Topics: Engineering
UBC Engineering students win local World's Challenge Challenge competition
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A team that includes two UBC Engineering students has won the UBC chapter of the World’s Challenge Challenge. Hosted by the UBC Global Lounge, the competition invites participants from diverse backgrounds and study areas to come together and devise…
Engineering prof elected to US National Academy of Engineering
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Rabab Ward, a professor emerita in UBC’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a Foreign Member of the United States’ National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for her “innovative applications of signal processing…
UBC named “entrepreneurial powerhouse” in national business competition
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Rashmi Prakash, a master’s student in UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering, has placed first in the graduate track of the BMO Financial Group Apex Business Plan Competition.
UBC Applied Science profs receive UBC research awards
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Four members of the UBC Applied Science faculty have received 2019 UBC Faculty Research Awards. Aimed at recognizing outstanding UBC researchers in the arts, business, applied science, science and medicine, the awards are…
New device identifies high-quality blood donors
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Blood banks have long known about high-quality donors — individuals whose red blood cells stay viable for longer in storage, and in the recipient’s body. Now, a new device developed at UBC is showing promise as a method to identify these “super”…
UBC Applied Science researchers awarded over $1.3M in CIHR Project Grants
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Researchers in UBC’s faculties of nursing and mechanical engineering have been awarded more than $1.3 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the agency’s Project Grant Program’s 2019 fall competition. The…
Media advisory: Mars rover challenge today at 11 a.m.
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Event: Mars rover challenge Date/Time: Wednesday, January 29 | 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Location: Fred Kaiser Building (map), Room 1180, 2332 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4 Parking: Health…
Hey Google, are my housemates using my smart speaker?
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Surveys show that consumers are worried that smart speakers are eavesdropping on their conversations and day-to-day lives. Now University of British Columbia researchers have found that people are also concerned about something else: friends, family…
"Grandfather of BC bioengineering industry” inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
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James McEwen, a UBC alumnus and adjunct professor in UBC’s Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Medicine, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) for his invention of the automatic surgical tourniquet, a…
Students design novel carbon emissions process
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Each year, fourth-year chemical and biological engineering students in the Chemical and Biological Process and Product Design Course 453/454 are required to embark on a capstone project that tackles a real-world problem and comes up with a proposal…