Posts Tagged: sustainability
U of T Engineering’s solar car team, Blue Sky Solar Racing, is about to pull the wraps off B-7, its entry in the 2013 World Solar Challenge – a grueling 3,000-kilometre race across Australia. B-7 will be unveiled at Varsity…
Professor Yu-Ling Cheng (ChemE), Director of the Centre for Global Engineering(CGEN), has been recognized by the University of Toronto with a Distinguished Professor Award. Established in 2009, this award is designed to advance and recognize individuals with highly distinguished accomplishments. Professor Cheng will…
Professor David Sinton is a mechanical engineer. So at first glance it seems odd his lab is full of algae. Sinton’s research has always focused on small-scale plumbing, or fluidics — the movement of fluid at the micro- and nano-scale. Traditional applications have…
Civil engineering students Amanda Cirinna (1T3) and Steven Goldstine (1T3) recently took top honours at the Home Sweet Home Student Challenge, an annual competition developed by OntarioGreenSpec.ca and vied for by schools across the province. The competition, which is adjudicated by an advisory board of 12…
U of T Electrical Engineering Professor Reza Iravani is one of several beneficiaries of federal ecoENERGY funding grants announced May 3. Iravani heads the Centre for Applied Power Electronics (CAPE), which received a $560,000 grant for circuit breaker technology for fast protection…
Delegates were treated to a water show Wednesday morning when they visited ECE Professor Steve Mann’s lab in a greenhouse atop the Faculty of Forestry building. The group was led by Robert Bell, co-founder of the New York-based Intelligent Community Forum,…
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