Posts Tagged: ECE

Engineering professor opens new Icewire Makerspace for youth and adults

Electrical and computer engineering professor David Johns (ECE) is taking a one-year leave of absence from teaching—but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped inspiring young people to become future engineers. Johns just launched Icewire Makerspace, a midtown-Toronto facility that provides workshops…

Six ways U of T researchers are engineering your health

Through startups and partnerships, leading researchers from U of T Engineering’s labs, centres and affiliated hospitals are commercializing cutting-edge technology and revolutionizing the current state of health care. Click on the icons below to explore six of these promising technologies,…

Engineering technopreneurs in this year’s Techno startup development program

What do you get when you combine an engineer’s creative, critical thinking with entrepreneurial acumen? “Technopreneurs”—a new breed of startup-savvy scientists coming out of Techno, the four-week summer incubator program offered by U of T’s Impact Centre. The latest Techno…

Engineering alumni build the world’s first consumer-ready OLED lamp

If you visit the lighting section of your nearest hardware store, chances are you’ll be bombarded by the latest mega-efficient LED bulbs—but to alumnus Michael Helander (EngSci 0T7, MSE PhD 1T2), that technology is old news. Helander and a team…

Frank Kschischang named U of T Distinguished Professor

When you download photos from your digital camera, it may only seem like a click of a mouse. But to your computer, it’s an intricate process fraught with error. As millions of information bits travel between devices at lightning speed, tiny…
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