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 and development, as fourth-year ECE students fly embryos are able to tools for research in fields such as recorded at 1,152 kilometres worked in teams to program the flying devices with tricks heal so quickly, leading biomedical engineering, vehicle per litre, their engine could and moves, wowing spectators and competing for first us to better understand Now you see it, design and alternative energy. drive from Toronto to prize in the competition. the process of healing in now you don’t See page 30 for more on OCCAM. Vancouver for $4.70. humans. PhD candidate Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa (IBBME PhD 1T6) and her Harry Potter’s magical invisibility advisor, Professor Rodrigo cloak may soon become a reality Fernandez-Gonzalez thanks to two U of T researchers, (IBBME), have developed Professor George Eleftheriades (ECE) unique software to and Michael Selvanayagam (ECE PhD advance the research, 1T4). Their version [pictured above] Read about these stories and and the lab’s findings surrounds an object with antennae more on our website: could aid in chronic wound that radiate an electromagnetic field, www.engineering. healing, diabetes, cancer cancelling out the light waves that utoronto.ca care and more. would normally be reflected.

PHOTO/ ROBERTA BAKER PHOTO/ ROBERTA BAKER

Breaking records: Bright ideas: How many U of T engineers does it take to screw in a light the road to designing turning over a bulb? Three: Gimmy Chu (ElecE 0T6), Christian Yan (ElecE 0T6) and Tom Rodinger (IBBME PhD 0T7). But of course they the world’s new Nanoleaf have to completely redesign it first. The result? The most fastest bicycle energy efficient light bulb in the world. And now, thanks to new technological developments, it can also dim without using a special dimming light switch.

4 5 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering / University of Toronto Alumni Magazine / Fall 2014 Skule™ in Photos

Co-trustees of the J. Edgar McAllister Estate Foundation, Robert White and Mark Ridge (ChemE 1 1 8T4) pictured in front of the portrait of the late J. Edgar Alumni and friends joined Dean Cristina McAllister (Civil 1895), with Amon and the Honourable Heather Grant the dozens of students in Singapore for receptions in November who benefited from the 2013 and May 2014. The latter event was McAllister Trust in 2013–14. to celebrate the official announcement of PHOTO/ ROBERTA BAKER the "Singapore Malaysia Alumni Room" 2 in the forthcoming Centre for Engineering 2 Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CEIE). The Skule™ held a first-of-its-kind panel Faculty is very grateful to Ambassador discussion, aligning with World Yong-Guan KOH (not pictured), CK Pride, on the LGBTQ experience Chang, chair of the Singapore Malaysia in the engineering profession. Fundraising Campaign, and other alumni PHOTO/ ROBERTA BAKER who have coordinated the fundraising initiative that surpassed their goal. (L–R) MARC PILON (MechE 1T2); PROF. SUSAN PHOTOS/ LUVIN LIM & LEO SIMON MCCAHAN (MIE); JUSTIN TOBIA (EngSci 1T5); CAROLINE O’SHAUGHNESSY (MechE 1T1); DEAN 1. (L–R) CASEY KWAN-HO CHAN (EngSci 7T1); ROBERT CRISTINA AMON, PAUL CADARIO (CivE 7T3), ADITYA 3 FU (MechE 7T4); MICHAEL GOUTAMA (CivE 8T6); SHANKAR, ECE EXCHANGE STUDENT; PROF. DIONNE DEAN CRISTINA AMON, THE HONOURABLE HEATHER Every fall The Entrepreneurship Hatchery ALEMAN (MIE); NEIL ORTLIEB (EngSci 9T0) GRANT; EVELYN WONG (BSc 7T2); CK CHANG (MechE hosts its Demo Day where student teams 6T8); GOOI SEONG LIM (MechE 7T2); GOOI SEONG make their pitch to a panel of alumni HEEN (ChemE 7T2); MING SEONG LIM (MechE 7T0) judges who deliberate and award the BizSkule, initiated in 2009, showcases Lacavera Prize to the most promising 2. (L–R) CK CHANG (MechE 6T8); MICHAEL GOUTAMA engineering leadership in business team. Gerald Heffernan (MMS 4T3) (CivE 8T6); THE HONOURABLE HEATHER GRANT; DEAN CRISTINA AMON; SUI SIM; EVELYN WONG (BSc 7T2) through keynote speakers and industry and Anthony Lacavera (ElecE 9T7) are panelists. Our networking-friendly proud supporters of entrepreneurism. events connect successful, business- 4 PHOTO/ ROBERTA BAKER savvy alumni at all stages of career development. BizSkule also holds a yearly Over 500 alumni of all ages gathered in The Faculty gratefully acknowledges event in Silicon Valley that highlights May to celebrate their honoured year and celebrates the efforts of the the innovation and achievements at Spring Reunion. Alumni and their Engineering Alumni Association of Skule™ alumni in California. families were invited to attend lectures, Hong Kong Chapter and fundraising PHOTOS/ ELLEY HO & BRIAN SUMMERS departmental lunches, and programs for their children and grandchildren. committees at receptions in Hong Kong 1. (L–R) ALEX GRBIC (CompE 9T4), ECE BOARD PHOTOS/ ADELE DESLOGES, in November 2013 and May 2014. MEMBER; RAMI RAHIM (ElecE 9T4); ARSHIA DANIELLE BLANCHER & MICHAEL TENAGLIA PHOTOS/ DANNY NG TABRIZI (CompE 9T5), BIZSKULE BOARD 1 1 2 MEMBER; YURI SAGALOV (EngSci 0T9) 1. (L–R) DAMIAN DURLIK (MSE 1T1); ABHISHEK 1. (L–R) LEROY LAM (ElecE 8T5); JOHN LO (ChemE MATHUR (MechE 1T3); CYRENE WU (CivE 9T1), FUNDRAISING DIRECTOR; SARAH MAK (IndE 2. (L–R) DONOVAN POLLITT (MinE 0T3) 1T1); NAVIN CHARI (UTIAS MASc 0T9) 8T6), SECRETARY; HENRY CHEUNG (EngSci 8T5), AND INDI GOPINATHAN (CivE 9T6) EXT. VP; WONG WU MING (EngSci 8T6), TREASURER 2. (L–R) AVIV GLADMAN (EngSci 9T4); KEITH 3. (L–R) SONIA DE BUGLIO (ChemE 9T4) AJMANI (EngSci 9T4); CAROLINE ZYWULKO 2. (L–R) DENNIS LEUNG (ElecE 9T0); NICK LO AND JOHN EAST, ECE BOARD MEMBER (GeoE 9T4)—COMING ALL THE WAY FROM (MechE 9T0); DEAN CRISTINA AMON; ANDREW 4. (L-R) MIKE BRANCH (CompE 0T3), FORMER AUSTRALIA FOR HER 20TH REUNION LO (MechE 9T0); ANDREW CHAN (MechE 8T9) EAA PRESIDENT; PROF. JOSEPH PARADI (ChemE, 3. (L–R) VIC NIEMELA (ChemE 6T4); ROCKY SIMMONS 2 3. (L–R) MARIS MARTINSONS (EngSci 8T2); DEAN MIE – EXEC. DIR. CMTE); CLAIRE KENNEDY (ChemE 6T4), CHAIR OF THE ChemE ADVISORY CRISTINA AMON; ANDREW SIT (EngSci 9T5 + PEY), (ChemE 8T9), FORMER EAA PRESIDENT AND BOARD; JUDITH NIEMELA; KAREN GOODFELLOW, MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR; NANOLEAF CO-FOUNDERS: BIZSKULE FOUNDER; YURI LAWRYSHYN (MechE LOUVAIN PIGGOTT; HOWARD GOODFELLOW (ChemE CHRISTIAN YAN (ElecE 0T6), TOM RODINGER (IBBME 8T9), BIZSKULE COMMITTEE MEMBER 6T4 – ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IN ChemE) PhD 0T7) AND GIMMY CHU (ElecE 0T6); EMMY CHOI (ElecE 9T5), CHAIR OF THE EAA HONG KONG 4. (L–R) PETER NOBLE (ChemE 8T9), INAUGURAL CHAIR OF THE EAA CALGARY CHAPTER, WITH THE LADY GODIVA MEMORIAL BNAD [SIC], 3 4 PROVING HE STILL HAS IT AFTER 25 YEARS 3

6 7 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering / University of Toronto Alumni Magazine / Fall 2014 Awards U of T engineers continue to outperform all other Canadian engineering schools in the achievement of awards and honours. We are tremendously proud of all members of U of T Engineering that were lauded for their accomplishments this year.

Selected Alumni Awards Selected Graduate Selected Undergraduate Awards Student Awards Canadian Academy of Engineering IEEE Intelligent Transportation Order of Canada City of Toronto Minerva Canada Fellow Systems Society Raymond Chang (ElecE 7T0) Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships International Student Excellence Award 2013 James Ham Safe Design Paul Acchione (MechE 7T1, MEng 7T6) Award for Best PhD Dissertation Norman B. Keevil (Geo 5T9) Miles Montgomery (IBBME PhD 1T6) Hargun Suri (CompE 1T3) Engineering Student Award Clément Fortin (UTIAS MASc 7T5) Samah El-Tantawy (CivE PhD 1T2) Anne Sado (IndE 7T7) Cameron Ritchie (CivE PhD 1T6) Sherri Cui (EngSci 1T5) and Nancy Hill (CivE 8T1) Shrey Sindhwani (IBBME PhD 1T7) Shen Wang (EngSci 1T5) Carmine Marcello (ElecE 8T7) Ontario Professional Engineers Women’s Executive Network Lorraine Sugar (CivE PhD 1T0) Engineers Canada 2014 James Ham Safe Design Lloyd McCoomb (CivE 6T8, PhD 8T1) Awards Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Gold Medal Student Award Engineering Student Award G. Ross Peters (ElecE 6T2) Citizenship Award Women Hanna Janossy (IndE 1T3 + PEY) Larissa Rodo (ChemE 1T3 + PEY) Ted Robertson (MechE 7T1, MEng 7T7) Márta Ecsedi (CivE 7T6) Anne Sado (IndE 7T7) Heather Sheardown (ChemE PhD 9T5) OntarioGreenSpec.ca Jeanette Southwood Ontario Society of Professional Women in Mining Canada Home Sweet Home Student Challenge (ChemE 8T6, MASc 8T8) Engineers Trailblazer Awards Amanda Cirinna (CivE 1T3) and James Tranquilla (ElecE PhD 7T9) President’s Award, Young Professional Samantha Espley (MinE 8T8) Steven Goldstine (CivE 1T3) Faizul Mohee (CivE MASc 1T0) Engineers Canada Young Engineer Achievement Award Michael Branch (CompE 0T3)

Selected Faculty Awards

American Concrete Institute Canada Council for the Arts Canadian Institute of Mining, International Society of Edinburgh Ontario Professional Engineers ILEAD WINS 2014 BLIZZARD AWARD Robert E. Philleo Award Killam Prize Metallurgy and Petroleum Corresponding Fellow Awards Doug Hooton (CivE) Andreas Mandelis (MIE) MetSoc Award Stewart Aitchison (ECE) Research & Development Medal U of T’s Institute for Leadership Alexander McLean (MSE) Frank Vecchio (CivE) Education in Engineering (ILead) American Institute of Aeronautics and Canada Mortgage and Housing Natural Sciences and Engineering won the national Alan Blizzard Young Engineer Award Astronautics Corporation Canadian Society for Chemical Research Council of Canada Award for Collaborative Teaching. Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Excellence in Education Award Engineering E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship The Institute was recognized Control Award Heather MacLean (CivE) Process Safety Management Award Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) for integrating innovative Pulp and Paper Technical Association Bernard Etkin (UTIAS) Graeme Norval (ChemE) leadership education into the of Canada Canadian Academy of Engineering U of T Engineering student John S. Bates Memorial Gold Medal American Society for Engineering Fellow Canadian Society for Mechanical Learn more about the ways that experience. This is the third time Honghi Tran (ChemE) Education Uwe Erb (MSE) Engineering Paul Santerre and Milica Radisic U of T has won the prestigious Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Ted Sargent (ECE) Robert W. Angus Medal are engineering your health on award. Read more about ILead on Society for Chemical Industry Canada Engineering Education Yu Sun (MIE) Cristina Amon (MIE) page 23. page 15. LeSueur Memorial Award Susan McCahan (MIE) Grant Allen (ChemE) Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Institute of Electrical and Electronics Donald E. Marlowe Award Fellow Engineers for Distinguished Education Stem Cell Network Paul Santerre (IBBME) Fellow Administration Till & McCulloch Award Wei Yu (ECE) Jean Zu (MIE) Peter Zandstra (IBBME)

8 9 AWARDS / Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering / University of Toronto Alumni Magazine / Fall 2014

2014 Engineering Alumni Association Awards

Engineering Alumni Medal Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction Award Malcolm F. McGrath Alumni Achievement Award 7T6 Early Career Award

As the EAA’s highest honour, this The EAA is proud to present this assembly of extraordinary alumni selected Recognizes contributions to the Faculty, University or to the Recognizes an individual who has become distinguished in award recognizes outstanding by their peers for their lifelong accomplishments. Commemorated in a display in community, in honour of Malcolm McGrath, former Assistant their profession and community within 10 years of graduation. achievement, superior the Sandford Fleming Building, Hall of Distinction members are a familiar daily Dean, Alumni Relations. accomplishments and flair, and presence in the lives of students and serve as examples to future generations excellence in response to challenges. of U of T engineers. Caprice Boisvert Mathew Szeto (MechE 9T3) (CompE 0T4) Arthur Slutsky Prabha Kundur Gerry Smith Caprice Boisvert has played an active role Mathew Szeto has distinguished himself (EngSci 7T0, (ElecE MASc 6T5, (MechE 8T7) in the EAA, serving as a member of the EAA as a leader at both RBC Capital Markets and IndE MASc 7T2) PhD 6T7) As CEO of CiRBA, Council from 2004–06. In 2005, the Skule™ throughout Toronto’s investment community. Arthur Slutsky is Dr. Prabha Kundur Gerry Smith Mentorship Program was created, matching alumni with As the head of Electronic Sales and Trading, Europe, the a true visionary is one of the world’s transformed third- and fourth-year students. For nearly seven years, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Szeto was handpicked by and a leader among his peers. In foremost authorities on electrical the software company from a Boisvert was responsible for all aspects of the program, and RBC to advance their business in those regions. In 2009, he an era when scientific disciplines power systems. In addition to an 10-employee operation with less than as a result of her efforts it gained the reputation as one of received an Arbor Award for his volunteer commitment tended to become specialized illustrious career with Ontario Hydro $1 million in sales to a leader in data U of T’s top mentorship programs. to Skule™ and regularly speaks to aspiring engineering and segregated, he saw the need and Powertech Labs Inc., he served as centre analytics with 125 employees students interested in financial services. for integration and collaboration a consultant to many power utilities in offices throughout Canada, Europe between engineering and medicine. the world over, has been involved in and the United States. Clients such Under his leadership as division teaching and research as an adjunct as Citi Bank, Manulife and Disney 2T5 Mid-Career Achievement Award L.E. (Ted) Jones Award of Distinction director, the Interdepartmental professor at U of T since 1979, and have deployed CiRBA’s software Division of Critical Care Medicine at has written an award-winning and throughout their data centres. Celebrates an individual who has earned respect within the Honours Skule™ students who exemplify Professor Emeritus U of T was considered one of the top influential book on the subject. His profession and broader community and attained significant L.E. (Ted) Jones’ great appreciation of the arts and his love two programs in the world. Over the contributions have been recognized William Troost achievement within 25 years of graduation. of music. course of his career, he has authored by many top international honours (ChemE 6T7) and co-authored well over 450 peer- and awards. William “Bill” Troost, Ted Maulucci Christopher Sun reviewed publications and 73 chapters founder and president (MechE 8T9) (EngSci 1T3 + PEY) in medical books. Som Seif of Peel Plastics, is an Ted Maulucci is a leader and innovator Christopher Sun’s belief in the power and (IndE 9T9) outstanding business leader who within the construction industry in educational potential of music and the At the age of 28, has demonstrated innovation and Toronto. As chief information officer of arts keeps him passionate about inspiring Som Seif founded entrepreneurship. He started Peel Tridel Corporation, he championed the development and his peers and building a community for the arts in and grew Claymore Plastics in 1978 as a two-person promotion of “smart buildings” and was recognized in engineering. In addition to the many performing arts Investments into an innovative asset operation. Today, the company 2013 with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal clubs and events he’s involved with, Sun co-directed, management firm that changed employs over 300 people and is a for his accomplishments. Maulucci co-founded One choreographed and wrote for Skule™ Nite 1T3, the the Canadian investment industry. leader in the flexible packaging Million Acts of Innovation, a not-for-profit group that Engineering Musical Sketch Comedy Revue, resulting He continues that entrepreneurial market. Troost is a member of is committed to working with students and others to in five sold-out shows at Hart House Theatre. He was the spirit today as president and CEO both the board of advisors of the bring new ideas to market. valedictorian for the engineering class of 1T4. of Purpose Investments Inc. But Department of Chemical Engineering Seif’s leadership is not limited to his & Applied Chemistry and ILead, professional career. He is a member and he and his wife Kathleen have of the Department of Mechanical generously donated to various & Industrial Engineering advisory engineering Faculty initiatives. board and BizSkule alumni chapter committee. An avid water polo player, Seif coached U of T’s varsity team to five provincial championships.

10 11 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering / University of Toronto Alumni Magazine / Fall 2014 FOSTERING ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURS BY RJ TAYLOR 1 MAKING THE MAKERS 2

For an idea to grow into a product, it needs makers—those with the skills and experience to construct the first model “Sometimes you find the skills for or write the first lines of code. A variety of courses at U of T, success only when you learn how like our final-year capstone program, provide engineering to fail. We give students a safe students with new opportunities to transform ideas into environment to try things out.” problem-solving designs. Students are encouraged to tinker, create and innovate to tackle challenges proposed —Professor Emeritus Joseph Paradi by industry and other clients. (ChemE, MIE)

In 2013–14: 855 245+ 60+ STUDENTS IN PROJECT INDUSTRY CAPSTONE DESIGN TEAMS CAPSTONE COURSES PARTNERS

Whether it’s a breakthrough that was Today there are more opportunities than years in the making or a brainstorm over ever for U of T Engineering students to FIGHT THE FLIGHT breakfast, a new technology or business leverage their learning and leap into idea can spring from anywhere. But entrepreneurial careers. From new Have you ever wondered how pilots manage jet lag? In the first- ever Multidisciplinary Capstone Projects course, four engineering before it captures headlines, that brilliant state-of-the-art facilities to hands-on students collaborated with Defence Research and Development spark needs innovators who are highly collaboration with industry partners, Canada (DRDC) to design software that helps travellers monitor tuned to solve problems, lead others and discover how we’re empowering their bodily responses to jet lag. Users track their travel in the transform concepts into prototypes— engineering students to get their ideas smartphone or tablet app, which uses data from seven DRDC research studies, providing advice on sleep times, suggesting skills at the core of an engineer’s identity. off the ground. melatonin intake and more. DRDC will be working with the students to implement the program as early as next year, while finding new business applications.

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The Hatchery’s three stages encourage students to develop new ideas and take action:

2 HATCHING NEW IDEAS ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVANGELISM 3 ENGINEERING LEADERS 4

The Hatchery believes that inside every U of T The Entrepreneurship Hatchery, established in 2012, is Engineering student is an entrepreneur with a big idea. Leading and motivating others are vital skills for every U of T Engineering’s early-stage ideas factory. By hosting To enable these young thinkers and makers, the Hatchery entrepreneur. At the Institute for Leadership Education collaborative events, competitions and a concept hosts a weekly Ideas Market and an annual Accelerator in Engineering (ILead), students build on their technical development program, the Hatchery plays a vital role in Weekend to spark ideation, networking and team building. engineering knowledge by learning about effective teamwork, building the University’s vibrant entrepreneurial community. A popular speaker series also brings alumni, technology self-awareness and emotional intelligence. The Institute and business leaders to share their experiences, offers courses, certificates and events that empower engineering students to have a greater impact on society. STUDENTS & TEAMS AT THE HATCHERY successes and failures with the student community.

STUDENTS ENROLLED IN CORE LEADERSHIP COURSES HATCHERY PROCESS

Undergraduate students accepted into the Hatchery’s concept development program are given the tools and resources to define business models for their ideas. Guidance from a growing group of mentors—often alumni—help them refine their concepts. Fellowships, workspace, mentorship and a prototype fund enable the development of a minimum viable product.

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT TEAMS STUDENTS STARTUP LAUNCH

Once students have honed their products and business models, they pitch their startup ideas to the U of T

community at the annual Hatchery Demo Day. Teams *ESTIMATED that are ready to incorporate their businesses will receive legal, accounting, marketing and intellectual property TALKING LEADERSHIP WITH THE TOP 59 3,709 services. From here, the Hatchery feeds the wider U of T entrepreneurial ecosystem by launching teams into other MENTORS STUDENTS PARTICIPATED This year, ILead brought together engineering students and 20 2014 IN EVANGELISM EVENTS accelerators and incubator programs across campus. senior leaders from engineering organizations—such as the CEO 2013–14 * of the Ontario Power Authority and the president of AstraZeneca 4,341 10 Canada—to spark intergenerational dialogue on leadership. The takeaway message was loud and clear: developing good leaders TOTAL PARTICIPANTS IN LEADERSHIP COURSES on campus cultivates better students and better engineers in COLD HANDS, WARM HEARTS ILEAD EVENTS, LECTURES, OFFERED TO U OF T the workforce tomorrow. CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS, ENGINEERING STUDENTS WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS 2014–15 When you head outside in January with your winter jacket, do 2013–14 you ever find that your arms are freezing yet other areas are toasty and warm? So have mechanical engineering students *INCLUDES REPEAT PARTICIPANTS Tammi Hawa, Jennifer Rovt and Katie Gwozdecky (all MechE 1T7)—and they’ve had enough. Joining the Hatchery in 2014, the students are developing a new type of temperature-controlled outerwear that gives the wearer the ability to individually control heating within various parts of the garment.

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“The economy of the future rests on the startups of today.”

—Professor Jonathan Rose 4 ENGINEERING BUSINESS (ECE) 5 A STARTUP IS BORN

An engineering education at U of T involves more than technical courses. For aspiring entrepreneurs, the Faculty offers a multitude of courses that foster the competencies, knowledge and experience for students to become entrepreneurs and succeed in technology and business.

ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS FOCUSED ELITE GRADUATE INNOVATION 337 51 105+ INVENTION PATENT SPINOFF COMPANIES In a partnership between U of T Engineering and the Rotman Students in the Master of Engineering program can round out DISCLOSURES APPLICATIONS CREATED FROM School of Management, the Engineering Business Minor their competencies with the Entrepreneurship, Leadership, 2009–2014 2009–2014 RESEARCH 1970–2014 introduces undergraduate students to the language and Innovation and Technology in Engineering (ELITE) certificate. concepts of business. Starting just three years ago, the minor offers courses in the fundamentals of finance, marketing, strategy and management. ELITE CERTIFICATES AWARDED

% OF INVENTION DISCLOSURES AT U OF T OVER THE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ENGINEERING BUSINESS MINOR past five years originate with the Faculty of Applied 42 Science & Engineering. For all the latest news on startups emerging from U of T Engineering, visit uoft.me/eng-entrepreneurship.

$2.5 MILLION NO SHAKY STARTS GERALD HEFFERNAN’S (MMS 4T3) DONATION IN 2014 TOWARD THE Heffernan Commercialization Fellowship fund, a program that enables U of T graduate students to commercialize research outcomes and spark With the help of a Heffernan new technology companies. Commercialization Fellowship, alumnus Carlos de Oliveira (CivE MASc 0T6) built a profitable startup with global impact. Cast WAVE GOODBYE TO ConneX offers earthquake- 1,163 resistant connectors used in VIDEOGAME CONTROLLERS building and bridge design. 2013–14 Already making tectonic shifts in “The CEIE will allow us to take Videogame controllers could soon join the ranks of floppy the industry, the company was the next leap forward in the disks, cassette tapes and typewriters if alumnus Martin founded in 2007 to commercialize way we drive innovation, foster Labrecque (CompE MASc 0T5, PhD 1T1) has anything to de Oliveira’s graduate thesis and entrepreneurship and cultivate 986 do with it. Labrecque has invented a wearable “glove” of the doctoral work of Michael global engineering leaders.” sensors to help surgeons, video editors, gamers and those Gray (CivE PhD 1T1), both 2012–13 with diminished motor skills interact more intuitively supervised by CivE professors —Dean Cristina Amon with technology. With the help of a $32,000 Heffernan Jeffrey Packer and Constantin STUDENTS ENROLLED IN Commercialization Fellowship, his precise, early-stage Christopoulos. The life-saving ELITE CERTIFICATE device may rapidly replace a controller, keyboard or technology is already being used THE CENTRE FOR ENGINEERING COURSES remote near you. in structures around the world. INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CEIE)

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U of T Engineering produces some of the brightest, Have vision, most passionate and creative thinkers from around the globe—many of whom apply their education to leading will innovate business ideas. Six innovators provide insight into the BY JAMIE HUNTER engineer as entrepreneur.

HANA ZALZAL (CivE 8T8) SOM SEIF (IndE 9T9) IBRAHEEM KHAN (MSE 0T5) GIMMY CHU (ElecE 0T6) INES FERNANDEZ (IndE 1T0) JONATHAN YAM (EngSci 1T3 + PEY) FOUNDER PRESIDENT & CEO CO-FOUNDER & CEO CO-FOUNDER & CEO CO-FOUNDER & CEO CO-FOUNDER CARGO COSMETICS PURPOSE INVESTMENTS SMARTER ALLOYS NANOLEAF QAPIA LIMA FIXO www.cargocosmetics.com www.purposeinvest.com www.smarteralloys.com www.nanoleaf.me www.qapialima.com www.getfixo.com

CARGO Cosmetics is a professional Purpose Investments is a Canadian, Smarter Alloys’ patented multiple Nanoleaf is a green technology startup. Qapia Lima is an online company FIXO is a mobile and web app for makeup line used by the industry’s top independent and privately owned memory material technology The Nanoleaf One and Nanoleaf Bloom devoted to bringing the finest Peruvian property managers and tenants that artists. The company has garnered asset management firm committed makes shape-memory alloys used LED light bulbs—its first two products luxury goods to the Canadian market, enables managers to quickly resolve many awards, including a Red Dot to bringing real value and innovation in automotive, medical device and to hit the market—are a step toward including hand-made alpaca knitwear. maintenance requests and deliver Award for product design, and is to all investors with minimal risk and sporting goods industries smarter, the company’s ultimate goal: All of Qapia Lima’s products are building-related communications regularly used by makeup artists for TV manageable fees. lighter, more reliable and capable of to revolutionize the lighting industry ethically made by local artisans in Peru. more effectively. and Hollywood films. previously unimaginable functions. while preserving our planet.

What would you attribute as the Has failure ever taught What word would you use to Did you plan on becoming What role can engineering schools What advice would you offer to key to your success? you anything? characterize your life as an an entrepreneur? play in fostering entrepreneurs? entrepreneurs starting out today? entrepreneur? “Never being satisfied with the status “It teaches me everything. Failure is one of “I never started working on Nanoleaf with “If you fail while you are trying something “Take more risks. Not unwarranted quo. For me, it was all about continually the most important lessons in your “I’d call it a roller-coaster. As an the idea of being an entrepreneur. It was as a student, you have professors and risks, but calculated risks. It’s often asking myself, ‘How can this be better?’ life. And everyone fails—it’s just a entrepreneur you’re always going up one more focused around building a product. other students, many of whom share your difficult to take that leap of faith It was about the innovation and the matter of how well you fail. What really minute and down another. And there are Often, when people think about being passion, to use as support, and once you outside of something you’re comfortable innovation that drove [CARGO] to defined some of the great entrepreneurs a lot of loops and circles involved, but an entrepreneur, it’s about not having graduate you are much more prepared … with … but a lot of times some of the continually seek new ways of presenting was their ability to learn something from through the whole experience you find it a boss and being able to work on their University gives you a really good safety best ideas are the ones that seem very product. Sometimes it was in application, their failures and move forward.” exhilarating. At the end you just want to own schedules. It’s just not the right net of mentors, friends and networks.” unfeasible at first.” sometimes it was in formulation and get on and do it again.” approach. But to me, building something sometimes it was in packaging.” from just an idea, and creating a company that makes a difference, is the best feeling in the world.”

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“We’ve found through these agent-based models that people Donmez said the report card is likely most effective for new are more often than not to act fairly rationally,” he said. drivers, who are just establishing their road habits, but that “From a policy point of view, it’s encouraging to know that it also has potential benefits for aging drivers. if you do provide people with a better alternative, they will respond to it.” “Older people who are losing some of their abilities tend to self-regulate,” she said. For instance, some people give up highway trips or driving at night when they realize it’s no longer safe. “Maybe we can help them regulate better.” “It’s SimCity for real.” How do I leave a footprint when I’m not touching —Professor Eric Miller (CivE) the ground?

Jets, once the epitome of exotic travel, now face a hard How’s my driving? Never mind—I’ll ask my car truth: lifting a crowd of people into the sky and carrying them a long distance requires a large amount of energy. A research-intensive company—say, an automobile High fuel consumption and carbon footprints, in part, manufacturer—tends to keep discoveries secret. It can temper the thrill of takeoff, burdening it with maximizes their competitive advantage. A university ecological guilt. researcher, on the other hand, circulates knowledge widely for the benefit of the public. “The environmental impact of aviation is quite broad,” said David Zingg, professor and director of the University Which might be why Birsen Donmez, industrial of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). “In engineering professor and driver-safety researcher, still addition to flights themselves, there is airport operation, as seems so surprised and delighted, two years through her well as manufacturing and disposal of aircraft.” BY PATCHEN BARSS three-year collaboration with Toyota. Researchers from UTIAS’s Centre for Research in “A few years ago, Toyota allocated a chunk of money to Sustainable Aviation attack issues like greenhouse support safety research in North America,” said Donmez. emissions on many fronts, from improving aircraft design eople used to say that the journey was as important Through UTTRI’s Travel Modelling Group, Miller works “They said, ‘This doesn’t have to be confidential research. to developing climate-friendly biofuels. They also work as the destination. But that was back when travel with city and municipal governments, Ontario’s Ministry We just want to support the study of important problems with industry partners like Bombardier and Pratt & Pwas exotic and exciting—before voyagers were so of Transportation and regional transit organizations such related to traffic safety.’” Whitney to ensure their work is grounded in the real-life infuriated by gridlock, so concerned about safety and so as Metrolinx. concerns of the aerospace industry. consumed with their carbon footprint that the journey Donmez proposed a single experiment related to speeding became something to endure, rather than savour. It doesn’t The group has developed innovations like MARLIN, and tailgating behaviours, which Toyota requested she Zingg’s background in computational fluid dynamics have to be this way. Professor Baher Abdulhai’s (CivE) “smart traffic light expand into a multi-year program, involving a combination means he focuses on innovative aircraft designs program” that dynamically reacts to local traffic flow, of driver-simulation studies and analysis of crash data. that reduce drag. He spent three years working with Researchers from U of T Engineering are collaborating with reducing commute times. Bombardier on airplanes that barely resemble conventional leading industry and government partners on projects that “Toyota wanted us to tell them how to provide feedback “tube-and-wing” models. With names like “box-wing” and aim to ease travel worries, minimize delays and reduce our Miller’s simulations embody a level of complexity and technologies that would benefit drivers without distracting “blended wing-body,” his designs optimize airflow and impact on the environment. granularity that was unimaginable even a decade ago. them,” she said. reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gases.

Simulation city: solutions for a better urban commute “We’re building ‘agent-based micro-simulation models,’” Donmez and her team are working on both immediate “I benefited more from this collaboration than from any he said. “We create a synthetic population: if there are warnings and post-drive “report cards” that assess a I’ve ever done,” said Zingg. “[Bombardier] gave us funding Transit planning for large urban centres doesn’t always six-and-a-half-million people in the Greater Toronto and driver’s overall performance. to advance our algorithms, but they also gave us the involve simulations. But for those interested in evidence- Hamilton area, we model every one of these people and say, opportunity to apply them, which is when you really learn based transit strategies, simulations have become so ‘What are you going to do today?’” “We can follow people’s eye movements in real time and whether your methodology is effective in the real world.” sophisticated and detailed that they can map commuter if they take their eyes off the road for longer than two behaviour right down to the individual level. Ministries and municipalities use Miller’s models to run seconds, we can tell,” she said. But they’ve found they must The partnership with Bombardier has helped shape simulations that inform policy decisions. But he thinks his be selective about instantaneous warnings as too Zingg’s next avenue of research—a “truss-braced “I’m interested in understanding and modelling group could contribute more on the policy front. many beeps or lights become a distraction unto themselves. wing” design that may lead to a new generation of travel behaviour,” said Eric Miller, civil engineering environmentally friendly jets. professor and director of the University of Toronto “We don’t see the agencies necessarily doing as much as A report card can be much more detailed—documenting Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI). “I try to they could to ask ‘What if…’ questions and dig deeply into risky behaviour, and putting it in the context of both “Truss-braced wing models might be the most simulate the city itself—how the population is changing in the possibilities,” he said, stating that his data provide the driver’s individual history and also general norms promising designs for certain classes of aircraft in terms of the labour market, housing market, demographics insight into not only transportation policy, but also the and best practices. the next 15 years,” he said. and so on. It’s SimCity for real.” population itself.

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Technology that kick- A little zap goes Tremors? There’s Engineering starts your heart a long way an app for that

Like a scene lifted from Frankenstein, Imagine an electrical stimulation A common sign of alcohol withdrawal Your Health Professor Milica Radisic’s (IBBME, therapy for the treatment of arm is tremor of the hands and arms—a ChemE) “biowire” platform treats and hand paralysis after a stroke symptom that can be underestimated, BY ERIN VOLLICK & JAMIE HUNTER immature human cardiac cells, or spinal cord injury, evidenced to leading to further health problems, or derived from stem cells, to cycles have massive long-term gains over faked to gain access to prescription of electric pulses—a process that traditional therapies. You’ve just medication. But a new mobile app, Through startups and partnerships, encourages growth at the same rate imagined MyndMove: the premiere developed by Professor Parham leading researchers from U of T as a developing fetus. The result: product of Professor Milos Popovic’s Aarabi (ECE), PhD candidate Narges mature heart tissue that meets a (IBBME) startup MyndTec, founded Norouzi (ECE MASc 1T4) and Professor Engineering’s labs, centres and affiliated major need in the pharma industry, with Professor Aleksandar Prodic Bjug Borgundvaag of the Faculty hospitals are commercializing cutting- which, until now, has been unable (ECE), Armen Baronijan (ECE MASc 9T4, of Medicine, aims to provide front- to test medications on live human PhD 9T8) and U of T alumna Diana line health-care workers with the edge technology and revolutionizing the heart tissue. Grown along sutures, Pliura. In trials, patients consistently objective data they require to guide current state of health care. the heart tissue may also eventually reached and sustained the top range diagnosis and treatment decisions. be developed as cardiac patches that, of two of the most common motor To use, patients simply hold an derived from a patient’s own cells, function and activity of daily living iPhone equipped with the app with won’t cause rejection issues. Radisic independence tests. MyndTec won a both hands for 20 seconds while is currently developing the Health Canada medical device license the device’s built-in accelerometer commercial possibilities of this in the spring of 2014, giving the measures the frequency and remarkable technology. company the green light to advance severity of the tremor. While still a its product to the market. Next steps: pilot project, the app has immense training medical personnel on the potential on a global scale. Timing is everything device and fine-tuning the product for market readiness before changing the When you’re running a medical outcomes of millions of patients. Let it flow facility designed to keep people out of the hospital, flawless scheduling Endexo is a little polymer making is vital. Last year, when Women’s Recipe for regeneration a big splash for Professor Paul College Hospital was in the process Santerre’s (IBBME) startup, Interface of moving its outpatient operations It’s derived from ingredients found Biologics, Inc. Blended into medical to a new building in Toronto, the in wrinkle creams and eye droplets, materials, the biomaterial proves Centre for Healthcare Engineering but University Professor Molly extremely effective at preventing (CHE), housed within the Department Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) is cooking blood clots in catheter applications— of Mechanical and Industrial up a different recipe: an injectable from drug delivery to dialysis. Engineering (MIE), helped them hydrogel—a water-containing Since receiving FDA regulatory to re-think their schedule to see material that is biocompatible—for approval in 2012, Endexo has been how they could improve their stem cell transplantations. Studies licensed by AngioDynamics for operations. “We developed a new show that the hydrogel at least the BioFlo PICC catheter. Used in mathematical model that would doubles the survival rate of stem cells kidney dialysis catheters, the special generate optimized schedules,” said injected with it, and early results show biomaterial does away with the Professor Timothy Chan (MIE), newly promise of tissue repair. Shoichet need for blood-thinning agents. The appointed director of the CHE. The aims to commercialize the hydrogel product has netted over 30 per cent resulting software, which improved and is testing it in key applications of AngioDynamic’s new revenues the effective use of treatment space with clinical collaborators. in recent quarterly reports, and within the hospital leading to better accounts for a growing margin of utilization and fewer cancellations, U.S. catheter sales. A central venous has the potential to revolutionize catheter containing Endexo, for use hospital operations everywhere. in long-term medication or fluid delivery, is also now available from AngioDynamics.

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING & APPLIED CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca

Soft lights, UNIT OPS 2.0 impact human health, ecosystems investigate remedial technologies big prospects and the drinking water supply. at either U of T or one of the partner For decades, the Unit Operations universities: Queen’s University, Fluorescent lights are energy efficient Laboratory (Unit Ops) has been the To help remediate these sites, University of Waterloo or Western and inexpensive, yet consumers resist cornerstone of chemical engineering the University of Toronto has been University. Research teams will test using them because of their cold, education at U of T, giving students unique awarded $1.65 million from the different combinations of treatment unflattering light. hands-on training on industrial-scale Natural Sciences and Engineering technologies, both in the laboratory equipment. For the 200-plus students Council (NSERC) to support and the field, providing students “It’s not just a matter of aesthetics,” who work in the lab every year, it is one student training and research in with the opportunity to learn the said Professor Tim Bender (ChemE). of the most memorable parts of their environmental cleanup. Professor professional skills required for their “Studies have shown that people in undergraduate experience. Brent Sleep, who chairs the future careers. offices with incandescent lighting NSERC invests $1.65 Department of Civil Engineering, are more productive than those A major revitalization of the lab is million in contamination will oversee the establishment of the Environmental remediation is a working under the harsh glare of Along with post-doctoral fellow currently underway to expand the facility cleanup efforts Remediation Education Network with growing sector—currently generating fluorescent lights.” Andrew Paton (EngSci 0T5, MASc 0T7, with new state-of-the-art Integrated the funds, which come from NSERC’s $1.7 billion in revenue per year. ChemE PhD 1T1), the team recently Chemical Engineering experiments. To From former industrial sites to rail Collaborative Research and Training Creating an energy-efficient won a Heffernan Commercialization learn more about these innovative new yards and abandoned gas stations, Experience (CREATE) program. Pictured: Professor Brent Sleep will alternative to the warm glow of Fellowship to develop a commercial teaching facilities and to share memories there are over 22,000 environmentally oversee the establishment of the incandescent bulbs has been an prototype—the biggest hurdle on the of your time in Unit Ops, visit contaminated sites across the More than 40 master’s students, Remediation Education Network. elusive goal, until now. While road to commercialization. www.chem-eng.utoronto.ca/unitops. country. These areas are polluted PhD students and postdoctoral developing new materials for solar with hazardous chemicals that could fellows will have the opportunity to cells, Bender and students Jeffrey “The potential market for this is, Castrucci (ChemE 1T0, PhD 1T4) in short, every light bulb everywhere,” MADE TO MEASURE and Trevor Plint (ChemE PhD 1T6) said Bender. PROFESSOR RECOGNIZED BY CMHC LASSONDE MINING BUILDING discovered a new organic light- How do you take a new process from the LAUDED FOR GOING GREEN emitting diode (OLED). Thanks to The new OLED is a flat film that can be lab bench to full industrial scale? You Is there a better way to move people their deep knowledge of materials formed into any shape, opening a new call David Beckman (ChemE MASc 8T1), around our city? If so, what is it? These Tucked away in one of U of T’s most chemistry, they recognized its world of design possibilities. president and CEO of Zeton Inc. are questions that Professor Heather historic buildings is the home to the potential as a substitute for MacLean (CivE) explores in several Goldcorp Mining Innovation Suite, an incandescent bulbs. Bender is also currently developing Since forming the company shortly after sustainability-focused courses she’s eco-friendly design space for mineral new lighting beyond simple light graduating, Beckman and his team have pioneered at U of T. and civil engineering students that was Because of Bender’s industrial bulbs in collaboration with a grown the firm to be the world’s leading recognized this year with a Canadian MacLean was recognized earlier this year experience—he spent seven years local architect. designer and fabricator of pilot and Green Building Award. working for Xerox Research Centre of demonstration plants specializing in the with an Excellence in Education Award for Canada in their Advanced Materials “Things that we don’t think of as oil, gas and energy sectors. the Promotion of Sustainable Practices The space, which is located within the Design Laboratory before joining the potential lights, like common by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Lassonde Mining Building, underwent Faculty in 2006—he approached the household objects, could be used Zeton has been recognized with the Corporation (CMHC). renovations in 2010 that incorporated fundamental research with the end to light our homes in fun and Bentley Be Inspired Award for Innovation advanced sustainability and energy goal in mind: an environmentally creative ways.” in Process Manufacturing for the design efficiency methods. Some of the friendly product that is easy to of a modular gas-to-liquids commercial Pictured: Professor Heather MacLean highlights include automated “smart manufacture. The OLED not only Pictured: Professor Tim Bender (centre) demonstration plant for multinational was recently awarded for integrating blinds” that control temperature replicates the light of incandescents, and PhD students Jeffrey Castrucci energy giant Petrobras in Brazil. Beckman sustainable community development fluctuations from direct sunlight and but unlike fluorescent bulbs, it (right) and Trevor Plint (left) show off and his team also recently completed two concepts into the academic curriculum. thermal buffer zones that help to naturally requires no expensive rare earth some of their new OLED materials. multimillion-dollar pilot plants in China. vent warmer air from the space without elements or toxic compounds like HVAC systems. mercury. It is potentially recyclable The renovation was made possible with and can be manufactured at low the generous support of Pierre Lassonde temperatures with relatively and Goldcorp. inexpensive materials.

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THE EDWARD S. ROGERS SR. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DIVISION OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE

www.ece.utoronto.ca www.engsci.utoronto.ca

POET in the Valley the form of gallium arsenide, a by early 2015—these blueprints tell GETTING GRUUVI IN THE compound of the elements gallium designers how to get what they want ORBIS DRAGON’S DEN How much do you love and rely on and arsenic used in LEDs, laser diodes out of the new material. your digital devices? Do you want and solar cells. Do you know what it takes to win top your smartphone to keep getting But here’s where gallium arsenide prize at the Orbis Dragon’s Den faster, thinner, cheaper and more The major stumbling block in the offers up a world of new capabilities: competition? The team behind Gruuvi energy efficient? Bad news: our hunt for the next generation of its optoelectronic properties could proved they did, taking home first prize towering digital world is built on a chip has been creating a direct bring the best characteristics of and $4,000 for their unique headphone foundation of silicon, and silicon’s replacement, without scrapping light and lasers into historically design that vibrates to enhance the user’s capabilities are almost maxed out. existing design and manufacturing electronics-based consumer products. entertainment experience. infrastructure. Until now, no one The third-annual event, held in April “The current understanding is has found anything with both of “That, I think, is a really big drawing and funded by Orbis Investment that silicon has run out of room in the two crucial device components: card these days,” said Taylor. Solar-powered proof of in California. He served as president Management Limited, saw fourth-year which it can make improvements,” n-type, or electron rich, and p-type, “Everyone is looking for a way to bring and CFO at ASD, successfully growing determination EngSci students from the electrical and said Geoff Taylor (ECE MASc 6T8, or electron poor. the integrated circuit industry to a the business from modest roots computer engineering option developing PhD 7T2), a professor at the University point where the optical capability is Ravi Thuraisingham (EngSci 8T8, in 2009 to a $50 million operation products with market potential. Six teams of Connecticut. “So we need “That’s what POET has done,” said no more difficult, in terms of chip ChemE MASc 9T4) arrived in Canada with 400 employees by 2014. He has presented their business plans in less an alternative.” Taylor. “Now it totally resembles manufacture, than what we have from Sri Lanka with no financial recently started a second venture as than five minutes to a panel of judges silicon, from a building-block today. So our contention is that resources and limited English chair and CEO of LightWing Inc., a made up of alumni, faculty and an Enter POET Technologies Inc., aspect … and we can offer higher gallium arsenide is the only way comprehension. But that didn’t stop solar sales and marketing company Orbis representative. the company Taylor founded in speed, lower voltage and lower power.” that’s going to happen.” him from pursuing a career path that provides customers with turnkey Toronto in 2000. POET aims to deliver that has taken him to the top of solutions for adding solar to their “The fact that the [Gruuvi team was] able an improved version of silicon chips POET plans to develop a library of Gallium Arsenide Valley does have a California’s solar energy market. existing businesses. to successfully build such a powerful to the giants of Silicon Valley—in computer tools for chip designers certain ring to it… working prototype and come up with With a 93 per cent average out of high “Businesses move much slower than such a well thought out value proposition school, Thuraisingham barely technical innovation,” he said. “Being and market segment approach was HOW TO START A BRANCH WINS ENGINEERS made the cut for U of T’s engineering a technical person who can speak impressive,” said judge Isis Caulder COMPANY IN 10 WEEKS CANADA’S YOUNG ENGINEER science program. business is in short supply.” (EngSci 8T9, ElecE MASc 9T1). ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The team behind the SWAN Box app, a “I worked hard and struggled to Thuraisingham now lives in This winter, Shahed Mirmohammadi gaming interface that allows users to meet the challenges of EngSci,” said Los Angeles and sits on the (ElecE 1T4 + PEY) and her team entered When ECE alumnus Michael Branch connect and play against each other Thuraisingham, which he compared advisory board for the Division the Dragon’s Den of engineering—MSE (CompE 0T3) founded Inovex more than using their smart phone devices, won the to the mentality of Navy Seal training, of Engineering Science. 558, a unique interdisciplinary course a decade ago, the fledgling software second-place prize of $1,000. designed to simulate the experience of company only had one staff member: him. but with a focus on mental rather launching a startup. Now, under Branch’s leadership as CEO, than physical stamina. “You have to “Knowing that you can do anything, The Division of Engineering Science would Inovex has grown to become a 10-person get better at handling failure … no matter how daunting it may like to thank Orbis for their generous The team designed the Zero-Emission operation that offers tangible solutions and use it as a learning and appear at first, is the essence of EngSci support as well as our panel of judges, Combine Harvester (ZECH), a totally to clients in the environmental and health improvement opportunity.” training,” said Thuraisingham of his including Sep Seyed (EngSci 0T3). green farming machine for harvesting care fields. drive for success. “You just need to soybeans. ZECH is unlike anything on the He was recruited into Enron’s align that training with your passion.” Pictured: ECE student Shahed market: hydrogen fuel cells and a solar In May, Branch received the Young capital and trade group, but Mirmohammadi stands with a plaque panel run three electric motors, while Engineer Achievement Award from eventually found himself among Pictured: Ravi Thuraisingham is for the best project in MSE 558. three lithium-ion batteries store enough Engineers Canada, presented to a thousands who were casualties of making his mark on California’s solar energy to power its driving, threshing, professional engineer under 35 for the company’s collapse in 2001. energy market. storage, emptying and cleaning phases. outstanding contributions in engineering.

In the end, the team had to sell a panel Inovex recently launched Maps BI, a Determined to overcome the setback, of judges on its business viability, tool that provides visual insight into an Thuraisingham shifted his focus to safety and practicality. organization’s geospatial data. retail energy and founded American Solar Direct Inc. (ASD), one of the premier residential solar companies

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INSTITUTE OF BIOMATERIALS & BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

www.ibbme.utoronto.ca www.mie.utoronto.ca

Developing a market for “Often the technologies we see are But Zandstra, who is also a principal 125 YEARS OF MECHANICAL regenerative medicine at an early stage, so bundling and investigator at the McEwen Centre for ENGINEERING adding value is key to moving them Regenerative Medicine, is optimistic If you want to bring biomedical forward,” said Zandstra. when it comes to Canada’s budding In 1890, Robert Alexander Ross technology to the masses, sometimes regenerative medicine industry. (1865–1936) was awarded the first BASc/ you have to get a little creative. For example, one could package an diploma in mechanical engineering Just ask Peter Zandstra, Canada expansion bioreactor from Toronto, “It’s really exciting, actually,” he from the School of Practical Science. Research Chair in Stem Cell a small molecule from Montreal and said. “The quality of the fundamental Throughout 2015, we look forward to Bioengineering and professor at neutrophil differentiation technology research programs is very high in celebrating the 125th milestone with a IBBME and the Donnelly Centre for from Australia—all different Canada, and we’re already seeing look at the past, present and future of Cellular & Biomolecular Research. technologies that would impact the important investment by government mechanical engineering with special generation and use of blood stem cells and industry. This is something we research talks, a capstone showcase As co-founder and chief scientific in cancer therapies. could really be world leaders in.” and Spring Reunion. officer of the Centre for the MIE marked the 50th anniversary of Commercialization of Regenerative The second challenge, he argues, industrial engineering in 2011 with alumni Medicine, a private-public involves “establishing a funding Engineering the Building their prototype with PVC support and enthusiasm. Our alumni are partnership hosted at the University stream for those technologies, tubes, motors, an actuator, sensors encouraged to get involved and share their of Toronto, Zandstra is well aware weaning the initiatives off public perfect knuckleball and a used pitching machine, the memories with us. For further information, of the challenges involved in funding towards private support and Professor David Sinton (MIE) team used slow-motion cameras contact [email protected]. developing markets for regenerative self-sustainability.” has always wondered whether and radar guns to test the ball’s medicine advances. a knuckleball pitch—the most orientation, spin, speed and flight difficult ball for players to hit—can path. They also took particular note RISE OF THE MACHINES be perfectly repeated. Four of his of the ball’s seam positioning. The ZERO MARGIN FOR ERROR SAFETY FIRST: REDUCING HUMAN How soon will we be living and working ERROR IN BIOMEDICAL TECH students set out to answer this team developed their machine in- question with a unique capstone house using MIE’s fabrication lab. side-by-side with robots? It might be An astounding 25 per cent of women design project. sooner than you think. Leading the who undergo lumpectomy for breast Although biomedical products are While the machine successfully way is the Institute for Robotics and cancer treatment require secondary vigorously tested for safety before they Typically grasped by the finger nails throws breaking and wobbling Mechatronics (IRM), which creates surgeries to remove additional tissue. But hit the market, accidents still happen— and raised knuckles, the knuckleball knuckleballs, they’re still striving interdisciplinary research initiatives and if Elizabeth Munro (IBBME MASc 0T9) and often it has nothing to do with isn’t thrown by many major league for a perfect, repeatable, knuckleball. education programs at U of T in the areas has it her way, surgeons may soon have a technological malfunction. players; the Toronto Blue Jays’ Cy They also began testing with official of robotics and mechatronics. new tool to help guide lumpectomies to According to Patricia Trbovich (IBBME) Young Award-winning pitcher R.A. Major League baseballs. better outcomes. IRM is making significant progress in and Tony Easty (IBBME), two leads from Dickey is among the few. A perfect developing more intelligent, flexible, As the project management and HumanEra—a biomedical product and knuckleball can take years to master. “Although our research will continue modular and adaptive robots for a variety Pictured: Elizabeth Munro, and operations lead at Perimeter Medical system safety research team from the to focus on repeatability,” said of uses—from health-care assistants to her team, successfully tested their Imaging, Munro is finessing the University Health Network’s Centre for “Mystery has always surrounded Tomasi, “we do believe that with lunar rovers—that will improve our quality intraoperative imaging system at company’s premier product: an Global eHealth Innovation—over 60 per the knuckleball pitch,” said Sinton. more fine-tuning and some hardware of life at work and home. the Princess Margaret Cancer intraoperative imaging system for breast cent of accidents involving new products “Generating truly repeatable and improvements, the design could Established by the Faculty in 2010, IRM Centre last year. lumpectomies, which enters its second stem from how they are utilized in an controllable motion from the feasibly become the first of its kind on clinical trial this fall. increasingly intricate and technological knuckleball, mechanically, would the market.” activities are cross-disciplinary and cross- medical system. make history.” departmental. Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) The optics-based device scans specimens Pictured: Students Martin Cote, Alex is IRM’s current director. To find out more, just moments after removal, feeding back The team is studying whether safety can Students Martin Cote (MechE 1T3 + Gordon, Queenie Yuan and Jessica visit www.irm.utoronto.ca. images that help surgeons visualize how be improved by adopting different learning PEY), Alex Gordon (MechE 1T3 + PEY), Tomasi stand with their knuckleball close the cancer is to the surface of the protocols such as tablet-based simulations Jessica Tomasi (MechE 1T3 + PEY) and pitching machine. specimen. The imaging procedure takes or other portable training modules. Queenie Yuan (MechE 1T3 + PEY) set as little as 15 minutes, and can be safely out to design a knuckleball pitching conducted right in the operating area. machine for their capstone design project, and continued with the research after graduation.

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ALUMNUS WINS BIG AT AISTECH Alumnus elevates A PASSION FOR SPACE, A UTIAS entrepreneurship LOVE FOR COMPUTERS Dr. Johannes “Hans” Schade with $1-million donation (MMS 8T4, MASc 8T6, PhD 9T0) can add Brands like Apple, Samsung and LG may yet another award to his trophy case. The Creating a multimillion-dollar steal current headlines when it comes to esteemed U of T Engineering alumnus company directly out of graduate smartphone technology, but 25 years ago was this year’s recipient of the Benjamin F. school may not be rocket science, the buzz belonged to an alumnus of UTIAS. Fairless Award from the Association for but for alumnus Francis Shen In the early 1990s, Dr. Rocco Martino Iron & Steel Technology. (UTIAS MASc 8T3), a degree in (UTIAS PhD 5T5) had the idea to marry Nominated by his colleagues and aerospace engineering from UTIAS a phone with a computer and a small peers, the award—named after the certainly helped. display. He set to work and invented the former president and CEO of US CyberFone—regarded to be the world’s Beneath the surface: investigator for OCCAM alongside Steel—recognizes Dr. Schade for This past summer, Shen donated $1 first smartphone—and filed the first of new advanced materials Professor Charles Mims (ChemE). advancing the knowledge of clean steel million to the Institute to develop many patents in 1995. It has since been lab opens technologies in continuous casting. The an entrepreneurship incubator, cited in patents owned by IBM, Cisco, To celebrate OCCAM’s grand opening, award also acknowledges his passion enabling future engineers with the Hitachi, Siemens, NEC and in 437 others Three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves used one of the lab’s for steel technology, contributions to competencies and opportunities he’s issued or pending in the United States. Castroneves joined U of T Engineering high-power electron microscopes to tundish metallurgy, and his leadership learned over decades in business. In 1983, Shen founded Aastra, an Martino graduated from UTIAS with a PhD on July 17 to unveil the Ontario Centre “cut” the centre’s name into a ribbon in steelmaking and casting process R&D consulting firm that rapidly in astrophysics, part of which involved for the Characterization of Advanced at nano-scale. The width of each letter technology that have had a significant “I want to show graduate students that grew to become North America’s work on FERUT, the first computer in Materials (OCCAM)—a high-tech was nearly 1,000 times smaller than a impact on the steel industry. there are more options than simply largest provider of caller ID units. Canada, purchased by U of T in 1952. facility that will enable researchers human hair. finding a job after you graduate,” Dr. Schade is currently the manager The firm recently merged with Mitel across the Faculty to explore and said Shen. “Instead of working for of electrical steel technology and Networks Corp. for a combined worth develop novel materials that could be The MSE logo was also featured on the someone else, you can create jobs MAXIMUM R&D the research laboratories at AK Steel of more than $1 billion and over 60 used in electronics, renewable fuels, front of Castroneves’ race car—part of for yourself and others, building Research in Middletown, Ohio. He million customers around the world. construction, disease treatment and the Hitachi-sponsored Penske Team— prosperity within your community With annual export sales of over $500 received numerous awards during his even futuristic race car design. at the Honda Indy Toronto. and giving back to your economy,” million, AB Sciex is a global leader in career at U of T and in industry, including Shen looks forward to being the R&D of mass spectrometer systems— the ASTM Charles W. Briggs Award, involved with the program and Funded by the Canada Foundation “OCCAM is a shining example of how Shen’s program will provide and it all began at UTIAS. Co-founded in two AIST Robert W. Hunt Silver Medals seeing students progress. for Innovation (CFI), the Ontario U of T Engineering, in partnership mentorship, networking and funding 1974 by Professor Barry French (UTIAS) and the Frank B. McKune Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation with industry and government, is to participants with promising ideas, as Sciex, a company formed out of his Iron & Steel Society. “I want to do something meaningful (MRI) and Hitachi High-Technologies pursuing innovative solutions to while encouraging collaboration research at UTIAS, it’s considered to be with my time and with my resources,” Canada, OCCAM will offer highly some of world’s greatest challenges The award was presented to Dr. Schade amongst the groups. one of U of T’s most significant spinoff he said. “I want to give back to the specialized tools to understand and in health, city life and energy,” on May 6 at AISTech 2014—the annual companies. French eventually sold place that helped me get my start.” manipulate matter at the atomic said Dean Cristina Amon. “We are Iron & Steel Technology Conference and “UTIAS is an ideal place for an Sciex and went on to co-found Gedex, a scale. The centre also emphasizes profoundly grateful to CFI, MRI and Exposition held in Cleveland. entrepreneurship program of this company that is currently on the cutting Pictured: Francis Shen wants to provide collaborative and multidisciplinary Hitachi for their contribution to the type,” said Professor David Zingg, edge of earth-imaging technology based UTIAS students with new career projects, anticipating over 350 creation of this unique world-class UTIAS director. “UTIAS’s cutting- on gravity gradiometry. options after they graduate. different research programs annually facility.” edge research has the potential to be involving academic researchers and commercialized in so many different private companies. The Faculty-wide Pictured: Indy champ Helio areas, both within and outside facility is a joint initiative between Castroneves (left) and Professor Doug aerospace, as has so often been ChemE and MSE. Perovic carve the name of U of T’s demonstrated in the past.” newest lab on a ribbon at nano-scale. “These novel capabilities will allow us to peer deeper into the inner space of materials and to chart new paths in engineering design,” said Professor Doug Perovic (MSE), co-principal

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Since joining the Faculty in the spring, I have been The collective generosity of U of T overwhelmed by the incredibly generous outpouring Engineering’s vibrant community of alumni of support from our global network of students, alumni and friends. We recently celebrated our most successful and friends is nothing short of outstanding. fundraising year, and it speaks volumes about the lasting You’ve helped us to achieve another year impact Skule™ has had on many of you. of remarkable accomplishments and great progress. We offer our deep thanks for your We raised $21,973,281 in 2013–14—nearly double the funds ™ raised the previous year. More than half of this support was tremendous support and dedication to Skule. directed towards the Centre for Engineering Innovation “We all understood the & Entrepreneurship (CEIE), which will further inspire impact that alumni had creativity and lead 21st-century learning and innovation Faculty Benefactors across our Faculty. on us when we were still The following donors have made new gifts and pledges to in school, so for us to be We attracted several major gifts this past year to support the Faculty of $25,000 or more between May 1, 2013 and able to give back to future research, education and entrepreneurial activities. April 30, 2014. generations was really Bill Troost (ChemE 6T7) and his wife Kathleen donated a no-brainer.” $2 million to support the Department of Chemical Cristina Amon Lee and Margaret Lau Engineering & Applied Chemistry’s Unit Ops lab, and Jack and Barbara Baron The Lee Foundation the Faculty established new scholarships through the The Bowman Family Albert K Li —Former Engineering Society J. Edgar McAllister Foundation-Troost Family Award Paul M. Cadario Nickolas Lim (EngSoc) president Mauricio for Engineering. Gerald Heffernan (MMS 4T3) expanded Joe and Christina Caldarelli J. Edgar McAllister Curbelo (CivE 1T4) on EngSoc’s his legacy of support for entrepreneurship at U of T Choong Kong CHANG meta Company generous $1-million commitment Engineering through a $5-million gift, half of which will Chemical Engineering Joseph Molnar to the CEIE. fund the Heffernan Commercialization Fellowships. Class of 7T8 Somen Mondal Chemical Engineering NetApp In addition to major gifts, we continue to realize Class of 8T2 Diran Otegbade growth in our discretionary annual giving. The Skule™ Robert Conway Chen Ewing A. Rae Society remains a significant source of undesignated Convocation Flowers Inc. Semiconductor Research revenue, and the program generated in excess of $1 million Marsh A. Cooper Corporation again this year. Norma Craig ShawCor C. William Daniel Julius D. Solomon The Honour Roll on the following pages demonstrates Kwong Wah Er P. C. and Sharron Stangeby the extraordinary level of commitment that hundreds of Gooi Seong Heen Dorothy Y. Szymaszek alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students have made to Gooi Seong Lim James C. Tai U of T Engineering. I sincerely thank all of you. Michael Goutama TELUS Corporation Jerry Heffernan Texas Instruments Gillian Sneddon Intel Corporation Incorporated Executive Director, Advancement Iyiope Afolabi Jibodu Stanley Timoshek Claire M. C. Kennedy Mark Tinnerman The Kenneth M. William and Kathleen Troost Molson Foundation University of Toronto Irene Mary Klawe Engineering Society Koh G. Yong Henry King-cheong Wu Steven Robert Lamb

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Planned gifts help fund the work of our students, scholars Annual fund gifts from alumni, parents and friends are John East Chatterpaul Jowlabar Edmond Odette Philip Sullivan and researchers through will bequests, insurance gifts, at the heart of philanthropy at U of T Engineering. These Henry N. Edamura Bryan W. Karney Harold E. Oliver Shuliang Peter Sun trust agreements and charitable annuities. gifts—whether unrestricted or designated to a department, Stephen H Edmondson Kharthick Kathiresan Souit I. Olvet C. Burke Swan program or initiative—provide the Faculty with a base of Epson America, Inc. Arthur P. Kennedy Ontario Professional Stephen R. Symes support upon which it builds. Marie-Anne Erki Patrick and Jane Kierans Engineers - Foundation Mathew Szeto King’s College Heritage Society Fabian Papa & Partners Inc. David R. Knutson for Education Andrew J. Szonyi Ronald P. Fournier Eric Koslowski Orbis Access Arshia Tabrizi The King’s College Heritage Society recognizes alumni and Skule™ Society Donors Mark Fox Barry Kozluk (Canada) Limited Chuen Tang friends who have thoughtfully made a provision for the Jennie Frow O. Allan Kupcis Orbis Investment Michael Tanos University. As of April 30, 2014, the following individuals The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering is grateful Robert Fu Mei Ling Kwee Management Limited M. Martin Taylor have remembered the Faculty of Applied Science & to the following members of the Skule™ Society for their Kenneth Carless (K.C.) Catherine C. Lacavera Caroline O’Shaughnessy Warren J. Thompson and Engineering in their estate plans. generous and ongoing support. Their annual gifts of $1,000 Smith and Laura C. Fujino Jennifer Lancaster Brian Taewon Park Johanne Picard-Thompson to $24,999 (or of $250 and above for current students and GE Canada Inc. Ross Douglas Lawrence Gayda M. Patterson Toronto and Area Road Adeniyi Akanni Bala P. Krishnan and young alumni of the last decade) provide an enhanced M. Stephen Georgas Michael Chen-Teng Lee Leslie B. Peer Builders Association T. Christie Arnold Karnika B. Krishnan student experience, contribute to Faculty excellence and Neil Glossop Gabriel Lengyel Herbert Ross Pitman Olev Trass O. Balcer Pierre Lassonde improve our labs and classrooms. Donors listed below have Howard D. Goodfellow Frank Lewarne Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc. Beacon Utility Marion Bassett Maryam Latifpoor and made leadership gifts or pledges to the Faculty between Mary Louise Gorrie Yuan Lin Paul Radcliffe Contractors Ltd. Howard A. Bennett Vladas Keparoutis May 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014. Majorie Aileen Grant Yuen Chi Liu Carol and Morton Rapp Jack Trist Peter Beynon Jacquelyn R. MacCoon Alexander Grbic Mankin Mak Read Jones Peter M. Turner W.L. 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