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

Aniss Zaoui

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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 Piero Triverio (ECE) at centre, and collaborators Drs. Stephen Fremes (right), Laura Jiménez-Juan (left) of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor Gianluigi Rozza of SISSA are developing a study that could provide surgeons with better information about coronary artery disease (Credit: Jessica MacInnis).

Mysteries of the heart: U of T Engineering professor developing solutions for coronary artery disease with mathematical models

Multi-talented engineering student and artist Andrew Forde was inspired by Glenn Gould’s 1967 CBC radio broadcast The Idea of North to compose a contemporary piece that reflects Canadian diversity. (Credit: Markus Staley).

Andrew Forde aims to connect Canadians with a new Idea of North

Amol Rao (MIE MEng candidate) is the founder of Somnitude, a startup company that helps people get better sleep with its blue-wavelength-filtering glasses. Rao partnered with Freestyle Canada to ship 30 of his company's glasses to Olympic athletes ahead of the 2018 winter games. (Credit: Liz Do).

This engineering startup is giving Canada’s Olympic skiers a fresh edge

Professors Rita Kandel and Robert Pilliar (IBBME), at right, are working on a promising new treatment that could see diseased joints replaced with new tissue-engineered joints developed at U of T Engineering. (Credit: Jennifer Robinson)

New joints for arthritis sufferers among U of T Engineering research projects receiving Connaught Innovation Award support