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UTAT team set amateur rocketry altitude record at Launch Canada 2024

October 16, 2024

In late August, the University of Toronto Aerospace Team (UTAT) Rocketry division placed second in the advanced category— and cemented their place in the record books — at Launch Canada 2024. “Our rocket, Defiance Mk. IV, reached 30,000 feet, which is the Canadian amateur rocketry record for a rocket with a […]

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U of T’s self-driving car team places first at 2024 AutoDrive Challenge™ II

July 26, 2024

U of T Engineering’s self-driving car team, aUToronto, has placed first at the 2024 SAE AutoDrive Challenge™ II. This is the team’s sixth first-place finish in seven years and a return to the top of the podium after placing second in last year’s competition.   Ten teams from universities across the United […]

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Celebrating Vanier Scholar Alexander Krawciw

July 2, 2024

Alexander Krawciw, a PhD student in the Autonomous Space Robotics research group at U of T, achieves the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS), underscoring his promising contributions to advancing robotics technology. The Vanier CGS are awards designed to attract and support exceptional doctoral students across Canada. Under the […]

Left to right: Sephen Colavincenzo (UTIAS MASc 9T6) and his father Ovidio Colavincenzo (UTIAS MASc 6T9) attended the 75th anniversary celebration at UTIAS on May 10. (photo by Neil Ta)

UTIAS celebrates 75 years of excellence

June 20, 2024

Written by Joan Wilson DaCosta On May 10, alumni from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) travelled from far and wide to walk the halls of their alma mater and commemorate 75 years of impact in the field of aeronautical engineering. Lab tours and research demonstrations brought together […]

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Researchers are making self-driving cars safer by enhancing tracking abilities

May 24, 2024

A team of University of Toronto engineering researchers are working to enhance the reasoning ability of robotic systems, such as autonomous vehicles, with the goal of increasing their reliability and safe operation in changing environments.   Multi-object tracking, a critical problem in self-driving cars, is a big focus at the Toronto Robotics and […]

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UTAT division launches first satellite into space

January 16, 2024

On November 11, 2023, U of T Engineering students gathered in the basement of the Sandford Fleming Building — known to many as The Pit — to witness the deployment of HERON Mk. II into space.   The 3U CubeSat satellite, built and operated by the University of Toronto Aerospace Team […]

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Researchers partner with Siemens Energy to tackle sustainable energy production

January 4, 2024

U of T Engineering researchers have partnered with Siemens Energy to tackle a key challenge in the energy sector: sustainable energy conversion for propulsion and power generation – such as developing gas turbine engines that can run on sustainable energy sources like hydrogen. Led by Professor Swetaprovo Chaudhuri (UTIAS), the […]

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Reducing aviation’s CO2 emissions challenging but not impossible

December 6, 2023

For aviation, the path to reduced climate change impact and eventually net-zero carbon dioxide emissions is clear. We must replace fossil fuels with net-zero energy sources, and improve aircraft energy efficiency. The latter is essential given that future energy sources under consideration—such as sustainable aviation fuel and liquid hydrogen—introduce substantial […]

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U of T Engineering student pitches green hydrogen startup at international competition in Berlin

November 22, 2023

Ambrish Kumar (MSE MEng candidate) didn’t expect to win when he made his pitch for net-zero hydrogen production at the Falling Walls Lab Toronto this past August — but he did just that.   “I was working on Nanodes, the startup I co-founded with Rutvik Solanki (UTIAS MEng 2T3) and Siva Subramaniam (UTIAS MEng 2T2) at The Entrepreneurship Hatchery, […]

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New machine learning algorithm aims to improve predictive models of complex dynamical systems

November 15, 2023

Researchers at the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) have made a significant step towards enabling reliable predictions of complex dynamical systems when there are many uncertainties in the available data or missing information. This work could have numerous applications ranging from predicting the performance of aircraft engines to forecasting […]