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The Centre for Healthcare Engineering is please to announce that Christopher Sun is the inaugural recipient of the PPEF-6T6 Industrial Engineering 50th Anniversary Award in Healthcare Engineering (please see Award Announcement) for his outstanding work during his graduate studies. Christopher…
MIE would like to thank John Peri (IndE 8T4) and his family for their generous donation of $250,000, which will go towards supporting MIE industrial engineering students: Industrial Engineering Design Award (Endowed $50,000) The Peri Family Industrial Engineering Design Award…
For several years, health-care teams at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto focused on speeding up turnaround times in operating rooms to avoid having to postpone surgeries at the end of a shift. But there were still days that the staff…
When a person goes into cardiac arrest, every passing minute hurts their chances of survival. Now, a group of U of T Engineering researchers want to use drones to deliver life-saving automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) rapidly and directly to homes.…
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Timothy C. Y. Chan, PhD MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report? Response: Temporal availability is a critical factor to consider in both the evaluation of current AED programs as well as the decision on where…
When a person suffers cardiac arrest, there is a one in five chance a potentially life-saving Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is nearby. But up to 30 per cent of the time, the device is locked inside a closed building, according…
Tennis fan Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) is applying his expertise in mathematical optimization, originally developed to improve the delivery of health care, to help amateur sports federations across the country make the most of their limited resources. Full article at:…
Momentum: Engineering Smart Cities —Safer, Healthier, Cleaner, Richer —Optimizing Toronto Health Care —The Future City Source: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | University of Toronto
In 2014, 11.2 per cent of Canadians over the age of 12 reported not being able to receive the health care they needed. A third (33.4 per cent) said this was due to wait times being too long, 13.7 per…
Congratulations to Birsen Donmez (MIE; CHE Affiliate), for becoming holder of Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation (Tier 2, new) Driving a car is a complex process, requiring the ability to multi-task and pay attention to many simultaneous…
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