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Out of this world: Student’s SpaceX internship involved working on Falcon Heavy’s engines

UTIAS graduate student Askar Kazbekov spent nearly a year-and-half working for Elon Musk’s Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX during two separate internships.

Professor Mireille Broucke (ECE) uses flying robots like these drones as a testbed to develop control algorithms capable of handling dynamic, real-world situations. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Steering through uncertainty: U of T Engineering research creates control algorithms for self-driving robots

Mireille Broucke and her colleagues in the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics design theoretical frameworks to help drones and autonomous vehicles navigate in changing conditions

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U of T Engineering Holiday Gift Guide 2017

Looking for holiday gift ideas? Here are 12 U of T Engineering-approved options for everyone on your list.

From left: UTEV’s Professor Peter Lehn, Dr. Theo Soong, and Professor Olivier Trescases (all ECE) at the Electric Mobility Canada Show with Havelaar’s electric pick-up truck, the Bison. (Credit: Sonja Persram).

Electric vehicle partnership earns $9-million investment

University of Toronto Electric Vehicle Research Centre (UTEV) receives major grants to advance R&D of sustainable transportation

Lineup of 2017 EAN Award winners

Remarkable U of T Engineering alumni honoured

Ten exemplary members of U of T Engineering’s alumni community were recognized on Thursday, Nov. 2 at the Engineering Alumni Network (EAN) Awards.

Professors Arun Ramchandran (ChemE) and Adam Steinberg (UTIAS) are U of T Engineering’s two newest Canada Research Chairs (Photo: Jen Hsu/Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering receives two Canada Research Chairs

Funding will support research into aerospace, microfluidics

Members of U of T Engineering's AutoDrive team adjust the mounts for autonomous sensors on a donated Chevrolet Bolt. The team has until April to turn the electric vehicle into a self-driving vehicle. (Photo: Alex Lee)

AutoDrive: Student team gears up on self-driving electric vehicle challenge

Chevrolet Bolt to be made autonomous by U of T Engineering team

NSERC announcement at U of T

U of T Engineering researchers receive $12.8 million in NSERC research funding

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland visited the University of Toronto yesterday to announce $52.6 million in support to U of T researchers from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The announcement included more than $12.8 million to support the work of 100 graduate students and faculty members at U of […]

Angela Schoellig

Professor Angela Schoellig named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

U of T Engineering professor recognized in Pioneers category for research on control theory and machine learning applied to drones, autonomous vehicles and other robots