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From left: Pearson Scholars Alana Bailey (Year 1 CivMin), Adriana Diaz Lozano Patiño (Year 1 EngSci) and Devansh Khare (Year 1 MechE) in the new Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship. (Credit: Liz Do)

Meet the international Pearson Scholars starting in U of T Engineering this fall

Arriving in Toronto from countries all around the world, U of T Engineering’s seven Pearson Scholars are recognized for exceptional academic achievement, creativity and community involvement

Pepper the robot, built by SoftBank Robotics, is the newest addition to U of T Engineering’s Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab led by Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE). Pepper is the first humanoid robot capable of recognizing and adapting to human emotions, one of the many new applications for machine intelligence. (Credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering to host inaugural alumni bootcamp on machine intelligence

Engineering Science offers one-day crash course led by experts in the field

U of T Engineering students Paul Seufert (second from left) and Carol Yeung (third from left) are among four U of T students participating in a fellowship program organized by Sidewalk Toronto. (Credit: Romi Levine)

Two U of T Engineering students travel the world as Sidewalk Fellows to help shape the city’s waterfront vision

Twelve post-secondary students from across the GTA, including four from the University of Toronto, have been participating in a fellowship program organized by Sidewalk Toronto

Mona Gridseth (left, UTIAS PhD candidate) and Keenan Burnett (EngSci 1T6+PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate) work on Zeus, a self-driving vehicle that recently took the top prize at the first competition of the three-year AutoDrive Challenge™. U of T Engineering’s new Engineering Science major in Machine Intelligence launches this September. It joins an MEng emphasis in Analytics that began January 2018. (Credit: Laura Pedersen)

U of T Engineering launches Canada’s first engineering undergraduate program in Machine Intelligence

Students will begin courses in the new major in September 2018

Two Iron Dragons crews, boats #4 and #6, race in the University Division finals at a regatta on Toronto Island in June 2018. Boat #4 placed first, and boat #6 placed third. This summer the national champions are flying to Szeged, Hungary to compete at the dragon boating world championships. (Credit: Laura Pedersen)

Iron Dragons take on the world

U of T Engineering student dragon boating team wins nationals, heads to world championships in Hungary

Cutline: Janis Chodas, the director for engineering and science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, stands beside a one-third scale model of the Juno spacecraft (photo courtesy of JPL).

From U of T to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab: Engineering alumna Janis Chodas receives an honorary degree

Chodas is the director for engineering and science at NASA JPL, where she leads around 4,000 engineers, scientists and technologists who carry out planetary exploration missions

Professor William Cluett (right) with a student at University of Toronto convocation. The President’s Teaching Award is U of T’s highest honour for teaching.

Professor William Cluett receives the University of Toronto President’s Teaching Award

U of T’s highest honour recognizes sustained excellence in teaching, research on teaching and the integration of teaching and research

U of T Engineering’s Team FAM

U of T Engineering students selected to compete in Canadian Reduced Gravity Experiment Design Challenge

Team FAM (Fluids Affected by Magnetism) will fly their experiment in microgravity to examine the heat transfer in paramagnetic fluids under external magnetic fields.

Cressy Award winners 2018

U of T Engineering celebrates student leadership at 2018 Cressy Awards

Undergraduate and graduate engineering students were recognized for their exceptional contributions to the Engineering and University communities with 2018 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards