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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.

This animated video shows the gripper tool in action: magnetic fields make the tiny hand move.

U of T Engineering researchers advance magnetic microrobotic surgical tools for minimally invasive brain surgery

May 24, 2023

The team, led by Professor Eric Diller (MIE), is studying the feasibility of the tool for improving the precision of neurosurgery tasks

Professor Seungjae Lee (CivMin) is using U of T buildings as models to design deep learning algorithms that could optimize the operations of building heating and cooling systems, significantly reducing energy use.

Can AI help make our buildings more sustainable?

May 23, 2023

New research explores the potential of artificial intelligence to optimize heating and cooling in buildings on the U of T campus

A researcher wearing personal protective equipment in a laboratory holds a membrane.

This sustainable solution for removing phosphate and ammonium from wastewater promotes a circular economy

May 19, 2023

Sara Abu-Obaid (ChemE PhD candidate) is leveraging inorganic particles to design advanced membranes that can recover these valuable nutrients

Dr. Mjaye Mazwi (left) and Professor Sebastian Goodfellow (CivMin) are training AI to recognize the warning signs of impending arrhythmia based on clinicians’ expertise and more than 10,000 electrocardiogram readings. (Photo: SickKids)

Tremors of the heart: How AI could help doctors predict cardiac problems in critically ill children

May 10, 2023

U of T researchers test artificial intelligence similar to earthquake detection AI to diagnose heart rhythm abnormalities at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children

Professor Aereas Aung (BME) is an expert in vaccine development and cancer treatment (Photo: submitted)

‘A strong believer in knowing the fundamentals’: Meet Professor Aereas Aung

May 5, 2023

Aereas Aung joins BME as an assistant professor.

Left to right: Huazhong University of Science and Technology researchers Yuanhao Lou, Qiuhong Min, Jian Jin, Yuanjie Pang and Dan Wu gather around an electrolyzer to test a new catalyst that can convert CO from captured carbon into acetic acid. They are part of a global team that includes U of T Engineering researchers. (Photo: Jiayang Song)

New catalyst could increase the value of captured carbon by transforming it into acetic acid

May 3, 2023

Electrocatalyst achieves record-breaking selectivity toward the desired product, a key step toward industrial production

‘Self-driving labs’: $200-million federal grant powers AI-driven materials discovery for clean energy, advanced manufacturing and more

May 1, 2023

Funding will enhance the work of the Acceleration Consortium, a multidisciplinary collaboration that includes several U of T Engineering researchers

A woman with long black hair and glasses works with photon source equipment in an engineering lab setting.

ECE professor joins international effort to establish quantum communications link between the EU and Canada

April 26, 2023

HyperSpace is one of the largest collaborations yet for the Canadian quantum community

Professor David Sinton (MIE) is the nominated principal investigator of CANSTOREnergy and academic lead of the Climate Positive Energy institutional strategic initiative. (Photo: Lisa Lightbourn)

U of T-led collaboration to develop community-tailored clean energy technologies

April 25, 2023

Professor David Sinton (MIE) is principal investigator for the CANSTOREnergy project, which receives $24 million through New Frontiers in Research Fund’s 2022 Transformation Competition

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