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four people stand in front of a research poster. One holds a bowl containing pieces of cacti.

This cactus-based material could help improve rainwater harvesting for communities across rural Mexico

Students in Professor Karl Peterson’s lab examine concrete samples from the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Left to right: Wisdom Okoh, Katia Ossetchkina, Professor Karl Peterson and Amy Montgomery. (photo by Phill Snel)

This team of CivMin researchers is studying the Gordie Howe International Bridge — down to the microscopic level

Alex Kurk (MechE 2T6), left, is the 2026 winner of the Troost ILead Difference Maker Award. Sanjay Malaviya, right, is the donor for this award. Malaviya holds one of the 3D-printed interfaces designed by Kurk to help people with low vision navigate software user interfaces. (photo by Tyler Irving)

Solutions for people with low vision helped Alex Kurk earn the 2026 Troost ILead Difference Maker Award

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Dean Emerita Cristina Amon named U of T University Professor

June 3, 2022

Researchers at U of T Engineering and the University of Waterloo used wood-derived materials to construct this device, about the size of a credit card, which can be used to harvest electrical energy from everyday movements via the triboelectric effect. (Photo: Md Masud Rana, University of Waterloo)

Wood-derived prototype could lead to self-powered biosensors

June 3, 2022

Edmund Shalhoub (MSE 2T2) came to Canada in 2017 as a Syrian refugee. (Photo: Safa Jinje)

From Syria to Turkey to U of T Engineering: How one student overcame the odds to complete his degree

May 30, 2022

Professor Olivier Trescases (far right) stands in the University of Toronto Electric Vehicle Research Centre with (left to right) PhD Candidate, Zhe Gong; Wendy Baker, Associate Director Business Development, School of Continuing Studies; and Nick Cusimano, Research Associate. Trescases will teach two courses on electric vehicles for Porsche Centre employees. (Photo: Porsche Cars Canada)

Porsche partners with ECE professor on electric vehicle training courses

May 26, 2022

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