UBC "Entrepreneurial Powerhouse" students win at BMO Apex Business Plan Competition
Two student teams from UBC’s New Venture Design course travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick to compete at the BMO Apex Business Plan Competition, January 23-25. They returned with first and second place prizes respectively in the undergraduate categories. The two groups also received the “Entrepreneurial Powerhouse” award for UBC for best overall performance from a university at […]
UBC teams sweep podium at 2013 Enterprize Canada Business Plan Competition
Three UBC student teams swept the podium at 2013 Enterprize Canada Business Plan Competition, a part of Enterprise Canada’s Entrepreneurship Conference, February 8th–10th at the Sheraton Hotel in Vancouver, B.C. With UBC teams Agile Monitoring Equipment placing first, Aaisth second and SoundIT third, UBC entrepreneurs dominated the competition. The teams consisted of engineering and business students from […]
Celebration of Achievements 2013
The Department of Mechanical Engineering recently held their annual Celebration of Achievement ceremony. Please take a look at the photos below! The event was held at the First Nations House of Learning. It was an opportunity to recognize the achievements of exceptional students within the Mech department. Congratulations to all recipients! 2012 Department Scholars (This honourary designation […]
Article: "Putting our heads together safely"
Dr. Cription’s research on concussions and spinal injury was recently featured in an article on the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s website. The article describes the prototype sports helmet, the Pro-Neck-Tor™, that was developed by him and his team, and the helmet is able to concussions and spinal injury. This helmet is application in preventing injuries […]
UBC and Fraunhofer Society Enter $4.9 Million Clean Energy Partnership
The University of British Columbia and Germany’s Fraunhofer Society have entered in a $4.9 million clean energy partnership. The principal investigator on the project is one of our department’s faculty members, Prof. Walter Mérida, who is the associate director at the Clean Energy Research Center. “‘This partnership will allow both institutions to accelerate solutions for sustainability challenges […]
Article: "Two in MECH receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal"
Congratulations to Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, UBC Mechanical Engineering professor emeritus, and Shalaleh Rismani, fourth-year UBC Mechanical Engineering student, for receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for their significant contributions as Canadian citizens. For his humanitarianism and philanthropy, Dr. Iqbal received the medal from Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra Joyce Murray at a […]
Simons Fellowship in Design Engineering
The Marcus Autism Center, in conjunction with the Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, is offering the Simons Fellowship in Design Engineering. They are interested in recruiting highly qualified students from the UBC’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Students who will receive a bachelor’s degree by June 2013 will be eligible for […]
Caltech Space Challenge
Attention MECH undergraduate and graduate students! Ever want to design a human mission to a Martian moon? Now’s your chance. The Engineering and Applied Science Division at the California Institute of Technology invites current full-time graduate and undergraduate students from all over the world to participate in the second Caltech Space Challenge. In 2011, 32 students […]
New Student Team: UBC BEST
Want to get involved in a UBC Engineering student team? Have you been wanting to work on a device with a medical application? UBC BEST, a biomedical engineering student design team, has just been launched! Here’s what it’s all about: Who: Undergraduate/Graduate students; any department What: Work on a therapeutic device that will be entered into a health-related technology design competition, such as BMEStart/BMEidea […]
Article: "2012 Student Achievements"
2012 Top 24 Under 24: Andrea Palmer As technical lead and team captain of the autonomous soccer-playing robot team the University of B.C. Thunderbots, third-year mechanical engineering student Andrea Palmer has quite the responsibility. Palmer oversees project management for the group that does everything from actual robot design to creating the systems that control the […]