Strategic Priority Areas: Solutions for People

Chaumox Landfill Final Closure

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The team designed a sustainable closure and community plan for Chaumox Landfill, managing leachate, methane, and surface water, proposing a campground, and gaining landfill expertise through a challenging, rewarding project.

A Rapid Point-of-care Device To Identify Antibiotic Treatment Options For UTIs

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Students developed innovative diagnostic tests.

Designing A Pressure Vessel For A Lunar Greenhouse

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Students work in mentorshipwith the Canadian Space Agency to manufacture a pressure vessel to house components of the OASYS Lunar Greenhouse.

Sleep Stickies: Designing A Portable EEG Device For Children

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Students design a child-friendly portable EEG device.

Creating A Biodegradable Bioplastic

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Students design a theoretical plant to develop biodegradable bioplastic.

UBC Engineering students innovate solutions for earth and beyond

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UBC Engineering students presented their inventive responses to our world's grand challenges at Design and Innovation Day 2025.

Designing a resin transfer moulding apparatus to make surfboard fins

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Designing a resin transfer moulding apparatus to make surfboard fins

Landslide risk assessment and mitigation options analysis for the Whitehorse escarpment

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What’s the risk? Geological engineering students conduct a landslide risk assessment in Whitehorse

Wastewater Cultivation of Microalgae for Bio-based Nylon Precursor Production

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Students work on innovative capstone project with Lululemon.

New stir stick detects drink spiking in seconds

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The Spikeless device prototype changes colour when exposed to harmful drug concentrations in any drink.

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UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Musqueam; which means 'People of the River Grass') and Syilx Okanagan Nation. The land has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam and Syilx peoples, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next.

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