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Using chemical engineering to launch a consulting career in environmental assessment
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What kind of work do you do and what is its impact? I’m an environmental assessment and permitting specialist at WSP. My role is to help clients understand the environmental impacts of their projects — not just on the natural environment, but…
Engineering healthier futures through wearable technology
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What kind of work do you do? I am a senior mechanical engineer at Garmin, working on the biosensor platform technology team. I help lead the mechanical design of wearable biometric sensor platforms – the parts of our devices that measure things…
From TRU to UBC: A transfer journey into computer engineering
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What got you interested in engineering? A lot of different things. Math and science always came naturally to me in elementary school, and in high school I took a coding course and a robotics course. Everything just clicked — the logic made…
Cross-Functional Engineering Leadership and Community
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Surya Krishna, a mechanical engineering graduate from the UBC Okanagan School of Engineering, is recognized as a 2026 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
From Adaptive Sports to Biomedical Engineering
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Brianna Tsuyuki, School of Biomedical Engineering graduate, is recognized as a 2026 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.
Campus, co-op and first place at the Canadian Mining Games
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How did you get interested in engineering? My high school hockey coach once offhandedly told me he thought I would make a good engineer. To be honest, I hadn’t really thought about it before. I enjoyed math and science in high school and knew…
From Vantage to CHBE
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How did you become interested in engineering? In high school, chemistry and biology were my favourite courses. I got even more interested in this area after doing a summer camp on gene editing, where I saw what gene editing actually looks like…
Engineering as a pathway to medicine
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Why did you want to study biomedical engineering? Both of my parents are engineers – my dad is a computer engineer and my mom is a mechanical engineer – so I always knew what engineering was about and considered it as an option. In high…
Stargazing to Problem-Solving on the Undercurrent of Physics
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Sabiha Bhuiyan, Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering graduate, is recognized as a 2026 Rising Star.
Expanding Human Touch Through Teleoperation
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David Black, a PhD graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is recognized as a 2026 UBC Applied Science Rising Star.