Topics: Women in Engineering

Engineering: A Career Path That Powers Possibilities

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Job: Associate, McKinsey & CompanyTell us about your job.I’m in a very non-traditional job for engineers at the moment, working as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. 

Texting while walking puts pedestrians in danger: UBC engineering study

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New UBC engineering research analyzed actual pedestrian interactions with vehicles on busy streets and concluded that distracted pedestrians face higher safety risks compared with undistracted road users.

Mentorship: e@UBC's Chang Han puts his heart into in BC startups like CanDry

BC Business | | Media coverage

ECE alumna Maddie Aliasl and CHBE alumnus Hamid Rezaei were recognized for their statup company, CanDry Technologies.

Faculty Insight: Dr. Kiana Amini on pioneering electrochemical solutions

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MTRL Assistant Professor Dr. Kiana Amini discusses her research developing electrochemical systems aimed at advancing clean energy and promoting environmental sustainability.

Players get ‘sleepy’ brainwaves after soccer headers, UBC study finds

Global News | | Media coverage

Dr. Lyndia Wu's research revealed that impacts from heading a ball slows brain activity and produce brain waves associated with sleep and drowsiness.

A rare brief flowering of the enormous smelly corpse plant

BBC | | Media coverage

A 2023 study co-authored by CHBE Associate Professor Dr. Jane Hill studied how the volatile organic compounds emitted by corpse plant change through flowering. 

Adding equity to environmental models, with Amanda Giang

Resources Magazine | | Media coverage

MECH's Dr. Amanda Giang discusses considering equity in computational models of systems that are at the interface of people and the environment.

CFI JELF funds five Applied Science-affiliated projects

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Projects led by UBC Engineering's Drs. Kiana Amini, Dominic Liao-Mcpherson, Alexandra Tavasoli and Kefei Wen received funding through the CFI JELF competition.

UBC cleantech startup Fibernx recognized in BC and Alberta for carbon fibre innovation

Techcouver | | Media coverage

UBC Materials Engineering Assistant Professor Dr. Yasmine Abdin was recognized for their carbon fibre innovation at startup Fibernx Technologies.

Will you be in the carbon capture ‘kill zone’?

National Observer | | Media coverage

MECH Assistant Professor Dr. Alex Tavasoli discussed the safety of carbon dioxide pipeline infrastructure.

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