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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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Alumna Catherine Lacavera to receive honorary degree at U of T Engineering convocation

Clockwise from back left: Rafid Mahmood (IndE PhD candidate), Yusuf Shalaby (IndE 1T7), Ben Potter (IndE MASc candidate), Albert Loa (EngSci Year 3), Professor Tim Chan (MIE) and Michael Shin (EngSci Year 4). (Credit: Marit Mitchell)

Engineering the perfect NHL team: U of T Engineering researchers create draft optimizer for new Las Vegas expansion

Postdoctoral researcher Lukas Kohl (ChemE) and undergraduate student Cynthia Jing (Year 2 EngSci) will sample homes in northern Alberta for ash left over from last summer’s wildfire. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering researchers search for toxins in the aftermath of Fort McMurray wildfire

From left: U of T Engineering professors Constantin Christopoulos (CivE), Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (IBBME), Joyce Poon (ECE) and Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) are among the 2017 new and renewed Canada Research Chair recipients. Launched in 2000, the CRC program aims to help the country attract and retain research leaders in engineering and natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences. (Credits, from left: Mark Balson, Neil Ta, Jason KB, Neil Ta).

Four U of T Engineering researchers receive Canada Research Chairs