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Collective Impact: The gift that saved F!rosh Week

October 27, 2020

  This story is featured in the new issue of Collective Impact, sent digitally to all U of T Engineering alumni. Gary Saarenvirta (EngSci 8T8) couldn’t imagine missing out on […]

EngSci alumnus helps teachers gauge student understanding in virtual classrooms

October 8, 2020

Around the world, hundreds of thousands of kids are attending virtual classrooms for the first time. The move to online learning has come with its own challenges, for students and […]

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EngSci’s Director receives OCUFA Teaching Award

October 6, 2020

By Carolyn Farrell Professor William Cluett (ChemE) has been recognized by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) with a 2020 OCUFA Teaching Award. This award recognizes university faculty […]

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Student research: smart UV lamp to fight COVID-19

October 6, 2020

  Bipasha Goyal (Year 3 EngSci) is working on a new tool to help defend against COVID-19.  The smart UV lamp she is designing under the supervision of Professor Joyce […]

Three-peat victory: U of T Engineering team wins AutoDrive Challenge, Year Three

October 5, 2020

  By Tyler Irving aUToronto has placed first in an intercollegiate challenge to transform an electric car into a self-driving one — their third consecutive win. “All of us take pride […]

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EngSci student wins at Hatchery Demo Day

September 23, 2020

    Year 4 EngSci student Cindy Chen (third from left in the above photo) is part of the team that won the top prize at the 2020 Hatchery Demo […]

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Student-designed tool to help cancer patients wins John W. Senders Award

August 14, 2020

  A flexible plastic plate dotted with electrodes may not seem like something that belongs in a human mouth, but this student-developed device could help give some cancer patients back […]

What’s contributing to the striking gender gap in the AI field? U of T Engineering study takes a closer look

July 2, 2020

By Liz Do July 2, 2020 A study led by U of T Engineering alumna Kimberly Ren (EngSci 2T0) is the first to quantify predictors that could lead women towards, […]

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Inioluwa Deborah Raji (EngSci 1T9) named to MIT Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35

June 23, 2020

  EngSci alumna Inioluwa Deborah Raji (EngSci 1T9) has been named to this year’s list of Top Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, an impressive achievement for such a […]

At age 18, EngSci’s youngest grad is just gettting started

May 28, 2020

  In 2016, an incoming Year 1 EngSci student was making news.  At the age of just 14, Maddy (Xiaoxiao) Zhang (EngSci 2T0 Aerospace) was not only U of T’s […]