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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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This picture shows NORsat-2 in space deploying its antenna. (Credit: Space Norway AS).

U of T Engineering-designed microsatellite with novel deployable antenna launched into orbit

Team AVAIL — left to right, Caulan Rupke (Year 4 EngSci), Neell Young (EngSci 1T4 + PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate), Andrew Ilersich and Michael Lawee (both Year 4 EngSci) — has designed a physics experiment that will be carried out in simulated microgravity. Their results could accelerate the use of 3D printers to address key challenges for long-term space missions. (Photo credit: Team AVAIL)

Unraveling a physics mystery in microgravity: U of T Engineering students fly their experiment

U of T Engineering students Andy Liao (Year 2 CivE), Ernesto Diaz Lozano Patiño (CivE 1T5 + PEY, MASc candidate), Alejandro Sarellano Acevedo (ECE MEng candidate), and Mackenzie de Carle (Year 3 CivE) are members of the team that earned a $20,000 prize for their proposal to install solar-powered street lighting in Mexico City’s Toltenco community.

Engineering student team lights up low-income Mexico City community

Clockwise from left, Marian Daniel (Year 2 ECE), Patrick Howell (ECE 1T7), Professor Jonathan Kelly (UTIAS) and Maya Burhakpurkar are just a few members of the research team who have developed a low-cost system that enables electric wheelchairs to become partly or fully autonomous.

Wheelchairs get robotic retrofit to become self-driving