Topics: Women in Engineering
An Interest In Trades Led To Engineering
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Sophia's experience in navigating engineering as a first year and her goals for the future.
Designing a machine shop for BC Ferries
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Our projectBC Ferries is building a new facility in Richmond to repair and upgrade its vessels.
How achievable is BC's net-zero emissions goal?
City News Vancouver | | Media coverage
Mechanical engineering professor Dr. Alexandra Tavasoli commented on B.C.’s decarbonization goals.
Designing an aeroponic smart grow cabinet
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Our projectWe designed a high-end consumer product to grow microgreens in your home, using aeroponics and featuring our client’s innovative lighting technology. Our client, Genoptic, has developed lighting technology that can be used in everything…
Building a rig to make smart swim goggles smarter
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The challengeIn 2019, Vancouver-based company FORM developed the world’s first smart swim goggles that collect real-time metrics on a swimmer’s stroke rate, distance per stroke, pace, heart rate and more. For the next generation of their swim…
Producing Hepatitis B virus-like-particle vaccines using Pichia pastoris
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Our projectWe wanted to develop an innovative process to produce a vaccine for hepatitis B, a serious liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. Our approach is to create a virus-like particle, a molecule that resembles a virus but that…
Quebec eyed as prime spot to suck carbon from atmosphere
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Chemical engineering professor Dr. Naoko Ellis said direct air capture, which involves removing carbon from the atmosphere, rather than at the source of production, could play a role in sectors such as aviation and concrete manufacturing where…
Advancing The Sustainability Agenda A Year After Graduating
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Jasmine's journey after graduating with a degree in manufacturing engineering.
Award-winning UBC Engineering student charts a new path in medicine
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In May 2025, Stephanie Quon was named a Rising Star in BC Business’s 2025 Women of the Year Awards for the significant impact she’s had with The Sprouts Initiative, a foundation she started in 2017 that focuses on sustainability and…
Opinion: Carbon pricing is vital but unloved — so let's drop the "tax" misnomer
Edmonton Journal | | Media coverage
Chemical and biological engineering professor Dr. Naoko Ellis, education professor Dr. Derek Gladwin, and environmental economics postdoctoral researcher Dr. Joel Krupa wrote that Canada’s carbon pricing is a good investment.