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

Lo receives Connaught Innovation Award

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

Professor Vaughn Betz

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

Mohamed Hirole, Year 3 ElecE

Black History Month: Reflections from U of T Engineering

Professor Murray Wonham

University Professor Emeritus Murray Wonham receives the Giorgio Quazza medal

Members of CERT Systems, Inc. with their pilot unit at Zeton Engineering in Burlington, ON. This week, the team was awarded funding from Natural Resources Canada’s Breakthrough Energy Systems Canada competition to advance their carbon-recycling technology. (Photo courtesy CERT Systems Inc.)

U of T Engineering spinoff receives support from Breakthrough Energy Systems Canada to upgrade waste carbon

Left to right: Adnan Ozden (MIE PhD candidate), Joshua Wicks (ECE PhD candidate), and F. Pelayo García de Arquer (ECE postdoctoral fellow) are among the team members who have designed an electrolyzer that converts CO2 to valuable products 10 times faster than previous versions. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

“Reverse fuel cell” converts waste carbon to valuable products at record rates

Professors Vaughn Betz (left) and Shahrokh Valaee were named Fellows of the IEEE in the 2020 cohort.

Betz and Valaee named Fellows of the IEEE

Close-up of cell phone

Jan 28 is Data Privacy Day: What you need to know about biometric data and how to keep yours safe

Mojtaba Abbasnedhad in front of a cityscape

Remembering Mojtaba Abbasnezhad

Professor Nazir Kherani.

Kherani elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada

We Remember: U of T Engineering community reflects on the legacy of December 6