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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.

Lucie Lalumiere was one of the passengers on the augmented-reality bus tour of U of T's downtown Toronto campus (photo by Geoffrey Vendeville)

Augmented-reality bus tour reveals new side of U of T campus

U of T Engineering grad Nima Yasrebi developed an augmented-reality app – using technology similar to Pokémon Go – to enrich hop-on-hop-off bus tours 

Alumnus Rick Baltman in front of arcade games

Taking flight: Rick Baltman’s journey from NASA to Hollywood and beyond

Alumnus Rick Baltman’s lifelong passion for aerospace engineering has propelled his career from the red carpets of Hollywood to the launch of Apple’s iPad

Joseph Orozco, executive director of The Hatchery. Hatchery Launch Lab is a new program to accelerate research-based startups. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Hatchery Launch Lab to accelerate research-based startups at U of T Engineering

Program will provide funding and mentorship to accelerate commercialization of engineering innovations

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Professional Experience Year: Four U of T Engineering students bring technical, professional competencies to industry challenges

Global placements range from local startups and research labs to large international companies

Kepler Communications, an award-winning team launched out of U of T Engineering accelerators Start@UTIAS and the Entrepreneurship Hatchery, is building satellites so small that they're no larger than a loaf of bread

Less satellite, more data? U of T Engineering startup will connect the world from space

Kepler Communications, an award-winning team launched out of U of T Engineering accelerators Start@UTIAS and the Entrepreneurship Hatchery, is building satellites so small that they’re no larger than a loaf of bread

Team Moto — from left to right, Lucy Yang, Matthew Frehlich (ECE MEng candidate), Gowtham Ramachandran (MIE MEng 1T6), Sam Bennett and Lucas Siow — has created a fuel log made of used coffee grounds, wax and sugar that could help provide cooking heat for refugees. (Photo: Lance McMillan/Metro)

Empowering refugees with repurposed coffee: Team Moto heads to Hult Prize regional competition

U of T students head to Shanghai to present their solution to one of the world’s big challenges

Elizabeth Edwards is the director of BioZone, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research leverages genomics, microbiology and engineering to clean up contaminated industrial sites around the world. (Credit: Matthew Volpe)

The invisible clean-up crew: Engineering microbial cultures to destroy pollutants

Professor Elizabeth Edwards is leveraging genomics, microbiology and engineering to clean up contaminated industrial sites around the world

Dean Cristina Amon speaks with students at the site of the new Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a vibrant hub for engineering education, innovation and commercialization by entrepreneurship. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

Cristina Amon reappointed Dean of U of T Engineering

Special third term builds on a decade of leadership and innovation in engineering education and multidisciplinary research excellence at Canada’s premier engineering school

Professor Deepa Kundur (centre) began her appointment as chair of the Division of Engineering Science on January 1, 2017. (Credit: Neil Ta).

‘Our students are fearless’: Deepa Kundur commences term as chair of Engineering Science

Top-ranked program combines academic rigour with boundless creativity