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Canada's ninth annual National Biotechnology Week, from September 14 to 21, celebrates��national biotechnology excellence.��Canada's bio-economy is estimated to be worth more than $87 billion and involves a wide variety of sectors including pharmaceutical manufacturing, health, and medicine, agriculture and food bioprocessing, and organic chemical manufacturing.

Claudio Cañizares��has received one of Canada's highest academic honours by being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

The electrical and computer engineering professor is among��the recipients of 11 medals and awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in several fields of research and scholarship.

As students return to school, ��ݮ��Ƶ Collegiate Institute's Janelle Tam was featured in the September 4 edition of Premier Dalton McGuinty's blog. Janelle is the daughter of Dr. Michael Tam, a faculty member in ��ݮ��Ƶ's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of the ��ݮ��Ƶ Institute for Nanotechnology.

A paper written by��engineers from ��ݮ��Ƶ and South China University of��Technology��recently won the Best Student Paper Award at the 3M-NANO international conference held��in Xi’an China.

��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering has been ranked number 43 in the world (number��two in Canada) in the “Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences” Field of the Academic Ranking of World Universities��for 2012! Along with the University of Toronto in 13th spot, we are the only��two Canadian schools in the top 50 of what's also known as the Shanghai Ranking. Seven other Canadian schools appear in the top 200.

Naveen Chandrashekar is developing a method of simulating career-ending injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) located in the knee. The mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor has designed a�� simulator that is��capable of accurately replicating high-speed knee movements, such as those resulting from intense athletic activity.

According to Chandrashekar, around 100,000 athletes in North America tear their��ACL every year, resulting in more than $2 billion in treatment costs annually.

An electrical and computer engineering professor is creating a novel terahertz frequency laser that can operate closer to room temperature than any other previously developed.

Three ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering graduates are the first recipients of the��new Scientists and Engineers in Business Fellowship, created to help turn��innovations into businesses. Armen Bakirtzian, JS Rancourt, and Ryan Denomme��each received��$60,000 in the first round of fellowships. Two more rounds of fellowships will be awarded in the next eight months.
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Thanks to groundbreaking research being undertaken by civil engineering master's student��Andrew Northmore we could one day be driving on glass�� instead of��asphalt or concrete. With��solar panels embedded below the glass much-needed electricity would be generated.

Reinhold Schuster, a ��ݮ��Ƶ civil engineering professor emeritus, has been awarded the 2012 CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity award by the Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering. Schuster was recognized for his research in cold-formed steel structures in both Canada and the U.S.��His award will��be presented to him during the International Cold Regions Engineering Conference taking place August 19-22 in Quebec City.