Posts Tagged: entrepreneurship
It started with a viral campaign for the world’s most energy-efficient light bulb in 2013. Now, international media are also calling Nanoleaf a “green job” leader. Founded by University of Toronto engineering alumni Gimmy Chu (ElecE 0T6), Tom Rodinger (IBBME PhD 0T7) and Christian…
University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering has joined more than 120 U.S. engineering schools leading a transformative movement in engineering education announced at the White House today—the only Canadian engineering school to do so. In a letter…
Imagine having blood drawn for HIV-related testing, and then never finding out the results. In developing countries around the world, it can be common for patients not to receive test results for treatable diseases such as HIV. But what if…
A new startup from PhD candidate Rehman Merali (UTIAS PhD 1T5) enables tea-lovers to make a personalized cup of tea from a beverage-weilding robot in under 30 seconds. “It’s not just a great cup of tea, it’s also the experience,”…
Originally published in the 2015 issue of Impact Magazine. Google “OLED,” and you’ll find scores of articles confidently predicting that this is the year of the organic light-emitting diode. Some of those articles are ten years old. Still, there are reasons to believe the OLED age…
It began with the polar vortex of 2014. That’s when University of Toronto engineering alumni Jason Yakimovich (CompE 1T3+PEY) and Alex Huang (ElecE 1T3+PEY), fed up with low temperatures, developed the first intelligent heated base layer. The “smart” shirt monitors body temperature to provide…
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