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Learn more about the latest discoveries and innovations from the U of T Engineering community. Our researchers are developing new ways of capturing and storing clean energy, medical devices that can save and extend lives, smarter ways to design and build cities and much more.

Headshots of Craig Simmons and Bharam Mirani

U of T Engineering researchers develop new method for engineering soft connective tissue

Novel approach, developed by Professor Craig Simmons (BME, MIE), Bahram Mirani (MIE PhD candidate) and collaborators, leverages computational modelling, statistical optimization and Melt Electrowriting

Ambrish Kumar makes his pitch at Falling Walls Lab in Berlin, Germany on November 7, 2023.

U of T Engineering student pitches green hydrogen startup at international competition in Berlin

Ambrish Kumar (MSE MEng candidate), who developed his startup at The Entrepreneurship Hatchery, won Falling Walls Lab Toronto

BME professor Leo Chou creates DNA nanostructures that can serve as a platform to deliver instructions to a body's immune cells in a way that would elicit an effective response towards a disease. His team has developed a new way to visualize 3D nanostructures made of human DNA. (Photo: the Connaught Fund Committee)

‘DNA origami’ may bring researchers one step closer to a cancer vaccine

Professor Leo Chou (BME) has developed a new way to visualize 3D nanostructures made of human DNA under the microscope

A machine is used to fill bottles with donor human breast milk.

How AI could help optimize nutrient consistency in donated human breast milk

A team of researchers led by Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) has designed an optimization model that improves nutritional content and decreases the time it takes to create milk bank recipes by 60%

ECE professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves has been awarded a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Intelligent Digital Infrastructures. He plans to go back to first principles to reimagine a smarter, more equitable Internet. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

ECE professor awarded Canada Excellence Research Chair to reimagine the Internet

The appointment of Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves will advance his work to overhaul the computer networks that comprise the Internet

Professor Daniel Franklin (BME) holds up two devices that make up the wearable cardiovascular monitoring system. (Photo: Qin Dai)

New wearable medical device aims to redefine cardiovascular monitoring

Professor Daniel Franklin (BME) is collaborating with researchers from Northwestern University on the device

From left to right: Professor Prasanth Nair and Kevin Course, PhD candidate.

New machine learning algorithm aims to improve predictive models of complex dynamical systems

The Decision Analytics for Computational Engineering research group led by Professor Prasanth B. Nair (UTIAS) is developing computational methods to drive scientific discoveries

Modern dark data centre, focus on the foreground, 3D render.

U of T Engineering study finds bigger datasets might not always be better for AI models

New research on materials science datasets shows the amount of training data can be significantly reduced with minimal impact on the performance of the model

Professor Frank Gu.

Research to improve eye disease treatments wins 2023 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize

Professor Frank Gu (ChemE), a member of the winning team, is engineering nanomedicines to delay or prevent irreversible blindness caused by glaucoma