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University of Toronto, as a leader in ASME and the broader engineering community, and as a champion for increased diversity in the profession.” (Credit: Roberta Baker).

U of T engineers honoured by Engineering Institute of Canada

A pine forest in Finland. Professor Emma Master (ChemE) is collaborating with researchers around the world (including at Aalto University in Helsinki) to create new materials from trees that could replace fossil fuel-derived substances in everyday products, from adhesives to food packaging. (Photo: Emma Master)

Paper, not plastic: Leveraging microbial genes to make greener materials

Dr. Lewis Reis (IBBME PhD 1T6, at left) and Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) used their unique peptide-hydrogel biomaterial to heal chronic wounds up twice as quickly as commercially available products. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Skin cells ‘crawl’ together to heal wounds treated with unique hydrogel layer

The 2008 Sunrise Propane plant explosion in Toronto is one of the case studies taught in Professor Doug Perovic’s Forensic Engineering course. The course will be part of a new Certificate in Forensic Engineering, launching in Fall 2017. (Credit: Michael Gill via Flickr, under creative commons).

Making sense of disasters: U of T Engineering offers new certificate in Forensic Engineering