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Professor Aryan Rezaei Rad (CivMin) with the newly installed robotic arm. (photo by Phill Snel)

CivMin launches its first industrial-scale robotic fabrication system for timber construction

Top row, left to right: Anne Lawrence and her father, Ross Lawrence (GeoE 5T6, MCom 5T9). Bottom row, left to right: Raymond Mao Bhushan (MinE 2T5, CivMin MASc student), his brother Ethan Mao (Year 2 ECE), Paul Walters (MinE 5T6). (photo by Kristin Philpot)

Why these 5T6 grads are still paying it forward, 70 years after graduation

Drying protein droplets

Polymer ‘bristles’ could help repel proteins — and germs — from surfaces in medical settings

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U of T Engineering students toured the TTC’s Hillcrest Complex as part of ILead’s Faculty-wide Summer Program: Engineer Your Future. (Photo: Alan Yusheng Wu, EngSci 1T5)

Lessons in leadership: U of T Engineering students tour TTC with ILead summer program

Post-doctoral fellow Aaron Persad (MIE) shows his experiment that aims to solve the longstanding mystery of how water behaves in space. (credit: Aaron Persaud).

How does water behave in space? U of T Engineering researchers aim to solve longstanding mystery

Dr. Cheol-Heon Jeong (left) and Professor Greg Evans (ChemE) measured emissions from gasoline direct-injection engines and evaluated climate trade-offs of the more efficient engine type. It turns out greater efficiency doesn’t always mean greener for the planet. (Credit: Tyler Irving).

Think a more fuel-efficient engine is the green choice? Maybe not

New funding from Genome Canada will help Professor Elizabeth Edwards (ChemE) and her team commercialize a microbial culture that can digest chemical pollutants without the need for oxygen. (Photo: Sarah Collaton)

Hungry for hazardous waste: New funding will help commercialize pollution-eating microbes