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Toronto’s King Street includes a complex mix of various transportation modes, including cycling, walking, driving and transit. How infrastructure impacts commuter choices is one of the topics being examined by U of T Engineering researchers within the new U of T School of Cities. (Image: City of Toronto, via Flickr)

Sustainable cities: Three U of T Engineering researchers join multidisciplinary research initiative

Initiative brings together faculty members from a wide variety of disciplines to address the myriad challenges facing the world’s urban areas

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Inspired by art, engineering researchers use sound and visuals to simulate blood-flow patterns of brain aneurysms

“Imagine I’m a patient with what I feel is a ticking time bomb in my head…I want to provide more information for the clinician”

Professor Warren Chan and a student in a lab

Seven U of T Engineering faculty members named Canada Research Chairs

CRC program enables U of T to attract and retain the best and most promising researchers from around the world

From left: U of T Engineering researchers Professor Axel Guenther (MIE), Navid Hakimi (MIE PhD candidate) and Richard Cheng (IBBME PhD candidate) have created the first ‘skin printer’ that forms tissues in situ for application to wounds. (Credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering researchers develop handheld 3D skin printer

Researchers in Professor Axel Guenther’s lab create portable device that prints skin tissue to cover deep wounds

Cressy Award winners 2018

U of T Engineering celebrates student leadership at 2018 Cressy Awards

Undergraduate and graduate engineering students were recognized for their exceptional contributions to the Engineering and University communities with 2018 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards

Professor Nikolai DeMartini develops new strategies to help pulp and paper mills deal with contaminants such as salts and metals in their processes. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering receives three new NSERC Industrial Research Chairs

Partnerships with leading companies will advance research into pulp and paper, automotive components and rock mechanics

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Modular labs installed on U of T Engineering rooftop enable building science research

State-of-the-art Twin Suites Rooftop Lab will be home to research conducted by Professors Marianne Touchie (MIE, CivMin), Kim Pressnail and Jeffrey Siegel (both CivMin)

Professor Amy Bilton (MIE), left, and recent graduate Ahmed Mahmoud (MIE MASc 1T6) collaborated on a network of portable, low-cost sensors that can provide real-time data on soil moisture and other quantities important for agriculture. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Data-driven farming: U of T Engineering spin-off develops low-cost sensors for Nepal

Platform developed by Spero Analytics provides real-time data on soil moisture which can be used to improve agricultural productivity

Charlie Katrycz (MIE MEng candidate) worked at Walter Klassen FX, where he was part of the team that constructed the tank for the Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water. (Photo courtesy Charlie Katrycz)

U of T Engineering student’s work featured in Oscar-winning film

Charlie Katrycz helped construct the tank that held the creature in The Shape of Water