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Beyond Mechanical Engineering and into the unknown
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As I was starting my degree at the School of Engineering, I really had no idea what career I wanted once I finished. But what I did have was an overwhelming number of ideas of what my career could be, like working with renewable energy technologies…
Governor General’s Gold Medal awarded to ECE PhD Student Mohammad Jafari
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UBC Engineering PhD student Mohammad Jafari was awarded the 2022 Governor General’s Gold Medal. This prestigious award goes to the graduating doctoral student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record in their year.
UBC Engineering grad plans to channel passion for AI to innovate health-care
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UBC Engineering Physics graduating student Tyler Lum believes he can use robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to solve problems in the infrastructure of public health-care, including using AI to improve medical imaging to detect disease quickly.
Skin in the game: Engineering technology for a better future
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I am a Biomedical Engineering graduate student, with my research focusing on soft sensors for artificial skin applications. I recently started my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, after graduating from UBC with a M.A.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering…
What to do when you don’t know what to do
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Hello, my name is Tony. I’m graduating in the summer of 2022 from Electrical Engineering in the Biomedical specialization with a minor in Physics. My five years at UBC has been characterized by an abundance of uncertainty about my future path, but…
Cycling to life cycle assessment
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Hi, Ezgi here! Since the last years of my undergraduate studies at Istanbul Technical University, I have been working in different fields of architecture to raise an overall understanding of the architectural praxis in diverse international settings…
Engineering: It's actually all about people
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My parents often remind me of how I frequently caused a scene outside my brother’s kindergarten, during drop off and pick up times. I was too young to attend kindergarten and seemed oddly persistent about getting a head start on my ABCs and 123s. I…
From patient to nurse: how my experience made me a better caregiver
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I first became a UBC student in 2016 as I pursued a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Biology. In 2019, during my third year, I unexpectedly had to withdraw from my studies due to a hospitalization. What at first seemed like a four-year…
Self-engineering: finding purpose for myself and my career
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I’ve been at UBC for a long time! I completed my Bachelor of Applied Science degree at UBC (including a year of co-op) before going straight into the Master of Applied Science program. UBC has felt like a second home to me these past seven years and…
Bionik: Bringing a personal touch to the prosthetics industry
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Nik Provenzano is a graduating member of the inaugural cohort of the new School of Biomedical Engineering program at UBC. "It was the best option as the curriculum included traditional courses as well as hands-on studio, laboratory, and design…