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Professor Dawn Kilkenny (BME, ISTEP) was recently appointed U of T Engineering’s Vice-Dean, First Year. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Meet Dawn Kilkenny, U of T Engineering’s new Vice-Dean, First Year

The Engage AI app, a fourth-year undergraduate Capstone project, captures facial analytics during a virtual lecture to determine the percentage of active students (those looking at the screen) along with those who are ‘happy’ or ‘drowsy,’ as displayed in the app’s dashboard. (Image courtesy: Engage AI)

Award-winning app helps profs make online lectures more engaging

PhD candidate Peter Serles (MIE) places a sample of magnetene in the atomic force microscope. New measurements and simulations of this material show that its low-friction behaviour is due to quantum effects. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Graphene-like 2D material leverages quantum effects to achieve ultra-low friction

Left to right: Professors Miriam Diamond (Earth Sciences, ChemE), Greg Evans (ChemE, ISTEP), Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivMin) and Senior Research Associate Dr. Cheol-Heon Jeong (ChemE) are some of the members of the multidisciplinary team that has earned NSERC’s 2021 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

U of T Engineering team earns Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering