustainability & Health

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Join us this April as Professor Frank Gu discusses taking global solutions for sustainability from the lab into business. Conducting research and training of highly skilled researchers have long been a central focus of universities. A roadmap to bring knowledge created in an academic lab to a practical application can be a convoluted and challenging […]

Disruptors & Dilemmas presents Canada’s Digital Strategy: Growing the Economy Bit by Bit

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LOCATION: Virtual event! Register here today Join us on Wednesday, April 21st, for a special edition of the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering’s Disruptors & Dilemmas speaker series, featuring alumni and faculty from U of T Engineering, the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Rotman School of Management. Canada’s Digital Strategy: Growing the […]

Skule Lunch & Learn presents De-Siloing the Materials Landscape: An Update on the Franklin21 Centenary Celebration

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Join us this May as Professor Glenn Hibbard discusses the newest innovations in materials research. Because of the diverse landscape of their applications, materials research is typically conducted within isolated silos of specialization.  While this has been a historical necessity, we are now at a point where it makes sense to consider the complexity of […]