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Professor Emeritus John Senders (MIE) is among a number of U of T professors who took home a 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for their “improbable research.” The awards ceremony, which takes place at Harvard University, proves that research can be fun – and…
The University of Toronto’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team placed third overall at the 2011 World Human-Powered Speed Challenge, held in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The competition took place from September 12 to 17 on a flat and almost perfectly straight eight-kilometre stretch…
An invention by Mechanical Engineering graduate Bradley Pierik (MechE 0T9) that brings clean water to the developing world is profiled in today’s The Globe & Mail. Pierik invented a hand-held device that purifies unfiltered water by pressing it through a fibre membrane. The…
Rezwana Sharmin (EngSci 1T0 + PEY) has wanted to inspire young girls to pursue engineering since her very first year at U of T. Sharmin got her first taste of it while working as an instructor’s assistant for the Faculty’s outreach…
At the University of Toronto’s Hart House, seven large blimps hover above students’ heads. The blimps – tied to the ground by delicate strings and filled with lights – was a spectacle to behold at Nuit Blanche on October 1.…
Not-for-profit organization, Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregates (SERA), has named Professor Brenda McCabe, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, as its Chair of its newly formed expert technical panel. Professor McCabe leads a group of experts – representing municipal, industry,…
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