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Professor Freeman Lan (BME) is developing a rapid, accessible diagnostic workflow capable of delivering results up to ten times faster than current methods. (photo by Tim Fraser, KITE Studio)

Advancing rapid diagnostics to help slow the spread of infectious disease

Professor Hamid Timorabadi (ECE) with students in the Energy Systems lab during the MicRobotics workshop, one of five ECE Summer Workshops held in 2023. The students were tasked with assembling an autonomous robot that could follow a circuitous track. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

Hands-on hardware workshops for ECE students help bridge the summer gap

The U of T Engineering members are among 50 new fellows announced by the Canadian Academy of Engineering. (photo by Daria Perevezentsev)

U of T Engineering professors and alumni elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering

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CivMin alumnus Donovan Pollitt (MinE 0T4) at the University of Toronto. (photo by Phill Snel)

An engineer’s legacy: How Murray Pollitt’s belief in Canadian industry inspired a scholarship

Professor Aryan Rezaei Rad (CivMin) with the newly installed robotic arm. (photo by Phill Snel)

CivMin launches its first industrial-scale robotic fabrication system for timber construction

Top row, left to right: Anne Lawrence and her father, Ross Lawrence (GeoE 5T6, MCom 5T9). Bottom row, left to right: Raymond Mao Bhushan (MinE 2T5, CivMin MASc student), his brother Ethan Mao (Year 2 ECE), Paul Walters (MinE 5T6). (photo by Kristin Philpot)

Why these 5T6 grads are still paying it forward, 70 years after graduation

Drying protein droplets

Polymer ‘bristles’ could help repel proteins — and germs — from surfaces in medical settings