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Professor Ali Asgarian (MSE) will lead the ASPiRE Lab, with a goal to bridge the gap between material innovation and industrial scale-up. (photo by Sherry Esfahani)

‘Engage with industry early’: Meet MSE professor Ali Asgarian

Guest lecturer Professor Justin Hess presenting at the 2026 Fred Kan Lecture. (photo by William Suarez)

Building a culture of ethical inquiry in engineering: The legacy of the Fred Kan Lecture Series

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U of T to receive nearly $1M for global online project in mining education

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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

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

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