Class of 2020 Virtual Graduation Reception & Guestbook
Congratulations to the class of 2020! We’re excited for you to celebrate your university achievements, and to embark on your next chapter and the bright future ahead.
If you couldn’t make the Virtual Graduation Reception and Awards Ceremony on June 11th you can watch the recording here, featuring words from Department Head Dr. Steve Feng, Dean James Olson, and Mechanical Engineering PhD Student and FlowO2 Respirator team member Sam Berryman, as well as a toast to the graduating class by Club Mech President Paige Ngo. Faculty members Dr. Sheldon Green, Dr. Tony Hodgson, Dr. Gary Schajer, Dr. Mike Van der Loos, Dr. Lyndia Wu, Dr. Agnes d’Entremont, Professor Jon Mikkelsen, and Lecturer Markus Fengler also offer their congratulatory messages to the class of 2020!
Read below to learn about this year’s Mechanical Engineering award recipients. We also have a guestbook below, and we welcome everyone to leave a message of congratulations for our graduates.
Award Winners
Major Awards
Letson Prizes
The Letson Prizes are given to the Head of the Graduating Class for each program Option. Our 2020 winners are:
Mark Lim – General stream
Jackson Robinson – Biomedical
Ryan Lee – Mechatronics
Brendan Ward – Thermofluids
Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering Gold Medal
The CSME Gold Medal is awarded to a student for overall outstanding academic achievement in Mechanical Engineering.
2020 recipient: Bryan Logue
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Achievement Award in Engineering.
This award is given to one graduating student in each Department who shows great promise.
2020 recipient: Ryan Lee
Dale CHERCHAS Memorial Prize
This award is endowed in memory of Dr. Dale Cherchas, a leading researcher in Mechanical Engineering, and recognizes the top student in the area of Controls & Dynamics.
2020 recipient: Jackson Robinson.
Design Awards
Capstone Design Award
This award is given to the best performing team in our 4th year capstone design course. The “Kastrup Lab” team achieved the highest team mark (95%) in the 2019-2020 MECH 45X course and exemplified stellar performance in innovation and design practice.
Sponsor: Michael Smith Labs, UBC
Liaison: Dr. Christian Kastrup, ckastrup@msl.ubc.ca
Project: T14 – “Catheter-based hemostatic powder spray system to stop internal bleeding”
Team members:
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David NIKKEL Memorial Prize in Engineering Design
This award is given to one graduating student who has excelled in creative design throughout their 4th year.
2020 Recipient: Nigel Myers
Student Leadership Awards
The following students have continually excelled in providing leadership and inspiration to their peers throughout their degree, and are being awarded with a Student Leadership Award for their contribution to the engineering community.
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Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Student Leader Award
2020 recipient: Paige Ngo
This award recognizes the top undergraduate student who has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and has made outstanding contributions to the Department and Faculty, specifically in the realms of student affairs, design competition teams, professional association student chapters, and other related activities.
Excellence in Academic Achievement
Undergraduate Degree with Distinction
Degree with Distinction is awarded to students who have achieved an overall first-class average in their second through fourth year courses. We are very proud to have so many undergraduate students recognized for their scholastic excellence.
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Graduate Student Academic Achievement Awards.
These awards are given to graduate students who have achieved an overall average throughout their program of above 90%.
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Congratulations to all of our outstanding award winners!
Guestbook
Thank you to everyone who has left a message in our guestbook for the graduating class of 2020! If you would like to add a message for graduates, professors, or staff who made an impact on your journey, please email communications@mech.ubc.ca with your name and note.
Congratulations to all Engineering grads. To our granddaughter Janelle Lawson, we are immensely proud of your achievements. Well done !!
Congratulations to our niece Janelle Lawson on her graduation and amazing achievements!! We are so proud of you and are excited for you as you begin this next chapter.
Best wishes to all the class of 2021. We wish you all health, happiness and success, especially to our dear niece Tania. 🪅❤️🪅❤️🪅❤️
Thank you to my peers, my professors, and the Mech faculty for making this journey such a memorable one. I most definitely could not have done it without you. All the best to everyone in the future, a huge CONGRATS to my fellow grads, and GO MECH!
To my grandson, Jacob! Congratulations on graduating UBC with your Mechanical Engineering degree. I’m so proud of you! Wishing you infinite success and happiness in your new career!
To my grandson David. I’ve been waiting so long to see your graduation. Due to COVID, we were shortchanged of that opportunity. My heart is beaming with pride. You’ve worked so hard the past few years and now you’re an Engineer! I wish you infinite success and happiness levendi mou! I am so proud of you and I love you to the moon! Yiayia
Congrats Jacob! It’s been a long road and lot of work, but now is when it pays off (literally!). Excited to see what the next chapter brings for you!
A huge shoutout to everyone in this cohort, as well as all the MECH professors that gave us a safe space to fail and try again. So excited to keep in touch with all the fantastic people that have inspired me and see what great stuff you all do 🙂
Jacob, congratulations on your degree with distinction! We are so proud of you! Your great-grandpa Ray was a Mechanical Engineer and if you follow in his footsteps you will have a long and rewarding career. Wishing you fulfilling and gratifying work now and in the years ahead!
Getting an engineering degree has been a challenging yet rewarding academic experience! I am grateful for MECH department professors and my cohort for their creative presence. I must say this presence is what has made this journey much more surmountable and exciting! I wish you all to successfully embark on your next chapter in life without losing curiosity and passion for designing! Cheers to the Class of 2021!
Congrats Jacob! It’s been a long road and lot of work, but now is when it pays off (literally!). Excited to see what the next chapter brings for you!
Congratulations on your degree, Jacob! Way to put in the hard work, you’ve now earned the opportunity to now be paid for your hard work. Proud of you.
To: David Stewart
So proud of your accomplishment! and so very proud of you with all the hard work that you have put in these last 4 years. David, I would like to introduce you to the world! World, I would like to introduce you to David Stewart, Graduate of the Engineering Department of UBC 2021. Now get out there and have some fun!
Congratulations graduates! It was such an honour to study alongside all of you. This is just the beginning; I can’t wait to see what the future holds in store for everyone!
Congratulations Tanipoo you made it in style!
You all worked very hard to achieve your goal, congratulations to the Class of 2021 ! And working from home for more than a year is no small feat… Sebastiaan, tout le monde ici, aux Pays Bas et en France, est super fier de toi, bravo et passe un tres bel ete !!
Congratulations to Cole and all Mechanical Graduates. We are very proud and wish you continued success and happiness!
Congratulations to Connor Schellenberg, Janelle Lawson, and the entire Class of 2021…along with a special shout-out to Emilie Boras for her touching and memorable valedictory message. Well done everyone!
Congratulations Seif Wadi on your well-deserved success, wish you all the best in your future. We are very proud of you and your achievement. Unfortunately we were unable to attend (time difference), we hope to see it when published.
Well done UBC and congrats to the new graduates and to our son – CRAIG D’COSTA. Have been privileged to interact with some of the grads from his batch and would like to commend the faculty for turning out not just a group of engineers but wonderful human beings as well. Thanks for making the ceremony happen despite the challenges. All the best !!!!!!
Congratulations Alden! We are proud of your accomplishments! Can’t wait to see where you go next. Who would have thought that you would spend one term on Campus and then complete your degree remotely from home. Thank you to UBC for making it happen in spite of a worldwide pandemic.
Congratulations Tania on this wonderful achievement! Being an engineering student is not easy, being an engineering student in a completely different country is even harder, being an engineering student in a completely different country during your last year AND in the middle of a pandemic MUST BE THE HARDEST! We are all so proud of you and the rest of your class 🙂
Congratulations to Cole and all Mechanical Graduates. We are very proud and wish you continued success and happiness!
Congratulations to every student as a fellow student I admire you and am only a bit jealous that you’re done! A special congrats to Tania! I am so proud of you and I know you will run the world! Cheers to a new stage of life 🍾
Congratulations to all mech eng grads. 🎉 Treasure the friendships you made and best wishes as you embark on your careers.
Congratulations to all graduates! Tania, I’m so proud of you!! Love from Mexico ❤️
Congratulations Andrea and all the 2021 Mechanical Engineering Graduates! We are so proud of you 👏
Congratulations Tanipoo you made it in style!
Best wishes to all the class of 2021. We wish you all health, happiness and success, especially to our dear niece Tania. 🪅❤️🪅❤️🪅❤️
Congratulations Taniaaaaaaa! We are very proud of you. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Congratulations to the class of 2021! Good job Tania!
It’s been a pleasure to share the last several years with this graduating class. Congratulations to everyone – I can’t wait to see what the future holds for each of us.
Congratulations to all the graduates!
Congratulations everyone! I’m so grateful to have gotten the chance to know many of you. I’ve learned so much from my student peers over these past few years. Thanks to my professors who patiently taught me everything I know, and providing us all a safe place to make mistakes so that someday we’ll succeed.
Shout out to club MECH leadership and also the CIRS soup, congrats everyone!
Congratulations to Connor Schellenberg and all of the Mechanical Engineering Graduates. You worked so hard, but it will be worth it for many years to come.
Congratulations Shaikh Sumit Noor❤️
We are so proud of you :’) May Almighty bless you with all the sucess you desire
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Congratulations to all the graduates – well done! Wishing you all the very best in your future adventures.
Congratulations to all the graduates! You made it!
I wish you all the best!
Congratulations and best wishes to the class of 2021! It was so nice to finally “meet” you all. Thank you for letting us be a part of this experience with you.
Love you Jacob!
TANIAAA!! Muchísimas felicidades por tu graduación y gran logro! Sabemos que fue difícil pero te lo mereces. Un abrazo enorme de todo corazón.
Congratulations Craig & all the other graduates! What a fantastic achievement especially during such a difficult year. All the best with your journey. HUGS FROM TORONTO & DUBAI
Congratulations to everyone! I’ve been honoured to get to know so many of you (in Mech 2 and beyond), and I’m so proud of all that you’ve achieved. Best of luck in the future!
Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
Congratulations everyone! We made it!!
This is one of the proud moments. Congratulations Sridharan Rajagopal!! How much we wish we were all there as many others to cherish the moment with you. Congratulations!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS NEW ACHIEVEMENT TANIA MAIR! I AM SO PROUD OF YOU FRIEND
HUGS FROM MEXICO,
PAOLA GTZ
Congrats Tania!! 🙂
Congratulations, grads!!!
Congratulations to all of you on completing a long, hard journey that wasn’t made any easier under the circumstances of the past ~15 months. You have developed a great skill set (demonstrating impressive resilience along the way) enabling you to move ahead and accomplish exciting things. Best of luck and don’t hesitate to be in contact in the months and/or years ahead!
Congrats Tania Mair! We love you <3 Best wishes from Mexico
Congratulations to all graduates!!!!!
Congrats Tania Mair! We love you <3 Best wishes from Mexico
WUUU Muchas Felicidades Tania!! Te queremos mucho <3
¡Muchas felicidades, Tania! Estamos muy orgullosos
¡Muchas felicidades, Tania! Estamos muy orgullosos
CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS NEW ACHIEVEMENT TANIA MAIR! I AM SO PROUD OF YOU FRIEND
HUGS FROM MEXICO,
PAOLA GTZ
Con-GRAD-ulations to all members of the Class of 2021! You have achieved much in times of adversity, and I cannot wait to see how your paths move forward. Tuum Est!
Thank you to all the staff and professors who have made my experience here at UBC during 2019-2020 rewarding and memorable. Thank you friends and families for the support you have shown me throughout the year. All the best to everyone!
Randy Yuwono, M.Eng. Mechatronics Design 2019-2020
Congratulations to Randy Yuwono and all MECH 2021 Grads!
Wishing you all the best in your career.
Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
Congratulations graduates! You make it past several obstacles and reached the completion of your degree – well done!
Now good luck with the next step in your career!
Congratulations to everyone!
Congratulations to all the students graduating this fall! Well done on your achievement!
Thank you, all my professors, especially Dr.Altintas, and Dr. Nagamune. Congratulations to all the graduates! Wish you all the best.
I want to wish everyone congratulations.
For our NAME students, I must say how much I enjoyed having you in my class and getting to know all of you. I must say that our Christmas party was a highlight along with our SNAME trips and trivia night at Biercraft. Your patience with us during the COVID time is greatly appreciated. I look forward to seeing you all in person in the near future. Stay in touch.
Jon
Thank you all and congratulation to my fellow graduates!
It has been a roller-coaster ride this year and having the support that I had was essential for me.
Went through really dark times but as there is light at the end of the tunnel, I am happy to graduate with this degree.
Hope NAME program grows even more!
Thank you!
Congrats everyone, we did it!
Congrats to the MECH graduates! It was nice to join the Zoom ceremony.
Congratulations everyone!
It has been lovely to get to know you all and I can’t wait to hear about what you get up to next! Once covid-19 is over, feel free to come back and visit. The MECH Student Services office will always be there for you with candy.
It is my greatest honor and fortunate to have Dr. de Silva’s supervision for my master studies!
Congrats to all the MECH Graduates 🙂 Good luck to all of you as you move toward the next chapter!
I would like to congratulate all graduated student of 2020’s class upon this astounding achievement , been a long uneven path, we made it though.
Congratulations to myself and to everyone for completing such tremendous achievements at UBC Mechanical Engineering!
I want you to know that I am proud of every one of you. I am happy, nay delighted, to welcome you to an industry that (as you know) is my passion. I am fully confident that you are going to do well in your careers, wherever you choose to take them. Bravo Zulu to the NAME Class of 2020!
Thank you, professors and staff. Congrats to the class of 2020!
Love you Hadyan! And wish you all the best class of 2020!
So proud of you Ahmad! Congrats my love ❣️
Congratulations to the MECH class of 2020! Well done!
Thank you, professors and staff. Congrats to the class of 2020!
Congratulations and all the best graduates!
Congrats everyone!
It is my greatest honor and fortunate to have Dr. de Silva’s supervision for my master studies!
Congratulations to all our MECH graduates!
Congratulations! Wishing you all the best as you achieve your goals.
Heather (MECH Reception)
Congrats Faezeh! ^_^
Congratulations Rachael! We are so proud of you! You have come through with flying colours. Keep going in life and you will go far. We love you
Congratulations to all of the Graduates of 2020.
Hearty congratulations to the graduating MECH class of 2020. All the best in your future endeavors!
We made it! A big thanks to all the professors, staffs, classmates and friends for your supports! I am sure we will meet somewhere someday in the future and I am super excited about it. Best wishes to everyone!
Best,
Shichen(Sharon) Fan
Congratulations everyone on your impressive achievement. It has been an enjoyable experience getting to work with many of you over the past few years. Your work here at UBC has equipped you well to achieve great things — best of luck accomplishing your future goals!
Congratulations to all of our graduating students! You should be very proud of all that you’ve accomplished. I wish you all well in your future adventures.
Congratulations to all the graduating students! You did it! Take a well-deserved rest, enjoy the summer, and all the best for your future endeavors!
Cheers,
Lyndia
Congratulations to all the 2020 Graduates and my best wishes for your future, I enjoyed working with many of you over the past few years. Many opportunities are available to you and hopefully the recent disruptions will eventually seem like only a small bump in the road.
Congratulations to MECH Class of 2020! I wish you all the best in your future adventure!
Congrats everybody!! Cheers to all the times we heard Jeff yelling at Tetris in the first floor of the EDC
Congrats everyone, we did it!
It has truly been an honour meeting, working with, and developing bonds with some of you during my time at UBC. I would also like to thank all the profs, faculty and staff for all they’ve done to educate and support us along our journey.
Getting here today has had its ups and downs and although I wish we were graduating under better circumstances, things can only get better from this point onward.
I am proud of everyone and wishing you all the best with your future endeavors!
Congratulations MECH Grad-stars! We are so proud of you all!
Best wishes for the future and please feel free to come back to visit/chat/brag about what you’re up to next time you visit UBC. Our office (and the candy jar) will always be there for you.
Many thanks to the Mechanical Engineering Department at UBC for supporting me. Your help and support made this journey enjoyable and memorable. Special thanks to my amazing and caring PhD supervisor, Prof. Ian Frigaard for constant support and being knowledgable and passionate. I also thank my friends in CEME 1051 to make my PhD life fun. Lastly, thanks to my family for endless love and support.
Congratulations Mech grads 2020!
Congratulations MECH class of 2020! We will really miss you as you venture out from UBC, and we are confident that you will make us proud. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Best wishes,
Sheldon
Congratulations Collin! We are proud of your accomplishments and the leader you have become.
There’s never enough duct tape!
WE DID IT, GUYS!
Congratulations Gabrielle Boutros! Your father and I are so very proud of you. Congratulations on your awards and on your degree. Our hearts are bursting with love and pride.
We also offer our congratulations to the entire graduating class. It is a very tough program and you succeeded. May you have much success in your future endeavours.
We made it!
Congratulations everyone on this huge milestone and good luck in all your future endeavours!
Congrats Serena Seraphim & Jackson Robinson. Proud of you both.
Congratulations everyone! We did it!
Congratulations class of 2020! I’m so grateful for everything I learned during my degree, and I wish everyone the best!
Congratulations to the MECH grad class of 2020! Thanks to all the professors who were able to shift to online learning at the drop of a hat! And thanks to all of the amazing friends who made my experience at UBC memorable – I’m so proud of all of you! The only way to go from here is up 🙂
Congratulations class of 2020! I’m so grateful for everything I learned during my degree, and I wish everyone the best!
Congratulations Mech Grads! You’ve made it! All the hard work, late nights and study sessions have paid off! The future is all yours! From the proud parent of a Mech Engineer, Amy Hashemi
Con-GRAD-ulations all! Best wishes for the future, and welcome to the alumni community!
Finally become ph.d. Great thanks to my PI Dr. Hongshen Ma, and all previous and current lab members, and MECH staff members. It’s been a challenging but pleasure time.
We made it 🙂 Finally.
Congratulations Class of 2020! The future is in our hands.
Congratulations MECH Grads!! We finally made it 🙂
Heartfelt thank you to all the classmates, professors, staff, and friends that made it possible for the Class of 2020.
I’ll see you all someday again and best of luck in your future endeavors. Cheers!
What an achievement! Congratulations to the MECH class of 2020.
Cheers! Hopefully we’ll meet again in the future 🙂
MECH grads, I have so enjoyed getting to know you during Mech 2 and in the years following. I’m proud of you and your many accomplishments! All the best in the future!
Congrats to all MECH grads, this is a great achievement. Special salute to the SailBot team members, for all your effort and ingenuity — “sail on”. From the proud parents of Oscar Janzen
Congratulations on your graduation and best of luck in your future career !
Congratulations Class of 2020!!!
Best wishes for the future to all of our 2020 graduates!