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Professor Timothy Chan (MIE, left) and Christopher Sun (MIE PhD candidate) studied data on cardiac arrest locations in Toronto to determine a list of “Top 10” businesses where placing automated external defibrillators would save lives — Tim Hortons coffee shops topped the rankings. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Coffee shops, 24-hour ATMs the best locations for life-saving AEDs, research shows

U of T Engineering team creates list of top 10 businesses where placing automatic external defibrillators would save lives

Zahra Emami, left, and Filip Stojic (both IBBME MASc candidates) work on a project to develop a brain-computer interface. Engineers Canada predicts a shortage of 100,000 engineers in the next decade — with their advanced skills and training, postgraduate degree holders are equipped to prevent this impending engineering shortfall. (Credit: Neil Ta)

The engineers who built everything are retiring: Canada needs highly qualified graduates to replace them

Seniors now outnumber children in Canada. That’s a problem for engineering. Across the country, thousands of engineers with decades of experience are about to retire en masse. Engineers, who we are celebrating this National Engineering Month, design the bridges you drive over every day on your way to work. They invent new mobile devices that […]

Professor Fae Azhari (MIE, CivE) holds a sample of the self-sensing concrete she designed. Her work helps monitor the structural health of crucial infrastructure such as bridges, roads and hydroelectric dams. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

Concrete check-up: Fae Azhari develops diagnostics for critical infrastructure

U of T Engineering professor develops novel approaches to monitoring the health of large structures, from bridges to hydroelectric dams

A U of T Engineering research team led by Professor Matthew Roorda (CivE) are assessing the safety impact of Bloor Street bike lanes. (Photo by Dylan Passmore via Flickr).

Bike lanes on Bloor Street: U of T Engineering partners with Miovision, City of Toronto to help evaluate pilot and track traffic safety

Matthew Roorda (CIvE) performing conflict analysis to help cities evaluate the impact to safety of any changes to a streetscape

A pine forest in Finland. Professor Emma Master (ChemE) is collaborating with researchers around the world (including at Aalto University in Helsinki) to create new materials from trees that could replace fossil fuel-derived substances in everyday products, from adhesives to food packaging. (Photo: Emma Master)

Paper, not plastic: Leveraging microbial genes to make greener materials

Professor Emma Master receives grant from Genome Canada’s Large Scale Applied Research Projects program

From left: Professor Ramin Farnood with students Reena Cabanilla (Year 4 MIE) and Yu Fan Qi (ChemE MASc candidate). (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Clean water, clean air: U of T Engineering research addresses big sustainability questions from resource scarcity to climate change

Ramin Farnood is an established leader in water decontamination — now he’s applying that expertise to tackle climate-warming emissions

Professor David Sinton presents and award to IBM's Allen Lalonde

U of T Engineering industry partners celebrated at inaugural awards ceremony

U of T Engineering recognized two landmark partnerships with its inaugural Industry Partnership Awards.

Steve Carlisle, head of General Motors Canada, learns about autonomous robotics research in the Barfoot Lab at U of T's Institute for Aerospace Studies. (Credit: Roberta Baker)

GM Canada president: “The tree of artificial intelligence was planted in Toronto”

Steve Carlisle scouts U of T Engineering talent, talks partnerships

“The convergence of a healthy biking culture and few cars in the heart of the city is truly a breath of fresh air," says Kerolyn Shairsingh (ChemE PhD candidate) about Utrecht, where she has been on research exchange since October 2016. (Courtesy: Kerolyn Shairsingh).

ChemE PhD student finds breath of fresh air in the Netherlands

Exchange is part of University of Toronto’s first-ever tripartite research collaboration with Utrecht University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong