Professor Will Cluett has been appointed the Dean’s Advisor on Innovations in Undergraduate Education. In this new role, Cluett will be focusing on expanding opportunities in both curricular and co-curricular experiences for undergraduate students. These will include:
- defining and implementing strategies for increasing the breadth, depth, and participation of students in international experiences, from academic and research exchange to focused minors, certificates and work-integrated learning, with the goal of helping prepare students for international opportunities upon graduation involving different cultures and languages;
- working with departments and institutes on developing expanded and enhanced undergraduate experiential learning spaces;
- exploring opportunities for longitudinal curricular experiences;
- identifying new opportunities for expanding the scope and context for undergraduate engineering at the University of Toronto.
Cluett will start in this role on April 1, 2025, for a two-year term.
Cluett joined the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto in 1986 and has held numerous senior administrative roles in the Faculty, including serving as Chair, First Year (1997-2003), Vice Dean, Undergraduate (1998-2003), and the Chair/Director of the Division of Engineering Science (2005-2011 and 2019-2022).
He is a Fellow of Engineers Canada, the Chemical Institute of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been awarded the President’s Teaching Award, the Faculty’s Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award, the Department’s Bill Burgess Teacher of the Year Award for Large Classes, the OCUFA Teaching Award, and the Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education by Engineers Canada.
An external review of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and its undergraduate and graduate programs has been scheduled for April 8-9, 2025. Three eminent colleagues have agreed to form the review team:
- Ryan (Yunwei) Li
Professor and Department Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Alberta - Derek Oliver
Professor and Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Manitoba - Arijit Raychowdhury
Professor and School Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Members of the Faculty who would like to offer comments toward this review are asked to send them via email to governance.fase@utoronto.ca.
Please circulate this memorandum to any member of the Faculty who may not have received it through the general distribution.
Professor Julie Audet, Vice-Dean, Graduate, is taking 6 months leave effective July 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025. In accordance with the Policy on Appointment of Academic Administrators, the following Advisory Committee has been established to recommend the selection of an Acting Vice-Dean, Graduate:
- Professor Christopher Yip, Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (Chair);
- Professor Josh Barker, Vice-Provost, Graduate Research & Education and Dean, School of Graduate Studies
- Helen Bright, Faculty Registrar
- Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou, Chair, Civil & Mineral Engineering
- Professor Hani Naguib, Chair, Materials Science & Engineering
- Professor Markus Bussmann, Chair, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
- Tess Seip, President, The Graduate Engineering Council of Students (GECoS)
- Roger Francis, Executive Director, Engineering Career and Experiential Learning
The committee is now accepting nominations for Acting Vice-Dean, Graduate. Please submit nominations by February 21, 2025, to the Dean at dean.engineering@utoronto.ca.
Thank you for your input.