Centres & Laboratories
Applied Science participates in a number of research centres and laboratories at UBC, some of which are inter-faculty collaborations and others of which are within Applied Science and involve inter-departmental collaborations.
Architecture & Landscape Architecture
- Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP)
- Design Centre for Sustainability
- elementslab
- ETA lab
- HiloLab
- Greenskins Lab
- The James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environment
- Making + Building @ SALA
Community & Regional Planning
Engineering
- Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL)
- Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC)
- Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
- Michael Smith Laboratories (MSL)
- Pulp & Paper Centre (PPC)
Nursing
- Capacity Research Unit
- Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry
- Critical Research in Health and Healthcare Inequities (CRiHHI)
- Gerontological Education Research & Outreach
- Men's Health Research
- Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre
Networks of Centres of Excellence
Applied Science faculty members also participate in several distinguished Networks of Centres of Excellence, including:
- AUTO 21 - The Automobile of the 21st Century
- Canadian Water Network
- Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- Intelligent Sensing for Innovative Structures
- Micronet-Microelectronic Devices, Circuits and Systems
- Sustainable Forest Management
NSERC Strategic Research Networks
UBC Applied Science faculty members are the primary investigators responsible for three NSERC Strategic Network Grants which provide $15m over five years. These include:
- Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology (CANRIMT)
- RESEAU Centre for Mobilizing Innovation
- Magnesium Network (MagNet)