University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)

Co-founders Jeffrey Osborne and Mina Mitry say they're luring back Canadian talent from around the world as Kepler Communications builds out a network of 140 pint-sized communications satellites (Photo credit: Nick Iwanyshyn)

U of T Engineering startup builds out a global satellite network – from downtown Toronto

March 15, 2019

Kepler Communications looks to extend its low-cost network connectivity beyond Earth, paving the way for a host of novel applications

UTIAS Professor Craig Steeves (background, right) and federal aircraft accident investigator Ewan Tasker (left), who lead a new graduate course at the institute, which focuses on investigating a real-life air accident site. (Photo credit: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering aerospace expert Craig Steeves on investigation into fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash

March 12, 2019

Professor Craig Steeves (UTIAS) on how investigators can piece together the causes of an air accident

First-year students Michela Trozzo, Christian Pavlidis and Elisha Lu work with a robotic arm in the Systems Control Laboratory. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

From manufacturing to medicine: How robotics research at U of T Engineering will shape the future

February 28, 2019

Innovations from U of T Engineering include self-driving cars, robotic cell surgery and smart sensing robots for factories

New graduate course on air accident investigation gives UTIAS graduate students a rare opportunity to examine a real-life plane wreckage. (Credit: Liz Do)

Real-life air accident becomes a learning opportunity for UTIAS engineering students

February 6, 2019

U of T Engineering launches the first Canadian course to deal with air accident investigations, including inspection of actual wreckage

U of T Engineering Professors Jonathan Kelly and Steven Waslander (both UTIAS) are the instructors behind a new set of online courses on programming self-driving cars. (Image courtesy Coursera)

These AI experts want to teach you how to program a self-driving car

January 30, 2019

UTIAS professors Steven Waslander and Jonathan Kelly launch a series of online courses on engineering autonomous vehicles through the Coursera platform

A collaboration between UTIAS professor Philippe Lavoie and zoologists at UBC have determined gulls are able to transition across a broad range of wing shapes to stabilize glide. (Credit: Christina Harvey)

U of T Engineering collaboration with zoologists reveals how gulls ‘wing morph’ for stable soaring

January 2, 2019

Wind-tunnel testing of gull wings conducted between Professor Philippe Lavoie (UTIAS) and the Department of Zoology at UBC could be used to design more efficient flying vehicles

Nazli Kaya (MIE MASc candidate) wears the eye-tracking device used to accurately assess where drivers were looking when turning at intersections. (Credit: Laura Pedersen)

Nine U of T Engineering graduate students awarded Vector Institute Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence

December 13, 2018

The Vector Institute brings together leading researchers in deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) from across Ontario

Professor Craig Steeves (UTIAS), right, assembles a quadrotor drone with Grade 10 students at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay, Ont. (Photo: Rikky Duivenvoorden)

UTIAS researchers launch drone outreach program in Thunder Bay

October 10, 2018

UTIAS researchers partner with Indigenous high school in Thunder Bay to teach students how to build a drone

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