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When Aniss Zaoui (MIE PhD 2T5) receives his PhD diploma at convocation this fall, it won’t be for the first time.  “As surprising as it may seem, this is actually my second PhD,” he says.   “It’s been an uncommon and very non-linear…

Personalized, socially assistive robots, designed by Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) and her team can help older adults with daily activities at home, promote quality of life and assist caregivers in providing support. “Initially our robots were assisting with one or…

This fall, 40 newly enrolled Master of Engineering (MEng) students began their coursework at U of T Engineering — and started preparing for job interviews.  Starting next May, they will spend eight months working with leading companies from Toronto and…

Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.  This communication link is known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski’s Computational Neuroscience Lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient.  For brain-machine interfaces to…

LaShawn Murray (MIE PhD student) is exploring how digital tools can improve health care delivery in First Nations communities, with a focus on reducing administrative burdens for nurses. She is collaborating with OKAKI, an Alberta-based public health informatics social enterprise…

For the first time, U of T Engineering undergraduates in electronics courses will have access to automated pick and place machines to assemble printed circuit boards (PCBs) just as they do in industry. The new laboratory space in the Myhal Centre…

A $2-million gift from entrepreneurs Eva Lau (IndE 9T2) and Allen Lau (ElecE 9T1, ECE MASc 9T2) to the University of Toronto will enable full-time graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty members affiliated with the Faculty of Arts & Science and the Faculty…

CBC News recently took a tour of Canada’s largest urban geoexchange system, a network of 372 U-shaped pipes that plunge 250 metres beneath the University of Toronto’s St. George campus. The system will soon carry warm air from nearby buildings, store…

Katie Allison (EngSci 2T0+PEY, MIE MASc 2T5) and Mia Thomas (UTIAS MASc 2T5) know that building robots is only part of the equation – building community is just as important. As graduate students in Professor Jonathan Kelly’s (UTIAS) lab, Allison and Thomas spent hours…

For Anastasia Polulyakhova (Year 3 MechE) and Katie Hung (Year 3 ChemE), this summer has been a whirlwind of hands-on learning as interns dedicated to Project Leap, the University of Toronto’s ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by over…