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Left to right: Alumnus Nan Ge (MechE 1T3, MIE MASc 1T6, PhD 1T9) and Professor Aimy Bazylak (MIE) are the co-founders of Cardinal Volta. (photo by Paola Varhen Pacheco)

New commercialization funding will help this U of T Engineering startup turn waste heat into power

"If nobody outside a company can see what these systems are doing, it’s very hard to tell whether they’re safe," says Professor Nicolas Papernot (ECE). (photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)

U of T researcher calls for independent testing of powerful AI models

Left to right: Weixiang Ben (Year 3 MSE), Jiaze Wu (MSE PhD student) and Professor Kai Huang (MSE) are three members of the team who designed a new type of nanoparticle that can upconvert light from low-energy photons into high-energy ones. (photo by Tyler Irving)

New light-emitting nanoparticles can detect subtle chemical differences to enhance pharmaceutical manufacturing, pollution prevention and more

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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

February 26, 2016

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

February 24, 2016

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

February 23, 2016

Hana Zalzal: Professional makeup maven

February 22, 2016

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