Enriching the Graduate Student Experience We continually enhance our curricular and cocurricular offerings to ensure our graduate students receive the most rigorous and comprehensive preparation possible, whether they aspire to work in academia, industry or other fields. Our innovative professional master’s programs allow students to gain specialized technical knowledge and develop leadership and other professional competencies to advance their careers. MEng students apply through one of seven departments and can choose from among a growing number of optional emphases, including sustainable energy and advanced manufacturing. The most popular of these emphases
is the Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation & Technology in Engineering (ELITE) Certificate, which enhances students’ professional competencies with a range of courses on business, finance, leadership and management. In 2015–2016, we expanded our ELITE offering to include five new courses: –– APS 1028H Operations and Production Management for Manufacturing and Services; –– APS 1032 Introduction to Energy Project Management; –– APS 1033 Innovation via Imagineering; –– APS 1035 Taking a New Venture to Market; and –– APS 1036 Formative Experiential Entrepreneurial Learning.
Figure 2.11 ELITE Certificates Awarded, 2008–2009 to 2015–2016 2008–09
2009–10
2010–11
AeroE
1
2
ChemE
2
12
11
ECE MIE
CivE
3
2012–13
2013–14
2014–15
2015–16
7
2
4
11
11
17
8
20
20
13
11
9
12
12
25
3
3
3
22
32
22
14
7
19
20
26
36
39
50
1
1
4
6
11
5
50
46
85
96
108
125
MSE Total
3
24
We also offer: –– Master of Health Science in Clinical Engineering through the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering; –– MEng in Cities Engineering and Management (MEng CEM), which provides graduates with a fundamental understanding of the complex and cross-disciplinary issues facing cities through a year of course work and a four-month internship with a municipal, university or corporate partner; and –– MEng in Biomedical Engineering, a one-year, full-time program focusing on biomedical devices. Students in this program, which begins in fall 2016, will take on an applied design challenge and meet the growing demands of this industry through a four-month internship.
2011–12
We continue to enhance experiential learning and entrepreneurship opportunities for all of our graduate students. Co-curricular incubator programs such as Start@UTIAS and The Entrepreneurship Hatchery offer mentoring, expertise and other resources that help students launch startups and bring their innovations to market. The Multidisciplinary MEng Project, offered by the University of Toronto Institute for Multidisciplinary Design & Innovation (UT-IMDI), provides MEng students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in multidisciplinary teams to address technical research challenges proposed by industry partners. UT-IMDI also offers internships with industry partners for MEng students. MHSc candidates complete the equivalent of eight months of full-time work in internships in clinical engineering as a requirement of their program.
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