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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 Milica Radici (IBBME, ChemE, left) develops lab-grown human tissues that could be used to test new drugs or repair damaged organs. (Photo: Neil Ta)

New frontiers in health-care innovation

Klein (left) and his NRC colleague Robert Owens with an early prototype. Photo courtesy National Research Council of Canada.

The Maker: George Klein and the first electric wheelchair

U of T Engineering Dean Cristina Amon delivers opening remarks at the 2017 Women in Science and Engineering Conference, hosted at U of T Engineering. (Photo: Kevin Jen)

WISE National Conference 2017: A message from Dean Amon

Portrait of alumnus and eSports enthusiast Victor Xin

Alumnus funds first scholarship for U of T Engineering students involved in eSports