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Dr. Xue Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Professor Ted Sargent (ECE) installs a new electrocatalyst, made of copper doped with silver and ruthenium, that can efficiently convert waste carbon into 1-propanol. The innovation could offer a new path to upcycling captured carbon. (Photo: Geonhui Lee)

Bridging the propylene gap: Electrocatalyst offers new path for converting captured carbon into valuable products

A new electrochemical process transforms carbon monoxide into 1-propanol, a precursor to propylene, one of the world’s most widely produced industrial chemicals

As part of the Climate Positive Campus initiative, the area beneath Front Campus will be used for a large-scale ground source heat pump — a technology pioneered in part by Professor Frank Hooper (MIE). (Illustration: Nicolas Demers, courtesy of U of T Facilities & Services)

Canada’s largest urban geoexchange system builds on legacy of Professor Frank Hooper

Hooper’s research on ground source heat pumps helped inspire the sustainable Geoexchange Project at the heart of U of T’s historic St. George Campus

Left to right: Professors Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Vaughn Betz (ECE) and Frank Vecchio (CivMin) have been elected 2022 Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Three professors elected Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada

U of T Engineering faculty recognized for their contributions to advancing clean energy, computing hardware and safer infrastructure

(L-R) Andrew Gillis, CEO of Aurora Hydrogen, Professor Erin Bobicki, University of Alberta, and Professor Murray Thomson (MIE), University of Toronto. The three have developed a new method for generating emissions-free hydrogen, and are seeing interest in their technology from the energy sector. (Photo courtesy: Murray Thomson)

Spin-off company co-founded by U of T Engineering professor creates hydrogen without carbon dioxide emissions

Novel approach to hydrogen production could help decarbonize energy consumption

PhD candidate Peter Serles (MIE) places a sample of magnetene in the atomic force microscope. New measurements and simulations of this material show that its low-friction behaviour is due to quantum effects. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Graphene-like 2D material leverages quantum effects to achieve ultra-low friction

Magnetene could have useful applications as a lubricant in implantable devices or other micro-electro-mechanical systems

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

NSERC Synergy Award celebrates decades of collaboration on nanoscale electron microscopy and robotics

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

Professor Dionne Aleman (MIE) was recently appointed U of T Engineering’s Associate Dean, Cross-Disciplinary Programs. (Photo: Pam Walls)

Meet U of T Engineering’s new Associate Dean, Cross-Disciplinary Programs

Professor Dionne Aleman aims to further expand the Faculty’s current list of more than 20 multidisciplinary engineering minors and certificate programs

Left to right: Shijie Liu (MIE MASc candidate), Yi (Sheldon) Xu (MIE postdoctoral fellow) and Celine Xiao (MIE PhD candidate) work on an electrochemical cell in their lab. The students are members of Team E-quester, which has earned a $250,000 XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award. (Photo: Yong Zhao)

U of T Engineering team earns US $250,000 in global XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award

Seed funding will advance an electrochemical process that can capture CO2 directly from air

(Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

‘A global leader’: Professor David Sinton highlights U of T’s sustainability efforts at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

Mechanical and industrial engineering professor outlines efforts to make U of T “climate positive,” meaning the university will curb more emissions than it emits.