Undergraduate Student Profile – Megha Desai
Megha Desai is in her third-year of the Mechanical Engineering program, and serves as the 2021 Vice-President Communications at the UBC Okanagan Women in Engineering.
The School of Engineering recognizes staff and faculty excellence
The 2019-20 SOE Staff & Faculty Awards, delayed as a result of the pandemic, were presented virtually at an all-School virtual meeting held March 31, 2021.
Being a Lean Thinker
Manufacturing Engineering students are taking advantage of learning high-level production management skills in MANF 270. MANF270, Production Management course, provides students with hands-on opportunities to put lean manufacturing concepts related to increasing productivity into action.
Two School of Engineering researchers recognized by CSCE
Professors Rehan Sadiq and Kasun Hewage are among a group of civil engineers being celebrated for their election as Fellows at the organization’s next Gala planned for May 2022 in Whistler.
Alumni Profile – Jenny Hostland ’16 (Civil)
Jenny Hostland (BASc ’16, Civil) is a Transportation Planner currently undertaking a Masters in Energy & Transport Management in Austria.
Optimizing solar energy
A new residential solar energy system atop the VEDA student residences near UBC’s Okanagan campus is being analyzed, and may serve as a real-world lab for UBC researchers.
Student Profile – Enrique Calderon
For Enrique Calderon, a fourth-year Electrical Engineering (with a Computer Science minor) student, his dream to become a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force has taken him to UBC’s Okanagan campus (which happens to be situated across highway 97 from the Kelowna international Airport).
School of Engineering awarded one of two Bauder Professorships in Experiential Learning & Leadership
Jonathan Verrett and Jannik Eikenaar, assistant professors of teaching in the UBC Faculty of Applied Science, have been named the augural recipients of the Marshall Bauder Chairs in Experiential Learning and Leadership.
Going to the dentist during COVID just got safer
New findings from UBC Okanagan indicate effectiveness of AIIR system as an additional layer of airborne infection control in dental offices.
Undergraduate Student Profile – Aidan Mundle
Aidan Mundle is a Schulich Scholar, and a second-year Manufacturing student at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering. What drew you to engineering? And to UBC Okanagan? I have always loved to innovate and invent. I feel like the opportunity to learn how to turn these ideas into reality, and earn a living at the same […]