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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.

Students demonstrate a new catalyst in the lab

New electrocatalyst improves both stability and efficiency in electrochemical conversion of captured carbon into valuable products

August 21, 2023

Improved design enables operation in acidic conditions for more than 150 hours, more than ten times as long as previous versions

Clockwise from top left: Professors Cindy Rottmann and Emily Moore (both ISTEP, ChemE), Andrea Chan (ISTEP), Emily Macdonald-Roach (ChemE 2T2, ChemE MASc candidate in EngEd), Dimpho Radebe (IndE 1T4 + PEY, ChemE PhD candidate in EngEd) and Professor Emeritus Doug Reeve (ChemE). (Photos: submitted)

ISTEP/Troost ILead team gains international recognition for engineering leadership research

August 10, 2023

Professor Cindy Rottmann (ISTEP) speaks about the award-winning research on engineering education, ethics and leadership being conducted at ISTEP

Bryant Bak-Yin Lim (BME MEng candidate, left) and Ali Yassine (ECE MEng candidate, right) simulate reviewing a breast cancer tissue scan. As interns at Perimeter Medical Imaging, Lim and Yassine developed new AI algorithms for breast cancer imaging. (Photo: Neil Ta)

MEng students use AI to improve imaging tool used during breast cancer surgery

August 3, 2023

New techniques to help surgeons prioritize images of suspected cancerous material in real-time in the operating room

MIE PhD candidate Shijie Liu in Professor David Sinton's lab

New electrochemical process could raise the efficiency of capturing carbon directly from air

August 2, 2023

Device designed by U of T Engineering team regenerates carbon capture liquids by rapidly switching between electrolyzer and fuel cell mode

Professor Milica Radisic awarded international Humboldt Research prize

July 26, 2023

Radisic (BME, ChemE) is a leading expert in organ-on-a-chip technology

From left to right: PhD candidate Oreoluwa Kolade and Professors Julie Audet and Sowmya Viswanathan.

Researchers are creating algorithms to accelerate the development of new cellular therapies to repair damaged tissues

July 17, 2023

Professor Julie Audet (BME) is collaborating with researchers across U of T Engineering to create tools to enhance the therapeutic properties of cells grown in laboratories

Professor Caitlin Maikawa (BME). (Photo: submitted)

‘Teaching is a lot like working in the lab’: Meet Professor Caitlin Maikawa

July 13, 2023

Caitlin Maikawa has joined BME as an assistant professor

Dr. So Min Park (ECE) holds up a sample of the perovskite solar cell that she and her collaborators designed. When the new cell was measured continuously under solar illumination, it maintained 85% of its original performance even following 1,560 hours at 85 C and 50% relative humidity. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Improved stability could help perovskite solar cells compete with silicon

July 13, 2023

U of T Engineering researchers increase the stability of this emerging solar technology under high temperatures, helping to overcome a key barrier to commercial application

Professor Xilin Liu (ECE) and his collaborators are developing electronic devices that could help patients suffering from sleep disorders. (Photo courtesy Xilin Liu)

How AI and neuromodulation could help with sleep disorders

July 4, 2023

Professor Xilin Liu (ECE) is part of a new international research collaboration to develop electronic technologies to investigate sleep modulation

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