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Engineering’s biggest story of 2010 may well have been that of the “Snowbird” human-powered ornithopter, piloted by EngSci alumnus and UTIAS doctoral candidate Todd Reichert, with Professor Emeritus James DeLaurier acting as faculty advisor. The aircraft with flapping wings, a…
Shawn Qu (MSE PhD 9T5) runs one of the ten largest solar panel makers in the world, Kitchener, Ont.-based Canadian Solar Inc., with annual revenue of about $1.2-billion (U.S.). Yet he is almost unknown in Canadian business circles, mainly because the…
The Next 36, a new program that helps launch the business careers of 36 promising and innovative Canadian undergraduates, have chosen five U of T Engineering students. In summer 2011, EngSci students Shahed Al-Haque (1T1), Shane Gu (1T3), Saksham Uppal (1T1 + PEY) and ECE…
Developing products that will enable treatments for devastating health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and spinal cord injuries is the focus of a major University of Toronto-hosted research and commercialization initiative that has been awarded $15 million by…
In the early hours of Dec. 6, a group of 30 U of T Engineers, who go by the name of the Brute Force Committee, erected their own version of Mayor Rob Ford’s “gravy train” at Nathan Phillips Square. In…
On Nov. 29, Engineering alumnae Anne Sado (IndE 7T7) and Dawn Tattle (CivE 8T5) were honoured at a gala celebrating Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Sado, who has been the President of George Brown College since 2004, was honoured in the Cisco Public…
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