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Left to right: Aaron Tan and Angus Fung sit behind their laptops in an office.

‘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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Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) teaching assistant Crystal Liu designed, sourced and mailed 50 lab kits for students to build a mini mechanical tester from home. (Photo courtesy Crystal Liu)

‘Assemble it like IKEA furniture:’ U of T Engineering TA creates build-at-home machine to enable hands-on remote learning

April 6, 2021

Alumnus Alfred Aho (pictured here in 2015 receiving his honorary degree at U of T) and collaborator Jeffrey Ullman have been named 2020 AM Turing Award recipients. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

‘Nobel Prize of computing:’ U of T Engineering alumnus Alfred Aho receives A.M. Turing Award

March 31, 2021

Professor Michael Carter has been recognized by the University of Toronto for his pioneering work in health care. (Photo: Brian Tran)

U of T Engineering professor Michael Carter receives U of T President’s Impact Award

March 31, 2021

Left to right: U of T students Rushay Naik, Ben Sprenger, Tanvi Shetty and Hannah Rundle; Ahmed Mahmoud, Program Manager, Centre for Global Engineering; Dr. Namjil Enebish, National University of Mongolia. In the summer of 2019, the team travelled to Mongolia to interview local nomadic herders about the 100,000 Solar Ger Project. (Photo: Rushay Naik)

E4TW: How one U of T Engineering student made the world his classroom

March 30, 2021

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