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The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) news

Dr. Xue Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Ted Sargent (ECE) installs a new electrocatalyst, made of copper doped with silver and ruthenium, that can efficiently convert waste carbon into 1-propanol. The innovation could offer a new path to upcycling captured carbon. (Photo: Geonhui Lee)

Bridging the propylene gap: Electrocatalyst offers new path for converting captured carbon into valuable products

A new electrochemical process transforms carbon monoxide into 1-propanol, a precursor to propylene, one of the world’s most widely produced industrial chemicals

Featured image with photo portraits of interviewees for a U of T Engineering Black History Month segment

Community Matters: Black experiences at U of T Engineering

ECE Professors Tony Chan Carusone (left) and Joyce Poon (right) have been named Fellows of the IEEE. (Photos: Chan Carusone; Poon by Katja Woldt)

ECE Professors Tony Chan Carusone and Joyce Poon named IEEE Fellows

Accomplishments in digital communications and integrated photonics earn U of T Engineering professors elevation to IEEE’s highest grade of membership

Left to right: Professors Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Vaughn Betz (ECE) and Frank Vecchio (CivMin) have been elected 2022 Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Three professors elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada

U of T Engineering faculty recognized for their contributions to advancing clean energy, computing hardware and safer infrastructure

The Engage AI app, a fourth-year undergraduate Capstone project, captures facial analytics during a virtual lecture to determine the percentage of active students (those looking at the screen) along with those who are ‘happy’ or ‘drowsy,’ as displayed in the app’s dashboard. (Image courtesy: Engage AI)

Award-winning app helps profs make online lectures more engaging

The fourth-year undergraduate Capstone project captures facial analytics during a virtual lecture to determine the percentage of active audience members

Left to right: Shijie Liu (MIE MASc candidate), Yi (Sheldon) Xu (MIE postdoctoral fellow) and Celine Xiao (MIE PhD candidate) work on an electrochemical cell in their lab. The students are members of Team E-quester, which has earned a $250,000 XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award. (Photo: Yong Zhao)

U of T Engineering team earns US $250,000 in global XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award

Seed funding will advance an electrochemical process that can capture CO2 directly from air

Professor Willy Wong (ECE) has discovered a mathematical relationship in the sensory adaption response curve that is true for all sensory modalities and all organisms. The equation (top-right) is SS = √PR x SR. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

A universal law of physiology emerges from professor’s research

Professor Willy Wong has discovered a mathematical relationship in the sensory adaption response curve that is true for all sensory modalities and all organisms

Professor Micah Stickel (ECE) has served as Vice-Dean, First Year for U of T Engineering and Acting Vice-Provost, Students and Vice-Provostial Advisor on Students. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)

Professor Micah Stickel receives an OCUFA Teaching Award

U of T Engineering professor recognized for his integration of novel teaching methods and technologies in the classroom

In his teaching, Professor Bruno Korst (ECE) aims to to encourage and guide students’ curiosity and to present theory in a way that enables them to easily make connections to its application. (Photo courtesy: Bruno Korst)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Professor Bruno Korst

Korst strives to present theory in a way that enables students to make connections to its application