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David Brush, a civil and environmental engineering lecturer, is the first recipient of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering Society's Engineering Society David BrushTeaching Excellence Award introduced to promote and reward faculty or staff's outstanding contributions toward undergraduate learning.
Honourable mentions were received by Mark Smucker, a management sciences pr

A group of students and grads is tapping into À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµâ€™s entrepreneurial spirit to bridge their passion for business with the desire to help others. The result is Empower Health, an organization committed to providing diagnostic and wellness programs to the world’s slum dwellers. 

The Empower Health team

The first class of an innovative biomedical engineering program that connects students to the medical community will start at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ next fall.

The new program in Canada's largest engineering school will give students the unique opportunity to blend hands-on design expertise with workplace experiences and academic studies.

It’s obviously something about your great engineering school, combined with the resources and encouragement to start building and creating stuff while you’re still in school, that positions À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ founders so well to be starting companies," says Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit, author and startup investor.

Two À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering grads have won prestigious EY Ontario Entrepreneur Of the Year awards for their individual contributions and spirit of entrepreneurship.  Both entrepreneurs, John Baker and Matt Rendall, received their well-deserved awards at the Ernst & Young Awards Gala in Toronto on October 24, 2013.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Engineering honours its own

The winners of this year's À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering awards were honoured at the annual Faculty of Engineering dinner held on October 10.

The Faculty’s Teaching Excellence Award recognizes outstanding teaching and commitment to the enrichment of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering education. This year’s deserving recipients are David Brush of civil and environmental engineering, Keith Hipel of systems design engineering, and David Wang of electrical and computer engineering.