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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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ECE alumna Mai Mavinkurve is the co-founder of an artificial intelligence startup and an advocate for Canadian technology and transparent data governance (Photo credit: Jessica MacInnis)

This ECE alumna is expanding access to machine learning tools while advocating for data security

Christopher Yip will be the next dean of U of T's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Christopher Yip appointed next dean of U of T’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Professor Jennifer Drake (CivMin) received the Young Engineer Achievement Award, which recognizes an engineer under 36 years of age for outstanding contributions. (Photo credit: Tyler Irving)

CivMin professor and alumna receive Engineers Canada Awards

In March 2019, Professor Jonathan Kelly (UTIAS) visited Yangon, Myanmar to teach a week-long course to 25 engineering, computer science and physics university students. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Kelly)

‘Knowledge is transformative’: UTIAS professor teaches robotics in Myanmar