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Civil engineering team wins Troitsky Bridge Building Competition

By Phill Snel | March 6, 2020

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Concrete Toboggan CHAMPIONS!

By Phill Snel | February 3, 2020

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CivMin’s Lucia Stafford breaks Canadian U23 1500m record

By Phill Snel | February 3, 2020

Andrew Young (CivE MASc candidate), at right, receives from Dialog the 2019-2020 Donald Tong Graduate Scholarship in Structural Engineering at a ceremony in Toronto on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. In the photo with Young are (L to R): Daria Khachi, Principal at Dialog; Sui Wa Chan (Aster), wife of Donald Tong; Jane Tong, daughter of Donald Tong;
and Cameron Ritchie, Associate at Dialog. The scholarship was established in partnership with the University of Toronto to strengthen an already great relationship between DIALOG’s structural engineering team and the University’s engineering students and faculty.
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Andrew Young is Donald Tong Scholarship winner

By Phill Snel | February 3, 2020

Allan Kuan (BASc EngSci 1T4 + PEY, CivE PhD candidate) has been awarded the Teaching Assistant Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE). Photo: Tracy Zhang

CivE PhD candidate wins TA award from FASE

By Phill Snel | January 31, 2020

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. Zhang, 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

CivMin PhD student wins international earthquake competition

By Phill Snel | January 17, 2020

TORONTO: JANUARY 9, 2020 -- CIVMIN CAREER FAIR 2020-- A photo from 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.

PHOTO: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U of T

Alumni well represented at CivMin Career Fair

By Phill Snel | January 10, 2020

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Introducing Sebastian Goodfellow, CivMin’s newest faculty member

By Phill Snel | January 6, 2020

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)

CivMin students Alaa Itani and Junshi Xu among DiDi Graduate Awards

By Phill Snel | January 6, 2020

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Civ PhD alumna self-publishes infrastructure book for all ages with environmental message

By Phill Snel | December 16, 2019

ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS - U of T co-Presidents: Jacqueline Fleisig and Molly McGrail.

MEET: Engineers Without Borders, U of T Chapter Co-Presidents

By Phill Snel | December 16, 2019

TORONTO: NOVEMBER 15, 2019 -- CONCRETE CANOE TEAM -- A photo of L to R: Natasha Valenton (Mech fourth year) and Ashley An (Civ third year) at the University of Toronto on Friday, November 15, 2019.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

MEET: Concrete Canoe Co-Project Managers

By Phill Snel | December 13, 2019