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Professors Konstantinos Plataniotis and Elvino Sousa have been elected as 2021 Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, along with four U of T Engineering alumni.

Professors Plataniotis and Sousa elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering

June 17, 2021

PhD candidate Jianan Erick Huang works on an electrolyzer in the lab of Professor Ted Sargent at the University of Toronto. The team has developed a new process for converting dissolved CO2 into higher-value products, such as ethylene. Unlike previous systems, the team’s electrolyzer can be run under strongly acidic conditions, greatly increasing the proportion of carbon that is converted. (Photo: Geonhui Lee)

Passing the acid test: New low-pH system recycles more carbon into valuable products

June 7, 2021

Mingyang Wei (ECE PhD 2T0) is one of three former U of T students who received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic excellence, one of the highest honours reserved for graduate students in Canada.

ECE graduate Mingyang Wei awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic excellence

June 1, 2021

Narinder Dhami (Skoll ElecE 0T5 + MBA 08) formed a coalition of South Asian community leaders to respond to the emergency situation in India. The coalition created the India COVID-19 Relief Fund to help facilitate donations from Canadians.

ECE alumna sets up funding initiative to help India recover from COVID-19

May 27, 2021

Left to right: Benjamin Labrecque, McGill University; Jenny Guan, McGill University; Mohaimen Khan (CompE 1T9 + PEY) and Mandy Cheung, Simon Fraser University at the RBC Amp Expo in Summer 2019. This team was recently granted a patent for a smart algorithm that predicts the price range of winning rent bids, a tool that could help tenants in urban centres. (Photo courtesy Mohaimen)

ECE alumnus patents tool created during PEY Co-op that optimizes rent bidding for tenants

May 6, 2021

Professor Ervin Sejdić combines expertise in machine learning, signal processing and data science to improve health outcomes for patients. (Photo by: North York General Hospital)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Ervin Sejdić

May 3, 2021

Gamma Knife radiosurgery, performed mainly on the brain, uses medical imaging to create a treatment plan, which can be optimized by a quantum-inspired technology called the Digital Annealer. (Photo by Nikita Karchevskyi via Envato)

Quantum-inspired technology reduces radiation treatment planning time to around one minute

April 19, 2021

Max Planck Society President Martin Stratmann (left) and U of T President Meric Gertler participated in a virtual launch event for the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science & Technology (photo by Axel Griesch für MPG and Johnny Guatto)

U of T and Max Planck Society establish centre to study neural science and technology

April 16, 2021

Campus building with banner that reads #1 Engineering School in Canada

U of T Engineering professors and staff members honoured for excellence by the Faculty

April 8, 2021

Heat-map images are used to evaluate the accuracy of a novel explainable artificial intelligence algorithm developed for LG’s display screens. (Image courtesy of Mahesh Sudhakar)

New ‘explainable’ artificial intelligence algorithm could lead to smarter manufacturing

March 29, 2021

From left: HOPE Pet Foods; Xesto; Themis; and, Reeddi.

U of T Entrepreneurship Week: Four engineering startups to watch

March 10, 2021

A U of T Engineering team, led by ECE graduate students, designed a UV lamp fitted with distance sensors to more efficiently disinfect contaminated surfaces. It has recently been prototyped. (Image: Jonathan Qu)

Smart UV lamp could fight COVID-19 and other diseases

March 2, 2021