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 […]
UBC mechanical engineer professor Dr. Altintas receives Engineers Canada’s highest award
UBC Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Altintas has received the Gold Medal Award from Engineers Canada—the highest recognition of its kind in engineering in Canada—bestowed for his exceptional individual achievement and distinction in the field of machining and machine tools. Dr. Altintas received an NSERC Strategic Networks grant last year, to lead the NSERC Canadian Network […]
UBC Mechanical Engineers win Excellence in Engineering Design Award
Vancouver, Canada—May 16, 2011—UBC Mechanical Engineering students Kevin Lowe, Hengameh Hoseini, Rory Moglove and Andrea Slade have been awarded the 2011 Dr. Jim McEwen Excellence in Engineering Design Award from the ALS Society of British Columbia for their Assistive Reading Device for People Living with ALS. The students are supervised by Professors Antony Hodgson and […]
UBC Supermileage Team takes 4th Place
The UBC Supermileage Team came home from the 2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas late last month. They achieved 4th place with 214 mpg in their urban concept car, the Argo. This year marked the second year that the team competed with their concept car, moving towards a more practical vehicle design after retiring their competition winning […]