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Upcoming Events

Science Literacy Week: Sept 21-27

Next week is Science Literacy Week. There will be a number of events taking place on campus. Show your support through your participation. For information on the events, click here.

Sepcial Lecture on Sept 23

On Wednesday, September 23 from 2-3pm in WB215, UB Distinguished Professor Paschalis Alexandridis from the University at Buffalo - The State University of New York will present Soft Materials and Complex Fluids via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly: From (Nano) Structure to Function to Applications.

Engineering Entrepreneurship Series on Sept 24

Keith Thomas is a proven entrepreneur and was most recently CEO of Vector Innovations. Thomas will be discussing his career journey as part of ECE's Engineering Entrepreneurship Series on Thursday, September 24 from 5-6pm in room 1200 of the Bahen Centre. The talk is followed by an informal dinner in SF560. No registration is required for the talk but if you wish to attend the dinner, click here to register.

SOCAAR Seminar Series on Sept 30

On Wednesday, September 30 from 3-4pm in WB407, CivE Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou will present Investigating the Role of Transportation Models in Epidemiologic Studies of Traffic Related Air Pollution and Health Effects.

Engineering Education: LLE (Oct 7) and Special Workshop (Oct 8)

On Wednesday, October 7 from 12:30-2pm in WB116, Professor Milo Koretsky from Oregon State University will deliver his LLE presentation, Engineering Education – What’s in Store for the Next 100 Years, followed by a meet-and-greet in WB215. If you would like to meet Professor Koretsky, email will.cluett@utoronto.ca by Wednesday, September 30.

On Thursday, October 8 from 10am to12pm in WB407, Professor Koretsky will give a special engineering education workshop. During the workshop, he'll provide educational methods and tools for educators to incorporate into their classrooms that will encourage students to think deeply about the central concepts in core chemical engineering courses. For the workshop's full abstract, click here. Lunch will be provided from 12-1pm. To rsvp, email will.cluett@utoronto.ca by Wednesday, September 30. Workshop attendees are required to bring with them either a laptop or tablet.

Engineering Graudate Studies Fair and Networking Event

Join Canada's top engineering schools on Wednesday, October 7 right here on the St. George Campus to explore opportunities for graduate studies and engineering leadership. Participating universities include the University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, McGill University, McMaster University, Queen’s University, Ryerson University, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo. To register, click here.

September 18, 2015

Volume 32, Issue 35

In this issue:

Grad Office
Sessional Deadlines
Events

Grad Office

PhD Reading Committee Meeting – M. Pakulska

Date of Meeting: Monday, September 21 in WB115 at 10am
Committee: Chair: M. Radisic; Supervisor: Prof. M. Shoichet; Other Member(s): Prof. C. Morshead, Prof. S. Wu

MASc DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - K. Singh

Date of Meeting: Monday, September 21 in WB115 at 1pm
Thesis Title: THE EFFECT OF ORIFICE FLOW TREATMENT ON BIOSLUDGE DEWATERABILITY
Committee: Chair: Prof. H. N. Tran; Supervisor(s): Prof. R. R. Farnood, Prof. D. G. Allen; Other Member(s): Prof. A. Ramchandran

MASc DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - J. Rothwell

Date of Meeting: Monday, September 21 in WB215 at 3pm
Thesis Title: WET PROCESSING OF MICROALGAE AND WASTEWATER BIOSOLIDS AND THEIR USE AS SUBSTRATES FOR ANAEROBIC METHANE PRODUCTION
Committee: Chair: Prof. D. G. Allen; Supervisor(s): Prof. E. Acosta; Other Member(s): Prof. L. L. Diosady

MASc Bypass Oral Examination – M. Walawalkar

Date of Meeting: Wednesday, September 23 in WB115 at 1:30pm
Research Topic: EXTRACTION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REEs) FROM PHOSPHOHYPSUM (INDUSTRIAL FERTILIZER BY-PRODUCT)
Committee: Chair: Prof. R. Newman; Supervisor: Prof. G. Azimi; Other Member(s): Prof. D. W. Kirk, Prof. V. G. Papangelakis

MASc DEPARTMENTAL ORAL - X. M. Huang

Date of Meeting: Friday, September 25 in WB407 at 10:15am
Thesis Title: ENHANCING ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF PULP AND PAPER MILL BIOSLUDGE USING THERMAL TREATMENT IN A BENCH-SCALE SYSTEM
Committee: Chair: Prof. R. R. Farnood; Supervisor(s): Prof. D. G. Allen, Prof. E. A. Edwards; Other Member(s): Prof. E. Passeport (on Skype)

Doctoral NSERC Awards

Submission deadline: Monday, September 28 at 5pm
Value/Duration: PGS D - $21,000 per year for 2 or 3 years; CGS D - $35,000 per year for 2 or 3 years
Level of Study: Doctoral
Required Legal Status: Domestic (Canadian citizen or permanent resident)
Results: March 31, 2016 directly from NSERC via Canada Post
Detail information: refer to email announcement sent on September 3

2015 CIHR Doctoral Research Awards

Competition deadline: Thursday, October 1
U of T Component of Application: Creating an MRA application & “Institutional Signature”
Deadline to submit MRA: Thursday, September 24
Apply directly to CIHR through ResearchNet
Funding opportunity details are available on ResearchNet
Full application instructions are available on the CIHR website
Application instructions through U of T available on the Research and Innovation website

Graduation for November 2015

MEng and MASc students should request graduation by emailing Cindy Cao (grad.chemeng@utoronto.ca) by Wednesday, September 30. Detailed information was sent previously through an email announcement on Tuesday, August 18. PhD students who completed the Final Oral Defense should contact SGS Doctoral Office to arrange graduation.

Sessional Deadlines for Grad Students

Monday, September 28 is the last day to add full-year and Fall session courses. For other SGS sessional deadline dates, visit http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/currentstudents/Pages/Sessional-Dates.aspx.

Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

Wednesday, October 7 - LLE, Engineering Education - What's in Store for the Next 100 Years, Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, October 21 - LLE, Irving O. Shoichet Distinguished Lecture, Finding the Right Balance - From Small Molecules to Membrane Proteins, Dame Carol Robinson, Oxford University, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, November 11 - LLE, Open Source Science: A Road to Industry Engagement and Funding, Aled Edwards, University of Toronto, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, November 18 - LLE, Engineering Fracking Fluids with Computer Simulation, Eric Stefan Shaqfeh, Stanford University, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, November 25 - LLE, Molecular Bioinspiration and Interfaces, Markus Linder, Aalto University, Finland, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Thursday, November 26 - Scholars & Leaders Reception, 6-8pm, Massey College

Friday, November 27 - Chem Club Dinner and Dance, 6-10pm, Atlantis (955 Lakeshore Blvd W)

Wednesday, December 9 - LLE, Aggregation-Induced Emission: Together We Shine, Ben-Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - LLE, Research in an Industrial Catalysis World: A Lifelong Adventure, Stuart Soled, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co., 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - LLE, Bioconversion of Methane by Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria, Mary Lidstrom, University of Washington, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - LLE, 2015 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer, The Interplay Between Chemicals and Microbiomes; An Environmental Biotechnology Perspective, Nancy Love, University of Michigan, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - LLE, Making the Environment Part of the Next Generation of Urban Water Infrastructure, David Sedlak, University of California, Berkeley, 12:30-2pm, WB116

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - LLE, Thermodynamics in Cryobiology: How Math Can Save Knees, Janet Elliott, University of Alberta, 12:30-2pm, WB116

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