Topics: Student Experience
Three weeks, five tests: ALEASAT one step closer to space
| Announcement
Engineering design students from the ALEASAT team conducted an extensive environmental test campaign at a European Space Agency facility, as part of ESA's Fly Your Satellite! programme.
16 Applied Science teams join UBC's flagship entrepreneurial program
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This September, 16 new teams from Applied Science are joining UBC's Venture Founder program, building companies across health, biotechnology, advanced engineering, agriculture, fintech, sustainability, accessibility, and AI.
UBC’s AI air hockey robot takes on world champions and wins
CTV News | | Media coverage
Students and researchers in UBC's Engineering Physics Department have created an AI-powered air hockey robot, dubbed Puck Pilot.
Crossing continents to build a future in engineering
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Why did you want to study engineering? I’ve always been curious about how things around us work – from something as simple as taking an elevator to the complex systems behind it. That curiosity led to my interest in engineering. I find it…
Mars madness takes over at annual UBC student robot competition
| Announcement
The students of ENPH 253: Introduction to Instrument Design took on an out-of-this-world challenge for the annual autonomous robot competition, building bots to navigate a Mars-based colony.
Engineering Physics Robot Competition
Aug 6, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm | Event
Cheer on 16 teams of Engineering Physics students as they put their fully autonomous, student-built robots to the test in timed two-minute heats through a series of simulated Mars missions.
From TRU to UBC: A transfer journey into computer engineering
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What got you interested in engineering? A lot of different things. Math and science always came naturally to me in elementary school, and in high school I took a coding course and a robotics course. Everything just clicked — the logic made…
Campus, co-op and first place at the Canadian Mining Games
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How did you get interested in engineering? My high school hockey coach once offhandedly told me he thought I would make a good engineer. To be honest, I hadn’t really thought about it before. I enjoyed math and science in high school and knew…
From Vantage to CHBE
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How did you become interested in engineering? In high school, chemistry and biology were my favourite courses. I got even more interested in this area after doing a summer camp on gene editing, where I saw what gene editing actually looks like…
Engineering as a pathway to medicine
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Why did you want to study biomedical engineering? Both of my parents are engineers – my dad is a computer engineer and my mom is a mechanical engineer – so I always knew what engineering was about and considered it as an option. In high…