
Mining your phone: Recovering rare earth elements from e-waste
U of T Engineering professor harnesses chemical processes, such as those used to decaffeinate coffee, to recover valuable materials from waste

Sustainable cities: Three U of T Engineering researchers join multidisciplinary research initiative
Initiative brings together faculty members from a wide variety of disciplines to address the myriad challenges facing the world’s urban areas

Inspired by art, engineering researchers use sound and visuals to simulate blood-flow patterns of brain aneurysms
“Imagine I’m a patient with what I feel is a ticking time bomb in my head…I want to provide more information for the clinician”

Robotics by land and air: A Q&A with Steven Waslander
Internationally renowned expert in robotics and AI joins the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

Going the distance with future-proof quantum cryptography
Professor Glenn Gulak and team show that error-correction decoding is no longer a computational bottleneck in long-distance Quantum Key Distribution

New catalyst upgrades greenhouse gas into renewable hydrocarbons
Research team out of U of T Engineering designs most efficient and stable process for converting climate-warming carbon dioxide into a key chemical building block for plastics – all powered using renewable electricity