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Over the past two decades, U of T Engineering has spun out more than 100 new companies. Programs such as our Entrepreneurship Hatchery, our Engineering Business minor and our Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (Troost ILEAD) provide rich opportunities to commercialize research and grow startups into thriving businesses.

Entrepreneurship at U of T Engineering

Amol Rao (MIE MEng candidate) is the founder of Somnitude, a startup company that helps people get better sleep with its blue-wavelength-filtering glasses. Rao partnered with Freestyle Canada to ship 30 of his company's glasses to Olympic athletes ahead of the 2018 winter games. (Credit: Liz Do).

This engineering startup is giving Canada’s Olympic skiers a fresh edge

February 6, 2018

Somnitude’s high-tech glasses help elite athletes optimize their circadian rhythms to get essential sleep and beat jet lag ahead of Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea

The rocket bearing Kepler Communications' satellite, Long March 11 launching on January 19th at 12:11PM BST marking the 100th successful launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. (Courtesy: Kepler Communications)

Liftoff: U of T Engineering startup Kepler takes flight with satellite launch in China

January 22, 2018

Company founded out of U of T Engineering accelerators the Entrepreneurship Hatchery and Start@UTIAS

Professor Milos Popovic, at right, speaks with a U of T Engineering alumnus about his research. Popovic has been named research director of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. (Credit: Jonathan Sabeniano)

Milos Popovic appointed research director of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

January 11, 2018

IBBME professor is a world-renowned researcher in the field of rehabilitation engineering

Peter Wen (Year 4 MechE) shows off the Telehex, the multipurpose hex-key tool he designed and launched through The Entrepreneurship Hatchery. Wen says he spent over a thousand hours developing his first prototypes — something that will be much easier for students working in the forthcoming Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Student entrepreneur Peter Wen: CEIE will be a ‘game-changer’

December 14, 2017

U of T Engineering student and startup founder says New Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship will open new possibilities for student entrepreneurs, clubs and teams

Professor Mireille Broucke (ECE) uses flying robots like these drones as a testbed to develop control algorithms capable of handling dynamic, real-world situations. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Steering through uncertainty: U of T Engineering research creates control algorithms for self-driving robots

December 4, 2017

Mireille Broucke and her colleagues in the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics design theoretical frameworks to help drones and autonomous vehicles navigate in changing conditions

U of T Engineering alumnus Tony Lacavera (CompE 9T7) addresses aspiring entrepreneurs as part of startup accelerator The Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s speaker series, Nov. 23, 2017. (Credit: Tristan Cannon-Sherlock).

‘We need to celebrate our successes’: Tony Lacavera tells The Hatchery how Canadian entrepreneurs can win

November 24, 2017

U of T Engineering alumnus, founder and investor shares his concern that Canadian prosperity and innovation are on a downward trajectory — and his advice on how entrepreneurs can turn things around

SensOR Medical Laboratories CEO Robert Brooks (MIE PhD 1T5) addresses a Health Innovation Hub, or H2i, event this week. (Photo: Chris Sorensen)

Move fast and break things? Not when you’re building a health-care startup

November 24, 2017

SensOR co-founder Robert Brooks offers advice at the launch of HealthEDGE Initiative from U of T’s Health Innovation Hub

Manmeet Maggu and Rahul Udasi, pictured here shortly after completing U of T's Creative Destruction Lab accelerator program, took home first prize in a Sunnybrook Hospital pitch competition. (Photo: Chris Sorensen)

U of T startup Trexo Robotics takes another step forward with children’s ‘Iron Man’ exoskeleton

November 24, 2017

Entrepreneurs win pitch competition at U of T’s Health Innovation Hub

Patients at an Ontario Long Term care facility use Abby, an interactive activity centre designed by industry partner Ambient Activity Technologies working with Professor Mark Chignell, Dr. Andrea Wilkinson, and other researchers at the Interactive Media Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. (Credit: Ambient Activity Technologies)

U of T Engineering researchers develop technologies to reduce problem behaviours in people with dementia

November 21, 2017

Research-industry partnership to premiere first products on December 7 at Baycrest Hospital in Toronto

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