MIE News

Tuesday July 21, 2009

MIE Professors inducted into Canadian Academy of Engineering

MIE Professors Cristina Amon, Javad Mostaghimi and Chul Park have been inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering during the academy's recent annual general meeting in Calgary.

The CAE comprises the country's most accomplished engineers, who have expressed their dedication to the application of science and engineering principles in the interests of Canada and its enterprises.

"The unprecedented election of nine of our faculty members to the Canadian Academy of Engineering is a great testament to the strength of our faculty," said Professor Cristina Amon, dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. "On behalf of the faculty and all the newly inducted members, I am grateful to the academy for this honour."

Cristina Amon is dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Her research has advanced the scientific foundation of heat transfer enhancement by flow destabilization and nano-scale thermal transport, and she has made pioneering contributions to concurrent thermal designs, innovation in electronics cooling and transient thermal management of wearable computers. Dean Amon has served numerous professional societies with distinction, and demonstrated exceptional dedication to outreach and to diversity in engineering.

Javad Mostaghimi is a University of Toronto Distinguished Professor in Plasma Engineering. He is internationally recognized for his research on thermal plasma technology and its industrial applications, and his numerical models of plasma sources and thermal spray coating are widely cited and applied. Mostaghimi is the cofounder and director of the Centre for Advanced Coating Techniques at the University of Toronto and has co-founded two successful companies commercializing his research.

Chul Park holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Processing Technologies and is the founder and director of the University of Toronto's Microcellular Plastics Manufacturing Laboratory. He is a world leader in the development of innovative technologies for the cost-effective manufacture of microcellular foamed plastics, resulting in greatly improved plastics and reduced processing costs. More than 200 companies have used Park's microcellular foaming technology.

See also the UofT News site and the CAE website.