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Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

Aniss Zaoui

How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

Yu Zou and team

New metal matrix composites — made with 3D printing — could lead to light, yet strong components for aerospace and other industries

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Professor Robert Zee (UTIAS) and his research team are receiving $15 million in funding to develop three microsatellites. (Credit: Marit Mitchell)

U of T Engineering researchers to design microsatellites for Arctic monitoring

U of T Engineering Professors Jonathan Kelly and Steven Waslander (both UTIAS) are the instructors behind a new set of online courses on programming self-driving cars. (Image courtesy Coursera)

These AI experts want to teach you how to program a self-driving car

As founder and CEO of Managing Life, Tahir Janmohamed (Skoll CompE 0T4 + MBA 0T6) helps chronic pain sufferers regain control over their lives. (Photos courtesy Managing Life)

U of T alumni startup uses digital technology to manage chronic pain

Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo (ECE) and his collaborators have performed a proof-of-principle experiment on a key aspect of all-photonic quantum repeaters (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Toward a future quantum Internet