Industrial Undergraduate Student Research Awards (IUSRA) Experience
Although she was confident and hopeful applying for an IUSRA, Shriya Agrawal was thrilled when she was accepted into the program. Working in Dr. Joshua Brinkerhoff’s UBC-Okanagan Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Agrawal investigated the impact of environmentally-friendlier and cheaper fuel alternatives in the marine, transportation, and aviation industries.
IUSRA research powers Bank of Canada digital currency innovation
Fourth-year electrical engineering student Tianyu (Alex) Shi spent last summer investigating potential technological innovations that the Bank of Canada can utilize to develop a made-in-Canada central bank digital currency (CBDC).