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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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Chemical engineering PhD candidate Kayla Nemr and Professor Krishna Mahadevan grow yeast in a bioreactor. Along with their collaborators, they are using these organisms to transform bark, leaves and stems into the chemical building blocks of materials such as nylon. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Natural fibres: New yeast strains could turn plant waste into fabrics

October 26, 2017

DriverLab simulation

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

October 24, 2017

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

Developing a new VR tool to teach lab techniques

October 23, 2017

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

October 20, 2017

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