Professional Activities Fund enhancing student’s perspectives
Opportunities arising from the School of Engineering’s Professional Activities Fund (PAF) are truly limitless.
Three School of Engineering students awarded Engineering & Geoscientist BC Scholarships
Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Okanagan Branch 4th Year Engineering and Geoscience scholarship recognizes leadership, excellence in professionalism, community service and academics
School of Engineering students gain new insight at global preservation conference
The 2018 Association for Preservation Technology focused on preserving historic structures and their settings while engaging student teams in a timber bridge design competition.
Making a difference in West Africa
While many students spent the spring and summer terms working to gain experience and some money, third-year mechanical engineering student Shola Fashanu was in Ghana working for a small start-up supported by Engineers Without Borders Canada.
Bringing a European approach to Canadian transportation
A pair of visiting researchers are collaborating with the Sustainable Transport Safety Research Lab at UBC’s Okanagan campus to make the busy 6-lane divided Highway 97 (Harvey Avenue) through Kelowna more vibrant, aesthetic and safer.
School of Engineering Convocation 2018
The School of Engineering welcomed over 200 graduates and their guests to the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia to celebrate the convocation of its class of 2018.
UBC Okanagan Alumni Profile – Karlyn Fischer, BASc ’18 (Civil)
From struggling first year engineering student to a UBC Okanagan School of Engineering graduate who is taking on the world one adventure after another, Karlyn Fischer is setting high goals.
Alumni Profile – Ali Ahmadi, PhD ’11
Ali Ahmadi is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus School of Engineering and an assistant professor at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Looking to support community in a positive way
First year Engineering student Levon Joslin sees an opportunity to make a difference. “I want to help others and to protect the environment,’ says the Lax’Kwalaams First Nation member who grew up in Edmonton. With an older cousin in engineering, Joslin was drawn to the field due to his gift for mathematics. “I’ve always had […]
Students take kite energy to new heights
What goes up must come down and it has left an opportunity for a novel innovation from some UBC Okanagan Engineering students. As part of their fourth-year capstone project, a group of students designed a unique launching, docking and storing system for kite energy technology. With the growing focus on renewable energy around the World, […]