The 2022 Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CCEC) will be running between October 23 to 26 in Vancouver, BC. Attending the conference through subsidies from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry are 21 undergraduate students. Additionally, ChemE will be fully funding Mackenzie Gole (ChemE 2T2) and Kelly Yin (ChemE 2T3) to attend the CCEC […]
The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry is looking to hire a tenure stream faculty in the area of sustainable chemical engineering. The appointment can be at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. All application materials, including reference letters must be received by November 30, 2022. Please see the options below for […]
The Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies (CRAFT), co-led by Professor Milica Radisic, has opened a new and expanded Tissue Foundry at the University of Toronto. The new facility builds CRAFT’s fabrication capacity following the launch of its Device Foundry in 2021. CRAFT, a U of T Institutional Strategic Initiative and collaborative research […]
Chemical engineering PhD candidate Folake Oyewole’s thesis project was inspired in part by Zobo, a hibiscus-based drink that is popular in her home country of Nigeria. “People consume Zobo as a cold beverage in Nigeria because it’s refreshing and claimed to provide many health benefits,” she says. “I wanted to ascertain whether these drinks actually […]
New insight into how nanoparticles form could advance technologies from solar cells to medical tests
A research team from U of T Engineering has discovered previously unknown phenomena in the growth of nanoparticles. The insights could open new ways of engineering these tiny structures for a variety of purposes, from designing next-generation solar cells to developing new medical tests and treatments. The team was led by recent graduate Paul Chen […]
As the sales of electric vehicles (EV) continue to surge worldwide, demand for metals needed to build lithium-ion batteries is surging along with it. A new technique developed by Professor Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE) could help meet this challenge by changing the way that such batteries are recycled. Azimi and her team at U of […]
Sourojeet Chakraborty, a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Complex Fluids, will be presenting his research on a new theory to successfully predict the design of emulsions with targeted shelf-lives that he developed along with his doctoral advisor, Professor Arun Ramachandran, at the upcoming 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in Arizona […]
Professor Nicole Weckman (ISTEP, ChemE) has been appointed the Paul Cadario Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Toronto. The research chair is the first of its kind in Canada and will advance engineering solutions for vulnerable communities all over the world. The chair was made possible by a $1.5-million donation from alumnus, adjunct […]
Over the last two weeks, ChemE kicked-off the 2022-23 academic year with a series of orientation activities. Events on September 7, introduced new undergrad and grad students to our community of leaders who make ChemE the best chemical engineering program in Canada and among the top in the world. Second-year and third-year students were welcomed […]
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are a popular energy storage format for both the portable electronics and electric vehicle markets, putting them at the heart of billions of devices people rely on every day. However, the rising demand for rechargeable energy storage systems, and market-driven increases in raw critical materials including lithium, cobalt, and nickel result in […]