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In March 2026, Sushant Singh (MSE MEng 1T9, MIE PhD 2T6) won the top overall prize at  U of T’s Desjardins Startup Prize competition. (photo by Tim Fraser, KITE Studio)

The future of wound healing: Desjardins Prize supports U of T bioprinting startup

Drawing on experience in athletics, marketing, behavioural science and industry, Professor Alex Kaju (ISTEP) brings a practical approach to engineering education. (photo courtesy of Alex Kaju)

‘The goal is to bring the outside world into the classroom’: Meet Professor Alex Kaju

Professor Pakpong Chirarattananon (MIE) draws inspiration from nature to design robots that fly, hop, crawl or seamlessly combine multiple modes of locomotion. (photo courtesy of Pakpong Chirarattananon)

‘Simplicity wins when designing bio-inspired robots’: Meet MIE Professor Pakpong Chirarattananon

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Adjunct professor Vince Arone, left, with Tom Mihalik, right, owner and operator of Tom’s Place. Each year, Mihalik gives a guest lecture to students in an engineering business course taught by Arone. (photo by Vince Arone)

‘We’re all one community’: Why local business owner Tom Mihalik gives back to U of T Engineering

Meagan Flus managing data collection at a hackathon in 2024. (photo submitted by Meagan Flus)

How hackathons can serve as a ‘living laboratory’ for studying engineering design team dynamics

Engineering Communication Program faculty members commemorating the 30th anniversary at Professor Robert Irish’s seminar on the program’s history and evolution. (photo by Mason Subotich)

Celebrating 30 years of the Engineering Communication Program: Q&A with founder Robert Irish

A person sits on a bench with greenery behind them.

U of T Engineering student integrates Indigenous perspectives into the operation of small, modular nuclear reactors