Posts Tagged: sustainability
Researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed a new way to focus light over extremely short distances, technology with big applications in photovoltaics and optical imaging. Picture a typical lens, shaped like half…
Professor Chris Kennedy In a commentary published in the Oct. 30th edition of the journal Nature, Civil Engineering Professor Chris Kennedy (CivE) and colleagues warn garbage is being generated faster than other environmental pollutants, including greenhouse gases. The researchers say that ‘business-as-usual’ projections,…
Once known as Department Eight: Metallurgical Engineering, the Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) has seen a lot of changes in 100 years. Today, it can count close to 2,000 alumni, 200 current undergraduate students, 80 graduate students and 17 core…
U of T’s Blue Sky Solar Racing team is heading home after a successful eighth-place overall finish, and second among North American teams, in the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a gruelling 3,021-kilometre race for solar-powered cars across Australia from Darwin in the…
Ekaterina Tzekova (CivE) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. Currently, she is engaged in a project to retrofit the historic Gemini House with sustainable, low-energy technologies. Tzekova is also a co-organizer…
The Blue Sky team, composed mostly of U of T Engineering students, has been preparing for the annual Bridgestone World Solar Challenge for the past two years. When the race begins on October 6, they’ll be competing against 39 other…
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