Andrea Palmer named one of BCBusiness' 30 Under 30

Andrea Palmer, founder of Awake Labs, was recently named among BCBusiness’ 2017 30 Under 30.  This award recognizes young entrepreneurs who are excelling professionally, are innovative in their industry, and who are giving back to others and the community.

A prominent theme among the 2017 winners is the passion to make the world a better place, something that Palmer certainly aims to do with the creation of the Reveal. Starting out as a university project during her undergraduate degree, the Reveal is a wearable device that has gained Palmer national recognition. Designed to measure stress indicators, such as heart rate and skin temperature, and transmit the data to a smartphone app, she hopes to use the device to monitor signs of anxiety, specifically in children with autism or other neurological disorders.

This year’s winners will be recognized at the 2017 BCBusiness 30 Under 30 event on Thursday, April 13th, 2017 at the Vancouver Club.

Congratulations Andrea Palmer!

You can read more about Palmer and  the 30 Under 30 Awards at: BCBusiness

Wondering how Andrea Palmer got where she is now? Follow the history of Awake Labs through our various stories on Palmer and Reveal:
Andrea Palmer, Founder of Awake Labs, Receives Startup Canada’s Young Entrepreneur Award (September 2016)
UBC Engineering Alumni Team Up to Help Families Cope with Autism (April 2016)
Dr. Elizabeth Croft and Alumna Andrea Palmer Win Wendy McDonald Awards (April 2016)
MECH Alumna Andrea Palmer Joins Innovation Hub, Makes Headlines (February 2016)
Mechanical Engineering Student Wins GIC (April 2015)

A team of four engineering students — Andrew Dworschak (Engineering Physics), Connor McFadyen (Mechanical), Allan Ng (Mechanical Engineering) and Jenny Yang (Engineering Physics) — won second place in the Senior Design category at the Canadian Engineering Competition on March 2-6 in Calgary.

The Senior Design competition challenges teams to design and construct a working prototype to complete a given engineering objective. The tasks are designed to test the competitors’ knowledge in design theory, technical skills, time management and teamwork. This year’s challenge was called Nuclear Meltdown: a nuclear facility had a malfunction, causing it to constantly release fuel cells (represented by water balloons). The team challenge was to build a robot (Bluetooth or wired) that could collect and bring the fuel cells to containment zones, activate a kill-switch and finally return back to safety in 2.5 minutes. The students were given ten hours to design, build and test the prototype before a final presentation to a judging panel.

“Having had previous experience with VEX robotics kits and Arduino programming, our team felt quite prepared to take on the given task this year!” said Jenny Yang. “Although we ran into quite a few challenges during the design process, we remained adaptable and determined, allowing us to power through in the end! Since I grew up in Calgary, it was great to go home and compete on familiar soil. I had an extremely rewarding experience with both my Senior Design team, as well as the rest of the UBC!”

The students first competed together in 2016 under the Junior Design category, where they placed fourth. This year, they wanted to make a comeback and are very pleased with their second place win.

Congratulations!

Original story from: APSC News

On February 1st, 2017, the department of Mechanical Engineering recognized nine undergraduate students who excelled during their time in the MECH 2 program.  The following students achieved an over 85% average in their second year studies:

Riley Aldis
Kye Arbuckle
Jenny Chu
Carter Tung Yung Fang
Anthony Jun-Shiang Hsu
Jose Francisco Martinez Castro
Alexander Bruce von Schulmann
Kevin Ta
Raymond Yu

Please join us in congratulating these exceptional students!

The winning team, B4Electronics, competing with their “spacecraft”, Orange is the New Black .

Wednesday, January 25th, MECH 2 students took part in the annual MECH 223 design competition. This year, students were asked to recreate NASA’s historic 2005 Cassini mission — a mission that successfully landed a probe on Saturn’s largest moon Titan. As part of this simulation, students had to design a 3D printed Launcher and an autonomous Orbiter spacecraft capable of deploying a set of standard Landers — or probes.

Represented by balls, 20 teams had to shoot their probes across a 160 square-foot table and have it “orbit” around the fake Titan, which was simulated by a funnel. Each team was timed and graded on the machine’s ability to shoot three different-sized balls into the funnel (or Titan’s orbit).

CBC Vancouver, Global News, and the Discovery Channel were also on site to cover the event, as well as to conduct interviews with some of our professors and student teams. When asked about by CBC about the learning outcomes of this project , MECH 2 Coordinator Dr Agnes d’Entremont stated that the goal of the project was to teach students the need to minimize costs, consider weight restrictions, while ultimately ensuring maximum performance ability.

The winning team, B4Electronics, received the overall highest score with their “spacecraft,” Orange is the New Black.

See more about the competition here as well: Global News, Surrey Now

More photos from the event can be found here: MECH 2 Design Competition: Titan Endurance