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Directory Ece Research Research Ece 3 SECTION SECTION SECTION 22 BEHIND THE IoT CURTAIN 34 GRADUATE 38 RESEARCH 48 ALUMNI 2015 A YEAR Everyone’s ready for the GET OFF PREPARE FOR THE MORE THINGS IN REVIEW MY GRID TAKEOFF CHANGE... Internet of Things—but Smarter, cheaper, The math behind Class Notes from what exactly is it? greener: Nanogrids self-flying drones around the world 10 KING’S COLLEGE ROAD, TORONTO ON M5S 3G4 / PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT NUMBER: 42887022 NUMBER: AGREEMENT MAIL PUBLICATION / 3G4 M5S ON TORONTO ROAD, COLLEGE KING’S 10 ENGINEERING COMPUTER & ELECTRICAL OF DEPARTMENT SR. ROGERS S. EDWARD THE THE EDWARD S. ROGERS SR. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DIRECTORY ECE RESEARCH RESEARCH ECE 3 ENGINEERS LEARN BY DOING. Our new Energy Systems Lab puts the latest technology in the hands of our students, so they can do what’s never been done before. To design systems robust enough to handle unpredictable energy demands, engineers need to get as close to the real thing as possible. In The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, we’ve completely overhauled our Energy Systems Lab to give both our undergraduate and graduate students hands-on experience with power, communications and smart-grid systems operating at specs PHOTO BY RAINA+WILSON they’ll nd in the real world. It’s 2015, and we still don’t have levitating hoverboards. We do, however, We launched this three-stage renovation in summer 2014. In the rst phase, we Everyone dreams have the nascent Internet of Things—IoT for short. Self-driving cars, replaced our power supplies and switchgear with state-of-the-art equipment. In intelligent refrigerators, smart hockey helmets: IoT is supposed to make summer 2015 we installed 29 custom-designed workstations that are recon gurable of their future—we’re it all possible. But what does an IoT world really look like? for a range of student lab experiments, and unique among Canadian universities. The term has been thrown around for the past several years, building busy building ours up to become the trendiest of trends. But here in The Edward S. Rogers In summer 2016 we will undertake our nal phase, adding modular hardware and Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), we’re busy software for communications and control, offering students front-line experience in creating the real technologies—in electronics, communications and designing and programming next-generation smart-grid infrastructure. We are giving photonics—that will constitute the IoT of the future and figuring out what our students the power to design the future. we would do with this large network of connected objects. The cover story of this issue, Behind the IoT Curtain on page 22, explores the To learn how you can help us realize the nal stage of our Energy Systems Lab research that will soon allow us to realize many of the life-altering appli- renovation, contact Joanna Gray at [email protected], 416-946-0372 or cations that are now just dreams and hype. donate.utoronto.ca/engineering Hype is something we try to avoid—we value evidence, results. But no one can say that the reputation growing around the University of Toronto’s Supermileage Team, led by ECE’s own Mengqi Wang, is just hype. Always a contender but never previously on top, this year the team brought home a gold medal for racing the most fuel-efficient vehicle at the 2015 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas competition in Detroit. Flip to page 18 for the story of their white-knuckle ride. Our department maintains its position as the top-ranked ECE program in Canada, a direct result of the excellence of our students, faculty, staff and alumni. Name the problem, be it social, technical or economic, and there is likely an ECE graduate working in a boardroom or operating room to solve it. We strive to keep up with what our alumni have been doing since leaving these halls, and to help former classmates stay in touch with each other. In that spirit, we are launching a new alumni Class Notes section with this issue—turn to page 48 to catch up on news from ECE graduates of all ages, all over the world. This magazine offers a constellation of stories that reflect how we spent the year. As we turn to face the year ahead, I welcome your feedback on our progress and our future direction. I hope you will take this chance to reconnect with the department—you may reach me directly at [email protected]. FARID N. NAJM, PROFESSOR & CHAIR 5 FEATURESFEATURES SECTIONS 20142015 8 37 RESEARCH If You Build it, They Will Compute Designing for the 8IBM’s supercomputing consortium Data Deluge EDITOR EDITOR lets ECE researchers tackle Wei Yu wins E.W.R. Steacie Marit Mitchell Marit Mitchell Powerchallenges fromPlayers cloud computing Memorial Fellowship to cancer care ARTART DIRECTOR DIRECTOR As demand on the power KatinaKatina Constantinou, Constantinou, grid grows, Hydro One turns Sugar Design Sugar Design to three ECE professors for smart solutions PHOTOGRAPHYPHOTOGRAPHY & & ILLUSTRATIONILLUSTRATION 12 Raina+WilsonRaina+Wilson MarkBorja Smith Bonaque The One-Step COPYCOPY EDITORS EDITORS 29 KellyKelly Hayward Hayward Journey RJ Taylor 12 Avivah Wargon Four electrical engineering Avivah Wargon undergrads teamed up to EDITORIAL INQUIRIES: UNDERGRADUATE EDITORIAL INQUIRIES: Bakingbuild a powered an leg brace for ECE Communications Office a fellow UofT student Tel:ECE 416 Communications 978 7997 Office Improved Blue Sky Down Under Fax:Tel: 416416 978978 79971145 18 A team of undergraduates led by ECE’s Zhe Gong represented Canada in a gruelling [email protected]: 416 978 1145 Breadboard [email protected] Three fresh ECE graduates Great Expectations race across the Australian Outback, powered only by the sun Visit us online: are bringing sexy back How one electrical engineer became an unexpected www.ece.utoronto.caVisit us online: www.ece.utoronto.ca to analog electronics labs champion18 for reading in the 21st century 34 41 JoinJoin the the conversation: conversation: Green Gearhead inin Mengqi Wang and the UofT Supermileage Team GRADUATE INDUSTRY built the most fuel-efficient prototype vehicle to race in 2015. They have plans to do better Smarter Solar on a Where Are They ANNUMANNUM is is published published annually annually by by thethe communications communications office office of of TheThe Edward Edward S. S. Rogers Rogers Sr. Sr. Department Department Smaller Scale Now? ofof Electrical Electrical & & Computer Computer Engineering. Engineering. Researchers want to help you save some solar What three electrical engineers AllAll material material is is copyright copyright © © 2014, 2015, andand may may not not be be reprinted reprinted without without power for a rainy day, without breaking the bank have learned from their thethe express express written written permission permission of of The goal was clear, crash course in the real world thethe author. author. of entrepreneurship AllAll correspondence correspondence and and if ambitious: to undeliverableundeliverable copies: copies: 16 ANNUMANNUM Magazine Magazine design, build and TheThe Edward Edward S. S. Rogers Rogers Sr. Sr. Department Department ofof Electrical Electrical & & Computer Computer Engineering Engineering Optical Inclusion race the world’s SandfordSandford Fleming Fleming Building, Building, 1010 King’s King’s College College Road, Road, Room Room SFB540 SFB540 PhD student Arash Joushaghani’s most efficient Toronto,Toronto, ON ON M5S M5S 3G4 3G4 work on a largely forgotten UpdateUpdate or or correct correct your your material16 brings optics one 22 gasoline-powered 45 contactcontact information: information: switch closer to revolutionizing 416 978 1999 or email 416 978 1999 or email our electronic status quo [email protected]@utoronto.ca Climb Every Behind the vehicle at the ALUMNI PublicationPublication Agreement Agreement No: No: Mountain IoT Curtain annual Shell 4288702242887022 SkuleTalks, a New ISSNISSN 2368-7029 2368-7037 Afshin Rezayee is a hands-on Everyone’s ready for the hardware guru and serial Internet of Things—but Eco-Marathon PrintedPrinted in in Canada Canada by by ECE Video Series entrepreneur. Why he’s always what exactly is it? FlashFlash Reproductions. Reproduction. Americas. p. 18 An accessible way to catch up happy, but never satisfied on the ideas that matter to today’s leading engineering thinkers ANUM_Editorial_FINAL.indd 4 2014-12-02 8:58 PM 6 ANNUM 2015 7 OUR STORY 25 $59,243 Founded in 1909, The Edward S. engineering, finance, medicine, Chair titles held by Average salary Rogers Sr. Department of Elec- law and more—their options are ECE faculty in earned by ECE trical & Computer Engineering truly unlimited. (ECE) maintains a proud his- 2014–2015, includ- students on PEY Among our faculty are 25 Fellows tory of world-leading research of the IEEE, nine Fellows of and innovative education. Home ing Canada Research placements the Royal Society of Canada, 11 to 99 professors, 639 graduate Fellows of the Canadian Acad- Chairs, Endowed in 2015-2016 students and 1,512 undergrad- emy of Engineering, and four uates, our classrooms, halls and Research Chairs, E.W.R. Steacie Fellows, a prize laboratories hum with energy awarded to the brightest and and creativity. 1,512 Industrial Research most promising scientists and ECE students and professors engineers across the country. Undergraduate Chairs and U of T work together to solve some ECE is a hotbed of research Distinguished of the most pressing issues of commercialization, with more students our time—we are recognized than 160 inventions disclosed Professor Chairs leaders in the fields of smart-grid and 40 patents filed over the technology, mobile application past five years—by far the most 639 development, next-generation productive department for new Graduate networks, and emerging areas inventions at the University such as biomedical engineering of Toronto. Read on to find out students and robotics.
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