Congratulations to Daniel Zingaro, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, for receiving the UTM Teaching Excellence Award for outstanding teaching by a junior faculty member. Please read more here: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/teaching-excellence-award-faculty
This award is given to the best conference paper where the first author is a student. This work investigates the effect of using open-ended, exploratory assignments in an introductory computer science course. The paper is available here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3309532.
Daniel Zingaro and his colleagues are recognized with a SIGCSE Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time award. "The ACM SIGCSE Top Ten Symposium Papers of All Time Award recognizes the outstanding papers published in the first 49 Proceedings of the Annual ACM Technical Symposium." The paper is a multi-national, multi-institutional study of the benefits of Peer Instruction (PI) pedagogy in computer science.
Professor Lisa Zhang from the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences was selected as the recipient of the UTM Teaching Excellence Award for outstanding teaching by a junior faculty member. She is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream who leads several grant-supported curricular initiatives. As a junior faculty member, she has already made outstanding contributions not only at UTM but more broadly in the international computing education community through her extensive pedagogical research.
UTM Robotics Club is hiring some associates to join our team! If you have a passion for robotics and are ready to make an impact, we want to hear from you 🤖
RISC Rendezvous
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Details provided at registration
This is event is open to ALL students, in ALL years who are looking for careers in all fields within the industry of risk (finance, marketing, data analytics, business operations, actuarial, HR, etc.)
Get Hired Fair
Drop in at Get Hired Fair to speak with reps from various organizations and learn about a wide range of job opportunities - internships, full-time jobs, summer jobs, part-time jobs, volunteer work, and tech co-op placements. Whether you are looking for on-campus or off-campus, there is something for everyone.
Congratulations to Rutwa Engineer (CSC) who received a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) grant for our MCS students. This grant allows students to collaborate with non-profits to build software systems, where some students are collaborating with people from the The Linux Foundation and The Free Software Foundation.
Naaz Sibia’s online learning experience as an undergraduate student during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic sparked her passion for creating resources that provide a more equitable educational experience. Her research aims to design tools that better support students in the event of another pandemic, as the existing ones struggled with lack of engagement and inadequate assistance.
Are you a current UTM international student looking for a mentor? We are excited to announce that mentee applications for the 2024 - 2025 program are now open! Do you want to make new friends, practice English skills, learn about Canadian culture and earn CCR? Become an IMACC mentee! Space is limited so sign up now!”