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A team from U of T Engineering has placed among the Top 60 in the Milestone Round of the global XPRIZE Carbon Removal. “It feels amazing,” says Celine Xiao (MIE PhD candidate), one of the members of Team E-quester. “We didn’t know what…

Every Friday, four students from the University of Toronto hop on a Zoom call with students in Nigeria to share updates on their joint mission: building a low-cost biogas generator for remote communities in Africa’s most populous country. The meetings…

Professor Kevin Golovin (MIE) analyzed 12 different face masks to investigate connections between discomfort and protection. Wearing a face mask, when combined with other protective measures, has been shown to help slow the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.…

With global demand for dynamic, reliable and renewable energy storage solutions on the rise, Professor Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE) and her Laboratory for Strategic Materials are investigating new battery chemistries that could offer superior performance and enhanced safety.  Renewable energy from intermittent sources —…

U of T Engineering’s Matthew Mackay (MIE) is this year’s recipient of the University of Toronto Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience award. This award recognizes a member of the U of T community who goes above and beyond the requirements…

On March 13, four students from U of T Engineering took the top spot in the category of Senior Design at the 2022 Canadian Engineering Competition. The championship team consisted of Kushagra Goel (Year 3 CompE), Bobby Graydon (Year 4 MechE), Karman Lochab (Year 3 ElecE)…

For PhD candidate Nitish Sarker (MIE), the drive to build a more sustainable world through the practice of global engineering comes from a very personal place. “Growing up in a lower middle-income country like Bangladesh, I have seen first-hand how critical certain…

On March 5, more than 200 participants from across Canada and the U.S. joined NSBEHacks, a 24-hour virtual hackathon. Now in its fourth year, the 2022 event aimed to redesign digital technologies that don’t serve marginalized communities.  Organized by the…

When Christine Gabardo joined CERT Systems in 2019, she found herself in the midst of a five-year global competition to address rising greenhouse gas with breakthrough technologies. The team had reached the semi-finals of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE thanks to a process that fuses chemistry,…

Another cohort of outstanding students from across the Faculty have been presented with U of T Student Leadership Awards. In 2022, 18 U of T Engineering students earned the honour, which recognizes leadership, service and commitment to the university. Their…