Gary Yan earns third place in the Aviation 2017 Student Paper Competition in Computation Fluid Dynamics
PhD candidate Gary Yan and his supervisor Carl Ollivier-Gooch recently received third place for their submission to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s Aviation 2017 Student Paper Competition in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the study and profession of aerospace. Yan presented his paper at […]
Smart Stimuli Responsive Surfaces: A Multifunctional Material
New research by UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre has made the cover of Wiley’s most recent issue of Advanced Materials Interfaces. The article, which was co-written by Beniamin Zahiri, Pradeep Kumar Sow, Chun Haow Kung and Walter Mérida, discusses fast and reversible control over surface wetting properties–from superhydrophobic (water-repellant) to superhydrophilic (water-attractive) using a […]
Newly formed UBC Rocket defeat MIT and McGill
Competing in their first international competition, UBC Rocket hardly expected to take home a first place prize. One of 15 competing Canadian schools, UBC Rocket recently took part in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition which ran from June 20 to 24 in New Mexico, USA. The flagship event of the Spaceport America Cup, the competition […]
James Olson inducted into Canadian Academy of Engineering
Nominated and elected by peers, MECH professor and interim dean James Olson, PEng, was inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of his “distinguished achievement and career-long service to the engineering profession.” Olson joined 49 other new fellows and two new international fellows who were welcomed by the CAE on […]
Antony Hodgson presented with the Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery at CAOS 2017
Dr. Antony Hodgson, Director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program and Professor in Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the highly reputable “Medacta ME Muller Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery 2016-2017” at the CAOS 2017 conference. The conference ran from June 14-17, 2017 in Aachen, Germany. The award recognizes a career long contribution to Computer […]
APSC Rising Stars 2017: Rebecca McCreedy, BASc ’17, MECH Alumna
Applied Science Class of 2017 “Engineering is a team sport. It’s daunting and tough on your own, but when you have a group of people to tackle it with it gets a bit easier.” My name is Rebecca McCreedy, I’m a graduating student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I was a fairly involved […]
Dr. Anasavarapu Srikantha Phani wins 2016/2017 Killam Teaching Prize
On May 31, 2017, Associate Professor Dr. Anasavarapu Srikantha Phani was announced as a recipient of the 2016-2017 UBC Killam Teaching Prize for the Faculty of Applied Science (Vancouver), which is the university’s highest award for teaching. Presented at the May 2017 convocation by Hugh Brock, Associate Provost, Brock had the following to say about […]
MEGA Appreciation Tea
Thank you to all of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association (MEGA) Executive members who joined us at the MEGA Appreciation Tea! We appreciate all the hard work you do to support our graduate students. For more information about MEGA, please visit their website here: http://mega.mech.ubc.ca/