MECH student wins award at Ohio State University
MECH student wins award at Ohio State University Mechanical engineering masters student Seth Gilchrist received the Dr. Margaret H. Hines Award for Best Poster Presentation at the 9th Annual Injury...
View ArticleUBC Thunderbots Compete in RoboCup World Championship
The UBC Thunderbots have returned from competing in the RoboCup World Championship in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from June 24th to July 1st, 2013. RoboCup is a worldwide initiative dedicated to...
View ArticleJuly Department Lab Tour
The Mechanical Engineering Department annually hosts guided lab tours for high school students, first year students, or anyone interested in mechanical engineering, to show them what the MECH...
View ArticleAugust Department Lab Tour
The Mechanical Engineering Department annually hosts guided lab tours for high school students, first year students, incoming MECH students, or anyone interested in mechanical engineering, to show them...
View ArticleUBC engineering student one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20
UBC engineering student Armin Rezaiean-Asel has been recognized by Youth in Motion as one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20, an award that celebrates and honours Canadians under the age of 20 who have...
View ArticleMECH students win first place at sustainable design competition
Mechanical engineering students Jayson Bursill, Natasha Palmer, Angela Walton and Gavin Wong have won first place in their category at the 2013 ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and...
View ArticleUBC AeroDesign Steps Towards New Frontiers
When they brought home a trophy from their first competition, did the original UBC AeroDesign members imagine that their project would be still alive today? 21 years after the team’s first showcase at...
View ArticleRobot unlocking the secrets to balance problems – The Vancouver Sun
Researchers at the University of British Columbia are looking for new ways to treat patients with balance disorders. Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin DC, PhD, Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation...
View ArticleImagine Day 2013 – September 3
Welcome, or welcome back! Imagine Day, an orientation and community-building day on September 3rd, is right around the corner! The Department of Mechanical Engineering is holding an Exclusive Lab Open...
View ArticlePulp industry energy research gets $2.7M in funding
The University of British Columbia’s Pulp and Paper Centre (PPC) has received $2.7 million to reduce energy and greenhouse gas emissions of one of B.C.’s largest industries by 50 per cent before 2020....
View ArticleUBC Marine engineers win international ferry design competition, record...
A team of UBC Engineering students has won the World Ferry Safety Association international student competition for their Safe Affordable Ferry design. Mechanical Engineering students Brenden Oke,...
View ArticleUBC engineers win Shell International Engineering Competition
A team of four UBC Engineering students won first place in the inaugural Shell International Engineering Competition (IEC), Consulting category, on Friday, September 13 in Calgary, Alberta. Andrea...
View ArticleDr. Elizabeth Croft featured in New York Times article, “How Robots Can Trick...
“…Elizabeth Croft, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia, has done a study in which humans and robotic arms pass objects back and forth — a skill that would be...
View Article“Eena” welcomes you to UBC’s Mechanical Engineering Department
“Eena” is the Chinook word for beaver, the animal engraved in the art installation that now welcomes you to UBC’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Alan Steeves, Computer and Electronics Manager...
View ArticleUBC Robot Learns to Interact with People
Charlie, a Willow Garage PR2 robot – and the only one in Canada – helps researchers study human-robot interactions. The research team in the CARIS (Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent...
View ArticleOctober Department Lab Tour
The Mechanical Engineering Department annually hosts guided lab tours for high school students, first year students, incoming MECH students, or anyone interested in mechanical engineering, to show them...
View ArticleOctober 10, 2013 Seminar –“Tailoring the dynamics of mechanical oscillators &...
Speaker: Professor Izhak Bucher, Head of the Dynamics and Mechatronics Laboratory, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. in CEME Room 1202...
View ArticleOctober 17, 2013 Seminar –“There and back again: low-carbon pathways for...
Speaker : Dr. Walter Mérida, MECH/UBC http://merida.mech.ubc.ca Date & Time: Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 12:30 pm Location: CEME Room 1202 Abstract: Dr. Mérida will illustrate the...
View ArticleOctober 24, 2013 – Seminar –“Advances in the Design and Use of Rehabilitation...
Speaker: Dr. H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, Associate Professor , MECH/UBC Date/Time: Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 at 12:30 p.m Location: CEME 1202 Abstract: R&D over the past 20 years has significantly...
View ArticleUBC Formula Team Video
Thank you to the faculty and staff and UBC, our sponsors, and all of the alumni that have helped us make the 2013 car the lightest and arguably the best that Formula UBC has ever produced. We hope that...
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