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Professor Tim Barfoot aims to boost the institute's role as a leader in aerospace innovation, talent development and industry collaboration. (photo by Neil Ta)

Meet Professor Tim Barfoot, the new director of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

Professor Michael Carter (MIE) is the recipient of the highest honour awarded by the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). The award was presented by IISE President Dean Athanassiades, left, and IISE Immediate Past President Sunderesh Heragu, right. (photo by David Brandt)

Optimizing patient care: Professor Michael Carter on how industrial engineering has delivered faster, better and more efficient health care

Professor Ethan Ritz (CivMin) at the University of Toronto main gates. (photo by Phill Snel)

‘You’re going to learn your whole life’: Meet Ethan Ritz, CivMin’s newest faculty member

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Pavani Cherukupally (MIE PhD candidate) has designed a system that uses ordinary sponges to remove droplets of oil or other contaminants dispersed in water. Her technology could help remediate of oil sands tailings ponds, a major environmental challenge for Canada. (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

Sponging up oil from tailings ponds

February 27, 2017

A section of the Trans Alaska Pipeline near Fairbanks, AK. The policy implications of pipelines are one of the many topics being addressed in a new collaboration between undergraduate students at U of T Engineering and at the School of Public Policy & Governance in the Faculty of Arts & Science. (Photo: Brian Cantoni, via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cantoni/4426017757/">Flickr</a>)

New cross-Faculty collaboration engages engineering students in energy policy

February 27, 2017

Schematics of two reinforced concrete buildings designed according to current Indian standards. A collaboration between researchers at U of T Engineering and IIT Bombay aims to develop low-cost seismic isolation platforms that could enhance the ability of such buildings to resist earthquake damage. (Image: IIT Bombay/Farbod Pakpour)

Indo-Canadian partnerships advance research into safer, more sustainable buildings

February 24, 2017

Professor Chirag Variawa (centre) teaches both graduate and undergraduate students and is encouraging them to address educational challenges through engineering design. (Photo: Alan Yusheng Wu)

Engineering the educational experience

February 22, 2017

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