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Dean Emerita Cristina Amon is one of 12 selected in the category CIBC Trailblazers and Trendsetters. (Photo: Daniel Ehrenworth)

Dean Emerita Cristina Amon named one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada

Amon recognized as one of the country’s highest achieving female leaders

Professors Tracey Galloway and Chris Beck in one of the planes used to transport food, supplies and passengers to remote Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario. (Photo courtesy of Chris Beck)

Reconciliation through Engineering Initiative to improve transportation and housing in Indigenous communities

Indigenous leaders, U of T researchers begin collaborations to mitigate indoor mould and improve air transportation of food and goods in Northern Ontario

From Left: Sonia Molodecky (RTEI program lead), Shakya Sur (RTEI research associate), Jamie Fine (MIE Postdoctoral Fellow), Professor Bomani Khemet (Architecture), Professor Liat Margolis (Architecture), Becky Big Canoe, and Professor Marianne Touchie (CivMin, MIE).

Indigenous leaders, U of T researchers look to build collaborations grounded in understanding and reciprocity

Centre for Global Engineering forum highlights a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to collaborative research projects

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U of T Engineering researchers, innovators to pitch ideas for Ontario’s growth at annual economic summit

Professors Goldie Nejat, Hani Naguib and alumnus Allen Lau will pitch their ideas at the Ontario Economic Summit

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