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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

Left to right: Stephen Laditi (CivE 2T5 + PEY), Favour Nwanna (CompE 2T5 + PEY) and Cassandra Abraham, Outreach Coordinator, Engineering Student Recruitment and Outreach Office, U of T Engineering. (photo by Tyler Irving)

‘Invaluable’: Two of Blueprint’s first alumni reflect on their educational journeys

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Professor Dionne Aleman (MIE) was recently appointed U of T Engineering’s Associate Dean, Cross-Disciplinary Programs. (Photo: Pam Walls)

Meet U of T Engineering’s new Associate Dean, Cross-Disciplinary Programs

Left to right: Shijie Liu (MIE MASc candidate), Yi (Sheldon) Xu (MIE postdoctoral fellow) and Celine Xiao (MIE PhD candidate) work on an electrochemical cell in their lab. The students are members of Team E-quester, which has earned a $250,000 XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award. (Photo: Yong Zhao)

U of T Engineering team earns US $250,000 in global XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award

(Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

‘A global leader’: Professor David Sinton highlights U of T’s sustainability efforts at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

Professor Fiona Coll (ISTEP) will begin a review of current communication-skills development programming for U of T Engineering graduate students this fall. (Photo: Charlie Sun)

U of T launches initiative aimed at strengthening communication skills for engineering graduate students