USRA Job Postings Now Open
Several job postings have been released that require a NSERC USRA! If you are interested in looking at the jobs or how to apply for a NSERC USRA, please direct yourself to the Mechanical Engineering NSERC USRA information page.
Mechanical Engineering Professor Yusuf Altintas honoured by the President of Turkey
UBC Mechanical Engineering professor Yusuf Altintas has received the Engineering Science Special Award from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) – Turkey’s highest science and engineering award – given annually to the scientist with the highest scientific recognition in engineering science who is Turkish but living outside Turkey. Altintas was honoured at […]
Mechanical Engineering Professor Boris Stoeber is working on a method to fabricate inexpensive microneedles.
No pain, great gain Inexpensive, pain-free microneedles are about to change how we receive injections, and hold promise for many other uses It’s a common scene in doctor’s offices everywhere: a child refuses to roll up his sleeve for a routine vaccination; the needle will sting. But the days of the menacing hypodermic needle […]
Mechanical Engineering Professor featured in The Globe and Mail
These injections won’t hurt a bit. Honest No one likes to get a needle – certainly not children and least of all Boris Stoeber, who had more cause for concern than most kids. As a child growing up in Germany, he suffered from hay fever so severe that he had to have an allergy shot […]