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Graphene is a paradox: it is the thinnest material known to science, yet also one of the strongest. Now, research from U of T Engineering shows that graphene is also highly resistant to fatigue — able to withstand more…
U of T researchers have developed a new strategy to remove tiny oil droplets from wastewater with more than 90% efficiency, in just 10 minutes. Their secret weapon: a sponge. “Oil extraction operations such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, produce nearly…
MIE Professors Michael Carter and Craig Simmons and alumnus David Poirier (IndE 8T1) were recently elected fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada. Professor Michael Carter (MIE) Carter is the founder and director of the U of T…
Products created by MIE alumni Charlie Katrycz, Amol Rao, Andrew Gillies and Rob Brown were included in the 2019 U of T Engineering Holiday Gift Guide. Banana Phone In a world where everyone has a similar-looking smartphone, a banana-shaped phone…
If you have dreams of reading a book or taking a nap while your self-driving car safely navigates city streets, you will have to wait awhile. That’s according to Professor Birsen Donmez who works in the field of Human…
Last month, recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (MIE) Nazli Kaya (MIE MASc 1T9) was presented with the Advancing Women in Transportation scholarship by the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Toronto chapter. The award was founded…
A research paper authored by PhD Candidate Dongfang Ouyang, along side his PhD supervisor Professor Lidan You and other members of her Cellular Biomechanics Laboratory about the development of a tiny device that can detect cancerous blood cells was recently…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently selected MIE alumnus Milad Abolhasani (MIE PhD 1T4) to receive a Faculty Early Career Development Award, known as the CAREER Award. Abolhasani is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular…
14 engineering students were murdered, and several more injured, on December 6, 1989 in Montreal. The students – all women – were attending a class when a gunman entered the room and killed many of them because of their gender.…
On November 20, 2019, 233 University of Toronto student-athletes were recognized at the 10th annual Academic Excellence Breakfast, which was held at the Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport. Twenty-three U of T Engineering undergraduate and graduate students were honoured…
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