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Professor Pakpong Chirarattananon (MIE) draws inspiration from nature to design robots that fly, hop, crawl or seamlessly combine multiple modes of locomotion. (photo courtesy of Pakpong Chirarattananon)

‘Simplicity wins when designing bio-inspired robots’: Meet MIE Professor Pakpong Chirarattananon

Trevor Carey is photographed from the shoulders up. A city scape is seen in the background.

‘Embrace curiosity and take ownership of your learning’: Meet Professor Trevor Carey

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Ask Alan: Capstone team creates AI tool to help students study

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MSE PhD student Ajay Talbot holds up samples of metal alloys made of nickel, cobalt and chromium. Talbot and his collaborators leveraged AI to design new materials that can outperform industry standards at high temperatures. (photo by Tyler Irving)

Self-driving lab leverages AI to develop tough new 3D-printable metal alloys for aerospace and advanced manufacturing

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‘You don’t find out what you’re capable of just by thinking’: Meet Professor Parinaz Naseri

Adjunct professor Vince Arone, left, with Tom Mihalik, right, owner and operator of Tom’s Place. Each year, Mihalik gives a guest lecture to students in an engineering business course taught by Arone. (photo by Vince Arone)

‘We’re all one community’: Why local business owner Tom Mihalik gives back to U of T Engineering

Meagan Flus managing data collection at a hackathon in 2024. (photo submitted by Meagan Flus)

How hackathons can serve as a ‘living laboratory’ for studying engineering design team dynamics