Posts By: Phill Snel

Prof. Jennifer Drake & team’s NSERC CREATE grant success

In nature, one organism’s waste often becomes energy for another. Professor Emma Master (ChemE) wants to apply these same principles to industrial manufacturing. “We can leverage biological processes to recycle carbon and […]

Why some cities turn off the water pipes at night

For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent systems” that turn on and off at various times of the week. A new paper by […]

Reconciliation through engineering

Researchers at the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN) are collaborating with Indigenous communities to address pressing infrastructure challenges facing geographically disparate communities across Canada. CGEN’s Reconciliation Through Engineering Initiative (RTEI) […]

REEDDI: Putting power in the hands of the people

Olugbenga Olubanjo holding two Reeddi Capsules. Photo: Phill Snel, Civil and Mineral Engineering/ U of T   A hearty “Yah!” accompanied by a fist-pump of victory, is what Olugbenga Olubanjo […]

Grads to Watch 2019: CivMin’s Md Sami Hasnine

THE TRANSPORTATION DECISION-MAKER Md Sami Hasnine (CivMin PhD 1T9) Hasnine’s research is at the intersection of transportation engineering, economics, data science and psychology. During his graduate studies, he developed behavioural models […]

Microplastics in drinking water: how much is too much?

Is there plastic in your drinking water? Professors Bob Andrews (CivMin) and Chelsea Rochman (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) say there is — but right now, researchers don’t know much more […]
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