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Professor Milos Popovic, at right, speaks with a U of T Engineering alumnus about his research. Popovic has been named research director of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. (Credit: Jonathan Sabeniano)

Milos Popovic appointed research director of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

IBBME professor is a world-renowned researcher in the field of rehabilitation engineering

Professor Reza Iravani (ECE) and members of his research group (from left, Mr. Xiaolin Wang, Professor Reza Iravani, Dr. Ali Nabavi and Dr. Milan Graovac) are helping to reduce range anxiety for electric vehicle drivers (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Reducing ‘range anxiety’ for electric vehicles by speeding up charging time

Large-scale, utility level battery systems will reduce the charging time for electric vehicles from hours to minutes

Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia (ECE) and his partners aim to use data to improve the efficiency and livability of cities such as Toronto. (Photo: City of Toronto, via Flickr)

Smarter cities: Strategic partnership leverages technology and big data to improve urban environments

Collaboration brings together academia, industry and government to explore how the Internet of Things can make cities work better

In a comment piece published today in Nature, Professor Ted Sargent (ECE) and his co-authors suggest that artificial intelligence and machine learning could be leveraged to speed up the development of sustainable energy technologies. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

Artificial intelligence can accelerate the race toward sustainable energy technologies

We’ve all heard that artificial intelligence and machine learning are poised to transform our lives with self-driving cars and voice-activated robotic assistants. But these technologies may also be the key to speeding up the development of clean energy —  from better batteries to more efficient solar cells. That’s the argument advanced today in Nature by […]

Professor Mireille Broucke (ECE) uses flying robots like these drones as a testbed to develop control algorithms capable of handling dynamic, real-world situations. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Steering through uncertainty: U of T Engineering research creates control algorithms for self-driving robots

Mireille Broucke and her colleagues in the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics design theoretical frameworks to help drones and autonomous vehicles navigate in changing conditions

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U of T Engineering Holiday Gift Guide 2017

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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