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Professor Angela Schoellig demonstrates a quadrotor for Breakfast TV

September 5, 2014

UTIAS Professor Angela Schoellig demonstrated a quadrotor for City TV’s Breakfast Television when they visited the St. George campus on September 3. Professor Angela Schoellig demonstrates a quadrotor for Breakfast TV

UofT Magazine Pays Tribute to University Emeritus Professor Bernard Etkin

September 5, 2014

The professor of aerospace engineering, a beloved mentor to generations of engineers, also helped develop the Avro Arrow and even checked the aerodynamics of Toronto City Hall. UofT Magazine Pays Tribute to University Emeritus Professor Bernard Etkin

The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail pay tribute to Prof. Ben Etkin

August 5, 2014

The Globe and Mail: Bernard Etkin helped avert Apollo 13 tragedy. The Toronto Star: Longtime engineering professor, mentor and friend to generations at University of Toronto had hand in saving Apollo 13 astronauts.

In Memoriam: University Professor Emeritus Bernard (Ben) Etkin 1918-2014

July 14, 2014

Members of the U of T community are mourning the loss of former U of T Engineering dean, renowned expert in aerodynamics and beloved mentor, University Professor Emeritus Bernard (Ben) Etkin (UTIAS), who died June 26, 2014. In Memoriam: University Professor Emeritus Bernard (Ben) Etkin 1918-2014

UTIAS grads and UofT students working to build world’s fastest bike

July 9, 2014

The Canadian team that made an aviation breakthrough last year is trying for a new milestone — the land speed record for a human-powered vehicle.

A Space Legacy

July 4, 2014

How Canadian researchers are continuing the nation’s 60-year record of excellence in aerospace. In April 13, 1970, a secretary at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies took a call from Houston, Texas. It was Mission Control at NASA – their spaceship Apollo 13 was in trouble, and they […]

Two New BRITE satellites launched successfully

June 20, 2014

Two nanosatellites were launched from Russia by a Canadian research and technology team. Costing a fraction of conventional space telescopes and similar in size and weight to a car battery, the satellites are two of six that will work together to shed light on the structures and life stories of […]

Teaching Flying Robots to Learn

May 22, 2014

“What I really like about robotics is that you can make a machine that extends human capabilities and the possibilities that we have. ” – UTIAS researcher Prof. Angela Schoellig Full Article: Teaching Flying Robots to Learn

Next Generation Air Travel

May 7, 2014

Drone delivery service. Autonomous personal aircraft. Circumnavigating super-ships. These aren’t excerpts from a sci-fi movie script – they’re the future of aerospace. And they were just some of the industry projections that three aerospace leaders shared with U of T Engineering alumni and friends at BizSkule: Next Generation Air Travel.

New UTIAS research ends decade-long physics debate about turbulence

March 25, 2014

New research in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) has provided conclusive evidence that reinforces these basic principles and ends a decade-long debate in the field. Full article: New research ends decade-long physics debate about turbulence