Topics: Engineering
Mario Kart robot racing, UBC Engineering Physics style
| Announcement
The 23rd annual UBC Engineering Physics robot competition featured fully autonomous robots racing on a Mario Kart-themed track.
Researchers develop cheaper way to make carbon fibers from oil sands byproducts
American Society of Mechanical Engineers | | Media coverage
Materials engineering assistant professor Dr. Yasmine Abdin has developed a method to turn asphaltene into carbon fibre.
UBC students bring Mario Kart to life with robotics competition
CTV News | | Media coverage
UBC engineering students brought Mario Kart to life by creating autonomous robots to race around a track.
What B.C. is learning about earthquakes from the 2023 disaster in Turkey
The Weather Network | | Media coverage
A team of civil engineering researchers are investigating why some buildings collapsed and not others during the February 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?
Global News | | Media coverage
Civil engineering professor Dr. Nemkumar Banthia commented on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
A navigation app that suggests the safest route
CKNW Mornings with Simi | | Media coverage
Civil engineering professor Dr. Tarek Sayed has developed a navigation app with an algorithm that suggests the safest route.
UBC engineering researcher lifting virus detection to next level
| Announcement
UBC engineering researcher Dr. Sepideh Pakpour is developing new technology using magnetic levitation to collect, purify and detect viruses in the air.
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.