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Lyndia Wu (EngSci 1T2) did her PEY Co-op placement at Sentinelle Medical. Now a professor at UBC, Wu researches the biomechanical mechanisms of concussions. (Photo: Clare Kiernan)

From PEY to prof: How this alumna’s Co-op paved a path to an academic career in biomedical engineering

U of T Engineering alumna Lyndia Wu reflects on her PEY Co-op experience

The U of T Engineering student team and their self-driving car, Zeus, beat out seven other universities to defend their first-place title

aUToronto wins AutoDrive Challenge for second year in a row

The U of T Engineering student team and their self-driving car, Zeus, beat out seven other universities to defend their first-place title

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 […]