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ChemE Ingenuity and Entrepreneurship

Third year ChemE undergraduate student Ashrith Domun may soon make your ride to U of T's Mississauga campus a whole lot greener. Ashrith, Tian Tian (Eng Sci) and Stefan Attig (Environmental Studies) form a team called Hydron that is part of this year's Hatchery, the FASE business accelerator for students. With help from private-sector mentors, they are assessing the financial viability of operating commuter buses with hydrogen fuel cells.

Read about their project in U of T Magazine.

Happy Holidays!

flake The University will be closed over the winter break until Mon, Jan 5. Chem Eng News will be on hiatus during this time.

We wish you all a very merry holiday and a relaxing break. See you in 2015!

Dec 19, 2014

Volume 31, Issue 37

In this issue:

Departmental Offices
Announcements
Chem Eng Events

Departmental Offices

Graduate Office

Ph.D. Reading Committee Meeting – J. Castrucci
Date of Meeting: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 in WB407 at 9 am
Committee: Chair: Prof. A. Ramchandran; Supervisor: Prof. T. Bender, Prof. Z-H. Lu; Other Member(s): Prof. C. M. Yip

M.A.Sc. DEPARTMENTAL ORAL – S. E. McRae
Date of Meeting: Thursday, January 8, 2015 in WB215 at 2 pm
Thesis Title: COMMUNITY DIVERSITY AND FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES OF BENZENE-DEGRADING ENRICHMENT CULTURES
Committee: Chair: Prof. E. Master; Supervisor(s): Prof. E. A. Edwards; Other Member(s): Prof. R. Mahadevan

***Fri, Jan 9, 2015: Final date for registration of students beginning program in Winter session; after this date, a late registration fee will be assessed.

Graduate Awards

Master's Tuition Fee Bursary
Open to Masters students who are beyond the program length required for their degree and still have a minimal amount of work outstanding due to unanticipated factors beyond their control
Application Deadline;
Fall 2014 competition: Jan 23, 2015
Winter 2015 competition: Apr 17, 2015
Submit complete applications to: SGS Graduate Awards Office

*Students are encouraged to check the Scholarships & Awards section of the SGS website.

Announcements

SOCAAR Seminar

Clean combustion engines
Dr. Jim Wallace, Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Wed, Jan 7, 2015, 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Wallberg Building, 200 College Street, Room 407

Iron Ring - Information Sessions with Wardens

Students who will be graduating this Spring should attend one of these sessions.
Wed, Jan 7, 2015, 6:00PM-7:00PM, MB128
Thurs, Jan 22, 2015, 6:00PM-7:00PM, MC102

Resume Impact Workshop

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows seeking career opportunities outside academia may find it difficult to communicate their skills and accomplishments in a way that makes it easy for hiring managers to appreciate their potential. In this intensive resume workshop, participants will be challenged to translate their experiences in a way that highlights their career potential.

The Resume Impact Workshop will be held on Jan 27 and Feb 3, 6:00PM-8:00PM in WB 407 and will be delivered by a group of U of T PhD alumni with experience in marketing themselves and working in industry.

To apply for the workshop, submit your current resume as well as a short (<200 words) personal statement to CEGSA (cegsa.chemeng@utoronto.ca) by Tues, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00PM.

Take advantage of this great opportunity to boost your resume for non-academic employers!

Teaching Awards and TA Awards 2014-2015 - Call for Nominations

The FASE is now soliciting nominations for the Faculty Teaching Awards and TA Awards.

The ChemE Department may nominate one candidate for each award. If you would like to put forward a name, please send your suggestion to Christina Heidorn, christina.heidorn@utoronto.ca by Mon, Jan 12, 2015.

Available awards are:

Teaching Assistant Award, to recognize one outstanding teaching assistant who has worked with at least one course in engineering
Early Career Teaching Award, to recognize one Faculty member who has taught for five years or less
Faculty Teaching Award, to recognize one Faculty member who has taught for at least five years
Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award, to recognize excellence in teaching over a sustained period of time

Download the full details for each award here.

Chem Eng Events

Click here for the Chem Eng Calendar

Dec 22, 2014 - Jan 2, 2015 - Holiday Break: The university will be closed.

January 7, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University, Making Education Sticky: Approaches to the repair of undergraduates’ misconceptions about thermodynamics and heat transfer, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

January 14, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Samir Mitragotri, UC Santa Barbara, Bio-inspired Strategies for Targeted Drug Delivery, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

January 28, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo, Unravelling the Complexities of Electrochemical Energy Storage at the Nanoscale, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

February 4, 2015 - LLE, Dr. John Brady, California Institute of Technology, Chemical Swimming and Active Matter, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

February 6, 2014 - Graduate Research Days, Hart House and Wallberg Building, 9:00 am - 10:00 pm

February 6, 2014 - Industry Open House, Hart House and Wallberg Building, 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

February 11, 2015 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Antoine Allanore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrochemical engineering for sustainable materials extraction: the promises and challenges of molten electrolytes, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 4, 2015 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Justin Notestein, Northwestern University, Understanding and implementing new oxide catalysts, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 11, 2015 - Emerging Leaders, Dr. Nathalie Tufenkji, McGill University, Myth or Fact: Can Drinking Cranberry Juice Help Prevent Urinary Tract and Other Infections?, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 18, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Alison Lewis, University of Cape Town, Rethinking Precipitation Processes: The Art of the State, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

March 27, 2015 - 30th Annual Chemical Engineering Dinner, Chestnut Centre, tickets available in January

March 25, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, Columbia University, Next Generation Sustainable Surface Active Agents, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

April 1, 2015 - LLE, Dr. Yu-Ling Cheng, University of Toronto, Technologies for global development and global health, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, WB116

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