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CVST map of the Greater Toronto area. The red, yellow and blue circles represent the number of data points in a specific location. (Courtesy: CVST)

Mapping the city: smart transport data pave the way for a driverless future

July 20, 2016

Alberto Leon-Garcia’s Connected Vehicles and Smart Transportation project presents an interactive map of Toronto that gives a real-time picture of how people get around the city

Post-doctoral fellow Aaron Persad (MIE) shows his experiment that aims to solve the longstanding mystery of how water behaves in space. (credit: Aaron Persaud).

How does water behave in space? U of T Engineering researchers aim to solve longstanding mystery

July 18, 2016

Experiment launched aboard SpaceX CRS-9 mission to International Space Station should deliver answers

Dr. Cheol-Heon Jeong (left) and Professor Greg Evans (ChemE) measured emissions from gasoline direct-injection engines and evaluated climate trade-offs of the more efficient engine type. It turns out greater efficiency doesn’t always mean greener for the planet. (Credit: Tyler Irving).

Think a more fuel-efficient engine is the green choice? Maybe not

July 13, 2016

U of T Engineering researchers show that new breed of fuel-efficient engines may emit lower levels of C02, but more climate-warming black carbon

New funding from Genome Canada will help Professor Elizabeth Edwards (ChemE) and her team commercialize a microbial culture that can digest chemical pollutants without the need for oxygen. (Photo: Sarah Collaton)

Hungry for hazardous waste: New funding will help commercialize pollution-eating microbes

July 11, 2016

Professor Elizabeth Edwards and her team are looking to commercialize a mix of micro-organisms that can chow down on benzene and other hazardous chemicals

Professor Brendan Frey (ECE), U of T Engineering alumnus and CEO of Jupiter Networks Rami Rahim, Dean Cristina Amon and ECE Chair Professor Farid Najm. (Credit: Carlos Fogel).

Global leader in machine learning presents at BizSkule

June 27, 2016

“In the next 20 years, everything is going to change,” predicts Professor Brendan Frey

Professor Paul Yoo (right) and PhD candidate Zainab Moazzam are part of a team working on a novel therapy for overactive bladder disorder, an affliction faced by 18 per cent of Canadian adults. (Credit: Luke Ng)

Paul Yoo awarded AGE-WELL research grant for treating overactive bladder disorder

June 24, 2016

Researchers recently discovered a neural mechanism that can inhibit bladder function by applying electrical pulses to peripheral nerves

Lipsitz and his fellow volunteers delivered workshops and healthy meal planning, food composition and gardening.

Let’s Talk Science partners with U of T Engineering and Sandy Lake First Nation to combat diabetes

June 23, 2016

A team U of T graduate students including partnered with members of the Sandy Lake First nation to deliver workshops on diabetes prevention to students in the community.

Born into a fifth-generation salt producing family in India, honorary graduand Venkatesh Mannar has spent close to four decades working in developing countries around the world to help put an end to malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. (courtesy: Venkatesh Mannar)

Engineering Convocation 2016: Global health pioneer M.G. Venkatesh Mannar

June 8, 2016

This honorary graduand has been the principal architect of the global salt iodization program now reaching nearly five billion people

Professor Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng and her team have developed a more effective way to monitor cardiac stem cell therapy for treating heart disease. (Photo: Neil Ta)

Novel MRI approach gives heart failure patients new hope

June 1, 2016

A team of U of T biomedical engineering researchers has developed a novel method that will help shed new light on the effectiveness of stem cell therapy for heart failure patients

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