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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

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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 Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE), seen here with PhD candidate Bill Yao and undergraduate researcher Jiakai (Kevin) Zhang, leads a team dedicated to recovering strategic materials such as rare earth elements from both pre-consumer and post-consumer waste streams. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Mining your phone: Recovering rare earth elements from e-waste

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A way with water

Toronto’s King Street includes a complex mix of various transportation modes, including cycling, walking, driving and transit. How infrastructure impacts commuter choices is one of the topics being examined by U of T Engineering researchers within the new U of T School of Cities. (Image: City of Toronto, via Flickr)

Sustainable cities: Three U of T Engineering researchers join multidisciplinary research initiative

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Inspired by art, engineering researchers use sound and visuals to simulate blood-flow patterns of brain aneurysms