Posts Tagged: sustainability

Professor Warren Chan and a student in a lab

May 3, 2018 | By Engineering Strategic Communications

Seven U of T Engineering faculty members named Canada Research Chairs

Xiwen Gong (ECE PhD candidate, centre) with Wendy and Eric Schmidt. The Schmidt Science Fellows program administered in partnership with the Rhodes Trust provides postdoctoral opportunities in areas different from those in which they completed their PhD research. (Courtesy: Schmidt Science Fellows).

May 1, 2018 | By Sean Bettam

U of T Engineering’s Xiwen Gong among inaugural class of Schmidt Science Fellows

Supermileage Team co-captains Melissa Fung (Year 3 MechE + PEY, at far left) and Callum Bartlett (Year 3 MechE, far right) and their teammates examine the interior of their hyper-efficient prototype vehicle, called Shadow. The team is hopeful that their vehicle improvements will earn them a spot at the podium at this year’s Shell Eco-Marathon Americas race. (Credit: Roberta Baker).

April 13, 2018 | By Amanda Hacio

Racers, start your (fuel efficient) engines…

U of T Engineering’s CERT team, led by Alex Ip (ECE PhD 1T5, second from left) is one of just five teams from academia and industry to advance to the finals of the international NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition, where they hope to bring home the $7.5-million grand prize for their carbon-capture and conversion technology. (Credit: Laura Pedersen).

April 9, 2018 | By Marit Mitchell

CERT team advances to finals of Carbon XPRIZE

Phil De Luna (MSE PhD candidate) is first author on an analysis of how researchers could capture and recycle the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. "If we continue to work at this, it’s a matter of time before we have power plants where CO2 is emitted, captured, and converted,” says De Luna. (Credit: Tyler Irving)

March 29, 2018 | By Engineering Strategic Communications

U of T Engineering researchers propose how we could use climate-warming CO2 for good

A streetcar stops on King Street in Toronto. A section of the busy east-west street travelling through downtown Toronto has restricted car traffic, and U of T Engineering researchers are collaborating with the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission to study the pilot project’s effects. (Credit: Billy Cabic via Flickr under creative commons license)

January 9, 2018 | By Marit Mitchell

Crunching the numbers on Toronto’s King Street transit pilot