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Skulematters from Concept to Marketplace by LAND, by AIR Innovative Partnerships with Industry and Government Are Improving the Way We Travel FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ALUMNI MAGAZINE University of Toronto Fall 2014 FOSTERING ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURS Empowering students to take their ideas Skulematters from concept to marketplace BY LAND, BY AIR Innovative partnerships with industry and government are improving the way we travel ENGINEERING YOUR HEALTH Commercializing cutting-edge technology and revolutionizing health care FROM BRIGHT IDEAS TO GLOBAL IMPACT How U of T engineers are embracing entrepreneurship and commercialization This issue / A MESSAGE FROM DEAN CRISTINA AMON / ALUMNI MAGAZINE 2014 Advisor Features Cristina Amon, Dean Editor Jamie Hunter On behalf of the Faculty of Applied Science Managing Editor & Engineering, it is my privilege to present RJ Taylor Skulematters alumni magazine 2014. Art Direction, Design & Illustration Luke Pauw Our cover image, the universal symbol of bright ideas, is Photography no ordinary light bulb. Created by three U of T Engineering Roberta Baker alumni in a startup branded Nanoleaf, this innovative Contributors device is the most energy-efficient bulb in the world. And Colin Anderson Christina Heidorn Patchen Barss Emily Meyertholen its technology and business success also tells another story, Althea Blackburn- Marit Mitchell one that is closer to home. When we encourage a culture Evans Zahra Murji of entrepreneurship and commercialization across our Raymond Cheah Megan Murphy community, we can advance our reach and impact globally. Joan DaCosta Cynthia Nevins 12 18 Christina da Rocha- Luke Y. H. Ng This is a theme we explore in depth in this issue. Feeley Shannon Osborne Fostering Engineering Entrepreneurs Have Vision, Will Innovate Sonia De Buglio Deborah Peart At U of T Engineering, we offer collaborative and hands- Shilpa Gantotti Gillian Sneddon How U of T Engineering is empowering Six Skule™ alumni discuss their Sydney Goodfellow Celeste Taylor on learning opportunities to nurture the maker and students to take their ideas from concept experiences as entrepreneurs Nina Haikara Erin Vollick innovator within the next generation of entrepreneurs. Our to marketplace Published by curricular and co-curricular programs inspire engineering University of Toronto students to tinker, create, build and test, transforming Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering insights and ideas into working prototypes. In fact, it was in one of these activities, the Blue Sky Solar Racing team, PRIVACY POLICY: where Nanoleaf founders Gimmy Chu (ElecE 0T6), Tom The University of Toronto respects your privacy. Rodinger (IBBME PhD 0T7) and Christian Yan (ElecE 0T6) We do not rent, trade or sell our mailing lists. first met and began creating together. If you do not wish to receive this publication, please contact [email protected] or 1-800-463-6048; local to Toronto, 416-978-2139. We also motivate students to build on their technical We invite your letters, submissions, news, competencies and learn how to launch entrepreneurial comments and address changes. Please email ventures. I am proud to share that we have made The next leap forward to enhance student enterprise [email protected]. tremendous progress through initiatives such as The learning is the forthcoming Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship Hatchery, our Engineering Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship (page 2). With the generous Minor, the ELITE (Entrepreneurship, Leadership, support of our alumni, this building will be a vibrant new RETURN MAILING ADDRESS: Innovation and Technology in Engineering) Certificate, hub for students, faculty, alumni and industry partners Office of Advancement 20 22 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering By Land, By Air Engineering Your Health our Heffernan Commercialization Scholarship Program, to collaboratively address some of the most pressing University of Toronto and the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, challenges of our time. It is invigorating to experience Galbraith Building 35 St. George St., Room 116 Innovative partnerships with industry U of T engineers are commercializing also known as ILead. Find out more in the “Fostering such strong support from alumni across the world, whose Toronto, ON and government are improving the cutting-edge technology and Engineering Entrepreneurs” infographic on page 12. commitment to our vision will enable us to lead 21st Canada M5S 1A4 way we travel revolutionizing health care century learning and innovation for decades to come. Tel: +1 416-978-0380 Fax: +1 416-946-3450 Our Faculty continues to bring groundbreaking www.alumni.engineering.utoronto.ca technologies to market with the support of alumni, Thank you for your unwavering commitment to Skule™ industry and government partners. In “By Land, By Air” aspirations and for your extraordinary contributions in Publication Mail Agreement #: 40062475 (page 20), we highlight how U of T engineers, together with making these aims a reality. © 2014 All Rights Reserved 1 A Message from Dean Cristina Amon 8 Awards pivotal partners, are improving how we transport people around the globe. In “Engineering Your Health” (page 22), we profile how our professors are commercializing cutting- 2 CEIE Update 24 News from Your Field ON THE COVER: edge technologies that could revolutionize the state of Illustration of the Nanoleaf LED light bulb. health care. These ambitious activities are enhancing Gimmy Chu, Nanoleaf’s co-founder and CEO, 4 Engineering Newsmakers 32 Honour Roll explains on page 19 how his desire to build a lives, helping shape our country’s innovation agenda and Cristina Amon great product led to a full-time career as an fostering economic prosperity. Dean entrepreneur. 6 Skule™ in Photos 36 Back to Skule™: Claire Kennedy Concept and illustration by Luke Pauw. 1 CEIE UPDATE / Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering / University of Toronto Alumni Magazine / Fall 2014 Integrating smart building design hands-on design spaces. The building “The CEIE is going to be a hotbed “The CEIE will help foster the best in “The new Centre is a fantastic idea and Building and state-of-the-art learning also provides the emerging space of entrepreneurial activity; our entrepreneurial engineering and we a great vision. It’ll create a great new Momentum technologies, the forthcoming for many of our multidisciplinary undergraduates and graduate will see many innovative and exciting modern space and, more importantly, Centre for Engineering Innovation research centres and institutes. students, post-docs and world-class solutions emerge.” the programs that it’ll house will The Centre for & Entrepreneurship (CEIE) will professors, working together on embody all of those things that are enable students, faculty, alumni and Located next to Convocation Hall incredibly important problems.” —George Myhal important to a modern engineering Engineering Innovation & industry partners to work together and facing St. George Street, the CEIE Chair, Engineering Campaign education.” Entrepreneurship heralds across disciplines to address some of is destined to become a prominent —Professor Ted Sargent Executive Committee a new era for U of T the world’s most pressing challenges. landmark on U of T’s downtown Vice Dean, Research —John Bianchini Engineering campus. It will be a dynamic and CEO, Hatch Ltd. The Centre’s architectural plans vibrant hub that enables U of T depict a move beyond traditional Engineering to drive innovation, lecture halls and classrooms toward foster entrepreneurship and cultivate unique collaborative learning and global engineering leaders. 2 RENDERING COURTESY OF MONTGOMERY SISAM ARCHITECTS + FEILDEN CLEGG BRADLEY STUDIOS 3 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering / University of Toronto Alumni Magazine / Fall 2014 Engineering Newsmakers BY SYDNEY GOODFELLOW Building an engine from scratch Do you love road trips, but Engineering a new Not your average hate the price of gasoline and its effect on the kind of rock music ribbon-cutting environment? A group ceremony of U of T Engineering There’s something musical in students are working on a cracking rocks—or at least civil Watch the Junior Jedis in action at bit.ly/JediWars IndyCar champion Helio Castroneves solution. Led by Jonathan Flying head engineering researchers Hamed and Professor Doug Perovic (MSE) Hamway (MechE 1T3 + PEY) Ghaffari, Farzine Nasseri [pictured carved the name of U of T’s new and Mengqi Wang (ElecE over healing below] and Paul Young think so. $20-million advanced materials 1T3), the team [pictured They’ve developed groundbreaking lab into a nanoribbon 1,000 times below] built an engine Junior Jedis fly quadcopters Those annoying fruit flies new methods for gathering and smaller than a human hair [pictured from scratch that sped to that buzz around your interpreting acoustic data released below] at a recent grand opening a second-place finish at Flipping, turning and spinning through the air with the compost bin could be more by rocks as they fracture under event. The Ontario Centre for the the Shell Eco-marathon in flick of a wrist, student-designed quadcopters at U of T’s useful than you thought. A pressure. This data can then be used Characterization of Advanced Houston, Texas, winning Jedi Wars looked as though they were controlled by “The group of U of T researchers to predict earthquakes, locate fossil Materials (OCCAM) is a state-of-the- two design awards along Force.” In reality, it was the result of months of skilled are studying how fruit fuels and more. art facility that provides powerful the way. With fuel efficiency practice
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