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Call For Applications: Fulbright Awards Competitions?Deadline: November 15, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/10/6 7:33)
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Traditional Fulbright Canada Student Awards
Traditional Fulbright Canada Student awards are intended for Canadian citizens who are graduate students, prospective graduate students, or promising young professionals who wish to study and/or conduct research in the United States. Awards may be held at any university, research centre, think tank, or government agency in the United States.
Canadian students can take up the award in one of three ways:
Formal enrolment awards are intended for students who plan to enroll in a graduate program at an American university. The student must seek admission at the same time as they apply for a Fulbright award. The Traditional Fulbright Canada award would support the first nine months of the student?s graduate degree.
Research awards are intended for students enrolled in a graduate program at a Canadian university, and who wish to conduct research in the United States that will support their Canadian degree. The Traditional Fulbright Canada ...
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TDPS presents 70 Scenes of Halloween, a sly, surreal comedy by Jeffrey M Jones, October 11-14, 2018
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2018/10/5 20:23)
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Berkeley, CA – September 2018 – UC Berkeley?s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) opens its 2018-19 season with 70 Scenes of Halloween , a spooky, scrambled, and sly comedy that transforms the unraveling of a marriage into a frighteningly funny and fantastical romp. Written by experimental playwright Jeffrey M Jones, this fast-moving scuffle will be presented in an intimate configuration on the Zellerbach Playhouse stage on the UC Berkeley campus. Directed by Christopher Herold, 70 Scenes of Halloween runs October 11-14. Tickets are $13 to $20 and can be purchased online through the TDPS box office ( http://tdps.berkeley.edu/events/70-scenes-of-halloween/ ) or at the door.
The play reveals a young married couple, Jeff and Joan, who seem set to spend Halloween on their couch in a state of mild antagonism and mutual boredom. But as time fragments and reassembles, dark forces emerge and they must contend with ghosts ...
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IROS2018 Best Paper Award Finalist
from Nakamura&Yamamoto Lab
(2018/10/5 9:37)
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Mr. Takuya Ohashi presented his work on VMocap in IROS2018 . His paper has been selected as a finalist of the best paper award.
Takuya Ohashi, Yosuke Ikegami, Kazuki Yamamoto, Wataru Takano and Yoshihiko Nakamura, ?Video Motion Capture from the Part Confidence Maps of Multi-Camera Images by Spatiotemporal Filtering Using the Human Skeletal Model,? in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018.
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Call for Applications: MDDC Awards for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Student Design&Innovatio
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/28 6:49)
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The MDDC Medical Device Development Centre of British Columbia (?the MDDC?) is pleased to announce the renewed endowment of $10,000 to the MDDC Student Awards to encourage and recognize student innovators in technologies relating to medicine and health care, including medical devices, systems, software, apps and assistive technologies.
The three awards are:
Principal Award ($5,000)
Award of Distinction ($2,500)
Innovation Award ($2,500)
The competition is open to individuals or teams made up of undergraduate, graduate students including medical interns or residents, enrolled in engineering, technology, or medical related programs at BC post-secondary institutions.
Important dates:
Award applications deadline midnight Sunday March 17, 2019
Finalists will be notified on or before April 8th, 2019
Finalists will demonstrate their project/prototypes on April 27th 2019
Information related to applying and terms and conditions is available at www.mddc.org/awards
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Engineering Database Training Day?September 25, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/25 0:44)
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UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering
2360 East Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3
Please join us for a day of expert training on some of Elsevier?s most important Engineering and Science related databases. All training sessions will be held in Chemical and Biological Engineering building. Room details are listed as follows. RSVP: Please click the hyperlinks below to register. Light refreshments will be provided.
Time
Topic
Room
10:00am – 10:50am
Compendex (Ei Village)
CHBE 202
11:00am – 11:50am
Knovel
CHBE 202
11:00am – 11:50am
Compendex (Ei Village)
CHBE 204
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Knovel
CHBE 202
Compendex (Engineering Village) is the broadest and most complete Engineering literature database available. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 Engineering disciplines. Compende ...
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Call for Nominations: The 2019 Two-Year Worldwide IBM PhD Fellowship?Deadline: October 15, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/22 5:54)
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The IBM PhD Fellowship Program supports PhD students undertaking research in the following areas:
AI / Cognitive Computing
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Core Technologies
Data Science / Big Data / Analytics
Internet of things
Quantum Computing
Security
The fellowship provides a stipend for two academic years, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. Fellowship awardees are matched with an IBM mentor according to their technical interests and are encouraged to participate in an internship at least once while completing their studies.
Eligibility Criteria : Students should have three years remaining in their graduate program at the time of nomination. For example, nominees that are enrolled in a four year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer 2019 in order to benefit the most. Non-US Citizens who wish to participate in an internship in the US must obtain work authorization under the specifics of their visa. Students from US embargo ...
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Dr. Indira Samarasekera: Of Serendipity Steel and (Not Only Mechanical) Engineering?September 20, 20
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/20 7:41)
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Senior Scholars’ Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
OF SERENDIPITY, STEEL AND (NOT ONLY MECHANICAL) ENGINEERING
Indira Samarasekera , Metals and Materials Engineering; 12th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Alberta (2005-2015)
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Thursday, September 20, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow
Indira Samarasekera?s journey from the Island of Serendip, now known as Sri Lanka, to an exciting career of discovery and application in steel processing, was marked by moments of genuine serendipity. One of a dozen female engineers from the University of Ceylon in 1974, she spent two years doing materials research at the University of California. Following a Masters degree, she came to UBC and stumbled into an opportunity to do mathematical modelling of steel processing at a time when large-scale computing was just becoming a reality. Her research had a significant impact on the steel industry worldwide and was accompanied b ...
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Call for Nominations: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award?Deadline: September 26, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/20 2:07)
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) established the Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in computer science and engineering. The award is presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet and is accompanied by a prize of $20,000 plus travel expenses to the banquet. All winning dissertations are published exclusively in print and electronic formats as part of the ACM Books Series, which includes distribution through the ACM Digital Library. Honorable Mention(s) may also be awarded, with a prize of $10,000 shared among recipients. Financial sponsorship of the award is provided by Google.
The nominated dissertation must have been successfully defended (not necessarily submitted) between October 2017 through (and including) September 2018. Only a PhD student?s supervisor may nominate a dissertation. Student’s thesis advisor should submit a draft of the nomination statement (200-300 words in lengt ...
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Call for Applications: Google PhD Fellowship?Deadline: November 9, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/20 0:58)
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Google PhD Fellowships support graduate students as they pursue their PhD in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas. The fellowship provides tuition, fees and a stipend for two years, with possible extension for a third year. Recipients are also matched with a Google Research Mentor.
Application deadline : 4:00pm Friday, 9 November 2018
Further information, including eligibility and application procedures: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/google-phd-fellowship
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Call for Applications: IODE War Memorial Scholarships?Deadline: October 1, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/18 1:30)
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The IODE War Memorial Scholarships support PhD scholars whose research makes important contributions to Canada and the world. Up to three scholarships of $20,000 for study in Canada or for study within the Commonwealth will be awarded for the 2019-2020 academic year. Applicants are judged on academic attainments and promise as well as personal character and career goals.
Eligibility : Applicants must be Canadian citizens, hold a first degree from a Canadian university, and be enrolled in at least the second year of their doctoral program.
Deadlines :
Letter of Intent by 01 October 2018
Complete application by 15 November 2018
Application Procedures : Please submit all correspondence and supporting documents on or before the specified deadline dates to the IODE War Memorial Officer. For current application forms and instructions, please visit: http://www.iode.ca/iode-war-memorial-scholarship-current-application.html .
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