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Healthy aging in place: Connaught Community Partnership Research Program funds activity spaces for older adults

August 1, 2024

Professor Mark Chignell (MIE) is piloting activity spaces and evaluating their cognitive, physical and social benefits

Four people face each other in a circle. Dean Yip seems to be speaking, while Professor Deepa Kundur listens. The other two people have their backs to the camera.

Staying ‘ahead of the game’: ECE professor readies power utilities against future quantum cyberattacks

May 7, 2024

Professor Deepa Kundur, ECE Chair, is part of a research group that received an NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Grant of $1.45 million to develop quantum cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure

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How the CLUE research group is rethinking urban freight logistics

February 29, 2024

Professor Matthew Roorda (CivMin) is leading the group of researchers from U of T, McMaster University and York University

PhD student Yazdan Naderzadeh (left) in the Propulsion and Energy Conversion Lab at UTIAS investigates flames with lasers. (Photo: Neil Ta)

U of T Engineering researchers partner with Siemens Energy to tackle sustainable energy production

January 4, 2024

Professor Swetaprovo Chaudhuri (UTIAS) is researching how to build a novel, fuel-flex gas turbine engine to harness hydrogen-based power

Representatives from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation, a South Korean government institution funding this program, visited U of T in July 2023 to discuss the applied AI program for South Korean graduate students. (Photo: Aaron Demeter)

U of T partnership will bring graduate students from South Korea to Toronto for six-month applied AI program

September 29, 2023

Initiative will be run through the Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE) and housed in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Bioprocess engineering student in the lab

New microcredentials to strengthen the talent pipeline for Canada’s biomanufacturing industry

July 25, 2023

U of T Engineering partners with CCRM, BioZone and the School of Continuing Studies on three new courses, each of which includes an immersive observership

Left to right: U of T Engineering Professors Greg Jamieson (MIE), Oh-Sung Kwon (CivMin) and Yu Zou (MSE) are all leading new research projects that look at various aspects of small modular reactors, an emerging technology that could shift how and where nuclear power is used.

How U of T Engineering research could improve the design of small-scale modular reactors for the nuclear industry

July 12, 2023

Three professors recently received grants to study various aspects of this emerging technology

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U of T partners with Vale Energy Transition Metals to accelerate sustainable mining solution

March 8, 2023

New industry-academic partnership includes sponsored research projects, training, professional development and community engagement initiatives

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U of T Engineering professor’s startup receives federal funding to manufacture solar-energy-control windows

March 8, 2023

3E Nano Inc., co-founded by Professor Nazir Kherani and based on his research in photovoltaics and thermal systems, has received $5 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada

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