Victory by design: UBC Okanagan Engineering students take national toboggan title
A team of engineering students from UBC Okanagan notched an impressive victory at the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) in February.
Developing the leaders of tomorrow
Two fourth-year leadership courses at UBC Okanagan, one in engineering and the other in nursing, have developed a joint module to provide students with an opportunity to collaborate outside their respective disciplines.
IDS Design Club continues to flourish
It has been almost three years since a group of dedicated engineering students decided to launch a design club focused on sustainable solutions. Since then, Innovate, Design, Sustain (IDS) has been building upon the momentum those founding members established. “We started at the beginning of pandemic with an idea that we could bring together what […]
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.
International Collaboration
Dwayne Tannant, professor of civil and geotechnical engineering, has collaborated with researchers from nearly every continent. As a professor, he has supervised graduate students from around the World.
Local Youth Embrace Engineering
Recently, the School of Engineering at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia welcomed students from Vernon Community School to participate in a STEM Fair with select participants given the opportunity to have their projects incubated in a UBC Okanagan research lab. According to School of Engineering Director, Mina Hoorfar, “this initiative was focused […]