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From admiring a hydroelectric dam at the age of 10, to becoming an electrical engineer
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I am an M.Eng student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at UBC’s Vancouver campus. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from India and joined UBC in September 2019, to add another feather to my cap.
Living the unexpected!
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My name is Sarah, I am from Yemen, and I have lived in four different countries including Canada for parts of my life. However, I did not find a warm-welcoming community as I did in Kelowna and UBCO. I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical and…
Diversity is key: a tale of dentistry and machine learning
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In short, I’m a machine learning scientist, software engineer, entrepreneur/co-founder, and CTO, who used to be a Dentist! I’m all and none of the above, but a mere traveller from a kingdom far away, who seeks meaning in the butterfly effects of his…
Bridging materials and medicine: grasping the importance of interdisciplinarity
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My name is Betty and I am a graduating student in the UBC Materials Engineering program. My path to university began in 2015 when I entered the University Transition Program, an accelerated program at UBC that condenses five years of high school…
Let's be friends with fire
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Hi there! I am Sajjad, a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering working on Combustion. I was born and raised in Shabestar, an incredibly scenic and peaceful city in Iran. I moved to Tehran to study B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Amirkabir University of…
Sustainable civil engineering from a global perspective
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I am an Engineering researcher that is always interested in construction technologies, and that is why I have my major in construction management from Bachelor to PhD degrees. I am always excited to see the construction progress, as there are new…
Combining logic, teamwork, and empathy in computer engineering
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My name is Shaylin, and I’ve lived in Vancouver for seventeen years. I grew up loving math, logic puzzles, and mystery novels — anything that challenged my problem-solving skills!
Design as a holistic process: the object, the building, the landscape
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My name is Grace Morazzani Diaz and I am from Caracas, Venezuela. I hold a bachelor degree in architecture from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas Venezuela and a postgraduate degree in product development from ELISAVA Escuela Universitaria de…
An IGEN degree, under the microscope
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In 2017 I moved to Vancouver from Thunder Bay, Ontario to begin my B.A.Sc. in Engineering at UBC. After completing first year, I knew that I wanted to pursue a multidisciplinary degree with a considerable design project component. As such, I decided…
From oil and gasoline to thinking clean
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My name is Carlie Owen. I am from the United States, where I completed my undergraduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida. I began my career in downstream oil and gas, first as a Sales Engineer and then…