Sustainability
Sustainability programs and research at U of T Engineering are at the forefront of alternative technologies that can mitigate the impact of climate change.
Working with industry partners such as Canfor and Dupont, we are leading a national initiative to develop processes that create value-added, sustainable products from underutilized forest biomass.
- Alternative Fuels
- Carbon Management
- Combustion
- Emissions Reduction
- Energy Policy
- Energy Storage
- Infrastructure Management
- Life-Cycle Assessment
- Smart Grid
- Sustainable Aviation
- Sustainable Energy
- Transportation
- Urban Development
Centre for Power and Information
CPI addresses pressing societal energy challenges at an infrastructural level through fundamental research, industry collaboration, and education, both locally and worldwide.
BioZone advances genome science and genome analysis tools, to provide sound bioengineering solutions to pressing health care challenges.
Institute for Sustainable Energy
ISE is a multidisciplinary research centre that focuses on increasing energy efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of energy use and conversion.
Centre for Research in Sustainable Aviation
CRSA is an interdisciplinary research centre developing future generations of environmentally sustainable aircraft.
CGEN prepares engineering graduates for a global workplace and generates high-impact research projects which address development challenges around the world.
Study Sustainability at U of T Engineering
Our Master of Engineering students can choose from technical specializations in Advanced Water Technologies, Sustainable Energy and Sustainable Aviation. At the undergraduate level, students can pursue minors in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, and Engineering Science students can major in Energy Systems Engineering.
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A new study from U of T Engineering’s Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits.
The team used computer simulations to show that aggressive electrification of the U.S. vehicle fleet, coupled with an ambitious rollout of renewable electricity generation, could result in health benefits worth between US$84 billion and 188 billion by 2050.
Even scenarios with less aggressive grid decarbonization mostly predicted health benefits running into the tens of billions of dollars.
“When researchers examine the impacts of EVs, they typically focus on climate change in the form of mitigating CO2 emissions,” says Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivMin), one of the co-authors of the study, which is published in PNAS.
“But CO2 is not the only thing that comes out of the tailpipe of an internal combustion vehicle