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U of T Engineering blockchain project receives funding injection from Connaught Fund

Multidisciplinary team unites researchers to apply blockchain technology in fields from law to finance

Professor Moshovos and his team. Front row, left to right: Zissis Poulos, Dylan Malone Stuart, Professor Andreas Moshovos; back row, left to right: Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam, Kevin Siu, Mostafa Mahmoud, Patrick Judd, Alberto Delmas Lascorz, Milos Nikolic. (Credit: Tyler Irving)

Building the computing engines that will power the machine learning revolution

New NSERC Strategic Partnership Network focuses on techniques to optimize hardware for artificial intelligence

Smart cities professor Mark Fox.

It takes a village to build a smart city: Mark Fox on culture of collaboration at School of Cities

Professor Mark Fox says School of Cities will play a pivotal role in catalyzing collaboration across U of T Engineering and University

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Bombardier invests in Toronto aerospace hub, creates U of T research centre on aircraft noise

Canadian aerospace giant will invest $1.5 million over five years to fund core research at a new aeromaterials research centre involving two U of T Engineering researchers

Professor Peter Grant (UTIAS) practices responding to an aerodynamic stall in a flight simulator at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Modelling mayday: New research from U of T Engineering helps pilots train for aerodynamic stall

Professor Peter Grant designs new methodology for developing models for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to improve accuracy of emergency simulations

Zeus, the aUToronto team’s self-driving car, pulls up to the startline at the inaugural competition of the three-year AutoDrive Challenge™ in Yuma, Ariz. (Courtesy: SAE International)

aUToronto team wins first AutoDrive Challenge

Three-year international competition challenged eight universities to turn an electric vehicle self-driving by 2020

From left: aUToronto team members Zachary Kroeze (ECE PhD 1T8), Andreas Schimpe, Keenan Burnett (EngSci 1T6+PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate) and Mona Gridseth (UTIAS PhD candidate) in front of their autonomous vehicle, dubbed Zeus . The team is one of eight from universities across North America competing in the international Autodrive Challenge™. (Credit: Laura Pedersen).

aUToronto to compete at international self-driving car competition

U of T Engineering student team selected to participate in Autodrive Challenge™ heads to Yuma, Ariz. for first round of three-year competition

Professor Evan Bentz (CivMin, at left) works with students in the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering’s structures lab. (Credit: Neil Ta).

Department of Civil Engineering changes name to reflect interdisciplinary nature of programs, research

Update highlights strength of longstanding collaboration between two premier engineering programs

U of T Engineering’s CERT team, led by Alex Ip (ECE PhD 1T5, second from left) is one of just five teams from academia and industry to advance to the finals of the international NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition, where they hope to bring home the $7.5-million grand prize for their carbon-capture and conversion technology. (Credit: Laura Pedersen).

CERT team advances to finals of Carbon XPRIZE

Multidisciplinary group led by Professors Ted Sargent and David Sinton among five vying for $7.5-million grand prize for capturing and recycling carbon dioxide