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Left to right: Aaron Tan and Angus Fung sit behind their laptops in an office.

‘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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Professor Chirag Variawa teaches incoming first-year students in the Technology-Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) room in the Sandford Fleming building. Variawa is an expert on identifying and eliminating barriers to learning for engineering students. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Expert on inclusivity in engineering education joins U of T Engineering

August 29, 2016

Converting greenhouse gas emissions into energy-rich fuel using nano silicon (Si) in a carbon-neutral carbon-cycle. (Credit: Chenxi Qian).

Multidisciplinary research cluster closer to converting CO₂ emissions to fuel

August 25, 2016

U of T doctoral researchers Iliya Sigal (right) and Dene Ringuette are part of a team that designed a miniature microscope that could open new doors for epilepsy and seizure monitoring and treatment. (Credit: Luke Ng).

Battery-sized microscope gives new insights into brain activity during seizures

August 22, 2016

Six U of T Engineering professors have received Early Researcher Awards from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science.

Early Researcher Awards support U of T Engineering research on smart materials, cancer technology and more

August 22, 2016

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