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Connect6 Competition a Hit with U of T Engineering Students

When you win a competition by time measured in milliseconds, it’s like being in the Olympics. That’s what happened to Shang Wang (ECE 1T7) at the first Connect6 game competition, organized as part of Engineering’s APS105 computer programming course. Connect6 is a…

New Algorithm Finds You, Even in Untagged Photos

  A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. This month, the United States Patent and…

Industry Takes Challenges to U of T Engineers

Most people don’t go looking for problems, but U of T Engineers seem to be an exception to that rule. In fact, Ted Sargent, Vice-Dean, Research for the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, stood in front of a room of…

U of T Engineers Win Grants from Grand Challenges Canada

U of T Engineers got a big boost for their work in the developing world, thanks to grants from Grand Challenges Canada (GCC). Four of eight grants awarded to U of T researchers go to Engineering faculty: Timothy Chan (MIE), Radhakrishnan Mahadevan (ChemE), Javad Mostaghimi (MIE)…

First Living 3D Model of Arrhythmic Heart Made From Stem Cells

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine have developed the first-ever method for creating living, three-dimensional human heart tissue that behaves like mature heart tissue. Importantly, the…
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