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‘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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U of T Engineering is now participating in raise.me, an online platform that enables student applicants to start earning scholarship credits right from their first year of high school. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Seeding future engineering talent with raise.me ‘micro-scholarships’

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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