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Engineering Is About Developing Effective And Accessible Solutions

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Goksu's interest in CHBE and experience working on the Chem E-Car and in the Zandstra Laboratory.

Enriching Health Through Engineering: Madhini's Story

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Madhini's interest in improving lives through healthcare and how engineering helped her achieve that dream.

Never A Dull Moment With Engineering

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Joses' experience in Civil Engineering and how he proceeded to work with the City of Vancouver.

Applying Your Knowledge To Positively Impact The World

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Roger's decision to pursue electrical engineering and how that led him to working at General Motors.

Co-op Chronicles: Thriving in Computer Engineering

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Arya's experience with Computer engineering and her co-op journey.

Recycling and injection moulding of aeronautical post-consumer low density polyethylene

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The challengePassengers journey to the edge of space inside a pressurized capsule that is lofted by a helium-filled low-density polyethylene (LDPE) balloon.

Designing a completely compostable diaper

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The challengeNinety percent of a disposable diaper consists of plastic, and each year, more than 30 billion disposable diapers end up in North American landfills.

Recycling an innovative material into lightweight, abrasion-resistant shin pads

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The challengeALUULA Composites is a high-performance material manufacturing company that creates composites with high tear and stretch resistance that are used in many products across a range of markets.

Designing and building a fish identification and sorter for the Big Bar fish wheel

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The challengeThe goal was to reduce the person-hours required to operate the fish wheel and make the process more efficient.

SeaBrick: Manufacturing a new construction material out of kelp

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The challengeSeaBrick is a startup company trying to create an interlocking, buoyant brick system made from kelp that could be used as an alternative to metal or concrete for marine infrastructure

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