Posts Categorized: News

March 14, 2017 – When undergraduate engineering students wanted to know whether vibrating a cell would change its properties, Professor Craig Simmons let them use his latest lab technology to test their hypothesis. “They were doing something new!” he says. “It…

March 13, 2017 – The first time Huda Idrees (IndE 1T3) became a CEO she was just 12 years old. Having learned several computer-programming languages and Web design at school in Saudi Arabia, one day it dawned on the enterprising…

March 2, 2017 – Oil and water don’t mix — in theory. In reality, the two liquids can be almost impossible to separate, especially from complex chemical cocktails such as the wastewater produced by Alberta’s oil sands mining operations. Contaminated by…

March 2, 2017 – Five U of T students are headed to Shanghai with a single goal: to show that a simple mixture of used coffee grounds, wax and sugar can help restore the dignity of refugees around the world.…

February 23, 2017 – What makes a city tick? Why does it grow the way it does? How is it like other cities and yet unique? In essence, what is its DNA? With its forward-pushing Urban Genome Project, the University…

February 23, 2017 – Vanessa Grace Bart-Plange came to Toronto from Ghana four years ago as part of the first wave of MasterCard Foundation Scholars. In a speech at U of T’s fourth annual MasterCard Foundation Scholars dinner last week, she…

February 23, 2017 – An innovative collaboration between graduate and undergraduate students aims to leverage the engineering creative process to address educational challenges, from improving math instruction in high schools to easing anxiety among students transitioning to university. “Engineers are…

February 17, 2017 – Canada will spend $125 billion on infrastructure maintenance and expansion in the next 10 years. Professor Fae Azhari (MIE, CivE) is helping stretch those dollars farther by keeping our buildings, bridges, roads and reservoirs safe and structurally sound…

February 14, 2017 – MIE Professor Mark Fox’s team is among three from U of T Engineering sharing $750,000 in funding from the recently relaunched Connaught Global Challenge Award. The internal award, funded by the Connaught Fund, is designed to support new…

February 13, 2017 – As a first-year student in U of T Engineering, Jennifer (Yewon) Son never imagined that she and her classmates would come to the rescue of hundreds of thousands of priceless works of literature. “We came up…