Advanced manufacturing news

Advanced manufacturing program and research at U of T Engineering are creating next-generation technology while preparing future engineers to lead in industry.

PetePeter Stogios manipulates a protein crystal mounted on an X-ray diffractometer. He and his team are researching a less expensive way of making cell-based meat. (Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn)r Stogios manipulates a protein crystal mounted on an X-ray diffractometer. He and his team are researching a less expensive way of making cell-based meat (photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)

U of T Engineering researchers could lower the cost of producing lab-grown meat

Senior researcher Peter Stogios and his team are using a grant from the Good Food Institute to research new production methods for cell-based meat

Professor Erin Bobicki (MSE, ChemE) is among five U of T Engineering researchers awarded NSERC Strategic Partnerships Grant. (Photo credit: Kevin Soobrian)

Strengthening engineering innovation with Strategic Partnerships Grants

U of T Engineering researchers are addressing critical challenges in advanced manufacturing, digital infrastructure and other critical areas

Carlos Menezes

Perfecting precision: how this alumnus uses automation to fine-tune operations at Canadian Tire

Alumnus Carlos Menezes is leveraging U of T Engineering expertise to optimize one of Canada’s most complex supply chains

Sorin Voinigescu

Startup based on U of T Engineering research raises US$42 million to alleviate congested wireless networks

A Canadian semiconductor startup based on technology developed in the lab of Professor Sorin Voinigescu (ECE) has raised US$42 million to help alleviate increasingly congested wireless networks. The latest round of financing, which brings the total raised to over US$110 million, promises to help Toronto-based Peraso Technologies further develop its chips for the 60 gigahertz […]

Molly Shoichet

Molly Shoichet named a Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering

Shoichet is a renowned researcher working at the intersection of engineering, chemistry and biology

Professor Robert Zee (UTIAS) and his research team are receiving $15 million in funding to develop three microsatellites. (Credit: Marit Mitchell)

U of T Engineering researchers to design microsatellites for Arctic monitoring

Professor Robert Zee (UTIAS) and his team have partnered with Department of National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces and two private space companies to enhance situational awareness in Canada’s North

Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo (ECE) and his collaborators have performed a proof-of-principle experiment on a key aspect of all-photonic quantum repeaters (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Toward a future quantum Internet

All-photonic quantum repeaters could lead to a faster, more secure global quantum Internet

A collaboration between UTIAS professor Philippe Lavoie and zoologists at UBC have determined gulls are able to transition across a broad range of wing shapes to stabilize glide. (Credit: Christina Harvey)

U of T Engineering collaboration with zoologists reveals how gulls ‘wing morph’ for stable soaring

Wind-tunnel testing of gull wings conducted between Professor Philippe Lavoie (UTIAS) and the Department of Zoology at UBC could be used to design more efficient flying vehicles

Professor Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE), a leading researcher in computer optimization, has been named an ACM Distinguished Member. (Credit: Roberta Baker)

Natalie Enright Jerger named ACM Distinguished Member

Association for Computing Machinery recognizes professional excellence as well as significant achievements in the computing field