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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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DriverLab simulation

U of T Engineering researchers use DriverLab simulator to focus on driver behaviour and safety

Alexander Sullivan tests out the lab simulation. (Photo: Romi Levine)

Developing a new VR tool to teach lab techniques

Professor Doug Perovic (right) and engineering technologist Sal Boccia look over images produced by a high-powered electron microscope. (Photo: Romi Levine)

This U of T Engineering professor teaches his students to think like detectives

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with elementary school students who spent the day designing the neighbourhood of the future at a workshop held by U of T Engineering Outreach. The project was part of an announcement by Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs to design a new kind of mixed-use, complete community on Toronto's Eastern Waterfront. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Toronto to host living laboratory for urban innovation