Invitation to become project client for Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP)

Dear Colleague,

As you are surely aware, all first-year engineering students in the Faculty (with the exception of Engineering Science students) take APS111 and APS112, Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP). During the Winter term (January to April 2012), teams of four to six students work on projects from “real” clients. I hope you will consider becoming a project client.
There are a large number of Track One students in ESP, and this is a way for each department to gain exposure to this group.

Clients come from industry, institutions, businesses, or they can be private individuals. They provide a brief proposal, typically framed as a problem, for which the team has to design possible solutions.

Typical projects include, space/workflow redesigns; product and building accessibility designs; environment, energy, and time-saving systems; household devices; and many more.

Here is a link to examples of projects from last year:

http://www.esp.engineering.utoronto.ca/Assets/ESP+Digital+Assets/pdfs/Examples+of+ESP+Projects.pdf

I encourage you to submit any proposals as soon as possible. That way, we have a better chance to discuss and "tweak" the problem statement to suit both you and the first-year students. Please feel free to write or call me with any questions. You may also visit the website at http://www.esp.engineering.utoronto.ca/ or go directly to the Client Application page: http://www.esp.engineering.utoronto.ca/project_clients/client_application.htm

You may contact me at 416-978-6712 or Ms. Phuong Huynh at 416-946-3406 (or email at h.kunov@utoronto.ca and esp@ecf.utoronto.ca respectively).

Also, if you know of other potential clients, I hope you will let them know about ESP. Feel free to forward this message, if you like. Many past clients have been pleased with the reports from the design teams, and a number of them have proceeded to implement them.

Best Regards,

Hans Kunov, Ph.D., P.Eng.;
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering;
Project Coordinator, Engineering Strategies & Practice;
University of Toronto