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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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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

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Purple Day: Meet U of T Engineering students researching new ways to understand epilepsy

From left: Mark Drucker, President of Silanna Semiconductor, with Professor Aleksandar Prodić (ECE), Ahsan Zaman (ElecE 0T9, ECE MASc 1T2, PhD 1T5), Mete Erturk, CEO of Appulse Power, Aleksandar Radić (ECE PhD 1T4) and Behzad Mahdavikhah (ECE PhD 1T4). Silanna Semiconductor announced Wednesday that they have acquired U of T Engineering spin-off Appulse Power Inc. (Photo: Marit Mitchell).

U of T Engineering spin-off Appulse Power acquired by Silanna Semiconductor

Professor Parham Aarabi (ECE) is the CEO and founder of ModiFace, a spin-off company that uses augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to build advanced facial visualization software for the beauty and medical industries. ModiFace has been acquired by L'Oreal. (Credit: Johnny Guatto)

U of T Engineering spin-off ModiFace acquired by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal