Oct 20 – Engineering students and alumni to compete in UBC entrepreneurship competition
Come out and see Engineering students and alumni affiliated with Aeos Biomedical, Dynamic Monitoring Technology Corporation and RentGeek compete in the UBC’s entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator Competition! They have made it to the final rounds and will be pitching to become the first recipients of investments between $25k and $100k from the entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator fund. […]
UBC innovator receives major Manning Foundation award for green engine technology
Vancouver, Canada—October 6, 2011—University of British Columbia Professor Emeritus Phil Hill has been named the 2011 recipient of the $100,000 Encana Principal Award by the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation. Hill was chosen for his discovery of a technology that enables diesel engines to run on clean-burning natural gas. The high-pressure direct injection (HPDI) technology, […]
UBC Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate Farzad Khademolhosseini Receives The Vanier CGS Graduate Scholarship
UBC Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate Farzad Khademolhosseini has received the Vanier CGS graduate scholarship – one of the most pretigious graduate scholarships in Canada. According to the Vanier CGS website, the award is given to doctoral students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the natural […]
UBC researchers invent new drug delivery device to treat diabetes-related vision loss
Vancouver, Canada—June 29, 2011—A team of engineers and scientists at the University of British Columbia has developed a device that can be implanted behind the eye for controlled and on-demand release of drugs to treat retinal damage caused by diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss among patients with diabetes. The disease […]
UBC lab welcomes a new “soft touch” mobile robot system
UBC’s Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CARIS) — led by Mechanical Engineering Prof. Elizabeth Croft – has acquired a new human friendly robot. UBC is the first Canadian university to work with the PR2 model from Willow Garage, a U.S.-based developer of personal robot open source software and hardware. Dubbed Charlie by the […]
UBC mechanical engineering alumna Parisa Bastani receives Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship
Parisa Bastani (BASc’09, MECH) has been awarded the Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship from the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP), an international program in which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. She is one of two recipients of the scholarship this year; candidates are selected from seventeen Commonwealth countries. Bastani […]
PACE Conference at UBC
This week, UBC was host to the 2011 PACE Global Annual Forum, a conference with the theme Collaborative Strategies to Address Global Challenges. PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) links “GM, Autodesk, HP, Oracle, Siemens PLM Software, and their global operations, to support strategically selected academic institutions worldwide to develop the automotive […]
Congratulations Grad Class of 2011
The Mechanical Engineering Department would like to congratulate the Mechanical Engineering Grad Class of 2011! Photos from the department’s graduation reception are shown below.
UBC Thunderbots Competing in Turkey for 2011 RoboCup Competition and Conference
The UBC Thunderbots are leaving for Istanbul, Turkey this July 1st to represent UBC and Canada in the International RoboCup Competition and Conference. The team will be competing in the Small Sized League division, where they create autonomous soccer playing robots to play robot soccer against teams from around the world. The team and their […]
APEGBC Post Secondary Entrance and Transfer Entrance Scholarships – $2,500 – Deadline June 27, 2011
This $2500 scholarhip is for students planning on pursuing a career in geosciences or engineering. Selection is based on academic achievement, extracurricular activities, references, financial need and your written statement outlining reasons for entering the profession. Applications must be received no later than June 27. Download applications here. You can also email Amit Plaha for […]