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MIE PhD candidates Yasamin Kazemi (third from left) and Peter Serles (far right) found a creative way to teach students advanced manufacturing by using Play-Doh (Photo: Liz Do)

STEM Day: Connecting future professors with the next generation of engineering talent

Graduate course hosts first-ever STEM Day, challenging students to design creative tools to share their love of engineering with local students in Grades 5-6

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Fall Convocation 2019: Three graduating students share their one-minute thesis

Graduate students Maryam Fallah, Locke Davenport Huyer and Tij Gupta explain their research in one minute

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Soft robot programmed to move like an inchworm

U of T Engineering Professor Hani Naguib’s team takes inspiration from nature to design tiny flexible robots outfitted with smart materials

Rob Brown (MechE 0T0), chief operating officer of Viryl Technologies, holds up a “splatter” record made on the company’s LiteTone vinyl press. Viryl Technologies is one of only two firms worldwide that produce such machines. (Photo: Doug Chappell)

This U of T Engineering grad is leading the ‘vinyl renaissance’

Rob Brown (MechE 0T0) is the chief operating officer of Viryl Technologies, an Etobicoke-based company that makes vinyl record pressing machines

Incoming Engineering Society (EngSoc) president Laura Berneaga wears the symbolic firefighter hat that is passed down from president to president. (Photo: Pam Walls)

Meet Engineering Society president, Laura Berneaga

Fourth-year MIE student shares what she hopes to achieve by representing the student body

Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) and his team have conducted a ‘virtual clinical trial’ to show that optimizing the locations of defibrillators does increase the rate at which they are used, as well predicted patient survival. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Study: Better-placed AEDs could save more lives

Simulations show that optimizing the distribution of defibrillators could increase how often they are used

Zheng-Hong Lu, seen here with former graduate students Michael Helander (left) and Zhibin Wang (right) is one of two U of T Engineering professors to be inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada this year. (Photo: Mark Balson)

Zheng-Hong Lu and Yu Sun named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Professors honoured for their exceptional contributions to scholarship in their fields

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Four startups to watch from Hatchery Demo Day 2019

Student teams presented their business models at the Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s annual Demo Day

Professor Alison Olechowski (MIE, ILead) is among seven U of T Engineering researchers who received infrastructure funding by the CFI JELF. (Photo: Josef Oehmen)

Infrastructure for innovation: Seven U of T Engineering researchers receive CFI funding for upgrades and equipment

A state-of-the-art studio that explores design theory is among seven infrastructure projects receiving funding support