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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…
Mitigating indoor mould and optimizing air transportation in Northern Ontario are the first two collaborative projects between Indigenous community leaders and U of T researchers to get underway through the Reconciliation Through Engineering Initiative (RTEI). Launched last December by the…
Professor Murray J. Thomson and recent MIE alum Anton Sediako (MIE PhD 1T9) are among the authors of a paper about 3D printed microscopic swimmers shaped like donuts able to transport particles. The paper, titled “Shape-programmed 3D printed swimming microtori…
“Engineering design is the culmination of all the things students learn in complementary studies – math, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics – to solve problems through an iterative, creative, decision-making process,” says Kamran Behdinan, a professor and researcher in Mechanics &…
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