Turning Waste into Possibilities: The UBCO Cleantech Hub
Note: This story was originally published on the Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) website and is being shared for awareness within UBC Okanagan (UBCO) School of Engineering and UBCO Campus community. The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus (UBCO) is paving the way to a greener future with an innovation hub dedicated to repurposing waste […]
Sustainable Soil Construction: Engineers Canada profile of Dr. Sumi Siddiqua
Engineers Canada recently profiled School of Engineering Civil Engineering Professor Dr. Sumi Siddiqua. Dr. Sumi Siddiqua’s research on soil micro-organisms is paving the way for new geomaterials with significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions than traditional materials used in the construction industry. She’s also working to keep our groundwater safe by finding more effective ways to […]
UBCO Engineering Researchers Awarded 2024 NSERC DISCOVERY Grants
2024 NSERC DISCOVERY Grant Awardees announced Today the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced more than $554 million is being invested in research over five years through the Discovery Research Program. Over $480 million of this funding provides new awards to researchers through the 2024 Discovery Research Program. An additional $72.4 […]
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Qian Chen, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
School of Engineering (SoE) Faculty Spotlight Dr. Qian Chen, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering UBCO School of Engineering Website: School Profile Why did you decide to study engineering? I feel engineering is a direct platform to make a meaningful impact on society. My grandfather, who worked as a cargo train driver for over 30 […]
Seminar explores building residential homes to radically low-energy standards
On January 18, 2024 the Green Construction Research and Training Center (GCRTC – UBC and Okanagan College) was proud to host Net Zero Now in Kelowna
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.
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.
Faculty profile – Klaske van Heusden
Dr. van Heusden’s research enables high performance and high precision in robotics and mechatronics through data-driven and learning control.
Catch your breath and reflect
Not very often does a student get recommended for a research role by an industry collaborator, but that is exactly how fourth-year Electrical Engineering student Joel Johnson began his NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award program research with Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Chau and VO2 Master.
Turning waste into fuel
Third-year Mechanical Engineering student Abigail Stokes never thought she’d find herself working with waste treatment sludge as she had aspired to work in the automotive or biomedical industry. Instead, as she starts her second-semester of third year, Stokes is well-ensconced in waste treatment sludge as an undergraduate researcher at UBC Okanagan’s Bioreactor Technology Group (BTG).