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Students in Professor Karl Peterson’s lab examine concrete samples from the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Left to right: Wisdom Okoh, Katia Ossetchkina, Professor Karl Peterson and Amy Montgomery. (photo by Phill Snel)

This team of CivMin researchers is studying the Gordie Howe International Bridge — down to the microscopic level

Alex Kurk (MechE 2T6), left, is the 2026 winner of the Troost ILead Difference Maker Award. Sanjay Malaviya, right, is the donor for this award. Malaviya holds one of the 3D-printed interfaces designed by Kurk to help people with low vision navigate software user interfaces. (photo by Tyler Irving)

Solutions for people with low vision helped Alex Kurk earn the 2026 Troost ILead Difference Maker Award

Left to right: Stephen Laditi (CivE 2T5 + PEY), Favour Nwanna (CompE 2T5 + PEY) and Cassandra Abraham, Outreach Coordinator, Engineering Student Recruitment and Outreach Office, U of T Engineering. (photo by Tyler Irving)

‘Invaluable’: Two of Blueprint’s first alumni reflect on their educational journeys

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From left: U of T Engineering researchers Professor Axel Guenther (MIE), Navid Hakimi (MIE PhD candidate) and Richard Cheng (IBBME PhD candidate) have created the first ‘skin printer’ that forms tissues in situ for application to wounds. (Credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering researchers develop handheld 3D skin printer

Xiwen Gong (ECE PhD candidate, centre) with Wendy and Eric Schmidt. The Schmidt Science Fellows program administered in partnership with the Rhodes Trust provides postdoctoral opportunities in areas different from those in which they completed their PhD research. (Courtesy: Schmidt Science Fellows).

U of T Engineering’s Xiwen Gong among inaugural class of Schmidt Science Fellows

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Pedram Mortazavi wins 2018 TA Teaching Excellence Award

The Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship. (Image courtesy Montgomery Sisam Architects & Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

U of T Engineering opens the Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship