Posts By: Engineering

U of T Student Team Takes Top Prize at Green Building Design Challenge

Civil engineering students Amanda Cirinna (1T3) and Steven Goldstine (1T3) recently took top honours at the Home Sweet Home Student Challenge, an annual competition developed by OntarioGreenSpec.ca and vied for by schools across the province. The competition, which is adjudicated by an advisory board of 12…

EngSci Students Take Top Prize With Health & Safety App

Engineering Science students Sherri Cui (1T5) and Shen Wang (1T5) have won first prize in a national safe design award competition for their innovative mobile health and safety app. Cui and Wang were presented with the 2013 James Ham Safe Design Award by Minerva…

New Insights into How Materials Transfer Heat Could Lead to Improved Electronics

U of T Engineering researchers, working with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, have published new insights into how materials transfer heat, which could eventually lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices. Integrated circuits and other electronic parts have been shrinking…

Can Smartphones Make Students Pay Attention?

It would be hard to find a university student these days who isn’t glued to their smartphone screen – whether outside or inside the classroom. As tech blog ReadWrite explains, “The modern classroom is alive with the clicking of laptops and…

Five Engineers Honoured as U of T’s Inventors of the Year

Dietary advice tailored to your DNA. A ‘bio-printer’ that prints skin-like tissue that can be used to dress wounds. These are just two of the inventions that might change your life in coming years. They’re also two of 10 inventions…

UTIAS Student Caught Up in Boston Bombing Aftermath

When Lana Osusky (AeroE PhD candidate) went to Boston to present her research, she didn’t expect to end up presenting in her hotel room, while under lockdown. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT)Women in Aerospace Symposium, which took place on April 18…
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