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In the early hours of Dec. 6, a group of 30 U of T Engineers, who go by the name of the Brute Force Committee, erected their own version of Mayor Rob Ford’s “gravy train” at Nathan Phillips Square. In…
With the Christmas video-game-buying season in full swing, now seems the right time to ask, Are active video games being aimed, at least in part, at the wrong audience? Active video games refer, of course, to games that require you…
CBC Radio’s “Quirks & Quarks” program celebrated its 35th anniversary with a live panel discussion in November, asking engineers and scientists to discuss the greatest achievements since the show first went on the air in October 1975. To celebrate the…
In late 1960, 26 years before the launch of Wheels, the Toronto Daily Star exhaustively tested the gas mileage of 31 new 1961 cars. The scope and technical discipline of the project would have been impressive even in a dedicated automotive…
In an effort to promote innovative and sustainable construction solutions, U of T Engineering, along with the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) and Holcim (Canada) Inc. recently partnered to perform the first public agency trial of a concrete pavement…
Industry, academics and media alike came out to the Civil Engineering’s Structural Testing Facilities laboratory recently to witness a half-million pounds of force testing a yielding brace system designed to protect buildings from earthquakes. This was the first full-scale dynamic…
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