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VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 SPRING 2004
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Our Students
A NEW
GENERATION
OF LEADERS
PLUS OUR 2003 ANNUAL REPORT
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William Bawden and
Paul Young, p. 29
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FEATURES
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Our Students
A NEW
GENERATION
OF LEADERS
14 Above and Beyond
Scholarships Encourage
Bright Students to Flourish
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ANNUAL REPORT
16 From the Dean
17 Office of the Vice-Dean (Undergraduate)
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ON THE COVER:
Dr. C. William Daniel (Min 4T7)
with the 2003 winners of
his leadership award, (l-r)
students Gregory Scott,
Bruce Cameron
and Nickolas Lim
COLUMNS & NEWS
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Volume 6, Issue 2, Spring 2004
Editor:
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
Managing Editor:
Ruth Weinstock
Editorial Board:
Márta Ecsedi, Jackie Isaac,
Barry Levine, Christine
Szustaczek, Steven Thorpe,
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos,
Janice Walls, Ruth Weinstock,
Cindy Yelle, Georgette Zinaty
Contributing Editors:
Christine Szustaczek,
Janice Walls
Contributing Writers:
Janice Walls, Ruth Weinstock
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Celebrating
our Remarkable Students
ntelligence, passion, talent and dynamism –
our remarkable students give us much to celebrate. We have devoted the feature stories in
this issue of Skulematters (pages 7 to 15) to our
students’ inspiring endeavours.
Alumni and friends of our Faculty can take
great pride in knowing that our 4,300 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students excel
in a wide range of human activities. They are
not only scholars, they also hold high the Faculty’s 131-year tradition of service to the community. In addition to involvement in our
teams and clubs, many are outstanding performing and visual artists, writers, athletes,
filmmakers, researchers, environmental advocates, youth mentors, humanitarian volunteers, entrepreneurs and more.
Applicants looking for an engineering
school that will expand their horizons and
fulfill their aspirations might consider the fact
that, at UofT Engineering, their experience
will be enriched not only by the calibre of our
renowned professors and their groundbreaking research, but also by the calibre and
diverse accomplishments of their peers.
It is notable that the quality of UofT’s engineering students continues to be unrivalled in
Canada, despite the fact that increasing
demand has resulted in burgeoning enrolment. In 2003 we received 7,474 applications
from across Canada and abroad and selected
1,234 first year students. The average entering
grade for students selected from Ontario high
schools was 89.4%, the highest for any first
entry program at UofT.
Our doctoral-stream enrolment also in-
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1992 to 2002 show that we maintained an
average retention rate of 85% – the vast
majority of students who entered first year
engineering at UofT in those years successfully completed their degrees. Ongoing tracking of our graduates also indicates that they
are sought-after on the job market. At the
two-year benchmark, fully 96% of the members of the class of 2000 were employed.
The sheer magnitude of opportunities we
offer inside and outside the classroom is
impressive – from undergraduate research to
a comprehensive array of program options;
from the Jeffrey Skoll combined BASc/MBA program,
We take great pride
to international exchange
in offering the best
programs and industry
creased this year: 12.8%
education to some of
internships here and abroad;
over the previous year – and
the best engineering
from opportunities to paran astounding 47% above
students anywhere
ticipate in on-campus teams
2000-01 levels. This group
and clubs, to international
won 254 major fellowships
in 2003, including 11 Canada Graduate competitions such as the Formula SAE race
Scholarships, 131 grants from the Natural (won by our students in England last July).
Sciences and Engineering Research Council It is likely that our students are drawn to
and 112 Ontario Graduate Scholarships – an the Faculty for many reasons: our strong
commitment to student scholarships (over
exceptional achievement.
At a meeting of Deans of Engineering held $1.8M in grants and scholarships was disin Santa Monica, CA in April 2003, Dr. bursed last year); our emphasis on quality
William A. Wulf, President of the U.S. teaching; our supportive staff; our broad
National Academy of Engineering, expressed range of student services – and our leghis concern that U.S. engineering schools are endary Skule spirit.
It all stems from our desire to offer one of
failing to hold on to nearly half of the bright
young people who start out intending to the best experiences of a lifetime – to some
become engineers. UofT Engineering can of the best students to be found on any engitake particular pride in our excellent record in neering campus, anywhere.
TAS VENETSANOPOULOS
student retention. Data gathered for the years
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SPRING 2004 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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Alumni Honoured for Excellence
ur alumni are among
our Faculty’s greatest
assets. The exemplary
professional and personal
achievements of some of our
alumni were recognized with
prestigious honours this Fall.
dent Gina Lin won the L. E.
Jones Award of Distinction for
her excellence as a singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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ENGINEERING ALUMNI
AWARDS RECOGNIZE
TEN ACHIEVERS
Dr. Paul Godfrey, President and
CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays,
received the Faculty’s highest
honour on October 23 at the
Engineering Alumni Awards
banquet. The former Metro
Toronto Chair, Toronto Sun
Publisher and charity fundraiser
was awarded the 2003 Engineering
Alumni Medal as a tribute to his
enormous impact on our city.
On the same evening, five
Skule alumni were inducted into
the Hall of Distinction, signaling
the respect they have gained
within the profession and their
Eight Engineering
Alumni Receive
Arbor Awards
n September 4, the
University honored
eight Engineering
alumni for outstanding volunteer contributions: Dr. David
Colcleugh, E. B. (Ted) Cross,
Dr.Walter Curlook, Nick Lo,
Dr. Gedas A. Sakus, the late
David Vendramini, Philip L. K.
Yeo and Morden Yolles.
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(l-r) Dr. David W. Colcleugh, Dr. Edward Davison, Dr.William
Dimma, Dr. Paul Godfrey, Gina Lin, Robert Moore, George Myhal,
Dr. Atsumi Ohno, Dr. Li Qian and the late William Chester Shaw.
contributions to society. They
included: Dr. David W.
Colcleugh, whose distinguished
achievements include being
named Chairman of the Board
of DuPont Canada Inc.;
University Professor Edward
Davison, of The Edward S.
Rogers Sr. Department of
Electrical and Computer
Engineering, who recently also
won the Killam prize; Dr.
William Dimma, whose many
business accomplishments
include his post as Deputy Chair
of Royal LePage Ltd. from 1986
to 1993; Dr. Atsumi Ohno,
who has had a worldwide impact
on metallurgical education as
the inventor of the Ohno
Continuous Casting Process and
who traveled from Japan for the
ceremony; and the late William
Chester Shaw, whose creative
genius resulted in the development of the revolutionary IMAX
large-screen motion picture
recording and projection system.
Also honoured was George
Myhal, President and CEO of
Brascan Financial Corporation
and Chair of the Dean’s
Advisory Board. He won the
2T5 Mid-Career Achievement
Award, given to a noted engineer 25 years after graduation
for both significant achievement and future promise.
Robert Moore, a pioneering
industrial engineer, received the
Malcolm F. McGrath Alumni
Achievement Award for his
contributions to the Faculty and
University. Moore paid a warm
tribute to Malcolm McGrath,
our Planned Giving Officer.
Dr. Li Qian, an assistant professor in The Edward S. Rogers
Sr. Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, was presented with the 7T6 Early
Career Award, for her distinguished research in Optics and
Photonics and other achievements. Industrial engineering
and systems management stu-
PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERS
ONTARIO AWARDS
Professional Engineers Ontario
honoured six alumni at a
November 14 ceremony.
Engineering Medals, awarded
for ingeniously using engineering
skills to improve our quality of
life, were given to: Professor
Levente Diosady (Research and
Development Category), of the
Department of Chemical
Engineering and Applied
Chemistry; Henry Edamura
(Management Category), Partner
and Senior Vice President,
Marshall Macklin Monaghan Ltd.;
Dr. Hanif M. Ladak (Young
Engineer Category), Associate
Scientist, University of Western
Ontario, Robarts Research
Institute, Department of
Medical Biophysics and
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering;
William Rowan (Entrepreneurship
Category), Principal, Rowan
Williams Davies & Irwin Inc.;
and Dr. Larry Seeley
(Entrepreneurship Category),
President and CEO of SGS
Lakefield Research Ltd.
Professor Peter Hiscocks, of
Ryerson University’s
Computer Engineering,
was honoured with a PEO
Citizenship Award.
Faculty Members, Alumni and
Friends Receive Accolades
number of faculty
members, alumni and
friends of Applied
Science and Engineering were
honoured in recent months.
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ETKIN, LASSONDE
AND YOLLES RECEIVE
ORDER OF CANADA
Pierre Lassonde, President and
Director of the world’s largest
gold producer, Newmont Mining
Corporation, and alumnus
Morden Yolles (4T8) one of
Canada’s leading structural
engineers, were invested as
Members of the Order of
Canada on October 24 2003.
Both are long-time friends and
advisors to our Faculty. On
December 12, Professor Emeritus
Bernard Etkin, Dean of our
Faculty (1973 to 1979) and a
global authority in aeronautics,
(top) Dr. Pierre Lassonde and (bottom) Dr. Bernard Etkin
were invested as Members of the Order of Canada by
Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Morden Yolles
(not shown) was similarly honoured late last year.
was similarly honoured for his
contributions to our country.
Pierre Lassonde’s achievements
as a philanthropist and as one
of Canada’s foremost experts in
the area of mining and precious
metals brought him an honourary
degree from UofT in 2001. Cofounder of the Euro-Nevada
and Franco-Nevada companies,
he is renowned as one of Canada’s
most astute gold mining analysts.
His vision of a world-class
research institute that would
prepare future generations for
leadership in the mining industry was achieved with the
launch of the Lassonde Mining
Institute at UofT in 2001.
Morden Yolles is the Founder
of Yolles Partnership Inc., credited
with designing five of the world’s
tallest buildings. He has generously aided several generations
of engineering and architecture
students through scholarships and
an annual design competition.
Bernard Etkin is renowned as
an educator, author, inventor and
consultant in aeronautical engineering, as well as a leader in
University governance. As an
aerodynamics engineer for A.V.
Roe (Avro) and de Havilland
Canada, Etkin was an early contributor to the aerospace industry. He designed and secured
the funding for the subsonic
wind tunnel at the University of
Toronto Institute for Aerospace
Studies. The third edition of
his 1959 book, Dynamics of
Flight – Stability and Control,
was recently published.
Sargent chosen
as a Top Young
Innovator
he cutting-edge
research of Professor
Ted Sargent, of The
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department
of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, attracted tremendous praise last October when
Technology Review magazine
selected him for its list of the
world’s Top 100 Young Innovators
in their fields for 2003. The
highly respected publication is
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s magazine of innovation and has a readership of
more than one million. Sargent,
the Nortel Networks–Canada
Research Chair in Emerging
Technologies, leads a team that
is conducting groundbreaking
research into nanotechnology
and an agile optical network.
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Professor Ted Sargent, chosen
by MIT’s Technology Review
as one of the world’s Top 100
Young Innovators of 2003.
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skule news
Stephen Lewis Keynote Speaker at Student Organized
National Engineers Without Borders Conference
tephen Lewis and the
Honourable Aileen
Carroll, Canada’s new
Federal Minister for International
Co-operation, were two of the
high-profile speakers who spoke
to delegates at the third annual
Engineers Without Borders
(EWB) National Conference,
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hosted at UofT, February 4 to
7, 2004, and organized entirely
by volunteers, primarily our
Faculty’s students.
EWB’s mission is to help
people in developing communities around the world gain
access to essential, appropriate
technologies. (www.ewb.ca)
Synergy Award recognizes
Reeve, Andrews
and ERCO Worldwide
rofessor Doug Reeve,
Chair of the
Department of
Chemical Engineering and
Applied Chemistry, Civil
Engineering Professor Robert
Andrews, along with industry
partner ERCO Worldwide and
others, received the Synergy
Award for Innovation in late
October. The Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research
Council Award recognized five
decades of groundbreaking
research that has helped both
the pulp and paper industry and
the environment. A 50-year
partnership between ERCO and
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the University began when the
late Professor Howard Rapson
and his team, funded by ERCO
(the Electric Reduction Company,
at that time), designed a series
of new bleaching processes. In
1987, the Pulp & Paper Centre
was established at UofT under
Professor Reeve and now conducts research for companies
from around the world.
Professor Andrews’ Drinking
Water Research Group, also
supported by ERCO, has
demonstrated the advantages
of using chlorine dioxide (CIO2)
rather than chlorine, to kill
pathogens in drinking water.
(l-r) Professor Doug Reeve and ERCO Worldwide
President Paul Timmons were among those
honoured with an NSERC
Synergy Award for
Innovation on October
27, 2003. Not shown is
Professor Robert Andrews,
who was also cited.
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Over the past three years,
70 EWB volunteers have
worked on 35 projects in 20
countries overseas, including volunteers from UofT
Engineering, the organization’s largest chapter.
Attended by more than
350 people committed to
international development,
the conference was co-chaired
by two of the Faculty’s fourthyear Engineering Science
students, Nicolas Kruchten
and Anupam Singhal (EWB U of T’s 2002-3 President).
UofT President Dr. Robert
Birgeneau, Dr. Jon Dellandrea,
Vice President and UofT's Chief
Advancement Officer, Dean Tas
Venetsanopoulos and Paul Cadario
(Civ 7T3) a key executive at the
World Bank, all spoke at the
conference and applauded the
organization's aims. Other speakers included: Roy Culpeper,
Chief Executive Officer, North
South Institute; Sakiko Fukuda
Parr, Director of the UN
Human Development Report;
Jacques Gérin, Chairman,
International Institute for
Sustainable Development; Frannie
A. Léautier, Vice President,
World Bank Institute; His
Excellency John Ralston Saul,
author; Rieky Stuart, Executive
Director, Oxfam Canada; and
Dato Lee Yee-Cheong,
President, World Federation of
Engineering Organizations and
Co-Chair, Millennium Project
Task Force on Science,
Technology and Innovation.
Lewis, UN Special Envoy
for HIV/AIDS in Africa, spoke
passionately about the devasta-
Stephen Lewis spoke at the
closing gala of the national
conference of Engineers
Without Borders, held in
Toronto Feb. 4-7, 2004.
tion wrought by AIDS and
asserted that Canadian engineers have the skills needed
to help. The Honourable
Minister Carroll spoke about
Canada’s commitment to
international cooperation and
our world-leading legislation
to allow the production of
generic antiretroviral drugs
for treating Africa’s HIV/AIDS
victims. His Excellency John
Ralston Saul, an essayist
and novelist, struck a chord
with delegates when he urged
them to take risks and capitalize on their youthful energy
to make a difference.
Delegates at the conference
committed themselves to the
principles of promoting sustainability and minimizing
environmental impacts by
integrating pro-environmental
choices, such as composting
and reduced use of water, into
their behaviour. Their goal
was to raise public awareness
of these issues.
BY RUTH WEINSTOCK
A NEW
GENERATION
OF LEADERS
NO CHALLENGE SEEMS TOO GREAT FOR OUR REMARKABLE STUDENTS.
Our thousands of students hail from 86 cultures and countries around the world – but
especially from the culture of achievement. On these pages, meet only a few of the many
who play a leading role in sparking our Skule spirit and making the world a much better place.
ENTREPRENEURIAL
SPIRIT
e is a remarkable guy – a guy you
can send off to Taiwan alone to
negotiate multi-million dollar
deals with major manufacturing companies.”
Jim Jacobs, Chief Technology Officer of
Electrovaya, a leading mobile battery company, is speaking about Bhrighu Sareen, who
parlayed his Professional Experience Year
internship at the Toronto-based company
into the development of a major business
opportunity – after completing only his second year of Electrical engineering.
Soon after Bhrighu began his placement
as an applications architect in June 2002, he
suggested to Jacobs and Electrovaya CEO
Dr. Sankar Das Gupta the idea of harnessing Electrovaya’s long-life battery to power
a tablet PC. The executives gave the goahead to his detailed proposal for a digitized
tablet responsive to handwriting.
The next 16 months became a whirlwind
for Bhrighu, with eight trips to the Taiwanese
manufacturer, intense negotiations and many
“go-go days, on call 24/7”. He became the
project’s end-to-end organizer, overseeing
technical, industrial design, pricing, marketing and customer support considerations,
while drawing on an expert support team.
High points for Bhrighu were a sevenhour discussion with a senior manager,
in which he wrangled a U.S. $570,000 saving on a purchase order; his promotion
to Managing Director; and the New York
launch. He is proud of the product’s unique
features: it is the only tablet capable of lasting an unprecedented six or more hours
without a recharge and the only one with
fingerprint recognition.
Bhrighu is now back at UofT in third
year. “He’ll be a terrific engineer and manager,” comments Jacobs. “He has an amazing ability to do complex negotiations.”
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Bhrighu Sareen and the ScribblerTM
SC2000 Laptop/Tablet PC
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TAKING PRIDE IN
OUR STUDENTS
David Andre-Civ: Volunteered
to build a school in Guatemala.
Raised funds for his trip.
Fraser Allan - Eng Sci (Infra):
On the board of Robotics First.
Elena Andreeva - Elec: Cofounder, Sapere Technologies
Inc. Finalist, Stanford U.
business competition, 2003.
Working on Hydrogenicssponsored design project.
Kyla Bellavance - Chem:
Former Varsity swimmer.
Multiple awards.
Dan Bolintineanu - Chem:
Varsity Mountain Biking Team.
Scott Briggs - Civ:
OUA swimming medallist.
Robert Bucciarelli - Skoll:
Outstanding OUA-level
soccer goalkeeper. Founded
online educational service
for high school students.
Amy Burke - Ind: National
Scholar. Organized charityevents.
Jeffrey Buttle - Chem:
Renowned figure skater. Two
recent Gold Medals in international contests. Bronze Medal
in Nationals competition, 2004.
Jonathan Caners - Eng Sci
(Manu): Member, national
Heavyweight Mens’ Team.Team
finished 4th at Belgrade world
championships, 2003. Rower.
Nigel Chan - Eng Sci (Elec):
On the board of Robotics First.
Alison Chick – Eng Sci (Manu):
VP Finance,EWB UofT chapter.
Won Canadian Engineering
Memorial Foundation Scholarship.
Virginia Chu - Eng Sci
(Biomed): NRC/WES award.
VP External,Chinese Engineering
Students’ Association.
ABBREVIATIONS
CIDA – Canadian International
Development Agency
Eng Soc - Engineering Society
EWB - Engineers
Without Borders
NRC/WES - National Research
Council,Women in Engineering
and Science program
NSERC - Natural
Sciences and Engineering
Research Council
OUA – Ontario
University Athletics
PEY - Professional
Experience Year
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
heir talents as a trampoline and stunt performer, and as makers of music and films,
have kept Michael MacLennan, Adam
Grossman and Todd Reichert in the spotlight.
A member of the Canadian National Trampoline
team from 1998 to 2002, Michael MacLennan is
equally at home soaring through the air, performing
acrobatic stunts, sailing, and schussing down the slopes.
The third year Engineering Science student, who is
taking the biomedical option, ranked fourth in his age
category at the world trampoline championships in
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Odense, Denmark in 2001, and was the top ranking
North American in his age group in similar competitions in South Africa in 1999 and Australia in 1998.
At the 2000 Canadian Championships, he finished
third in his league. As a stunt professional, Michael has
entertained more than 20,000 spectators in a Chicago
Bulls NBA halftime show, performed in Toronto, New
York and California, co-captained “The Verve Doubletime Acrobatic Street Show” at Ontario Place, and
more. He has been accepted into the Jeffrey Skoll
BASc/MBA program, which will add management
A NEW
GENERATION
OF LEADERS
(l-r) Adam Grossman,
Michael MacLennan and Todd Reichert
experience to his engineering know-how.
This year marks Adam Grossman’s second
year as musical director of Skule Nite, and his
fifth year of participation in the revue. The
multi-talented musician arranged all the
tunes for the show and led ten players
through their paces. Adam plays tenor sax,
drums, clarinet and other instruments in the
Engineering Skule Stage Band, the Lady
Godiva Memorial Bnad and is also the founder
and leader of the Skule Jazz Combo. This
year he was elected to the Student Academic
Affairs Board and Faculty Council. A fourth
year Engineering Science student taking the
biomedical option, Adam’s work in Professor
Ross Ethier’s course was praised as “outstanding”. Encouraged by his thesis advisor,
Professor Tom Chau, Adam will present a
paper in May to the Canadian Conference for
Electrical and Computer Engineering on the
potential use of mechanical rather than electrical sensors, to create cheaper and more versatile prosthetics for hands.
Filmmaking and engineering have an
equal claim on Todd Reichert’s imagination
– and both have brought him kudos. In his
first year at UofT (Aerospace option in
Engineering Science), a clay animation film
Todd made won an award for Creative
Excellence at the International Backyard
Children’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. Since
then Todd has directed and produced a funny
and moving tribute to the Skule™ Cannon,
detailing its 75-year history. To make the tenminute piece and accompanying DVD
required a year of planning, the participation
of 150 fellow students, a full orchestra and a
$10,000 budget. The film has been shown to
Frosh and at the Hart House Film Festival
and is available through the Alumni office
(416-978-4941). Todd was one of the EngSci
students who won awards for consistent
strong academic performance. His peers also
created an award to recognize the many hours
he put into his film. This summer, he will run
a marathon in Iceland to raise money for the
Canadian Diabetes Association. The fourth
year student is taking a minor in Cinema
studies and plans on staying at UofT for a
fifth year to fit it all in.
STUDENT EXECS
ichard Yu and Vivek Sekhar
share an affinity for administration and student government.
Fourth year Engineering Science student
Richard Yu is this year’s elected head of the
Engineering Society, which has a budget
of $1M and 4,000 members. The group
was founded in 1885 to oversee engineering
undergraduate student life. As President,
Richard has ably represented the interests of
his constituents. He and his team of four
VP’s have undertaken the integration of
wireless Internet access in the engineering
cafeteria. A tutor-matching service and a
calendar offering student evaluations of
faculty and courses are planned. Last year
Richard held down two posts: yearbook
Editor-in-Chief, managing a staff of 30, and
Vice-Chair of the Engineering Science Club,
which oversees student issues, finances and
activities. Five years ago, the computer
option student started a small multimedia
company – www.blindmicemedia.com –
with a partner, capitalizing on his talents as
a Web designer. One client was McGrawHill Ryerson. Richard also coached the
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(l-r) Richard Yu and
Vivek Sekhar
Engineering Dragon Boat Team, managing
everything from workouts to fundraising.
Many key decision-making groups at
UofT have benefited from the participation
of third year Engineering Science student
Vivek Sekhar. Only one of these is UofT’s
Academic Board, which reports to the
University’s highest executive body, Governing
Council, and is responsible for issues including high-level appointments and approval of
capital projects. Like Richard, Vivek serves
on the Engineering “Ombuds” committee,
hearing appeals and resolving disputes. As
this year’s VP External for the Engineering
Society, Vivek has represented our students
at national and provincial conferences. Vivek
has won numerous local and national scholarships. The third year computer option student is a seasoned debating competitor and
drummer, who has added his rhythmic skills
to Skule Nite and the Engineering Jazz
Ensemble. Vivek is contemplating pursuing
a law or business degree and is interested in
the question of how to reconcile our drive to
advance technologically with economic,
social and moral goals and values.
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Jeffson Chung - Eng Sci:
Prize-winning pianist.
Volunteer and tutor.
Krystle Connerty - Chem:
Varsity soccer. 4th Year Chair,
Eng Soc. Overseeing
GRADitude campaign.
Alexandru Curelea - Comp:
National Scholar. Eng Soc
Archivist.Vice-Chair, ECE Club.
Ryan Davey - PhD (IBBME):
A molecular biologist doing
math modeling of stem cells.
Michael Diez d’Aux - Min:
VP Activities, Eng Soc.
Scholarship winner. Captain,
Skule Rookies Hockey Team.
Hattie Dong - Eng Sci (Elec):
NRC/ WES award. On PEY
with Actel Corporation in
California.A passion for dancing.
Michael Fawcett - Eng Sci
(Aero): Skater.With partner
placed fifth at international ice
dance event in Vienna, 2003.
Matt Ferraro - MASc (Aero):
On the Formula SAE team,
which was first in a key race
in Leicester, England, 2003.
Denise Figueiredo - Skoll:
Varsity swimmer. Soccer coach.
David Freeman - Chem:
Gifted athlete in track and
field, mountain biking, running.
Alyssa Hall - Chem: On prizewinning Varsity skating team.
Mohammad Hamidian Eng Sci (Phy): Did innovative
research in Switzerland.
President, Eng Sci club. Tutor.
Chelsea Hamilton - Min:
Aber Admission Scholarship.
Kenny He - Skoll: Co-founder,
Sapere Technologies Inc.Finalist,
Stanford U.business competition,
2003.Management Experience
Year, RBC Financial Group.
Andrea Ho - Mech: Research
at Institute for Biodiagnostics
under NRC/WES program.
Multiple awards. Piano teacher.
Andrew Johnston - Chem:
Has led the UofT spirit squad.
Anil Joshi - MASc (MIE):
Researching biomechanical
factors leading to arterial
disease. Musician.
Lina Kattan - PhD (Civ):
Research in transportation.
Ryan Kilgore - PhD (MIE):
Research on spatialized audioconferencing in IBM research lab.
Thorsten Klaus - Eng Sci (Infra):
National Scholar. Musician.
Chariot builder. Member, Concrete Canoe and Solar Car teams.
RESEARCHERS
eeing a need – and volunteering to find a new
way of filling that need. Not being limited by
the ‘tried and true’ – these traits characterize
our many outstanding student researchers, including
Alison McGuigan, Jenny He, Anupam Singhal and
Helen Georgiou.
Biomedical engineering, sports, theatre, music and
mentoring all claim the attention of PhD candidate
Alison McGuigan – and her contribution to each
activity is superlative. A Canadian Rhodes Scholar,
she ranked first in her year at Oxford University. She
is currently in a collaborative program in both the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied
Chemistry and the Institute of Biomaterials and
Biomedical Engineering. With her thesis supervisor,
University Professor Michael Sefton, Director of the
IBBME, Alison developed a method to potentially incorporate a blood supply network into engineered tissues,
for use in regenerative medicine. A patent has been filed
on their novel findings. A Don in a campus residence,
Alison cycled from Jasper toBanff last summer and has
participated in marathon running, ultimate Frisbee,
Dragon boat racing, the UC Follies, Hart House Singers
and the Victoria College Choir. She also volunteers for
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Let’s Talk Science, a program in which graduate students
throughout Canada teach science to school children.
Math whiz Jenny He accelerated through high school,
arriving at UofT in 1999 at the age of 16 as a Gold
Medallist in the Descartes Mathematics Contest and as
winner of the Canadian Open Mathematical Challenge
(both in 1999) and the U.K. Junior Mathematics
Oympiad (in 1996). Now in her fourth year of
the Electrical Option in Engineering Science, her
notable track record ranges from costume director
for Skule Nite, to youngest math TA, to originator of
the Engineering Science “N’formal” dance. In 2002-03,
she spent her Professional Experience Year program
working for ACTEL in Silicon Valley. Under its Women
in Engineering and Science program, the National
Research Council of Canada (NRC) has supported her
work as a Research Assistant at the NRC Hertzberg
Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria in the summer
of 2002 and in 2001 in London, Ontario, at the Virtual
Environment Technologies Centre. This summer she is
scheduled to do research in signal processing in Hawaii
at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
Not only has Anupam Singhal been doing research
that has been termed “patentable,” he has also been
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(l-r) Helen Georgiou, Alison McGuigan,
Jenny He and Anupam Singhal
instrumental in the successes of the UofT
chapter of Engineers Without Borders, an
organization promoting human development through access to technology (see page 6).
In May 2003, the fourth year Engineering
Science student taking the biomedical
option began working under the guidance of
Professor Warren Chan, considered a pioneer
in the use of quantum dots for imaging cells
and tissues. Their focus is developing a new
class of fluorescent molecules called semiconductor nanocrystals (“quantum dots”),
which have important biomedical applications, such as DNA sequencing, clinical
diagnostics (i.e. cancer detection) and biomedical imaging. With Chan, his thesis advisor, and two others, Anupam was invited to
co-author a chapter for a forthcoming text in
the field. In December 2003, Dr. Chan
delivered a lecture at the Tissue Engineering
Society Conference in Orlando on some of
Anupam’s promising work and findings on
the development of near-IR nanostructures
for biological analysis. Anupam’s ultimate
goal is to do research on technologies that
may improve detection and treatment of
cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases.
As an undergraduate, Helen Saoulli
Georgiou ranked first in the Mechatronics
option, a field that combines mechanical,
computer and electrical engineering. Her
Mechatronics group built the fastest robot to
autonomously navigate through a maze,
winning the class competition. Currently a
PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the
Department of Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering working with Professor Ridha
Ben Mrad, she co-authored the original
manual for our fourth year Mechatronics
laboratory and helped to develop new experiments and projects for the program. Helen
has published papers in refereed journals
and has presented her work on the physical
modeling of piezoelectric ceramics at key
conferences, including the IFAC Conference
on Mechatronic Systems, held at the University of California, Berkeley, 2002. In addition, she started a Women in Science and
Engineering group for graduate students and
is its current Director.
TOP SCORING
STUDENTS
kyrocketing academic averages are
just one of the multiple achievements on the resumes of Michael
Jarema and Maryam Modir Shanechi. With
averages of 97.3 % and 96.6 % respectively,
Jarema and Shanechi stood first and second
amongst the Faculty’s many high-scoring
students in 2002-3.
A Computer Engineering student
currently on his Professional Experience
Year as a software engineering intern at
the Altera Toronto Technology Centre,
Michael has won seven top awards. In addition to his interest in software development, IC design, computer organization
and Web development, Michael is an avid
break dancer and a former Toronto Sun
Sunshine Boy, active in volleyball, rowing,
kickboxing and gymnastics. He has put his
athletic inclination to good use raising
funds for charity in such physical feats as
the CN Tower Climb.
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(l-r) Maryam Modir Shanechi
and Michael Jarema
Maryam Shanechi entered her demanding Engineering Science program in second
year, after transferring from the University
of Tehran, in Iran. Now in her fourth year,
taking the Electrical Option, she has
consistently ranked first in her Division.
Among her many awards were two Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council
scholarships, under which she did research
on signal processing and communications,
speech separation and recognition and
sound localization. Working under Electrical
and Computer Engineering Professor Parham
Aarabi, she has written two chapters of a
book, as yet unpublished, to be titled
Microphone Arrays and co-presented a paper
at a key conference in Florida as first author.
She has also co-authored two papers under
review for two important journals. Both
Michael and Maryam helped Professor
Aarabi set up the university’s state-of-theart Artificial Perception Lab.
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Jeremy Kraemer - PhD (Civ):
Organized Environmental
engineering lecture series.
Nicolas Kruchten - Eng Sci
(Infra): Co-Chair, EWB
Conference, 2004. Software
developer, ITS Centre
and Testbed.
Danica Lam - Eng Sci
(Biomed): National Scholar.
C.D. Howe Scholarship.
Summer biomedical researcher.
Gordon Lau - Eng Sci
(Biomed): Active in EWB. Peer
award. Master chariot builder.
Student ambassador.
Andrea Lee - Eng Sci (Infra):
Humanitarian work in Zambia
and Zimbabwe. Peer Award.
Colin Lee - Comp: Multiple
awards. Budding inventor.
Timothy Leung - PhD
(Aero): Violinist, Hart House
Orchestra. First violin and
manager,Vivace String Quartet.
Donny Ly - Eng Sci: Arbor
Scholarship. Summer job
computer modeling of cellular movement.
Suzana Majcen - grad Eng
Sci (Elec), now non-degree
student: Former OUA all-star
volleyball player.
Timur Maltaric - Skoll:
Passionate cyclist.
Donat Mayer - Eng Sci
(Comp): National Scholar.
Mark Molckovsky - Eng Sci:
National Scholar. Athlete.
Mentor. Research, Atomic
Energy of Canada.
Nalina Nadarajah - PhD
(Chem): Best Environmental
Biotechnology presentation,
2003 Chemical engineering
conference.
Andrew Overholt - Eng Sci
(Elec):L.G.M.B.leader.Filmmaker.
Vinh Pham - Mech: Captain,
international prize-winning
UofT Formula SAE racing team.
Ananth Ravi - Eng Sci
(Biomed): National Scholar.
Developing computer program
to target lung tumors.
Robert Rupf - Eng Sci
(Biomed):Varsity soccer captain. National Jr. Team player.
Tarek Saghir - Chem:National
Scholar.VP Internal, Eng Soc.
Tutors inner-city students.
Elissa Schaman - Skoll:
NSERC scholar. Helped
organize National Business
Technology Conference.
(l-r) Faizal Ismail and Anna MacDonald
A NEW
GENERATION
OF LEADERS
VOLUNTEERS
passion for humanitarian aid fires
Anna MacDonald and Faizal Ismail,
two of our Faculty’s many students
who are tackling the complex problems of
human adversity and privation here and abroad.
Anna’s social conscience has taken her to
Nepal, Bolivia and Scotland. A third year student taking the Environmental option in
Civil Engineering, she spent the summer of
2002 working with orphans and patients at a
leprosarium in Kathmandu and Pokhara,
Nepal and also served as a youth counselor
there, with the organization Royal Servants
International (RSI). In May of that year she
also traveled to Huarina, Bolivia as a volunteer for Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Her goals were to investigate the causes of
poor health in the town, and its possible link
to water contamination and to discuss community participation in a possible EWB project. In the summer of 2001, Anna volunteered with children in Drumchapel, a lowincome area of Glasgow, also under RSI.
She is serving as President of the Engineers
Without Borders chapter at UofT this year
(see page 6). Her dream is to earn both engineering and medical degrees and to assist people in a developing nation who have limited
access to medical care.
When Faizal Ismail was in Grade 10 he
founded Humanity Clubs of Canada, with a
membership of five and the aim of engaging
students in humanitarian work. The organization grew to over 500 members in seven
chapters across Canada. It undertook such
projects as collecting 10,000 books for children in Sri Lanka, creating awareness about
violence against women in Canada and
abroad and raising funds for Oxfam Canada.
As a big brother for the Ismaili Volunteer
Corps, Faizal has also assisted in hospitals
and tutored children with reading disabilities. His work on the applications of plasma
physics to aerodynamics was named Best
Project at the 2002 Canada Wide Science
Fair. Faizal spent the summer before entering UofT working at the National Research
Council Institute for Aerospace Research.
Now a first year Mechanical engineering student, he is hoping to apply his energies to a
career in Aerospace engineering.
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GLOBE-TROTTING
SEEKERS
(l-r) Kim Tsoi in Paraguay and
Joyce Wong in Japan
oth Kim Tsoi and Joyce Wong have
crossed borders, leapt intellectual
hurdles and tested themselves in a
quest for knowledge and adventure.
Kim Tsoi’s thirst to expand her boundaries has led her from whitewater canoeing
in the Yukon, to volunteer posts in Paraguay
and beyond. Now in her fourth year of
Chemical Engineering, she is studying at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a
Killam Trust Fellowship. She is also cross-registered at Harvard. The Killam program,
inaugurated in 2003-04, gives exceptional students the opportunity to participate in educational exchanges between Canada and the
U.S. Kim is making the most of her time at
MIT by doing research in microfluidics. She
feels studies at UofT have prepared her well.
Between her second and third years at
UofT, Kim took a year off. She traveled
around North America, capping a previous
decade of canoe adventures and “tripping”
by riding the rapids in the Yukon. Later that
year, she traveled to Paraguay, through the
American Field Service Intercultural Program.
She spent six months dividing her volunteer
time between a health clinic and a rural
school. In the mornings she gave vaccinations, participated in educational campaigns
for dengue fever and family planning and
helped the clinic’s emergency, pediatric and
surgery staff. In the afternoons, she became
the first English teacher in a rural school,
teaching six different grade levels with minimal resources. She later helped in both the
emergency and surgery wards in two public
hospitals in the city of Asuncion, under
supervision. Her stay in Paraguay gave Kim
an appreciation for a culture and language
completely different from her own and solidified her desire to pursue a career in medicine.
Joyce Wong is in the thick of nanotechnology research in Atsugi, Japan. A fourth
year Nanoengineering student, she decided
a Professional Experience Year would be a
good way to test whether or not the field was
the right career path. She has found it challenging and exciting to live on her own in a
new country, buy groceries in a new language
and meet new people. Joyce is working at the
Research and Development Centre for the
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
(NTT) which is devoted to research on environmental systems, improving current
telecommunications technology and “future”
technology such as quantum computation.
Her current project is to research fundamental physics of nano-scale systems, such
as quantum dots and quantum point contacts. The hope is that greater knowledge of
its properties might one day lead to the production of a quantum computer. To interest
prospective female students in science and
engineering she also organized both summer
science camps and a conference and mentoring event.
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Diana Sen - Mech: National
Tae Kwan Do competitor.
PEY at Celestica Inc.
Ardalan Shojaei - Elec:
Honours student.
Volleyball player.
Ivanka Slywynska - Mech:
Triathlete. Award winner.
Aided Ukrainian orphans.
Martin Surzyn - MASc
(Chem, IBBME): As a CIDA
intern in Uganda, researched
an inexpensive treatment
process for drinking water.
Beatrice Sze - Mech: VP
Communications, EWB
UofT chapter.
Tina Tahmoureszadeh Elec: Volunteer research
assistant on driver fatigue.
Adam Thrasher - Post
Doctoral Fellow: Developing
new techniques for
functional electrical therapy
after spinal cord injury.
Curt Van Walleghem Skoll: Varsity hockey player.
Excellent business student.
Aaron Waese - Elec:
Multiple awards. Summer
research, Princess Margaret
Hospital. Has completed
medical biophysics degree.
Emily Whiting - Eng Sci
(Infra): NRC/WES-funded,
research on visual information
technology and animation.
Digital modeling of cultural
artifacts in Italy.
Lydell Wiebe - Civ: Entered
university aged sixteen. Two
NSERC research scholarships.
Richard Wiltshire - Eng Sci
(Manu): VP Finance, Eng
Soc. Co-chair, Canadian
Federation of Engineering
Students Congress 2005.
Leah Windisch - Chem:
Co-host YTV’s “Video &
Arcade Top 10”. Model.
Chris Woit - Civ: VP
Projects, EWB UofT chapter.
Crystal Wong - Skoll: Earned
a rare GMAT score of 760.
Samantha Yee - Elec: Budding
writer. Multiple awards.
NSERC-funded research,
summer 2003. Athlete. Tutor.
Osbert Zalay - Eng Sci
(Biomed): Accomplished
musician. Team leader,
chronic care facility.
Kai Zhuang - Eng Sci:
National Scholar. Kendo
martial arts.
Dr. C. William Daniel (seated)
with (l-r) Gregory Scott,
Bruce Cameron and Nickolas Lim
A NEW
ABOVE AND BEYOND
C.William Daniel Leadership Awards Encourage Bright Students to Flourish
he subject was close to my heart,”
Dr. C. William Daniel stated,
explaining why he was moved to
establish scholarships for engineering students
who strive to achieve above and beyond.
Daniel (Min 4T7, LLD 8T0), who was
President and CEO and a Director of Shell
Canada Limited from 1974 to 1985, and
who is also one of the Faculty’s strongest supporters and volunteers, set up the C. William
Daniel Leadership Awards in 1998. Since
then, he has made a point of meeting the
recipients, including this year’s winners,
Bruce Cameron, Nickolas Lim and Gregory
Scott. He has found that giving these students a leg up “means a great deal to me”.
In his own years on campus, Daniel was
“running flat out all the time – and loving it”.
He was immersed in lacrosse and basketball
and won a football “T”. In his graduation
year he was President of the Engineering
Society. His activities earned the special prize
set up by the class of 3T5 for graduates who
go that extra mile, contribute to the common
good and strive for excellence. It was a defining moment in Daniel’s life.
Daniel decided to use the prize money, a
cheque for $100, to pay for “the best investment I ever made” – an engagement ring for
Ruth, then a nursing student and his girlfriend of three years. Today the couple has
11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
The guiding principle of “going that second mile” made a long-lasting impression on
Daniel. His volunteer activities and his corporate leadership were recognized in 1976
with the Order of Canada and in 1980 with
an Honourary Doctor of Laws degree from
UofT. As a corporate director and consultant,
he served on the Boards of leading companies, including BCE Inc., the Mutual Life
Assurance Company of Canada and the
Bank of Montreal. In addition to co-chairing
the Faculty’s Campaign Cabinet and serving
on the Dean’s Advisory Board, he has been
devoted to a broad range of causes, from
chairing the United Way campaign, to chairing the Board of the Wellesley Hospital.
Chatting with this year’s recipients of his
scholarship, Nick, Bruce and Greg, caused
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Daniel to review his outlook on life. “There
are three things important in life and business: Integrity. Integrity. Integrity,” he
affirmed. “Start with that, and add hard
work. Don’t focus on getting ahead. Do the
very best you can. Step out well beyond
what is required.” The alumnus added, “Be
caring. Lots of people need help.”
ithout Bill, I’d be in a very sad
state,” said Greg Scott, one of
the 2003 Daniel leadership
award winners. “Scholarships for me are a
necessity.” A high school guidance counselor once urged the bright fourth year
Chemical Engineering student, who grew up
in Calgary, to leave school after Grade 12 and
go into a trade, because of his then lackluster
academic record. The advice spurred Greg
“to give it my all. I really wanted to get into
UofT, because it’s the best.” His marks
zoomed up and have stayed there. He has
earned six other scholarships and awards
since first year, some of which have supported his summer research in stem cell engineering in Dr. Peter Zandstra’s lab. Greg relishes the mentoring he has received from
Professor Doug Reeve and PhD student
Stephen Dang, the opportunity to work
alongside doctoral and post-doc students in
the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical
Engineering and UofT’s diversity. He has
maintained his love of sports and has put
himself on the front line of change as a tutor
in UofT’s Saturday Program for underprivileged high school students. “I see myself setting up a scholarship for disadvantaged or
minority kids someday.”
Bruce Cameron came to UofT from his
home in Nova Scotia, because “Aerospace has
always been a passion of mine and UofT has
one of three undergraduate programs in aerospace in Canada.” An entrance scholarship,
one of a total of seven he has won since starting university, was another draw. “The gift of
education and the financial support I’ve
received at UofT have been fantastic. I
wouldn’t be here without scholarships,” he
stated. “Earning a scholarship gives me the
motivation to keep going and keep trying to
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OF LEADERS
BY RUTH WEINSTOCK
do my best.” Bruce has made the most of
the opportunities here, from working on
Governing Council, to participating on the
Blue Sky Solar Car team, to acting as a delegate at national conferences and running a
rocket competition. He affirmed, “Meeting
Bill and having him share his experiences was
great. It meant a lot to me”.
Although Nickolas Lim, who hails from
Singapore, had offers from Carnegie Mellon,
and the Universities of Texas and Manchester,
he chose UofT because of Toronto’s vibrant
reputation. “Coming here is the best thing
that has happened to me,” he avowed. The
fourth year Industrial Engineering student has
made his mark in many ways, including winning five scholarships. He is proud of his
MCALLISTER BEQUEST
KEEPS LEGACY ALIVE
ore than a century after John Edgar
McAllister received his BASc in Civil
Engineering from UofT in 1895, his legacy
continues. McAllister believed that people
should have options in life, after experiencing
both periods of financial hardship and also
an illustrious career as a consulting engineer.
His bequest upon his death in 1959 led to
the establishment of the J. Edgar McAllister
Foundation. It has supported hundreds of
bright students, including Greg Scott and
Bruce Cameron.
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work as Co-President of the Canadian Society
for Industrial Engineering and his summer
job at Pratt & Whitney Canada, developing
simulation models with Professor Daniel
Frances. Nickolas stated, “Meeting tuition
payments is difficult unless your family is
well-off. I have friends who are having trouble. Getting a scholarship lifts a huge burden.” After graduation, he will become an
analyst at Scotia Capital. “I was really
impressed with meeting Bill Daniel. He’s
inspiring. His commitment to his family,
career and to the university makes him a very
good role model.”
Nickolas added, “It would be very useful
for students if more alumni shared how engineering shaped their lives. I’ve learned so
much from Bill.”
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2003
ANNUAL REPORT
PROFESSOR
TAS VENETSANOPOULOS
Our valued alumni and partners
are needed to help set
our course, as we embark
on new strategic directions
From the Dean
Advancing our Innovation Agenda
t gives me great pleasure to take stock of
the preceding year in this Annual Report
– and to focus on the way ahead based
on our strong performance.
In 2003 our Faculty continued to make
great strides toward our goals: empowering
our faculty to undertake leading research and
teaching in emerging and traditional engineering disciplines; inspiring our record-sized
student body; and making the most of the
talents of our hardworking staff, our dedicated alumni and valued industry associates in
staying ahead of the curve. All have been partners in our past success. All will be needed to
help set our course, as we redouble our efforts
to apply engineering ingenuity to improving
the quality of life and embark on new strategic directions.
There are many reasons to be proud of
our achievements in 2003. Our over $40M
research enterprise continued to be the
largest of any Canadian engineering school.
For the tenth consecutive year Canada’s
national news magazine, Maclean’s, ranked
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the University of Toronto as our country’s
top research-intensive University. The ongoing research accomplishments of our faculty and graduate students, outlined in the following pages, are vital to maintaining our
University’s high standing. Statistics on our
performance in the past year (see page 31)
show that we have continued to thrive.
Research – and its impact – has never been
stronger. Our expert faculty members brought
honour to us again this year by gaining
national and international headlines and winning prestigious awards for their pioneering
research, products, systems and technologies.
We hired a number of outstanding new faculty to strengthen our research capability and
guide our students’ scientific development.
There were many other noteworthy developments in 2003, including welcoming the
“double cohort” of aspiring engineers. Last
year the province renewed its commitment to
match donors’ investments through the
Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund, a
welcome measure to enhance much-needed
student support. In the year leading to the
celebration of the 120th anniversary of the
official admission of women to the University,
we note that 27% of our students are female.
It was also the year construction began on a
new hub of interdisciplinary health research,
the Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular
Research, which will open new horizons for
our faculty and students.
Another key development is our current
participation in a University-wide planning
exercise to redefine our direction for the next
six years, in the face of continuing fiscal
restraints. I welcome your comments on two
documents that are intended to assist us in
rethinking our goals for the year 2010. One is
the University’s White Paper that, among
many other conclusions, stressed the need for
breadth in education, interdisciplinary initiatives and the imperative to make the most of
our limited resources. (see “Stepping Up”
www.provost.utoronto.ca/). The second is the
“Biannual Report of the Dean: The Past Two
Years and the Way Ahead” (see: www.engineering.utoronto.ca, click on Faculty and Staff,
and Biannual Report). This document outlines
our Faculty’s achievements in the last two years,
in areas including curriculum change and
administration and opens the way to fresh
thinking. To facilitate the planning process, a
number of committees are meeting over the
next few months to make recommendations
on important Faculty-wide issues.
We seek the input, advice and support of
our valued alumni and partners to make the
most of the opportunities that lie ahead.
To read more about the additional
accomplishments of our Faculty, please visit
www.engineering.utoronto.ca
(l-r) PROFESSORS
STEVEN THORPE, VICE-DEAN
(UNDERGRADUATE)
AND GREG EVANS,
CHAIR, FIRST YEAR
2003
ANNUAL
R E POR T
We welcomed
the highest calibre of
students in unprecedented
numbers in 2003: 1,234
new students with an
entering average of 89.4%
Office of the Vice-Dean
(Undergraduate)
and Chair, First Year
Unprecedented Support for an Unprecedented Class
ast year was an exciting time to be an
undergraduate student in the Faculty of
Applied Science and Engineering, as
we embraced the “double cohort”. Our ability
to recruit and admit top high school students
from across the country and internationally,
resulted in the largest entering class in the
Faculty’s history, since post WWII days. We
take pride in the fact that our 1,234 new students had the highest entry average (89.4%)
of any first entry program at the UofT.
The highest calibre of students in unprecedented numbers; the future of the Faculty
is sound.
To meet the challenge of providing a first
class education and services to our undergraduates, a new team was appointed with
new responsibilities. Professors Steven Thorpe,
Vice-Dean (Undergraduate) and Greg Evans,
in the position of Chair, First Year, are committed to enhancing the student experience
inside and outside the classroom.
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Delivering a responsive curriculum is a
key component in ensuring that our undergraduates are well prepared to lead in an everchanging society. This past year saw a review
of the First Year curriculum in math, computing, chemistry and materials and also
principles laid down for future curriculum
change. We piloted a new first year course,
Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP),
blending design, communications and social
consciousness into innovative workshops, lectures and tutorials hosted by both faculty and
alumni. It is our hope to extend ESP to our
entire first year class along with upper year
design courses in every year throughout the
Faculty. The planned introduction of meaningful minors will give students greater choice
in both breadth and depth of subject matter,
including such areas as music, business, language, culture and philosophy.
Our outreach efforts continue to thrive.
Last year, our Science Outreach program
offered introductory classes and summer
camps to more than 20,000 kindergarten
to Grade 10 students from across Ontario,
including a Girl’s Club and a Tech Camp.
In its inaugural year, enrolment in the
da Vinci Engineering Enrichment Program
(DEEP) for gifted and highly motivated
Grade 10-12 students grew from 260 students in 11 courses in the Spring, to a fourweek Summer session with 39 courses. Over
1,000 participants came from Toronto and as
far away as Alberta and British Columbia.
We continue to assist our students in fulfilling their aspirations through the Engineering
Career Office. More than ever, our students
are contributing to the success of national and
international corporations through the
Professional Experience Year program, the
largest undergraduate engineering internship
program in Canada. The record number of
students (323) currently on internships is evidence of the growing popularity of the PEY
program among students and in the more
than 100 companies in sectors including technology, communications, manufacturing,
finance, research, petroleum, and government.
We seek the support and active involvement of all alumni at this critical time of
reflection and strategic planning. Rest assured
the path forward looks bright!
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2003
ANNUAL
R E POR T
PROFESSOR
JAVAD MOSTAGHIMI
The over $40M in research
funding from government and
industry partners is a clear
endorsement of the stature
of our faculty members
Office of the Vice-Dean,
Research and Graduate Studies
Enriching our Research and Graduate Programs
n our drive to enrich our research and
graduate programs, and attract and retain
the very best graduate students and faculty members, we have focused on building
and strengthening ties with peer institutions,
industry, government, foundations and
other UofT Faculties.
One highlight of the past year was the
final signing of an agreement for the
exchange of graduate students and researchers
with the School of Engineering, University
of Tokyo. Subsequently, we were pleased to
host a delegation of five graduate students
and three professors from Tokyo for the
“Workshop on Emerging Materials” on
November 24, 2003. This was the second
UT2 (University of Toronto/University
of Tokyo) event, mirroring the “Human
Friendly Materials” workshop held at the
University of Tokyo on March 10, 2003. As
part of graduate strategic planning, we will
be identifying several additional interna-
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tional peer institutions with which to establish reciprocal research-based exchange agreements – one each in the United Kingdom and
Asia, and two each in Europe and the
United States.
Graduate enrolment remained steady in
September 2003, at just over 1,400 graduate
students. However, doctoral-stream enrolment increased by 12.8% over 2002-03 levels – and an astounding 47% above 200001 levels. Enrolment planning and related
recruitment efforts are being reviewed to
ensure that we continue to recruit the most
exceptional students as our faculty complement grows in key research areas.
Research highlights this year included
the important honours received by several
of our faculty members. Professors Molly
Shoichet (Chemical Engineering, IBBME
and Chemistry) and Kim Vicente (MIE),
were both awarded Steacie Fellowships – the
most prestigious science and engineering
awards given in Canada – recognizing researchers whose accomplishments capture international attention. Outstanding photonics
researcher Professor Ted Sargent was named
as one of the world’s top 100 young innovators by the highly respected MIT Technology
Review magazine. These remarkable scientists are only three of the more than 200
exceptional faculty members that make up
our Faculty. The over $40M in research
funding provided in 2002-03 by government and industry partners is a clear
endorsement of the stature of our Faculty
and our ongoing success as Canada’s leading
engineering research institution.
Another milestone last year was the creation of two new positions to advance our
research mandate. Leslie Dolman, P. Eng.,
formerly Director of the Faculty’s Professional
Development Centre, joined our office in
August as Director of Research and Innovation.
Her background in technology transfer,
commercialization and business development
will strengthen our industry outreach efforts.
Erin Weir, a Queen’s University graduate,
was hired as Administrative Assistant for
Research. This development of the Research
portfolio has improved our ability to provide
additional tools and services to our research
community and to industry.
We look back on the achievements of this
year with pride and look forward to a challenging and productive year ahead.
STEVEN MARTIN
The past year has witnessed
numerous important
changes at the PDC
Professional
Development Centre
Building North America’s Premier Engineering
Continuing Education Facility
t the turn of the last century the vast
majority of people made their living
with their hands. A little more
than 100 years later the proportion has
shrunk dramatically, and knowledge, rather
than labour, has moved to the fore in the
development of human capital. These days, an
excellent undergraduate education, such as
that offered by the University of Toronto, has
become a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite to ensure continued professional success.
Technical professionals now need two distinct
kinds of training – formal education that
allows them initial entry into their field of
choice and ongoing professional development
to keep their knowledge current.
Enter the Professional Development
Centre in the Faculty of Applied Science and
Engineering, an organization uniquely positioned to meet the challenges of engineering
disciplines. A snapshot of the Professional
Development Centre reveals our strong commitment to providing high quality continuing education to engineers and related profes-
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sionals that is timely and relevant to their sectors. Certificate Programs in Biotechnological
and Pharmaceutical Technology, Effective
Communications, Physical Asset Management,
Telecommunications Management, Facility
Management, Building Sciences and Advanced
Project Management address the ongoing
needs of both domestic and international
The Year in Review:
• Hosted 3rd Annual Microarray
Symposium – over 120 attendees
• Saw a 70% increase in enrolment for
our certificate programs
• Successfully launched new BioPharmaceutical Certificate Program
• Led several overseas courses
Upcoming Year:
• Building a new Water and Wastewater
Management Program
• Hosting the 7th International Meeting
of the Microarray Gene Expression
Data Society – 300 attendees expected
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engineers, ensuring their professional knowledge remains up to date. Furthermore, the
PDC is developing several new programs to
complement existing offerings, such as a new
Certificate in Fleet Management. Moreover,
the PDC will redouble its commitment in
Physical Asset Management by offering a cluster of courses in that field – an Initiative – similar to its Project Management Initiative.
The past year has witnessed numerous
changes at the PDC, including installation of
a new Director, a move to new administrative
offices and new training facilities. Steven
Martin, the new Director, an MIE graduate
of the University of Toronto, brings a new
vision with experience from both industry
and education. Together with the PDC team,
he plans to build the Professional Development
Centre into the premier engineering continuing education facility in North America.
The PDC offices are now much closer to the
centre of the Faculty of Applied Science and
Engineering. PDC classes have also moved
and are delivered in the University’s new facility located at 89 Chestnut Street, in the former Colony Hotel, to rave reviews from
instructors and class participants alike.
The programs offered by the PDC have
evolved, as have the relationships with
the program sponsors and developers. The
PDC has entered a new phase of pursuing
enhanced collaborations with industry and
instructors including in particular, partnerships with business development professionals, to build our custom and in-house
offerings. These initiatives will set the foundation for sustainable growth within the
Centre by opening new avenues and increasing awareness of the value offered by the
Professional Development Centre in the
new knowledge environment.
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MÁRTA ECSEDI
The Faculty is grateful for its
association with all of our
distinguished alumni
Alumni Office
Taking Pride in Your Skule™
he Faculty is grateful for its association with all of our distinguished alumni – your work has touched the lives of
thousands of people. Your ongoing support
of our students and this Skule has been transformative – and 2003 was no exception.
A highlight of the year was our annual
Honours and Awards Dinner, held on October
23, attended by 148 alumni, family and
friends, at which ten distinguished alumni,
including Paul Godfrey, received accolades
(see page 4). The annual Skule Society
reception for donors who generously gave
$1,500 or more was held just prior to the
dinner. It was a night to renew friendships
and thank our supporters for their thoughtful gifts of every size, which so greatly benefit our students.
Drawing our students into our beloved
Skule traditions is an ongoing objective. In
January we began preparations for the Iron
Ring Ceremony, the GRADitude campaign
and other activities in support of our graduates. This year, 780 students earned the
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Women in Engineering
As the Dean’s Advisor on Women’s
Issues*, I am pleased to report on
behalf of colleagues Jean Robertson,
Manager, Human Resources; Barbara
McCann, Registrar; Jackie Isaac,
Associate Director, Graduate Studies
and Planning; and Professors Brenda
McCabe (Civ) and Susan McCahan
(MIE), that four new female faculty
members were hired last year.We also
organized a “Future Horizons” conference for Grade 9 and 10 girls, a workshop on Graduate Skule, and events for
both the undergraduate and graduate
Chapters of Women in Science and
Engineering (WISE).
* Márta Ecsedi received the Canadian
Council of Professional Engineers 2004
Award for the Support of Women in
the Engineering Profession.
Iron Ring. In September, we welcomed the
“double cohort” to First Year at Orientation
and also held our second annual event to
recognize students’ extracurricular and leadership efforts.
Alumni showed their Skule spirit by celebrating together at events throughout the
year. On September 4, the University’s Arbor
Awards recognized eight eminent alumni.
The October 4 Homecoming events attracted a good turnout from the honoured years.
Anna Edwards, Trevor Mills, Ryan Morris
and Mat Szeto engineered the Third Annual
Alumni Talent Show into a huge success!
In June, 68 players enjoyed our first
annual golf tournament at Sleepy Hollow
Golf & Country Club, kicking off a weekend of camaraderie, including the Spring
Reunion Dinner and Dance. That evening,
members of the honoured years (every fifth
year between 3T3 and 7T8) warmly applauded the wonderful reminiscence delivered by
Lloyd Jones, class of 3T3. Prior to this year’s
wild and wacky Skule Nite performance,
held in March, alumni were welcomed to a
special reception.
Two alumni, Ewing Rae (Mech 5T8) and
Loris Gregoris (Elec 6T8) responded to our
call to take part in our new “Executive in
Residence” program, securing real-life design
projects drawn from industry to enliven our
students’ learning experience.
Alumni are our valued partners in guiding and supporting our young people and in
keeping our Skule spirit strong. I encourage
even more alumni to stay in touch and to
participate in the future.
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UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
MICHAEL SEFTON
Our researchers’
recent work will
foster the well-being
of thousands
Institute of Biomaterials and
Biomedical Engineering
Breaking New Ground in Health and Medicine
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he pace of discovery and achievement in the Institute continues to
be strong.
Professor Milos Popovic, one of our newer
faculty members with labs at the Toronto
Rehabilitation Institute, has been successful
in using functional electrical stimulation to
assist those with stroke and spinal cord
injuries. The technology has been around for
several decades, but its new application as a
therapy, rather than as a prosthetic system,
makes this research unique and revolutionary. A grasping study is already in the clinical trial phase and a walking study will begin
within the next year.
Professor Moshe Eizenman, cross-appointed in UofT’s Departments of Ophthalmology
and Electrical and Computer Engineering,
has developed advanced eye-tracking systems used by universities and research institutes all over the world. Using the systems’
unique capabilities, Eizenman’s team has
developed a new model to explain a com-
mon disorder in children, infantile estropia
(inward turning of one eye). The team has
also devised techniques to enable patients
with macular degeneration, a common disease in the elderly leading to blindness, to
use most computer programs.
Professor Willy Wong, a graduate of
IBBME and a new faculty member in Electrical
and Computer Engineering, is helping
those with hearing difficulties. His advances
include eyeglasses to improve speech recognition in face-to-face communication; a
novel, non-invasive technique using visual
attention as a control channel to operate
assistive devices, such as a wheelchair; and
improved speech recognition for the elderly. Wong has reconfigured the lab of retired
Professor Hans Kunov as the Institute’s
Sensory Communication Lab. Its new
thrust will be designing perceptual interfaces to facilitate communication and better control the environment for those with
hearing disorders.
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IBBME’s Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Program, launched in 2001 with
the support of the Whitaker Foundation, has
grown from eight to 46 students since its
inception, despite a very high entrance
requirement, and an original plan to accommodate only 20 students. As well, interest in
the Biomedical Engineering option of the
Engineering Science undergraduate program
has blossomed. In the 2003-2004 third year
class, 33% (53 of its 160 students) have chosen the Biomedical Engineering option. This
option is by far the most popular choice in
Engineering Science and has the highest proportion of female students (45%) of any of
the Engineering Science options.
IBBME Professors Molly Shoichet and
Kim Vicente received Steacie Fellowships
(only six are awarded across Canada annually) and Michael Sefton was appointed
University Professor, the highest honour the
university bestows on its professors. The designation of University Professor is as much
a tribute to the Institute as it is a personal
honour for our Director. Kim Woodhouse,
our former Graduate Coordinator, will take
up a new position of Associate Director of
the new Advanced Regenerative Tissue
Engineering Centre.
We anticipate continued progress in
achieving our vision of contributing to better health care in the coming years.
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PROFESSOR
DOUG REEVE
We seek to attract the very best
students and empower them in
their intellectual, professional and
personal development
Department of
Chemical Engineering and
Applied Chemistry
Innovation, Excellence and Leadership
his has been another outstanding
year for the Department. Our Vision
statement guides our thinking: “We
will be among the top ten Chemical Engineering Departments in the world, educating
leaders of tomorrow.” Our newly formulated
Operating Principles guide our actions: “Think
deeply; Recruit the best; Be student-focused;
Have respect, care and concern for the individual and the community; Operate with professionalism and integrity; Operate with deliberate and concerted action”.
The Department’s Board of Advisors,
formed in the Fall of 2002, elected Dr. David
Colcleugh as its Chair. The Board continues
to guide and counsel us in the development
and execution of our strategic plan.
We have taken a number of major steps to
intensify our interdisciplinary research efforts
over the past year. A prime example is the new
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Advanced Regenerative Tissue Engineering
Centre (ARTEC), a joint project with the
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical
Engineering and Sunnybrook and Women’s
College Health Sciences Centre, which
was awarded $15 million by the Ontario
Research and Development Challenge Fund.
Professor Kimberly Woodhouse will be its
Associate Director.
An endowed Chair in Information Engineering was sponsored by the Bank of
Montreal, Bell Nexxia, RBC Financial and
TD Canada Trust, with Professor Joseph
Paradi named as the first chair-holder. This is
an important part of our drive for excellence
in informatics and applied mathematics.
A prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Synergy
Award for Innovation, a national award focusing on university-industry partnerships,
recognized Professors Douglas Reeve and
Robert Andrews (Civil Engineering), the firm
ERCO Worldwide and others, for “a 50-year
partnership that has had enormous environmental and economic benefits for the pulp
and paper and water treatment industries”.
Others from our Department have been
honoured this past year. Professor Michael
Sefton was named University Professor.
Professor Molly Shoichet has been widely
hailed for winning the prestigious Steacie
Fellowship from NSERC and the Syncrude
Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical
Engineering. Professor Levente Diosady
received Professional Engineers Ontario’s
Engineering Medal for Research and Development. Professor David Kuhn received the
Faculty’s highest award for teaching.
Graduate student Alison McGuigan won
the first Adel S. Sedra Award, conferred by
the University on a graduate student who
exemplifies both academic excellence and
participation. In our drive to achieve the
highest standards, we seek to attract the very
best students and empower them in their
intellectual, professional and personal development. We aim to provide opportunities for
them to emerge as “leaders of tomorrow”.
We invite all friends of the Department
to join us in our drive to achieve our vision.
www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca
PROFESSOR ERIC MILLER
We look forward
to training the next
generation of Civil
engineers to deal with
the myriad infrastructure
problems facing Canada
and the world
Department of
Civil Engineering
Celebrating Research Success and
Welcoming New Challenges
his has been a year of transition within the Department of Civil Engineering,
with changes in leadership, recognition of important research, new partnerships and strategic planning to strengthen
our future.
Professor Barry Adams completed his
second term as Department Chair in June.
The Department thrived under his leadership during difficult financial times. Major
new initiatives were launched in areas such
as Intelligent Transportation Systems and
Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering. An
Infrastructure Engineering option was introduced in Engineering Science. Over 40% of
the Department’s current faculty were hired
during Professor Adams’ terms of office, a
legacy that will continue to set the direction
of the Department for decades to come.
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Professor R. Paul Young, who holds the Keck
Chair of Seismology and Rock Mechanics,
took over the Departmental reins in January,
2004. Professor Young, who joined the
University in 2002, brings a world-class
research presence in geoscience and considerable administrative experience from Queen’s
and the University of Liverpool to his new
post. In the interim period, Bahen-Tanenbaum
Professor Eric Miller acted as Chair.
Our Department’s significant talents and
impressive achievements have attracted
attention from industry, government and
fellow researchers. Perhaps the most notable
honour in 2003 went to Professor Robert
Andrews who, along with the firm ERCO
Worldwide and Professor Doug Reeve,
received a Synergy Award from the Natural
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(NSERC) for his work over the past decade.
Professor Andrews’ team demonstrated that
chlorine dioxide (ClO2) offers significant
advantages over chlorine in the purification
of drinking water because it kills pathogens
without creating noxious by-products. ClO2
is now widely used to disinfect Italy’s drinking water; in the United States, its use has
doubled in the past decade.
Professor Jeffrey Packer won the prestigious Kurobane Prize from the International
Institute of Welding for his outstanding contributions and international achievements in
the field of Tubular Structures.
One outstanding research grant was the
Canada Foundation for Innovation New
Opportunities funding obtained by Professors
Paul Gauvreau and Constantin Christopoulos.
The equipment to be purchased with this
grant will permit full-scale on-site monitoring
of the responses of buildings and other structures to both naturally occurring and artificially
induced forces.
In October, faculty met with senior
managers from the Ontario Ministry of
Transportation to discuss mutual research
needs and interests. This meeting was the first
step toward an ongoing research partnership
in areas such as bridge design, concrete materials, intelligent transportation systems, transportation planning and traffic safety analysis.
Our first year enrolment increased to 123
this year, by far the largest class in quite
some time. We look forward to teaching the
next generation of civil engineers the sustainable engineering practices that will
address the many infrastructure problems
facing Canada and the world.
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(l-r) PROFESSORS
IAN BLAKE, ACTING CHAIR,
AND JONATHAN ROSE,
CHAIR
Our faculty
were honoured
with an exceptional
number of prestigious
awards this year
The Edward S. Rogers Sr.
Computer Engineering
Leading to the Future
he past year was a period of stellar
achievement for the Department,
marked by prestigious awards, curriculum change and tremendous growth in
students, faculty and research achievements.
We have hired an exceptional cadre of new
professors who seek to expand knowledge in
the fields of nanotechnology, and many
forms of information technology. These
include special electromagnetic materials,
communication networks, microelectronics,
power electronics, cryptography, bio-informatics, quantum computing, internet software engineering and high-performance
processor architecture.
We are educating and training the leaders
of the next technological wave. Our undergraduate student body has increased to 1,550
(with students on PEY), making us the
largest Department in the Faculty and one of
the two largest at Uof T. A new curriculum
was phased in this year with our current first
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year class, allowing them greater choice
from a broad and flexible range of options
in their upper years. The state-of-the-art labs
in the new Bahen Centre for Information
Technology attract outstanding students
and researchers, providing the infrastructure
needed to be Canada’s best research and
undergraduate teaching Department.
Our faculty have been recognized with
impressive awards and honours this past
year. Professors Wei Yu and Hoi-Kwong Lo
(jointly appointed with UofT’s Department
of Physics) were awarded prestigious Canada
Research Chairs (Tier II). Professor Ted
Sargent won several top honours, including
his selection by MIT’s Technology Review as
one of the world’s top 100 technological
innovators under age 35. Professor Greg
Steffan won Carnegie Mellon University’s
School of Computer Science Dissertation
Award; his thesis will also be considered for
the Association of Computing Machinery
Distinguished Thesis Award.
Professors Parham Aarabi and
Ravi Adve won awards for teaching excellence. The Engineering
Alumni Association selected
Professor Li Qian for the 7T6
Early Career Award.
Among the more established faculty, University Professor Ted
Davison won a Killam Award and was inducted into the Engineering Alumni Hall of
Distinction. Professor Keigo Iizuka received
the Fujio Frontier Award from Japan’s
Institute of Image Formation and Television
Engineers. Professor Pas Pasupathy received
the Canadian Award in Telecommunications
of the Canadian Society of Information
Theory. Professor Elvino Sousa received the
Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and the New
Pioneers Science and Technology Award.
University Professor André Salama was selected by the 2003 Canadian Semiconductor
Technology Conference to receive its
Outstanding Achievement Award. Dean Tas
Venetsanopoulos received IEEE Canada’s
A.G.L. McNaughton Award. Professor Ian
Blake was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, and served as Acting Chair
of the Department to December 31, 2003.
Professor Jonathan Rose began serving as
Chair January 1, 2004. His term ends
December 31, 2008.
With our new and established strengths,
and our commitment to seek new and better ways to teach and research, we will build
on a strong base to create one of the leading
Departments of ECE research and teaching
in the world.
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PROFESSOR JIM WALLACE
Impressive awards won
by both professors
and students indicate
the excellent quality
of our research
Department of Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering
Dedicated to Excellence
mpressive awards won by both professors
and students, growth in undergraduate
and graduate enrolment, and recruitment of several accomplished new faculty
members are highlights of the year for MIE.
Many of our outstanding professors won
awards for research this year. Professor Kim
Vicente received a top Canadian science and
engineering honour from the Natural
(NSERC). He was selected to win one of
only six Steacie Fellowships given annually.
Vicente’s research examines how people use
technology, with a special focus on the
health care industry and prevention of medical errors. Professors Greg Jamieson and
Roy Kwon each won Canada Foundation
for Innovation New Opportunities infrastructure funding.
Many of our outstanding MASc and PhD
students were also recognized for their work.
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Mr. Vala Mehdi-Nejad, who is supervised by
Vice-Dean Javad Mostaghimi and Professor
Sanjeev Chandra, received the Harold C.
Simmons Award at the 2003 Institute for
Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems Conference for his Outstanding Student Presentation, delivered at the previous ILASS conference. Ms. Weiwei Du, whose supervisor is
Professor Paul Milgram, won the Best Student
Paper Award from the Performance and
Perception Technical Group of the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society. MIE graduate students also did very well in attracting
external scholarships – 30 Ontario Graduate
Student scholarships, 13 NSERC Postgraduate
Scholarships and three NSERC Postdoctoral
Fellowships. The Masters Degree Program in
Design and Manufacturing, offered jointly
with three other universities through the
Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute
(ADMI) continues to grow. Now in its third
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year, with an enrolment of 57 students,
ADMI courses are designed for graduate engineers working in industry.
Working under Professor William
Cleghorn, fourth year ME students Douglas
Hestor and Peter Lewis received three first
place awards: at the Canadian Society for
Mechanical Engineering Student Design
Competition and at both the Ontario
Engineering Design Competition and the
Canadian Engineering Competition (for
Corporate Design). Design is an important
component of both the IE and ME programs.
Strong demand for MIE programs continued with total full-time enrolment of 251
students in Industrial (Systems) Engineering
and 496 students in Mechanical Engineering.
Our first year class included 53 Industrial
(Systems) Engineering and 133 Mechanical
Engineering full-time students. The Department has commissioned two new undergraduate computer rooms to support all
these students.
Professor Jim Wallace’s productive tenure
as MIE Chair was extended to December 31,
2003. Professor Tony Sinclair (Eng Sci 7T6)
undertook this demanding role on January
1, 2004. The Department is delighted to
welcome new Assistant Professors Dr. Foued
Ben Amara, whose research interests are in
modeling and control of dynamic systems
and adaptive signal processing; Dr. Mariano
Consens, whose interests include data management systems and the web, pervasive
computing and trusted data management;
and Dr. Baris Balcioglu, whose focus is probabilistic modeling of systems.
Our aim is to enhance our capacity for
innovation and growth by recruiting additional exceptional faculty members.
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PROFESSOR
DOUG D. PEROVIC
The first Nanoengineering
graduating class has found
exciting opportunities at
pre-eminent institutions including
Cornell, Oxford and Cambridge
Department of Materials
Science and Engineering
Accelerating the Pace of Innovation
he MSE Department continued to
chart a trajectory of innovation and
growth in research, teaching and curriculum change in the past year.
We remain the Faculty leader in the number of research grants and contracts awarded per professor. Among the many research
advances this year were those of Professor
Robert Pilliar’s graduate student research
group.Working in collaboration with researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital, the team developed bone-interfacing implants with modified surfaces for faster rates of bone integration. Studies were also conducted on
novel biodegradable load-bearing composite biomaterials for potential applications
in fracture repair and other applications in
orthopedics.
A second notable achievement was the collaboration between research groups led by
Professor Geoffrey Ozin (UofT Department
of Chemistry), Benjamin Hatton (MSE/Chem)
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and Doug Perovic (MSE). The team developed a potential replacement insulating material for future nanoelectronic devices and
reported their results in Science. They were
able to create a new class of nanocomposite
material known as periodic mesoporous
organosilica (PMO), with ultra-low dielectric
constant and good mechanical stability.
Professor Zheng-Hong Lu’s group has invented a hybrid Nano-Organic Electroluminescent
(NOREL) device for future generations of
flat-panel display. With the assistance of
UofT’s Innovation Foundation, a new company, NOREL Optronics Inc., has been created to commercialize the invention.
MSE is one of very few Departments of
its kind to offer an undergraduate program
that spans a wide range of fields, from
materials extraction and processing, to
advanced Nanoengineering. The interdisciplinary nature of our program attracts an
increasing number of excellent students.
The undergraduate Materials Engineering
curriculum has been completely redesigned
to meet our students’ educational needs in a
rapidly evolving working world. The new
curriculum provides for flexible career
opportunities in one of four new streams:
Nanomaterials; Biomaterials; Materials and
Manufacturing; and Materials Processing
and Sustainable Development. In addition,
MSE is working closely with the UofT
Departments of Physics and Chemistry to
develop an exciting new interdisciplinary
redesign of the Materials Science BSc
Specialist degree, that is expected to attract
a significant number of students.
We take great pride in the fact that the
first Nanoengineering option class, which
graduated this year, has found exciting graduate level opportunities at pre-eminent institutions such as Cornell, Oxford and
Cambridge – an indicator of the quality of
the program. The Nanoengineering option
in Engineering Science continued to attract
considerable attention from both prospective students and the international media.
Recruiting new faculty will enhance our
capacity for future innovation. We have
selected three world-class experts in nanomaterials, nanoelectronics and computational materials science to join MSE in the
coming year. Recruitment continues in
2004 with searches for three positions in
mineral processing, polymers and biomaterials engineering.
MSE will continue to set an ambitious
agenda of achievement for the coming year.
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PROFESSOR
YU-LING CHENG
The Division continues
to be sought after as a
model for educating
the creative engineering
leaders of tomorrow.
Division of
Engineering Science
Preparing Students for Lives of Discovery,
Innovation and Leadership
nitiatives to explore partnership opportunities with universities overseas, including the potential for international student exchange programs; a first undergraduate research day; and outreach to alumni and
to industry, were a few of the highlights of last
year’s eventful Engineering Science agenda.
The year brought new indications that
our Engineering Science Division continues
to be esteemed as a model for educating the
creative engineering leaders of tomorrow.
One was that Professor Cheng was invited
as the keynote speaker at the Conference on
Engineering Education of the Deans of
Engineering in Taiwan last January. Another
was an invitation to share her insights at the
National University of Singapore (NUS). A
NUS Faculty of Engineering Task Force also
visited here in October as part of its evaluation of Engineering Science-like models
from around the world. NUS faculty members have been impressed by many of the
features of the UofT model, and will likely
incorporate similar features in their pro-
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gram. Partnership opportunities between
UofT and NUS are being explored, including student exchange programs.
The world’s top-ranked graduate institutions continued to welcome our students.
Among the many notable OT3 graduates:
David Deak is studying at Oxford; Andre
Mercanzini is at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology; Alexander Ince-Cushman
and Denis Daly are at MIT; Linda Chan is
at Duke; Jimmy Chui is at Princeton; and
David Varodayan, Laurent Lessard and Foad
Mashayekhi are studying at Stanford.
Demand for our program continued to
increase among top high school students. A
very high incoming average was maintained,
even though we increased our first year
enrolment from 250 to 300 to meet the
demand of the “double cohort”. Students are
attracted by the exciting opportunities we
provide. For example, in August we held our
first Undergraduate Research Day in which
students were invited to present their summer research work to an audience of peers,
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supervisors and incoming students.
A high point of the year was our third
alumni dinner, which attracted many industry sponsors, including a firm from Houston.
Many of our students are hired as a result of
the contacts made at this event. This year’s
speaker was Professor Raffaello D’Andrea
(9T1), of Cornell University’s Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering Department.
Two new option chairs were appointed in
2003: Professors Paul Chow (Computer
Option) and Ross Ethier (Biomedical Option).
The Division is constantly striving to stay
ahead of the curve, looking at where engineering and engineering education is headed
in the next decade. The Faculty’s Curriculum
Committee has strongly endorsed a proposal
for revising the curriculum for years one and
two that includes many innovative features.
Implementing this curriculum will form a
major element of the Division’s academic
plans in the coming year.
www.engsci.utoronto.ca
Our Valued Sponsors, 2003
Altera Toronto Technology Centre
Bombardier Inc.
C Sixty Inc.
Celestica Inc.
ConsenSys Software Corporation
Consulting Engineers of Ontario
Cummins OER
Dortec Industries
EPSON Software Development
Laboratory, Inc.
Hydrogenics Corporation
Inco Limited
Integran Technologies
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Rimon Therapeutics Ltd.
TELUS Mobility
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ANNUAL
R E POR T
2003
PROFESSOR
PHILIP BYER
Critical environmental issues
demand interdisciplinary inquiry
and collaborative solutions
Division of
Environmental Engineering
Creatively Linking Environmental Issues
with Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching
limate change, environmental
degradation, safe drinking water
and the impact of technology on
the environment – these and other critical
environmental issues demand interdisciplinary inquiry and collaborative solutions.
Environmental Engineering provides a
structure for this interface.
The Division of Environmental Engineering continued its thrust towards interdisciplinary research and teaching in the past
year. Professor Phil Byer, Chair of the
Division, and Professor Ingrid Stefanovic, of
the Department of Philosophy, co-teach a
graduate course, Environmental Decision
Making. Last Fall, Professor Byer taught
students how to conduct a cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the waste management prob-
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lems of the City of Toronto, for example,
while Professor Stefanovic encouraged students to explore how human values affect
how we solve environmental problems.
This kind of interdisciplinary collaboration of Environmental Engineering and the
Faculty of Arts & Science will continue to
be essential as we solve the critical issues of
urban growth, sustainability, and Third
World development.
A highlight of the Undergraduate
Collaborative Program in Environmental
Engineering is the fourth year design course
in which students in the Chemical and Civil
Engineering programs work together in teams
to address real environmental concerns.
This year, industry advisors from Enviromega Ltd., Suntec Environmental, ERCO
Worldwide, and GeoSyntec Consultants Inc.
worked with our students on projects that
involved drinking water treatment, soil remediation and bio-gas from landfills. This ‘capstone’ course provides students with excellent,
real-world industrial experience.
Doctoral student Jeremy Kraemer once
again organized a successful series of guest
speakers from industry to expose students to
innovative environmental engineering projects and interesting work opportunities.
Presentations covered the science of climate
change, greenhouse gas emission reductions
and emerging automotive technologies.
While students in the Collaborative
Program study global issues, others are
greening the UofT campus. Some of our students are on the university’s Environmental
Protection Advisory Committee, co-chaired
by Professor Byer, which advises how to
improve UofT’s environmental performance
through initiatives such as energy conservation. The Division tries to link this to undergraduate projects; one student reviewed current designs against best practices for water
conservation at the university.
Our students are also encouraged to participate in extracurricular events. The Division
sponsored several students to attend a
national “Sustainable Campuses Conference”
in Montreal in October, organized by the
Sierra Youth Coalition. We also helped students to attend the third National Engineers
Without Borders Conference, held at UofT
in February 2004 (see p. 6).
More than 400 students from across the
university attended Environment Career Day,
a collaborative effort with other environmental programs at UofT. Employers from the
environment industry were key presenters.
Our new Manager and Student Counsellor, Della Saunders, earned a PhD in
Environmental Anthropology at UofT. Our
plan for the upcoming year is to focus on
curriculum review and enhancement – continuing our commitment to innovative
interdisciplinary courses.
www.ecf.utoronto.ca/apsc/enveng
(l-r) PROFESSORS
WILLIAM BAWDEN
AND PAUL YOUNG
Our Distinguished
Lecturer Series was
launched by an expert
from Harvard
Division of Mineral Engineering
and the Lassonde Institute
Strategic Growth and Exciting Initiatives
he Mineral Engineering Program
continues to grow rapidly, with
increased enrolment, exciting new
research projects and international initiatives.
A large proportion of this year’s incoming
first-year class selected Mineral Engineering at
UofT as their first choice, a positive result of
recent recruitment initiatives. Significant
efforts are also being made to improve student
retention. A successful “Head Start” orientation program for incoming first-year students
was offered for the second time in August.
Students continue to be attracted strongly to the program for several reasons: a 90%
placement rate, our Adjunct Professor program, which brings in specialists with current
industry experience and networking events.
We will also be publishing an alumni news-
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letter to increase communication with this
valued group.
Professor Will Bawden returned in July
for a second term as Chair of Mineral
Engineering, after a sabbatical year working
on geomechanical mine design and ground
support industry issues. Professor John
Curran, Associate Chair, began a one term
administrative leave at that time to research
analytical and numerical techniques for
designing underground excavations and rock
slopes in a fractured rock mass.
The Lassonde Institute, with Professor
Paul Young as Director, continues to increase
both research opportunities and graduate
and Post Doctoral placements. Several excellent doctoral candidates have joined the
Institute this year, as well as Post Doctoral
2003
ANNUAL
R E POR T
Fellows from Paris, Tehran and a U.K. Royal
Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. The Rock
Physics and Computational Geomechanics
Laboratory is now operational with new
advanced geophysical imaging equipment
for geomechanical model validation. The
Computational Geomechanics Group is conducting research on a number of projects to
predict and model rock falls and toppling.
A major research initiative, the Keck
Geomechanics Code, has recently been
launched. This open source software project
is focused on the development of a comprehensive geomechanics code based on a variety of numerical techniques for continuous
as well as fractured rock masses.
The Institute also launched its Distinguished Lecturer Series with an inaugural
lecture by Dr. James R. Rice, Professor of
Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at
Harvard University, entitled “New Perspectives
on Fracture Dynamics”.
Professor Young took the helm of the
Civil Engineering Department in January
2004 as Chair, in addition to his position as
Institute Director.
In the future, the Division will intensify
collaboration with other Departments and
with industry. Mineral Engineering and
Materials Science Engineering will jointly
hire a new faculty member who will contribute to the Division’s Mineral Processing
option. We will also work with the Julius
Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre in
Australia on a cave mining project starting
in 2004. This project, sponsored by a number of the world’s largest mining companies,
will study methodologies to induce the earth
to fragment rock naturally, to reduce underground mining costs.
www.mineralengineering.utoronto.ca
www.lassondeinstitute.utoronto.ca
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2003
ANNUAL
R E POR T
PROFESSOR
TONY HAASZ
Partnerships with industry
and government enable us
to expand the boundaries
of our research
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
(UTIAS)
Pushing the Frontiers of Aerospace Engineering
ears of work culminated in an historic event for UTIAS last year. Two
satellites were successfully launched on
June 30, 2003 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
in Russia: the MOST (Microvariability and
Oscillations of Stars) microsatellite and
CanX-1 (Canadian Advanced Nanospace
eXperiment 1). Both satellites now circle Earth
in an 820-km dawn-dusk sun-synchronous
orbit and are operated from the Mission
Control Center at the UTIAS Space Flight
Laboratory – a coup for Canada’s only university-based microsatellite technology program.
Work on the 60-kilogram MOST microsatellite began in 1998 and, with the exception of the actual telescope, it was built and
tested in a sterile “clean room” at UTIAS. It
is gathering information about some of the
oldest stars in the galaxy. CanX-1 is the first
“picosatellite” built at the Space Flight
Laboratory under a program which has graduate students leading the design, development,
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testing and operation of Canada’s smallest
satellites – weighing less than one kilogram.
UTIAS continues to focus its research
and education in selected strategic areas of
aerospace engineering. These include: aircraft flight dynamics, control and simulation; systems integration and virtual aircraft;
aerospace propulsion and gas turbine combustion; aerodynamics, structures and multidisciplinary optimization; space systems
engineering, including spacecraft dynamics
and control; intelligent and autonomous
space robotics; and microsatellite technology. Spin-off technologies, such as plasmas
and fusion energy, are also being pursued.
Our research programs involve extensive
collaborations and partnerships with industry and government research labs. Through
a valued partnership with Bombardier
Aerospace, we have expanded our aircraft
flight research with the appointment of
Professor Peter Grant. With awards from
the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) and the Ontario Innovation Trust, we
also added new experimental facilities. Our
research on aerodynamics and structures is
being expanded with the appointment of
Professor Joaquim Martins, whose research
focus is multidisciplinary design and optimization. Martins has been awarded a Tier II
Canada Research Chair and a CFI award for
expanding the UTIAS computing facilities.
Two major CFI applications from
UTIAS were submitted in the 2003 competition. One is for the establishment of
MarsDome, which will provide a precisely
controlled environment in lighting and surface/subsurface conditions for testing and
evaluation of robotic systems for planetary
exploration. The other is for the establishment of a high-pressure combustion research
facility through a collaborative effort with
several universities, the National Research
Council and Pratt & Whitney Canada. A
major international effort has been initiated to investigate lean premixed and hydrogen-enriched combustion for hydrocarbon
fuels to reduce carbon dioxide and nitric
oxide emissions in gas turbine engines, with
a Collaborative Research Opportunities
grant from the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council.
Partnerships with industry and government enable us to expand the boundaries of
our research. Our innovative researchers
and talented students are embracing these
outstanding opportunities to push the frontiers in aerospace engineering.
www.utias.utoronto.ca
Tracking Our Progress
Facts and Highlights for 2003
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
ALUMNI
27,646 living alumni
•
• 1,421 graduate students in total
• Doctoral-stream enrolment increased
•
Student Awards
• $1,811,962 in grants and scholarships
disbursed to undergraduates in total
• 27% of our doctoral-stream
CANADA RESEARCH
CHAIRS (CRC)
28 CRC’s awarded to our Faculty
to date by the federal government,
for research in areas including:
advanced manufacturing for new
materials; biomaterials, tissue engineering
and regeneration; information processing technologies; computational
technology and nanotechnology
•
students won major external awards
in 2003:
11 Canada Graduate Scholarships
131 Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council grants
112 Ontario Graduate Scholarships
Total: 254 major fellowships
Student Retention
• 96% of the members of the class
of 2000 were employed two years
after graduation
The Professional Experience Year
Program (PEY)
•
• Students on exchange in 2003 in:
Australia, England, France, Japan,
Hong Kong, Singapore and Sweden.
Students visiting from all these countries, plus New Zealand.
internships in industry this year
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ENROLMENT
1999-2004
degrees with a Management Experience
Year (MEY) Program. Canada’s first
engineering-MBA program.
eight students placed on MEY in 2003
2003 employers include: ATI
Technologies Inc., Dynacom Inc.,
The Canadian Space Agency, IBM
Canada Ltd., Integrity Testing
Laboratory Inc., Honeywell, and
Wallace Wireless Inc.
www.rotman.utoronto.ca/skoll
Exchange Students
• 264 students placed on PEY
from Ontario high schools:
89.4%
GRADUATE STUDENT ENROLMENT
1999-2004
1999-’00
‘00 -’01
‘01 -’02
‘02 -’03
‘03 -’04
CHEMICAL
317
313
327
369
436
CIVIL
303
280
283
312
359
COMPUTER
747
923
939
888
753
ELECTRICAL
420
432
465
573
687
ENG. SCIENCE
592
646
671
706
800
INDUSTRIAL
205
216
235
272
251
90
61
55
72
75
MATERIALS
149
138
153
183
171
MECHANICAL
460
447
466
478
496
21
20
26
31
32
183
248
264
215
264
3487
3724
3884
4099
4324
TOTAL
•
•
Employment of Graduates
• 4,324 undergraduate students in total
First Year Students
• 7,474 applications received from
across Canada and abroad
• 1,234 first year students selected
• average entering grade for students
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE YEAR
•
• combined studies for BASc and MBA
1992 to 2002
Undergraduate Enrolment
engineering internship program
in Canada
approximately 1/3 of our third year
class is out on placement every year
working for 12-16 months in
industry. This year placements
were made in the U.S. and Japan.
www.peyonline.com
The Jeffrey Skoll Program
• 85% average retention rate from
STUDENT DATA
SPECIAL
STUDENTS
•
12.8% over the previous year —and
47% above 2000-01 levels
RESEARCH ENTERPRISE
Total from public and private
funding: $41,132,830
MINERAL
• the largest undergraduate
Graduate Students
2003
ANNUAL
R E POR T
1999-’00
‘00 -’01
‘01 -’02
‘02 -’03
‘03 -’04
UTIAS
72
75
72
87
92
IBBME*
7
8
15
22
49
CHEM
149
186
167
161
168
CIVIL
119
221
213
237
223
ECE
258
340
373
420
440
MIE
189
358
380
416
363
MSE
50
70
61
73
86
844
1258
1281
1416
1421
TOTAL
* IBBME enrolment figures do not include students enrolled in collaborative degree programs.
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