In the News

Multi-disciplinary Students Take on Childhood Malnutrition

The Centre for Global Engineering, led by Professor Yu-Ling Cheng, recently brought together graduate students from across the university to tackle one of the most vexing problems in the developing world: the cycle of grinding poverty that keeps parents from being able to feed their children adequately. A team including ChemE PhD student Scott Genin proposed a new strategy to allow women to continue to breastfeed their children after returning to work, addressing malnutrition in the crucial early stages of life. Read more about their proposed Mother's Milk idea.

ChemE Undergrad Swimming Champs

Congratulations to first year student Ross Phillips and second year student Edward Liu, who are both competing at the 2014 Commonwealth/Pan Pacific swimming trials in Victoria on April 1 - 5. Edward is one of the top butterflyers in the country and recently won Gold in the 50m butterfly and Bronze in the 100m butterfly and 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2014 CIS National Swimming Championships in Toronto. Ross specializes in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke and was part of the U of T (M) team that placed 1st out of 11 Ontario universities at the 2014 Ontario University Athletics championships this past February. An impressive achievement, given their coarse load!

Women Engineers Connect

For the second year in a row, the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering asked women engineers to identify outstanding role models and mentors who have influenced their career and provided all-important guidance at the right moment. The resulting list of 30 exceptional women engineers includes nine FASE graduates and faculty members, including ChemE Associate Professor Milica Radisic and alumni Jessica Li (1T3), Rachelle McCann (1T3) and Marisa Sterling (9T1). They are profiled in #30in30, an online feature in celebration of National Engineering Month.

April 4, 2014

In this issue:

Departmental Offices
Announcements
Chem Eng Events

Departmental Offices

Announcements

29th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner

The 28th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner held on Friday, March 28 gathered together over 400 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends. The evening's keynote speaker was William Breukelman (ChemE 5T5), who was recently honoured as an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for his entrepreneurship as head of pioneering imaging companies, including IMAX and SCIEX (MDS Inc.). To view pictures from the event, click here.

ILead ChemE Fun Run

ILead ChemE will be participating in the Harry Rosen Spring Run-off on Saturday, April 5 at High Park. If you'd like to cheer on the team, come out to High Park before the 10 am start time. Directions to the race can be found here.

Lectures at the Leading Edge - Nominations for the 2014 - 2015 series

We are now planning our Lectures at the Leading Edge seminar series for the 2014-2015 academic year. Please forward your nominations to Cecilia Konney (cecilia.konney@utoronto.ca) by
Friday, April 11.

To assist in the nomination procedure, please provide the following particulars of the nominee:
Name, affiliation, department, URL, Departmental Cluster that best aligns with the proposed lecturer (see list below), reason for nomination (in a few sentences)

Please be as specific as possible in your reasons for nomination and include a short description of how this researcher has influenced his/her field, as this information can be elucidated only by a researcher already familiar with the nominee’s field. Please also include a copy of the nominee’s CV, and a list of his/her recent and most significant publications.

Please note that, by putting forth a nomination, you are agreeing to host the lecturer. A list of hosting duties can be obtained from Cecilia.

The departmental clusters and their leaders are as follows:
• Biomolecular & Biomedical Engineering - Chris Yip
• Bioprocess Engineering – Brad Saville
• Environmental Science Engineering – Elizabeth Edwards
• Chemical & Materials Process Engineering – Vlad Papangelakis
• Informatics – Joe Paradi
• Pulp and Paper – Honghi Tran
• Surface & Interface Engineering – Charles Mims
• Sustainable Energy – Don Kirk

CEGSA Easter Egg Decorating Fun-shop

Do you want to celebrate spring and feel like a kid again? CEGSA invites you to join their Easter Egg Decorating Fun-shop on Wednesday, April 16 at 2:30 PM in the Graduate Common Room (WB247). Show off your amazing egg decorating skills or enjoy some treats and hot drinks during FIKA. If you are interested, please click here and fill in your name so the organizers can ensure that there will be enough eggs and materials.

Celebrating Engineering Excellence

Dean Cristina Amon invites all faculty and staff to attend the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering's 7th annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence Reception on Wednesday April 23, 4-6pm in GB202, to recognize the recipients of major honours, awards and research grants, celebrate all your successes, and look back on another outstanding academic year. This reception will feature the presentation of the Faculty's staff, research and teaching awards. RSVP by email to reception.engineering@ecf.utoronto.ca by Monday, April 14.

U of T Bring Our Children to Work Day 2014

On Thursday, April 24, you are invited to bring your daughters and sons, currently in grades 4 to 7, to work! For more information and a list of available tours and registration information, please visit the HR site.

2014 Summer Safety Training Schedule

Part I: In-Person training , Monday, May 05, 2014, 9:30 to 11:30 am, BA-1160
Part II: On-line training (to be completed prior to the in-person exam)
Part III: In-Person Examination, Thursday, May 08, 2014, 10:00 to 10:30 am, WB-116

The training is compulsory for all summer students/personnel, including those in volunteer positions and on co-op placements.

Inaugural Chemical Engineering Sector Information Night a Great Success

January 14 marked the successful debut of Chemical Engineering Sector Information Night. Sponsored by OSPE, ILead, CSChE, and Chem Club, the event aimed to help students choose career paths. Current undergraduates Michael Taguiam (1T5), Lucy Liu (1T5), Krithika Sugavanam (1T6) and Sana Zafar (1T3+PEY) spearheaded the event with the supervision of Professor Doug Reeve and Professor Graeme Norval.

The information night attracted about 80 ChemE undergrads who heard from alumni working in nine different sectors, including: Carissa Sutjipto (Food), Ivan Gogolev (Oil & Gas), Abby Eldib (Proposal Engineering), Kristy Chow (Mining), Paul Earl (Pulp & Paper), Avishek Kar (Chemicals), Tony Tsui (Environment), Elizabeth Csaszar (Biomedical) and Irena Mahdavi (Finance). Each presenter shared valuable knowledge and experiences from their respective fields, giving students a snapshot of the many opportunities available to them upon graduation. Following on the success of this inaugural event, the executive team plans to offer it again years to come.

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