Research news

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 Nikolai DeMartini

Better bioprocessing: Meet Professor Nikolai DeMartini

Expert in the process chemistry of inorganics in pulp mills and biofuel plants joins the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry.

Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng with students

New course on advanced MRI techniques will teach students new ways to detect disease at earlier stages

Professor Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng’s graduate course will cover some of the latest in magnetic resonance imaging techniques, offering new solutions for human health challenges

Mine drainage

Elements of bio-mining: Engineering collaboration aims to turn mine waste into valuable metals

Multidisciplinary collaboration leverages microorganisms to remediate and extract value from tailings ponds

Professor Ning Yan

Building the ‘bark biorefinery’: Meet Professor Ning Yan

New professor joins the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry

Angela Schoellig

Professor Angela Schoellig named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

U of T Engineering professor recognized in Pioneers category for research on control theory and machine learning applied to drones, autonomous vehicles and other robots

Professor Amy Bilton (MIE) and graduate student Ahmed Mahmoud examine a model of a passive aerator for fish farms they are designing. The team is among many at U of T Engineering leading innovative research aimed at addressing global challenges related to water. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

#EveryDropMatters: Five ways U of T Engineering research is improving water sustainability

New exhibit brings U of T Engineering water research and innovation to the CNE, Canada’s largest fair

Blue Sky Solar Racing Team - Polaris

Polaris: Blue Sky Solar Racing team unveils its newest vehicle

Ninth-generation solar vehicle to race 3,000 kilometres across Australia in the 2017 World Solar Challenge

IBBME PhD candidate Alexander Vlahos

The best place to treat type 1 diabetes might be just under your skin

Implantation technique could restore the ability of patients to produce their own insulin

Injectable tissue scaffold

Injectable tissue patch could help repair damaged organs

New bicompatible scaffold developed by U of T Engineering researchers could be delivered through minimally invasive surgery