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Professor Nikolai DeMartini develops new strategies to help pulp and paper mills deal with contaminants such as salts and metals in their processes. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering receives three new NSERC Industrial Research Chairs

April 6, 2018

Partnerships with leading companies will advance research into pulp and paper, automotive components and rock mechanics

Phil De Luna (MSE PhD candidate) is first author on an analysis of how researchers could capture and recycle the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. "If we continue to work at this, it’s a matter of time before we have power plants where CO2 is emitted, captured, and converted,” says De Luna. (Credit: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering researchers propose how we could use climate-warming CO2 for good

March 29, 2018

Multidisciplinary team led by Professor Ted Sargent proposes vision for future of carbon capture and recycling

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Purple Day: Meet U of T Engineering students researching new ways to understand epilepsy

March 26, 2018

Several teams of IBBME graduate students are working on solutions to improve treatments and quality of life for individuals facing the neurological disease

A global delegation from Fujitsu Inc., including Fujitsu President Tatsuya Tanaka, met with University of Toronto leadership on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 to discuss the thriving research collaboration. (Credit: Phil Babcock).

Fujitsu visits U of T Engineering to launch collaborative research lab

March 15, 2018

Global delegation meets with University leaders to discuss future of multidisciplinary partnership with researchers across U of T Engineering and beyond

Professor Paul Santerre (Dentistry, IBBME), at left, has been named the Baxter Chair of Health Technology and Commercialization by the University Health Network. (Credit: Neil Ta).

Paul Santerre named Baxter Chair of Health Technology and Commercialization

February 22, 2018

Biomedical engineering professor receives UHN support to drive commercialization and entrepreneurship opportunities for students and hospital trainees

Professor Hani Naguib (MIE, MSE), director of the Toronto Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, discusses research into custom composite materials with mechanical engineering students Ali Anwer and Vina Hui. Canada’s new Innovation Supercluster in Advanced Manufacturing, announced today, includes contributions from Naguib and several other U of T Engineering Professors. (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

Innovation superclusters: Two future-facing ideas from U of T Engineering

February 15, 2018

Faculty expertise and facilities contribute to high-density research and innovation hubs

Professor Piero Triverio (ECE) at centre, and collaborators Drs. Stephen Fremes (right), Laura Jiménez-Juan (left) of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor Gianluigi Rozza of SISSA are developing a study that could provide surgeons with better information about coronary artery disease (Credit: Jessica MacInnis).

Mysteries of the heart: U of T Engineering professor developing solutions for coronary artery disease with mathematical models

February 8, 2018

Research team led by Piero Triverio (ECE) is looking at ways to solve some of medicine’s most challenging heart problems through computational mathematics

Professors Rita Kandel and Robert Pilliar (IBBME), at right, are working on a promising new treatment that could see diseased joints replaced with new tissue-engineered joints developed at U of T Engineering. (Credit: Jennifer Robinson)

New joints for arthritis sufferers among U of T Engineering research projects receiving Connaught Innovation Award support

February 2, 2018

The five funded projects address pressing challenges in fields from machine learning to micro-surgery

Professor Reza Iravani (ECE) and members of his research group (from left, Mr. Xiaolin Wang, Professor Reza Iravani, Dr. Ali Nabavi and Dr. Milan Graovac) are helping to reduce range anxiety for electric vehicle drivers (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Reducing ‘range anxiety’ for electric vehicles by speeding up charging time

December 19, 2017

Large-scale, utility level battery systems will reduce the charging time for electric vehicles from hours to minutes

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