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Undergraduate Student Profile – Maddy Light (BASc ’22)
As part of the 2022 Concrete Toboggan Team, the mechanical team was awarded 1st for mechanical design and mechanical innovation. Maddy Light designed the frame which placed first, Rachel May designed the steering system which placed third and Katie Van Rooyen designed the braking system which placed second. We asked Maddy Light about her experience at the School of Engineering and with the Concrete Toboggan team.
Undergraduate Student Profile – Kailey Beckie
Kailey Beckie is a Schulich Scholar and in her second-year of the Mechanical Engineering program at the School of Engineering on UBC’s Okanagan campus.
Undergraduate Student Profile – Anirudh Devarakonda
Anirudh Devarakonda is in his second-year of the Electrical Engineering program.
Alumni Profile – Kaila Spencer BASc ’21 (Civil)
Kaila Spencer completed her Bachelors of Applied Science in Civil Engineering in December 2020.
Undergraduate Student Profile – Nathan Van Zyderveld
Nathan Van Zyderveld is in his final year of the Mechanical Engineering program.
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.
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.
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).
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 […]