Posts By: Tyler Irving

New “Tissue Velcro” could help repair damaged hearts

Engineers at the University of Toronto just made assembling functional heart tissue as easy as fastening your shoes. The team has created a biocompatible scaffold that allows sheets of beating heart cells to snap together just like Velcro™. “One of…

Undergraduate students kick-start their research careers with UnERD

At the annual Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD), held August 19, students who spent their summer working in labs across U of T Engineering presented their findings to a wider audience. This year’s event featured more than 100 poster and…

Five engineering students enriching their studies with summer research exchanges

This story is Part 8 of an eight-part series, Engineering Experiential Learning, running throughout spring and summer 2015.   Earlier this summer, third-year engineering student Brittany Green (Year 3 ChemE) flew halfway around the world to join an engineering research collaboration in Southeast Asia. “I wanted…

More campers than ever explore engineering hands-on at Jr. DEEP

It’s a sunny summer morning, and engineering student Karen Mukwedeya (Year 4 ChemE) is up to her ankles in water. As an instructor for this year’s Jr. DEEP outreach camp, she’s standing in a fountain outside the Bahen Centre helping a…
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