Posts Tagged: engineering
University of Toronto Engineering graduate Ivan Damnjanovic (CivE 1T4+PEY) has developed software that harnesses the power of data science and traditional engineering to make sustainable building management less expensive and more productive than ever before. The engineer and computer scientist…
Are panels made from mushrooms and hemp a realistic solution to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry? The construction industry has a pollution problem, but University of Toronto alumnus John Kabanda (CivE MASc Structural and Geotechnical Engineering…
Another great honour this week for Prof. Emeritus Doug Hooton as the ASTM International Committee C01 on Cement presented the CivMin professor with the C01 Bryant Mather Award in Seattle, WA. The Committee says Prof. Hooton has received the award…
University of Toronto’s Concrete Canoe Team has returned from the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition 2022 in Sherbrooke, QC with a handful of awards. The 25th annual competition saw University of Toronto’s team take 3rd overall, in addition to many…
U of T Engineering students dig through snowplow data to measure Toronto’s response to winter storms
Analysis suggests that the City’s performance improved over the winter of 2022 Last January, as 55 centimetres of snow blanketed Toronto over a period of just 15 hours, the city’s snow-clearing fleet appeared to struggle to keep up. But was…
April 23, 2022 | Oakville News
After several pandemic-related delays, the Transit Access Project for Youth (TAP for Youth) is getting underway. TAP for Youth is a transit equity research project of the University of Toronto student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB). The team comprised…
In a city like Toronto, the water never stops running. There’s always pressure conveniently pushing clean water into our homes for on-demand consumption. But that’s not how the whole world works. More than a billion people get their daily water…
The aquarium on the fourth floor of the Galbraith Building is a pleasant reminder to Prof. Susan Andrews of her many trips to the Caribbean through the years, but it also makes her lament the deteriorating condition of our world’s lakes, rivers, and oceans—these majestic…
This year’s theme for World Water Day 2022 is ‘Groundwater: ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ and groundwater just so happens to be the research specialty of Department Chair Prof. Brent Sleep. Among many active projects concerning groundwater, Sleep and graduate…
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