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Left to right: Michel Haché (MSE PhD candidate), Joseph Sebastian (BME PhD candidate), and Nebras Warsi (BMD PhD candidate) are three U of T Engineering students who have been awarded Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for 2021.

Three U of T Engineering students earn national scholarships for advanced materials, neuromodulation and heart modelling research

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, worth $150,000 each, will support projects on designing bulk nanomaterials, cardiac imaging and a closed-loop neurostimulation platform

Professor Jason Hattrick-Simpers has joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. (Photo courtesy Jason Hattrick-Simpers)

MSE welcomes new faculty member Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Hattrick-Simpers says the opportunity to be the first person to discover a new material with unbelievable properties is what drives his work as a researcher

Fourth-year student Morris Huang has been recognized with the Difference Maker Award for his leadership through the student-run non-profit, Global Spark. (Photo courtesy Morris Huang)

U of T Engineering student leader receives inaugural Troost ILead Difference Maker Award

The $50,000 award aims to accelerate the career of a graduating student with a vision to make a positive difference in their communities and beyond

Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) teaching assistant Crystal Liu designed, sourced and mailed 50 lab kits for students to build a mini mechanical tester from home. (Photo courtesy Crystal Liu)

‘Assemble it like IKEA furniture:’ U of T Engineering TA creates build-at-home machine to enable hands-on remote learning

DIY kits designed, assembled and mailed to 50 Materials Science & Engineering students for at-home labs

Monica Franklin and Martin Franklin, children of the late University Professor Emerita Ursula Franklin, look at the street sign bearing her name on U of T's St. George campus (photo by Johnny Guatto)

‘An outstanding scholar and a beloved teacher’: U of T holds Ursula Franklin Street renaming ceremony

Formerly Russell Street, the renamed roadway now commemorates one of the most influential scientists and engineers in Canada’s history

A precision flight-control test in wind with a hexacopter drone from Professor Steven Waslander‘s (UTIAS)  lab. Waslander will use the funding to acquire the latest in motion-capture technology in order to develop next-generation drones. (Photo courtesy of Steven Waslander)

Five U of T Engineering projects receive funding boost for state-of-the-art research tools

Motion-capture equipment to explore and develop robust autonomous drones is among five infrastructure projects receiving funding support

In this simulation, atoms of five different chemical elements within nanoparticle are represented by different coloured spheres. A computer algorithm developed at U of T Engineering analyzes thousands of possible geometric configurations of these elements in order to predict which ones will have the best performance as industrial catalysts. (Image courtesy Zhuole Lu)

U of T Engineering researchers use machine learning to design smarter industrial catalysts

Team led by Chandra Veer Singh (MSE) has created an algorithm that accurately simulates catalysts made of five different metals

A photo of Beirut’s harbour taken in 2013. (Photo: Rachid H, via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/9335102510/">Flickr</a>)

Forensic engineering expert on what happens next in Beirut

What investigators will be looking for in order to determine the causes of the blast on August 4, 2020

Left to right: Professor Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE) and Arthur Chan (ChemE) have both been awarded new Canada Research Chairs. (Photo credits, from left: Roberta Baker; courtesy of Arthur Chan)

New Canada Research Chairs boost research into clean air and sustainable resource extraction

Professors Gisele Azimi and Arthur Chan are among the U of T researchers awarded chairs in the latest round