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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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The team developing a more sensitive test for COVID-19 (Photo: Alexandros Sklavounos).

Meet the U of T Engineering team developing an on-the-go test for COVID-19

April 22, 2020

Nini Chen, Prof. Gisele Azimi, and Prof. Farid Najm are among the 14 staff and faculty members honoured with awards from the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering this year.

Fourteen engineering professors and staff members honoured for excellence by the Faculty

April 22, 2020

Fourth-year engineering students Kejdi Kola (back left), Calvin Rieder (back middle) and Anton Meier (back right) met with community members in Las Arrugas, Guatemala to design a water purification system for the community. (Photo courtesy Kejdi Kola)

Clean water for Las Arrugas: U of T Engineering team designs water filters for Guatemalan community

April 21, 2020

A freshwater well on Corn Island, Nicaragua. As part of their fourth-year capstone design project, a team of U of T Engineering students is designing a system to protect a freshwater spring elsewhere on the island from the incursion of salt water. (Photo: Monica Pramanick)

Protecting a freshwater spring on Nicaragua’s Corn Island

April 20, 2020

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