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Katie Hung and Anastasia Polulyakhova in front of building on campus.

U of T Engineering students getting a leg up with Project Leap

Left to right: Co-leads on the study, Professor Caitlin Maikawa (BME) and Lucia Huang (BME MSc student), say the technology could make monitoring and treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases easier and accessible. (Photo by KITE Studio/UHN)

Researchers develop swallowable sensor that offers simpler way to monitor gut inflammation

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New modelling tool for intermittent water distribution systems could improve service for over a billion people

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The Self-Driving Lab for Human Organ Mimicry will use organoids and organs-on-chips – a well plate is pictured here – to allow researchers to move potential therapeutics to human clinical trials more rapidly. (Photo by Rick Lu)

U of T ‘self-driving lab’ to focus on next-gen human tissue models

Cherie Mak, U of T Engineering’s mental health programs officer, holds up a sign explaining a brick activity at the Build U Up event. (Photo: Safa Jinje)

Build U Up event raises awareness of mental health resources available to engineering students

Left to right: Alumni Ines Fernandez (IndE 0T9 + PEY) and Kenneth Smith (MMS 6T6) pose for a photo in the Myhal Auditorium at the kick-off to the U of T Engineering 150th Anniversary Open House on October 14. (Photo: Liz Intac)

U of T Engineering’s 150th Anniversary Open House celebrates the past and looks to the future

PhD candidate Xiao Shang sets up a part for printing using the directed energy deposition 3D printer.

This machine learning method aims to speed up the design of next-generation biomedical implants and aerospace materials