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A professor at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering has been granted almost $91,000 for a research project under a federal program to improve rail safety.

The proposal by Liping Fu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, was one of 147 projects across the country announced today by Transport Canada.

A professor at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering has been awarded $140,000 over five years under a provincial program to help new researchers build their research teams.

Chris Bachmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is one of eight campus-wide winners of Early Researcher Awards for 2022. Winners also receive $50,000 each from their home institutions.

Wood-derived materials can be used to harvest electrical energy from everyday movements such as walking, according to a new study from researchers at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering and the University of Toronto Engineering.

In a , the team demonstrated the use of lignocellulosic nanofibrils, derived from tree bark, in a prototype self-powered device capable of sending a wireless signal to a smartphone via Bluetooth.

A professor at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering is in the running in a national contest designed to showcase striking images captured by researchers.

Zhao Pan, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, is co-creator of one of 20 images in the finals of the 2022 edition of , a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

A doctoral candidate and a professor at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering teamed up this week to take a best paper award at the Conference on Robots and Vision 2022 in Toronto.

Professor John Zelek and PhD student Zobeir Raisi won the honour for best computer vision paper with a submission called Occluded Text Detection and Recognition in the Wild.

Cosmin Munteanu, a leading multidisciplinary researcher in human-computer interaction, has been appointed the new Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Healthy Aging.

Their research works at the intersection of aging and technology, focusing on facilitating meaningful and safe interactions between older adults and digital media devices.

Members of a University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ student team with a strong engineering contingent didn’t snag any hardware, but they still came home with valuable lessons from a recent competition for unmanned aerial vehicles.

The was one of seven university teams from across Canada to put their entries to the test at the in Southport, Manitoba last month.

Three research projects with À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Engineering connections have been completed or are continuing with support from online education company .

The was launched in 2018 in conjunction with four leading research universities in Canada, including the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, to help solve teaching and learning challenges.

Karina Sukhina woke up to the sound of the first bomb that landed on Kyiv at five a.m. February 24.

While at first uncertain about what she’d heard, Sukhina and her boyfriend Nazarii Kulyk were soon packing their bags and heading for safety.

Days later, the master’s student in computer science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Kulyk, also a master’s student studying at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, fled Ukraine for Poland.

Ten teams from across Canada and around the word will come together at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ this weekend for the inaugural Canadian Hyperloop Competition.

, an 80-member student design team at À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, will square off against peers from as far afield as India as they showcase their pods for high-speed transportation systems akin to trains in a vacuum tube.