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Engineers Solve Energy Puzzle

University of Toronto Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) researchers have demonstrated for the first time the key mechanism behind how energy levels align in a critical group of advanced materials. This discovery is a significant breakthrough in the development of sustainable technologies…

Documentary Follows Ornithopter Team’s Journey to Aviation History

On November 21, the CBC’s documentary channel will air When Dreams Take Flight, which follows UTIAS PhD candidate Todd Reichert (EngSci 0T5) and his team, as they construct and fly a human-powered ornithopter. The U of T Engineering graduate students made aviation history in August…

Future of Medicine is Smarter Implants

Biomedical implants have the potential to transform everything – from drug delivery, to orthopedics and neurology. They’re crucial to new treatments that will help meet the challenges posed by an aging population – and transform the practice of medicine. There’s…

The Nano Revolution: Will Nano Save the Planet?

The CBC’s The Nature of Things recently explored nanotechnology and all its potential in saving the planet. Nanotechnology is a universe where scientists explore matter on a scale 80,000 times smaller than a human hair. It’s a gigantic global laboratory where scientists…

Next-Generation Biomaterials Make Catheters Safer

Making medical devices that address the challenge of delivering safe care to patients is standard procedure at the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME). Just ask Professor Paul Santerre, IBBME Director, who developed Endexo Technology through his spin-off company, Interface…

Engineer Becomes Beauty Maven with Virtual Makeover App

Associate Professor Parham Aarabi (ECE) has become a beauty maven with ModiFace, a $30 million virtual makeover business, where users try out cosmetics, wedding gowns and plastic surgery for free online. Beauty is perhaps an unintuitive market for an engineer to pursue,…
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