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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

The PowerWring, invented by Shuyi Wu, Noah Yang, Ryan Williams and Jeremy Wang (all EngSci 1T7 + PEY), won second place in the 2016 Minerva Canada James Ham Safe Design Awards. The team also won the Orozco prize at Hatchery Demo Day 2014 (pictured).

Better mop design wins safety award for U of T Engineering students

April 27, 2016

Minerva Canada James Ham Safe Design competition challenges engineering undergraduate students from across Canada to integrate safety into engineering design

Yonatan Lipsitz (BioMedE PhD candidate) is the lead author of a new paper that outlines a framework for manufacturing stem cell therapeutics, which he hopes will serve as a road map for the emerging industry. (Photo: Neil Ta)

An engineering road map for scaling up production of stem cell-derived treatments

April 7, 2016

Yonatan Lipsitz and his co-authors have created a road map for the emerging industry of manufacturing stem cell therapeutics

Peter Wen is the co-founder of TeleHex. His self-adjusting bike maintenance tool is smaller and lighter than other commercial hex keys. (Photo: Brian Tran)

One U of T Engineering student’s passion for cycling becomes startup dream

March 30, 2016

Peter Wen is the CEO of TeleHex, a company that produces a small yet powerful self-adjusting bike maintenance tool

At TEDxUofT, Professor Angela Shoellig (UTIAS) gave a talk about artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the Hatchery Hub helped people with bright ideas find each other. (Photo: The Entrepreneurship Hatchery)

Ideas Worth Building: U of T Engineering at TEDxUofT

March 24, 2016

At TEDxUofT, Professor Angela Shoellig (UTIAS) gave a talk about artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the Hatchery Hub helped people with bright ideas find each other

View of the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, looking south-west across Front Campus. The building houses many multidisciplinary research centres and institutes in areas such as water, sustainable energy, robotics and mechatronics, engineering leadership, multidisciplinary design and global engineering. (image courtesy Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship garners $15M investment from province

February 26, 2016

CEIE will bring together smart building design and state-of-the-art learning technologies, enabling students, faculty, alumni and industry partners to work together in addressing some of Canada’s most pressing economic challenges

Three innovative startups from U of T Engineering students are leveraging modern technology to address important challenges in the healthcare industry.

Three health-focused student startups

February 22, 2016

Three U of T Engineering startups — MedTek Devices, Pillsy and MedChart — are addressing important challenges, from managing medical information to detecting falls among the elderly.

Students at last year's You're Next Career Network Startup Career Expo.

Engineering students to host Canada’s largest startup career expo at MaRS

January 28, 2016

You’re Next Career Network’s startup Career Expo is designed to give job-hunting students a glimpse into the world of startups

Recipe for success: coffee, and advice from Joseph Orozco, entrepreneur and executive director of The Entrepreneurship Hatchery. Twenty-three student teams worked to turn ideas into viable business plans at Hatchery Accelerator Weekend, Jan. 22 and 23 at the University of Toronto.

Parking app takes home top prize at Hatchery Accelerator competition

January 28, 2016

Fuelled by coffee, snacks and sage advice, students worked furiously to transform their wildest ideas into viable business models in just 28 hours

Three industry professionals leading U of T Engineering courses

January 25, 2016

For Randy Sinukoff, the best part of being a course instructor is watching new understanding take root. “I love it when the light goes on in someone’s head,” he says. “I love it when they discover something they never thought of before, or realize something that they can apply to their own life and work.” […]

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