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Supermileage Team Determined to Make an Impact in 2014

High expectations. That’s what Mengqi Wang (ECE 1T3) has for the University of Toronto Supermileage Team in 2014. Wang is co-president of the team, which competed for the first time ever in the Shell Eco-Marathon Challenge held in Houston earlier this month,…

Goodbye to Plastic?

In the latest issue of U of T Magazine, Professor Emma Master (ChemE) discusses how she is using plants to create new materials and chemicals. The article poses the question: What if we could make plastic from renewable biomaterials instead of environmentally harmful…

Inspiring Inclusiveness – One Pink Shirt at a Time

Five years ago in a Nova Scotian high school, two teens started an anti-bullying movement in support of a ninth grader who was picked on for wearing pink. In 2008, Pink Shirt Day involved a mere 50 students. Today, schools…

Showing a ‘LOT’ of Appreciation

Off the heels of National Engineering Month, the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) celebrated U of T Engineering’s emerging student leaders on April 3. ILead’s annual Leaders of Tomorrow (LOT) Appreciation Night was an opportunity to build community…

ChemE Researchers’ Accidental Discovery May Lead to Improved Polymers

The accidental discovery by Chemical Engineering Professor Tim Bender and Post-Doctoral Fellow Benoit Lessard of an unexpected side product of polymer synthesis could have implications for the manufacture of commercial polymers used in sealants, adhesives, toys and even medical implants, the researchers say. Bender…

Igniting the Flame for Operations Research

How do you program a robot to navigate a zombie-infested campus? That was one of many problems that 80 high school students from grades 9 through 12, had to solve during the third-annual Operations Research Challenge (TORCH). TORCH is a one-day contest…
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