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“While we know that children are much less likely to have severe outcomes from contracting COVID, they can be vectors of spread to their households, to their teachers and to the community,” University of Toronto associate professor Dionne Aleman and…
The AED (automated external defibrillator) instructions are foolproof, echoes Timothy Chan, professor of engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto, who has been building optimization models to design drone networks in Ontario, Canada. All the same, he says,…
Even if Omicron does turn out to be more mild than other variants, the mere transmissibility of it could spell trouble for Ontario’s health system, said Dionne Aleman, professor of engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto specializing…
Dr. Dionne Aleman agrees. The professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto has an expertise in pandemic planning and says moving a test online is a simple step to take. “It can dramatically cut down…
Mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil — any undergraduate student can recite the traditional disciplines of engineering. But increasingly, the leading edge of innovation cuts across these arbitrary divisions, creating new fields such as robotics or artificial intelligence. Professor Dionne Aleman (MIE,…
While the timing of the announcement has some worried, other people, like the University of Toronto’s Dionne Aleman, a CHE affiliate and an expert on COVID-19 modelling and how it spreads in an urban environment, disagree. “It’s reasonable to begin…
Prof. Michael Carter discusses the challenges facing the health care industry and potential engineering-related solutions. October 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Full announcement at: Engineering Alumni & Friends
The disruptions caused by COVID-19 have left hospitals across North America with massive backlogs of postponed elective surgeries. Many of these patients will also need rehabilitation following their surgeries, and managing this patient flow through the hospitals is a complex…
Dionne Aleman is an industrial engineering professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto and researches pandemic modelling. Aleman says that even though Ontario’s COVID-19 cases are growing, the effective reproduction number is decreasing. This doesn’t mean that cases…
Dr. Dionne Aleman, CHE affiliate from the University of Toronto, who focuses on pandemic planning says fully opening the border “poses a more risky situation” since the U.S. statistically is still struggling with numbers that would be “commensurate with herd…
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