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On April 28, the University of Toronto Formula SAE Racing team revealed their greatly anticipated 2011 competition vehicle, “UT11,” at the Mechanical Engineering Building. Over the past nine months, the team, which includes five Mechanical Engineering students and a Life…
When Professor Milos R. Popovic (MIE PhD 9T6) dreams of brilliant control systems, it’s not supercomputers or NASA mission control he’s thinking of, it’s the human brain. “The brain is the most sophisticated control system anywhere in existence,” says the biomedical…
Since the first skateboards appeared in the 1950s, they have evolved from crude wooden planks with metal rollers to sleek, symmetrical boards with polyurethane wheels. Now Professor Mark Kortschot (ChemE) has put his own stamp on the iconic “sidewalk surfer,”…
Ever take apart a mechanical toy to see how the parts work? Do you tinker with gizmos or get a rush pondering physics problems? Is math your second language? Maybe you should get in touch with your inner engineer. No…
A team of civil engineering researchers is working on a plan to increase the efficiency of aging apartment buildings in Toronto by creating an outer perimeter whose temperature varies between the inside and outside temperature. Nested Thermal Envelope Design, or…
For an upcoming episode of Spark, host Nora Young spoke to Professor Andrew Goldenberg (MIE), who spearheads the Robotics and Automation Lab at the University of Toronto, on why researchers are obsessed with replicating robots to the human form. To…
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