News & Upcoming Events

U of T Hosts its First PetroChallenge

During the weekend of November 28-29, 2015, students from the University of Toronto’s departments of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Civil + Mineral Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Earth Sciences, and Physics competed in U of T’s first PetroChallenge sponsored by NExT-Schlumberger and ShawCor. Close to 90 students registered for the event and only 48 were offered spots. In teams of four, 12 groups used OilSim – an upstream learning simulator that takes its participants through the entire oil and gas exploration and production business process – to acquire expertise in strategy selection and decision-making. Guided by seasoned professionals from the sponsoring organizations, which also happen to be two of the world’s largest oil and gas service companies – student competitors faced and conquered real-world industry business scenarios and technical challenges. Read more.

ChemE Undergrad Reflects on her Experience at the Catalyst Canada Honours Conference

Caitlin Maikawa (ChemE 1T6) was one of two U of T Engineering students who had the opportunity to attend the Catalyst Canada Honours Conference, as part of the BMO Millennial Leaders Advisory Council in November 2015. BMO invited 30 female-engineering and -business students from top schools across Canada. U of T had three students invited, two from Engineering and one from Rotman. Most students were nominated by their Faculty’s Dean to attend the conference, however some completed an essay challenge to earn their spot. Read Caitlin's reflection.

ChemE Alumnus Named President of National Taitung University in Taiwan

The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry would like to congratulate Alumnus Yew-Min Tzeng (MASc 8T3, PhD 8T7) who will become National Taitung University’s president in February 2016. His work under U of T Professors Levente Diosady and L. J. Rubin led to a productive food engineering research career in Taiwan, where he later became Vice President of Chaoyang University of Technology and Vice President of the Asian Federation of Biotechnology.

ChemE Research Days 2016: Calling all Profs!

The Association of Leadership in Chemical Engineering (ALChemE) is looking for professors to participate in ChemE Research Days 2016. The event will be held over two days in the Winter Semester: Monday, January 11, 2016 and Monday, January 18, 2016 from 1:00-3:00pm. If you are interested in participating, please email roham.dorakhan@mail.utoronto.ca

December 11, 2015

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Research Publications

Ring opening reactions through C-O bond cleavage uniquely adding chemical functionality to boron subphthalocyanine
Bonnier, C., Bender, T.P.
Molecules 2015, 20 ( 10 ) pp. 18237 - 18245

Do genome-scale models need exact solvers or clearer standards? 
Ebrahim, A., Almaas, E., Bauer, E., Bordbar, A., Burgard, A.P., Chang, R.L., Dräger, A., Famili, I., Feist, A.M., Fleming, R.M.T., Fong, S.S., Hatzimanikatis, V., Holder, A., Hucka, M., Hyduke, D., Jamshidi, N., Lee, S.Y., Le Novère, N., Lerman, J.A., Lewis, N.E., Ma, D., Mahadevan, R., Maranas, C., Nagarajan, H., Navid, A., Nielsen, J., Nielsen, L.K., Nogales, J., Noronha, A., Pal, C., Palsson, B.O., Papin, J.A., Patil, K.R., Price, N.D., Reed, J.L., Saunders, M., Senger, R.S., Sonnenschein, N., Sun, Y., Thiele, I.
Molecular Systems Biology 2015, 11 ( 10 ) , art. no. 831

Circular Dichroism of Chiral Nematic Films of Cellulose Nanocrystals Loaded with Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Querejeta-Fernández, A., Kopera, B., Prado, K.S., Klinkova, A., Methot, M., Chauve, G., Bouchard, J., Helmy, A.S., Kumacheva, E.
ACS Nano 2015, 9 ( 10 ) pp. 10377 - 10385

A practical investigation of the production of Zr-Cu-Al-Ni bulk metallic glasses by arc melting and suction casting 
Igel, J., Kirk, D.W., Singh, C.V., Thorpe, S.J.
Materials Transactions 2015, 56 ( 11 ) pp. 1834 - 1841

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