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Professor Ethan Ritz (CivMin) at the University of Toronto main gates. (photo by Phill Snel)

‘You’re going to learn your whole life’: Meet Ethan Ritz, CivMin’s newest faculty member

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How BMO National Scholar Maeesha Biswas turned a U of T capstone project into an AI startup with global ambitions

“Engineering offered the bridge between theoretical discovery and practical impact,” says Professor Oliver Boodram (UTIAS). “In graduate school, this helped me focus on aerospace engineering and the application of the theory of orbits to real-world spacecraft.”  (photo by Jennifer Li)

‘I hope students will come away with both curiosity and confidence’: Meet Professor Oliver Boodram

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Zeus, the aUToronto team’s self-driving car, pulls up to the startline at the inaugural competition of the three-year AutoDrive Challenge™ in Yuma, Ariz. (Courtesy: SAE International)

aUToronto team wins first AutoDrive Challenge

Professor Warren Chan and a student in a lab

Seven U of T Engineering faculty members named Canada Research Chairs

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