Posts Tagged: sustainability

Engineering Researchers Create World’s Most Efficient Flexible OLED

Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering have developed the world’s most efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on plastic. This result enables a flexible form factor, not to mention a less costly, alternative to traditional OLED manufacturing,…

Inflatable, Solar-Powered Plane Takes Off in Toronto

Toronto-based company, Solar Ship, has built and flown the first solar-powered aircraft that has the potential to hold heavy cargo for a distance of 1,000 km per day. “Caracal,” named after the African cat, runs on solar power generated from…

Bicycle Built by U of T Engineering Students Reaches 117 km/h

The University of Toronto’s Human-Powered Vehicle Team placed third overall at the 2011 World Human-Powered Speed Challenge, held in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The competition took place from September 12 to 17 on a flat and almost perfectly straight eight-kilometre stretch…

Five U of T Engineers Named to the 2012 Clean50

Professors Brenda McCabe (CivE), Kim Pressnail (CivE) and Ted Sargent (ECE), as well as CivE PhD candidates Marianne Touchie and Ekaterina Tzekova, have been named to the Clean50, an initiative by the Corporate Knights honouring outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism in Canada. Professors McCabe and Pressnail, along…
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