UBC AeroDesign Places 1st at SAE Aero Design West
(UBC AeroDesign poses with their Advanced Class aircraft prototype before the shut down of in-person gatherings in March, 2020) Despite a summer without many of the usual aspects of the design competition experience – such as access to the machine shop or the ability to travel – UBC AeroDesign has still brought home first and […]
PhD Student Pranav Shrestha becomes UBC Public Scholar, seeks to develop low cost microscope for sickle cell disease screening
As a new UBC Public Scholar, Mechanical Engineering PhD student Pranav Shrestha is working toward developing an inexpensive microscope capable of detecting sickle cell disease, increasing access to screening in rural communities. “In this project, we plan to explore the feasibility of inexpensive and portable alternatives to conventional screening techniques. We plan to develop an inexpensive […]
Doctoral Student wins First Place in International Student Paper Competition
UBC Mechanical Engineering doctoral student Juuso Heikkinen has won first place in the prestigious Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition for his work on “Remote Surface Motion Measurements using Multi-Wavelength Defocused Speckle Imaging”. The competition is run by the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) at its Annual Conference and Exposition, which was held virtually this […]
MECH PhD student wins Mitacs Outstanding Entrepreneur Award
Outstanding Entrepreneur: Miayan Yeremi, 31, a Mitacs PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and co-founder of Vancouver-based BarrelWise Technologies. Yeremi’s company has invented a breakthrough technology that provides winemakers with unprecedented automated information that lets them know exactly what’s going on inside each oak barrel in a […]
APSC Rising Star: Paige Ngo, BASc ’20, Mechanical Engineering
“The law of conservation of energy generally applies to your time at UBC. The amount of time and effort you put into a project will produce equal returns in terms of practical knowledge.” My parents came to Canada as refugees and worked extremely hard to provide for me (for which I am eternally grateful), and […]