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‘I shall either find a way or make one’: Meet U of T Engineering’s 2024 Schulich Leaders

The 2024 Schulich Leaders embody community leadership, innovation and tech know-how

A silver leave pin lies on a green carpet with moss and pine needles around.

U of T Engineering volunteers honoured at the 2024 Arbor Awards

Highest honour granted in recognition of extraordinary levels of commitment to the University of Toronto

Two rows of students pose together with their competition prize.

U of T student team earns international prizes for leveraging AI to tackle antibiotic resistance

iGEM Toronto competed at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition in Paris, France in October

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Researchers are working to enable the design of faster-degrading drug delivery systems

Study sheds new light on the relationship between lipid structure and biodegradation, a crucial challenge in the field of nucleic acid drug delivery

Members of the UTAT Rocketry division pose with their rocket, Defiance Mk. IV, at Launch Canada 2024. (photo courtesy of UTAT Rocketry)

UTAT team set amateur rocketry altitude record at Launch Canada 2024

Defiance Mk. IV rocket reached 30,000 feet, which is the Canadian amateur rocketry record for custom-built engines

Students work around a wooden box frame with black fabric inside it. The prototype is on a table in a classroom setting.

Engineering from a human perspective: Joint learning project brings interdisciplinary practice to the classroom

Professor Philip Asare (ISTEP, EngSci) worked with Rachel Katz of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology to pilot a new project in Praxis III

Professors Hans-Arno Jacobsen (ECE), left, and Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE, EngSci) are part of a team that is training future computer system designers to integrate sustainability practices into the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. (photo by Jenny Lee)

NSERC CREATE project to train engineering students on environmentally aware development of AI

U of T Engineering professors Hans-Arno Jacobsen (ECE) and Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE, EngSci) are part of the team behind the new initiative

Artemis, the aUToronto's autonomous vehicle approaches the final obstacle of the intersection challenge: a model of a deer.

U of T’s self-driving car team places first at 2024 AutoDrive Challenge™ II

This is aUToronto’s sixth first-place finish in seven years

A close up of a chess game depicting a move from the “Game of the Century,” where Bobby Fischer (black) sacrifices his queen in a celebrated brilliant move.

U of T Engineering researchers use chess AI to understand human creativity

Professor Michael Guerzhoy (MIE, EngSci) leads research introducing the first system that enables chess engines to identify moves as ‘brilliant’