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New ‘Pick and Place’ facility for customized printed circuit board production opens for students

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Aaron Babier (MIE PhD candidate) demonstrates his AI-based software’s visualization capabilities. (Credit: Brian Tran)

Smarter cancer treatment: AI tool automates radiation therapy planning

Blue Sky Solar Racing's aerodynamic lead, Khanin Thongmongkol (Year 4 EngSci) with a 3D model of Polaris. The team conducted wind-tunnel tests of 3D-printed models of two retired vehicle designs, Horizon and Polaris, to help inform the design of their 10th generation vehicle.

Next-generation Blue Sky Solar car is put to the (wind) test

Dr. Tarek Awad, a researcher in U of T’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering, shows two samples: at left, a stainless steel surface treated to trap simple cooking oil, and at right, an uncoated surface. The uncoated surface can accumulate food residue and encourage the growth of food-borne pathogens. (Credit: Liz Do)

Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment

Mona Gridseth (left, UTIAS PhD candidate) and Keenan Burnett (EngSci 1T6+PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate) work on Zeus, a self-driving vehicle that recently took the top prize at the first competition of the three-year AutoDrive Challenge™. U of T Engineering’s new Engineering Science major in Machine Intelligence launches this September. It joins an MEng emphasis in Analytics that began January 2018. (Credit: Laura Pedersen)

U of T Engineering launches Canada’s first engineering undergraduate program in Machine Intelligence