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More than a dozen of the employees at Zebra’s Mississauga office are current or former students from U of T Engineering’s Professional Experience Year (PEY) program, including Coby Segall (back row, second from left), Jordan Varley (front row, first from right) and Jagdeep Rangi (front row, second from right). (Photo: <a href="http://www.neilta.ca/">Neil Ta</a>)

Zebra: A case study in engineering experiential learning

April 25, 2016

More than a dozen current and former students in the Professional Experience Year program work at Zebra, which makes mobile computers, motion sensing solutions and more

Wind turbines are used to generate electricity. ECE’s Centre for Power & Information hosted its inaugural Research Showcase event April 18, and incorporating renewable energy sources into the grid topped the agenda. (Image via Creative Commons CC0).

Sustainable power, smart infrastructure and cyber-physical security top agenda at CPI research showcase

April 20, 2016

Academia, industry partners join forces to tackle pressing challenges of designing tomorrow’s energy infrastructure

U of T Engineering students bring design solutions to challenges in Toronto communities

April 15, 2016

Running with the dinosaurs, picking up litter and bottling honey: Praxis II Showcase event unveils innovative answers to nine problems plaguing local community leaders, businesses and agencies

The explosion of connected sensors and objects, dubbed the Internet of Things, is just one application driving future Internet architectures capable of handling massive quantities of data at ultra-high speeds. Designing the next Internet is just one project U of T engineers are working on in collaboration with Huawei: a new agreement between the parties will spark new multidisciplinary partnerships in areas such as biomedical engineering, materials science and more. (Photo: Creative Commons).

New industry partnership with Huawei fosters collaborations on next-generation technologies

April 12, 2016

Agreement establishes terms to facilitate collaboration on pressing challenges in cloud computing, data centre optimization and beyond

Professor Eric Miller (CivE) addressed a crowd University of Toronto alumni and friends on as part of the U of T in Your Neighbourhood lecture series. (Photo: Paul Terefenko)

Eric Miller reports from the trenches of Toronto’s transit wars

April 7, 2016

Civil engineering professor shares the science behind transit planning and decision-making with U of T alumni and friends

Professor Aimy Bazylak, director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE), and Oleg Popovsky, co-founder and strategy officer for Constant Power and a member of ISE’s advisory board, speak at the ISE’s third annual research symposium, held March 29, 2016 (Photo: Kristian Galberg)

Institute for Sustainable Energy symposium flips format to close academic-industry loop

March 31, 2016

Third annual event invited industry leaders to bring their most pressing challenges to U of T Engineering researchers

U of T Engineering undergraduates unveil novel solutions to industry challenges at Multidisciplinary Capstone Showcase

March 30, 2016

From military navigation to portable accessibility devices, nineteen student teams took on industry challenges as part of this year’s Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects course

Aimy Bazylak, Director of U of T Engineering’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, on a recent trip to Ireland.

The future of sustainable energy: Q & A with Professor Aimy Bazylak

March 23, 2016

Professor Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Director of U of T Engineering’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE), discusses how the centre is catalyzing energy solutions for the future

University of Toronto Explorer Vertical Take-Off and Landing (UT-XV) is one of the five vehicles unveiled Friday at the Aerospace Showcase organized by the University of Toronto Aerospace Team. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Ideas taking flight: University of Toronto Aerospace Team unveils its latest fleet

March 21, 2016

The University of Toronto Aerospace Team unveiled its latest fleet of vehicles, including three drones, a satellite and a rocket, at the Aerospace Showcase held March 18

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