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U of T Engineering lab partners with Moderna to develop RNA-based tools to treat and prevent disease

Professor Omar F. Khan’s lab group is designing new platforms that deliver RNA to the body, addressing a range of biomedical challenges

A mixed filling dumpling with Myo Palate's cultivated pork and store-bought vegetable ingredients. The company has partnered with U of T Engineering professor Michael Garton (BME) on a project to further advance their technology. (Photo:  Joanna Wojewoda, courtesy Myo Palate)

New academic-industry partnership aims to lower the cost of cultivated meat

Professor Michael Garton (BME) partners with Myo Palate on project focused on efficiently growing animal muscle cells outside the body

Professor Olivier Trescases (far right) stands in the University of Toronto Electric Vehicle Research Centre with (left to right) PhD Candidate, Zhe Gong; Wendy Baker, Associate Director Business Development, School of Continuing Studies; and Nick Cusimano, Research Associate. Trescases will teach two courses on electric vehicles for Porsche Centre employees. (Photo: Porsche Cars Canada)

Porsche partners with ECE professor on electric vehicle training courses

Professor Olivier Trescases (ECE) is developing micro courses in electric vehicles for approximately 300 Porsche Cars Canada dealer staff from across Canada

Engineering Research Day featured four panels on the various intersections between engineering and sustainability, including ‘Climate Positive and Sustainable Campus.’ (Photo: Dewey Chang)

Engineering Research Day showcases the critical role of engineers in addressing sustainability issues

The one-day event featured panel discussions highlighting the depth and breadth of research across the Faculty

Dr. Hugues Thomas (UTIAS) and his collaborators created a new method for robot navigation based on self-supervised deep learning (Photo: Safa Jinje)

UTIAS researchers design socially aware robots to move safely around people

Collaboration between Professor Tim Barfoot (UTIAS) and Apple Machine Learning applies new approach for navigating spaces with moveable obstacles

University of Toronto researchers Tara Colenbrander Nelson and Dr. Kelly Whaley Martin collecting water samples at Hudbay’s 777 mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba for use in their innovative “reactive sulfur” monitoring technique. (Photo: Lesley Warren)

Academic-industry partnership leads to improved methods for managing sulfur compounds in mining sites

Hudbay receives regulatory approval for new monitoring technique co-developed with University of Toronto Engineering Professor Lesley Warren (CivMin)

Researchers from U of T’s Centre for Social Services Engineering are helping to develop a platform that harnesses AI to improve wayfinding for Canadians seeking social services (Photo: iStock/Ankit Sah)

Using AI to help Canadians find social services: U of T researchers team up with industry and government

Researchers from U of T’s Centre for Social Services Engineering are helping to develop a platform that harnesses AI to improve wayfinding for Canadians seeking social services

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

NSERC Synergy Award celebrates decades of collaboration on nanoscale electron microscopy and robotics

U of T Engineering and Hitachi High-Tech Canada partnership has led to scientific discoveries and commercialized products

A grey box is seen attached to a pillar on the platform of the Toronto Transit Commission's St. George subway station.

New trains and reduced friction braking improve air quality in Toronto’s subways

New study by U of T Engineering and Health Canada researchers shows how train and braking technology can substantially affect what riders breathe