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Celebrating exploration and embracing uncertainty

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From Legos to Civil Engineering

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UBC student team aims to build a net-zero student space on campus

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UBC’s award-winning Third Quadrant Design– a team of more than 60 students in engineering, architecture, business, and arts – is about to start construction of a new student space on campus that redefines sustainable design.

Manufacturing engineering student makes difference in aerospace engineering

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Chat with Harran  I am very thankful to be a team member of UBC Rocket where I learned many hands-on skills such as playing with fire, water and electricity as well as playing with machines such as the lathe, the mill and the water…

UBC Manufacturing Engineering receives accreditation from Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board

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On June 28, 2022, the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board confirmed that the UBC Manufacturing Engineering program at the Vancouver campus, including the inaugural graduating class of 2022, has been accredited.

Turning skyscrapers into trees

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After years of research, a wood scientist, a mechanical engineer, and a chemical engineer have invented a new way to protect cities from climate change: turning buildings into giant trees.

Scientists develop electronic skin capable of 'feeling'

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Will Hughes appointed Director, School of Engineering

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The Faculty of Applied Science is pleased to announce that Professor Will Hughes has been appointed Director for the School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan for a five-year term commencing July 1, 2022.

Everyone belongs in STEM: Creating an environment for all youth to feel welcome through the Geering Up program

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Geering Up is a community outreach program run by UBC Engineering to provide the youth of British Columbia with the opportunity to investigate engineering, science, and technology in a fun, educational and safe environment.

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UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Musqueam; which means 'People of the River Grass') and Syilx Okanagan Nation. The land has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam and Syilx peoples, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next.

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