Academic Success
Are you struggling in a course? Looking to manage your study time better? The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the University of Toronto community are here to help support your academic journey. Your
undergraduate academic counsellor is your best resource for discovering academic assistance.
A sample of resources available to you across U of T include:
Learning Skills
Academic Success Centre (ASC)The University's Academic Success Centre has an educational service that offers lectures, workshops and individual consultation on everything from time management, exams, textbook reading and note taking, to concentration, memory and other aspects of study.
Blueprint
The Blueprint Program is an easy way to get involved in life outside the classroom. Through a series of engaging workshops you will learn and develop skills that will serve as the foundation on which you will build your experience by participating in various activities on-campus and in the community. Academic Skills WorkshopsARC, the Academic Resource Community at U of T, organizes the Academic Skills Workshops
to the University's entire student body. These workshops mostly focus on essay writing; however, there are also workshops on time management and exam preparation. All ARC workshops are free and offered several times a year. There is no need to pre-register.
First Nations House TutoringStudents may also access a First Nations House tutor for assistance in essay preparation and writing, study and research skills. The First Nations House may also assist students locate tutors in other fields of study such as math and science.
Peer Tutoring
The
Engineering Society operates a peer-tutoring program for Engineering students. Tutors in the program are upper-year Engineering students. Contact information for tutors is posted online, along with the course they tutor for and any fees they may charge. For more information on this program, please visit
Skule Academics.
You can also find help through the University of Toronto Peer Tutoring (UTPT)
program. It is a club that is run by University of Toronto undergraduate students in all disciplines. The program provides academic support to students in the form of free tutoring sessions with qualified volunteer tutors. For more information, or to book an appointment, please visit their website:
University of Toronto Peer Tutoring (UTPT).
Math Aid
The Math Aid Office provides undergraduate students with assistance in Calculus and Linear Algebra. The Office is overseen by Professor Dietrich Burbulla who will provide you with one-on-one math assistance. If you and your peers have similar questions, you are welcome to visit the Office as a group.
In order to maximize the services of the Math Aid Office, you should complete your problems sets or homework assignments first. You should consult the Math Aid Office about the questions that you had difficulties with. Please note that if you have questions about lecture material, you should consult your instructor directly. It is best if you don't wait until immediately before a test or exam to visit the Math Aid Office.
The Math Aid Office is located in the Galbraith Building in GB 149.
Hours are Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, Thursdays from 12:00 to 4:00 pm.
The Math and Stats Help Centre at UT Scarborough published a "Math Survival Guide" available at http://ctl.utsc.utoronto.ca/mslc/firstyear
. The guide is specifically aimed at first-year students; however, the tips and advice may prove useful to upper-year students as well.
You may also find the Success in Mathematics site helpful.
Engineering Communication Centre
The Engineering Communication Centre can help you with your written and oral assignments. While they will not edit your essay, they will help you to hone your ideas and improve your communication skills. To book an appointment, please
click here.
For your convenience, the Centre also publishes an
Online Handbook and
interactive tutorials.
The Centre is part of the Engineering Communication Program. The Program’s intent is to integrate the development of communications skills into engineering curriculum through courses offered by the engineering departments and through the Program’s own credit and non-credit courses. Some of the Program’s courses include ESC300 (Written and Oral Communication), JDE1001/1002 (Foundations in Technical Communication/Engineering Thesis Writing), LAC 200/300 (Oral Presentation Skills) and ESE (English for Science and Engineering).
For more information on the Engineering Communication Program and its services, please visit their
website.
