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‘A Lume in every room’: U of T Engineering alumni are reimagining home robotics — starting with your laundry

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Rayla Myhal receives Honorary Alumni Award

In this prototype carbon capture apparatus, a solution of potassium hydroxide is wicked up into polypropylene fibres; circulating air evaporates the water in the solution, concentrating it to very high levels. The white crystals are nearly pure potassium carbonate, formed from carbon removed directly from air. (photo by Dongha Kim)

New ‘rock candy’ technique offers a simpler, less costly way to capture carbon directly from air

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Zeus is Chevolet Bolt retrofitted to become a self-driving vehicle by a team of U of T Engineering students and researchers. Professor Steven Waslander (UTIAS) and his collaborators are leading a new project that will transform Toronto into a global hub for research and development related to autonomous driving in winter. (Photo: aUToronto)

WinTOR: New partnership will train self-driving cars to handle tough winter conditions

Professor Daeho Kim (CivMin). (Photo: Phill Snell)

Meet Daeho Kim, one of CivMin’s new faculty members

In this photo, taken in February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Chirag Variawa (left) speaks with a student at Chestnut Residence, a home for many engineering students. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

U of T Engineering professor recognized for early career contributions to engineering education

Professor Liyang Dai-Hattrick has joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. (Photo courtesy Liyang Dai-Hattrick)

Meet Liyang Dai-Hattrick, MSE’s newest faculty member