2. Awards and Honours Over the 2009–2010 academic year, our Faculty continued to benefit from a strengthened awards nomination program, ensuring that we are recognized for the excellence of our education and research endeavours and the achievements of our professors, alumni, students and staff. Our efforts have also helped to raise the Faculty’s profile among Canada’s top engineering organizations, such as the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). For example, 35.4% of newly elected CAE Fellows in 2010 are U of T Engineering professors or alumni, and members of our Faculty received 55.5% of the 2010 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards. In 2010, 13.3% of our professors are CAE Fellows, an increase from 3.6% in 2005. Our Faculty garnered more than one-third of the major national and international awards received by Engineering Faculties in Canada during the 2009–2010 academic year. These include some of the most prestigious awards in Canada, such as Killam Research Fellowships and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Brockhouse Prize, as well as international honours including induction into the National Academy of Engineering in the U.S. In addition, our faculty members continue to receive many of U of T’s prestigious honours, including the McLean Award (three consecutive years), the Faculty Award (two consecutive years) and the Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award (two consecutive years). This year, we also increased our efforts to recognize the contributions of outstanding staff. To that end, a Staff Awards Committee was established by the Dean and chaired by Catherine Gagne, Chief Administrative Officer, creating four new staff awards (Emerging Leader Award, Influential Leader Award, Quality of Student Experience Award and Innovation Award), and enhancing our existing staff award to create the Agnes Kaneko Citizenship Award. These awards were presented in April 2010 at the Faculty’s third annual Celebrating Engineering Success Reception, a recognition event for all our award and research grant recipients, attended by more than 150 faculty and staff.
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