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Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

Aniss Zaoui

How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

Yu Zou and team

New metal matrix composites — made with 3D printing — could lead to light, yet strong components for aerospace and other industries

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This model heart ventricle, made with real living heart cells, beats strongly enough to pump fluid inside a tube. It can be used to study heart disease and test out potential therapies, without the need for invasive surgery. (Photo: Sargol Okhovatian)

Reverse engineering the heart: U of T Engineering team creates bioartificial left ventricle

ECE Professor Parham Aarabi has developed an artificial computer memory that mimics several properties of human recall, which could enhance artificial intelligence applications and support tools to help people with memory loss. (Photo: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images)

ECE professor uses ‘fuzzy’ computer algorithms to help people with memory loss

Dr. Darlee Gerrard and Ethan Boyer co-lead the Indigenous Design & Engineering Academy (IDEA). (Photo: Safa Jinje)

Enrichment program for Indigenous high school students connects traditional Land-based knowledge systems and STEM fields

A mixed filling dumpling with Myo Palate's cultivated pork and store-bought vegetable ingredients. The company has partnered with U of T Engineering professor Michael Garton (BME) on a project to further advance their technology. (Photo:  Joanna Wojewoda, courtesy Myo Palate)

New academic-industry partnership aims to lower the cost of cultivated meat