Sam started at the Okanagan campus of the University of British in 2013 as a Senior Media Production Specialist with UBC Studios Okanagan. After four years in that role, he transitioned into the Communications Manager role with the School of Engineering.
At the School of Engineering, he is responsible for developing strategic communication materials that highlight the innovative research and experiential learning on the Okanagan campus. Sam is energized by telling the endlessly inspiring stories of the School’s researchers, students and staff.
With over twenty years of experience in communications, film, television and radio production, Sam is a seasoned professional communicator focused on generating dynamic and engaging content.
Sam has represented Canada three-times at Summer World University Games as Team Canada’s videographer documenting the Games for international audiences. On Friday nights during the varsity season, he is the play-by-play voice (and technical advisor) for UBC Okanagan Heat basketball and volleyball webcasts on canadawest.tv.
Integrated strategic communications including social media; Develop, design, and maintain communications content; Media relations; Issues Management; Develop and prepare faculty awards nominations
An assessment team from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and industry collaborators recently visited the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus.
While on campus the delegates met with students and discussed many of the current design and research projects at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Building healthier, more sustainable communities will be the focus of an upcoming conference in Kelowna.
Faculty from the School of Engineering will be among the featured speakers at the Building SustainABLE Communities: Innovation Through Collaboration Conference being held November 21-24 at the Delta Grand Hotel. Gordon Lovegrove and Ahmed Idris are both scheduled to speak at the event.
Lovegrove, who specializes in sustainable communities through applied sustainable civil engineering, will lead in several discussions. The first, entitled Improved Circulation: Getting to the Heart of Community Mobility and Health in the Netherlands, “relates to understanding how successful urban planning has impacted progressive communities.” Lovegrove explains “we can build upon their design approaches and improve our communities.”
In a group discussion entitled Getting active in SMARTer Growth Neighborhoods, Lovegrove and Idris will join UBC Okanagan associate professor of Geography Bernard Momer to discuss making urban areas more walkable, bikeable, and transit oriented by reducing sprawl through system-based land use planning and design principles.
Lovegrove will also join Greg Harris, founder of Kelowna Intentional Communities, to lead a discussion on co-housing, a traditional form of housing in Scandanavia, Asia, Israel, and First Nations communities, which promotes healthier aging in place, socialization, and affordable housing, current challenges facing all communities.
“Our goal is to add to the discussion already underway in the Okanagan and specifically in Kelowna” says Idris. “By participating in a conference with hundreds of urban planners from around the province, we are making a difference in the future design direction of our communities.” Idris is a behaviour modeller whose work is focused on building public transit usage.
For more information about the conference visit: https://freshoutlookfoundation.org/sessions/
This week in our series highlighting UBC Okanagan School of Engineering Student Ambassadors, we visit with Holly Denby.
Holly is a third year student specializing in electrical engineering.
My role as a student ambassador is to plan and organize events for the School of Engineering, the community and engineering students. I am currently focusing on outreach events, media & marketing and promoting Women in Engineering.
I want to encourage students to get involved with the community on campus through academic, professional and social events. Getting involved is extremely rewarding because you are providing services for students by students and enhancing the student experience.
Vice President External for the Engineering Society at UBC, Vice President Communications for the Western Engineering Society Students’ Team (WESST), Financial Coordinator for Women in Engineering and Executive for Alpha Omega Epsilon (A.O.E.), intramurals.
APSC 177. I really enjoyed learning C++.
I have learned that if I set my mind to something, I can accomplish it. I’ve learned not to doubt myself and to follow through with my ambitions.
Game of Thrones Theme Song
Pepperoni and cheese. Vegetables should never be on the pizza.
That engineers are anti-social. We know how to have a good time.
Don’t get discouraged. Even if you feel like you can’t do something, follow through with it because you will surprise yourself.
UBC Okanagan Researcher Appointed as new Associate Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre
Clean Energy Research Centre, which encompasses research from across the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses of the University of British Columbia, has appointed Kasun Hewage as its newest associate director. Professor Hewage is program coordinator for the civil engineering program at the Okanagan campus of UBC and co-lead of the Project Life Cycle Management Laboratory.
“This appointment means a lot,” says Hewage “not only is it recognition of my research and leadership but it is also a reaffirmation of the research synergies between UBC’s Point Grey and Okanagan campuses.”
Hewage’s role will include shaping and broadening the Centre’s breadth of research. The Centre hosts world-leading researchers who strive to provide safe, widespread and equitable access to sustainable energy. The interdisciplinary Centre brings together innovators from a variety of fields including applied science, science and business; who work collaborative with industry, academia and all levels of government both local and international.
The Centre includes many other School of Engineering researchers.
