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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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Mikhail Burke (MSE 1T2, IBBME PhD 1T8) is the new Dean’s Advisor on Black Inclusivity Initiatives and Student Inclusion & Transition Mentor (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Meet Mikhail Burke, Dean’s Advisor on Black Inclusivity Initiatives and Student Inclusion & Transition Mentor

Peter Munk (ElecE 5T2) was a Canadian business leader whose philanthropic contributions to education, medicine and public life are unparalleled. He passed away at the age of 90.

In Memoriam: Peter Munk (1927-2018)

Phil De Luna (MSE PhD candidate) is first author on an analysis of how researchers could capture and recycle the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. "If we continue to work at this, it’s a matter of time before we have power plants where CO2 is emitted, captured, and converted,” says De Luna. (Credit: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering researchers propose how we could use climate-warming CO2 for good

Left to right: Sina Bahrami (CivE PhD candidate), Mehdi Nourinejad (CivE PhD 1T7) and Professor Matthew Roorda (CivE) designed an algorithm to optimize the design of parking lots for autonomous vehicles, increasing their capacity by an average of 62 per cent. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

How self-driving cars could shrink parking lots