Posts Tagged: aerospace
Kristina Menton (MechE 1T4 + PEY) loves airports. “I love sitting in the midst of all the people and chaos, watching the airplanes take off,” she says. “I love everything about their aerodynamics, the beauty […]
Meet Holly Johnson (MechE 0T9 + PEY), MDA’s rising star and youngest manager. She’s worked at MDA, Canada’s largest space company, since her days as a Profession Experience Year (PEY) Co-op student.
Alumnus Arthur Brown (EngSci 1T6) and student Jeremy Wang (Year 4 EngSci) are among 20 people in their 20s named to a prestigious aerospace industry list of future engineering leaders.
Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0) will succeed David Johnston as the next Governor General of Canada. The U of T Engineering alumna has been to space twice, and is also an accomplished athlete, singer and pianist.
Kai James learned the fundamentals of aerospace engineering at U of T. He went on to become an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
An award-winning team of U of T Engineering alumni is building satellites so small they could fit in your gym bag. Their startup, Kepler Communications, plans to place 140 of these low-cost “cubesats” into space over the next five years. The first one will blast into orbit this November.
Professor David Zingg (UTIAS), a three-time graduate from U of T Engineering, has been named the University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Computational Aerodynamics and Sustainable Aviation.
Professor Chris Dampen (UTIAS), a three-time graduate from U of T Engineering, sees multidisciplinary collaboration in fields such as robotics as a top priority as he commences a five-year term as director of UTIAS on July 1, 2016.
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