NAME Students visit Engine Room Simulator
The room is dark except for a few colorful buttons on the instrument panels and the glow coming from the simulator screens. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) students have to figure out how to power up their “ship” before they can use the overhead lighting, in one of the challenges offered by the BCIT […]
Mech 2 Rover Mission: Competition Results
January 31st saw twenty teams of second year mechanical engineering students face off to see whose rover design could overcome all obstacles to victory. The first of the term’s two design competitions was filled with many ups and downs, as students’ remote-controlled vehicles careened over hills, chasms, angled terrain, sand traps, and more. Simulating a […]
Dr. Elfring and Dr. Frigaard win 2019 Killam Research Awards
Two Mechanical Engineering faculty members have been awarded prestigious UBC awards for research. Dr. Gwynn Elfring has won a Killam Research Fellowship (Junior Category) and Dr. Ian Frigaard has been awarded a Killam Research Prize (Senior Category). Dr. Elfring was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship in order to enable a study-leave pursuing his ongoing research […]
UBC News: New device identifies high-quality blood donors
Blood banks have long known about high-quality donors – individuals whose red blood cells stay viable for longer in storage and in the recipient’s body. Now a new device developed at UBC is showing promise as a method to identify these “super donors”, potentially helping more than 4.5 million patients who need blood transfusions every […]
Dr. Peter Cripton elected to International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury
Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Peter Cripton has been elected to the IRCOBI Council, the governing body of the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury. Comprised of researchers from all over the world, the IRCOBI fosters research on impact biomechanics and injury mechanisms, hosting two major conferences a year, and improving the global body of […]
New Frontiers in Research: Subconcussive Impacts
Here we explore current research by Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Lyndia Wu, “Investigating Brain Trauma Accumulation from Subconcussive Head Impacts and Differences between Male and Female Ice Hockey Players” Two projects by UBC Mechanical Engineering faculty members were among the first to receive funding through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFLF), […]
Congratulations November 2019 Grads!
Congratulations to all of our recent Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering graduates who crossed the stage on November 28th, 2019! In addition to everyone who received their degrees on Thursday, the department extends additional congratulations to all of our award winners who have shown exceptional academic and design achievements in the course […]
Inside CREATE-U: Mechanical Engineering’s new Undergraduate Research Opportunity
This summer, the Department of Mechanical Engineering is spearheading an exciting new program designed to enable undergraduates to explore what research is all about. Combining Research Experience and Technical Electives for Undergraduates (CREATE-U) is a comprehensive package featuring six credits of coursework and a paid research project in a Mechanical Engineering lab (which can even […]
Media Mention: Global News interviews Dr. Zimmerman on hazardous Delhi air quality
Global News interviewed Mechanical Engineering faculty member Dr. Naomi Zimmerman about early November’s hazardous air quality in Delhi, and air pollutant PM 2.5.
Hull Testing Returns to UBC after 12 Years
On Tuesday, October 8th, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) graduate students embarked on the waters of the Fraser River delta to test model ship hulls, marking the first time hull testing has been done by students at UBC in the last twelve years. This has been facilitated by the recent addition of UBC Marine […]