Awards, Chairs and Professorships

Teaching & Research Awards

The Department is renown for both its teaching and research. With 49 regular faculty members and over 700 students, the department strives for excellence and has been recognized through multiple awards.

Please click below to view our Department’s awards and honours.

Awards

Recent Awards

Faculty teaching and research awards from within the last ten years:

2024 - Ian Frigaard, CSME Fluid Mechanics Medal
2023 - Amanda Giang, UBC Killam Research Prize
2023 - Graham Hendra, Junior Faculty Teaching Award
2023 - Bill Rawlings, Junior Faculty Teaching Award
2023 - Markus Fengler, Richard Hare Memorial Award
2023 - Jon Mikkelsen, SNAME Faculty Advisor of the Year Award
2023 - Pete Ostafichuk, Engineers Canada Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education
2022 - Ian Frigaard, Stanley G. Mason Award, Canadian Society of Rheology
2022 - Juan Abelló, UBC Killam Teaching Prize, the University of British Columbia
2021 - Gwynn Elfring, UBC Faculty Research Award: Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
2021 - Boris Stoeber - Dean's Award for Excellence in Service
2020 - Agnes d'Entremont, Outstanding New Mechanical Engineering Educator, American Society for Engineering Education
2019 - Ian Frigaard, Killam Research Prize, The University of British Columbia
2019 - Gwynn Elfring, Killam Research Fellowship, The University of British Columbia
2019 - Patrick Kirchen, Killam Teaching Prize, The University of British Columbia
2019 - Lyndia Wu, Scholar Award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
2017 - Antony Hodgson, Excellence in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery Award
2017 - Gwynn Elfring, Dean's Excellence in Service Award, The University of British Columbia
2017 - Peter Ostafichuk, Margaret Fulton Award, The University of British Columbia
2017 - Sheldon Green, Dean's Excellence in Service Award, The University of British Columbia
2017 - Thomas Oxland, Killam Teaching Award, The University of British Columbia
2017 - Walter Merida, Peter Wall Scholar Research Award, The University of British Columbia
2016 - Dana Grecov, Peter Wall Scholar Research Award, The University of British Columbia
2016 - Nima Atabaki, Killam Teaching Award, The University of British Columbia
2016 - Yusuf Altintas, Georg Schlesinger Award
2016 - Yusuf Altintas, NSERC Strategic Research Network in Virtual Machining Grant
2015 - Douglas Romily, AUTO21 KTTF Award, AUTO21 NCE for Canada
2015 - Peter Cripton, Dean's Excellence in Service Award, The University of British Columbia
2015 - Peter Ostafichuk, 3M National Teaching Fellow, The University of British Columbia
2014 - Agnes d’Entremont, Postdoctoral Travel Award, Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI)
2014 - Clarence de Silva, Peter Wall Scholar Research Award, The University of British Columbia
2014 - Hongshen Ma, Institute of Genetics Maud Menten New Principal Investigator Finalist Prize, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2014 - James Olson, Meritorious Achievement Award, APEGBC
2014 - Steve Feng, Killam Teaching Award, The University of British Columbia
2013 - Agnes d'Entremont, Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Student Leader Award (Graduate Student), Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC
2013 - Antony Hodgson, Best Technical Poster Award, International Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Society
2013 - Douglas Romily, Honourable Mentions Award for Poster, AUTO 21 Conference
2013 - Gary Schajer, B.J. Lazan Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics
2013 - Jon Mikkelsen, OMAE Conference Appreciation Award, ASME
2013 - Thomas Oxland, Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2013 - Yusuf Altintas, NSERC Synergy Award
2013 - Yusuf Altintas, Special Distinguished Scientist Award in Engineering and Science, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey
2013 - Yusuf Altintas, The Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, ASME

Honours

Recent Honours

Faculty honours from within the last ten years:

2024 - Adam T. Clare, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2024 - Agnes d'Entremont, Fellow of the The Canadian Engineering Education Association
2024 - Rajeev Jaiman, Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
2024 - Yusuf Altintas, Officer of the Order of Canada
2024 - W. Kendal Bushe, Fellow of The Combustion Institute
2022 - Yusuf Altintas, member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
2021 - Yusuf Altintas, member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering
2021 - Walter Mérida, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
2020 - Peter Ostafichuk, Fellow of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
2019 - Ian Frigaard, Fellow of the Society of Rheology
2019 - Robert Rohling, Fellow of IEEE
2018 - Tom Oxland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
2017 - Peter Ostafichuk, Wighton Fellowship, Sandford Fleming Foundation
2016 - Yusuf Altintas, President of International Academy for Production Engineering
2016 - Farrokh Sassani, Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers
2016 - Jon Mikkelsen, Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
2015 - Mu Chiao, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2015 - Carl Ollivier-Gooch, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2015 - Christopher McKesson, Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
2013 - Agnes dEntremont, Engineers-In-Scrubs Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biomedical Engineering, UBC
2013 - James Olson, FPInnovations Professorship in Pulp and Paper Engineering
2013 - Yusuf Altintas, Fellow of Engineers Canada
2013 - Yusuf Altintas, Honorary Doctor Causa, Budapest Technical University and Economics

Canadian Research Chairs

Dr. Amanda Giang	Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modelling for Policy
Dr. Xiaoliang Jin	Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Manufacturing
Dr. Lyndia Wu	Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Wearable Brain Injury Sensing
Dr. Naomi Zimmerman	Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Real-World Air Quality Sensing

Industry Funded Chairs and Professorships

Dr. Yusuf Altintas	NSERC/Pratt & Whitney Canada Industrial Research Chair in Virtual High Performance Machining
Dr. Rajeev Jaiman	NSERC/Seaspan Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent and Green Marine Vessels (IGMVs)
Dr. Jasmin Jelovica	NSERC/Seaspan Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent and Green Marine Vessels (IGMVs)
Dr. Patrick Kirchen	Rosenblatt Professorship in Marine Engineering at UBC
Dr. James Olson	FP Innovations Professorship in Pulp and Paper Engineering
Dr. Christoph Sielmann	Marshall Bauder Chair in Experiential Learning and Leadership

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