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Building Community

Building Community

By Sam Charles on February 8, 2022

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.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christopher, Electrical Engineering, Indigenous, IPS, Paul, uhl, undergraduate, USRA

Taking the university experience to another level

Taking the university experience to another level

By Sam Charles on January 31, 2022

Tiny pathogens are isolated and float within a small cylinder under a ventilation hood within the Pakpour Lab at UBC Okanagan. Using an innovative method to isolate pathogens, researchers are now turning their attention to diagnostic applications. While the research sounds complicated, an important role was played by an undergraduate research assistant, James Fowler. Fowler, a NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Assistant Award recipient, took a lead role in the inter-disciplinary project.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged electrical, Fowler, Pakpour, pathogens, USRA

Taking it one step at a time

Taking it one step at a time

By Sam Charles on January 26, 2022

Rodriguez was interested in exploring research, and applied for an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) with Assistant Professor Vicki Komisar. “As I investigated possible research I could explore, it opened my eyes to a research that I didn’t even consider to be in the realm of engineering.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged handrails, Komisar, Rodriguez, USRA

Catch your breath and reflect

Catch your breath and reflect

By Sam Charles on January 26, 2022

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.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chau, Johnson, research, undergraduate, USRA, VO2 Master

Turning waste into fuel

Turning waste into fuel

By Sam Charles on January 26, 2022

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).

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bioreactor, Co-op, Eskicioglu, research, Stokes, USRA, Waste

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