MIE - Newsletter 43

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May 17, 2010 Vol. 01 // No. 43

Table of Contents: Chair's Office[2] // Research Activities[3] // Seminars[4] // Graduate Studies[5] // Job Opportunities[6] // Student Affairs[7] // Announcements[8] // Vacation[9] // Previous
Newsletter & Links[10] Chair's Office

Office Closure Reminder ; Victoria Day

The University and the department will be closed on Victoria Day (Monday, May 24) and will re-open on Tuesday, May 25.

The machine shop will close early this Friday, May 21 at 2 PM and department offices will close at 3 PM.

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Administrative and Technical Staff Meeting

Former undergraduate assistant, Rachel MacKenzie, joined the administrative and technical staff meeting on May 14 to receive thanks from the department. We wish Rachel the best-of-luck in her new position at Psychiatry.

More Photos[11]

Research Activities

MATCH 2010 Symposium

DATE: Thursday, May 20 to Friday, May 21
LOCATION: Trinity College, UofT St. George campus, 5 Hoskin Ave.

MATCH 2010 is the inaugural Symposium of the NSERC CREATE graduate training program in Microfluidic Applications and Training in Cardiovascular Health (MATCH). The Symposium features keynote talks by Prof. Roger Kamm (MIT) and Dr. Peter Liu (CIHR), as well as oral and poster presentations from graduate students in the MATCH Program.
This year's event is held in conjunction with Ontario-on-a-Chip5.

More Info[12]

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Symposium for Alumni of the Robotics and Automation Laboratory

DATE: Saturday, May 29
TIME: 9 AM
LOCATION: Medical Sciences Building (Room 2173), UofT St. George campus

A symposium organized by former graduate students of PROF.
GOLDENBERG, will be held to highlight the achievements of the Robotics and Automation Laboratory's alumni.

For more information contact Elizabeth Catalano[13].

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IPO Funding Opportunity » FedDev Ontario Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative

A $15M commercialization funding opportunity entitled the Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative through FedDev Ontario has just been announced. The vision of FedDev Ontario is to be a catalyst in creating a more prosperous and globally competitive Ontario. The Initiative will address the unique research and innovation challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), defined as having less than 1000 employees, including lack of internal research and development and pre-commercialization capacity.

The Initiative will provide up to $750,000 to post-secondary institutions to develop individual projects with businesses in southern Ontario. Projects will be cost shared 2/3 by post-secondary institutions and 1/3 (cash or in-kind) by the small business. Under the Initiative, post-secondary institutions will be eligible for a contribution up to a maximum of $50,000 per project with a collaborating SME. A maximum of one project per SME can be conducted under the Initiative.

A single application is due by Monday, June 14 outlining how the UofT proposes to use its expertise to work with SMEs. It is not expected that any actual projects or agreements with specific SMEs will have been identified by the June 14 deadline. Agreements with individual SME partners will need to be in place by March 31, 2011, with all project work completed by March 31, 2012.

Please note that inventors with equity in the SME are not eligible.
Please direct enquiries with a "FedDev Ontario" subject line to innovations.partnerships@uotoronto.ca[14].

More Info[15]

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Funding Opportunity » Genome Canada

Genome Canada will be holding two funding competitions in 2010 for a total of up to $84 million using the $75 million in funds it received in the 2010 Federal Budget and $9 million of existing additional funds.

More Info [16]

To support these competitions an information session presented by representatives of the Ontario Genomics Institute will be held to inform researchers interested in large scale genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics projects about these upcoming Genome Canada competitions and other funding opportunities.

DATE: Tuesday, May 18
TIME: 1 - 3 PM
LOCATION: Governing Council Chambers, Simcoe Hall

More Info[17]

Seminars

IBM Distinguished Lecture

/An Energy Efficient Petaflop Supercomputer Cooled with Warm Water:
From Electronics Nanomanufacturing to Waste Heat Reuse –/ The IBM-ETH Zurich AQUASAR Project

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dimos Poulikakos, Director, Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Department of Process Engineering and Director, joint IBM-ETH Zurich Nanoscale Exploratory Technologies Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
DATE: Tuesday, May 18
TIME: 2:10 PM
LOCATION: MC102

Graduate Studies

Call for Applications – Ontario Post Doctoral Fellowship Program 2010

Application deadline: MONDAY, JUNE 7.

More Info[18]

Student Affairs

Welcome to Engineering!

On Saturday, May 15 the department welcomed 75 students and their guests for a post-offer information session. The MIE session included welcoming remarks by Vice Chair PROF. SANJEEV CHANDRA and a transitioning to University talk by ANDREA GRAHAM, Learning Skills Counsellor at UofT's Academic Success Centre. Visiting students had the opportunity to ask questions of our PEY and Student Life panels, and meet other newly admitted students at a mid-day luncheon.

Thanks to all our student volunteers for helping make this day
possible: BLAIR ANTCLIFFE, JOSHUA BELZILE, STEPH CHOW, NITLA COOKE, BECKY GAN, FLORENCIA HERRERA, NEFELI KOTOPOULIS, ABHISHEK MATHUR, PRACHY MOHAN, MOHAMAD NSOULI, MARC PILON, ANNA SHEU, KATHRYN TANG, ELLEN TURNER, MILOS USKOKOVIC, and SAMANTHA YANG.

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New AMIGAS Leadership

The election on May 12th had great attendance and AMIGAS is pleased to announce its new leadership for the upcoming year:

CO-PRESIDENTS: Hadi Ghasemi and Jingwen Wang
TREASURER: Sarina Turner
SECRETARY: Joel Kuhn
VP ACADEMIC: Reza Samavi
VP SOCIAL: Jeff Harris
VP SPORTS: Faysal Ahmed
VP EXTERNAL: James Hinebaugh
WEBMASTERS: Ori Barbut and Shadi Ghajar
GRADUATE STUDENTS UNION REPRESENTATIVES: Shadi Ghajar, Michael Marr and Dan Sellan

Congratulations to all the newly elected representatives, and thank you to the outgoing representatives!

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AMIGAS – Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees!

DATE: Sunday, June 6
TIME: 1 PM
LOCATION: Rogers Centre

Join AMIGAS and the GEA for a trip to the ball park to see our Toronto Blue Jays play the New York Yankees.

Tickets are $5 for you and your family, and $12 for friends.
Tickets on sale through the AMIGAS website[20]until May 21. Purchased tickets will be available for pickup at MB60 from Friday, May 28 until Friday, June 4, during normal business hours.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact gea.baseball@gmail.com[21].

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Formula SAE: New Pictures uploaded of UTX on track!

The UTX is on track and making lots of power! You can check out our new uploaded testing pictures on FASE's Facebook group[22]. The car will be stripped-down for painting and on Thursday, May 27, it will be showcased at the SAE Students Night Design Presentation at the Bahen Center (details below).

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SAE Central Ontario 2010 Students' Night Design Presentation

DATE: Thursday, May 27
TIME: 4:30 - 8 PM
LOCATION: Bahen Centre Atrium, St. George campus RSVP by May 21 to: bgray@celestica.com[23] Attendance for this event is limited to 80.

Join the SAE Central Ontario Section and its student members for an opportunity to interact with tomorrow's automotive and mobility engineers. Student teams will deliver informal technical presentations about their SAE competition vehicles to a panel of industry professionals in an effort to win cash awards from the SAE Central Ontario.

An evening BBQ will be available at a cost of $5 per student members and $10 per guests/professional members.

More Info[24]

Job Opportunities

MIE Sessional Lecturer Positions

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is hiring sessional lecturers to deliver some of its undergraduate courses. The available sessional lecturer positions are:

MIE333H1[25] S: Engineering Physics (2 Sections) MIE354H1[26] F: Business Process Engineering MIE440H1[27] F: Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology MIE448H1[28] F: Engineering Psychology and Human Performance MIE451H1[29] F: Decision Support Systems MIE469H1[30] S: Reliability and Maintainability Engineering MIE562H1[31] F: Scheduling

Closing date: Wednesday, June 2. Visit the MIE careers page[32] for full job descriptions and application information.

Announcements

Non-Academic Staff: Pension Town Halls

There have been a number of articles in the media about Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Retirement Planning over the past couple of months. As a result, Human Resources & Equity have received a number of questions about the University Pension Plan.

Please join one of the Town Hall meetings at which the University’s actuary and our pension consultants will provide information on the UofT plan, specifically how benefits are determined, how the plan is funded, the implications of the current deficit and the proposed new model of governance. St. George campus information sessions:

DATE: May 21
TIME: 9:30 - 11 AM
LOCATION: JJR MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Bldg (MS2158), 1 King's College Circle

DATE: May 27
TIME: 9:30 - 11 AM
LOCATION: OISE - Auditorium G162

DATE: May 31
TIME: 9:30 - 11 AM
LOCATION: JJR MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Bldg (MS2158), 1 King's College Circle

Please RSVP to vp.hr@utoronto.ca[33] to let Human Resources & Equity know which Town Hall you would like to attend.

Vacation

/Faculty: /

PROF. SANJEEV CHANDRA, Vice Chair: May 17 - 31

/Staff:/

GEOFFREY CHOW, Manager, Research Accounting: Monday, May 17

BRENDA FUNG, Graduate Program Administrator: May 20 - June 2

DONNA LIU, Graduate Program Assistant: April 26 - May 21

RYAN MENDELL, Machine Shop Manager: May 25 - 31

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