Tyler Irving

Dec 16, 2024 | news.engineering.utoronto.ca | Tyler Irving

A startup co-founded by CivMin PhD student Emily Farrar has earned a $100,000 investment in its technology, which produces cultivated beef fat in bioreactors. Genuine Taste earned both the Top Venture and People’s Choice Awards in the 2024 Invest Together in Climate Innovation program. The competition is run by Spring, a Vancouver-based global incubator, accelerator and advisory firm with the goal of looking to change the world through innovation.

Dec 13, 2024 | news.engineering.utoronto.ca | Tyler Irving

Tazwar Bin Hasan (MechE 2T2+PEY) and his team have earned national runner-up status in the 2024 James Dyson Award competition. Their invention, CPR Lifeline, is an automated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device designed to be safer and more versatile than current models. [YouTube video embed here]Hasan’s team includes Sadat Anwar, a graduate of University of Toronto’s John H.

Dec 6, 2024 | news.engineering.utoronto.ca | Tyler Irving

An interactive sculpture designed and built by U of T Engineering students now stands on the front steps of the Galbraith building. It features 14 candles surrounding a central flame, with each candle representing the life of a woman who was murdered during the École Polytechnique massacre, which took place on December 6, 1989. “Each candle has a button; when you press the button, it makes the central flame brighter,” says Rebecca Ing (Year 4 MSE), one of the members of the team.

Nov 25, 2024 | news.engineering.utoronto.ca | Tyler Irving

New funding from the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) will advance five projects from across U of T Engineering, with applications ranging from sustainable aviation to next-generation electric vehicle battery systems. Two of the five projects are based at U of T Engineering’s Thermal Management Systems (TMS) Laboratory and focus on improving the way battery systems handle heat, as well as developing lightweight structural battery pack components.

Nov 22, 2024 | news.engineering.utoronto.ca | Tyler Irving

On November 21, more than 200 guests gathered at U of T’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus to celebrate and explore mutually beneficial partnerships between academia, industry and community organizations. The event, held for the first time since 2019, was co-hosted by the U of T Engineering partnerships office and the University-wide Blue Door partnerships office, as well as by Toronto Global.