July 5, 2010 Vol. 02 // No. 1
Table of Contents: Chair's Office // Awards and Recognition // Seminars // Graduate Studies // Research Activities // Student Affairs // Announcements // Vacation // Previous Newsletter & Links
Chair's Office
MIE Newsletter launches Volume 2
After 48 issues, the department is happy to announce that the MIE Newsletter is moving into its second volume.
You can stay up-to-date on all departmental activities and news by reading the MIE newsletter every Monday!
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MIE Task Force on Design Education
Based on the recommendation at the Faculty Retreat in December 2009, a Task Force on Design Education has been established with the mandate to examine how to improve design education in MIE. In particular, the Task Force will recommend how to implement a 4th-year capstone design course for the ME program. The committee consists of the following members:
Jane Postma (Chair)
Jim Wallace
Bill Cleghorn
Jim Mills
Hani Naguib
Jason Bazylak
The first meeting took place on June 29 that reviewed the practices in other universities and a proposal by Prof. Bill Cleghorn and Prof. Jim Mills.
Awards & Recognition
Prof. Goldenberg awarded a PEO Medal for Entrepreneurship
Congratulations to Prof. Goldenberg for being awarded a 2010 Ontario Professional Engineers Engineering Medal for Entrepreneurship. The medal honours members of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) who have made significant contributions to new technologies that have helped new companies establish themselves.
Prof. Goldenberg will receive the award at the OPEA Awards Gala in November 2010.
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Prof Thomson wins NSERC DAS award
Prof. Murray Thomson was one of 12 UofT professors who was recently awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) program award.
DAS falls under NSERC’s Discovery Grants Program. Its goal is to provide additional resources to a small group of outstanding researchers who have a well-established research program and who demonstrate potential to become leaders in their field.
Prof. Thomson will receive $120,000 over the next three years.
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ASME IDETC Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Prof. Shu and her former PhD student Ivey Chiu for winning the Best Paper Award for Design Theory and Methodology for this year's ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC). The award will be given out at the this year's conference, which is being held August 15 - 18 in Montreal.
Research Activities
Prof. Thomson in NSERC e-bulletin
Prof. Thomson was recognized in this month's NSERC's e-bulletin. The article, which discusses the benefits of R&D collaborations with academic partners, highlights Prof. Thomson's parternship with Tenova Goodfellow Inc.
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Professor Jardine paper earns record citation
Congratulations to Prof. Jardine who, according to Professor Simon Braun, Editor of the Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP), co-authored the most cited paper in the 25 year history of the journal. The 2006 paper is entitled: “A review on machinery diagnostics and prognostics implementing condition-based maintenance" and was co-authored by Dr. Banjevic and Dr. Lin of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering
Seminars
Computational Intelligence in Machine Vision for Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (MV-RAM)
Speaker: Kok-Meng Lee
Date: Monday, July 12
Time: 2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MB 101
Abstract
Graduate Studies
Doctoral Completion Award Deadline
The MIE departmental deadline for the 2010-2011 Doctoral Completion Award (DCA) is September 10, 2010.
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AMIGAS World Cup Pool Standings
Some major upsets have made things interesting in the World Cup. Here are the top teams in the pool after the quarter-finals:
1st:
Pathik Vadwala and Patricia Sheridan, 37 points;
3rd:
Henry Chu, Coleman Yeung, Omer Khan and Ted Kocharian, 36 points.
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AMIGAS-MIE Softball Team
The AMIGAS-MIE softball team played their first game of the season on Tuesday, and the result was a convincing victory over team Fly Balls.
The next game is today at 5 p.m. on the front campus field against team Dr. Unks.
Student Affairs
Lunch and Learn
MIE and ECE Leaders of Tomorrow are teaming up to host a Lunch and Learn: Building a Leadership Portfolio on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 1 p.m. This workshop will be facilitated by Estelle Oliva the LOT Leadership Education Specialist and lunch will be served.
Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Time: 1 - 2:30 PM
Location: SFB 560
MIE spaces are limited to 15. Please RSVP to lot@mie.utoronto.ca before July 5.
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James Dyson Award – MIE entry
The mission of the James Dyson Award is to encourage the future generations of innovative design engineers through a broad challenge to "design something that solves a problem."
Samuel Malamed, a current MIE graduate student, has taken up this challenge by developing what was initially a course project, into a fully functioning prototype. His design is an improvement upon an old technology that has recently come back into fashion due to environmental concerns: the rain barrel.
It is a great example of what can happen when our solid UofT engineering education is combined with drive and ambition.
Samuel's design has entered the competition and can be viewed online here.
You are encouraged to take a look at Samuel's design and if you like what you see to vote on for it.
Announcements
Minimum Rate Change July 1, 2010 for USW Casual Employees
Please be advised that as per the collective agreement with the USW, Local 1998, the minimum rate for casual employees is increasing to $12.00 per hour effective July 1, 2010.
Vacation
Staff:
Sheila Baker, Purchasing OfficerOfficer: July 6 – 9
Joe Baptista, Facilities Coordinator and Building Officer: July 5 – 9
Tomas Bernreiter, Laboratory Engineer and Manager: July 9 and July 23
Gordon Boudreau, Machinist: July 12 – Aug 6
Brenda Fung, Graduate Program Administrator: July 12 - July 20
Nina Haikara, Liaison – External Relations: July 8 – July 27
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