Posts Tagged: sustainability
High expectations. That’s what Mengqi Wang (ECE 1T3) has for the University of Toronto Supermileage Team in 2014. Wang is co-president of the team, which competed for the first time ever in the Shell Eco-Marathon Challenge held in Houston earlier this month,…
In the latest issue of U of T Magazine, Professor Emma Master (ChemE) discusses how she is using plants to create new materials and chemicals. The article poses the question: What if we could make plastic from renewable biomaterials instead of environmentally harmful…
National Engineering Month (NEM) is the biggest national celebration of engineering and technology. Across Canada, engineering schools and volunteers stage more than 500 events and activities to bring more awareness to the exciting and rewarding world of engineering. This year’s…
Imagine driving almost 900 kilometres on one litre of gas. A U of T Engineering student team is hoping to do just that at the annual Shell Eco-Marathon Challenge in Houston, Texas in early April. The aptly named University of…
A new technique developed by Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor Ted Sargent , Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells, according to a recent paper published in the journal Nano Letters.…
University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented Feb. 27 in Ottawa. Among them are U of T…
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