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Drowning in data: Interdisciplinary case study on Coimbatore’s water supply underlines challenges with open data and smart cities

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New tool harnesses AI to navigate expanding world of metal–organic frameworks

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Six engineering innovations get a boost from NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants

View of the Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship, looking south-west across Front Campus. The building houses many multidisciplinary research centres and institutes in areas such as water, sustainable energy, robotics and mechatronics, engineering leadership, multidisciplinary design and global engineering. (image courtesy Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship garners $15M investment from province

Catherine Lacavera (CompE 9T7) has been director of IP and litigation at Google for more than 10 years, where she and her team handle one per cent of all patent litigation in the United States. (Photo: Google)

Catherine Lacavera: Google’s IP and litigation all-star

Brian Mech (UTIAS PhD 9T7) is the CEO of eSight, a Toronto-based company that builds wearable devices that restore nearly normal vision to people with a wide range of sight-damaging conditions. (photo courtesy: Brian Mech)

Brian Mech: Artificial vision pioneer