New publication relates CO2 levels with indoor temperature comfort
Could how comfortable building occupants find their indoor temperature be predicted by including measurements of carbon dioxide levels in the room? Yes, according to a new paper from UBC’s Building...
View ArticleUBC Mechanical Engineering welcomes robotics researcher Dr. Kefei Wen
Robotics specialist Dr. Kefei Wen is joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s faculty team as an Assistant Professor. Coming to UBC from a postdoctoral fellowship at the Continuum Robotics...
View ArticleNew “See-N-Seq” technology enables RNA sequencing of specific single cells...
The Multi Scale Design Laboratory (MDL) lead by Professor Hongshen Ma has recently published a new paper, “See-N-Seq: RNA sequencing of target single cells identified by microscopy via micropatterning...
View ArticleResearch collaboration on cancer therapy receives CIHR Project Grant
Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Hongshen Ma and the School of Biomedical Engineering’s Professor Megan Levings have received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant to...
View ArticleUBC team deploys pollution-sniffing mobile lab
Watch out, Vancouver. The PLUME van is coming soon to a location near you. An “air pollution lab on wheels,” PLUME will be used to measure concentrations of air pollutants across the city including...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Indigenous and Black Applied Science and Technology...
The Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology Momentum Fellowship is the flagship fellowship for the IBET PhD Project. This prestigious Fellowship will provide financial support of $40,000 per...
View ArticleMarine Industry selects winning designs at 2022 NAME Student Design Celebration
This spring the UBC Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering program returned to an in-person Student Design Celebration for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. After two years of...
View ArticleMECH, MAL lab, ICICS involved in UBC-Fraunhofer Collaboration on Industrial...
Within APSC, the collaboration is being supported by the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory (under the leadership of Prof. Yusuf Altintas), the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Bradshaw...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Mechanical Engineering Teaching Fellowship for PhD...
The Department of Mechanical Engineering wishes to promote undergraduate teaching excellence by annually awarding the Mechanical Engineering Teaching Fellowship to Senior PhD students who have...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships – Deadline:...
The UBC Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies and are available for most fields of research. The number of...
View ArticleCall for Applications: CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements – Fall...
CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements – Fall 2022 Competition The Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (CGS-MSFSS) Program supports...
View ArticleCall for Applications: IODE War Memorial Scholarships – Deadline: Oct 1, 2022
IODE War Memorial Scholarships The IODE War Memorial Scholarships support PhD scholars whose research makes important contributions to Canada and the world. Up to three scholarships of $15,000 for...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Tri-Agency CGS (CGSD)/ Affiliated Fellowships-Doctoral...
Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS-D) Applicants applying through UBC will either be: currently registered in, or are on an approved leave of absence from, a degree program at UBC...
View ArticleTwo NAME students awarded 2022 Jagdeep Singh Bakshi Scholarship
The 2022 Jagdeep Singh Bakshi Scholarship in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering has has been awarded to two NAME Master of Engineering students, recognizing their excellence in the two areas of...
View ArticleUBC Engineering students set to launch ‘sailbot’ to Hawaii
Raye is the first autonomous, robotic sailboat designed by students to cross the Pacific. Get ready for the next leap forward in autonomous driving—on the water. Raye, an 18-foot-long autonomous...
View ArticleDefence: Rodrigo Seiji Mitishita – Sept 9, 2022 | 9 AM | CEME 2202
Experiments on Turbulent Flows of Elasto-Viscoplastic Fluids Candidate: Rodrigo Seiji Mitishita, for the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering Date: Friday, September 9, 2022 Time: 9 AM Location: CEME...
View ArticleDefence: Hamed Helisaz – Sept 9, 2022 | 10:30 AM
An Investigation of Cancer Effect on Viscoelastic Properties of Prostate Gland via Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic Model Candidate: Hamed Helisaz, for the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering Date: Friday,...
View ArticleDefence: Chunlei Song – Sept 9, 2022 | 12:30 PM | CEME 2202
Modeling of Chip Formation Mechanism in Machining Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Candidate: Chunlei Song, for the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering Date: Friday, September 9, 2022 Time: 12:30 PM...
View ArticleCall for Nominations: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) established the Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral...
View ArticleUBC engineering students’ aircraft model features BC wood in international...
This article originally appeared in APSC News. Sitka spruce key to UBC AeroDesign’s 2022 and 2023 aircraft models. Following successful test flights in BC, UBC AeroDesign competed at SAE Aero Design...
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