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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…
The Scott Thompson Show talks news, politics, and pop culture. A unique perspective from someone who likes to talk. – The U.S. will not be opening its borders to non-essential travel until at least August 22, while Canada is already…
“Vaccine uptake will inevitably wane within the next couple months,” said Dionne M. Aleman, an associate professor of industrial engineering and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto in an email Thursday. Aleman said that Canadians who wanted their two…
Dionne M. Aleman, associate professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, shared a similar opinion. “Sending some of our vaccines to those countries with a lot of travelers to Canada would better help our case counts than using that same number…
The use of drones to deliver of goods and services is getting closer to reality every day. In health care, drones could be used to rapidly deliver life-saving automatic external defibrillators (AED) to people experiencing cardiac arrest. Techna Affiliate Scientist…
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