Sustainability news

Sustainability programs and research at U of T Engineering are at the forefront of alternative technologies that can mitigate the impact of climate change.

Four students hold up their first place certificates.

ISTEP hosts environmental design challenge motivating students to create impactful sustainable solutions

The 2024 Clarke Prize Environmental Design Challenge was two-day hackathon held at the end of January

Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou smiles in an office while holding a navy-coloured mug with the words "Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto".

The Road to Net Zero: New federal funding boosts research on how shifts in transportation infrastructure impact emissions, public health and equity

Professor Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivMin) leads research collaboration that focuses on the social, environmental and economic outcomes of infrastructure investments

Dr. Zhe Gong walks walks past equipment that make up the electric vehicle lab station.

ECE electric vehicle systems course a first for the University of Toronto

Graduate-level course, developed by faculty, UTEV researchers and ECE undergrad lab managers, prepares students to meet anticipated industry demand

PhD student Yazdan Naderzadeh (left) in the Propulsion and Energy Conversion Lab at UTIAS investigates flames with lasers. (Photo: Neil Ta)

U of T Engineering researchers partner with Siemens Energy to tackle sustainable energy production

Professor Swetaprovo Chaudhuri (UTIAS) is researching how to build a novel, fuel-flex gas turbine engine to harness hydrogen-based power

Ambrish Kumar makes his pitch at Falling Walls Lab in Berlin, Germany on November 7, 2023.

U of T Engineering student pitches green hydrogen startup at international competition in Berlin

Ambrish Kumar (MSE MEng candidate), who developed his startup at The Entrepreneurship Hatchery, won Falling Walls Lab Toronto

From left to right: George Saegh, Mehdi Salakhi, Professor Murray Thomson, Franciska Toth and Luke Di Liddo.

U of T Engineering professor leads new global collaboration to advance net-zero hydrogen economy

Professor Murray Thomson (MIE) is the national and methane pyrolysis lead for the Global Hydrogen Production Technologies Centre

Professor Mohamad Moosavi stands in front of blackboard with a notebook in one hand, chalk in the other hand. A formula is written on the board in chalk.

U of T Engineering professor incorporating AI to help decarbonize chemical industries

Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Funding Program to support research on expanding database of metal-organic frameworks for AI analysis

Students demonstrate a new catalyst in the lab

New electrocatalyst improves both stability and efficiency in electrochemical conversion of captured carbon into valuable products

Improved design enables operation in acidic conditions for more than 150 hours, more than ten times as long as previous versions

MIE PhD candidate Shijie Liu in Professor David Sinton's lab

New electrochemical process could raise the efficiency of capturing carbon directly from air

Device designed by U of T Engineering team regenerates carbon capture liquids by rapidly switching between electrolyzer and fuel cell mode