Municipal, Provincial & Other Federal Funding
Ryerson received $9.1 million in funding from municipal and provincial agencies, such as the Toronto Police Service and the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. We also saw support from non-Tri-Council federal agencies, like the Southern Ontario Water Consortium, in the amount of $9.9 million.
$19.2M Total municipal, provincial and other non-Tri-Council federal funding
$9.9M Non-Tri-Council federal funding
$9.1M Provincial agency funding
Elsayed Elbeshbishy (Civil Engineering) received support from the Southern Ontario Water Consortium to create and validate advanced modelling tools to ensure optimal removal of chemical and biological material from wastewater collection systems. The project is being done in partnership with Trojan Technologies, a London, Ontario-based water treatment technology company.
Xavier Fernando (Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering) received a grant from the Ontario Centres of Excellence to research the deployment of an industrial-scale, descriptive Internet of Things (IoT) solution for supply chain management. The work was done with technology solutions provider Peytec Inc. with the aim of making its inventory solution ready for commercial release.
Sandra Tullio-Pow (Fashion) received support from Toronto Police Service to research and design uniform prototypes for its community police officers, who patrol on foot or on bicycles and have different requirements than officers who are primarily in vehicles.
Provided by Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, the Early Researcher Awards (ERA) program provides emerging faculty members with support to pursue their innovative projects and build research teams at institutions like Ryerson University. Highly competitive and juried by academic and industry experts, the ERA amplifies discovery science and provides knowledge-based learning and training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to conduct and expedite research.
Bilal Farooq (Civil Engineering) is using virtual and augmented reality to investigate mixed-traffic environments for human-driven and self-driven autonomous vehicles to enhance Ontario’s transportation planning, design and operations.
Michael McGregor (Politics and Public Administration) is studying recent municipal elections in eight Canadian cities and the issues that inform voter – and non-voter – behaviours. The framework will inform how to improve balloting and engagement levels beyond local politics.