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Members of the aUToronto team at the Year 1 AutoDrive Challenge competition at General Motors Proving Grounds in Yuma, Ariz. (Credit: SAE International)

aUToronto to compete in Year 2 of AutoDrive Challenge

U of T Engineering team and their self-driving car are headed to Ann Arbor, Mich., to take on seven other teams in international competition

Engineering science student Eli Scott (centre) presents her team’s design for expediting the use of reusable bags at Longo’s grocery stores. (Photo: Liz Do)

First-year students engineer solutions to complex city challenges

Praxis Showcase event is the culmination of unique first-year Engineering Science design course

Adriana Diaz Lozano Patino says U of T’s global reputation, its welcoming approach towards international students and its research opportunities were factors that brought her to U of T Engineering. (Photo credit: Liz Do)

‘I wanted to be a part of the mosaic of diversity’: Students from Mexico on why they chose U of T Engineering

From Mexico to Toronto: three engineering students share their academic journeys

Members of the Arctic Youth Ambassador Caucus walk through Iqaluit last month. Two U of T Engineering students were delegates to the four-day conference. (Photo: Sam Lin)

U of T Engineering students share lessons from the Arctic Youth Ambassador Caucus

Lia Codrington (Year 3 EngSci) and Natalie Enriquez-Birch (TrackOne) travelled to Iqaluit to meet with youth leaders from Nunavut and across Canada

Fourth-year students Flavia Ng (CivE), Sayuri Guruge (MSE), Tayyeb Zarabi (MechE) and Jonathan Jeyarajah (MechE) designed a flooring solution to reduce exposure to contaminated soil found in the households of Indigenous communities in Guatamala. (Photo credit: Liz Do)

AI to Aerospace: U of T Engineering students work across disciplines to create novel engineering solutions

UT-IMDI unveils array of engineering innovations at 2019 Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Showcase

Engineering Science student Christopher Alexiev (Year 2) spent the summer of 2018 working at the Optical Materials and Devices Lab at the physics department of the National University of Singapore. (Photo: Shuvan Prashant)

Why more U of T Engineering students than ever are going global

Nearly 50 Engineering Science students will conduct research at partner institutions worldwide this summer

Saara and Ali Punjani are the brother and sister team behind Structura Biotechnology, a U of T startup that uses AI to create 3D visualizations of never-before-seen proteins for pharmaceutical companies (photo by Chris Sorensen)

Run by brother-sister team, this U of T startup is leading Big Pharma out of the dark

It was a little over two years ago when Saara Punjani and her brother, Ali Punjani (EngSci 1T2), made their first sale to a multinational drug company from a “random meeting room” at the University of Toronto’s Bahen Centre. At the time, Structura Biotechnology was barely even a startup. But what the Punjanis lacked in airy office […]

Co-founders Jeffrey Osborne and Mina Mitry say they're luring back Canadian talent from around the world as Kepler Communications builds out a network of 140 pint-sized communications satellites (Photo credit: Nick Iwanyshyn)

U of T Engineering startup builds out a global satellite network – from downtown Toronto

Kepler Communications looks to extend its low-cost network connectivity beyond Earth, paving the way for a host of novel applications

Global Engineering Week founder Malik Ismail kicking off last weekend’s Hack the Globe. (Photo courtesy of Malik Ismail)

Solutions that transcend borders: March 11-17 is Global Engineering Week

Week-long events series highlights ways engineering students can make a world of difference