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Students in Professor Karl Peterson’s lab examine concrete samples from the Gordie Howe International Bridge. Left to right: Wisdom Okoh, Katia Ossetchkina, Professor Karl Peterson and Amy Montgomery. (photo by Phill Snel)

This team of CivMin researchers is studying the Gordie Howe International Bridge — down to the microscopic level

Alex Kurk (MechE 2T6), left, is the 2026 winner of the Troost ILead Difference Maker Award. Sanjay Malaviya, right, is the donor for this award. Malaviya holds one of the 3D-printed interfaces designed by Kurk to help people with low vision navigate software user interfaces. (photo by Tyler Irving)

Solutions for people with low vision helped Alex Kurk earn the 2026 Troost ILead Difference Maker Award

Left to right: Stephen Laditi (CivE 2T5 + PEY), Favour Nwanna (CompE 2T5 + PEY) and Cassandra Abraham, Outreach Coordinator, Engineering Student Recruitment and Outreach Office, U of T Engineering. (photo by Tyler Irving)

‘Invaluable’: Two of Blueprint’s first alumni reflect on their educational journeys

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Professor Jan Andrysek (right) is designing the next generation of lower-limb prosthetics. He is one of six members of the U of T Engineering community honoured with Ontario Professional Engineers Awards. (Photo: Neil Ta)

U of T Engineering professors and alumni receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards

Christopher Sun is one of four PhD candidates from across U of T Engineering to receive a 2017 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. (Photo: Liz Do)

Meet four U of T Engineering graduate students awarded Vanier Scholarships

Optimizing traffic flow between the City of Oshawa, at right, and Toronto, lower left, is one challenge that Master of Engineering students in the Cities Engineering and Management program at U of T will study in the newly established ‘teaching city.’ (Image: Google Maps).

New partnership establishes a Canadian teaching city for engineering students

Professor Greg Evans (ChemE) is one of the co-chairs of the 7th annual Canadian Engineering Education Association conference, hosted by U of T Engineering June 4 to 7, 2017. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Designing the engineer of 2050: Canadian engineering educators to meet in Toronto