High-speed bearingless motors research receives Canada Foundation for Innovation infrastructure funding
Dr. Minkyun Noh has received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund for his project Control and Instrumentation Infrastructure for High-speed Bearingless Motors Research.
Capstone design wins 2021 ASHRAE competition
A UBC Mechanical Engineering Capstone design team has won first place in the HVAC Design Calculations category of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 2021 design competition. Usually, Capstone students are paired with an industry-sponsored project for the final design work of their undergraduate degree. Instead, Brandon Jung, Arin Lee, Lukengo […]
UBC Thunderbots take top spot at international robot soccer competition
The UBC Thunderbots have placed first in their division at the RoboCup, an annual robot soccer competition for university students around the world. It is the UBC design team’s second RoboCup victory in a row, having topped the same event category — the Lower Tournament of RoboCup’s Small Size League — in 2019. (The 2020 competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 […]
Doctoral Student wins Prestigious Vanier Scholarship
Mechanical Engineering PhD student Rivkah Gardner-Frolick has won one of Canada’s top scholarships, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. This scholarship awards selected students across the country $50,000 per year for three years of doctoral studies, and is based off the students’ academic excellence, research potential and leadership. The award was created to “attract and retain […]
Media Mention: Dr. Naomi Zimmerman on the poor air quality of wildfire season and how to stay safe
CBC: As more than 200 wildfires continue to burn in British Columbia, experts are advising residents to start preparing for wildfire smoke and poor air quality. Air quality warnings are already in place for most of B.C.’s southern Interior, and fire risk in the province is very high. The warnings come after a record-breaking heat wave […]
Media Mention: Dr. Walter Mérida on standards for renewable cities
VANCOUVER SUN: As much of the world switches over to electric transportation, the “What about this?” and “What about that?” questions are popping up from those people who are saying, “Not possible.” On the other side of that discussion is UBC Prof. Walter Mérida, who prefers to ask “What if?”, as in: “What if there […]
Top Finish for UBC AeroDesign at the 2021 SAE Aero Design Knowledge Competition
Render of Wailord (left), Mantine and Remoraids (right) Amid a challenging design year affected by pandemic restrictions, globally displaced members, and another virtual academic session, UBC AeroDesign has once again demonstrated its resiliency and technical aptitude at the 2021 SAE Aero Design Knowledge competition held earlier this March. For competition, the team designed two […]
How to beat the heat — indoors and out
Mechanical Engineering associate faculty member Dr. Adam Rysanek shares some tips on how to beat the heat. | Staying cool and safe in the heat may be challenging over the next few days. Here, two UBC experts share some tips and practices for warm weather safety. Dr. Sarah Henderson is an associate professor of population and […]
New paper solves the soft solid puncture problem
When Assistant Professor Mattia Bacca is trying to figure out a mechanical engineering problem, he inquires into how the natural world has already solved it. Bioinspired engineering is an approach that examines abilities plants and animals have evolved over millions of years, like the way a gecko can cling to a surface with the pads […]
APSC Profile: Mechanical Engineering Design + Innovation Day Award-winners
Design + Innovation Day is UBC Engineering’s annual showcase for student engineering design projects. Carried out in small groups over the previous academic year, the projects enable students to improve their technical, teamwork and management skills while designing solutions to real-world problems. The most outstanding projects of the year are recognized with UBC Applied Science […]