Built to win: UBC Okanagan engineering students claim King of the Hill title
A team of 23 engineering students from UBC Okanagan has earned national recognition at the 2026 Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race. Facing competition from approximately 20 universities across Canada, the student-led team earned second-place finishes in Technical Report, Braking, Steering and Frame Design, won the head-to-head King of the Hill event, and placed second overall. […]
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.
Analytics are changing the student experience at the School of Engineering for the better
After a year in their roles, the School’s Associate Directors (Undergraduate Studies) discuss their successes to date.
Stober Foundation Engineering Undergraduate Studies Scholar – Ciana Dawydiuk-Clozza
Entering her third year as a Stober Foundation Engineering Undergraduate Scholar, Dawydiuk-Clozza says the support from the scholarship is a game-changer.
Undergraduate Student Profile – Madison Smith
A fourth year mechanical engineering student, Madison Smith, talks about the vital role extra-curricular activities have played in her building a community at the School of Engineering.
Alumna Profile – Diana Youssefian (BASc ’22, Civil)
Diana Youssefian is a civil engineering graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus School of Engineering.
Building Community
Christopher Paul knows a thing or two about community. The four-year Mechanical Engineering student grew up in numerous communities across British Columbia until his family moved to West Kelowna when he was in middle school.
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.
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.