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Call for Applications: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships?Deadline: September 1, 2022
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/7/7 4:12)
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Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields. Canadian citizens, permanent residents […]
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Call for Applications: Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize In Environmental Sustainability?Deadline: July 1
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/7/6 7:33)
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Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize In Environmental Sustainability A $3,850 prize has been made available through an endowment established by UBC faculty member Dr. Rashid Sumaila upon being named the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate for a Master?s or Ph.D. student whose peer-reviewed publications to date are expected to have the most significant impact on the field of environmental sustainability. […]
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Call for Applications: Google PhD Fellowship?Deadline: Aug 5, 2022
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/7/6 3:23)
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Google PhD Fellowship The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding PhD graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science and related fields. The fellowship provides full tuition and fees (enrollment fees, health insurance, books) plus a stipend to be used for living expenses, travel and personal equipment for up to three years. […]
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Dr. Amanda Giang appears on Microplastics Podcast
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/6/28 3:31)
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Mechanical Engineering and IRES faculty member Dr. Amanda Giang is a guest on the Microplastics Podcast by UBC?s Cluster for Microplastics, Health and the Environment. In episode 3, she and Dr. Rashid Sumaila of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries discuss how interdisciplinary research is a necessity for informed policy making and how current […]
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MECH Researchers recieve Stair Grant for interdisciplinary projects
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/6/16 7:26)
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Interdisciplinary projects by UBC Mechanical Engineering Associate Professors Dr. Hongshen Ma and Dr. Gwynn Elfring have each received Stair Grants from UBC Science. The Stair Grants are designed to promote research collaborations between faculty from UBC Science with those of other disciplines, awarding pairs of researchers who have never previously worked together with an initial […]
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Info Session: CIHR 2022 Info Session for Trainees in Health Research?June 16, 2022
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/6/16 5:12)
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CIHR 2022 Info Session for Trainees in Health Research CIHR will be offering a series of MS Teams live events to trainees and institution staff regarding award programs that are offered. CIHR will provide an overview about relevant policies, tips for applicants, guidelines on how to submit an application, and other relevant information. A device […]
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APSC Rising Star?Josh Heieis: Rocketing my way through mechanical engineering
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/6/15 7:07)
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Rocketing my way through mechanical engineering “Your degree is what you make it – take advantage of everything you can do to make it your own.” Josh Heieis Degree: Bachelor of Applied Science Grad year: 2022 Program: Mechanical Engineering Campus: Vancouver Hi! I?m Josh, and I?m graduating this year from Mechanical Engineering specializing in Thermofluids, with a minor in Physics. I […]
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Call for Applications: Martha Salcudean Prize in Mechanical Engineering?Deadline: July 31, 2022
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2022/6/14 4:46)
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Martha Salcudean Prize in Mechanical Engineering Prizes totaling $1,000 have been made available annually by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in memory of Professor Martha Salcudean (FRSC, OC, OBC) (1934-2019) for outstanding Ph.D. students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who have written a strong doctoral dissertation. Professor Salcudean was born in Romania, and was […]
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PhD defence of Evangelia Baka
from MIRALab
(2022/6/9 19:49)
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Eva Baka, PhD student at MIRALab and at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva, has passed her oral PhD defense on June 9, 2022. She has obtained a PhD in Sciences, mention Interdisciplinary under the supervision of Prof Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Prof Jose Rolim.
The Jury was composed of Prof. Yiyu CAI, NTU, Singapore and Prof. George Papagiannakis, University of Crete, Greece
Summary of the thesis::
Our everyday life includes more than one social interaction, which are based mainly on human communication. The latter consists of human emotional and behavioural information, expressed by voice, facial expressions or body movements. However, a social interaction is not limited between humans and thus, Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interactions (HRI) are meeting their golden point of research. The multidisciplinary area of computer graphics, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence is trying to explore, decipher, decode and model the human emot ...
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NEW PROJECT / Intelligent Digital Surgeon (IDS)
from MIRALab
(2022/6/3 0:28)
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This project aims to design and model a 3D digital surgeon in the existing ORamaVR?s MAGES SDK platform to guide trainees in virtual surgery.
About the project
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