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Chapter 5: Awards & Rankings

Rankings data are current as of the date indicated in Figure 5.1. Awards data are presented for the 2022 calendar year (January to December). Selected faculty, alumni and staff awards were received between summer 2022 and summer 2023.

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#1
Rank among Canadian universities according to QS and THE rankings

15.7%
Proportion of major awards given to Canadian engineering professors, the highest of any Canadian institution, despite holding only 5.7% of the total professoriate

415.3
Citations per faculty member, as indexed by Thomson Reuters between 2018 and 2022, the second-highest in Canada

Figure 5.1 Summary of University of Toronto Engineering Performance in World Rankings, 2023–2024

Ranking Organization	Release Date	Canada	North American Public	World
QS World University Ranking for Engineering and Technology	April 2024	1	3	17
QS World University Ranking by Subject	April 2024
– Chemical Engineering		1	5	23
– Civil & Structural Engineering		1	8	28
– Computer Science & Information Systems		1	2	13
– Data Science		1	2	9
– Electrical & Electronic Engineering		1	5	20
– Materials Science		1	9	36
– Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering		1	8	32
– Mineral & Mining Engineering		2	3	10
Times Higher Education (THE) – Elsevier World University Ranking for Engineering & Technology	October 2023	1	6	26
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for Engineering Subjects	October 2023
– Aerospace Engineering		1	10	37
– Biomedical Engineering		1	5	47
– Chemical Engineering		3	13	118
– Civil Engineering		6	15	139
– Computer Science and Engineering		2	5	24
– Electrical & Electronic Engineering		3	17	93
– Materials Science & Engineering		2	11	76
– Mechanical Engineering		4	18	132
– Mining & Mineral Engineering		3	5	35

Figure 5.2a QS World University Rankings: Top 50 Universities for Engineering and Technology, 2024

Text description of chart QS World University Rankings: Top 50 Universities for Engineering and Technology, 2024

A horizontal bar chart depicting the top 50 world universities for engineering and information technology, as ranked by QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The length of each bar relates to the overall score, while the rank for Canadian universities is shown at right. U of T Engineering is ranked 17th in the world, with the University of British Columbia ranked 25th, McGill University ranked 39th and University of Waterloo ranked 40th.

Figure 5.2b QS World University Rankings: Top North American Public Universities for Engineering and Technology, 2024

Text description of chart QS World University Rankings: Top North American Public Universities for Engineering and Technology, 2024

A horizontal bar chart depicting the top North American public universities for engineering and information technology, as ranked by QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The length of each bar relates to the overall score, while the rank for Canadian universities is shown at right. U of T Engineering is ranked 3rd overall, with the University of British Columbia ranked 7th, McGill University ranked 10th and University of Waterloo ranked 11th. Other Canadian universities on the list include the University of Alberta (17th), Université de Montréal (20th), University of Calgary (25th) and Queen’s University (30th).

Figure 5.2c QS World University Rankings: Canadian U15 in Top 200, 2024

Text description of chart QS World University Rankings: Canadian U15 in Top 200, 2024

A horizontal bar chart depicting the schools within the Canadian U15 group of research-intensive universities that appear in the global top 200 universities for engineering and technology, as ranked by QS Quacquarelli Symonds. The length of each bar relates to the overall score, while the rank for Canadian universities is shown at right. U of T Engineering is ranked 17th overall, with the University of British Columbia ranked 25th, McGill University ranked 39th and University of Waterloo ranked 40th. Other Canadian universities on the list include the University of Alberta (100th), Université de Montréal (111th), University of Calgary (153rd) and Queen’s University (200th).

Figure 5.2d QS World University Rankings: Canadian Universities in QS by Subject, 2024

Text description of chart QS World University Rankings: Canadian Universities in QS by Subject, 2024

A series of horizontal bar charts depicting only Canadian universities group that appear in the global Top 200 for various engineering subject rankings, as ranked by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The length of each bar relates to the overall score in that category. U of T Engineering is ranked higher than any other Canadian U15 university in the following subjects: chemical engineering (23rd overall); civil & structural engineering (28th overall); computer science & information systems (13th overall); electrical & electronic engineering (20th overall); materials sciences (36th overall); mechanical, aeronautical & manufacturing engineering (32nd overall); and data science (9th overall). It ranks second among Canadian U15 universities in mineral & mining engineering (10th overall) behind McGill University.

Figure 5.3a THE World University Rankings: Top 50 Universities for Engineering, 2024

Text description of chart THE World University Rankings: Top 50 Universities for Engineering, 2024

Figure 5.3b THE World University Rankings: Top North American Public Universities for Engineering, 2024

Text description of chart THE World University Rankings: Top North American Public Universities for Engineering, 2024

A horizontal bar chart depicting the top North American public universities for engineering, as ranked by THE Times Higher Education. The length of each bar relates to the overall score, while the rank for Canadian universities is shown at right. U of T Engineering is ranked 6th overall, with the University of British Columbia ranked 11th, University of Waterloo ranked 14th, McGill University ranked 15th and the University of Alberta ranked 20th.

Figure 5.3c THE World University Rankings: Canadian U15 in Top 200 Universities for Engineering, 2024

Text description of chart THE World University Rankings: Canadian U15 in Top 200 Universities for Engineering, 2024

A horizontal bar chart depicting only the universities in the Canadian U15 group for engineering, as ranked by THE Times Higher Education. The length of each bar relates to the overall score, while the rank for Canadian universities is shown at right. U of T Engineering is ranked 26th overall, with the University of British Columbia ranked 49th, University of Waterloo ranked 69th, McGill University ranked 71st, the University of Alberta ranked 91st , Western University ranked 178th, McMaster University ranked 185th, Université de Montréal ranked 186th, and the University of Calgary ranked 193rd.

Figure 5.4 Canadian Universities in the Top 200 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by Subject, 2023

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) does not provide rankings for universities in the category of engineering and information technology. Instead they provide overall university rankings and rankings at the level of individual subjects. Of these, the subject rankings are most relevant to our key performance indicators.

Text description of chart Canadian Universities in the Top 200 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by Subject, 2023

A series of horizontal bar charts depicting only the universities in the Canadian U15 group that appear in the global Top 200 for various engineering subject rankings, as ranked by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The length of each bar relates to the overall score. U of T Engineering is ranked higher than any other Canadian U15 university in aerospace engineering (37th overall) and biomedical engineering (47th overall). In the other subjects, it ranks anywhere from 24th to 118th overall, but always within the top three Canadian U15 schools for that subject, with the exception of civil & structural engineering, where it ranks 6th among Canadian U15 schools (139th overall).

Figure 5.5a Number of Engineering Publications Indexed by Thomson Reuters for Association of American Universities (AAU) Public and Canadian Peer Institutions, 2018 to 2022

Text description of chart Number of Engineering Publications Indexed by Thomson Reuters for Association of American Universities (AAU) Public and Canadian Peer Institutions, 2018 to 2022

A horizontal bar chart depicting the number of engineering publications indexed by Thomson Reuters for public universities that are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU) as well as select Canadian peer institutions. The totals include papers published between 2018 and 2028, the most recent range for which complete data is available. During this time, U of T Engineering published 4,607 papers, just behind the University of Waterloo (4,718) and the University of Alberta (5,286). The list is led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, which published 8,090 papers during the sample period.

Figure 5.5b Summary of U15 Bibliometrics for Publications (Thomson Reuters/AAU, 2018 to 2022)

University	Publications	Faculty Count	Publications per Faculty	Rank on Publications per Faculty
U Alberta	4,859	280	17.4	3
U Waterloo	4,581	322	14.2	8
U Toronto	4,437	273	16.3	5
U British Columbia	3,655	204	18.0	2
McGill U	3,049	189	16.2	6
U Montréal	2,699	469	5.8	15
U Calgary	2,290	100	22.9	1
McMaster U	2,139	159	13.4	9
Western U	1,946	114	17.1	4
Laval U	1,510	162	9.3	12
U Ottawa	1,476	139	10.6	11
U Saskatchewan	1,352	93	14.5	7
Queens U	1,340	166	8.1	14
U Manitoba	1,151	89	12.9	10
Dalhousie U	1,013	111	9.2	13

Figure 5.5c Number of Engineering Citations Indexed by Thomson Reuters Association of American Universities (AAU) Public and Canadian Peer Institutions, 2018 to 2022

Text description of chart Number of Engineering Citations Indexed by Thomson Reuters Association of American Universities (AAU) Public and Canadian Peer Institutions, 2018 to 2022

A horizontal bar chart depicting the number of engineering citations indexed by Thomson Reuters for public universities that are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU) as well as select Canadian peer institutions. The totals include papers published between 2018 and 2022, the most recent range for which complete data is available. During this time, papers published by U of T Engineering researchers received 116,047 citations, just behind the University of Waterloo (124,218). The list is led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, which received 264,711 citations during the sample period.

Figure 5.5d Summary of U15 Bibliometrics for Citations (Thomson Reuters/AAU, 2018 to 2022)

University	Citations	Faculty Count	Citations per Faculty	Rank on Citations per Faculty	Citations per Publication	Rank on Citations per Publication
U Waterloo	109,139	322	339.4	4	23.8	2
U Toronto	106,862	273	391.7	1	24.1	1
U Alberta	81,862	280	292.5	6	16.8	9
U British Columbia	68,338	204	335.6	5	18.7	5
McGill U	51,920	189	275.4	8	17.0	7
Western U	44,235	114	388.0	2	22.7	3
U Montréal	41,290	469	88.1	15	15.3	14
U Calgary	36,708	100	367.1	3	16.0	12
McMaster U	33,798	159	212.2	10	15.8	13
U Saskatchewan	26,091	93	279.9	7	19.3	4
Laval U	25,194	162	155.5	13	16.7	11
U Ottawa	24,852	139	178.8	11	16.8	10
U Manitoba	19,570	89	219.9	9	17.0	8
Queens U	18,077	166	109.2	14	13.5	15
Dalhousie U	18,012	111	162.7	12	17.8	6

Figure 5.6 Summary of Major International, National and Provincial Awards and Honours, 2014 to 2023

(*) denotes U of T performance indicator. Data shown are by calendar year (January to December) and include faculty award recipients only.

Awards and Honours	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
International
MIT Top 35 Under 35				1
National Academy of Inventors					1		1		1	1
Royal Academy of Engineering					1
Royal Society, U.K.						1
U.S. National Academies*	1		1				1
National
Arthur McDonald Fellowship									1
Brockhouse Prize			1					1		1
Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellowship	3	5	5	5	3	2	5	2	3	5
Engineering Institute of Canada Fellowship	3	2	3	1	1	3	4	1	3	2
Engineering Institute of Canada Awards		1	1	2		1				1
Engineers Canada Awards	1	1		1	1	1	1	1
Governor General's Innovation Award				1	1
Herzberg Prize							1
Killam Prize*	1		1	1			1
Order of Canada				2	1		2	1
Royal Society of Canada Fellowship*	2	2	1	2		2		1	1	2
Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists	1	1	1	1	1		1		1	1
Steacie Fellowship*	1	1	1
Steacie Prize*				1
Synergy Award for Innovation								1
Provincial
Ontario Professional Engineers Awards	2	1	2	3	1	3	1	2	1
OCUFA Teaching Awards		1	1				1	1
Order of Ontario					1		1
Total	15	15	18	21	12	13	20	11	11	13

Figure 5.7a Number of Major National and International Awards Received by U of T Engineering Compared to other Canadian Engineering Faculties, 2023

Data shown are by calendar year (January to December) and include faculty award recipients only. The following major awards are included: International — MIT Top 35 under 35, U.S. National Academies, U.S. National Academy of Inventors; National — NSERC Brockhouse Prize, Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellowship, Engineering Institute of Canada Awards, Engineering Institute of Canada Fellowship, Engineers Canada Awards, Killam Prize (Engineering), Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada Fellowship (Engineering/Physical Sciences), Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships, Steacie Prize and NSERC Synergy Awards for Innovation.

Text description of chart Number of Major National and International Awards Received by U of T Engineering Compared to other Canadian Engineering Faculties, 2023

Figure 5.7b Percentage of Engineering Faculty and Total Major Awards Received in Canadian Engineering Faculties, 2023

University	Percentage of Total Full Time Equivalent Engineering Faculty in Canada	Percentage of Total Major Awards Received by Engineering Faculties
U Toronto	5.7%	15.7%
U Calgary	3.9%	13.3%
U Waterloo	6.8%	9.6%
U British Columbia	4.7%	7.2%
Western U	2.4%	7.2%
U Alberta	5.1%	6.0%
U Victoria	1.7%	6.0%
McMaster U	3.4%	4.8%
Lakehead U	1.1%	3.6%
Queen's U	2.5%	3.6%
U Manitoba	1.8%	2.4%
McGill U	2.9%	2.4%
Memorial U	1.4%	2.4%
York U	1.9%	2.4%
Carleton U	3.1%	1.2%
Concordia U	4.9%	1.2%
Dalhousie U	2.0%	1.2%
U Guelph	1.2%	1.2%
U Laval	n/a	1.2%
Ontario Tech	1.5%	1.2%
U Ottawa	2.8%	1.2%
Polytech Montréal	8.1%	1.2%
Québec ETS	9.2%	1.2%
U Saskatchewan	1.8%	1.2%
Toronto Metro U	3.1%	1.2%

Figure 5.8 Number of Awards Received by U of T Engineering Faculty Compared to Other Canadian Engineering Faculties, 2019 to 2023

Data shown are by calendar year (January to December) and include faculty award recipients only.

Text description of chart Number of Awards Received by U of T Engineering Faculty Compared to Other Canadian Engineering Faculties, 2019 to 2023

A series of horizontal bar charts depict the proportion of selected awards open to Canadian engineering faculty members between 2019 and 2023 that went to U of T Engineering faculty members. U of T Engineering faculty members comprised 20.0% of the Foreign Members of the U.S. National Academies (two of five awarded); 33.3% of the Killam Prizes in Engineering (one of three awarded); 14.3% of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows awarded in the Academy of Science (13 of 29 awarded); 20.7% of the Engineering institute of Canada Fellows (6 of 76 awarded); 12.8% of the Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellows (17 of 133 awarded); and 29.2% of the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (7 of 24 awarded).

Figure 5.9 Selected Awards Received by Faculty and Staff, 2023–2024

Level	Organization	Award	Recipient
International	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation	Humboldt Research Award	Milica Radisic (BME, ChemE)
International	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics	Associate Fellow	Peter Grant (UTIAS)
International	American Society of Mechanical Engineers	Fellow	Pierre Sullivan (MIE)
International	American Society of Mechanical Engineers	Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal	Javad Mostaghimi (MIE)
International	Association for Computing Machinery	Fellow	Vaughn Betz (ECE)
International	Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Foundation	Distinguished Lecturer	Elizabeth Edwards (ChemE)
International	Battelle	Distinguished Inventor	Jane Howe (MSE, ChemE)
International	INFORMS	Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice	Timothy Chan (MIE)
International	Institute of Civil Engineers	Howard Medal	Doug Hooton (CivMin)
International	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	Fellow	Hoi-Kwong Lo (ECE)
International	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	Fellow	Steve Mann (ECE)
International	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	Fellow	Milos Popovic (BME)
International	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	INFOCOM Achievement Award	Baochun Li (ECE)
International	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society	Harry H. Goode Memorial Award	J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (ECE)
International	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society	Quantum Electronics Award	Hoi-Kwong Lo (ECE)
International	Human Factors and Ergonomics Society	Fellow	Paul Milgram (MIE)
International	National Academy of Inventors	Fellow	Milica Radisic (BME, ChemE)
International	Schmidt Science	AI2050 Early Career Fellow	Nicolas Papernot (ECE)
International	Society for Biomaterials	Fellow, Biomaterials Science & Engineering	Milica Radisic (BME, ChemE)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	Christopher Yip (ChemE, BME)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	Ali Dolatabadi (MIE)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	George Eleftheriades (ECE)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	Baochun Li (ECE)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	Xinyu Liu (MIE)
National	Canadian Academy of Engineering	Fellow	Ning Yan (ChemE)
National	Canadian Academy of Health Sciences	Fellow	Yu Sun (MIE)
National	Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education, Prix D'Excellence	Gold Medal	Engineering Advancement
National	Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum	MetSoc Brimacombe Award	Yu Zou (MSE)
National	Canadian Society of Civil Engineering	A.B. Sanderson Award	Shamim Sheikh (CivMin)
National	Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering	Fellow	Patrick Lee (MIE)
National	Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering	C.N. Downing Award	Ali Dolatabadi (MIE)
National	Engineering Institute of Canada	Fellow	Baochun Li (ECE)
National	Engineers Canada	Gold Medal Award	Jonathan Rose (ECE)
National	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Canada	A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal	Yu Sun (MIE)
National	National Research Council of Canada	Dorothy Killam Fellowship	Aimy Bazylak (MIE)
National	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada	Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering	Frank Gu (ChemE)
National	Royal Society of Canada	Fellow	Tom Chau (BME)
National	Royal Society of Canada	Fellow	Alberto Leon-Garcia (ECE)
National	Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists	Member	Nicolas Papernot (ECE)
National	Sandford Fleming Foundation	Wighton Fellowship	Jennifer Farmer (ChemE)
Provincial/Regional	Ontario Professional Engineers Awards	Entrepreneurship Medal	Giovanni Grasselli (CivMin)
Provincial/Regional	University of Waterloo	Honorary Degree	Cristina Amon (MIE)
U of T	U of T	Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award	Alison Olechowski (MIE, ISTEP)
U of T	U of T	Northrop Frye Award	Sean Hum (ECE)
U of T	U of T	President's Teaching Award	Timothy Chan (MIE)
U of T	U of T	President's Teaching Award	Steven Thorpe (MSE)
U of T	School of Graduate Studies	Early Career Supervision Award	Kevin Golovin (MIE)
U of T	Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society	Faculty Fellow	Daniela Galatro (ChemE)

Figure 5.10a 2024 U of T Engineering Staff and Faculty Awards

Type	Award	Recipient
Administrative Staff Awards	Agnes Kaneko Citizenship Award	Rosemary Guido
Administrative Staff Awards	Barbara McCann Quality of Student Experience Award for Frontline Staff	Mark Dennis, Colleen Kelly, Pauline Martini, Alison Morley and Phill Snel (CivMin)
Administrative Staff Awards	Catherine Gagne Sustained Excellence in Leadership Award	Estelle Oliva-Fisher (ISTEP)
Administrative Staff Awards	Harpreet Dhariwal Emerging Leader Award	Elizabeth Whitmell (ISTEP)
Administrative Staff Awards	Innovation Award	Irina Belaya, Inga Breede, Marisa Curmi, Maggie Laidlaw, Cheryl Lee, Anna Limanni, Allison Van Beek and James Zhan (ETO)
Administrative Staff Awards	Quality of Student Experience Award for Behind-the-Scenes Staff	Alan McClenaghan (CivMin)
Research Awards	McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction	Omar Khan (BME)
Research Awards	McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction	Nicolas Papernot (ECE)
Research Awards	Safwat Zaky Research Leader Award	Chi-Guhn Lee (MIE)
Teaching Awards	Early Career Teaching Award	Sarah Haines (CivMin)
Teaching Awards	Faculty Teaching Award	Peter Lehn (ECE)
Teaching Awards	Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award	Bryan Karney (CivMin)
Teaching Awards	TA Teaching Award	Katie Allison (MIE MASc student)
Teaching Awards	TA Teaching Award	Katia Ossetchkina (CivMin MASc student)

Figure 5.10b 2023 Engineering Alumni Network Awards

Award	Recipient
Engineering Alumni Medal	Professor Emerita Jane Phillips (ChemE 5T3)
Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction Award	Professor Mark Kortschot (EngSci 8T4, ChemE MASc 8T5)
Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction Award	Michael Kropp (ElecE 8T6)
Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction Award	Nick Stark (MechE 7T8)
Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction Award	Michael Zahra (ElecE 8T8)
2T5 Mid-Career Achievement Award	Professor Alison McGuigan (ChemE PhD 0T5)
7T6 Early Career Award	Atul Patidar (ECE MEng 1T5)
Malcolm F. McGrath Alumni Achievement Award	Lauri Hiivala (ElecE 6T5)
L.E. (Ted) Jones Award of Distinction	Wing Yan Chan (IndE 2T2 + PEY)
Engineering Alumni Network Scholarship	Kai Hashimoto (ChemE 2T5)

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