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Launch of PADmap translates graduate research on defibrillators into a potentially life-saving tool

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Professor Milica Radisic receives a Governor General’s Innovation Award

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U of T Engineering professor and alumni receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards

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A research team led by Professor Willy Wong (ECE, IBBME) developed a quick solution for monitoring patients’ respiratory status using small but powerful single-board Raspberry Pi printed circuit boards. (Photo: Harrison Broadbent via Unsplash)

U of T Engineering team programs single-board computers to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients and protect health care workers

Alison Olechowski (MIE, ISTEP) studies the future of work and how engineering teams reach reliable decisions when designing new products. (Photo: Pam Walls)

How engineers can keep innovating — while working from home

Dubbed the Buddy Badge, the wearable device acts as a transponder, using a system of sensors connected to hand-washing stations, doorways, and critical routes to patient rooms. (Photo by Christine Sandu on Unsplash)

U of T startup’s wearable tech encourages hand hygiene to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Left to right: Professors P.A. Sullivan, R.C. Tennyson, I.I. Glass, J.B. French, and B. Etkin (not shown: Prof. Peter Hughes) in 1970. (Photo courtesy UTIAS)

Solving Houston’s problem: How U of T Engineering’s Institute for Aerospace Studies helped Apollo 13 land safely