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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.

PhD candidate Chantel Campbell

IBET Momentum Fellow Chantel Briana Campbell fabricates multilayered biomaterials that can help repair damaged hearts, eyes and muscles

The PhD candidate is working with collagenous multilayered biomaterials and their atypical structure

Professor Enid Montague stands in front of a mosaic artwork.

New human-centred automation tools could ease stress on overburdened health-care systems

Professor Enid Montague’s project is one of seven from U of T Engineering to receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund

From left to right: Dumitru Diaconu and Alexandre Florio test a 3D-printed prototype of the hinges that will allow the solar wings of NASA’s StarBurst satellite mission to deploy and lock into position

In this UTIAS lab, graduate students design and build satellites for NASA and other clients

Graduate students at the Space Flight Laboratory, led by Professor Robert Zee (UTIAS), design innovative, cost-effective small satellites

Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, BME)

Molly Shoichet joins PRiME as new Scientific Director for Precision Medicine Initiative

The Institutional Strategic Initiative brings together multi-disciplinary research talent and innovators to tackle unmet needs in drug discovery, diagnostics, and disease biology

An ouroboros (snake eating its own tail) carving in stone.

Training AI on machine-generated text could lead to ‘model collapse,’ ECE professor and collaborators warn

Professor Nicolas Papernot says the proliferation of AI-generated content could “pollute” the internet, so the data pool no longer reflects reality

Students demonstrate a new catalyst in the lab

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

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

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

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

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