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Celebrating exploration and embracing uncertainty

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Chat with Stephanie

From Legos to Civil Engineering

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Chat with Bishoy 

Manufacturing engineering student makes difference in aerospace engineering

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Chat with Harran  I am very thankful to be a team member of UBC Rocket where I learned many hands-on skills such as playing with fire, water and electricity as well as playing with machines such as the lathe, the mill and the water jet cutter. I…

Pursuing my passion in building a sustainable future

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I was born and raised in Hong Kong, studied high school and university in the UK, and had previously worked in the UK and Hong Kong.

It's the not the destination, it's the journey

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IGEN students choose electives, forming a major and a minor in two engineering disciplines; I chose Mechanical and Computer Engineering, respectively. Through my degree, I was fortunate to have broad work, design team, and volunteer experiences!  

Embracing opportunity from the transistor to the world

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I am graduating from computer engineering this year having found an interest in computer architecture and machine learning. I grew up in Vancouver and attended high school on campus at the University Transition Program. 

Beyond Mechanical Engineering and into the unknown

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As I was starting my degree at the School of Engineering, I really had no idea what career I wanted once I finished. But what I did have was an overwhelming number of ideas of what my career could be, like working with renewable energy technologies…

Skin in the game: Engineering technology for a better future

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I am a Biomedical Engineering graduate student, with my research focusing on soft sensors for artificial skin applications. I recently started my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, after graduating from UBC with a M.A.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering…

What to do when you don’t know what to do

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Hello, my name is Tony. I’m graduating in the summer of 2022 from Electrical Engineering in the Biomedical specialization with a minor in Physics. My five years at UBC has been characterized by an abundance of uncertainty about my future path, but…

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