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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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Sandro Young is awarded one of three Governor General’s Silver Medals in recognition of high academic achievement by Farid Najm, chair of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. (Photo: Laura Brown)

Sandro Young named U of T’s top student

Catherine Lacavera. (Photo: Google)

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