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VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 WINTER 2002 

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 

CLASS 

OF 3T5 

67 YEARS OF 

SKULE SPIRIT 

STELLAR 

STUDENTS 

CANADA’S 

FIRST BASC/MBA 

PROGRAM 

S P E C I A L I S S U E : A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 1

insideskule 

FEATURES 

9 Fast-tracking Through 

Canada’s First 

BASc/MBA Program 

ANNUAL REPORT 

14 From the Dean 

15 Office of the Vice-Dean 

and Chair, First Year 

16 Office of the Registrar 

17 Professional Experience Year 

18 Campaign and Development Office 

19 Professional Development Centre 

20 Alumni Office 

21 Department of Chemical 

Engineering and Applied Chemistry 

22 Department of Civil Engineering 

11 Class of 3T5 

67 Years of Skule Spirit 

11 

26 

9 

5 

COLUMNS & NEWS 

3 From the Dean 

4 For High School Students 

Reading the Maclean’s Rankings 

4 Planned Giving 

Will Power 

5 Skule News 

23 The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department 

of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

24 Department of Mechanical 

and Industrial Engineering 

25 Department of Materials 

Science and Engineering 

26 Division of Engineering Science 

27 Division of Environmental Engineering 

28 Division of Mineral Engineering 

29 University of Toronto Institute 

for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) 

30 Institute for Biomaterials 

and Biomedical Engineering 

31 Centre for Technology and 

Social Development 

31 Centre for Management of 

Technology and Entrepreneurship 

Volume 4, Issue 2, Winter 2002 

A magazine for alumni, 

students, and friends of the 

Faculty of Applied Science 

and Engineering 

Editor: 

Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos 

Managing Editor: 

Christine Szustaczek 

Associate Managing Editor: 

Ruth Weinstock 

Co-ordinating Editor: 

Georgette Zinaty 

Assistant to the Editor: 

Janice Hillier 

Contributing Editors: 

Will Cluett, Márta Ecsedi, 

Malcolm McGrath, and 

Cindy Yelle 

Design: 

Shelley Frayer/ 

Ireland+Associates 

Principal Photographer: 

Stephen Frost 

Contributing Photographer: 

CanGrad Studios 

Contributing Writers: 

Bruce McDougall 


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Please contact: 

Professor Anastasios 

Venetsanopoulos, Dean, 

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and Engineering, 

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E-mail: dean@ecf.utoronto.ca 

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE & ENGINEERING/skulematters

from the dean 

Strengthening 

Our Excellent Graduate 

Programs 

My article outlining new directions 

for the Faculty (See 

Skulematters, September 2001) 

was intended to set the tone 

and agenda for my term and invite feedback 

from alumni, faculty, students and staff. It has 

sparked welcome discussion. I received congratulations 

for setting “meaningful goals”, 

and the suggestion that these goals should be 

quantifiable, measurable and have a target 

completion date. Over time, I intend to 

address each objective in more detail and 

include timelines for implementation. 

In this issue I would like 

to focus on a coordinated 

approach to strengthening 

our excellent graduate programs 

and improving graduate 

recruitment. To achieve 

this objective, I worked 

with an Advisory Committee 

of senior colleagues. 

We defined the role of a Vice-Dean of 

Research and Graduate Studies and concluded 

that the portfolio should cover issues 

relating to: 

1. The research mission of the Faculty of 

Applied Science and Engineering – primarily 

government-sponsored research programs 

(Natural Sciences and Engineering 

Research Council, Canada Foundation for 

Innovation, Canada Research Chairs, Premier’s 

Research Excellence Awards, Ontario Innovation 

Trust, Ontario Research and Development 

Challenge Fund, etc.); 

2. Graduate studies, including graduate student 

planning, recruitment and retention, 

graduate programs, funding and student 

quality; and 

Graduate students 

are the next 

wave of leading 

research scientists 

and engineers. 

3. University policy and research partnerships 

with industry, as these address our Faculty’s 

research and graduate studies missions. 

I welcome Dr. Javad Mostaghimi, a 

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering professor 

since 1990, Director of the Centre for 

Advanced Coating Technologies, and Canada 

Research Chair holder in Advanced Coating 

Technology, as the new Vice-Dean, Research 

and Graduate Studies. 

I have also focused on securing the 

financial means to support our graduate students. 

As the next wave of leading research 

scientists and engineers, 

graduate students participate 

fully in generating 

knowledge critical to keeping 

Canadian industry in 

the vanguard. They are 

essential to conducting 

cutting-edge research and 

invaluable as undergraduate 

Teaching Assistants. With our graduate students 

(1,085 Canadian and 195 visa students 

registered full-time), we currently have the 

largest research enterprise in an engineering 

school in Canada. To sustain our leadership 

position, we must attract the best and ensure 

that they have the resources to achieve their 

academic goals. 

This year, the University of Toronto 

became the first Canadian university to set 

the goal of providing a minimum financial 

support package of $12,000 plus tuition and 

incidental fees for full-time, graduate students. 

For a Canadian citizen or resident 

this amounts to $17,600; for visa students, 

$23,000. The University funding package 

covers the first year of MASc and the first 

Dean Anastasios Venetsanopoulos 

four years of PhD studies and excludes 

any loans. Our full-time graduate students 

currently receive financial assistance from a 

number of sources, including the Natural 

Sciences and Engineering Research Council, 

Ontario Graduate Scholarships, research 

grants (Research and Teaching Assistantships) 

and University of Toronto Fellowships. 

Schools vie fiercely for the most talented 

students. Due to this intense competition 

our Faculty needs to exceed the University’s 

minimum funding goal in order to offer 

more competitive packages. It is now clear 

that a minimum of $25 million is needed 

annually to achieve our goal. Surprisingly, we 

are only about $2.5 million away from this 

objective. In the future, however, as graduate 

enrolments increase and our funding 

packages become more competitive, our 

needs will also increase. This year, while we 

are seeking additional university resources to 

offer all eligible graduate students the minimum 

financial support package, we are 

intensifying our efforts in soliciting graduate 

student support through the Faculty 

Campaign. Our goal is to enroll more than 

1,400 full-time graduate students, supported 

by competitive packages, by January 2004. 

With your assistance, we hope to increase 

graduate student support to attract the best 

students and to meet the needs of these 

emerging leaders for many years to come. 

TAS VENETSANOPOULOS 

e-mail: dean@ecf.utoronto.ca Phone: 416-978-3131 Web site: http: // www.dsp.toronto.edu/~anv 

WINTER 2002 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 3

for high school students 

Reading the 

Maclean’s Rankings 

Professor Will Cluett 

Vice-Dean and Chair, First Year 

F 

or the eighth consecutive year, 

Maclean’s magazine, in its “university 

rankings” issue, has UofT number 

one in the Medical-Doctoral category. Many 

Canadian high school students and their 

parents use the magazine’s rankings as one 

factor in deciding which Canadian universities to apply to for an 

undergraduate degree. 

Maclean’s ranks universities under six broad headings: Student 

Body, Classes, Faculty, Finances, Library and Reputation. It also 

acknowledges that Canada has different types of universities, with 

different structures and mandates. The Medical-Doctoral category, 

for example, refers to universities offering a broad range of PhD 

programs and research, as well as medical schools. The other 

categories are Primarily Undergraduate and Comprehensive. 

The morning after the university rankings issue came out, CBC 

Newsworld reported on the magazine’s findings. Newsworld interpreted 

Maclean’s as suggesting that, for medical-doctoral students, 

UofT was number one. This struck me as misleading. Perhaps 

others, glancing through Maclean’s, might 

also conclude that UofT has a great deal to 

offer, but only for medical-doctoral students. 

What does UofT have to offer students 

looking for an undergraduate program? 

The answer: a great deal. Medical-Doctoral 

universities generally have a very wide range of both undergraduate 

and graduate programs, including professional degrees, and 

a broad range of PhD programs, research, and medical schools. 

Still, what is it that makes UofT so special for an undergraduate 

student? Well, as UofT’s President, Robert Birgeneau, explains in 

the same issue of Maclean’s: “I’m a deep believer in the concept 

of a research university; the best place to get an undergraduate 

education is among those who are pushing the frontiers of knowledge.” 

There you have it. If you want a university that lets you 

choose from the broadest range of programs available in any 

university in the country, as well as being taught by professors 

that do leading-edge research, think of UofT. Sounds to me like 

a good place for an undergraduate! 

planned giving 

Will Power 

Malcolm McGrath 

Planned Giving Officer 

A 

question I am often asked by 

alumni interested in my new title 

(Planned Giving Officer) is: “Why 

is it important for UofT to know about my 

bequest?” Here are some answers: 

• Financial planning should be based on as 

clear and complete a picture as possible. To meet the Faculty’s 

future needs, all current and potential sources of revenue are 

taken into account. Your bequest will become an important part 

of plans for Skule TM . 

• If you agree, we are delighted to include your name in our published 

list of Heritage Donors (known as “The King’s College Circle”). 

I’m often told that this inspires others to 

remember Engineering in their estate plans. 

• Often the Faculty does not have prior 

knowledge of estate gifts. This is a shame, 

since it is such a pleasure to be able to express 

appreciation to our donors. 

• The Office of Planned Giving at the University of Toronto has 

access to experts in estate planning and taxation. If you are unsure 

about the best designation for your gift, or how to ensure wording 

that best honours your intention, call me at 416-518-7177 

or Joel Porter, Manager, Office of Gift Planning, at 416-978-3811. 

So, will you consider letting us know? 

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W I N T E R 2 0 0 2 

Taking it to the Streets 

Transportation engineers use emerging technologies to make roads safer, more efficient 

A 

ngry drivers stuck in 

bumper-to-bumper 

rush-hour traffic may 

not be thinking of Skule TM , but 

Professor Baher Abdulhai and 

the transportation engineers 

in the Department of Civil 

Engineering have made traffic 

conditions their top priority. 

Professor Abdulhai is the 

Director of the Intelligent 

Transportation Systems Centre 

and Testbed. The only one 

of its kind in Canada, the 

ITS Centre and Testbed was 

officially opened at a packed 

November 2001 press conference 

attended by provincial 

Minister of Energy, Science 

and Technology Jim Wilson, 

Senator Marie-Paule Poulin, 

representing Transport Canada 

Minister David Collenette, 

and UofT President 

Robert Birgeneau. 

The $4.3-million ITS 

Centre uses such emerging 

technologies as information 

systems, networks and display 

equipment to evaluate traffic 

flow and address congestion. 

The centre will be linked to 

the Ontario Ministry of 

Transportation and the traffic 

cameras and detectors on 

major thoroughfares in the 

GTA. This would enable 

24-hour monitoring of traffic 

conditions that would be used 

for researching and developing 

next-generation systems and 

algorithms for optimal traffic 

control and management. 

Professor Baher Abdulhai addresses the 

news conference on November 22, 2001 for the 

official opening of the ITS Centre and Testbed. 

Future links are planned to the 

Toronto Transit Commission. 

“The ITS Centre and 

Testbed is truly a leading edge 

initiative in Canadian transportation 

research,” said 

Professor Eric Miller, 

Director of the Joint Program 

for Transportation. “Once fully 

implemented, our ITS research 

will help improve driver safety, 

the environment and, by 

extension, the economy.” 

The ITS Centre and Testbed 

houses high-end computer 

facilities and a video wall dedicated 

to the development and 

testing of ITS technologies. A 

virtual micro-simulation model 

of the Toronto road network is 

under development to supplement 

the real-world data. 

Professor Abdulhai is 

encouraged by the support 

received from the Ontario 

Research and Development 

Challenge Fund, the Ontario 

Innovation Trust, Transport 

Canada, the Canada Foundation 

for Innovation, privatesector 

partners such as Fortran 

Traffic Systems, as well as organizations 

including the Toronto 

Road Builders’ Association 

and the Heavy Construction 

Association of Toronto. 

It has been estimated that 

ITS will develop into a $500 

million industry in Canada 

alone by the year 2011. The 

Transportation Group is 

continuing to build on its 

success by seeking additional 

partners for this initiative. 

For more information on 

becoming a partner in the ITS 

Centre and Testbed, please 

contact Mary Costa-Kadas, 

Associate Campaign Director, 

at 416-946-3228 or 

kosta@ecf.utoronto.ca. 

Welcoming 

New Faculty Members 

T 

he Dean extends a warm welcome to our new faculty 

members: Professors C.G. Lee (Mechanical and 

Industrial Engineering); P.Aarabi, J.S.Aitchison, 

M. Broucke, T. Chan Carusone, B. Frey, M. Mojahedi, 

A. Nachman, S.Valaee, M.Voss (Electrical and Computer 

Engineering); M. Popovic (Institute for Biomaterials and 

Biomedical Engineering); Dr. Peter Weiss and Dr. Katherine 

Tiede (Language Across the Curriculum).We are confident 

that our Faculty will be enriched by their contributions. 


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“Faust” (l.) lines up at the World Solar Challenge in Australia. 

T 

Faculty’s Solar Car 

Lights it up Down Under 

he Faculty’s solar car 

team placed 14 th out 

of 38 entries from 11 

nations, in an exciting 3,000-km, 

five-day World Solar Challenge 

race across the Australian continent 

last November. The sleek 

solar racer named “Faust”, aced 

the grueling outback route from 

Darwin to Adelaide. As well as 

the adventure of camping in the 

outback and running a vehicle 

on nothing more than the power 

of the sun, the event challenged 

entrants’ technical and scientific 

expertise. It was the first time 

a UofT team had participated 

in this international race. 

The 100-member team, 

composed mainly of engineering 

students, received funding 

for the $900,000 car from 

students, the university and 

private donations. Jessica van 

Vliet, an aerospace engineering 

student and one of the ten 

team members who traveled to 

Australia, praised sponsors for 

their “fantastic support for our 

work, both financially and in 

every other way”. 

One of the exciting, edge-ofyour-seat 

aspects of the contest 

was a ‘race within a race’ between 

the UofT team and its University 

of Waterloo rivals. In the end, 

UofT peeled ahead of Waterloo. 

Winner of this 6 th World Solar 

Challenge was a European 

Space-Agency-sponsored team 

from the Netherlands. 

This was the UofT team’s 

third major race. In Sunrayce ’99 

the team finished 20 th with 

top rookie honours. In the July, 

2001 American Solar Challenge, 

Faust finished 12 th . 

Heroes Help 

Kids Learn 

About 

Engineering 

W 

ant to be a hero? 

The National 

Engineering 

Week (NEW) Ontario Steering 

Committee is seeking engineers 

to help children build entries 

for the Engineers are Everyday 

Heroes TVOKids “Build an 

Environmentally Friendly 

Vehicle for Tumbleweed” 

Contest during NEW, March 2 

to 10. Alumni Relations 

Director Márta Ecsedi reports 

that, when she and her son 

attended this event last year, 

volunteers said the experience 

was a lot of fun. Workshops will 

be held in Toronto, Ottawa, 

London and Sudbury. Click on 

“Volunteer Opportunities” at 

www.engineering week.on.ca. 

Heinke Laughton Tersigni Wilcox Runnalls Ecsedi Sinclair McGrath 

Distinguished Alumnae Honoured 

PHOTO: PATRICK PRITCHARD 

A 

record 260 people 

attended the 25 th 

annual Engineering 

Alumni Awards Banquet 

October 25 recognizing alumni 

for their contributions to the 

profession and society. 

The Engineering Alumni 

Medal was presented to 

Gerhard W. Heinke, 5T6, 

the Faculty’s Dean from 1986 

to 1993 and Civil Engineering 

Chair from 1974 to 1984. 

Dr. Heinke was Professor of 

Civil Engineering and Director 

of the Institute for Environment 

and Sustainable Development 

at the Hong Kong University of 

Science and Technology from 

1993 to 1999. 

Named to the Engineering 

Hall of Distinction, located on 

the second floor of the Sandford 

Fleming Building were: 

• Peter J. Laughton, 6T6, 

Chairman and Director of 

Environmental Engineering, R.V. 

Anderson Associates Limited; 

• Joseph L.Tersigni, 6T1, 

Chairman and CEO, Marshall 

Macklin Monaghan Limited; 

• James D.Wilcox, 5T9, former 

Director, Giffels Associates 

Limited, and 

• Oliver J. C. Runnalls, 4T8, 

Professor Emeritus, Nuclear 

Engineering and Energy Studies, 

and former advisor on uranium 

and nuclear energy to Canada’s 

Minister of Energy, Mines 

and Resources. 

Márta Ecsedi, 7T6, the 

Faculty’s Director of Alumni 

Relations was honoured with 

the 2T5 Mid-Career Medal. 

Professor Anthony N. 

Sinclair, 7T6, Coordinator 

of Mechanical and Industrial 

Graduate Studies, received 

a Teaching Award. Malcolm 

McGrath was the first to get 

an award named in his honour. 


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P 

rofessor Doug Reeve 

has been named Chair 

of the Department of 

Chemical Engineering and 

Applied Chemistry. As founder 

and Director of the Pulp & 

Paper Centre, Professor Reeve 

helped to attract more than 

$25 million in research funds 

from 45 companies in seven 

countries. Said Dean Tas 

Venetsanopoulous, “The 

interactive consortium model, 

which he pioneered for collaborative 

research is highly valued. 

I am confident that the Department 

will greatly benefit from 

his exceptional skills.” Currently 

the Department has approximately 

325 undergraduate and 

Doug Reeve named new Chair and 

Grant Allen named Director 

l-r: Faculty experts in pulp and paper engineering, 

and colleagues, Professors Doug Reeve and Grant Allen. 

150 graduate students. Professor 

Doug Reeve also holds the 

inaugural Frank Dottori Chair, 

named after the President and 

CEO of Tembec Inc., a forestry 

products company that generously 

endowed the chair. 

Professor Grant Allen has 

been named Director of UofT’s 

Pulp & Paper Centre. Said 

Venetsanopoulos, “As Chair of 

the Environmental Engineering 

option in the Faculty’s 

Engineering Science Program 

and the former Associate 

Director of the Pulp & Paper 

Centre, he is well poised for 

his new role, bringing together 

scientists, engineers, and 

industry partners to advance 

research on pulp manufacture 

and the environment, kraft 

chemical recovery and 

paper science.” 

Professor 

John Davies 

Honoured 

P 

rofessor John 

Davies was named 

a Fellow in Biomaterials 


(FBSE).The FBSE honour, 

granted every four years 

at the World Biomaterials 

Congress, denotes that the 

winner has made a significant 

international contribution in 

the biomaterials field. Previous 

winners from the Faculty 

were Professor Michael 

Sefton, Professor Emeritus 

Dennis Smith and 

Professor Robert M. 

Pilliar – all are or were 

part of The Institute for 

Biomaterials and Biomedical 

Engineering. 

O 

n November 7, 2001, 

approximately 100 

students, alumni, 

faculty and friends gathered 

at the Faculty of Applied 

Science and Engineering to 

hear Dr. Mike Lazaridis, 

co-CEO of Research in Motion 

give a lecture on Wireless 

Breakthroughs, via live wire 

feed from Waterloo. 

Dr. Lazaridis spoke about 

the phenomenal growth of 

the wireless industry, the 

opportunity to capitalize on 

convergence and the essential 

skills required for students 

who want to be involved in 

this fast-paced industry. 

Dr. Lazaridis oversees all 

product development and operations 

at RIM and is responsible 

Visionary Speaks 

to Alumni and Students 

Dr. Lazaridis 

for the development and ownerships 

of a range of patents for 

mobile technologies. RIM is a 

leading designer, manufacturer 

and marketer of innovative 

wireless solutions for the mobile 

communications market. 

The event was 

sponsored by OPAS, 

the Ontario Partnership 

for Advanced 

Skills, which is a notfor-profit 

partnership 

of all Ontario universities 

and a growing 

number of industries. 

OPAS works with 

companies to help 

identify their skill 

requirements and to 

source solutions for 

their needs from 

Ontario universities. Dr. 

Lazaridis gave this lecture as 

the 2001 recipient of the 

Visionary Award from OPAS. 

It was broadcast to over 

20 universities in Ontario, 

Alberta and British Columbia. 


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F 

Naming of Council Chamber Honours Dean Emeritus 

aculty members, staff 

and students gathered 

on November 28 to 

honour the Faculty’s Dean 

Emeritus and officially open 

the Michael E. Charles 

Council Chamber thanks in 

part, to the generosity of the 

Dean’s Advisory Board. 

Located on the second floor 

of the Galbraith Building, the 

facilities were renovated and 

refurbished at the conclusion of 

Professor Charles’ eight-year 

term as Dean and will provide 

an outstanding location for a 

wide variety of events involving 

students, faculty, staff, alumni 

l-r: Dean's Advisory Board member William Wallace, 

Dean Venetsanopoulos, Barbara Charles and Dean Emeritus Michael 

Charles,Wendy Cecil, Professor Alex McLean, and Keith Hendrick. 

and visiting delegations. 

Speaking at the event, 

Wendy Cecil, Chairman of 

the University’s Governing 

Council, thanked the Dean’s 

Advisory Board for contributing 

to the renovation and being 

so supportive of the Faculty 

since the Board’s formation in 

1994. Other speakers included 

Professor Alex McLean of 

the Department of Materials 

Science and Engineering and 

Speaker of the Faculty Council, 

Keith Hendrick of the 

Dean’s Advisory Board, Dean 

Anastasios Venetsanopoulos 

and Professor Charles. 

S 

December 6 

Memorial Service 

arah Attia, a fourth year 

student in the Department 

of Chemical Engineering 

and Applied Chemistry, 

and David Sinton, a doctoral 

student in the Department of 

Mechanical and Industrial 

Engineering, were among those 

offering presentations and 

reflections in a moving service 

held to commemorate the 14 

female students who were murdered 

at L’École Poytechnique 

in Montreal on December 6, 

1989. Students, faculty members 

and administrative staff 

The service honouring of the memory of 14 female 

engineering students from Montreal was well attended. 

from across the University 

attended the memorial event. 

“We may view the massacre 

as senseless,” said Sinton, 

“but in fact (as many have 

pointed out before), these 

women were targeted and 

victimized in a systematic 

manner. Systematic discrimination, 

as exemplified in the 

Montreal massacre, is present 

in more subtle forms in our 

institutions and in our homes. 

In that sense, December 6th 

is a double remembrance 

service: we remember those 

lost, and we are reminded of 

current inequalities.” 

The Faculty’s Dean, Tas 

Venetsanopoulos, is committed 

to the principles of diversity 

and equity in all the Faculty’s 

endeavours and to ensuring 

that women are given opportunities 

and are encouraged in 

seeking higher engineering 

education. He has appointed 

Márta Ecsedi, Director of 

Alumni Relations as his 

Advisor on Women’s Issues. 

Faculty 

Receives Gift 

from Industry 

Consortium 

Maureen 

Kempston 

Darkes, former 

President of GM Canada 

and alumnus Phil Taylor, 

President of EDS PLM 

Solutions Canada (BASc 

Civil 1971) were among 

those at the University 

in December to announce 

a gift in kind of equipment 

and software from 

PACE, an alliance formed 

by General Motors, 

EDS PLM Solutions, Sun 

Microsystems, and 

Electronic Data Systems. 

The gift helps to provide 

engineering students 

with a leading-edge 

education in computer 

assisted design, manufacturing 

and engineering. 


FAST- 

TRACKING 

THROUGH CANADA’S FIRST BASC/MBA PROGRAM 

BY BRUCE 

The first Skoll class 

(Skoll 2003): l-r, Dushan ‘‘ 

I 

MCDOUGALL 

Batrovic, James Colaço 

and Johson Tse. 

always wanted to do an MBA,” said 

Shaily Sanghvi, a fourth year Chemical 

Engineering and Applied Chemistry student. 

“The Skoll Program seemed like 

a good option, because it allows me to 

complete my engineering degree and my 

MBA in less than six years.” Ms. Sanghvi 

is one of 12 gifted students who are making 

academic history as part of an innovative 

program that is the first of its kind 

in Canada. 

The Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program 

is available only to students in the Faculty 

of Applied Science & Engineering. It 

enables students to obtain a Bachelor’s 

degree in engineering, spend a year in 

a management internship and obtain 

an MBA through the Joseph L. Rotman 

School of Management, all in five years 

and eight months, significantly reducing 

the time needed to achieve these credentials. 

It will position graduates to manage 

technological change, direct complex 

management structures, create innovative 

enterprises and become technological 

entrepreneurs. 


THE SKOLL CLASS OF 2004: 

l-r, back row: Don Au Yeung, Neeraj 

Ghai, Professor Peter Hughes (Skoll 

Director), Marcus Lam, Nelson Kim; 

l-r, front row:Arzhang Beheshti, 

Curtis VanWalleghem and Tony 

Cancelliere. Missing were: Malcolm 

Jussawalla and Shaily Sanghvi. 

PHOTO: CAN GRAD STUDIOS 

Jeffrey Skoll, 

(BASc Elec 8T7) 

The program is named after Jeffrey Skoll, a 1987 

Electrical Engineering graduate of the Faculty who 

became a co-founder of the on-line auction house 

e-Bay. Skoll’s $7.5-million investment supported the 

establishment of two new Chairs in the Faculty, in 

Computer Networks and Innovation and Software 

Engineering and, at the Rotman School of 

Management, a Chair in Technical 

Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 

The donation also assisted in the 

construction of the Bahen 

Centre for Information Technology, 

the new home of the 

Skoll Program. 

At the Fall 2001 Innovation 

Conference, held in 

Montreal, Glenn Thurston, 

Vice-President, Strategic 

Alliances at Nortel Networks stated, 

“There is a great need for people who 

understand both technology and business. 

In my experience, those who have 

balanced training and an aptitude for 

both can drive great value in business.” 

The Skoll program has been designed as 

a response to this need for technically 

astute business leaders. Skoll Program 

Director Peter Hughes explained that 

while engineers can often create new 

technologies, many lack the business 

know-how 

to 

succeed as entrepreneurs. 

Over the next few years, as the program 

gains momentum, it will accommodate as 

many as 35 students per class. Three students entered 

the program’s inaugural year in 2001 and 

another nine were accepted this past 

September. Applicants selected for 

the program are an elite group who have 

performed at a high standard in their engineering 

courses and have proven leadership 

and teamwork experience. Only third-year 

engineering students, or students in their 

Professional Experience Year immediately 

following third year, are eligible to apply. 

“I was exposed to the management side of industry 

during my Professional Experience Year term and 

fell in love with it,” says Dushan Batrovic, who ranked 

first in his fourth-year class in Materials Engineering 

last year. He spent work terms as a product marketing 

engineer with Acterna Corporation and with Honeywell 

(AlliedSignal Aerospace Canada), involved in supply 

“With the Skoll Program we can 

now graduate highly talented 

innovators equipped with 

an engineering background, 

excellent management training, 

and on-the-job experience.” 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR PETER HUGHES 

chain management and strategic sourcing. “My interests 

lie in making an impact on a grander scale by 

integrating the sound problem-solving and analytical 

skills I’ve developed in engineering, with the extensive 

business background offered by the Rotman School of 

Management,” says Batrovic. 

Program Director Peter Hughes, a professor in the 

University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies 

(UTIAS) stated, “This new generation of leaders will 

give businesses a competitive edge. With the Skoll 

Program we can now graduate highly talented innovators 

equipped with an engineering background, 

excellent management training, and on-the-job experience.” 

For more information, contact Professor 

Hughes at 416-946-7450 or visit the program’s Web 

site at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/skoll. 


CLASS OF 

3T5 

67 YEARS OF 

SKULE SPIRIT 

(clockwise from top) 

Murray Willer, Len 

Russell, Ned MacRobie 

and Marsh A. Cooper 

of the class of 3T5. 

M 

BY 

RUTH WEINSTOCK 

urray Willer is a “sparkplug”. So are Marsh 

Cooper, Ned MacRobie, Len Russell, Bud 

Broad, Paul Grieco and all the other members 

of the Faculty’s 3T5 class. 

Five members of this extraordinary bunch, now in their late 

80’s and early 90’s, have received the signal honour of being 

elected to the Engineering Hall of Distinction. Over the years, 

3T5-ers have helped each other professionally, volunteered on 

Faculty committees, acted as best man at each other’s weddings. 

The group has been active in alumni affairs, providing three 

presidents to the Engineering Alumni Association. They’ve 

bowled together, held corn roasts in the fall, boat cruises in the 

summer. And, most notably, they’ve broken bread together 

every month for 67 years. That’s more than 800 laughter-filled 

lunches and dinners. 


3T5 

The 3T5 class gathers for a photo 

in their first year at the Faculty. 

a November lunch, organized 

by Murray Willer AT 

and his cohorts, a boisterous 

throng of about 40 crowded into 

a mid-Toronto dining room. Typical 

of the high-spirited events 

planned by the class, the meeting 

attracted not only original members 

of 3T5, but also members 

of class years ranging from 3T3 

(above) Marsh A. Cooper, Murray Willer, Ned MacRobie 

and Len Russell share a laugh. (r.) Paul Grieco, former 3T5 

executive member. (below, l.) Tom Neil and (r.) Derek Little 

of 5T3.The class of 5T3 will carry on 3T5’s traditions. 

to 6T0. Who would want to miss out on the interesting speakers 

the group arranges, or the convivial and frisky pre-lunch chatter? 

Irreverence and friendly jibes are the order of the day. 

Adding to this lively gathering were wives, children, nieces, 

nephews, widows and grandchildren of the original class members. 

Doreen Ross, whose late father-in-law, 

Bruce, graduated in 3T5 explained, 

“We’d like to see the group continue. 

These fellows have been so close to each 

other. They are like brothers.” 

is 1935.Three hundred and thirty 

ITstudents enroll in the Faculty of 

Applied Science and Engineering. Many 

drop out, unable to afford to stay in 

school, what with tuition an astronomical 

$200 and lab fees, $15. By graduation, the class 

shrinks to 175, only one of whom is a woman, 

Melba Greer. 

Students ride the Red Rocket to school, or 

walk if they don’t have the car-fare. The one 

classmate who has a car often gives lifts or loans 

his wheels. Students, carrying their books under 

their arms, dress in suits, vests, ties and fedoras. 

Hart House sells a bowl of soup and all the raisin 

bread and milk you can manage for 22 cents. 

Dates – a 25 cent movie or a shared 

milkshake – are often “Dutch treat”. 

Initiation rites include making 

newcomers stroll the campus in 

gunny sacks, getting them to climb 

a mountain of ice, blindfolded, and 

pushing them to crawl through a 

barrel, only to be met with a mouthful 

of cod liver oil. This and other 

hijinks are halted when someone 

snitches to Dean Mitchell, a militaristic 

chap nicknamed the “Brigadier”. But 

3T5-ers still find ways to have fun. 

Even with a degree, jobs are scarce. A professional 

commands $25 per week, tops. But 

this group makes the best of it. They keep in 

touch at monthly meetings, calling each other 

in between. Many serve in the war and go 

on, in better times, to make their mark in 

such firms as G.E., Bell Canada, John Inglis, 

Avro Aircraft, Ontario Hydro and the civil 

service – or in their own companies. 


Afew years after the 3T5 gang graduated, many heard a talk given 

by Professor William Wickenden, then President of Cleveland’s 

Case School of Applied Science. This lecture, focusing on the 

concept of the “Second Mile”, so impressed the 3T5-ers present, 

they decided to create an award for engineering graduates who 

exemplify Second Mile principles – striving for excellence and 

contributing to the common good. 

Over the years, many outstanding young men and women have 

received this special award. 3T5-ers have made a point of talking 

to graduating classes “to plant a few Second Mile seeds in young 

engineering minds,” as Murray 

Willer puts it. To illustrate, 

Willer tells the story of the 

1947 winner, a young engineer 

by the name of Bill Daniel. 

Bill went on to become Dr. 

C. William Daniel, former 

President and CEO of Shell 

Canada Inc. and a staunch 

member of the Dean’s Advisory 

Board. “We can’t all be 

presidents,” says Willer, “but we can all be Second- 

Milers.” He smiles as he envisions some young engineer 

50 years from now telling future graduates about the 

importance of that Second Mile. 

Visit the Engineering Hall of Distinction in the 

Sandford Fleming Building and you’ll see the citations. 

Marsh A. Cooper is a double graduate of the 

Faculty, with postgraduate studies at Harvard and several 

Honorary Doctorates to his credit. He is best known as 

the driving force behind global nickel giant Falconbridge 

– and as a patron of education. There is 

the late John Bryce, responsible for 

major hydro-electric projects, including 

the St. Lawrence River Power Project; 

the late Albert Howard, a key executive 

engineer in the creation of Canada’s 

electrical grid system; the late Edward 

Heller, also honoured by the Society 

of American Value Engineers; the late 

John William Powlesland, a pioneer in 

(above) 3T4 grad Art Leary. Jean Perry, centre, 

widow of Ted Perry, at a November 2001 3T5 lunch 

with her granddaughters (l.) Christine and (r.) Katy 

Perry. (below) Kaye Brobst, widow of Bob Brobst. 

the development of “air curtains” and largely instrumental 

in creating the Second Mile award. 3T5-ers all. 

the November lunch, Len Russell speculates on 

AT why the class has stayed so close to one another. 

“We’ve always had some drivers. It 

takes guys like Murray (Willer) to make 

it happen. Gotta have a sparkplug with 

lots of drive.” 

A large contingent from the class 

of 5T3 attend the lunch. Members of 

3T5 are delighted to learn that the 5T3 

executive will carry on the tradition 

they have kept alive for 67 years. They 

smile the very special smile of the 

brothers of 3T5. 

PHOTOS: CLIFF FIELDER 


Annual Report 

2 0 0 1 

PHOTO: DAVID STREET 

From the Dean 

year 2001 comes to 

a close, I am pleased to 

ASthe 

report extremely good news 

from the Faculty of Applied Science and 

Engineering and the University of Toronto. 

• For the eighth consecutive year, Maclean’s 

magazine’s annual ‘university ranking’ issue 

named Uof T number one among researchintensive 

universities in Canada. Our “awards 

per full-time faculty”, “medical and sciences 

grants” and “total library holdings” were cited 

as excellent. UofT also ranked first in terms 

of the percentage of budget spent on student 

services, scholarships and bursaries. While 

we have long been known for our leading 

research, we are proud to see our commitment 

to students and the quality of their 

educational experience acknowledged. 

• Engineering Science student, Jessica van 

Vliet, who was pictured in the Maclean’s 

issue, called UofT “an unparalleled educational 

experience”. A member of the Faculty’s 

Blue Sky Solar Car team, Jessica competed in 

the World Solar Challenge in Australia (See 

story, page 6). She is just one example of our 

truly outstanding students. The Faculty continues 

to have the highest mean entering 

average for any “first entry” program of 

the University – more than 90% this year. 

Our reputation for excellence allows us to 

select the most outstanding undergraduates, 

enrolling approximately 1,000 students out 

of the 7,000 applications received annually. 

Increasingly, we are attracting students from 

across Canada and abroad, particularly to 

our ambitious Engineering Science program, 

which had an entering average of 93%. 

With the participation of our faculty and 

graduate students, our research enterprise 

grew to over $50 million in the 2000-2001 

fiscal year, making it once again, the largest 

ProfessorTas 

Venetsanopoulos 

The Faculty continues 

to have the highest mean 

entering average for 

any “first entry” program 

at Uof T – more than 

90% this year. 

of its kind in a Canadian engineering school. 

The combined efforts of our remarkable 

community of students, faculty, alumni and 

administrative staff strengthened our position 

as one of the continent’s most exciting 

and rewarding places to pursue graduate 

studies. Improving both intellectual and 

financial support for graduate students continues 

to be a priority. 

Looking ahead, the Faculty greatly anticipates 

the planned September 2002 start 

of classes in the new Bahen Centre for 

Information Technology. Our first new building 

in over a decade, it will accommodate 

double the number of students in our highdemand 

IT programs and a proportionate 

increase in our faculty complement. I invite 

you to visit this impressive facility. 

Our Faculty’s initiatives are outlined 

on the following pages and two centres 

not previously profiled in the magazine are 

highlighted. 

Additional Faculty accomplishments and 

a full list of new faculty will be posted on the 

future Web site: www.ecf.utoronto.ca/apsc/ 

html/publications.htm 


Annual Report 

Office of the Vice-Dean 

and Chair, First Year 

For Our Students 

The mandate of the Vice-Dean’s 

Office is focused on our students: 

their recruitment and admission 

into our nine Engineering programs; their 

First Year experience; our T-program that 

helps students recover from a slow start in 

their First Year; the Professional Experience 

Year program that offers 12-16 month 

industrial internships; the Engineering 

Career Office that provides assistance in 

finding summer and permanent employment; 

the Engineering Computing Facility 

that supports the computer needs of our 

students; Science Outreach that offers introductory 

science and engineering workshops 

and summer camps for grade school students; 

and the Leonardo da Vinci Competition 

that challenges senior high school 

students across Canada to solve engineeringtype 

problems. 

Highlights within this portfolio this past 

year include: welcoming a record turnout of 

over 600 guests at our post-offer Engineering 

reception in Markham in May; reaching our 

First Year enrolment targets at the earliest 

stage ever in the admissions cycle; greatly 

improving our level of communication with 

da Vinci high school coordinators and 

student participants as well as adding three 

new regional awards and new team awards 

to recognize excellence on the national level; 

and expanding the Science Outreach summer 

camps to the Institute for Aerospace 

Studies Downsview campus. Pre-application 

information sessions held in Winnipeg, 

Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria 

in the Fall were a brand new recruitment 

initiative introduced this year, representing 

a further expansion of our efforts to attract 

the best and the brightest students from 

across Canada. 

Curriculum change will be a major focus 

over the next two years, as the Faculty strives 

to make its undergraduate programs more 

flexible, to provide increased opportunities 

for integrated learning using synthesis/design 

courses, and to create new opportunities for 

our students to include a minor specialization, 

or even a second degree. 

The curriculum change initiative is moving 

forward simultaneously on several fronts 

at the University, Faculty and Departmental 

levels; input has also been sought from 

the Dean’s Advisory Board. At the Faculty 

Curriculum change 

will be a major focus over 

the next two years. 


Will Cluett 

level, discussion is currently focused on how 

best to introduce our students to synthesis/design 

and develop their professional 

skills in First Year, while building the 

necessary technical foundation needed in 

their upper years. Discussion with our UofT 

colleagues outside the Faculty about creating 

new opportunities for our students to 

include a second area of specialization 

have been very positive. The idea of a threecourse 

minor for our students has been 

well received. 

These are ambitious goals, but are clearly 

needed to keep pace with technological and 

societal change and to help prepare our graduates 

to be leaders of tomorrow. 


Annual Report 

Office of the Registrar 

Record Enrolment 

PHOTO: CANGRAD STUDIOS 

in admission 

applications, expansion 

ANincrease undergraduate enrolment, 

increased financial aid and a greater 

number of awards distributed to our students 

marked a year of growth for the Registrar’s 

Office. Our undergraduate student 

body now numbers 3,884, the largest undergraduate 

enrolment in the Faculty’s history; 

full-time graduate enrolment is 1,280. 

With 1,083 first year students enrolled this 

year, we exceeded our target. Admissions staff 

generate all the Faculty’s admission correspondence. 

We also boast one of the country’s 

first on-line Student Profile Forms; it allows 

our Admissions Committee to consider our 

candidates’ broader interests, in addition to 

the rigorous, required courses. State-of-theart 

technology enables us to deal with approximately 

7,000 applications, 19,000 telephone 

inquiries and over 12,000 e-mail queries 

annually from Ontario and around the world. 

Barbara McCann 

We enrolled the 

largest undergraduate class 

in the Faculty’s history: 

3,884 students. 

The office distributed about $7 million in 

student loans and $2.2 million in grants and 

bursaries to undergraduates in 2000-01. In 

addition, students were awarded $1.3 million 

in scholarships and awards, a substantial 

increase over previous years. We are grateful 

to individual and corporate donors for their 

much-needed assistance. 

The Summer Mentorship Program, now 

in its seventh year, hosted 40 high school 

students, selected from over 100 applicants 

in the greater Toronto area. The five-week 

enrichment program, co-ordinated by Chemical 

undergraduate, Ms. Muna Muasher, 

allowed students to earn high school credits 

for participating in research, projects and 

lectures under professorial supervision. 

Our International Student Exchange 

program is flourishing, with six of our students 

sent to Singapore, France, Israel, and 

England this year. We are hosting 12 students 

from overseas. 

The Registrar’s Office provides an ongoing 

advisory role to the UofT student chapter 

of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering). 

WISE activities in the past year 

included a mentorship program, a workshop 

hosted by Wired Women Toronto, school 

outreach, and tours of the Hospital for Sick 

Children and Lucent Technologies Canada. 

I would like to thank all the staff in the 

Registrar’s Office for an extremely productive 

year. 

Undergraduate enrolment 

as of November 1, 2001 

FULL-TIME ENROLMENT 

Program Year 

I 

Chemical Engineering 95 

Civil Engineering 92 

Computer Engineering 259 

Electrical Engineering 111 

Engineering Science 231 

Industrial Engineering 57 

Mineral Engineering 15 

Materials Engineering 52 

Mechanical Engineering 148 

Total Full Time 1060 

PART-TIME ENROLMENT 

Chemical Engineering 2 

Civil Engineering 4 

Computer Engineering 5 

Electrical Engineering 3 

Engineering Science 1 

Industrial Engineering 1 

Mineral Engineering 2 

Materials Engineering 2 

Mechanical Engineering 3 

Total Part Time 23 

Special Students 

Professional Experience Year 

Total Undergraduates 1083 


Annual Report 

Professional Experience Year Program 

Building Invaluable Work Skills 

In May 2001, 315 University of Toronto 

students entered the workforce to complete 

an internship as part of the Professional 

Experience Year Program. This represented 

the largest number of PEY placements 

ever secured in one year. The breakdown by 

department is as follows: 

• Chemical Engineering: 15 

• Civil Engineering: 5 

• Industrial Engineering: 25 

• Electrical Engineering: 23 

• Computer Engineering: 79 

• Mechanical Engineering: 46 

• Materials Engineering: 19 

• Mineral Engineering: 4 

• Engineering Science: 51 

• Faculty of Arts & Science: 48 

Lisa Simpson 

II III IV Total 

83 79 55 312 

72 50 45 259 

258 216 179 912 

139 119 78 447 

182 132 119 664 

65 60 46 228 

17 8 12 52 

27 36 35 150 

105 104 93 450 

948 804 662 3,474 

2 8 3 15 

3 4 13 24 

8 9 5 27 

3 8 4 18 

2 3 1 7 

1 0 5 7 

0 0 1 3 

0 0 1 3 

0 3 10 16 

19 35 43 120 

26 

264 

967 839 705 3,884 

This past year saw some significant 

changes within the PEY program including 

a re-vamped Web site (www.peyonline.com) 

and an on-line job posting database for 

students to access while searching for a 

PEY placement. Both the Web site and the 

job posting database have streamlined the 

PEY process for both students and companies. 

The PEY office is also continuing to 

perform consultations with each student 

who wishes to apply into the PEY program. 

The consultation is used to assess the student’s 

resume and interviewing skills and 

provide options on how to improve these 

skills. This commitment to student preparedness 

has resulted in a more rewarding 

and successful internship experience for 

students participating in PEY. 

On the horizon in 2002, the PEY Program 

looks forward to hosting our first 

alumni reunion in February. We hope to 

bring together many of our former PEY 

The largest number 

of PEY placements ever 

was secured last year. 

students for an enjoyable evening of networking 

and catching up. 

PEY will also find itself in a new home 

in May 2002 when we move into our offices 

in the Bahen Centre for Information 

Technology. Our new facilities include a 

large board room which will double as a 

student resource area, as well as a suite of 

six smaller rooms to accommodate companies 

wishing to conduct interviews with 

PEY students. 

We welcome your continued involvement. 

Anyone wishing to obtain more information 

on the PEY program, or the PEY 

alumni reunion, is encouraged to contact 

Director Lisa Simpson at 416-978-3132 or 

pey@ecf.utoronto.ca 


Annual Report 

Campaign and Development Office 

Creating a Legacy in Support of Students 

Faculty’s fundraising 

campaign enters its fifth 

ASthe 

year, one thing remains 

constant: our pressing need for endowed 

scholarships. Scholarships provide students 

with much needed support toward tuition 

and living expenses, enabling them to worry 

less about the cost of attending university, 

thereby getting more out of their education. 

They give the Faculty a tremendous advantage 

in recruiting students in an academic 

market that is fiercely competitive for top 

talent. They also create a lasting tribute to 

honour our donors. 

This past year, Mr. Russell Reynolds and 

Mr. James Knowles together with their many 

colleagues, established the #2 Canadian 

Army University Course Award to honour 

the 227 alumni who completed this Canadian 

Army test course on UofT facilities 

from 1942-1944. The award helps an undergraduate 

student and also creates a permanent 

tribute to the friendships that were 

built during wartime and that have lasted 

for the past 58 years. 

Last September, we awarded the inaugural 

Edward S. Rogers Sr. National Scholarships 

in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 

a program established by Ted and Loretta 

Scholarships provide 

students with much needed 

support ... and create a 

lasting tribute to honour 

our donors. 


Rogers to commemorate the 100 th anniversary 

of his father’s birth. In total, 40 

undergraduate and 27 graduate students 

received scholarships. Professor Deepa 

Kundur was one of several faculty members 

who called these undergraduates to tell them 

the good news. She reported that in many 

cases, the scholarship was a primary factor in 

persuading them to accept our offer of 

admission. There was sincere gratitude and 

enthusiasm from both the award winners 

and their parents. 

Alumnus Brian White (BASc Civil 1944) 

established a graduate scholarship in Civil 

Engineering that took advantage of the 

matching opportunities available under the 

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program. 

According to Mr. White, “the warm 

feeling of establishing this award now, rather 

than ‘after the fact’, is substantial…what transpired 

has rested in my mind for many years 

and the contentment, and indeed pleasure 

that I now feel, far exceeds expectations.” 

Ewing Rae, a 1958 Mechanical Engineering 

graduate, established a scholarship 

to support a graduate student who has 

displayed high academic achievement and 

demonstrates financial need. When asked 

what motivated him to establish the award, 

he replied, “I wanted to give something 

back, especially now when I am at a point in 

my life where I am financially in a position 

to do so, as the Faculty was the place where 

I met so many of my existing colleagues and 

where I really got my start.” 

As Associate Director of Development of 

the Faculty, I extend a sincere thank you to 

everyone who has contributed to scholarships 

of all sizes, creating a legacy that truly 

supports our phenomenal students. For 

more information regarding scholarships, 

please do not hesitate to contact me at 

416-978-7544 or at szu@ecf.utoronto.ca 


Annual Report 

The Professional Development Centre 

Meeting Your Need for Life-long Learning 

The Faculty of Applied Science and 

Engineering is committed to fulfilling 

the life-long learning needs of 

its students. Located on the St. George campus, 

the Faculty’s Professional Development 

Centre (PDC), offers a range of programs 

and services to meet this mandate, including 

short seminars, semester courses, Professional 

Engineers of Ontario preparatory courses and 

certificate and diploma programs. We are 

delighted to say that PDC has become an 

essential component of staff development 

for leading technical firms in Ontario and 

beyond. The number of customized courses 

offered on-site to corporate clients doubled 

last year and the demand shows no signs 

of slowing down. 

The Centre continually updates its offerings 

through consultation with industry, our 

alumni and the Ontario engineering community. 

In the past year, we have developed 

a number of new programs, including: 

• University of Toronto Certificate in 

Building Science 

–Developed to address an educational 

gap in industry, this program raises the 

bar for building science practitioners and 

takes a holistic approach to buildings and 

building failures. The program covers the 

fundamentals of Building Science and examines 

the main components and structures in 

a building. 

• University of Toronto Certificate in Telecommunications 

Management 

–This 15-day program has been designed 

for potential engineering managers on an 

accelerated development path. In addition 

to providing a solid understanding of the key 

technologies, including broadband communications 

and fibre optics, Internet and www, 

wireless communications, the program also 

examines management, business, legal and 

regulatory issues. 

Leslie Dolman 

Customized corporate 

courses offered on-site 

doubled last year. 

• University of Toronto Certificate in 

Advanced Project Management 

–This Certificate Program builds on participants’ 

already significant skills in Project 

Management methodology and moves to the 

next level of complexity, including mutiple 

project management, leadership issues and 

setting up a Project Management Office. 

This year the Centre also hosted a number 

of successful conferences: 

• With the International Association of 

Continuing Engineering Education, the 

Centre hosted the 8 th World Conference in 

Continuing Engineering; 

• With the Microarray Network, Ontario, 

and the University Health Network, we hosted 

the 2 nd Annual Ontario Microarray Network 

Technology Symposium in October, attracting 

international experts in this growing field. 

• This year we held our first Project Management 

Alumni Conference; this excellent 

event was well received and provided us 

with the opportunity to welcome back past 

participants. 

New staff hired this year includes: Bev 

Wolfus, PhD, Operations Manager; Matthew 

Murray, Program Development Assistant and 

Kolden Simmonds, Finance Clerk. 

The PDC will continue to build new 

partnerships with industry and professional 

associations, keep pace with industry trends 

and expand services available through our 

Web site. Finally, we welcome your continued 

involvement. For information contact 

Director Leslie Dolman at 416-978-5892. 


Annual Report 

Alumni Office 

Focusing on our Alumni and Future Alumni 

Looking back on the previous year 

makes me reflect on the many who 

have contributed to strengthening 

Skule TM . I am sure all of you will join me 

in thanking Malcolm McGrath for his 

17 years of distinguished service as Assistant 

Dean – Alumni. When Malcolm began 

his new part-time position as Planned 

Giving Officer and Secretary of Camp 1 of 

the Iron Ring Ritual in April, I was offered 

the role of Director – Alumni Relations. 

I relish my new portfolio, which includes 

involvement with the Professional Development 

Centre and Professional Experience 

Year, as well as acting as the Dean’s Advisor 

on Women’s Issues and, of course, Alumni 

Relations. 

At the beginning of the year we prepared 

the graduating class for the Iron Ring 

Márta Ecsedi 

Looking back on 

the previous year makes 

me reflect on the many who 

have contributed to 

strengthening Skule TM . 

Ceremony, the GRADitude campaign and 

other 4 th year related activities. This year, 

750 students took part in the Iron Ring 

Ceremony, our largest number ever. Our 

appreciation to all the GRADitude Chairs 

and Club representatives for the significant 

donation that was made to the Faculty campaign, 

$35,535. 

In March, 45 Alumni enjoyed a reception 

before the Skule Nite show. Six hundred and 

fifty guests attended the Spring Reunion 

Dinner & Dance for the honoured years, 

every five between 2T6 and 7T6, the first 

time the event has ever sold out. The highlight 

of the evening was Len Grime’s (2T6) 

wonderful reminiscence. Fall events included 

Orientation for our future Alumni and our 

annual Skule Society Dinner to recognize 

donors who give $1,500 or more to the 

Annual Fund. Our thanks to these generous 

supporters. 

At the University’s Arbor Awards reception, 

Alumni Howie Nobert, President of 

the Engineering Alumni Association; Nick 

Iozzo, 1 st Vice-President of the EAA; Amal 

Mittias Girgis; Mary Roy and Robert 

Simmonds, of the Dean’s Advisory Board, 

were recognized. Our annual Homecoming 

event attracted many Alumni from the honoured 

years – the first five years out, then 

every fifth year up to 20. Thanks to the large 

turnout and the talents of Trevor Mills and 

Anna Edwards, it was a huge success. Nine 

distinguished Alumni were given accolades 

at our 25 th Honours and Awards Dinner, 

attended by 260 (See story, page 6). 

I’d like to thank the many dedicated volunteers, 

staff and friends, without whom we 

could not accomplish our many endeavours 

and also those who have welcomed me into 

my new position. I look forward to many 

more great years together. 

Malcolm McGrath 


Annual Report 

Department of Chemical Engineering 

and Applied Chemistry 

Innovation, Excellence and Leadership 

Professor Doug Reeve, founding 

Director of the Pulp & Paper Centre 

since 1987, was appointed as the new 

Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering 

and Applied Chemistry last year, 

succeeding Professor David Boocock. The 

outgoing Chair is now on leave and working 

with BIOX Corp., capitalizing on his invention 

of an economical process for the production 

of biodiesel from kitchen waste and 

vegetable oils. The Pulp & Paper Centre has 

a strong tradition of post-graduate research, 

professional skill development and industry 

collaboration. A very generous gift from 

forestry products company Tembec Inc., 

matched by the University, has endowed a 

new Chair. Professor Reeve is the first holder 

of the Frank Dottori Chair, named after 

Tembec’s President and CEO. Professor 

Grant Allen will now direct the Pulp & Paper 

Centre (See story, page 7). 

The Department is proud of our many 

colleagues in the senior ranks of the University. 

Most notably this year, Dean 

Emeritus Michael Charles assumes a specially 

endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering 

after an eight-year term as Dean, 

marked by exceptional growth in the size, 

strength and stature of the Faculty. 

Professor Molly Shoichet and her 

research team have developed a sophisticated 

polymeric device to facilitate spinal cord 

regeneration. The chemistry of the system is 

cleverly designed to stimulate cell growth, to 

provide adhesion and to be compatible with 

the body. Her encouraging results with rats 

received widespread media attention. Professors 

Shoichet and Christopher Yip won 

Canada Research Chairs this year. 

Professor Honghi Tran is an outstanding 

researcher in kraft pulp mill chemical 

recovery. With six colleagues he has formed 

a fifth, three-year consortium sponsored by 

Strategic initiatives 

in research and industry 

collaboration will bring 

a bold, fresh future. 


Doug Reeve 

20 pulp and paper manufacturers from 

Canada, the United States, Finland, Sweden 

and Brazil. The team’s fundamental research 

in chemistry, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, 

and corrosion of recovery boilers and lime 

kilns continues to make a significant impact 

on efficiency, throughput, safety, reliability, 

capital effectiveness and profitability. 

With funding from the Natural Sciences 

and Engineering Research Council and the 

Canada Foundation for Innovation, we are 

establishing the new “Ontario Regional 

Facility for Surface and Interfacial Characterization”, 

under new Director Professor 

Charles Mims. Early in 2002, we will install 

a state-of-the-art Time of Flight Secondary 

Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument with 

imaging capability. The planned instrumentation 

will allow us to interrogate surfaces 

of all kinds: catalysts, biomaterials, 

polymers, paper, etc. 

We are extremely proud of our students’ 

leadership activities, including Naana Jumah 

(BASc 2001) who was awarded a Rhodes 

Scholarship last year. 

We have launched strategic initiatives in 

chemical engineering, informatics, bioprocessing 

and the environment. We have targeted 

renewal projects for student scholarships, 

undergraduate labs, building infrastructure, 

research chairs and research fellowships. We 

are a team of leaders with a bold, fresh future. 


Annual Report 

Department of Civil Engineering 

Seeking Sustainable Solutions 

to Critical Infrastructure Problems 

Civil Engineering is critical to the 

health and well-being of society, 

through the provision and management 

of essential infrastructure and services, 

including buildings, water supply, sanitation, 

transportation, materials and energy. 

The Department of Civil Engineering 

moved rapidly forward in a number of these 

areas during the last year, including the 

launch of a new Engineering Science Option 

in Infrastructure Engineering. Research 

advances were made in many areas, including 

improving water treatment, developing 

more durable, high-performance concrete 

materials and on the pressing problem of 

transportation gridlock. 

To train students to apply emerging 

technology to the design, rehabilitation and 

management of our country’s aging infrastructure, 

an accomplished group of professors, 

primarily from the Department’s 

Structural and Transportation engineering 

areas, introduced the new Infrastructure 

Engineering Option Program in September. 

The program will be taught in collaboration 

with several other departments. 

The new option includes courses in bridge 

design, transportation planning, reliability, 

stochastic processes and infrastructure 

renewal. Professor Michael P. Collins, 

Through the provision and 

management of infrastructure, 

the Civil Engineering faculty 

is committed to improving 

the health and well-being 

of society. 


Barry Adams 

University Professor and Bahen-Tanenbaum 

Chair in Civil Engineering, is Chair of the 

Infrastructure Engineering Option. Professor 

Eric J. Miller, also a Bahen-Tanenbaum Chair 

holder in Civil Engineering and Director of 

the Joint Program in Transportation, is Associate 

Chair of the new option. 

With the October opening of the Intelligent 

Transportation Systems Centre and 

Testbed directed by Professor Baher 

Abdulhai, the Department has positioned 

itself on the leading edge of traffic research 

(See story, page 5). The only facility of its 

kind in Canada, the Centre received $4.3 

million from all levels of government and 

industry. It will play a key role in keeping 

transportation systems operating efficiently, 

safely and economically. 

Environmental engineering researchers 

within the Department continued to investigate 

improved methods for treatment of 

drinking water, including disinfection and 

control of by-product formation. We are 

grateful to all our donors and industrial partners 

for their support, including Sterling 

Chemical and Hankin Ozone, who assisted 

with this environmental research. 

Department researchers continued to 

examine the chemical and physical properties 

of concrete and to develop advanced 

concrete materials and procedures. Thanks 

are due to our industrial partners, including 

Lafarge Cement, St. Lawrence Cement and 

St. Mary’s Cement, who provided critical 

support in these investigations. 

In the future, the Department looks forward 

to further developing our world-leading 

capability in Intelligent, Sustainable Infrastructure 

Planning, Design and Operation. 

Professors Barry J. Adams, R. Douglas 

Hooton and Robert C. Andrews were 

among the many faculty who received awards 

this year. 


Annual Report 

The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of 

Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Developing Technologies to Address Society’s Needs 

Fascinating new areas of research are 

broadening the discipline of electrical 

and computer engineering. 

Synergies with the Life Sciences offer particularly 

exciting possibilities. As an example, 

Professor Stephen Davies, cross-appointed 

to both the Department and also the 

Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical 

Engineering, is applying information theory 

to the study of genetics. 

Professor Davies and his team are investigating 

the application of communication 

theory towards improving the extraction of 

molecular biological information. His laboratory 

has received its biosafety certificate 

and his research group is now growing bacteria 

and harvesting plasmids, supported by 

a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research 

Council grant, in pursuit of leading-edge 

genetic circuit design. 

A collaboration between Professor Ted 

Sargent and doctoral candidate Dayan Ban 

in our Department; and Dr. Kenton White 

and Dr. St. John Dixon-Warren of Nortel 

Networks has, for the first time, imaged 

directly how light-producing excited electrons 

are configured in the heart of an operating 

semiconductor laser. The lasers studied 

are critical enabling components for 

future generations of the optical Internet. 

Previous researchers have built lasers 

which can produce light of the right wavelength 

for high efficiency fibre-optic communications, 

but the modulation of these 

lasers at very high speeds had, to date, been 

elusive. The research gives direct insight into 

the core issues that govern the speed and 

efficiency of lasers for advanced communications 

systems. 

Many faculty members continue to work 

closely with industry. For example, Professor 

Elvino Sousa, of the Department’s Communications 

Group, was one of four University 


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Fascinating new areas of 

research are broadening the 

discipline of electrical and 

computer engineering. 

faculty members appointed to Chairs 

endowed by Bell Canada. Professor Sousa 

also heads the Wireless Communication 

Systems Lab, and is the principal investigator 

for the Bell University Laboratories (BUL) 

Mobile Computing Lab, whose collaborative 

research focuses on developing new types of 

networks for cellular communication and, in 

particular, addresses ad-hoc networks and 

fourth-generation networking concepts. 

The Department is developing a new 

undergraduate curriculum. In this context 

we are exploring the possibility of allowing 

undergraduates to combine their engineering 

degree with a minor in another area. 

Departmental growth continues. Nine 

excellent new faculty members have been 

recruited, bringing our faculty complement 

to 68, to meet the needs of our 1,400 undergraduates 

and nearly 400 graduate students. 

The Department is delighted that, with 

the completion of the Bahen Centre for 

Information Technology in the Spring of 

2002, we will have a much-needed additional 

5,600 sq.m. of office and research 

space. The new building will include lecture 

rooms, undergraduate laboratories and 

excellent research facilities, including those 

of the Nortel Institute and the Bell University 

Laboratories. 


Annual Report 

Department of Mechanical 

and Industrial Engineering 

Strategic Growth 

Awards to faculty, fruitful collaborative 

research, increased demand for both 

graduate and undergraduate programs 

and innovation highlighted a productive 

year in the Department of Mechanical 

and Industrial Engineering. 

The Department is especially proud of the 

Faculty Teaching Award conferred on Professor 

A.N. Sinclair, who teaches Dynamics 

to 180 second-year Industrial and Mechanical 

Engineering students. Another significant 

award was Professor Ross Ethier’s Canada 

Research Chair in Computational Technologies, 

in support of his research using computational 

modelling of blood flow patterns 

in coronary arteries. The Premier’s Research 

Excellence Award given to Professor Chul 

Park will assist his investigation into manufacturing 

processes for microcellular plastics. 

The Centre for Advanced Coating Technology 

which involves Professors Javad 

Mostaghimi (Director), Sanjeev Chandra 

and Thomas Coyle (MSE), moved into a 

renovated laboratory space with equipment 

funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation 

and the Ontario Innovation Trust. 

MIE researchers also featured prominently in 

the newly funded Network of Centres of 

Excellence – AUTO21 – investigating issues 

relevant to the automobile of the 21 st century. 

With an allocation from the University’s 

Academic Priorities Fund, MIE appointed 

Dr. Chi-Guhn Lee as Assistant Professor 

in logistics, a strategic growth area in the 

Department. The Department is grateful for 

the major donation from six faculty alumni 

who work at Celestica, which established the 

Celestica Alumni Chair in Advanced Manufacturing 

Logistics. This magnificent gift will 

enable us to create a new senior position to 

expand our activities in this field. 

Amongst many programs which experienced 

strong enrolment, the Mechatronics 


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Enhancing our capacity 

for future innovation 

and growth. 

option in ME attracted 107 third and 

fourth-year students. The curriculum was 

well received by peer universities at a 

Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers 

forum on Mechatronics Education. A new 

Advisory Board of IT industry leaders is contributing 

to curriculum development of the 

new Information Engineering program that 

will be created from the current option in 

IE. 

The framework for a new Collaborative 

Graduate Program in Knowledge Media 

Design was established. Together with MIE, 

the Departments of Computer Science and 

Psychology and the Faculties of Information 

Studies and Architecture, Landscape and 

Design, are involved in an effort to enhance 

graduate studies in web-based human-computer 

interaction. The new Masters Degree 

Program in Design and Manufacturing, 

offered jointly with three other universities 

through the Advanced Design and 

Manufacturing Institute was launched. Its 

courses are delivered in a unique, intensive 

modular format to facilitate access to engineers 

working in industry. 

Our aim is to enhance our capacity 

for future innovation and growth through 

the recruitment of exceptional faculty members. 

These positions, supported by the 

Access To Opportunities Program, the Academic 

Priorities Fund, donations and the 

Canada Research Chairs program, will further 

strengthen our considerable research 

and teaching capabilities. 


Annual Report 

Department of Materials 


Challenging New Research Frontiers 

This past year the Department of 

Materials Science and Engineering 

built on its reputation for excellence 

by challenging new research frontiers; offering 

new courses, including the world’s first 

undergraduate option in Nanoengineering; 

enhancing its leadership in many fields, 

including minerals processing and process 

metallurgy; and by receiving many significant 

faculty and student awards. 

To reflect the new trajectory of expansion 

in our discipline, and with advice from our 

distinguished External Advisory Board, the 

name of the Department was changed last 

year from Metallurgy and Materials Science 

to Materials Science and Engineering. 

Researchers in the Department continue 

to move forward rapidly in emerging areas 

of research. Professor Alex McLean’s group, 

for example, is developing an innovative 

lithium ion battery, while Professor Zhirui 

Wang has contributed new insights into the 

metalization of fibre optics. 

To enhance research capabilities, a new 

Pyrometallurgy Laboratory was established 

for students. Professor Zhenghong Lu completed 

the establishment of a Microanalysis 

Centre featuring the PHI550 surface analysis 

system. A new mechanical load frame and 

a nanoindenter were acquired. Supported 

by a generous donation from Dofasco, the 

Department will continue to renew its graduate 

and undergraduate laboratory facilities. 

Dofasco, INCO, Falconbridge, Hatch 

Associates, Western Mining and Ontario 

Hydro Technologies have been partners with 

the Department and will be instrumental in 

advancing the renamed Centre for Minerals 

and Materials Processing (CMMP), supporting 

its establishment as the world leader in the 

field. To this end, the Department recently 

established two endowed chairs in minerals 

and materials processing. As established 

Advancing the 

technologies that will 

define our future. 


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experts in the field of minerals processing and 

process metallurgy, the chairholders will 

launch and act as Directors of the CMMP. 

To advance in areas of leading-edge 

research, such as computational materials 

science, biomimetics and photonics packaging 

and assembly, the Department plans to 

add eight new faculty positions over the next 

three years, with funding from endowments, 

the Access to Opportunities Program and 

the Canada Research Chairs program. 

Three enabling technologies will define 

our future: information technology, biotechnology 

and advanced materials. By launching 

the Nanoengineering option in the 

Division of Engineering Science in September, 

the first academic program of its kind in 

the world, the Department is at the forefront. 

A Distinguished Lecture Series on 

Nanotechnology is planned. New courses in 

Materials Physics, Solid State Processing and 

Surface Treatment and Chemical Processing 

of Materials have been added. 

Last summer, an Ontario Council of 

Graduate Studies (OCGS) review team gave 

our graduate program an excellent rating. 

PhD recipients from the Department have 

moved on to institutions such as MIT and the 

University of Alberta. Many are researchers or 

managers for companies including Stelco, 

Celestica and JDS Uniphase. 

Our leading-edge research holds a great 

deal of promise for the future. 


Annual Report 

Division of Engineering Science 

Curriculum Innovation and Exceptional Students 

Major curriculum changes, stronger 

than ever demand for admission 

and prestigious awards given to 

our students, were among the highlights 

of a year of growth for the Division of 

Engineering Science. 

The Division launched significant curriculum 

changes, including two new exciting 

options for third and fourth-year 

students. Infrastructure, spearheaded by 

Professor Michael Collins of Civil Engineering, 

will develop 21 st century skills in 

designing and managing major infrastructure 

projects. Professor Doug Perovic of 

Materials Science and Engineering leads 

the world’s first undergraduate option in 

Nanoengineering. It is widely considered to 

be the technology that will dominate this 

new century, with potential to contribute to 

advances in every sector of the economy. In 

addition, for first- and second-year students, 

Engineering Biology was added to the curriculum 

and our popular second-year design 

course was stretched to two terms to provide 

students with more time to think about and 

plan their designs. 

Innovation in the curriculum and our reputation 

for excellence resulted in continued 

high demand for our program. Two hundred 

and thirty-one students entered the first-year 

Innovative programs 

and our reputation for 

excellence have resulted 

in phenomenal growth 

– 70% over the past 

six years. 


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class last year. The Division now has a total of 

672 students, an increase of about 70% over 

the past six years. The calibre of the first-year 

students continues to be exceptional. This 

year’s stellar incoming class includes three 

UofT National Scholars, Danica Lam, Tarek 

Saghir, and Jeffrey Cornthwaite, and an 

Arbor Scholar, Shiyam Ramachandran. 

The Division is extremely proud of its students’ 

achievements and our rising academic 

standards. June graduate David Cashman was 

UofT’s Governor-General’s Award winner. 

Hattie Dong received one of three national 

Lucent Global Science Scholarships, including 

a cash award, an internship and an 

invitation to a summit at Lucent’s U.S. headquarters. 

National Research Council/Women 

in Engineering Science Scholarships went to 

Jenny He and Emily Whiting. Aaron Kratt 

was given an award from the Consulting 

Engineers of Ontario. Six students in last 

year’s graduating class received Natural 

Sciences and Engineering Research Council 

graduate scholarships. 

The Division focused effort on recruitment 

of top students from across the country, 

undertaking initiatives to hold information 

sessions with the Faculty in five western 

Canadian cities. The Chair also attended 

Faculty receptions for prospective students 

in Vancouver and Calgary. Reaching out 

to alumni was the goal of our first Division 

dinner, held last Spring. 

Professor Phil Sullivan finished his term 

as Associate Chair, and two new Associate 

Chairs were appointed: Professor Gabriel 

D’Eleuterio, of the University of Toronto 

Institute for Aerospace Studies and Professor 

Kim Pressnail of Civil Engineering. 

The past year has been a significant 

one in advancing our pioneering efforts to 

educate the leaders of tomorrow in Engineering 

Science. 


Annual Report 

Division of Environmental Engineering 

Enhancing Our Strengths Through Collaboration 

Although the term “Division” suggests 

something that divides or separates, 

what the Division of Environmental 

Engineering does is the just the 

opposite. 

Consistent with the interdisciplinary 

nature of environmental problems and solutions, 

our purpose is to bring together and 

enhance the Faculty’s and the University’s 

strengths in environmental teaching and 

research. The Division is fortunate to have 

this role at a time when the Faculty is already 

considering closer curricular ties with the 

Humanities and Social Sciences and the 

University is highlighting interdisciplinary 

initiatives. The Division plans to capitalize 

on this interdisciplinary momentum by 

developing a number of new environmental 

courses, some jointly with the Faculty of Arts 

and Science’s Division of the Environment. 

One exciting aspect of the Undergraduate 

Collaborative Program is a fourth year 

design course in which students from several 

Departments work in teams on a real environmental 

problem. We are especially proud 

of the team of students in Chemical, Civil 

and Mechanical Engineering that won first 

prize in the Pulp and Paper National Student 

Problem Solving Competition last year, 

sponsored by the Pulp and Paper Technical 

Association of Canada. Their winning 

design demonstrated that anaerobic digestion 

is an economically and environmentally 

attractive option for the treatment of acid 

condensate produced in some pulp mills. 

Our ongoing weekly Environmental 

Engineering Graduate Research Seminar 

Series, in which Masters and Doctoral students 

present their research to their peers, 

encourages a cross-disciplinary appreciation 

of environmental research. Graduate student 

Jeremy Kraemer also organized a series of 

guest speakers from industry, who lectured 


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The Division will host 

a major Environmental 

Engineering Education and 

Research Conference 

August 11-13, 2002. 

on innovative environmental engineering 

projects and processes. This successful series 

is being repeated this year. 

The Division encourages students to 

attend extracurricular events which promote 

an appreciation of a wide range of views on 

environmental topics. Last year, the Division 

helped to sponsor a well-attended talk by 

Ralph Nader. In addition, the Division Chair 

and two other speakers presented their different 

perspectives at a “Green Dreams” evening, 

sponsored by the Campus Chaplains. 

Sandy Walker, the Division’s administrator 

and student counselor, has undertaken 

new outreach efforts to recruit high-achieving 

high school students who are interested 

in environmental issues, but do not currently 

see engineering as a place to address this 

interest. 

The Division is honoured to have been 

chosen by the Association of Environmental 

Engineering and Science Professors and the 

American Academy of Environmental 

Engineers to host their joint 2002 Education 

and Research Conference. Over 250 environmental 

engineering and science professors 

and distinguished practitioners from 

across North America are expected to attend 

this triennial conference from August 11-13. 

The Division will use this as an opportunity 

to highlight the strength of our programs. 


Annual Report 

Division of Mineral Engineering 

Advancing Research Critical to 21 st Century Mining 

been a year of exciting 

accomplishments and significant 

change for the Divi- 

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sion of Mineral Engineering. Among 

many achievements, three stand out: 

the official launch of the Lassonde Mining 

Institute; receipt of the unprecedented 

$4.5 million grant from the 

Keck Foundation; and the successful 

recruitment of renowned Professor R. 

Paul Young as Institute Director. 

The Institute was officially launched 

in March 2001 to develop leading 

edge mining innovations and technologies. 

Projects are well underway 

to benefit the mining industry and 

address the pressing need for 21 st century 

technologies that integrate and 

fully exploit the potential of new information 

technology and simulation 

advances. The Institute will capitalize 

on the long and fruitful history of 

partnership between UofT researchers 

and the mining industry. Collaborative 

projects with the Departments of 

Civil Engineering, Materials Science 

Engineering, Chemical Engineering, 

Geophysics and Geology are planned. 

The W.M. Keck Foundation Digital 

Mine Project is rapidly moving forward, 

supported by an unparalleled 

$4.5 million grant from the W.M. 

Keck Foundation, the first-ever investment 

it has made outside of the United 

States. The project is investigating the 

use of advanced computer technology 

to manage mining knowledge in a 

digital form to facilitate ready data access 

throughout the mining process. The Institute 

is grateful to Marsh Cooper, former President 

and CEO of Falconbridge and a distinguished 

double graduate of the Faculty, who 

was instrumental in securing the grant. 


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Renowned Professor 

Paul Young has been appointed 

Director of the Lassonde 

Mining Institute. 

Professor Paul Young, presently 

Chair of Earth Sciences at Liverpool 

University and also President of the 

British Geophysical Association, will 

become Director of the Institute in 

July 2002. His research into mininginduced 

seismicity and rock fracture 

physics led to the development of 

innovative seismic instrumentation. 

Engineering Seismology Group (ESG), 

the company spun off from his research, 

continues to market the revolutionary 

monitoring systems throughout the 

world. Professor Young will hold the 

inaugural Chair in Engineering Seismology 

and Rock Mechanics. 

Professor Bibhu Mohanty, holder 

of the Natural Sciences and Engineering 

Research Council of Canada 

(NSERC) industry research Chair in 

Rock Dynamics and Fragmentation, 

recently secured nearly $1 million 

in grant funding from the Ontario 

Research and Development Challenge 

Fund (ORDCF) to advance research 

in blasting technology. 

Lassonde students continue to participate 

fully in the Faculty’s Professional 

Experience Year internship program, 

working all over Canada and the 

United States in the minerals sector. In 

addition, an enthusiastic and determined 

group of Lassonde students will 

be traveling to Vancouver for the 2002 

Mining Games. 

Staff changes this year include the 

retirement of Departmental Assistant 

Margaret Crook and the return of Patricia 

Dillon to Teck Cominco as Manager, Corporate 

Relations from her former portfolio in 

External Liaison. In her place, the Division 

recruited Dr. Laurelle LeVert in the role of 

Manager of Administration. 


Annual Report 

University of Toronto Institute for 

Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) 

Benefiting Students and Society Through Collaborative Research 

The University of Toronto Institute 

for Aerospace Studies’ (UTIAS) 

current strategic initiatives focus 

on aero and space systems engineering and 

technology, addressing the needs of the 

Canadian aerospace sector. Current research 

at UTIAS includes the development of the 

world’s first piloted ornithopter, optimized 

wings for aircraft, aircraft flight systems simulation 

and integration, intelligent robots, 

and Canada’s first microsatellite. 

A major event in the coming year will be 

the launch in October 2002 of the microsatellite 

MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations 

of Stars), which is being assembled at 

UTIAS. The MOST project, a partnership 

involving Canadian government, scientists 

and industry, will enable a cost-effective 

astronomy mission. A telescope, carried on 

the suitcase-sized UTIAS microsatellite, will 

help estimate the age of the universe and 

probe the properties of planets around other 

stars. Dynacon Enterprises Limited – a 

UTIAS spin-off company launched by 

Professor Peter Hughes – is the prime contractor. 

The Ontario Research and Development 

Challenge Fund granted $1.2 million 

to support UTIAS’ efforts. One of the spinoff 

areas, stemming from the study of atmospheric 

reentry of satellites, has led to ongoing 

research at UTIAS on the interaction of 

fusion plasmas with reactor materials – a 

key goal on the critical path of global efforts 

in harnessing fusion energy. 

UTIAS recently secured collaborative 

research agreements with Bombardier 

Aerospace and Pratt and Whitney Canada, 

two of the leading aerospace companies in 

Canada and global leaders in their respective 

fields. These collaborations also include 

the Flight and Combustion labs at the 

National Research Council’s Institute for 

Aerospace Research. 

As UTIAS undertakes new research 

initiatives, it is also making new faculty 

appointments. Professor Chris Damaren 

(Space Systems Engineering), will focus on 

microsatellite technology; Professor Clinton 

Groth (Aerospace Propulsion), will focus 

on computational research of combusting 

gases; and Professor Hugh Liu (Flight 

Dynamics and Control), will focus on aircraft 

systems integration. Professor Omer 

Gulder will strengthen our research in gas 

turbine combustion. We are also recruiting 

professors to further strengthen research in 

aircraft flight dynamics and multidisciplinary 

optimization. 

Canada’s first space 

telescope will be launched 

in 2002, on a microsatellite 

assembled at UTIAS. 


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Professor David Zingg, leader of the 

UofT Computational Technology Cluster, 

was recently awarded a senior Canada 

Research Chair. 

UTIAS gratefully acknowledges the generous 

donation of the J. Armand Bombardier 

Foundation, which established the J. Armand 

Bombardier Chair in Aerospace Flight 

in 2001. Professor Lloyd Reid, the inaugural 

Chair holder, will undertake advanced 

research in aircraft stability and control, 

aircraft systems integration and simulation, 

aircraft performance and response, flight 

operation and safety and navigation and 

guidance, jointly with other professors at 

UTIAS. 

To benefit students and society in the 

future, UTIAS plans to strengthen and expand 

its research collaborations through partnerships 

with industry, government and Centres 

of Excellence. 


Annual Report 

Institute for Biomaterials 

and Biomedical Engineering 

Engineering New Approaches to Health and Medicine 

There were several outstanding 

accomplishments at the Institute 

in the last year: among them, the 

awarding of several Canada Research Chairs; 

the recruitment of three new faculty members 

and the launching of the new Biomedical 

Engineering Graduate Program. A 

generous grant from the Whitaker Foundation 

continues to assist many of these exciting 

developments. 

Four IBBME Professors, a significant 

fraction of the total awarded to Engineering, 

were awarded chairs to establish the University’s 

“Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering 

and Regeneration” cluster. This honour 

is a spectacular achievement and speaks to 

the national recognition of the Institute’s 

work in integrating engineering with the 

life sciences. Tier II Chairs were awarded 

to Professors Dennis Cvitkovitch (Dentistry) 

Molly Shoichet, Christopher Yip 

and Peter Zandstra. 

We have been successful in recruiting 

three accomplished new faculty members. 

Dr. Milos Popovic’s research focuses on 

the creation of rehabilitation devices for 

stroke and spinal cord injured patients. Dr. 

William Stanford, a geneticist, will be using 

his expertise to address questions related 

to the development of embryonic stem 

cells. Dr. Julie Audet, an expert in stem cell 

bioengineering, will join the Institute in 

July, 2003. 

In August, Professor Shoichet presented 

a paper at the American Chemical Society 

on research that may eventually lead to 

regeneration of spinal cords. Her team’s 

hopeful, but early-stage results were widely 

reported in the media. Professor Stephen 

Davies has begun work on creating classic 

circuit components (e.g. a toggle switch) out 

of DNA, leading perhaps to the building of 

DNA-based electric circuits. 


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The fact that four 

IBBME Professors were 

selected as Canada Research 

Chairs is a spectacular 

achievement. 

The new Biomedical Engineering Graduate 

Program was launched this year and 

proactive recruitment resulted in acceptance 

of eight superior students in the first year. 

Running in parallel with our long-standing 

collaborative program, we are able to expand 

our capacity for advancing the frontiers of 

our discipline. 

We are working towards the completion 

of a dedicated biomedical engineering teaching 

laboratory equipped with multi-functional 

workstations combining computer and 

microscope-based equipment for both undergraduate 

and graduate students. The novel 

lab design will encourage the building of 

hybrid tools, linking these two approaches. 

The R.S. McLaughlin Foundation and 

Ontario Innovation Trust have generously 

supported the creation of the McLaughlin 

Centre, which together with the Centre for 

Cellular and Biomolecular Research (CCBR) 

includes activities in cellular and molecular 

bioengineering. We are excited by the 

prospects of our new CCBR building and 

delighted by the progress we have made 

towards creating one of the best biomedical 

engineering units in North America. 


Annual Report 

Centre for Technology 

and Social Development 

Preventive Approaches to Major Societal Problems 

Imagine what would happen to the bottom 

line of corporations and the economic 

accounts of nations, if goods and 

services could be delivered by a fraction of 

the throughput of matter and energy now 

used. The Centre for Technology and Social 

Development is helping to open up new 

technological frontiers based on growing evidence 

that, contrary to conventional wisdom, 

the greatest gains in competitiveness 

can often be realized by reducing social and 

environmental burdens. 

If this sounds implausible, we need to 

remind ourselves that, at present, only 7% of 

what we extract from the biosphere ends up 

in saleable products. In the same vein, social 

epidemiology points the way to creating a 

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Vanderburg 

more productive and healthy workforce. The 

Future 500 companies and the Factor 10 

Club are also exploiting this frontier. The 

Labyrinth of Technology, one of four volumes 

published on the Centre’s findings, sets out 

its conceptual framework. Three annotated 

bibliographies, entitled Sustainable Production, 

Sustainable Energy and Healthy Cities 

document preventive approaches in three of 

the six areas of application that our research 

has investigated. Some 1,100 students are 

taking one of the six courses leading to a 

Certificate in Preventive Engineering and 

Social Development. We hope that our 

research will be a significant step in helping 

nations to address many of their economic, 

social and environmental problems. 

Centre for Management of 

Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) 

Developing Future Leaders for the New Economy 

Supporting the Financial Services Industry 

through advanced Information 

Technology systems is the Centre’s 

core interest. Our partners, TD Canada Trust, 

RBC Financial Group, the Bank of Montreal 

and Bell Nexxia collaborate with us to build 

the Centre’s research activities by providing 

data, by acting as our laboratories and through 

their staff’s participation in the Centre’s 

research. We reciprocate by enhancing their 

success, so both parties benefit immensely. 

Through the CMTE, the Faculty has 

pioneered teaching and research in Management 

of Technology, Innovation, and Intra/ 

Entrepreneurship. CMTE has a worldwide 

reputation for continually developing 

technology for measuring productivity and 


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efficiency in service industries using Data 

Envelopment Analysis, an operational research 

methodology. DEA is a superior method, as 

it responds to the issues of fairness and equitable 

treatment of professionals and service 

groups, when measured against best practices 

in these fields. Software related issues include 

development processes; inter-platform issues; 

software production metrics; Internet and 

e-Business issues; testing; and Returns on 

IT investments. 

Our outstanding graduates have taken 

their places as leaders in Canadian industry 

and academia. They make us proud and 

fulfill our raison d’être: the development of 

people through research. Visit our Web site: 

www.cmte.utoronto.ca. 


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Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry 

ANNUAL REPORT 2001 

AWARDS 

Faculty 

Molly S. Shoichet, Canada Research Chair 

Christopher M. Yip, Canada Research Chair 

Christopher M. Yip, Faculty Teaching Award 

David A.I. Goring, Notable Achievement Award, from Program Committee of 11 th 

International Symposium on Wood and Pulping Chemistry (ISWPC) in recognition of his 

exceptional career in the field of wood and pulping chemistry 

Douglas W. Reeve, Purvis Memorial Award, 2001, Society of Chemical Industry 

Students 

Naana Jumah, Rhodes Scholarship 

Lianne Ing, Best Paper Award, Society of Plastics Engineers, Ontario Section, 2 nd Annual 

Industry/University Meeting 

Christopher J. Bertole, Student Award, 6 th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium, 

Girdwood, Alaska, June 2001 

Phillip Tan, 1 st Prize, Doctoral Student Competition, Air and Waste Management 

Association’s 2001 Annual Conference 

Jeff Adams, 1 st Prize, Doctoral/Postdoctoral Poster Category, 2001 Annual Conference of 

Metallurgists 

Haixia Liu, 3 rd Prize, Doctoral/Postdoctoral Poster Category, 2001 Annual Conference of 

Metallurgists 

Dhananjay Dendukuri, 1 st place, Best Student Paper, 2001 American Association of Oil 

Chemists (Canadian Section) Annual Conference 

David Balke, 3 rd place, Best Student Paper, 2001 American Association of Oil Chemists 

(Canadian Section) Annual Conference 

Fernando Morgan-Sagastume, The Leadership Award for Exemplary Leadership, 2000, 

Pulp & Paper Centre, U of T 

Raju Konduru, Majid Fatemi, and Behzad Marandi, The David A.I. Goring Award for 

the Best Presentations at the Graduate Students Research Conference 2000, Pulp & Paper 

Centre, U of T 

Fernando Morgan-Sagastume, Karen Hardy, and Nalina Nadarajah, The John Peter 

Reeve Award for the Best Posters at the Graduate Students Research Conference 2000, 

Pulp & Paper Centre, U of T 

Raju Konduru, Howard Rapson Prize for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership, 

2000, U of T 

Fernando Morgan-Sagastume, TAPPI Leadership Award, 2000, TAPPI (Technical 

Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry)

Appointments 

Elizabeth A. Edwards, Associate Professor 

Charles Q. Jia, Associate Professor 

Vladimiros G. Papangelakis, Professor 

Bradley A. Saville, Professor 

Y-L. Cheng, Chair, Division of Engineering Science 

Michael E. Charles, Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering 

Douglas W. Reeve, Frank Dottori Chair in Pulp and Paper Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering 


2001 Awards 

FACULTY AWARDS 

Prof. Barry J. Adams , Department Chair, was given the Life Member Award by the American Water 

Works Association in 2000. 

Prof. Robert C. Andrews received the NSERC Synergy Award in 2001 by the Sterling Pulp 

Chemical Limited for University and Industry. 

Prof. David M. Bagley was awarded the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal in 2000, together with Dr. 

Toby Brodkorb, by the Water Environmental Federation. 

Prof. R. Douglas Hooton was awarded the Knud Hojgaard Visiting Professorship in Concrete 

Technology in 2001 by the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen. 

Prof. Bryan W. Karney was given the Professor of the Year Award by the Civil Engineering Class of 

2000. He was also appointed as Acting Chair of the Collaborative Program in Environmental 

Engineering in 2000-2001. 

Prof. Eric J. Miller was appointed Bahen-Tanenbaum Chair in Civil Engineering in 2001. 

Prof. Michael D. A. Thomas was the recipient of the American Concrete Institute Construction 

Practice Award and was given the Engineering Foundation Endowed Lectureship at the University of 

Texas in 2000-2001. 

STUDENT AWARDS 

Murtaza Haidar, Ron Hoffmann, Abolfazl Mohammadian and Nick Kosteski were awarded 

NSERC PostDoctoral Fellowship in 2001. 

Manson Fung, Kyriakos Sissakis and Richard Yee were awarded the 2001 NSERC Post Graduate 

Scholarships (PGS A) 

Paul Chisholm, Richard Iacobucci, Horace Look and Halla Rahme were awarded the 2001 NSERC 

Post Graduate Scholarships (PGS B) 

Undergraduates Steven Aquino and Annarita J. D’Archivio were presented an award in recognition of 

their significant contributions to the educational process, while undergraduates in 2000. 

Murtaza Haider received the Jim Davey Award (First Prize) in 2000 in the Ph.D. Category of the 

Canadian Transportation Research Forum 2000 Student Paper Competition for his paper “Effects of 

Transportation Infrastructure and Locational Elements on Residential Real Estate Values: Application 

of Spatial Autoregressive Techniques. His supervisor was Prof. Eric J. Miller.

Welcome to our new Faculty members : Profs. H.L. MacLean, T.E. El-Diraby, A.S. Shalaby 

Some of the research conducted by faculty members in 2001 

Advanced treatment of drinking water (disinfection, control of by-product formation) 

Intelligent transportation systems operation 

Advanced concrete materials (high performance, durability, life-cycle analysis) 

Faculty members engaged in research partnerships with: 

• Mining companies (Falconbridge, Noranda, Barrick, Placer Dome, etc.) 

• Consulting Engineering firms (Halsall , Golder, EarthTech, Delcan, Fortran, IBI, etc.) 

• Manufacturers (Sterling Chemical, Lafarge Cement, St. Lawrence Cement, St. Mary's Cement, 

Hankin Ozone, etc.) 

Some of the research conducted by graduate students in 2001: 

• Chris Fernandes - Modelling Water Quality in Water Distribution Systems 

• Michael Sieca - Structural Assessment of Water Distribution Pipes in Toronto 

• Terry Ramlochan - Enhanced Performance of Concrete Materials in Construction 

• Murtaza Haider - Interaction of Urban Land Use and Transportation Systems 

• Jason Crowder - Innovative Methods of Mine Tailings Management 

A new Infrastructure Engineering Option Program in the Division of Engineering Science was 

introduced in September 2001, mounted by an accomplished group of professors from the Department 

of Civil Engineering (primarily from Structural and Transportation engineering areas), together with the 

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (in the areas of Operation Research, Economic 

Analysis, Logistics, Control Systems and Fracture Mechanics), from the Institute for Aerospace Studies 

and the Department of Statistics. Professor Michael P. Collins, University Professor and Bahen- 

Tanenbaum Chair in Civil Engineering, is Chair for Infrastructure Engineering and, Professor Eric J. 

Miller also a Bahen-Tanenbaum Chair in Civil Engineering and Director of the Joint Program in 

Transportation, is Associate Chair of the new Option. 

The Infrastructure Engineering Option includes the following new courses: 

- CIV 352H1 F (Bridge Design) 

- CIV 354H1 F (Transportation Planning & Design) 

- CIV 356H1 F (Infrastructure Design Project) 

- CIV 357H1 S (Building Design) 

- CIV 359H1S (Transportation System Performance) 

- CIV 450H1 F (Reliability and Stochastic Processes) 

- CIV 451H1 S (Infrastructure Renewal) 

In 2001-2, the Department undertook construction and/or renovation of: 

• The ITS Lab SF3102 

• The Undergraduate PC Lab GB422 

• The Undergraduate Materials Testing Lab GB13 

• The Structural Testing Lab GB12 

• The Geomechanics Lab GB308 

• The Undergraduate Common Room GB123

DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 

STUDENT AND FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS 

2000-2001 

See departmental sections for further awards, as faculty and students in the Division also belong to their own 

Departments. 

Student Awards 

Undergraduate Students in the Collaborative Program 

in Environmental Engineering 

Giuseppe Boer, Cassandra Lee, Bonnie Dong, Prity Rungta, Stanley Chung and Eloise Cataudella, 2000 graduates 

of the Collaborative Program, won 1st prize in the Pulp and Paper National Student Problem Solving competition 

for their design project on "Proposed Anaerobic Digester for Tembec's Acid Condensate". The competition is 

sponsored by the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC). Their design was the result of a team 

project in the 4th year Environmental Engineering Design course. 

Graduate Students in the Collaborative Program 

in Environmental Engineering 

Phillip Tan won the best Ph.D. Presentation Award at the Air and Waste Management Association Conference in 

Florida last June. 

Fernando Morgan-Sagastume, a 1999 graduate of the Collaborative Program, won the Howard Rapson Prize for 

Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership, 2000, at U of T 

Nalina Nadarajah, with three other graduate students, won the John Peter Reeve Award for the Best Posters at the 

Graduate Students Research Conference 2000, Pulp & Paper Centre, U of T 

John Shiras, a January 2000 graduate of the Collaborative Program, won a CRESTech Graduate Student Conference 

Travel Award, which he used to attend and present a paper at a conference in Belgium. 

Faculty Awards 

Bob Andrews won the inaugural "Environmental Professor of the Year" Award from the 4th year students in the 

Collaborative Program.

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 

AND ENGINEERING 

2001 Annual Report 

Awards and Honours 

Faculty 

Dr. Walter Curlook, Adjunct Professor, was awarded the Charles F. Rand Memorial Award from the American Institute of Minig, 

Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering 

Dr. Tom Coyle, Professor, was elected President of the Canadian Ceramic Society 

Dr. Zhirui Wang, Professor was awarded the 2000/2001 TMS Special Honour for Recognition and Appreciation for Outstanding 

Service as Organizer for Special Symposia 

Dr. Harry Ruda, Professor, was named Sony Sabbatical Chair, Sony Central Research Laboratories, Yokohama, Japan 

Dr. Doug Perovic, Professor and Department Chair, was re-appointed as a member of the Canadian Institute for 

Advanced Research, Nanoelectronics Program 

Dr. Alexander McLean, Professor, was honoured with the Alexander McLean Steelmaking Seminar in Kyoto, Japan 

Graduate Students 

Peyman Etemadi and Ramin Ajdar, MASC students and Basil Coates, PhD student: first prize for their posters at the COM2001 

Conference of Metallurgists 

Undergraduate Students 

Jonathan Joannides, MSEOT2: best student thesis award, annual CIM conference

NEW FACULTY POSITIONS 

Position Source Area of Research Expected 

Placement Date 

Jr. Chair in Materials/Microelectronics 

(Assistant Professor-Tenure Stream) 

Celestica Inc. Photonics Assembly and Packaging 2003 

Jr. Chair in Materials Processing 


Jr. Chair in Minerals Processing 


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G.R. Heffernan Materials Process Engineering 2004 

P. Sheridan Minerals Process Engineering 2002 

FASE-ATOP Nanotechnology 2002 

FASE-ATOP Nanotechnology 2002 

A. Miller Replacement Provost-APF NSERC Chair Bridge-Prof. U. Erb 2003 

New Faculty Complement 


Chair in Nanoengineering and Photonics 

(Full Professor) 

Chair in Manufacturing and Materials 


Provost-APF Computational Materials Science 2003 

CRC (Tier I) Bionanotechnology 2003 

CRC (Tier II) Polymers Processing 2003

Division of Mineral Engineering 


2001 Awards 

Professor Bibhu Mohanty received an ORDCF grant of $995,000 for Blasting Technology. 

Student Awards 

Lassonde Entrance Scholarships ($5,000) 

Catherine Crawley 

Giovanni Pagniello 

W. Gordon Simms 

Jeffrey Lam 

Lassonde Scholars 2001-2001 ($10,000) 

Natasha Vaz 

Jason Lin 

Joshua Clelland 

Eliza Ngai 

Daniel Earle 

Gurpreet Purhar 

Christian Amizola 

John Paul Portelli 

Mark Dunkley 

James Brown 

Other awards: 

Peter Gower: Duncan R. Derry and Peter L. Munro awards 

Lars Madsen: Robert M. Smith Memorial award 

Khalid Abuaisha: Robert M. Smith Memorial award and Shell Award 

Hyein Christina Lee: Duncan R. Derry Scholarship 

Connie Manning: Shell award 

Keyvan Salehi: Shell Award

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