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

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

November 18, 2021

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

November 10, 2021

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

October 25, 2021

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

October 21, 2021

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

October 14, 2021

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

Nightingale.ai, an AI-enabled platform that enables physiotherapists and their patients to connect remotely, is one of five winners of Hatchery Demo Day 2021. (Photo courtesy: Nightingale.ai)

Five startups to watch from U of T Engineering’s virtual Hatchery Demo Day 2021

September 24, 2021

Companies aim to bring technological improvements to urban planning, physiotherapy and many other fields

Professor George Eleftheriades (ECE) achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

New metamaterial with unusual reflective property could boost your Wi-Fi signal

September 22, 2021

U of T Engineering research team’s ‘full-duplex’ intelligent metasurface has the potential to double the capacity of existing wireless communication networks

Professor Xilin Liu (ECE) advances the technologies of integrated circuits and machine learning to help modulate brain networks for applications in health care, such as relieving or suppressing neurological disorders and conditions. (Photo: Jaxson Batter)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Professor Xilin Liu

September 16, 2021

Professor Liu’s research advances applications of integrated circuits and machine learning on human health

Mai Ali (ECE PhD candidate). (Photo courtesy Mai Ali)

IBET Momentum Fellow Mai Ali designs autonomously powered sensors for health care

September 10, 2021

Ali plans to harness the power of artificial intelligence in ambient assisted living systems

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