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The e-Parali team shares their slide deck during a meeting. From top to bottom: Satya Sathwik Juttada (Year 2 ChemE), Advait Iyer, Richmond Theophilus Ghanney and Karthi Hari Krishnan. (Screenshot: Submitted)

App for empowering farmers in India propels ChemE student to first-place finish at international hackathon

Satya Sathwik Juttada (Year 2 ChemE) and teammates won the Global Challenge Lab 2022 with e-Parali, an app that enables farmers in India to pool access to farming equipment

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Mosquito-repellent paint among five projects funded by CGEN seed grant program

Global Engineering Seed (GESeed) supports engineering projects that address major challenges to Indigenous populations and marginalized communities in the Global South

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U of T Engineering professors and alumni elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering

The eight members of the U of T Engineering community are among 47 new Canadian Academy of Engineering fellows

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U of T Engineering alumna receives Engineers Canada award for community service

Sandra Odendahl (ChemE MASc 9T0) currently serves as a board director for the Ontario Clean Water Agency, the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices and NEXT Canada

Smiling students wearing black t-shirts stand outside a building with their model-sized car powered by chemical energy sources

U of T Engineering student team wins first place at regional Chem-E-Car competition

The University of Toronto Chemical Vehicles (UTCV) team advances to the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Chem-E-Car Competition

Professor Emeritus Roderick Tennyson (UTIAS) and alumnae Pirathayini Srikantha (ECE PhD 1T7) and Jeanette Southwood (ChemE 8T6, MASc 8T8) were recognized for their contributions to the engineering profession and to society. (Photos: submitted)

Engineering Professor Emeritus and alumnae receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards

Roderick Tennyson (UTIAS), Pirathayini Srikantha (ECE PhD 1T7) and Jeanette Southwood (ChemE 8T6, MASc 8T8) honoured with the Management Medal, Engineering Medal and Citizenship Award, respectively

Graduate research assistant Weiwu Chen (CivMin) counts microplastics using a microscope in the lab of Professor Elodie Passeport (CivMin, ChemE). (Photo: Shuyao Tan)

U of T Engineering researchers use machine learning to enhance environmental monitoring of microplastics

More accurate measurements are critical to preventing microplastics from entering the environment — or removing those that are already there

A Global Classrooms project brought together students from U of T Engineering and Nigeria’s Covenant University to build a low-cost biogas generator for remote communities in Africa’s most populous country. (Image: Zoom)

U of T Engineering students collaborate across time zones through ‘Global Classrooms’ initiative

The team is working with students at Covenant University in Nigeria to design a low-cost biogas generator for rural communities in the African country

Professor Levente Diosady (ChemE) has developed novel technologies to fortify staple foods, which has helped improve the health of millions of people in developing countries. (Photo: Submitted)

Professor Levente Diosady Receives U of T President’s Impact Award

Professor Levente Diosady (ChemE) is being recognized for his development of a technique to double fortify salt with iron and iodine to help prevent anemia