MECH alumna Morgane Oger, BC’s first transgender woman to be nominated by major party
CBC featured Morgane Oger, a UBC alumna who became be the first transgender person to be nominated by a major Canadian political party as a candidate at any level of government. Oger, who studied graduated from Mechanical Engineering at UBC in ’93, is a member of the Vancouver Board of Education’s Pride Committee and is […]
Walter Mérida discusses how high-tech data could speed transit buses, save fuel and time
Walter Merida, Director of the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre, and MECH prof was interviewed by the Vancouver Sun about the future of transit. He said next-generation electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles should be the next step for transit agencies to improve efficiency and sustainability, and utilizing the “Internet of Things” should also be a priority. […]