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UBC Formula SAE Team Places 23rd out of 120 at Formula SAE MichiganFormula 2017 submitted by teamFor
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/7/27 1:18)
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Submitted by the UBC Formula SAE team.
In May, the Formula UBC Racing team participated in the Formula SAE Michigan competition. The team secured 23rd place overall out of 120 teams.
The design goals for the 2017 competing race car included a drastic weight reduction which lead to a full redesign of the car?s primary sub-systems. Changes included a smaller chassis and a switch from 13? to 10? wheels. An incredible 70 lbs was removed from the previous year?s design resulting in a final weight of 447 lbs (without the driver). An example of the weight-cutting technologies implemented to aid in this aggressive weight target was the development of carbon fiber suspension components, which required extensive physical testing to validate strength.
Formula SAE competitions are comprised of both static and dynamic events. The static events include the engineering design presentation, the business presentation, and the cost event, in which the team placed 18th, 65th, and 91st, res ...
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Patrick Pan wins Forest Products Society 2017 Wood Award First Place PrizeIMG_3474
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/7/26 5:14)
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Patrick Pan receives the 2017 Wood Award first place prize from Prof. David DeVallance, President of the Forest Products Society.
Patrick Pan, a Master of Applied Science student in the Renewable Resources Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was presented with the 2017 Wood Award first place prize by the Forest Products Society at their 71st Annual Convention in Starkville, Mississippi, which ran from June 26-28, 2017. The award, which includes a presentation plaque and a US$1000 cash prize, was given for Patrick’s paper “Wood Grain Direction Measurement From Spatial Reflection”. Patrick is the third student from the Renewable Resources Lab to win this prestigious award, or fourth if also counting his supervisor, Prof. Gary Schajer, who also won the award while a student in 1981.
Patrick comes from Huzhou, China. He completed his undergraduate study at Ningbo University, China, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. In his senior year, Patri ...
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Gary Yan earns third place in the Aviation 2017 Student Paper Competition in Computation Fluid Dynam
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/7/15 8:28)
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PhD candidate Gary Yan and his supervisor Carl Ollivier-Gooch recently received third place for their submission to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s Aviation 2017 Student Paper Competition in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the study and profession of aerospace.
Yan presented his paper at Aviation 2017, a forum that aims to bring the aviation industry together to address both present and future industry challenges and to act as a venue for researchers to present on aircraft design, air traffic management and operations, and aviation technologies among other subjects. Their paper, “Applications of the Unsteady Error Transport Equation on Unstructured Meshes” is a numerical study of using the error transport equation to obtain higher order accurate discretization error estimates and corrected solutions is performed for unsteady compressible flow.
You can read Yan and ...
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Smart Stimuli Responsive Surfaces: A Multifunctional MaterialMerida smart surfacesmerida smart surfa
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/7/8 6:57)
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New research by UBC?s Clean Energy Research Centre has made the cover of Wiley?s most recent issue of Advanced Materials Interfaces . The article, which was co-written by Beniamin Zahiri, Pradeep Kumar Sow, Chun Haow Kung and Walter Mérida, discusses fast and reversible control over surface wetting properties–from superhydrophobic (water-repellant) to superhydrophilic (water-attractive) using a small voltage that could be supplied by conventional batteries. The elegance of the approach lies in the simplicity, preciseness and reversibility of the wetting manipulation. The smart material offers the flexibility and versatility to be applied in a number of applications, such as self-cleaning surfaces, smart filtration and microfluidic devices.
In nature, there are three different types of surface interactions with water: self-cleaning (e.g. lotus leaf), high adhesiveness (e.g. gecko foot) and water absorbing (e.g. peat moss). Scientists have found that such v ...
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Newly formed UBC Rocket defeat MIT and McGillUBC Rocket
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/7/6 5:10)
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Competing in their first international competition, UBC Rocket hardly expected to take home a first place prize. One of 15 competing Canadian schools, UBC Rocket recently took part in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition which ran from June 20 to 24 in New Mexico, USA.
The flagship event of the Spaceport America Cup, the competition challenges teams to design and build rockets. Teams are judged based on rocket innovation and functionality, as well as flight performance and other criteria depending on the event category. UBC Rocket received first place for their performance in the ?10K ? All Propulsion Types? category, wherein teams compete to launch their rockets to exactly 10,000 feet. Using a solid propulsion system, UBC Rocket was able to control the launch of their rocket to 10,053 feet, earning them first place over 50 other teams.
Construction of the team?s rocket, named Cypress after our local Cypress Mountain, began just over a year ago. Despite ...
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Announcing TDPS?S 2017/2018 Season
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/7/1 4:38)
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Mark your calendar for next year’s shows! Tickets go on sale mid July.
PLAYHOUSE & STUDIO PRODUCTIONS
METAMORPHOSES
OCTOBER 13-22, 2017
By Mary Zimmerman // Directed by Chris Herold
Playhouse Production
Tales from Ovid come to magical life?in all their playful, passionate, savage, elemental glory?in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses . In this visually fantastic world where the human and the divine collide, such familiar figures as Poseidon, King Midas and Eurydice share universal stories of love, hope, loss, betrayal and transformation.
MECHANICS OF LOVE
NOVEMBER 16-19, 2017
By Dipika Guha // Directed by Christine Nicholson
Studio Production
A man who forgets everything falls in love with a ballerina who forgets nothing. Until, that is, she falls in love with him. And his wife. And the mechanic. Characters frolic through life in this pirouette of a play that questions how we love, who we choo ...
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James Olson inducted into Canadian Academy of EngineeringDSC_2349
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/6/27 8:18)
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Nominated and elected by peers, MECH professor and interim dean James Olson, PEng, was inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of his “distinguished achievement and career-long service to the engineering profession.”
Olson joined 49 other new fellows and two new international fellows who were welcomed by the CAE on June 26, 2017 at a ceremony in Ottawa, in conjunction with the CAE’s 2017 Annual General Meeting and Symposium. The CAE is an independent, self-governing and non-profit organization established in 1987 to serve Canada in matters of engineering concern.
Olson’s CAE citation reads as follows:
Dr. James Olson is a visionary leader, pioneering researcher, and inspiring educator who has made transformative contributions to the forest products sector of engineering. As a direct result of Dr. Olson?s innovative research and patented inventions, the pulp and paper industry can produce premium pulp using half the ...
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Antony Hodgson presented with the Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery at C
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/6/20 7:56)
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Dr. Antony Hodgson, Director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program and Professor in Mechanical Engineering, was awarded the highly reputable ?Medacta ME Muller Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery 2016-2017? at the CAOS 2017 conference. The conference ran from June 14-17, 2017 in Aachen, Germany.
The award recognizes a career long contribution to Computer Assisted Surgery, with achievements that have had a fundamental effect in advancing this research field.
Original story: UBC Biomedical Engineering
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APSC Rising Stars 2017: Rebecca McCreedy, BASc?17, MECH AlumnaOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/6/16 7:44)
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Applied Science Class of 2017
“Engineering is a team sport. It?s daunting and tough on your own, but when you have a group of people to tackle it with it gets a bit easier.”
My name is Rebecca McCreedy, I?m a graduating student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I was a fairly involved student in high school, so when I came to university, I looked for ways to get involved in the UBC Engineering community. In my first year, I joined Alpha Omega Epsilon (AOE), UBC?s Engineering Sorority. Throughout my degree, I went on to hold multiple positions within the sorority, including Social Coordinator, Publicity Rep, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and eventually President in my final year. In my second year, I became involved with the EUS, becoming a Publicity Rep, which I continued until my fourth year, and started volunteering with eng?cite at outreach events for high school girls. Over the next three years, my involvement with both the EU ...
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Pete Ostafichuk honoured with the national Wighton FellowshipPete July 2014 (med res)?CopyPete July
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/6/15 6:06)
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On June 6, 2017, Dr. Peter Ostafichuk was named the 32nd Wighton Fellow. Awarded by the the National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science (NCDEAS) and the Sandford Fleming Foundation, the Wighton Fellowship is a national award to recognize excellence in the development and teaching of laboratory-based courses in Canadian undergraduate engineering programs. Ostafichuk was nominated for this award due to his significant contributions in the development of the MECH 2 program, his continual involvement in the First Year Engineering program, and his innovative teaching style.
Since the award’s inception in 1987, Ostafichuk is the second UBC faculty member to receive this prestigious fellowship, with the first being the Department’s very own Professor Jon Mikkelsen, who received the award in 2005 in recognition of his work in redeveloping Mechanical Engineering’s laboratory program.
In addition to the honour of receiving this award, Ostafichuk will a ...
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