In focus: Female professors advancing four key areas of engineering research
Leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8, U of T Engineering is celebrating some of our remarkable female alumni, students and faculty. These women are inspirational role models who are “making it happen” in engineering and beyond. U of T Engineering’s award-winning faculty are passionate about making an impact through innovations in enabling technologies, bioengineering, sustainability and information and communications technology. […]
ECE Professor Natalie Enright Jerger wins Sloan Research Fellowship
Two things we know: computers keep getting faster and smaller. Why? In large part because we continue to cram more processor cores on a single chip—but making all those processors talk to each other has become a key impediment to future progress. Professor Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) is discovering more efficient ways for on-chip networks to […]
Escape the cold with alumni startup FuelWear
It began with the polar vortex of 2014. That’s when University of Toronto engineering alumni Jason Yakimovich (CompE 1T3+PEY) and Alex Huang (ElecE 1T3+PEY), fed up with low temperatures, developed the first intelligent heated base layer. The “smart” shirt monitors body temperature to provide just the right amount of warmth for its wearer to enjoy outdoor sports—or simply walk […]
Investing in next-generation wireless: Wei Yu wins E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
Your smartphone may keep getting smarter, but its network is struggling to keep up. Demand for fast, cheap and plentiful data continues to surge, but wireless communications infrastructure is reaching the limits of what it can provide to users—unless we can find more efficient ways to engineer our networks. Professor Wei Yu (ECE) is doing […]
Connaught awards over $600K to U of T Engineering researchers
Researchers from University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have been awarded a total of $636,300 from the University’s own research funding source, the Connaught Fund. The new awards are part of over $900,000 that was distributed across U of T through Connaught’s Innovation Award, Summer Institute and Cross Divisional/ Cross Cultural programs. […]
U of T Engineering researchers awarded $3.5 million to tackle industry challenges
From smart sensors that limit driver distraction to new tools that convert methane into useful products, researchers at U of T Engineering got a major boost this week with a $3.5 million investment from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). NSERC is kick-starting eight new projects in the Faculty through Strategic […]
Coding creativity: Why programming isn’t just for engineers anymore
On Sunday, Feb. 22, 500 rookie coders descend on MaRS when Canada’s largest learn-to-code event—The HTML500—comes to Toronto for the first time. The HTML500 is a one-day crash-course on programming basics, teaching those with little coding knowledge how to build their own website from scratch. With U of T Engineering’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of […]
Engineering alumnus gives back to support solar cell research at U of T
U of T Engineering alumnus Shawn Qu (MSE PhD 9T5) believes in a bright future for home-grown solar technology—and he’s helping create it. Dr. Qu is founder, chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar, North America’s leading photovoltaic module manufacturer and one of the world’s largest solar power companies. Canadian Solar recently committed $400,000 to support […]
Crystal light: New family of light-converting materials points to cheaper, more efficient solar power and LEDs
Engineers are shining new light on an emerging family of solar-absorbing materials that could clear the way for cheaper and more efficient solar panels and LEDs. The materials, called perovskites, are particularly good at absorbing visible light, but had never been studied in their purest form: as perfect single crystals. Using a new technique, researchers […]
