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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.

PetePeter Stogios manipulates a protein crystal mounted on an X-ray diffractometer. He and his team are researching a less expensive way of making cell-based meat. (Photo: Nick Iwanyshyn)r Stogios manipulates a protein crystal mounted on an X-ray diffractometer. He and his team are researching a less expensive way of making cell-based meat (photo by Nick Iwanyshyn)

U of T Engineering researchers could lower the cost of producing lab-grown meat

Senior researcher Peter Stogios and his team are using a grant from the Good Food Institute to research new production methods for cell-based meat

One of the Undu team members holds up its first product, an ultra-thin heating pad. The new startup, led by U of T Engineering grad student Charlie Katrycz is developing new ways to relieve menstrual pain. (Photo courtesy of Undu)

This ultra-thin hot water bottle could help ease menstrual pain

Using a unique air-casting method, grad student Charlie Katrycz and his team can deliver location-specific heat therapy

MuseGO

Using augmented reality to make community spaces accessible for children with autism spectrum disorder

Keren He (ECE MEng 1T9), Christina Park (MI MMSt 1T9) and Yifan Zhang (ECE MEng 1T9) have been honored by Universities Canada for MuseGO, an app that overcomes systemic barriers in museums

Shuailong Zhang (left) and Aaron Wheeler, have designed microrobots (working at the sub-millimetre scale) that can be operated by optoelectronic tweezers for cell manipulation. (Photo: Dan Haves)

Microrobots to change the way we work with cellular material

Designed in Professor Aaron Wheeler’s (Chemistry, IBBME) lab, these optoelectronic microrobots can load, transport and deliver cellular material

Oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alta. (Photo: Kris Krug via Flickr)

Researcher’s review of oil sands monitoring lays groundwork to reduce environmental impact

U of T Engineering professor Jeffrey Brook gives in-depth report on recent monitoring work in Alberta oil sands, highlighting gaps and challenges in current environmental monitoring efforts

Professor David Taylor checking on his pressure, flow, and turbidity sensors in a valve chamber in Delhi, India. (Photo courtesy David Taylor)

Why some cities turn off the water pipes at night

A new paper outlines a simple, yet powerful model to understand why some water suppliers choose to turn off their supply at certain times — and how we can set smart goals for improvement

Left to right: Kamran Mahmoudov and Ahmed Mahmoud demonstrate a prototype of the WERLWind, a passive aerator that leverages wind power to deliver oxygen for fish farms. The invention won first place the 2019 Innovation Showcase, hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. (Photo: Cecil Brathwaite)

Fish farming technology from CGEN wins global invention competition

Team WETech receives $10,000 to further develop a passive aerator that delivers oxygen to fish ponds

Olugbenga Olubanjo holding two Reeddi Capsules. (Photo: Phill Snel, Civil and Mineral Engineering/ U of T)

Putting power in the hands of the people

Alumnus Olugbenga Olubanjo is the founder of Reeddi Inc., a startup that brings clean, affordable and portable power to the people of Nigeria

Professor David Sinton (MIE) is among four members of the U of T Engineering community to be inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. (Photo: NSERC)

U of T Engineering professors and alumni honoured by Canadian Academy of Engineering

Professors Milos Popovic and David Sinton, along with alumni Jeffrey Karp and Halim Yanikomeroglu, are among the CAE’s 49 new fellows