Two UBC Okanagan Engineering students honoured with SPIE Scholarships
Scholarships from the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) will help two UBC Okanagan (UBCO) Engineering students keep their studies sharply in focus. Alexis Guidi and Matthias Jenne were recently awarded the prestigious Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE. This year, the Society is awarding $303,000 in scholarships to 72 outstanding SPIE student members, based […]
UBC Engineering student reflects on learning, community and impact as graduation approaches
UBC Okanagan (UBCO) School of Engineering student Megha Desai has had the date Friday, June 7, 2024 circled on her calendar for a while. For Desai, this date – her graduation day – marks more than the achievement of an educational dream years in the making: it also heralds the start of her exciting next […]
Advanced deep-learning technologies keep marine mammals safe
Growing up in the port city of Xiamen in southern China, Xiangrui Liu used to periodically look out his window at the Taiwan Strait resting his eyes from working on his computer. Little did he know that years later, the ships navigating that body of water would be using technology he helped to develop to safeguard marine life.
Stober Foundation Engineering Graduate Studies Scholar – Alexis Guidi
Like a lot of students entering engineering, Alexis Guidi had an affinity for math and physics. “I loved math and physics, but I thought engineering was just building stuff with a dash of math,” says Guidi. What she came to realize was that engineering took her passion for math and physics to another level by applying those principles to solve real-world problems.
Alumni Profile – Atousa Soltani, PhD (Civil ’15)
Atousa Soltani is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus School of Engineering and a Product Developer at Lululemon. Describe your academic journey I graduated from University of Tehran with a Bachelors in Economics. My undergraduate studies specialized in theoretical economics which involved substantial mathematics and statistics courses, which later helped me […]
Seeking to be part of the solution
Many people are satisfied to complete their undergraduate degree, and jump into the workforce, but that wasn’t the case for Jason Schultz.
Alumni Profile Zoheb Hassan (Electrical)
Zoheb Hassan completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with the University of British Columbia’s in 2019 under the joint supervision of faculty from both UBC Vancouver and Okanagan.
Alumni Profile – Fang (Fiona) Fang, PhD ’18 (Electrical)
Fang (Fiona) Fang is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus School of Engineering and an assistant professor at the Western University .
Alumni Profile – Ann Mary Babu Vithayathil (MEng ’18)
Ann Mary Babu Vithayathil is a Project Manager in the Civil Department of Acres Enterprises Ltd, a contracting company based out of Kamloops, and an MEng graduate.
Alumni Profile – Omer Faruk (MEng ’16)
Omer Faruk graduating with a Masters of Engineering in 2016, and is currently working on the Site C hydro-electric dam in Fort St. John, BC.