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Begum Yilmaz, Katarina Poffley and Emre Yilmaz hold their payload at the Canadian Space Agency’s Timmins stratospheric balloon base.

START1 takes flight: U of T Engineering student team explores radiation risks in space

Aniss Zaoui

How a recent grad’s second PhD prepared him to develop next-generation sustainable materials

Yu Zou and team

New metal matrix composites — made with 3D printing — could lead to light, yet strong components for aerospace and other industries

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This animated video shows the gripper tool in action: magnetic fields make the tiny hand move.

U of T Engineering researchers advance magnetic microrobotic surgical tools for minimally invasive brain surgery

Professor Seungjae Lee (CivMin) is using U of T buildings as models to design deep learning algorithms that could optimize the operations of building heating and cooling systems, significantly reducing energy use.

Can AI help make our buildings more sustainable?

A researcher wearing personal protective equipment in a laboratory holds a membrane.

This sustainable solution for removing phosphate and ammonium from wastewater promotes a circular economy

ECE grad students (from left to right) Jingyang Liu, Iris Uwizeyimana and Michail Bachras reflect on the new graduate course ECE1718 after their final project presentations. The course, taught by Professor Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE), gives students an overview of the societal impact of computer hardware and systems, exploring issues such as climate change, inequality and bias, healthcare, security and privacy. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

‘This generation wants these conversations’: New ECE graduate course examines socially responsible computing