Topics: Engineering
Skyrocketing e-bike use drives speed increase on Metro Vancouver pathways
| Announcement
UBC engineering researchers found that e-bike usage increased fourfold from 2019, and suggest changes to keep shared paths safe and accessible.
UBC Okanagan engineering professor bringing comfort and joy to children impacted by conflict
| Announcement
Ahead of Orthodox Christmas, Dr. Ray Taheri will travel to Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, where he will donate gifts of toys to schools, orphanages and churches. These include toys made by UBC engineering students.
Four UBC professors named Engineering Institute of Canada Fellows
| Announcement
Four leading UBC engineers are being recognized for excellence in engineering and their services to the profession and society by the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).
AI-based tool offers highly accurate pancreatic cancer diagnostics
Clinical Lab Products | | Media coverage
SBME's Dr. Ali Bashashati co-led a project using AI to detect pancreatic cancer.
Imperial Metals facing 15 charges under federal Fisheries Act stemming from 2014 tailings dam spill in BC
The Globe and Mail (subscription) | | Media coverage
Dr. Scott Dunbar, a professor with the department of mining engineering, commented on the damage from a tailings dam spill.
Researchers use heat to recycle CO2 (French)
ICI Radio-Canada | | Media coverage
CHBE Dr. Curtis Berlinguette are leading research into recycling carbon dioxide as a way to tackle the climate and energy crises.
Living the institutions: The École Polytechnique Montréal massacre anniversary compels action from us as individuals
The Ubyssey | | Media coverage
UBC Vancouver remembered 14 women who lost their lives at École Polytechnique Montréal on December 6, 1989.
UBCO remembers Polytechnique massacre
Penticton Herald | | Media coverage
UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering honoured the women whose lives were lost in the École Polytechnique massacre this week.
Taiwanese firm halts plan to build $1B battery plant in BC with federal support
CBC News | | Media coverage
Mining engineering's Dr. Scott Dunbar commented on the shelving of a plan to build a battery plant in BC.
Dayag Sheykhkarimli awarded the H.L. Holmes Award from the National Research Council of Canada
| Announcement
Congratulations to SBME postdoctoral researcher Dayag Sheykhkarimli for receiving $100,000/year for two years from the H.L Holmes Award by the National Research Council of Canada.