An interactive sculpture designed and built by U of T Engineering students now stands on the front steps of the Galbraith building. It features 14 candles surrounding a central flame, with each candle representing the life of a woman who was murdered during the École Polytechnique massacre, which took place […]
New funding from the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) will advance five projects from across U of T Engineering, with applications ranging from sustainable aviation to next-generation electric vehicle battery systems. Two of the five projects are based at U of T Engineering’s Thermal Management Systems (TMS) Laboratory and focus on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]