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CivMin alumni to receive 2024 Arbor Awards

By Phill Snel | November 18, 2024

NOVEMBER 1-2, 2024 — MENG STEEL TRIP — Photos from the field trip to Atlas Tube plant in Harrow, Ontario on Friday, November 1, 2024 and to the Gordie Howe International Bridge construction site in Windsor, Ontario on Saturday November 2, 2024. The busload of graduate students was led by CivMin Professor Jeffrey Packer. (Photo provided by Jeff Packer)

Structural Engineering Field Trip for grad students to steel tube plant and international bridge construction site

By Phill Snel | November 11, 2024

Illustration by Kyle Ellingson

Can We Learn from Other Cities How to Build Transit Better?

By Galina Nikitina | October 29, 2024

TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 — — Lembit Maimets (CivE 5T6) at his Toronto home on Friday, September 6, 2024. Maimets has won some innovation and invention awards of distinction. (Photo by Phill Snel, CivMin/University of Toronto)

Alumnus wins innovation award for sci-fi design

By Phill Snel | October 21, 2024

Toronto aims to have 75% of school/work trips under 5 kilometres walked, biked or by transit by 2030. Protected bike lanes have been shown to increase cycling. The question is: where should they go and how should we decide? (photo by anatoliy_gleb, via Envato Elements)

Machine learning analysis sheds light on who benefits from protected bike lanes

By Phill Snel | October 15, 2024

A new study from U of T Engineering used computer simulations to estimate the health benefits of wide-scale electric vehicle adoption and grid decarbonization. They found that cumulative health benefits could be as high as US$84 billion to $188 billion by 2050. (photo by RossHelen, via Envato Elements)

New research reveals how large-scale adoption of electric vehicles can improve air quality and human health

By Phill Snel | October 15, 2024

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CivMin Experts In The News

Prof. Shoshanna Saxe | Canadians support bike infrastructure, just not the road: study

November 16, 2024 | CTV News

Prof. Amer Shalaby | Safety experts outline what Toronto Taylor Swift fans should know

November 12, 2024 | CBC

Prof. Shoshanna Saxe | Doug Ford’s plan to rip up Toronto bike lanes is a dangerous political stunt

November 12, 2024 | The Globe and Mail

Prof. Amer Shalaby | As Toronto enters its Taylor Swift era, experts say crowd safety depends on planning

November 12, 2024 | The Canadian Press

Profs. Miller, El-Diraby and Saxe | Toronto traffic doesn’t just seem worse, it is worse – and data show these major bottlenecks are to blame

November 12, 2024 | The Globe and Mail

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An illustration of the adjustable multidimensional (AMD) testing device to be installed in CivMin's Galbraith side of the Structural Testing Facilities (STF).

World’s first adjustable multidimensional structural testing system coming to CivMin’s Structural Testing Facilities

By Phill Snel | July 25, 2023

Alumni Updates

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CivMin alumni to receive 2024 Arbor Awards

By Phill Snel | November 18, 2024

Awards & Recognition

CivMin alumni to receive 2024 Arbor Awards

Grad student’s paper awarded Editor’s Choice by prestigious water journal

Alumnus wins innovation award for sci-fi design

CivMin students shine at TimberFever 2024 event, placing in the top three teams

CivMin alumnus, Olugbenga Olubanjo, to receive Rising Star Award

Undergrad wins best overall poster presentation

RDH Research Scholarship winners

Alec Mak is winner of 2024 Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) Student Paper Prize

Paul Young elected as ARMA Fellow

Winners of the 2024 Mobility Network 5MT Competition

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