Engineering a World of Possibilities

University of Toronto Applied Science & Engineering Volume 8 Issue 1 Spring 2006

Engineering a World of Possibilities Skule Alumni Make an Impact in Non-Traditional Careers insideskule Columns and News: 3 From the Dean 4 Skulenews 8 Events for High School Students and Alumni 9 New Professional Development Courses

ON THE COVER: Steve Dennis (Civ 9T9), one of the UofT engineering alumni in this issue who have pursued diverse careers, has found his vocation working for Médecins Sans Frontières. He is shown standing Features in front of a photo taken by Dr. Mary O’Brien in South Sudan, Africa. 10 Engineering a World of Possibilities 11 A True Vocation 13 Legal Advocate 13 14 Patently Innovative 16 A Global Perspective 18 Major League Player 20 Mr. Milestone 22 A Pioneering Prescription for our Health Care System www.engineering.utoronto.ca

Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2006 Principal Photographer: Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto Engineering Society. Stay in Touch Editor: Stephen Frost concerning research partnerships, We invite inquiries concerning To give us your new address, visit Dean Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos Contributing Photographers: alumni news, continuing education, active participation in Faculty us online at www.skulealumni.ca Managing Editor: Ruth Weinstock David Cooper/ Toronto Star, David internships and student activities. programs and comments and click on Register Information, Editorial Board: Lisa Boyes, Grandy Photography, John Hryniuk, Circulation: 39,000 and suggestions from readers. send an e-mail to Márta Ecsedi, Dr. Greg Evans, Camelia Linta, Lindsay Lozon, ©This publication is copyrighted. Please contact: [email protected] or call us at Jackie Isaac, Barry Levine, Dr. Dr. Mary O’Brien, Nelly Pietro- Limited portions of its content may Professor Anastasios 416-978-4941. Javad Mostaghimi, Dean Anastasios paulo, L. Prenty, Lisa Sakulensky, be reprinted or reproduced without Venetsanopoulos, Dean, To see our online archives, visit N. Venetsanopoulos, Ruth Weinstock Jim Webster, Andrew Wong, C.A. the prior written consent of the Faculty of Applied Science the alumni Web site and click on Contributing Editors: Zyvatkauskas. Photos courtesy: copyright owner only if appropriate- and Engineering, Skulematters. Lisa Boyes, Ruth Weinstock Steve Dennis, Prof. Ted Sargent. ly attributed. Otherwise, its repro- University of Toronto, Respecting Your Privacy Contributing Writers: Illustrations: Donald Taylor duction in whole or in substantial 35 St. George Street The University of Toronto respects Lisa Boyes, Kelly Robertson, Printing: General Printers part by any means without the prior Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 your privacy. We do not rent, trade or sell our mailing lists. If you do Ruth Weinstock Published bi-annually as a service written consent of the copyright Telephone: 416-978-3131 not wish to receive this publication, ™ Design: Avi Dunkelman, to alumni, students and friends of owner is forbidden. Skule is a reg- Fax: 416-978-4859 please contact us at 416-978-2139 or Design + Communications Inc. the Faculty of Applied Science and istered trademark of the University of e-mail: [email protected] 1-800-463-6048, or [email protected] fromtheDean

Celebrating Our Ingenious Alumni, Students and Faculty Members

I would like to introduce this issue of Skulematters I am also pleased to tell by reflecting on engineering as a discipline and a profes- you of a new way to support sion. The stories in this edition profile alumni who have promising graduate students. pursued non-traditional careers. Their professional lives Using new funds from the demonstrate the diversity of engineering, the ingenious provincial government to application of knowledge and the innovative ways in match private donations, the university has created the which engineers have built metaphoric bridges to many Graduate Student Endowment Fund (GSEF). Donations other disciplines. If an engineer is now “a person who of a minimum of $50,000 will be matched 1:1 through creatively uses science, mathematics and technology to this special fund. Half the annual payout on the resulting satisfy human needs”, a degree in engineering may lead $100,000 endowment will then be matched by equivalent to a successful career in almost any field of endeavour. UofT funds. A new fellowship will provide roughly $6,000 per annum in perpetuity for a graduate student. The Faculty is meeting the challenge of the increas- The GSEF program is enabling our Faculty to create 60 ingly broad definition of engineering as a profession named graduate scholarships; 35 GSEF awards are still by changing our approach to undergraduate education. available to be funded. The first round of these grants Guided by Professor Greg Evans, Vice-Dean, will be awarded in the coming academic year. Undergraduate, and newly appointed Chair, First Year, Professor David Kuhn, (both of the Department of This winter has seen another metaphorical and Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry [CHE]), physical bridge built on UofT’s St. George campus. the Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP) program A number of our top researchers associated with the has been rolled out for all first-year students after a multi-Faculty Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical successful two-year pilot. In combination with the con- Engineering (IBBME) have relocated to the Terrence ventional engineering curriculum, ESP gives our students Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research early exposure to teamwork, critical (TDCCBR). By the end of February, thinking, communications skills and seven of our Faculty’s bioengineers engineering in a social context— Engineering confers had moved into the open-concept, knowledge and skills training that will interdisciplinary laboratories in this a degree without borders, serve them well throughout their facility, Canada’s first integrated undergraduate programs and their either of geography or health sciences centre. (see News diverse careers. practice. Highlights, p. 8)

The Faculty has also recently The stories in this issue, as introduced program minors to bring greater breadth to the illustrated by our cover story about one graduate’s work curriculum for upper-year students. The recent launch of with Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), a new collaborative minor in bioengineering is an exam- clearly demonstrate that a degree in engineering is ple of our new approach to undergraduate education. increasingly a degree without borders of either geography This option will enable interested students in any engi- or practice. I am sure you will find these stories about neering discipline to develop their understanding of an the work of our graduates in medicine and health care, exciting and rapidly growing area of research and the public sector, law, management and international aid engineering practice. Professor Molly Shoichet, Canada to be quite remarkable. If you are interested in further Research Chair in Tissue Engineering and member of discussion on the changing nature of engineering, CHE, IBBME and UofT’s Department of Chemistry, you may wish to refer to a recent report of the National directs the collaborative bioengineering program and the Academy of Engineering, summarized online at bioengineering minor. The Faculty has plans to launch http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10999.html other engineering minors in the future, and students will soon also be able to create a minors program through Dean Anastasios Venetsanopoulos the Faculty of Arts and Science.

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Celebrating Alumni Achievement

Nine renowned alumni were Henry Edamura (Civ 6T0), Lakefield Research into an interna- The Malcolm F. McGrath celebrated on November 3, 2005, in Professor Lloyd Reid (Eng Phys tionally recognized sector leader Alumni Achievement Award, hon- front of 210 classmates and friends 6T4) and Larry Seeley (Chem 6T6) and also founding and heading ouring alumni for dedication to the at the Faculty’s annual Engineering were inducted into the Hall of ArgentoPlata. community, the Faculty and UofT, Alumni Association Awards banquet. Distinction, chosen for their out- was shared this year by two emi- standing contributions to the profes- The 7T6 Early Career Award, nent outstanding alumni: Frederick Keith Coleman Hendrick (Mech sion and to society. Edamura is best intended for an outstanding profes- Gerson (MMS 4T7), President 4T7) won the highest accolade known for his leadership in plan- sional who graduated ten years ago, of F.T. Gerson Ltd. Consulting accorded by his peers, the ning and designing airports here went to Fabian Papa (Civ 9T5), Engineers, and Jim Thomson (Min Engineering Alumni Medal. and overseas, including Toronto’s a managing partner with Valdor 4T8), whose many achievements Hendrick was President and CEO Pearson International Airport. Reid, Engineering Inc. and highly regard- include 35 years as a member of of Noranda Minerals Inc., one of J. Armand Bombardier Chair in ed municipal engineering consult- UofT’s Physical Plant Department. many key posts he has held in the Aerospace Flight and, until recent- ant. The exceptional accomplish- minerals sector in Canada and ly, Associate Director of UofT’s ments of Adrian Hartog, who heads Andrea Ho (Mech 0T5) won abroad. The Rhodes Scholar is also Institute for Aerospace Studies, has ATI Technologies’ consumer prod- the L.E. (Ted) Jones Award of noted for his distinguished service achieved prominence as a teacher, ucts group, were acknowledged Distinction, recognizing her to the community, particularly in researcher, consultant and author. with the 2T5 Mid-Career creative achievements in writing, higher education, and for contribut- Seeley’s entrepreneurial career Achievement Award. Hartog is also art and music, as well as her ing to mineral-related research. in metallurgy has included building ATI’s Chief Technical Officer. academic success. Illustrations: Donald Taylor Illustrations: Donald Hendrick Edamura Reid Seeley Papa Hartog Gerson Thomson Ho

Engineering Excellence for his for Management. Formerly Ontario Professional Engineers significant contributions to the engi- President and CEO of Toronto’s Awards 2005 neering profession, both in Canada University Health Network, Closson and abroad. A world-renowned has brought big-systems engineer- Alumni and close associates of authority on the analysis, design ing for quality care to this and other the Faculty were recognized with and development of electrical major Canadian hospitals. Ontario Professional Engineers machines and controlled systems, (see story p. 22) awards on November 19, 2005. Slemon is also a former President www.peo.on.ca (news) of the Canadian Academy of Generous Gift Boosts Engineering. Leaders of Tomorrow Program Professor Tom Chau (EngSci 9T2, ECE/IBBME 9T4), of the Dr. Bert Wasmund (Chem PhD Bill Troost (Chem 6T7), founder Institute of Biomaterials and 6T6) Executive Director of Hatch and President of Peel Plastic Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) Ltd., and an international expert in Products and his wife, Kathleen, and Bloorview MacMillan metallurgical and chemical process- generously chose to support the Children’s Centre, and also Canada es for smelting metals, was also Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Research Chair in Paediatric awarded an Engineering Excellence program in the Department of Engineering Rehabilitation, was Medal. A Fellow of the Canadian Chemical Engineering and Applied awarded the Engineering Medal Academy of Engineering, Wasmund Chemistry with a gift of $25,000 (Young Engineer category). Chau’s invented technology that enables per year for the next ten years, research is focused on children with PEO Medalist Chau much higher productivity and a opening new horizons and opportu- severe and multiple disabilities; he Aids Children with Disabilities longer furnace life. nities for students. Last year 760 develops “intelligent” tools that students participated in LOT. (see “read” a child’s functional intent, Professor Emeritus and former Tom Closson (MIE 7T1), a stories on Leaders of Tomorrow, and react to perceived desires. Faculty Dean Gordon Slemon health care consultant and advisor, Skulematters, Spring 2005 and www.prismlab.org received the Engineering Medal for was awarded the Engineering Medal http://web.chem-eng.utoronto.ca) 4 • <••• skulenews... skulenews... skulenews•••>

Lewitt Scholarship Electrical and Computer Engineer- Camp, near Minden, Ontario, in the ing Department, received both 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s, was held on MDS Inc., a life science com- the 2005 award for Distinction in September 10, 2005. Current pany, and five of its former Engineering Education from the students are learning surveying at executives recently honoured the Canadian Council of Professional the camp site, a tradition that dates company’s former president, CEO Engineers on May 14, 2005 in back to the 1920’s. and Chairman, Wilfred G. Lewitt Regina and also the 2004-2005 www.civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/ (EngBus 5T6), with a $500,000 Sharon Keillor Award for Women English/Camp-History.html gift. The OTSS/ Wilfred G. Lewitt in Engineering Education from the Award, valued at $10,000 per year, American Society for Engineering Benefit Concert will be given to an engineering Education on June 15 in Portland, student who is entering his or Oregon. www.ee.ryerson.ca/~gosha/ World-renowned soprano Isabel her first year in the Jeffrey Skoll index.html Bayrakdarian (EngSci 9T6) per- BASc/MBA program. formed a benefit concert at Photo: Lindsay Lozon Survey Camp Reunion Convocation Hall on November 25, Isabel Bayrakdarian’s acclaimed Award-winning Alumna 2005 to raise funds for the restora- career has included performances The first reunion of alumni tion of the century-old pipe organ in opera houses in New York, Professor Malgorzata Zywno who shared bunkhouses and team- in the historic building. Paris, San Francisco, Toronto (ECE 9T0), of Ryerson University’s work at the Gull Lake Survey and London. Outstanding Students

Formula SAE Team Races to Victory NSERC Honours “Innovation for a Healthy Planet,” Entrepreneurial Flair working with Vice-Chair Lillian De Melo (Chem 0T6+PEY). Organizers NSERC Innovation Challenge secured Paul Godfrey (BASc 6T2), awards were given to Benjamin President and CEO of the Toronto Hatton (MSE PhD 0T5) and Siyuan Blue Jays, as the keynote speaker He (MIE PhD 0T5). Hatton was for the October 2005 event. granted the first prize of $10,000 for his work on Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica (PMO) Thin Films for Low-K Applications in Microelectronics. Siyuan He received an honourable mention and $1,000.

Bell Scholarship Winner

Eddie K. H. Ng (EngSci 9T9+

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The UofT Formula SAE Racing are part of a team of 23 core mem- awarded a $12,500 – 125th Photo: Nelly Pietropaulo Team placed first overall bers. The team also set the fastest Anniversary Scholarship from Bell Governor General’s Silver Medal at this year’s Formula Student total time during the endurance Canada, given to Canada’s top Winner Lydell Wiebe World Championship held in event and ranked first in the cate- ten graduate students. Ng is pursu- Leicestershire, England, driving gories of sprint and dynamics. ing a PhD in Machine Learning Lydell Wiebe (Civ 0T5) was a car they designed and built. Other achievements included plac- under ECE Professor Brendan Frey. one of three students awarded the Engineering students Nadia Boin, ing third in the skidpad category, Governor General’s Silver Medal Michael Czajka, Antonio Gomes, sixth in design, 11th in costing, Chem. Eng. Conference for the highest academic ranking at Stefan Kloppenborg, Maggie 13th in acceleration and 24th in UofT. He is continuing graduate Lafreniere, Vince Libertucci, Daniel marketing. The UofT team became Paul Chavez (Chem work on the development of “high- Zanini, Daxin Zhao and Jerry the first from Canada to capture the 0T5+PEY+MEY) headed the performance” earthquake-resistant Zielinski bested 56 others from championship (in 2003) and also Student Organizing Committee for steel structures under the supervi- around the world in the grueling finished second in 2002 and 2004. the 55th Canadian Chemical sion of Professor Constantin July 7-10, 2005 competition; they www.fsae.utoronto.ca Engineering Conference on Christopoulos of Civil Engineering. • 5 <••• skulenews... skulenews... skulenews•••>

Faculty Members Receive Accolades

MIT Magazine Selects Aarabi of Canada on November 27, 2005. the mechanisms that control human by TVO in an earlier round of this as a Top Innovator He is currently serving as the embryonic stem cell growth Ontario-wide contest, as one of 30 President of the U.S. Society of and differentiation, with a specific finalists. As well, the Institute of Biomaterials and is also the Michael focus on blood and heart cell Electrical and Electronics Engineers E. Charles Professor of Chemical development. named Professor Kostas Plataniotis Engineering. Professor Ian Blake http://stemcell.ibme.utoronto.ca (ECE) as the 2005 recipient of (ECE) was recently elected a Canada’s Outstanding Engineering Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Sargent on Scientific American Educator award. Engineering. Blake, who has con- List of Leaders tributed to the theory and practice Citation Success of error control codes in digital- communication systems, as well as The newsletter Science Watch to cryptographic techniques for data (published by Philadelphia-based security, was also elected a Fellow Thomson Scientific), which tracks of the Royal Society in 2003. performance and trends in research, recently ranked UofT’s Engineering

Photo: C.A. Zyvatkauskas Chan Awarded Prestigious Faculty first among Canadian U.K. Prize engineering schools for 2000-04 The Massachusetts Institute of in two categories. The Faculty was Technology’s (MIT) Technology Professor Warren Chan, of the recognized for the number of Review Magazine has conferred a IBBME and Principal Investigator citations to Faculty papers and also singular honour on Professor in UofT’s Integrated Nanotechnolo- for impact, as measured by the Parham Aarabi, (EngSci 9T8, Elec gy and Biomedical Laboratory, average number of citations per 9T9) of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. has been selected as a recipient of paper. As well, the paper, “Selecting

Department of Electrical and the prestigious Lord Rank Prize Sargent Ted Courtesy of Prof. Discriminant Eigenfaces for Face Computer Engineering (ECE). in Optoelectronics for his contribu- Recognition,” earned co-authors On September 28, Aarabi, Canada tions to the development of Professor Ted Sargent (ECE), Dean Tas Venetsanopoulos, Research Chair in Multi-Sensor quantum dots for biological applica- Canada Research Chair in Professor Kostas Plataniotis and Information Systems and Director tions. Chan’s research probes the Nanotechnology, was named to the Jie Wang (PhD 0T2), of ECE, tenth of the Artificial Perception behaviour of abnormal cells and 2005 Scientific American 50, place on Science Direct’s Laboratory, was honoured by the tissues using quantum-dot-based an annual ranking recognizing “25 Hottest Articles” on Pattern prestigious publication as one of nanotechnology. This development outstanding leaders in science and Recognition Letters. the top 35 innovators in the world could lead to novel diagnostic technology. Sargent was acknowl- www.sciencewatch.com under the age of 35. His invention schemes and therapeutic strategies edged for developing a paintable of an algorithm that calculates the for infectious diseases and cancer. solar panel that can adsorb infrared NSERC Synergy Award location of a sound source and then Chan received his award of light, a discovery that could double enhances the source, while remov- £10,000 in February 2006. solar panels’ efficiency at capturing ing noise, was chosen from over www.rankprize.org/news1.htm energy. Sargent’s book, The Dance 600 entries from around the world. of Molecules: How Technology is Aarabi’s invention could one day Stem Cell Researcher Changing Our Lives, was published filter out extraneous voices in cell- Zandstra Receives Steacie in October, 2005. phone conversations or enhance http://light.utoronto.ca/sciam50.pdf voice controls in cars – technology Professor Peter Zandstra, of the that could revolutionize communi- IBBME and Canada Research Chair Outstanding Educators Shine cations. www.apl.utoronto.ca in Stem Cell Bioengineering, was awarded a prestigious Natural The spotlight has recently Sefton and Blake Honoured Science and Engineering Research shone on three talented educators. Council (NSERC) Steacie Fellowship TVO’s “Best Lecturer” competition University Professor Michael in April 2005. Zandstra’s research selected University Professor Sefton, former Director of the focuses on the regeneration of func- Michael Collins (Bahen-Tanenbaum Prof. Paradi David Grandy Photography Institute of Biomaterials and tional tissues from stem cells and Chair in the Department of Civil Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) the development of tools to modu- Engineering) as one of ten finalists, A partnership of The Centre and a pioneer in tissue engineering, late cell responses. Dr. Zandstra out of 359 nominees; Professor for Management of Technology and was inducted into the Royal Society will use this award to investigate Parham Aarabi (ECE) was chosen Entrepreneurship (CMTE), Bell

6 • Joseph L.RotmanSchoolof Industrial Engineeringandthe Chemistry, Mechanicaland Engineering and Applied the DepartmentsofChemical Professor JosephC.Paradi,of in thefinancial-servicessector. solutions totechnologychallenges work infindingunconventional Innovation foritscollaborative NSERC Synergy Award for Financial Groupwasawardedthe RBC FinancialGroupandBMO Canada, the TD FinancialGroup, Distinguished electricalengineers, Renowned ElectricalEngineers and Dr. CharlesKao,received < ue1 oTconvocation. June 16UofT Convocation Honoursfor honorary degrees atthe ••• Professor Adel Sedra, Professor Adel skule Prof. Sedra Prof. Kao news Officer from1993to2002. dent, Provost,andChief Academic capacities, includingas Vice-Presi- innumerous Sedra servedUofT Universityof Toronto alumnus, A ered theseminaltextinfield. Microelectronic Circuits tronics, Sedraco-authored tionally asapioneerinmicroelec- Engineering. Recognizedinterna- University of Waterloo’s Deanof doctor ofengineeringdegree,isthe Sedra, whoreceivedanhonorary bone ofglobalcommunication. communication systems,theback- work indevelopingopticalfibre the “fatheroffibreoptics”forhis laws degree.Heisconsideredtobe was givenanhonorarydoctorof Chinese UniversityofHongKong, Vice-Chancellor (President)ofthe convocation lastJune.Kao,whois Kuen Kao,werehonouredat Professors Adel SedraandCharles http://www.cmte.utoronto.ca Director. Management, isCMTE'sExecutive Computer Engineering–ECE); Sr. DepartmentofElectricaland Liebeherr (TheEdwardS.Rogers Applied Chemistry–CHE);Jorg ment ofChemicalEngineeringand members: EmmaMaster(Depart- a warmwelcometonewfaculty Young Women toEngineering Renowned electricalengineers, Dean Venetsanopoulosextends Attracting Bright Faculty Members Welcoming New ... Engineering Highlights skule , consid- news • cial and Toronto levels. organized theevent attheprovin- Women’sDean’son Issues, Advisor Faculty’s Directorof Alumni and across Ontario.MártaEcsedi,the engineering facultiesat13locations October 15,2005,presentedby15 ever event,“GOEngGirl,”on in Grades7to10attendedafirst- Champion. was also2005and 2006Canadian the 2005 World Championships. He (above) withhissilvermedalfrom applied chemistrystudentisshown The chemicalengineeringand bronze medalinthefreeprogram. champion Jeffrey Buttlewona Turin Olympics,figure-skating Grasselli, Georgia Engineering –MIE);Giovanni of MechanicalandIndustrial Topaloglou (Department David Steinmanand Thodoros Engineering); MichaelGruninger, and alsocross-appointedtoCivil Jason Foster(EngineeringScience for StudiesinEducation/UT); Learning attheOntarioInstitute ment ofCurriculum, Teaching and also cross-appointedtotheDepart- Romkey (EngineeringScienceand Communications Centre);Lisa Alan Chong(Engineering 2006 OlympicBronzeMedalist On February16,atthe2006 More than 1,200 youngwomen More than1,200 ... skule .ca/competitors.html Team Design.” Eng Sci)scoredsecondin“Junior Zhou andJovanLukovich(all Alexei Bylinskii,Beckett Yuxiang in “EntrepreneurialDesign.” Ivan Graovac(allELE)rankedfirst Zhang, OliverLimcangcoand Debate.” JianPhoenixXu, Yun Xing placed firstin“Parliamentary and RichardLizius(bothEngSci) Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne ing Competition,hostedbyUofT. 2006OntarioEngineer- Feb. 10-12, news cross-appointed toMSE). Naguib (MIEandalso Engineering –MSE);andHani of MaterialsScienceand cross-appointed totheDepartment Nazir Kherani(ECEandalso Chemistry in Arts andScience); Wheeler totheDepartmentof cross-appointed toCHEandProf. Engineering –Prof.Radisicisalso Biomaterials andBiomedical and Aaron Wheeler (Instituteof Engineering); MilicaRadisic Kaiwen Xia(DepartmentofCivil Fotopoulos, MatthewRoordaand Class of5T5(ELE)donatedapainting by artistPaulHallam(Elec5T5) At a50thanniversaryevent,the Our studentswonkudosatthe Skule StudentsShineat Ontario Competition to theFaculty. www.oec2006.skule ••• > 7

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News Highlights

Ovation Greets President Naylor at Installation Care Institutions, was chosen by Biomolecular Research (TDCCBR), Governing Council as the opened on November 3, 2005. The university’s 15th President. Naylor’s new building’s ten floors of labora- installation address focused on his tory and teaching space will enable priorities, including enhancing our Faculty’s investigators to the student experience, instituting collaborate with colleagues in the university-wide teaching awards, Faculties of Medicine, Arts and including a Teaching Academy, and Science and Pharmacy in advancing enhancing undergraduate research the investigation of the cause and opportunities. Naylor’s five-year cure of disease. Among the engi- term began October 1, 2005. neering researchers who will work www.president.utoronto.ca/about- in the 20,550-square-metre TDC- thepresident/htm CBR, along with approximately 50 graduate students and post-doctoral A New Centre for fellows, are Professors Julie Audet, Photos: Naylor – S. Frost, L. Sakulensky. TDCCBR – C. Linta Photos: Naylor – S. Frost, L. Sakulensky. Cutting-Edge Research Warren Chan, Molly Shoichet, President David Naylor, centre, at his installation, Aaron Wheeler, Christopher Yip beside Dean Anastasios Venetsanopoulos, Faculty of Applied Science and Peter Zandstra, as well as and Engineering. Also pictured are (l.-r.) Front row: student University Professor Michael governors Mahadeo Sukhai, Holly Andrews-Taylor and Husain Sefton. All are affiliated with both Aboghodieh, who hooded Naylor at the ceremony. Back row: Engineering and Medicine through Prof. Sylvia Bashevkin, Principal, University College; Dean Catharine the Institute of Biomaterials and Whiteside, Faculty of Medicine; and Prof. James Barber, Biomedical Engineering (IBBME). former Dean, Faculty of Social Work. Located close to Toronto’s hospital precinct, the facility is considered unique in Canada and one of just a A sustained ovation greeted 2005. The Oxford Rhodes scholar, A cutting-edge post-genomic few of its kind in the world. UofT’s new President, David Naylor, former Dean of Medicine and research centre, the Terrence www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/ at his installation on November 7, Vice-Provost, Relations with Health Donnelly Centre for Cellular and 051103-1768.asp Upcoming Events 2006 Mark These Events on Your Calendar

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9 ENGINEERING A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES SkuleTM Alumni Make an Impact in Non-Traditional Careers

Think of any professional endeavour or life path and UofT engineers have been there – and done that. SkuleTM alumni have used their undergraduate degrees as a springboard to careers in accounting, law, government, finance, banking, journalism, manag- ment, medicine and more – as well as the full range of traditional and emerging

engineering occupations.

The skills set developed by studying engineering – from problem-solving to analytical agility – forms a strong foundation for a broad range of further pursuits. Our graduates have founded or headed companies, championed causes and starred as musicians, athletes, writers and artists. Some have pushed limits and pursued ventures in countries around the globe. Others have sought new answers to societal challenges. This issue of Skulematters profiles a few of our many alumni who have made their mark, starting with a degree that makes all the difference.

10 • Spring 2006 relief supplies for MSF teams, including doctors, nurses, A True Vocation laboratory technicians, translators, labourers, drivers and guards. Dennis was also responsible for security; Steve Dennis has found his calling maintaining communication equipment, computers and with Doctors Without Borders the power supply; and for hiring and managing staff.

By Ruth Weinstock In South Sudan, Dennis supervised the construction of, and repairs to, clinics and living compounds. Every engineer faces difficult decisions in a typical Because of natural deterioration, fire, or the need to relo- working day. But it’s arguable that the decisions Steve cate due to clan fighting, buildings had to be replaced Dennis has had to make on the job are harder than most. repeatedly. During his term in Sudan, the team was evac- uated four times due to security problems. Clinics were “Sometimes people will either get food or go hungry looted twice and the storerooms, pharmacy, office and if I spend another three hours working. It can be tricky to laboratory burned down. Because of civil war in Somalia, decide on the end of a work day,” observed Dennis (Civ MSF is one of few international NGOs with a full time 9T9), reflecting on his work for Doctors Without Borders presence there. (Médecins Sans Frontières, Holland – MSFH). “There is Steve Dennis (Civ 9T9) is shown in South Sudan in front of his Médecins always an emergency.” Sans Frontières (MSF) office, a round-walled mud hut called a tukel. Working for MSF has brought Dennis new insights and life lessons. Three years ago, Dennis turned from work as a civil engineer in Toronto, to a new vocation with MSF, an organization dedicated to medical relief in areas of con- flict. MSF has five operational centres in Europe and 14 national sections worldwide. It aims to respond to unmet public health needs, independent of political, economic and religious influences, and to advocate with local authorities. Dennis affirmed, “MSF is a good match for me. All the signs are right, now.”

The challenges Dennis has faced have included civil war, security issues, looting, clan fighting, fire and flood – not to mention simply convincing MSF to hire him in the first place. The rewards, evident in listening to this thoughtful, quiet-spoken young engineer, have clearly been incalculable. Working for MSF has led to wonderful life lessons, personal insights, new relationships and wry humour. It has also enabled Dennis to learn from – and “feel humbled by” – the values of people of other cultures.

Dennis has held three MSF posts to date. From September 2002 to April 2003, he was a Field Logistician/Administrator in northern Sri Lanka. That “Sometimes there is nothing project provided the only surgical and maternity services Photo: courtesy Steve Dennis we can do but show for about 300,000 people. For one year, beginning September 2003, he was a Field Logistician in South people that the rest of the Sudan, attached to clinics treating Tuberculosis (TB) and Threats, fighting, riots, bombings and assassi- world hasn’t forgotten them.” Kala Azar, a disease responsible for about 100,000 deaths nations, including the murder of a BBC journalist, in the area over a couple of decades. Basic health care made security assessment, community liaison and clinics in Sudan, including a centre for feeding severely contingency planning Dennis’ daily priority. malnourished people, served up to 400 in-patients and approximately 3,000-4,000 outpatients each month. Certainly, Dennis has put the technical, problem- From January to July 2005, Dennis was a Field Project solving and operational skills he learned at UofT to use. Coordinator with a TB clinic in Northeastern Somalia. “I had very good training here,” he emphasized, smiling. “Four years of having problem-solving skills drilled Calling himself “a jack of all trades,” Dennis into me. I definitely learned about being overwhelmed took charge of the logistics of running hospitals, by work and having to prioritize.” In 1999, Dennis’ clinics, offices, living compounds, vehicles and equip- academic and volunteer achievements were recognized ment. He flew in and managed medical, domestic and by the 3T5 Second Mile Award.

skulematters • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering • University of Toronto 11 After graduation, Dennis worked as a Technical Staff Engineer for Halsall Associates Limited, Canada. A friend suggested he consider MSF. “Everything I learned about them I really liked. I felt I had to work for them,” Dennis stated. He applied, wrote the test and was refused. The roadblocks: his only language was English, and he had never travelled in a developing country. He asked for a leave of absence; his supervisor agreed, “to let me get it out of my system.”

Dennis grinned, “Two weeks later, I was in Guatemala, studying Spanish.” When he later approached MSF again, the answer was “yes.” He then decided to confer with Malcolm McGrath, the Faculty’s Assistant Dean from 1984 to 2001, whom he described as “a good mentor, while I studied here and afterwards. Malcolm said, ‘Follow your head and your heart’.”

A lot has changed for Dennis in the past three years. Photo: Courtesy Steve Dennis He now speaks basic French, Spanish, German, Nuer, Tamil and Somali. He has learned to be content with maybes. “Every-so-often a ‘maybe’ turns into “This work has been ‘something,’ and that ‘something’ cures, shelters or feeds someone,” he explained. And he has developed an extraordinary, a humourous perspective on the differences between eye-opening experience for the West and “how the rest of the world lives.” me – to learn girl was buried, the mother came to thank him, before of the world, its politics, To illustrate these differences, Dennis described the walking to her village, a couple of days away. “Some- tukel, a round-walled mud hut with a grass roof, common times there is nothing we can do but show people that the its people...” in south Sudan. “It lasts for years,” he commented. rest of the world hasn’t forgotten them, and the horrible The round shape is structurally important. Mud keeps conditions they are put in. I think they appreciate that.” out the heat. Smoke from inside cooking fires wards off termites. Dennis compares these advantages to a hospital Dennis speaks passionately of the good that MSF ward tukel, built in the rectangular style Westerners has done in Sudan. “These are people whose government prefer. Its straight walls fell outward. Without smoke, is at war with them. The militias rape their daughters, termites ate the grass roof. Windows brought in light, steal their food and take away their sons. Finally, some- but also flies and mid-day heat. “We effectively took a one is not taking away, but giving them something.” long-lasting, proven technology and reduced it to a large, hot, fly-infested, failing structure that needed a new Although he is devoted to an organization that seeks roof every six to 12 months.” solutions, Dennis has faced the fact that some problems are insurmountable. Hard realities – life and death Chuckling, he observed, “We like square beds and decisions – are a daily experience. He recounted a square desks because of our square mindset.” He recited conversation with patients who expressed appreciation a Sudanese saying: “No one understands what the for TB treatments, but insisted that MSF should also ‘kawaja’ (foreigner) does.” provide food, shelter, blankets and mosquito nets. Dennis met this request with a question, “If I had one Another story on Dennis’ online journal dollar, should I put it to training medical staff, and (www.stevedennis.ca) explains why Somalis chortle at buying drugs to treat TB, or should I buy food, shelter, how slowly white folks count bills. It’s no wonder blankets and mosquito nets, so you are comfortable, Somalis have developed swift counting fingers, when but die of TB?”Although the problem remained unre- 200 U.S. dollar bills equal a “pile of crumbling notes solved, that conversation led Dennis to start a patient three feet high.” committee, as a focus for complaints and to enlist more of the community in seeking solutions. The human-to-human contact that is part of the job clearly means a lot to Dennis. He recalled a mother who Dennis’ next mission with MSF is in Côte d’lvoire, brought her daughter to a satellite clinic deep in the bush. Africa. He has prepared by studying French. He summed The 16-year-old had kidney failure. In the next few days, up: “This work has been an extraordinary, eye-opening Dennis spent time with the mother. “If we had just had experience for me – to learn of the world, its politics, its one medicine common in the West, costing only pennies, people, and to see clearly that, even with our differences, we could have saved the girl’s life,” he stated. After the we are all the same people.”

12 • Spring 2006 met while working in the industrial marketing group of Legal Advocate Ontario Hydro in the summer of 1985, encouraged her to switch to engineering. Meeting her “collegial” chemical Lawyer Claire Kennedy is proud of engineering classmates made Kennedy feel her move was her engineering roots a good fit. Smiling, she recalled, “We had some crazy moments in the organic chemistry lab,” including the time By Ruth Weinstock the class made banana oil and “the whole place reeked.”

“Engineering rewards intellectual curiosity. Law “Studying engineering teaches you modesty,” does, as well,” Claire Kennedy observed. Kennedy declared. “You are surrounded by people who are a lot brighter than you are. That can be inspiring.” Kennedy (Chem 8T9) was drawing a link between Tax lawyer Claire Kennedy (Chem 8T9), a partner in the Toronto-based her engineering education and her professional life as a office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP since 1999, is also an lawyer. She has been a partner in the Toronto-based enthusiastic volunteer for The Faculty of Applied Science and office of law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Engineering. since 1999. Kennedy is clearly proud of her roots in engineering. She believes the analytical skills she honed by earning a UofT engineering degree have been particularly useful to her as a member of the firm’s tax group.

“A logical, rigorous approach to problem-solving is needed for success in both engineering and law,” Kennedy stated. “In engineering the medium of analysis is numbers; in law, it is words. But in both you learn to break a problem down and see a critical path with the key questions that need to be addressed in stages.”

Kennedy joined Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg in 1997. The firm is known for representing many of North America’s major private and public companies and for helping to establish and refine corporate governance procedures. Kennedy’s practice is diverse, encompassing tax matters for corporations, partnerships and trusts. She advises on a wide variety of transactions, both domestic and international, including reorganizations, restructur- ings, acquisitions, financings and investment-fund offer- ings. With her track record of successfully negotiating complex tax matters with the Canada Revenue Agency, clients often seek her advice on tax dis- putes. She recently acted for Saunders, Karp & Megrue, a U.S. private equity “Studying engineering sur- fund, in its acquisition of a Canadian- rounds you with people who based apparel retailer, Comark Inc. She are a lot brighter than you are. Photo: Camelia Linta also acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in its U.S. $250 million structured That can be inspiring.” trade/project financing for the Veladero “You realize your contribution greenfield gold mine project in is best made as part of a team, and Argentina. Kennedy also represented Barrick and its not on your own.” She continued, “Tax law is also a very wholly owned subsidiary, Barrick Gold Finance collegial process. You are constantly bouncing ideas off Company, in a U.S. $750 million note offering. A speaker others. It gives you a fresh way of thinking about a at a number of conferences addressing cross-border tax problem. Every now and again, teamwork will yield a planning issues, Kennedy has also taught the upper-year ‘eureka’ moment.” Corporate Tax course at Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law. She is Co-Chair of Continuing Legal Education Kennedy maintained that there is a “brain teaser or for the Tax Section of the Ontario Bar Association. puzzle element” in both disciplines. “Both engineering and law involve thinking creatively within certain con- Explaining why she chose to go to UofT, the straints or rules. The limitations might be imposed by the Toronto-born lawyer said, “There was a great university laws of thermodynamics, or by the Income Tax Act, but on my back door.” Always interested in math and science, with both it is a challenge to solve the problem and get in her first year Kennedy enrolled in a B.Sc. program in the result, while being conscious of the rules.” Arts and Science. A mechanical engineering student she Continued on page 14 skulematters • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering • University of Toronto 13 She hastens to add that demanding engineer- Patently Innovative “Both engineering and ing studies “made law law involve thinking school look easy by Nancy Hill has made her mark creatively within certain comparison.” Kennedy as an intellectual property received her LL.B. from constraints or rules.” Queen’s University in lawyer and as an advocate for 1994. One experience she clearly treasures was serving as one of only three law the engineering profession clerks assisting Supreme Court of Canada justice, the By Ruth Weinstock Hon. Charles D. Gonthier, in 1996. “It was a unique look at the Supreme Court from the inside,” Kennedy recalled. “You feel like you’re on the leading edge,” Nancy Hill (Civ 8T1) enthused, explaining one of the reasons Professor Doug Reeve, Chair of the Department of she loves her work as an intellectual property lawyer Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, has called and patent and trademark agent. As a partner in the Claire “ardent and insightful” for her contributions as a Toronto-based firm Hill & Schumacher, Hill is often the member of the department’s Advisory Board. Kennedy first person to whom inventors disclose details of their and others on the board are bubbling with ideas to discoveries. advance the interests of the department and engage alumni and students, from establishing “class leaders” She and her partner Lynn Schumacher have helped in every alumni year, to improving contacts in the univer- innovators protect their bright ideas since they estab- sity’s alumni database, to a dream of funding a new lished their company in 1994. The two advise and man- endowed Chair. age all aspects of patent, trademark, industrial design and copyright law, including securing, maintaining and The department is known for its “Leaders of enforcing intellectual property rights. Dealing with peo- Tomorrow” program, which aims to encourage students ple around the globe, the firm averages 50 to 60 patents to strive for the highest personal and professional goals. a year that run the gamut from nano-dots to drill bits. To enhance this program, Kennedy had a brainwave: a panel discussion featuring engineering grads who have “I get all fired up when I hear clients describe their pursued alternative careers. ideas,” Hill declared.

The discussion featured grads who had built suc- Another topic that easily elicits “My view is that cessful careers in medicine, risk management and busi- Hill’s enthusiasm is her advocacy engineering is a good lead ness, using their engineering degrees as a solid base. work on behalf of the engineering into almost any Kennedy drew on her own contacts for the panel, which profession. Hill has capitalized on professional field...” opened new horizons for students. She explained, her legal knowledge to benefit “Students are very interested in learning about different engineers, particularly through her career paths. Meeting someone who has passed through volunteer work with professional organizations, including the same halls as they have makes these possibilities Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). She is sought after seem more tangible.” as a speaker, author and judge of student competitions.

Kennedy has also participated in breakfast network- Hill also relishes her role as a catalyst in the tech- ing events that provided a forum for alumni and students nology-transfer process, citing examples of patented to mingle. The successful “speed-dating-style” breakfast products that have met with success in the marketplace. has been repeated five times to date. She was recently “I do a lot of work for a company that makes soap dis- elected to serve on the inaugural Executive Board of the pensers. Their product is sold all over the world.” While newly reconstituted Engineering Alumni Association. travelling in Europe last summer with her niece, Hill spotted these dispensers in Heathrow Airport and in “Today, there is an increasing emphasis on engineer- France. “I got a big charge out of that,” she smiled. ing students becoming well-rounded,” Kennedy observed. “It will help to counter the stereotype that engineers can’t She proudly mentions another patent she is currently communicate well with people who haven’t been techni- working on, for a new fire-resistant steel joist that is cally trained. Students today are extremely talented; they “right up my alley as a civil engineer.” The new construc- are technically literate and much more.” tion material will give firemen a better chance of safe escape if a burning building collapses. Kennedy summed up, “I was flattered to be invited to the Board. My initial reaction was that Doug should Sometimes the patenting process proceeds at a talk to someone more distinguished. But it’s been a great breakneck pace, as in the case of the patent written for a experience. You always end up getting more out of it than new infra-red sensitive material for Electrical and you give.” Computer Engineering professor Ted Sargent.

14 • Spring 2006 Only two days after the firm rushed to file a provisional now studying chemical engineering. Laughing, Hill patent application, Sargent’s innovation was written up in stated, “UofT was the only option.” The Globe and Mail. The firm has also executed patents for the UofT Innovations Foundation and for many Her father, the late Dr. Joseph Hill, who headed faculty members, including Mechanical and Industrial Toronto General Hospital’s Department of Engineering professors Andrew Goldenberg and Chul Park. Ophthalmology and her mother, optometrist Eileen Jackson Hill, had hoped that Nancy would pursue “My engineering degree makes a huge difference to medicine after engineering. Describing a patent clients,” Hill stated. “Understanding the technology she executed for an ophthalmic shunt used in the helps me to draft patents accurately and get the broadest management of glaucoma for Professors Ross Ethier, possible protection for my clients. I like the challenge Molly Shoichet and Arthur Sit of UofT’s Institute of figuring out how the different components function of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, together and knowing how stuff works. That’s why I Hill remarked, “My father would have been so proud.” went into engineering in the first place.”

After graduation, Hill worked as a structural engi- Intellectual property lawyer Nancy Hill (Civ 8T1), pictured in her Toronto office, has helped innovators to patent their bright ideas. neer for two years with Stone & Webster Canada Hill has also used her legal knowledge to advocate for the Limited. Then, feeling that “I had more school in me,” engineering profession. she earned a University of Ottawa law degree in 1986.

“I didn’t think of engineering as an end in itself,” she stated. “My view is that engineering is a good lead into almost any professional field, including law, medicine and business. It teaches you analytical skills and how to handle a vast amount of work. No matter what you do with your engineering degree, it gives you credibility and confidence.”

In 2000, Hill was appointed by Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor as a Councillor on PEO Council. She was also elected twice to the PEO Executive, in 2001-2 and 2004 to the present. For seven years, she was a member of PEO’s Women in Engineering Advisory Committee (WEAC), including two years as its Chair. In this role, Hill worked with WEAC members Peter Hiscocks and Karen Webb to make Ontario the first province to specifically identify harassment as professional miscon- duct in the practice of engineering. After surveying members, they developed guidelines that went beyond gender-based harassment to embrace a broader definition of discrimination, as outlined in case law and Ontario’s human rights code. Hill is also a long-time member of the Board of the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science and Technology, President of the Board of the Women Inventors’ Project and is on the Research Management Board of Auto 21.

Hill’s decision to study engineering was inspired in part by stories she heard about her late uncle, Herb Jackson, a civil engineer and UofT alumnus who worked on the Churchill Falls hydro development in Labrador and also UofT’s Medical Sciences building. Jackson went on to become a vice-president of the construction firm, Bechtel Canada Co., before his untimely death.

She is part of a five-generation UofT family, going back to her great-grandfather, who studied divinity; her grandfather, who studied medicine; and continuing with her nieces, Siobhan and Carolyn Holloday,

skulematters • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering • University of Toronto 15 Cadario describes the World Bank as the world’s A Global Perspective premiere global development institution for dealing with poverty reduction and improving living standards. Not a Paul Cadario’s 30-year World Bank bank in the common sense, the World Bank has been career has made him an agent compared to a big credit union owned by its 184 member countries. Founded in 1944 to facilitate post-WWII of change in developing countries Paul Cadario (Civ 7T3), a senior executive who has worked with the By Ruth Weinstock World Bank for more than three decades, says, “The bank’s chief product is change.” He is shown in Lafayette Park, located close to the bank’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. If engineers are known for their ability to see the big picture, Paul Cadario’s perspective is greater than most.

Cadario (Civ 7T3), who has spent 30 years working in various capacities for the World Bank, is a citizen of the world. A superb raconteur, Rhodes scholar, self-described “social scientist” and author and speaker on international organizational development, Cadario has been an agent of change in many countries including China, Mongolia and Papua New Guinea.

His work has made him a familiar figure both in government offices and on the back roads of developing nations in Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union – and he has the stories to prove it. A conversation with Cadario about his career can include tales of his dealings with despots, corrupt officials, cheats and connivers – and also treasured mem- ories of the richness and beauty of the indigenous cultures and the ingenuity and commitment of the people of the countless countries in which he has travelled.

Cadario is strongly interested in how global issues could play out in the future, and also in enlarging the perspectives of the young engineers who may deal with those issues. This passion has made him a tireless volunteer for his alma mater and for the Faculty. “Leaders must drink at dangerous watering holes,” Cadario observed. “They must be wary and aware and learn what’s up ahead.”

Cadario’s current position with the Washington, D.C.-based bank is Senior “Engineering is part Manager for Trust Fund Quality of the solution for making Assurance and Compliance. He over- human lives better.” sees compliance and quality assurance for funds disbursed by the bank in its function as a trustee for governments, foundations, NGOs and private partners and advises bank leaders on policy, process and risk issues associated with optimum expenditure of the bank’s U.S. $10 billion trust fund portfolio.

Prior to his current position, from 1998 to 2001, Cadario drew on his IT and management skills to lead a Photo: John Hryniuk multidisciplinary “Change Gang,” as Operations Advisor reconstruction and development, today it provides techni- with the bank’s Operational Core Services Network. cal assistance and advice, as well as low-interest loans, His team was responsible for design and delivery of interest-free credit and grants to developing countries a U.S. $60 million information systems renewal project, for such purposes as education, health, infrastructure and implemented in offices in 130 countries. communications.

16 • Spring 2006 In providing financing to developing countries, the With that crisis behind him, Paul got his government bank addresses a host of international and local issues, clients to travel rural roads and review progress. Three from climate change and governance, to water resources bone-jarring years later – “I’m not sure I’d spend so and women’s education and also offers professional much time in a jeep today” – the project was a success, support to ensure projects will have the desired benefit. and goods and people started to move in Guinea. The challenge is supporting worthy projects on the one hand, while struggling against the corruption endemic The other “stand out” experience is the part Cadario in some client countries on the other. “The bank’s chief played in reforming the Chinese economy in the late product is change,” Cadario asserted. 1980’s and early 90’s, helping that nation make the right choices to join the world economy after the Cultural Cadario credited two summers he spent working Revolution. In his six-year Asian tour of duty Cadario in the Canadian Arctic as an undergraduate in the also assisted with reconstruction after an earthquake Department of Civil Engineering with sparking his devastated a rural area of Northern China that had proba- interest in his current career path. In 1971 and 1972, bly never seen Westerners before; led a team that wrote former Dean Gary Heinke hired the a report on the role of women in young student as a research assistant on China’s development; and was also a project for the Department of Indian “The future belongs to the involved with the start-up of rehabili- Affairs and Northern Development, tation and technical assistance projects people who learn.” intended to improve municipal services in Mongolia, after it joined the World for the Inuit. “Working on diagnosing Bank in 1990. and addressing environmental and social problems gave me an interest in applying engineer- As an undergraduate at UofT, Cadario was exten- ing skills to social and poverty issues. I saw that sively engaged in student government. He was the engi- engineering could be part of the solution to making lives neering representative on the Student Administrative better,” Cadario explained. Council, SAC’s finance commissioner and one of the first student members of Governing Council. Cadario initially considered studying architecture, rather than engineering, but ultimately decided to follow He has maintained this active profile today. in his father’s footsteps. An electrical engineer, Harry Cadario served for nine years on UofT’s Governing Cadario was in charge of planning and siting Ontario’s Council. His current voluntary posts include acting as nuclear and thermal power stations as Ontario Hydro’s President of the Associates of University of Toronto, Director of Engineering. a group of UofT alumni living in the U.S., a role Cadario has undertaken for more than a decade; he is After graduating from UofT with a Rhodes also the University of Toronto Alumni Association’s Scholarship, Paul Cadario earned Bachelors and Master’s Vice-President, Governance, and Chair of the degrees in philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. College of Electors, which this year selected a new One of his summer jobs took him to Papua New Guinea, Chancellor for UofT. In l998, he endowed the Cadario where he was an economist on the team that set up a Facility for Integrated Learning in the Department of Central Planning Office, prior to that country’s independ- Civil Engineering. He has been much awarded by both ence from Australia. Several months of travel in Asia UofT and the World Bank. followed, before his 1975 start with the World Bank. As part of his volunteer work as Vice-Chair of our In an eventful career, two experiences stand out for Faculty’s Dean's Advisory Board, Cadario was a key Cadario. One is his first assignment as a 25-year-old member of the team working on reforming the UofT economist. He traveled to the French-speaking country engineering curriculum. One of the significant results is of Guinea, West Africa, then reputed to be a dictatorship the widely praised Engineering Strategies and Practice where torture was not unknown. The bank had agreed to (ESP) program. ESP uses engineering design to encour- loan the country U.S. $14 million, on the understanding age students to think of the bigger picture. that it would be used to rehabilitate and then maintain roads. Better roads, all agreed, could boost Guinea’s agri- “Studying engineering gives you a rigour, curiosity cultural potential. But Guinea’s President was insisting and discipline that prepares you well, whatever you do on using the money solely to buy bulldozers, thereby in life,” Cadario affirmed. A strong believer in life-long reneging on this agreement. Paul, and a colleague who learning, in his late forties Cadario earned a Master's spoke no French, had to persuade the government that the degree in organizational development from the American President’s plans would lead to cancellation of the University in Washington, D.C. project, mindful that the Minister who argued their case with the President (the Minister’s uncle) could face “The future belongs to the people who learn,” he consequences far worse than mere unemployment. declared.

skulematters • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering • University of Toronto 17 led as he recalled the conversation he had with his North Major League Player Toronto Collegiate Vice-Principal. When he told the V.P. he was going to leave high school to play baseball in the Dr. Ron Taylor has worn U.S., with his parents’ blessing, the V.P. warned, “Son, a ball cap, an iron ring and a you’re making a terrible mistake.” stethoscope to work Taylor pitched in the minor leagues for the next five years, but he was determined to finish his education. By Ruth Weinstock Even though it meant competing against prospects who had the benefit of spring training, Taylor negotiated a It is relatively rare for engineers to become doctors. deal to report late, after the season had already started, But very few, if any, in that select group can also boast for the five years it took to finish high school and earn a that they have pitched on two World Series championship UofT degree in electrical engineering. teams. “I loved engineering – my teachers, my classmates Dr. Ron Taylor (Elec 6T1) can. at UofT,” Taylor stated. “It was a very demanding academic program, but we still had a lot of fun.” Smiling, he For the past 28 years, Taylor has focused on his recalled an undergraduate prank in which medical stu- patients, dividing his time among his Toronto-based gen- dents stole the Skule™ cannon. To retrieve it, his engi- eral practice, the S.C. Cooper Sports Medicine Clinic at neering classmates made the most of Taylor’s celebrated Mount Sinai Hospital and his work as the Toronto Blue pitching arm, getting him to hurl snowballs at their Jays’ medical director. But Taylor may MedSci opponents. “I was their main well be the only member of the Ontario weapon,” Taylor recalled. Medical Association who is also a “No matter what path you member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and take after engineering, the Major League Baseball Physicians’ the skills you acquire are Association. His triple-threat career invaluable.” includes some extraordinary moments and breathtaking turning points.

Taylor’s sizzling pitching arm was the catalyst for his storied 15-year baseball odyssey. In his very first major league game in 1962, Taylor pitched 11 shutout innings. He went on to play with, or against, some of the game’s most famous names, including Hank Aaron, Roger Maris, Willy Mays, Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver, and to be credited with saving 73 games as “the closer.” He travelled all over the U.S., Southeast Asia and beyond. Taylor recorded a National League high of eight relief wins for the St. Louis Cardinals and saved that team’s fourth World Series game in 1964. He was one of the key people behind the 1969 “Met Miracle,” saving the Mets’ second World Series game. He recalled that after the 1969 victory, Shea stadium exploded with the roar of 55,000 jubilant fans. That was followed by a “sur- real” victory parade through the heart of New York, in which overjoyed supporters tossed ticker tape and tore buttons off the players’ suits.

Media stories of Taylor’s baseball-playing achievements abound. What is arguably less well known is Trained as an engineer, Dr. Ron Taylor (Elec 6T1) had a meteoric pitch- the rest of Taylor’s remarkable story, including his roots ing career in the major leagues, before becoming a GP and the Toronto in engineering. Blue Jays’ medical director. He is pictured in his Toronto medical office.

Ronald W. Taylor started playing baseball at the age “In engineering I learned to work hard, be disci- of eight in Leaside, in a field now named after him and plined and organize a lot of material. I used to stay up to his coach, Ron Roncetti. At 17, scout Chester Dies took three or four in the morning preparing for labs. No matter him to try out for the Cleveland Indians, who signed him what path you take after engineering, the skills you to a contract on that visit. The 68-year-old Taylor chuck- acquire are invaluable.” After graduation, Taylor went on

18 • Spring 2006 to practice engineering in the off-seasons, working for a himself to studying. “I became a recluse,” he recalled. general contractor on sites in New York. “I am still an “My bedroom seemed very small. I went to school from engineer,” declared the physician. “I still benefit from the eight to five, slept five hours, and then studied from lessons I learned in engineering – analyzing, problem- 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.” solving, putting solutions into motion.”

Ironically, Taylor’s engineering background played a pivotal role in helping him to be considered for medical school. In his Toronto medical office, Taylor recounted the story of his transition from baseball to medicine.

As a baseball player in his thirties, Taylor knew he could not continue pitching forever and pondered his next step in life. At the time, going back to engineering did not seem a viable option. “I realized my electrical engineering degree had become obsolete,” Taylor explained. “Things had moved from vacuum tubes to solid-state physics. I was offered a job in engineering sales. It made me realize that was not the route I wanted to go.”

The Vietnam War opened up a new option. From 1968 to 1970, the athlete made three voluntary tours to Southeast Asia in support of soldiers hospitalized in Vietnam. Each year, during month- long stays there, Taylor met the doctors who treated the injured. “What “I still benefit from the impressed me was the way those doc- lessons I learned in tors were trying to help the young engineering – analyzing, guys in a terrible situation,” he said. With their encouragement, he decided problem-solving, putting to apply to medical school. He knew it solutions into motion.” was a long shot, as he had not attended school for 11 years. “They were not really jumping to accept me,” Taylor said dryly.

To assist with Taylor’s application to UofT’s Faculty of Medicine, a friend, Dr. Bill Forder, arranged an interview with Dr. Jan W. Steiner, then its Associate Dean, Student Affairs. The interview did not start off on an encouraging note. Taylor was told, “We have several The grind paid off. His excellent marks opened the thousand applications for 250 spots. We rarely accept door to UofT medical school. Taylor joked, “With my people over the age of 30. Why should we take you?” engineering ring on, the other medical students thought ‘that old guy must be a repairman’.” He earned his M.D. But when Dr. Steiner looked at the transcript of in 1977 at the age of 40. Taylor’s engineering marks, his tone changed. Taylor had been one of the top-scoring students in his electrical Today, even with his extremely busy schedule as a engineering class. “Are these marks yours?” Steiner physician, Taylor has kept in touch with a group of six asked incredulously, glancing at the transcript, then at fellow 6T1 engineering grads. He is also longtime friends Taylor and back again. “They’re very good. If you were with fellow alumnus and prominent engineer Syd Cooper 24 years old, you’d be in. But you’re not. You’re 34.” (Civ 4T5). The two met through their mutual interest in baseball. The Mount Sinai sports medicine clinic Taylor Taylor seized on the remark and asked, “What do I directs “would not exist without Mr. Cooper,” the physi- have to do to be considered?” The non-committal answer cian stated. Taylor founded the clinic in 1979. “Like a was, “Take science courses. If your marks are high good engineer, I recruited orthopedic surgeons and enough, the odds of you getting in are fifty-fifty.” physiotherapists to the clinic team.”

Returning to study third year honours science at Taylor’s final word: “I don’t wear the four World UofT in 1972 was a major life change for Taylor. He series rings I earned. I wear my iron ring.” He held up his moved back into his childhood home, in order to be a hand with pride. “Engineering was great training, a great companion to his widowed father, Wesley, and devoted education. I wouldn’t have given it up for anything.”

skulematters • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering • University of Toronto 19 Canada and its people. An undisputed success, it made Mr. Milestone Aykroyd’s name as a “mega-anniversary consultant” with a unique talent for tapping into our human need to From Centennial Booster to Assistant connect to something larger than ourselves. His 1992 Deputy Minister of Transport Canada, book, The Anniversary Compulsion, summed up these experiences. Peter Aykroyd has made a name for Aykroyd later contributed to our country’s fin-de- himself on our national stage siècle festivities, as the founder of the “Our Millennium” By Ruth Weinstock project. Again, Canadians responded to his call in droves.

Peter Aykroyd, whose career in the federal public service included posts as Director of Special Projects for the Centennial Commission and Assistant Deputy Minister, Research and Development, with Transport Canada, is shown with two cars from his vintage collection. Foreground: a 1932 Pierce Arrow V-12; background: a 1948 Bentley Mark VI.

In his final year at Whitney Public School in More than 5,000 projects involving 4.5 million Toronto in 1935, Peter Aykroyd was asked by the volunteers were registered online by 2000. Aykroyd principal to give the valedictory address to his fellow still speaks with infectious enthusiasm about the eighth-graders. More than 70 years later, it’s easy to see way Canadians opened their hearts to commemorate what Principal Hudgins saw in the 13-year-old: our passage into the 21st century. a natural talent for inspiring others to participate in a memorable moment in a memorable way. These are by no means Aykroyd’s only accomplish- ments. After the Centennial, he was recruited to Canada’s That gift has stood Peter Aykroyd (Civ 4T5) in good most influential governmental entity, the Privy Council stead. Office, in Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s administration. As Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for four years, In a long, varied and sometimes show-stopping he worked in policy development in the Priorities and career in the public service, Aykroyd became known as Planning, Federal-Provincial Relations and Operations a key organizer of celebrations to mark some of our Secretariats. Later, he rose to become Assistant Deputy nation’s milestones. Minister, Research and Development, with Transport Canada. From 1963 to 1967, as Director of Special Projects for the Centennial Commission, he motivated Canadians Aykroyd joked about yet another claim to fame. from coast to coast to participate in the 100th anniversary “I am, to many people, an apostrophe,” he said, referring of Confederation. Centennial year saw an unprecedented to the fact that he is widely known as Dan and Peter series of programs and festivities that arguably changed Aykroyd’s father. Dan, a founding member of Saturday

20 • Spring 2006 Night Live’s “Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” has Information and Historical Division of the NCC built on also been a “Blues Brother,” “Conehead” and his boosterism and national pride. He travelled across “Ghostbuster.” Brother Peter is a successful writer of Canada, “telling citizens about the importance of their TV shows, including PSI Factor: Chronicles of the national capital,” and also earned a diploma in public Paranormal, syndicated all over the world. administration from Carleton.

When Aykroyd Sr. recounted his extra-curricular Travels “built up in me a strong sense of what activities at UofT, it’s easy to see why he received the Canada is” and led to his Centennial work, “the apogee 1945 President’s Medal. He organized university-wide of my career.” It was Aykroyd who suggested the cele- blood drives; co-directed Skule Nite with his elder bration should be participatory and distributed across brother, Maurice James Jr. (Civ 4T3); was on the swim the country and not a centralized and officious affair. team; and was assistant sports editor of The Varsity. Canadians greeted with enthusiasm his idea that they He was also the engineering representative on the undertake their own grassroots projects, from planting Student Administrative Council, a second Vice-President a garden to touring the country. By 1967, more than of the Engineering Society and President of the Inter- 2,800 projects sprang up in every corner of the country, Varsity Christian Fellowship. including libraries, schools and arenas. One of the reviewers of Aykroyd’s decision to study engi- Aykroyd’s anniversary book called it Aykroyd speaks with infectious neering was influenced by his late “a year that changed the soul of the brother, who became a respected con- enthusiasm about the way country.” Since retiring in 1980, struction manager, and by his late Canadians opened their hearts the irrepressible Aykroyd has pursued father, Moss James. In the mid-1940’s, and volunteered their time his many passions. his Dad, who worked at Bell Canada, to commemorate significant was President of both the Association In 1992, he became Chair of the of Professional Engineers Ontario and anniversaries. Arlington, Virginia-based Institute the Dominion Council, an umbrella for Twentieth-Century Studies. This organization of Canadian engineering contact with leaders of U.S. philan- associations. thropic foundations inspired him to bring what he learned home. He became a founding member of the Board of “My father was a hero to his generation,” Aykroyd the Community Foundation of Greater Kingston, part stated proudly. In 1945, Moss Aykroyd negotiated to have of the Community Foundations of Canada (CFC). engineers recognized as bargaining units under the feder- It was the CFC that administered the successful “Our al Labour Relations Act, improving their pay and work- Millenium” project. In May, 2005, the Kingston Foundation ing conditions. honoured Aykroyd with its Medal of Recognition.

After graduation, Aykroyd went to British Columbia He has also continued writing. His second book, as field secretary for the Inter-Varsity Christian A Sense of Place, is based on his family history, dating Fellowship. That two-year foray into the evangelical to 1250 in Yorkshire. His current book is on his grandfa- life was followed by a year working for Ontario Hydro, ther, Dr. Samuel Augustus Aykroyd, who was both a clearing land for a dam in north Blind River in 1948. dentist and a keen researcher into psychic phenomena.

Then, an ad for the National Film Board (NFB) Aykroyd’s car collection, which includes a 1932 caught his eye. Whereas in B.C. his outreach had enabled Pierce Arrow V-12, a couple of Buicks from the 1940’s him to contact perhaps 200 people at a time, filmmaking and a 1934 De Soto Airflow, is another passion. He is had the potential to reach larger audiences. Between 1949 currently taking tap dancing lessons and is interested in and 1954, Aykroyd worked on 23 documentaries for the cultivating mushrooms. NFB, including “Breakdown,” a film on mental illness, and “The Royal Journey,” in which Aykroyd followed Last September, Aykroyd attended a reunion of the young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, from coast alumni from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, who had learned to coast in Canada. surveying skills at Gull Lake camp, near Minden, Ontario, as undergraduates. “We came back from Gull “Then,” Aykroyd stated emphatically, “I fell in love Lake united as a tribe,” Aykroyd reflected. “I felt then, with Lorraine Gougeon.” His bride-to-be, a former staff and I still feel, my time at survey camp was an important member of legendary engineer C.D. Howe, was rising in rite of passage. It resonated very strongly with me.” the federal public service. Lorraine maintained, “You’re Aykroyd called the experience, “a blessed time,” marked an engineer. Get a real job.” From 1954 to 1962, Aykroyd by lightheartedness and great fellowship. was the resident engineer for the National Capital Commission (NCC) on the Gatineau Parkway, supervis- He declared, “I am absolutely proud of being an ing road construction through the pre-Cambrian shield. engineer. The influence of engineering is pervasive. You Aykroyd’s next appointment as Director of the see it in every structure, function and process in society.”

skulematters • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering • University of Toronto 21 Ontario, the Canadian Organization for Advancement of A Pioneering Computers in Health, the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Institute for Work and Health. Prescription for our They cite his leadership of the Ontario Hospital Association’s e-Health Council in calling for increased Health Care System spending on computerized solutions to help speed up service delivery, improve medical outcomes and reduce Industrial Engineer Tom Closson has public health costs. dedicated his career to improving Photo: David Cooper/ Toronto Star Canadian hospitals and health care

By Lisa E. Boyes

Tom Closson (Ind 7T1) has built a remarkable career in a surprising sector: health care.

Closson’s name has become associated with accountability and a renewed sense of mission for exem- plary patient care, research and education in Canadian hospitals. Within the past decade, he has been a President and CEO of three major Canadian health care corporations: first, at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; then, as chief of the Capital Health Region, Victoria, B.C. In 2000, he was appointed President and CEO of the University Health Network (UHN), a network of three teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine.

At UHN, Closson was responsible for more than 10,000 employees and, ultimately, for the care of countless thousands of Canadians. Together, the UHN hospitals – Toronto General, Toronto Western and Princess Margaret – represent assets and annual operating revenues of more than $1 billion.

Closson credits his industrial engineering studies at UofT with Industrial engineers opening his eyes to the possibilities have the potential to enter a in health care. “It was Dr. Ben vast array of fields. Bernholtz, chair of industrial engineering during my undergraduate studies, who influenced my ideas on health care as a system that needed our brand of big- systems thinking. He encouraged a number of us to try to enter the field through our undergraduate theses. I did just that, at The Hospital for Sick Children.”

By the time Closson decided to step down as head of Tom Closson (Ind 7T1), who transformed operations of the University UHN in June 2005, he had become one of Canada’s most Health Network as its President and CEO, is shown at the nursing station well-known and highly regarded chief hospital execu- in the hospital’s cardiac care unit. He is known for his award-winning tives. Last November, Closson’s achievements were rec- achievements in applying industrial engineering principles to health care. ognized by his peers with the 2005 Ontario Professional Engineers Medal for Management. In addition, Maclean’s Closson continues to be sought after as a health care magazine selected UHN as one of the top 100 employers consultant. Last May, Ontario’s Minister of Health, in Canada for three years in a row. George Smitherman, appointed him as a special advisor to work with health care providers in the province’s An internet search brings up 71,200 hits on northwest on a plan to improve and coordinate the Closson’s name. Profiles mention his work on numerous region’s services, including acute hospital care, primary voluntary boards, including those of Cancer Care care, long-term care and mental health and addiction.

22 • Spring 2006 Smitherman said Closson’s report could serve as a model At UHN, Closson earned a reputation for focusing for other Local Health Integration Networks across the on both efficiency and also on the human issues that province. arise in the operations of large organizations. For exam- ple, Closson made it a priority to keep in touch with If all these achievements seem a long way from UHN employees through “Tom Talks,” as well as industrial engineering, in fact, complex systems and through a feedback mechanism dubbed “Tom Listens.” engineering are closely linked. “Industrial engineering Retreats were held to learn employees’ recommendations solves business-management problems,” according to on developing a culture of patient-centred care. a long-time colleague of Closson’s, Professor Mike Carter of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Throughout his career, Closson has also mentored Engineering in UofT’s Faculty of Applied Science young industrial engineers and those interning for and Engineering. Carter explained that the discipline of licensure as professional engineers to help them develop industrial engineering is more than a century old and careers in health-system improvement and management. was founded in manufacturing. He added, “Now it One of his protegées, Andrew Macdonald, a recent extends to virtually all sectors, including government, industrial engineering graduate, is now working in banking, retail and health care.” nursing at UHN on a workload meas- urement system. “Tom helped me to “Canadians spend about ten per- Closson credits his establish my credibility,” said cent of their gross domestic product Macdonald, “and to learn how to industrial engineering studies (the total of a nation’s goods and communicate within the different services) on health care goods and at UofT with opening his hospital cultures that industrial services,” Carter observed. “Yet 15 eyes to the possibilities in engineers must assess for solutions. years ago, there were really no health care. He really understands the adage Canadian researchers focused on quan- that the mountain is made up of many titative issues in health care, which specs of dust.” really comes down to both patient service and efficiency. Today operations research profes- Closson summed up the opportunities for industrial sors and industrial engineers like Tom are important to engineers: “By the 1990s, the widespread use of the the health industry, and hospitals are also hiring graduate term ‘re-engineering,’ really meant that everyone with students like mine to conduct systems studies.” responsibility for effective operations was expected to become an industrial engineer. With my credentials Carter has deployed his trouble-shooters, whom from the Faculty’s industrial engineering program, Closson frequently mentored at UHN, to address such some solid early jobs where I could apply industrial systems problems as repeats of the same diagnostic test engineering techniques and an MBA thrown in and the bottlenecks that patients can experience in for ‘management credibility,’ I feel I could have worked negotiating the hospital system. in almost any industry in Canada.”

“Mathematical modeling and operations research Closson addresses the challenge facing today’s are the stock-in-trade of the industrial engineer,” industrial engineers: “Engineering schools need to said Closson. By enhancing data collection and analysis remember that China graduates about 400,000 engineers and measuring performance against provincial and a year. We need to continually rethink where the jobs of national benchmarks, Closson sought to reduce the future are.” emergency wait times, improve the efficiency of labs and lower the rates of post-operative wound infections Plotting the future of engineering. Sounds like a job and re-admissions at UHN. for an industrial engineer.

Closson commented, “What other industry would not know how long their clients are waiting for service? When I came on board as CEO at UHN, I didn’t.” Closson soon put his stamp on UHN, by creating its first system to report on the length of time a patient waits for a particular service, treatment or procedure – and by taking further steps to improve wait times. UHN patients can report online on the number of days they wait to see a specialist, after being referred by their family physician, or on the number of hours they have waited to be admitted to a nursing unit after being seen in the ER. (see www.uhn.on.ca and click on “quicklinks” for wait times)

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