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Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia (ECE), seen here with graduate students Atoosa Nasiri (left, ECE PhD candidate) and Rajsimman Ravichandiran (centre, ECE MASc candidate), heads the new NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience program in Network Softwarization. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Cloud-based data routing receives major investment from NSERC CREATE

New collaborative research project aims to replace networking infrastructure with flexible software solutions

Phil De Luna (MSE PhD candidate) is one of the lead authors of a new paper published in Nature Chemistry that reports a low-cost, highly efficient catalyst for chemical conversion of water into oxygen. The catalyst is part of an artificial photosynthesis system being developed at U of T Engineering. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Artificial photosynthesis gets big boost from new catalyst

U of T Engineering system takes inspiration from plants to convert electrical energy to chemical energy at 64 per cent efficiency, the highest yet reported for renewable carbon fuels

From left: UTEV’s Professor Peter Lehn, Dr. Theo Soong, and Professor Olivier Trescases (all ECE) at the Electric Mobility Canada Show with Havelaar’s electric pick-up truck, the Bison. (Credit: Sonja Persram).

Electric vehicle partnership earns $9-million investment

University of Toronto Electric Vehicle Research Centre (UTEV) receives major grants to advance R&D of sustainable transportation

Lineup of 2017 EAN Award winners

Remarkable U of T Engineering alumni honoured

Ten exemplary members of U of T Engineering’s alumni community were recognized on Thursday, Nov. 2 at the Engineering Alumni Network (EAN) Awards.

Vivienne Sze (ElecE 0T4) holds the Emmy her team won at the 69th Engineering Emmy Awards. The U of T Engineering alumna is now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Photo: Minhua Zhou).

Engineering alumna on Emmy Award-winning team for work on video compression

Vivienne Sze was part of team that developed High Efficiency Video Coding for ultra-high definition television

Members of U of T Engineering's AutoDrive team adjust the mounts for autonomous sensors on a donated Chevrolet Bolt. The team has until April to turn the electric vehicle into a self-driving vehicle. (Photo: Alex Lee)

AutoDrive: Student team gears up on self-driving electric vehicle challenge

Chevrolet Bolt to be made autonomous by U of T Engineering team

Milica Radisic, whose research focuses on growing 3D models of human organs, is one of four U of T Engineering researchers awarded funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation in the latest round. (Photo: Caz Zyvatkauskas)

From lab-grown organs to smart cities: U of T Engineering researchers receive support from CFI

Mice and rats have long been unwitting test subjects for drug companies – even though their furry little bodies don’t mimic human physiology very well. But research by Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE), a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, has helped open the door to a much better option: testing […]

U of T President Meric Gertler presents Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei with a gift during his visit to the University. (Photo: Tristan Cannon-Sherlock)

Huawei CEO visits U of T to explore ways to further strategic partnership

Visit included discussions with U of T Engineering researchers working in fields from robotics to telecommunications to electromagnetics

Astronaut and alumna Julie Payette officially became Canada's 29th Governor General in a ceremony on Parliament Hill Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. (Photo credit: Sgt Johanie Maheu, Rideau Hall © OSGG-BSGG, 2017)

U of T Engineering alumna Julie Payette installed as 29th Governor General

Payette used her first speech in office to make an impassioned plea for Canada to make evidence-based decisions and to continue trying to solve global challenges