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Aleisha Cerny (MIE MASc 2T3) and Yvonne Liu (ChemE 2T0 + PEY, MIE MEng 2T3)

This U of T Engineering startup aims to provide clean distributed power with compact fuel cells

Kyrylo Kalashnikov and the robotic electrochemistry system he designed

Low-cost, open-source robotic system could make self-driving labs more accessible to students and researchers

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Mitchell Souliere-Lamb aims to inspire more Indigenous people to choose engineering

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Wireless routers and ethernet among the many ways to connect to the Internet. (Photo: twenty20photos, via Envato)

Internet connectivity, explained

Left: Fish such as tilapia can disperse and collect pigment granules in their skin to change their colour and shading. Right: An optofluidic cell created by U of T Engineering researchers achieves the same effect by mixing two immiscible fluids, one of which contains a dye. (Image credits: left, Richard Wheeler (licensed under Creative Commons); right, Raphael Kay.)

Dynamic building facades inspired by marine organisms could reduce heating, cooling and lighting costs

U of T Engineering's Professor Mark Fox (MIE) leads the initiative to create a Canadian catalogue of urban data sets. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)

U of T’s Urban Data Centre to help ‘wrangle’ the data needed to build smarter cities

This model heart ventricle, made with real living heart cells, beats strongly enough to pump fluid inside a tube. It can be used to study heart disease and test out potential therapies, without the need for invasive surgery. (Photo: Sargol Okhovatian)

Reverse engineering the heart: U of T Engineering team creates bioartificial left ventricle