Engineering student turning heads in first-year classes
Forbes stands out a bit amongst the class of 2023. He calls himself a “mature student,” and he is. Murray Forbes is 75-years-young.
School of Engineering Unveils 2019 Student Ambassadors
This group of enthusiastic current students from each program discipline help provide prospective and current students a personal and informative connection to UBC Okanagan Engineering.
Lifting your way to success
In his first year of undergraduate studies at UBC Okanagan, Logan Tarasoff was introduced to the sport of powerlifting. According to Tarasoff, the sport encouraged him to establish clear goals to work towards. “If I had a competition coming up in 6 months, I could set some goals then work backwards to determine what I need to do in order to meet those goals.”
Bringing Indigenous perspectives and best practices into the classroom
New funding will bring Indigenous-focused modules into the Engineering curriculum.
Detecting water contamination faster
New research has uncovered a new, fast and highly-accurate means of measuring contaminants in water. It could mean rapid detection of different types of contaminants that current methods may miss including low-levels of pesticides and hydrocarbons.
School of Engineering appoints MEng Coordinator
The School of Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Rudolf Seethaler has been appointed MEng Coordinator. In this newly created role, Dr. Seethaler will work closely with the School’s associate director of graduate studies, Richard Klukas, (and the graduate studies committee) to provide support and direction for the MEng program. His responsibilities will include […]
School of Engineering hosts students from China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University
Students from Northwestern Polytechnical University (also known as NPU; Chinese: 西北工业大学), in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, recently visited UBC’s Okanagan campus to participate in an intensive research program led by School of Engineering faculty. The enriched academic content including research activities was targeted at first and second-year NPU students from a variety of disciplines including engineering. It […]
School of Engineering appoints two Equity Diversity and Inclusion Advisors
The School of Engineering is pleased to announce that Drs. Jannik Eikenaar and Sabine Weyand have been appointed as Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Advisors.
UBCO students put cosmic ray research aloft
A group of UBC Okanagan students have won the opportunity to launch a science experiment into the stratosphere with help from the Canadian Space Agency.
School of Engineering welcomes first Canada Research Chair
Bridging interdisciplinary science and composite research, Mohammad Arjmand explores innovations in multifunctional polymer nanocomposites as the first Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) at the School of Engineering.