Topics: Engineering
UBC explores hydrothermal liquefaction to extract phosphorous from municipal wastewater
Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine | | Media coverage
UBCO civil engineering professor Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu led a study that investigated how to extract phosphorus from wastewater sludge.
UBC Okanagan researcher is lifting virus detection to the next level
Castanet Kamloops | | Media coverage
UBC engineering researcher Dr. Sepideh Pakpour is developing new technology using magnetic levitation to collect, purify and detect viruses in the air.
Pushing to protect the marbled murrelet
Canadian Geographic | | Media coverage
Chemical and biological engineering professor emerita Dr. Royann Petrell and others are calling on the government to increase wildlife habitat areas in Vancouver Island old-growth forests to save the threatened marbled murrelet.
Ottawa's big LRT fix is redesigning train parts. What about the track?
CBC | | Media coverage
UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove commented on the shutdown of Ottawa’s LRT system.
Vancouver man wins award for work aimed at improving air quality
Surrey Now-Leader | | Media coverage
Chemical and biological engineering postdoctoral researcher Dr. Kevin Kung received the Mitacs Environmental Entrepreneur Award.
Here’s how Vancouver rain gardens are giving salmon a boost
The Weather Network | | Media coverage
A study co-authored civil engineering researchers found that specially designed gardens could reduce the amount of a toxic car tire chemical entering our waterways by more than 90 per cent.
Artificial intelligence and the future of modular and pre-fab construction
Daily Commercial News | | Media coverage
Civil engineering research associate Puyan Zadeh commented on how AI could effect the general and modular construction industry.
Never A Dull Moment With Engineering
| Spotlight
Joses' experience in Civil Engineering and how he proceeded to work with the City of Vancouver.
States siphoned away $750 million in infrastructure law climate funds
Washington Post | | Media coverage
Civil engineering professor Dr. Alex Bigazzi said congestion-reducing technology is not the most efficient way to cut emissions as unclogging roads encourages people to drive more.
UBCO researchers recover vital resources from wastewater sludge
| Announcement
Using a combination of heat, water and phase separation, these researchers have developed a cost-effective method to concentrate phosphorous—which can be efficiently recovered by extraction—from wastewater sludge.