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Engineering
Hey Google, are my housemates using my smart speaker?
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Surveys show that consumers are worried that smart speakers are eavesdropping on their conversations and day-to-day lives. Now University of British Columbia researchers have found that people are also concerned about something else: friends, family…
"Grandfather of BC bioengineering industry” inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
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James McEwen, a UBC alumnus and adjunct professor in UBC’s Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Medicine, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) for his invention of the automatic surgical tourniquet, a…
Students design novel carbon emissions process
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Each year, fourth-year chemical and biological engineering students in the Chemical and Biological Process and Product Design Course 453/454 are required to embark on a capstone project that tackles a real-world problem and comes up with a proposal…
UBC engineering prof named to Order of Canada
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Donald Mavinic, a professor emeritus in UBC’s Department of Civil Engineering and an internationally recognized expert in water treatment, has been appointed to the Order of Canada “[f]or his contributions to environmental engineering science and…
Biomed student wins 2019 BC MEDTECH Graduate Award
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Rohit Singla, an MD/PhD student at the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering, has received the 2019 BC MEDTECH Graduate Award in Biomedical Engineering. Selected by the Faculties of Applied Science and Medicine in consultation with the Faculty of…
Bracing for the future: alumni reinvent sports therapeutics
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What does an OIympic gymnast, a mechanical engineer with a bad knee, and a serial entrepreneur have in common? They are launching Stoko, an alumni start-up that is revolutionizing therapeutics.
Four UBC Applied Science students receive Women in Tech Scholarships
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Four students in the UBC Faculty of Applied Science — Jessica Bo, Esther Lin, Parmis Mohaghegh and Tiffany Quon — have been awarded 2019 Women in Technology and Indigenous Women in Technology Scholarships from the Irving K. Barber British Columbia…
2019 Future of Mining Challenge
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Today, three teams of UBC students from multiple disciplines will face off in the final round of the 2019 Future of Mining Challenge. Sponsored by the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering and the Bradshaw Research Initiative for…
UBC research highlights need to safeguard drones and robotic cars against cyber attacks
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Robotic vehicles like Amazon delivery drones or Mars rovers can be hacked more easily than people may think, new research from the University of British Columbia suggests. The researchers, based at UBC's faculty of applied science, designed…
UBC hosts road safety symposium featuring international experts
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With the number of car crashes resulting in injury or death increasing every year, the need to make our roads safer has never been more urgent. But as traffic worsens, potentially attention-diverting technologies proliferate and substance abuse…