Engineering students’ Capstone solutions on track to real-world impact
SOE student projects soar at 2024 Capstone Design Showcase Engineering students from UBC Okanagan landed at KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence on Friday, April 12 for the 2024 Capstone Design Showcase and Competition, where their innovative ideas were on display for UBCO faculty, staff, industry partners and the public. Following the competition, many of […]
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 […]
UBCO School of Engineering researchers earn 2023 UBC research awards
Dr. Sepideh Pakpour and Dr. Sina Kheirkhah are among the 2023 recipients of faculty research awards announced by UBC this week.
Victory by design: UBC Okanagan Engineering students take national toboggan title
A team of engineering students from UBC Okanagan notched an impressive victory at the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) in February.
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.
Alumni Profile – Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem, Postdoctoral Fellow (Electrical)
Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus School of Engineering and an assistant professor at the Abu Dhabi campus of NYU.
Assessing the impact of resource extraction
With many countries committing to meet or exceed the United Nations (UN) Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), tools like the ones that Bam is developing provide a roadmap of sorts to addressing a variety of factors.
New aerospace initiative links industry with educational institutions
The Kelowna Aerospace Growth Initiative (KAGI) seeks to bolster the Okanagan’s aerospace sector
Analytics are changing the student experience at the School of Engineering for the better
After a year in their roles, the School’s Associate Directors (Undergraduate Studies) discuss their successes to date.