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Indigenous Student Experience
Engineering is an opportunity to make a difference
| Spotlight
Building and being part of a community has always been really important to me, which is one reason I’ve really enjoyed my work as Vice-President of Student Life with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Society.
Spending a co-op term working with the geology team on BC’s Site C hydro dam is just one of Katrijn Bjornson’s highlights at UBC Engineering
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“UBC has a lot of programs to support Indigenous students and they are working to better integrate Indigenous views in engineering. I’m excited about these changes.”
Funding awarded to grow UBCO AISES chapter for Indigenous STEM students
| Announcement
New chapter of the American Indian Sciences and Engineering Society (AISES) at UBC Okanagan aims to build a welcoming community for Indigenous STEM students, with the help of a grant from UBC Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund.
Indigenous Student Experience
| Landing page
UBC’s Vancouver campus is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded land of the Musqueam people, and its Okanagan campus is located on the territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. For generations, these lands have been a place of teaching and…
Beyond Mechanical Engineering and into the unknown
| Spotlight
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…
James Shaw, BASc '20, Materials Engineering
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I was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario, a city halfway between Toronto and farmer fields. Oshawa is most well-known for the General Motors car assembly plant. The facility was in operation for over 100 years and put Oshawa on the map. I played…
Danilo Caron, BASc '20, Civil Engineering
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I was born and raised in Kamloops, BC but my roots come from Castelfranco Veneto in Italy and the Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation in Ontario. My father immigrated to BC while my mom moved to BC after finishing teacher’s college. They met and…