Myron Chiyun Zhong, a CivE PhD candidate, holds the award for the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center’s Blind Prediction Contest after a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley the evening of Thursday, January 16 2020. Zhong, along with supervisor Prof. Constantin Christopoulos, submitted the most accurate prediction for an earthquake model based on shake table results. PHOTO: Courtesy Myron Chiyun Zhong A University of Toronto PhD candidate in civil engineering has won...
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CIVMIN CAREER FAIR 2020: A group photo of 28 U of T Engineering alumni taken at the conclusion of the CivMin Career Fair 2020 in the Myhal Centre’s Fifth Floor Atrium at the University of Toronto on Thursday, January 9, 2020. In all, 26 exhibitors were represented at the event with 28 alumni coming out to offer current students information about opportunities in the workforce. PHOTO: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U...
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Sebastian Goodfellow outside the Lassonde Mining Building at the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus. PHOTO: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U of T Sebastian Goodfellow joined us January 6, 2020 as Assistant Professor. CivMin asked a few questions so we can all get to know him a little better. Q&A What excites you most about your research? Much of my research is focused on conducting experiments on rock samples at...
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Nine of the inaugural winners of the DiDi Graduate Awards pose with DiDi representatives. L-R: Hao Wang, Dengbo He, Nicole Barbosa Sultanum, Bilal Majed Taha, Tracy Li (Senior Research Program Manager, DiDi), Hongtu Zhu (Chief Scientist of Statistics in AI Labs, DiDi), Danijar Hafner, Shangyi Xiong, Nazli Eser Kaya, Alaa Itani, and Junshi Xu (photo: Daria Perevezentsev) Two CivMin students are among ten University of Toronto graduate students who are receiving DiDi Graduate Awards...
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Mariko Uda PHOTO: Phill Snel, Civil & Mineral Engineering/U of T She took time off her job to write a book. Mariko Uda (Civ 0T4, PhD 2016) took time away from engineering work in order to pursue a long-held dream of turning author. Her self-published book titled “Where does it all come from? Where does it all go? Toronto’s water, energy & waste systems” is the result. Uda has long wanted to share her...
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Engineers Without Borders, University of Toronto Chapter Co-President Molly McGrail (fourth year EngSci) and Co-President Jacqueline Fleisig (third year EngSci) ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS – U of T Chapter co-Presidents: Jacqueline Fleisig and Molly McGrail. Please tell us a little bit about yourselves. Molly I’m in Engineering Science and on PEY right now, so between third and fourth year (2T0 + PEY), and I’m in the infrastructure option. Jacqueline I am also an EngSci with biomed...
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Concrete Canoe Team Co-Project Manager Natasha Valenton and Co-Project Manager Ashley An Natasha Valenton (Mech fourth year, left) and Ashley An (Civ third year) at the University of Toronto Concrete Canoe display in Sandford Fleming.The two are Co-Project Managers for the U of T Concrete Canoe Club.PHOTO: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U of T Natasha and Ashley please tell us about yourselves. Natasha I’m in Mechanical Engineering, so I’m 1T9...
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Co-Captain Michael Lizzi (fourth year EngSci) and Co-Captain Sophie Ordman (fourth year Civ) Michael Lizzi, Co-Captain Concrete Toboggan Sophie Ordman, Co-Captain Concrete Toboggan Q&A INTERVIEW Please tell us a little bit about yourselves. Sophie I’m a fourth year civil engineering student, and I just came off my PEY. This is my fourth year on the team; I started in second year. I’ve done many different things on the team: I was a general member, then...
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Mining’s “not so secret” secret It is an accepted industry-wide truth: mining has a gender diversity issue. The industry lags behind most other sectors in tackling this systemic problem with recent statistics showing women represent only 16 per cent of the Canadian mining workforce compared to 48 per cent of the overall Canadian workforce. The challenge of building a gender-balanced workforce stretches from site to the boardroom. According to a 2016 PWC study, the mining...
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“Be relentless and do what makes you happy,” says Nicole Doucette (MinE 1T4 + PEY) giving direction to current students for their professional goals; while in school, “Just really enjoy ‘you time’ in university. There’s a lot of freedom, and many opportunities while in school, so students should take advantage of their situation to get involved.” Doucette works in the Vancouver office of Seequent, a mining software company based in New Zealand, as a science...
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From left to right: Darin Graham, LG Toronto AI Lab, Summer Xia, Drone Delivery Canada, Stas Dogel, Hitachi High-Technologies Canada, and Jamey Adams, City of Barrie. (Photo: Paul Terefenko) More than 150 industry and community leaders, government partners and faculty members gathered Nov. 13, 2019 at the Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the U of T Engineering Partners’ Reception. Now in its fourth year, the event celebrated the Faculty’s longstanding ties with over 400 industry partners across its six multidisciplinary innovation clusters. In the...
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From Left: Sonia Molodecky (RTEI program lead), Shakya Sur (RTEI research associate), Jamie Fine (MIE Postdoctoral Fellow), Professor Bomani Khemet (Architecture), Professor Liat Margolis (Architecture), Becky Big Canoe, and Professor Marianne Touchie (CivMin, MIE). The Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN) Forum recently brought together Indigenous leaders and U of T researchers to underscore the importance of a Two-Eyed Seeing approach — the bridging of expertise of both Indigenous communities and faculty — to create sustainable...
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Professors Tracey Galloway and Chris Beck in one of the planes used to transport food, supplies and passengers to remote Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario. (Photo courtesy of Chris Beck) Mitigating indoor mould and optimizing air transportation in Northern Ontario are the first two collaborative projects between Indigenous community leaders and U of T researchers to get underway through the Reconciliation Through Engineering Initiative (RTEI). Launched last December by the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN),...
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Lucia Stafford. Photo: Varsity Blues. U of T Engineering civil engineering student and Varsity Blues athlete Lucia Stafford is having a banner season. Here a few highlights from this fall: Lucia Stafford won the individual gold medal at the 2019 U SPORTS cross country championships on November 9, 2019, at Fort Henry in Kingston, Ont. Stafford is the second Varsity Blue to win the U SPORTS individual gold medal in the past three years, after U...
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MapinHood is a new navigation app designed to take account of issues that affect pedestrians — from sidewalk construction to low-hanging branches — especially those that affect people with low vision. (Image courtesy iMerciv) Whether you are driving or hopping in an Uber, you probably depend on a navigation app to get where you need to be. But as handy as these tools are, they have significant drawbacks that leave behind many potential users, especially...
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