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 […]
SoE Feature: Learn more about the HEAT Robotics Team and their award-winning EMBR project
SoE Students’ ember mitigation bot won audience choice award at the MassRobotics Form & Function Robotics Challenge. The following story expands upon a media release issued by UBCO Media Relations on May 29, 2024. A team of engineering and science students from UBC Okanagan (UBCO) earned a top accolade at the MassRobotics Form & Function […]
UBCO Engineering Professor Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi appointed to B.C. Climate Solutions Council
The B.C. Government announced today new members of the province’s Climate Solutions Council who will support the work to transition B.C. to a clean economy with thriving and sustainable industry. Council members hail from across the province and a wide range of sectors and areas of expertise. This includes First Nations, environmental organizations, industry, business, […]
UBCO researchers receive funding to incorporate human comfort into product design
School of Engineering receives $1.65M grant for interdisciplinary projects engaging students and industry Imagine a world where the clothing we wear is crafted with both human comfort and environmental sustainability in mind from the outset of the design process. Or a world where our health-care settings have been equipped and furnished to support all aspects […]
UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering seeks to inspire the next generation this summer
SEED program offers high school students a chance to get hands-on learning experience UBC Okanagan engineering student Gurnoor Chawla knew she’d chosen the right path after an inspiring summer learning experience at the university while she was still in high school. Fast forward a few years later, now a third-year Electrical Engineering student at UBCO, […]
Five from SoE named Outstanding Instructors for the 2023/24 Academic Year
On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, UBC Okanagan announced recipients of the Outstanding Instructor Award for the 2023-24 Academic Year. Among them were five instructors from the School of Engineering, including: Dean Richert Deanna Perrin Loïc Markley Elizabeth Trudel Graeme Webb Please join us in congratulating these instructors for this well-deserved honour. Read more about […]
UBC Okanagan Engineering students earn podium finish at national competition
SOE students collaborate and innovate on their way to second place showing at Canadian Engineering Competition A team of four second-year engineering students from UBC Okanagan (UBCO)’s School of Engineering cruised to a second-place finish at the 40th annual Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) in Calgary. CEC brings together more than 200 engineering undergraduate students from […]
Provincial investment boosts seats in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering at UBCO
The below media release was shared on Friday, April 12, 2024 by UBC Okanagan and has been re-posted in this space as it highlights seat expansions in the School of Engineering’s Electrical and Mechanical Engineering programs. A message from Dr. Will Hughes, Director of the School of Engineering: “Today is an exciting day for the […]
Seminar explores building residential homes to radically low-energy standards
On January 18, 2024 the Green Construction Research and Training Center (GCRTC – UBC and Okanagan College) was proud to host Net Zero Now in Kelowna