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Fourth-year engineering students Kejdi Kola (back left), Calvin Rieder (back middle) and Anton Meier (back right) met with community members in Las Arrugas, Guatemala to design a water purification system for the community. (Photo courtesy Kejdi Kola)

Clean water for Las Arrugas: U of T Engineering team designs water filters for Guatemalan community

April 21, 2020

Project supported by CGEN aims to overcome challenges associated with intermittent and contaminated water supply

A research team led by Professor Willy Wong (ECE, IBBME) developed a quick solution for monitoring patients’ respiratory status using small but powerful single-board Raspberry Pi printed circuit boards. (Photo: Harrison Broadbent via Unsplash)

U of T Engineering team programs single-board computers to remotely monitor COVID-19 patients and protect health care workers

April 16, 2020

Solution developed by Professor Willy Wong (ECE, IBBME) and his team also helps preserve precious supplies of personal protective equipment for front-line workers

Dubbed the Buddy Badge, the wearable device acts as a transponder, using a system of sensors connected to hand-washing stations, doorways, and critical routes to patient rooms. (Photo by Christine Sandu on Unsplash)

U of T startup’s wearable tech encourages hand hygiene to prevent the spread of COVID-19

April 13, 2020

As COVID-19 cases increases the workload for health-care professionals, an IBBME researcher has developed Buddy Badge to remind frontline workers throughout the day of opportunities to wash their hands

Milica Radisic (ChemE, IBBME) is working with Axel Guenther and Edmond Young (both MIE) to create tiny models of the nose, mouth, eyes and lungs to better understand how COVID-19 infects organs. (Credit: Neil Ta)

How does COVID-19 invade our bodies so easily? U of T Engineering team uses ‘organ-on-a-chip’ model to find out

April 8, 2020

To develop COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral drugs, researchers first need to understand why this virus spreads so easily and quickly

Air filtration and COVID-19: Indoor air quality expert explains how to keep you and your building safe

March 20, 2020

Professor Jeffrey Siegel on the role of indoor air-filtration systems in protecting from the virus

Professor Dionne Aleman’s (MIE) research uses agent-based data to simulate a pandemic outbreak in urban areas. (Photo: Clay Banks / Unsplash)

COVID-19 and the ‘what if machine’: How simulations and models help predict pandemic spread

March 19, 2020

Professor Dionne Aleman (MIE) explains pandemic models, ‘flattening the curve,’ and how they inform emergency preparedness

Professor Scott Sanner and his team will use industry-partnered funding to develop more personalized and interactive conversational assistants by leveraging recent advances in deep learning. (Credit: Pam Walls)

Google recognizes machine learning and computer systems experts with Faculty Research Award

February 28, 2020

U of T Engineering professors Scott Sanner (MIE) and Vaughn Betz (ECE) are developing next-gen tools for conversational assistants, and the production of more powerful computer chips

IBBME researchers Buddhisha Udugama (left) and Pranav Kadhiresan (right) hold a miniaturized lithium heater. (Photo: Qin Dai)

U of T Engineering researchers develop pill-sized heating device for diagnostic testing

February 18, 2020

Technology developed by U of T Engineering researchers could enable resource-limited regions around the world to perform tests for infectious diseases without the need of a large device

Members of CERT Systems, Inc. with their pilot unit at Zeton Engineering in Burlington, ON. This week, the team was awarded funding from Natural Resources Canada’s Breakthrough Energy Systems Canada competition to advance their carbon-recycling technology. (Photo courtesy CERT Systems Inc.)

U of T Engineering spinoff receives support from Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada to upgrade waste carbon

February 12, 2020

Funding will support commercialization of a new technology to transform CO2 into commercially valuable products

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