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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.

Professor Michael Garton recently joined IBBME. (Credit: Jovana Drinjakovic)

How IBBME’s Michael Garton forged a career in research after being paralyzed in climbing accident

October 4, 2018

Professor Michael Garton (IBBME) is engineering human cells to mend throbbing pain in aging joints

Professor Timothy Chan (MIE), director of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering. (Credit: Brian Tran)

Centre for Healthcare Engineering celebrates 10 years of innovation

October 3, 2018

Alumni, students and faculty come together to honour the decade-long pioneering work of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering

Professor Jason Anderson is among eight U of T Engineering researchers named to the 2018 cohort at the Vector Institute. (Credit: Jessica MacInnis)

Eight U of T Engineering researchers named Vector Institute Faculty Affiliates

September 28, 2018

The Vector Institute brings together leading researchers in deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) generally, from across Ontario

Professor Michael Carter (MIE) has been elected Fellow of the country’s highest health-related scholarly body, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the first industrial engineer to hold the rank. (Credit: Brian Tran)

Michael Carter elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

September 14, 2018

MIE professor honoured for his pioneering research in health care engineering, becomes first industrial engineer inducted into the CAHS

Left to right: Professor Alison McGuigan (ChemE, IBBME), Jody Mou and chemical engineering PhD candidate Darren Rodenhizer. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Alison McGuigan elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

September 11, 2018

U of T Engineering researcher is a leading expert in tissue engineering and disease modelling

New study led by Professor Greg Evans (ChemE) shows that trucks and larger vehicles contribute disproportionately to air-pollutant emissions. (Credit: Unsplash)

Large trucks are biggest culprits of near-road air pollution: U of T Engineering study

September 10, 2018

Two-year study in Vancouver and Toronto reveals that vehicle types, rather than traffic volume, matters most when it comes to air pollution

Pepper the robot, built by SoftBank Robotics, is the newest addition to U of T Engineering’s Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Lab led by Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE). Pepper is the first humanoid robot capable of recognizing and adapting to human emotions, one of the many new applications for machine intelligence. (Credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering to host inaugural alumni bootcamp on machine intelligence

August 29, 2018

Engineering Science offers one-day crash course led by experts in the field

U of T Engineering students Paul Seufert (second from left) and Carol Yeung (third from left) are among four U of T students participating in a fellowship program organized by Sidewalk Toronto. (Credit: Romi Levine)

Two U of T Engineering students travel the world as Sidewalk Fellows to help shape the city’s waterfront vision

August 27, 2018

Twelve post-secondary students from across the GTA, including four from the University of Toronto, have been participating in a fellowship program organized by Sidewalk Toronto

National robotics consortium receives $5.5M NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant

August 22, 2018

U of T Engineering researchers at the forefront of NSERC Canadian Robotics Network that aims to advance Canada’s role as a global leader in the field

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