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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

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

Professors Craig Simmons (MIE, IBBME), Jan Andrysek (IBBME) and Paul Santerre (Dentistry, IBBME) are among six members of the U of T Engineering community being honoured at the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) gala on Saturday, Nov. 18. (Credit: Neil Ta).

U of T Engineering professors sweep entrepreneurship, research awards

November 15, 2017

Seven outstanding members of U of T Engineering community to be recognized at Ontario Professional Engineers Awards gala

U of T Engineering startup wins grand prize at Telus pitch competition

November 15, 2017

The company, iMerciv, beat out two other semi-finalists to nab the competition’s $100,000 grand prize with its BuzzClip product.

Lauren Howe (IndE 1T6) is crowned the winner of the Miss Universe Canada pageant for 2017 . The U of T Engineering alumna plans to use her platform to advocate for women and girls in STEM. (Credit: Allumski Media)

No typical engineers: Q&A with Miss Universe Canada Lauren Howe

October 31, 2017

The U of T Engineering alumna shares her thoughts on solving impossible problems, advancing women in STEM, and the importance of coffee

Flexible design and meeting rooms in the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship will spark multidisciplinary collaborations and facilitate active communication. (Image courtesy Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios).

Five ways the CEIE is enabling experiential learning

October 30, 2017

When it opens in spring 2018, U of T Engineering’s newest building will foster collaborations between students, faculty, alumni and industry

With his startup company Deep Genomics, Professor Brendan Frey (ECE) marries machine learning and genomic science to develop genetic medicines. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

U of T Engineering spinoff Deep Genomics raises US$13 million to fund expansion

September 27, 2017

The startup, launched in 2015, combines artificial intelligence, or AI, and genomics research to help develop genetic medicines

Team Genecis won first place at Hatchery Demo Day

Four startups to watch from U of T Engineering’s Hatchery Demo Day

September 13, 2017

Companies include an engineering career matchmaker and a company that converts food waste into biodegradable plastic

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