News

Read the latest announcements, media mentions and news for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
 

Ario Madani and Sean Delfel receive awards for their papers at the Paptac Annual General Meeting

This year at the Paptac Annual Meeting in Montreal, Mechanical Engineer PhD candidate Ario Madani won first place in both the Alkis Karnis award for best poster and the Henry Bolker award for Best paper presented in the graduate student conference.  The title of his poster and presentation was: “Fractionation in yield stress fluids” by A. […]

Jennifer Pelletier chosen to be the honorary president of the EUS

Jennifer Pelletier, Advising, Recruitment and Senior Program Assistant for Mechanical Engineering has been chosen to be the honorary president of the EUS for the 2009/2010 school year.  This is the first time that a staff member has been selected to hold this position, and this honor recognizes Jennifer’s tireless efforts to support students in Mechanical […]

ROBOstudio

ROBOstudio @ YVR during Olympics On display at the Vancouver International Airport from January 17 throughout the Olympics in the international departures area. ROBOstudio features two sets of studio projects designed by collaborative teams of architecture, mechatronics (mechanical engineering) and engineering physics students: the first projects (PS1 SKIN) are retrofits for buildings on UBC campus whose envelopes have […]

UBC researchers to lead two NSERC Strategic Networks worth $10.3M

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have received $10.3 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to lead and coordinate two Strategic Networks in machining and biomaterials technology. NSERC today announced $56 million in grants for 11 Strategic Networks. The grants fund large-scale, muliti-disciplinary research projects that could significantly […]

Department Scholars Named

UBC Mechanical Engineering designated their first group of Department Scholars at a Celebration of Achievements reception on Wednesday, January 13, 2010.  The Department Scholar designation was created to recognize the outstanding calibre of graduate students in the Department, and their achievements in their studies and research. The 2009-2010 Department Scholars are: Jeffrey Abeyskera Amir Aliabadi […]

Professor Altintas awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree from University of Stuttgart

Professor Altintas was one the three recipients of honorary doctorate degree from University of Stuttgart in 2009 for his outstanding academic contributions in metal cutting, machine tool vibrations and machine tool control. In addition to having highest citation record in his field, Prof. Altintas’s complex scientific models are licensed by industry world wide in the […]

Dr. Carl Ollivier-Gooch receives the Shahyer Pirzadeh Memorial Award

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Carl Ollivier-Gooch’s technical paper “Assessing Validity of Mesh Refinement Sequences with Application to DPW-III Meshes” which was presented at the 2009 AIAA Aerospace Sciences meeting, AIAA 2009-1174, “has been selected by the AIAA Meshing Visualization and Computational Environments (MVCE) Technical Committee to receive the […]

Technical Award presented to Dr. Clarence De Silva

Dr. Clarence De Silva from the Mechanical Engineering Department along with a list of fellow contributors recently won the Technical Award for their paper, “Distributed DSP for Fault Monitoring and Control” with the associated paper: De Silva, C.W., Tan, K.K., Huang, S., Lee, T.H., and Wu, R., Proceedings of the Digital Signal Processing Creative Design […]

Professor Hongshen Ma receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research

Professor Hongshen Ma, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received a $100,000 (USD) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This grant is part of the Grand Challenges Explorations program to support research in Global Health. Professor Ma’s grant will support his work in the development of a low-cost device to detect malaria […]

Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Brent King wins the Manning Innovation Award for inventing the SPIDER

Mechanical Engineering alumnus Brent King (B.A.Sc. ’96) has won the $10,000 Manning Innovation Award for inventing the SPIDER, a device that accurately and securely positions a patient’s limb during surgery. The SPIDER Limb Positioner is used for specialized procedures such as rotator cuff repairs or wrist arthroscopy. Not only does the SPIDER improve the surgeon’s […]