Over the summer, the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry appointed Professor Will Cluett as the inaugural Associate Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Development and Professor Jennifer Farmer as the inaugural Associate Chair, Undergraduate Student Experience. During their three-year terms from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025, Professor Cluett will focus on supporting the department’s […]
Dear ChemE students, faculty and staff: I’m pleased to welcome you to the start of the 2022-23 academic year at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry. I hope your semester is off to a great start. To our new students, I congratulate you on your decision to pursue a degree with us. Advances […]
Professors Daniela Galatro and Ning Yan, along with adjunct lecturer Marko Saban and Sourojeet Chakraborty (ChemE PhD student), successfully incorporated industry standards, codes, and engineering practices into the CHE430 – Plant Design curriculum. The changes were tracked over an entire semester, and revealed that such integrative measures should be performed for other courses too. Professor […]
Alumnus Albert Huynh (ChemE 1T2 + PEY) enrolled in TrackOne because he loves to collect input and information before making big decisions. “Having the option to delay the choice to pick a program while I learned more about the discipline was very much in line with my personality style,” he says. During that first year, Huynh was […]
In his first-ever hackathon, Satya Sathwik Juttada (Year 2 ChemE) and his three teammates won first place out of 72 teams at the Global Challenge Lab 2022, hosted by Imperial College London. The virtual entrepreneurship program brings together students and recent university graduates from across the world to form international teams that generate solutions to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development […]
Kimberly Watada (ChemE 2T2 + PEY Co-op), the Chair of our student chapter of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE), recently competed and placed third in the finale of the Climate Investment Challenge, a graduate-level competition hosted by Imperial College in London, England. Over one hundred teams participated in this prestigious international competition. Kimberly, […]
With the University’s Convocation ceremony on June 16, 2022 U of T Engineering students mark the end of one journey and the beginning of another. Having enriched the U of T Engineering community as undergraduate and graduate students, they will join our vibrant, global network of Skule™ alumni, where they will continue to address pressing […]
The 5th ChemE Exhibition & 36th Dinner on May 27, 2022 brought together close to 300 alumni, industry partners, faculty, staff, and students to celebrate the achievements of the past year. Congratulations to all of our 2021-22 ChemE Award recipients! Leaders of Tomorrow Awards Professor James W. Smith LOT Award Cassidy Tan (ChemE 2T4) Class of 8T2 […]
Please join us in congratulating Michael Chan, Cassidy Tan, and Bella Zhang, who have each received a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA) in the Natural Sciences & Engineering category. The funding provided through the award will allow them to continue their current research projects throughout the summer. Michael Chan (ChemE 2T5) Microplastics are […]
On Saturday, April 30, the University of Toronto Chemical Vehicles (UTCV) student group competed in the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Northeast Regional Chem-E-Car Competition. For the first time, UTCV won first place, beating the reigning champion teams from Clarkson University and Cornell University! “The competition distance was 20.00 m, and our car […]