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U of T Engineering Academy is a new self-paced, optional and not-for-credit program that is free to all incoming first-year students. (Photo illustration credit: Unsplash and Kyle Coulter)

New U of T Engineering Academy prepares incoming students to excel in first year

May 19, 2020

U of T Engineering’s first-ever Faculty-wide research conference is organized by members of the Graduate Engineering Council of Students as well as faculty. (Photo courtesy of Samantha Cheung)

U of T Engineering set to host first-ever virtual research conference

May 14, 2020

Researchers from U of T Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University are using electrolyzers like this one to convert waste CO2 into commercially valuable chemicals. Their latest catalyst, designed in part through the use of AI, is the most efficient in its class. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Artificial intelligence helps researchers up-cycle waste carbon

May 13, 2020

ECE Professor Micah Stickel has been named the next Acting Vice Provost, Students for the University of Toronto. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)

Micah Stickel appointed Acting Vice Provost, Students

May 8, 2020

Left to right: Shafiul Ferdous (Year 4 MIE), Zarak Khan (Year 4 MIE), Angélica Mora (Vice-president, Cerrro Azul Community Association), Carmen Figueroa (Principal, Cerro Azul Primary School) and Diego Amores (Year 4 ECE) in front of Escuela Cerro Azul. The U of T Engineering student are designing a solar installation to provide power for the school. (Photo courtesy Diego Amores)

Power for the people: Designing a solar array for a remote mountain community

April 22, 2020

Top feft to right: Professor Farid Najm, Nini Chen and Karen Irving
Bottom left to right: Afshin Poraria and Jaro Pristupa

ECE faculty and staff honoured for excellence by the Faculty of Engineering

April 22, 2020

Closeup of Raspbery Pi circuit board

COVID-19: ECE team programs single-board computers to remotely monitor patients and protect health care workers

April 16, 2020

Nanoleaf co-founder and CEO Gimmy Chu (ElecE 0T6) announced last week that the company is shifting its operations to providing masks, goggles and gloves to address shortages in Canadian and U.S. hospitals. (Photo courtesy of Nanoleaf)

Engineering alumni startup Nanoleaf to source more than one million masks amid COVID-19 shortages

April 1, 2020

ECE Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Lo receives Connaught Innovation Award

March 11, 2020

Left to right: Postdoctoral fellows Erkan Aydin (KAUST), Yi Hou (University of Toronto) and Michele De Bastiani (KAUST) are part of an international team that has designed a new type of tandem solar cell. The device combines industry standard silicon manufacturing with new perovskite technology. (Photo courtesy Andrea Bachofen-Echt / KAUST)

Enhanced tandem solar cells set new standard in converting light into electricity

March 5, 2020

Professor Vaughn Betz

Google recognizes machine learning and computer systems experts with Faculty Research Award

February 28, 2020

Mohamed Hirole, Year 3 ElecE

Black History Month: Reflections from U of T Engineering

February 28, 2020