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The Blue Sky Solar Racing Team gathers behind Polaris, the vehicle they will enter into the 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Polaris: Blue Sky Solar Racing team unveils its newest vehicle

August 15, 2017

Novel deployable antenna launched into orbit

August 3, 2017

Professor Vaughn Betz

Improving reprogrammable chips: Vaughn Betz renewed as Industrial Research Chair

July 26, 2017

U of T Engineering students Andy Liao (Year 2 CivE), Ernesto Diaz Lozano Patiño (CivE 1T5 + PEY, MASc candidate), Alejandro Sarellano Acevedo (ECE MEng candidate), and Mackenzie de Carle (Year 3 CivE) are members of the team that earned a $20,000 prize for their proposal to install solar-powered street lighting in Mexico City’s Toltenco community.

Student team lights up low-income Mexico City community

July 21, 2017

(left to right): Wei Yu, Onur Sahin (two of the five co-authors of the paper), Anthony Ephremides (Editor-in-Chief of JCN), and Lajos Hanzo (Chair of the Awards Committee of the IEEE Communications Society).

ECE Awards Round Up: July 2017

July 14, 2017

Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0) will succeed David Johnston as the next Governor General of Canada. The U of T Engineering alumna has been to space twice, and is also an accomplished athlete, singer and pianist. (Image courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency)

Julie Payette, astronaut and ECE alumna, named next Governor General

July 13, 2017

U of T Engineering alumna Foteini Agrafioti (far left), head of the new RBC Research Institute, and RBC CEO David McKay (far right) present awards to Professor Glenn Gulak, second from right, and U of T colleagues at MaRS. The RBC Research Prize recognizes Gulak's leading work in cybersecurity for the financial sector. (Photo: Chris Sorensen)

Glenn Gulak recognized with RBC Research Prize

June 28, 2017

Professor Wei Yu. (Photo by NSERC.)

Wei Yu inducted into Canadian Academy of Engineering

June 27, 2017

Sandro Young (CompE 1T6+PEY) displays his Governor General's Silver Medal.

ECE’s Sandro Young named U of T’s top student

June 13, 2017

Catherine Lacavera

ECE Alumna Catherine Lacavera to receive honorary degree

June 12, 2017

Poon renewed as Canada Research Chair

June 7, 2017

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ECE doctoral student receives prestigious Vanier Scholarship

June 6, 2017