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News & Events

ChemE Alumni Win 2015 OPE Awards

OPE 2015 Two ChemE alumni received Ontario Professional Engineers (OPE) Awards in honour of their outstanding contributions to the engineering profession and their wider community. Awarded by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). Claire Kennedy (ChemE 8T9), pictured left, received the Citizenship Award. Jeanette Southwood (ChemE 8T6, MASc 8T8), pictured right, garnered the Engineering Excellence Medal. Read more.

New Associate Professor

The department has promoted Alison McGuigan to Associate Professor. Professor McGuigan's research interests include: tissue engineering, microfabrication, disease modeling, systems biology, 2D and 3D cell organization and self-assembly, cell migration, tissue patterning and boundaries, modelling tissue organization mechanisms, and in vitro drug screening tools.

Nanocomposites Seminar

On Friday, July 31 at 11am in WB215, Dr. Mauro Giorcelli, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), will describe the dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the nanocomposite (NC), a key issue to obtain uniform and reproducible samples. He will also discuss the electrical characterization of the NCs in microwave frequency. Learn more.

July 24, 2015

Volume 32, Issue 27

In this issue:

Grad Office
Job Posting
Events

Grad Office

MASc DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - H. Lu

Date of Meeting: Wednesday, July 29 in WB115 at 9am
Thesis Title: ELECTROLYTIC HYDROGEN CHARGING OF Zr-2.5Nb ALLOY IN MOLTEN NaOH-KOH EUTECTIC MIXTURE AT LOW OVERPOTENTIAL
Committee: Chair: Prof. D. W. Kirk; Supervisor(s): Prof. R. C. Newman; Other Member(s): Prof. G. Azimi

MASc DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - L. Xie

Date of Meeting: Monday, July 27 in WB215 at 2pm
Thesis Title: EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOTIVE
Committee: Chair: Prof. H. N. Tran; Supervisor(s): Prof. M. Kawaji; Other Member(s): Prof. D. W. Kirk

NSERC IPS Program – Final Application Deadline

The School of Graduate Studies has been informed that the NSERC IPS Program will be discontinued following the fulfillment of its current commitments, and will be replaced by the Mitacs’ Accelerate program. As a result, new NSERC IPS applications will only be accepted until the end of this summer.

In order to ensure that the final NSERC IPS submission deadline is met, the deadline for submitting NSERC IPS applications to the SGS Graduate Awards Office is Friday, August 21. The NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (IPS) Application Package is downloadable from the SGS website. For more information on the NSERC IPS program, please visit SGS’s NSERC IPS web page. If you require additional information or assistance with a NSERC IPS application, contact Kelly Nolan at kelly.nolan@utoronto.ca

Job Posting

RENEW, INTEGRATE & BioZone Postdoctoral Opportunity

A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratories of Drs. Elizabeth Edwards and Brent Sleep in the Departments of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate will be joining a dynamic team comprised of engineering and science students, staff and professors involved in groundwater remediation with a particular emphasis on tracking biological transformation reactions in groundwater associated with various cleanup approaches. For more information, click here.

Send your application and questions to Elizabeth Edwards before Wednesday, August 5. If you know someone who is qualified for the position and would be interested in applying, please notify them.

Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

July 31, 2015 - Nanocomposites Seminar (Dr. Mauro Giorcelli), WB215, 11am-12pm.

August 3, 2015 - Civic Holiday, the University will be closed.

September 7, 2015 - Labour Day, the University will be closed.

September 9, 2015 - First Year Orientation, WB116 and undergrad common room, 12-2pm.

September 10, 2015 - Classes Begin

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