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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.

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

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

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

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

Robotics in a chemistry lab

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

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

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

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

tailings pond

U of T Engineering researchers growing microorganisms to recover nickel and clean up tailings ponds

A new academic-industry partnership aims to develop bio-leaching technologies to clean up contaminated material and extract valuable products

A composite image of three people. From left to right: a man, a woman and a man.

Two CREATE grants support training programs in organ rejuvenation and repair, and equitable care for heart failure

Programs will be led by Professor Michael Sefton (BME, ChemE) and co-led by Professors Azadeh Yadollahi (BME) and Craig Simmons (MIE, BME)

Rainwater harvesting system

How solar-powered technology could enhance rainwater harvesting in Mexico

Ultraviolet light from LED systems could be used to inactivate pathogens in rainwater harvested in rural or peri-urban areas