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.