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Shaking things up: U of T Seismic Design Team earns second-place finish at international competition

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Centre for Healthcare Engineering partners with William Osler Health System to improve clinical practice

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Dr. Lewis Reis (IBBME PhD 1T6, at left) and Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE) used their unique peptide-hydrogel biomaterial to heal chronic wounds up twice as quickly as commercially available products. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Skin cells ‘crawl’ together to heal wounds treated with unique hydrogel layer

The 2008 Sunrise Propane plant explosion in Toronto is one of the case studies taught in Professor Doug Perovic’s Forensic Engineering course. The course will be part of a new Certificate in Forensic Engineering, launching in Fall 2017. (Credit: Michael Gill via Flickr, under creative commons).

Making sense of disasters: U of T Engineering offers new certificate in Forensic Engineering

First-year students (from left) Michela Trozzo (Year 1 ECE), Christian Pavlidis (Year 1 CivE) and Elisha Lu (Year 1 ECE) work with a robotic arm in the Systems Control lab. More than 40 per cent of U of T Engineering's first-year students are female, the highest proportion in Ontario. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

Women make up more than 40 per cent of U of T Engineering first-year class

Professor Lesley Warren (standing, at right) and her colleagues are mining the genomes of microbes that thrive in wastewater generated by the resource extraction industry. Insights into how these organisms derive energy from metals and sulphur compounds could lead to new strategies for preventing pollution and optimizing mine reclamation. (Photo courtesy Lesley Warren)

Ancient microbes could offer insight on better mining wastewater strategies