Call for Applications: Spring Graduate Awards Competition – Deadline: May 4,...
Spring Graduate Awards Competition A number of criteria-based awards for the 2020/21 academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students. Applicants will apply via their graduate...
View ArticleMECH TAs win Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Two Mechanical Engineering Teaching Assistants, Mahsa Khalili and Masoud Malakoutian, have been recognized with a Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for the 2019/2020 year. This award recognizes...
View ArticleMaking a difference: UBC students design low-cost ventilator for COVID-19
UBC MEDIA RELATIONS: BC engineering students have developed a simple, low-cost COVID-19 ventilator that may very well save lives. Their design—built around a modified BiPAP machine—is among the final...
View ArticleCall for Applications: CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award –...
CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award The CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards are made to individuals who have completed PhD dissertations representing original work that make an...
View ArticleCall for Applications: International Policy Ideas Challenge 2020 – Deadline:...
International Policy Ideas Challenge 2020 The objective of the International Policy Ideas Challenge program is to draw on the network of talented Canadian graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and...
View ArticleCall for Applications: IDRC Doctoral Research Awards – Deadline: June, 17 2020
IDRC Doctoral Research Awards IDRC Doctoral Research Awards are intended to promote the capacity and growth of Canadian and developing country research to improve the lives of people in the developing...
View ArticleCall for Applications: CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study...
CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements – Spring 2020 Competition The Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (CGS-MSFSS) Program supports...
View ArticleFaculty Receive NSERC/Seaspan Industrial Research Chair for Intelligent and...
Vancouver is a marine hub, a port for trade and shipbuilding that draws traffic from all over the world into BC’s coastal waters. These waters are also home to North America’s dwindling population of...
View ArticleCambridge Recognizes Dr. Clarence de Silva with Prestigious Doctor of Science...
UBC Mechanical Engineering faculty member Professor Clarence de Silva has achieved the prestigious Doctor of Science (ScD) degree at the University of Cambridge. This higher doctorate (unique to the...
View ArticleMechanical Engineering Alumnus Awarded Dean’s Medal of Distinction
The 2020 recipients of the Dean’s Medal of Distinction have been announced, and include Mechanical Engineering alumnus Bill Adams, who received his BASc in Mechanical Engineering in 1987. The Dean’s...
View ArticleRobert Allan Memorial Scholarship in Naval Architecture – Deadline: June 30,...
Robert Allan Memorial Scholarship in Naval Architecture Apply for the Robert Allan Memorial Scholarship in Naval Architecture. The award value is approximately $2,500 which will be payable toward the...
View ArticleUBC Mechanical Engineering Prof Receives Human Frontier Science Program Grant
Mattia Bacca, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UBC, has been awarded a three-year research grant from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization. The France-based organization,...
View ArticleProjects by MECH Faculty Receive Competitive New Frontiers in Research Funding
Dr. Zimmerman, Dr. Giang, Dr. Ponga, and Dr. Jelovica Two research projects lead by Mechanical Engineering faculty members have received funding from the competitive Government of Canada New Frontiers...
View ArticleUBC News: UBC researchers develop portable ultrasound scanner network for...
UBC’s Dr. Teresa Tsang (Medicine), Purang Abolmaesumi (Medicine), Robert Rohling (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Dr. Oron Frenkel (Electrical and Computer Engineering)...
View ArticleRio Tinto Graduate Scholarships – Deadline: June 8, 2020
Rio Tinto Graduate Scholarships As part of its ongoing commitment to innovation and research, Rio Tinto offers an $18,000 graduate scholarship for a UBC graduate student in a field of pure or applied...
View ArticleAboriginal Graduate Fellowship Bridge Funding – Deadline: June 15, 2020
Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship Bridge Funding The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will match funds provided by graduate programs (to a maximum of $8,000 per student and to a maximum of...
View ArticleDr. Agnes d’Entremont Wins Killam Teaching Prize
Mechanical Engineering faculty member Dr. Agnes d’Entremont has won a 2019/2020 Killam Teaching Prize in recognition of her excellence in teaching. Faculty are nominated for the Killam Teaching Prize...
View ArticleStatement Against Racism
Reflecting on the violence against Black communities in Canada and the United States, both currently and historically, the Department of Mechanical Engineering stands in solidarity with those facing...
View ArticleAlison Boutros
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...
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