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Behind the career: Manufacturing Engineering

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Coming into her undergraduate at UBC, Erin didn’t know what manufacturing engineering even was, let alone that she will become a manufacturing engineer at one of the top tech companies in the…

Behind the career: Mechanical Engineering

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“Learning quickly how to [overcome failure] and how it impacted me pretty much allowed me to learn about myself and what my priorities were” Diana recalls. “I learned from this experience how to push for my priorities and stand up to defeat…

Behind the career: Materials Engineering

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Being an engineer takes collaboration, critical thinking and organizational skills, and above all, a determined mindset. “I think that is why they make you take so many courses” Andaman laughs, reflecting…

Behind the career: Mining Engineering

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According to Veronica, the biggest, and most rewarding part of mining engineering is being able to see the direct impact of the work and being able to physically see the outcome of all these tasks and …

Celebrating women in engineering  

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While the numbers of women enrolled in postsecondary engineering programs and working as professional engineers have increased over the past few decades, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in these areas.

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