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Fostering student leadership in engineering: Meet Professor Alison Olechowski
Alison Olechowski recently joined MIE as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, and is cross-appointed to the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). In her short time at U of T Engineering, […]
OPTIONS: Enriching career development for engineering PhDs and postdoctoral fellows
All professors have a PhD, but in engineering only one in four PhDs become professors. A new program — led by U of T Engineering’s Institute for Leadership Education in […]
Catch up with our 2017 Summer Fellows!
The Summer Fellowship is a 16-week program for highly engaged engineering students who want to grow the impact of their student organization and themselves as leaders. Meet the Summer Fellows and […]
Celebrating undergraduate research with the 10th annual UnERD
From improving communications technology to generating sustainable energy, undergraduate students are sharing their discoveries and innovations with the world. This year marks the 10th anniversary of U of T Engineering’s Undergraduate […]
New faculty appointment: Patricia Sheridan
We are thrilled to welcome Patricia Sheridan to the ILead team as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. Professor Sheridan is focusing on integrating teamwork and leadership learning into the engineering […]
New faculty appointment: Alison Olechowski
We are thrilled to welcome Alison Olechowski to the ILead team! Alison joined ILead and the department of MIE on July 1 as an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. She completed […]
Designing the engineer of 2050: Canadian engineering educators to meet in Toronto
Leading engineering educators will converge at U of T Engineering from June 4–7 for a major national conference organized around a single urgent question: How can we prepare the next generation […]
Retooling the Future of Education: EdTech Workshop 2017
“Future educators will value, not fear, fresh approaches, new solutions,” wrote U of T Professor Marshall McLuhan in 1967. Fifty years later, the pace of social and technological change has […]
How not to fail in the workplace!
How do PhD students fail in the workplace? What skills do you need to avoid those failures? On May 2nd, four engineering managers shared their experiences supervising really successful (and […]
Who You Are Matters!
The PhD Career Development Workshops and Events has launched! On March 30, 60 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows representing all engineering disciplines came together to explore ‘who they are’. Through […]