Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (MIE)

Professor Hani Naguib (MIE, MSE) has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Naguib is an international leader in in manufacturing new multifunctional smart materials. (credit: Tyler Irving)

Hani Naguib elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

September 13, 2016

College is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership

Professor Javad Mostaghimi (MIE) has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest honours a Canadian researcher can achieve. (credit: Tyler Irving).

Javad Mostaghimi elected to Royal Society of Canada

September 7, 2016

Honour is one of the highest honours a Canadian researcher can achieve

A landmark bequest from Erwin Edward Hart (CivE 4T0, centre) created the Percy Edward Hart and Erwin Edward Hart Professorships, awarded to seven U of T Engineering researchers.

Hart Professorships awarded to seven early-career faculty members

September 1, 2016

Professorships created by a landmark bequest from the estate of alumnus Erwin Edward Hart (CivE 4T0)

Six U of T Engineering professors have received Early Researcher Awards from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science.

Early Researcher Awards support U of T Engineering research on smart materials, cancer technology and more

August 22, 2016

Awards provide critical support that helps promising scientists and engineers in the first five years of their academic careers build their research teams

A sign indicating the location of an automated external defibrillator (AED) is pictured. Research led by U of T Engineering Professor Tim Chan showed that up to 30 per cent of the time, AEDs are locked inside closed buildings when someone suffers cardiac arrest in a public place. (Credit: U of T Engineering)

Many life-saving defibrillators behind locked doors during off-hours, study finds

August 15, 2016

A study led by U of T Engineering researchers shows that automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are inacessible up to 30 per cent of the time.

Tennis fan Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) is applying his expertise in mathematical optimization, originally developed to improve the delivery of health care, to help amateur sports federations across the country make the most of their limited resources. (Photo courtesy Timothy Chan)

#Rio2016: How ‘moneyball’ research can help amateur athletes reach for Olympic gold

August 11, 2016

Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) is applying his expertise in optimization to help amateur sports federations make the most of their limited resources

Combining motion tracking and machine-learning technology, the device then calculates the speed and type of punch thrown. (Courtesy: Hykso).

#Rio2016: Olympic boxers strike hard with the help of U of T Engineering alumnus

August 5, 2016

Both teams have been training using a wrist-mounted sensor created by mechanical engineering alum Khalil Zahar, founder of startup company Hykso

U of T Engineering researchers Min Liu (left), Yuanjie Pang and their team designed a way to efficiently reduce climate-warming carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a useful chemical building block for fuels such as methanol, ethanol and diesel. (photo: Marit Mitchell).

Recycling carbon dioxide: U of T researchers efficiently reduce climate-warming CO2 into building blocks for fuels

August 3, 2016

Group led by Professor Ted Sargent in U of T Engineering develops materials that produce fuels by consuming the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

The Sandford Fleming Building is just one of the U of T Engineering facilities that received funding through a major investment from the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund. (Image: Neil Ta)

$31.6M investment will support lab infrastructure at U of T Engineering

July 28, 2016

Funding will accelerate infrastructure improvements across U of T Engineering, catalyzing world-class research and enhancing the student experience

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