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Arbutus Medical receives $1 million to expand in Asia and AfricaArbutus-Medical
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/31 3:28)
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A social venture out of UBC has received $1-million investment from Grand Challenges Canada to pursue market expansion across Africa and India.
The venture, Arbutus Medical, was co-founded by MECH alumnus Florin Gheorghe and a group of UBC biomedical engineering graduates. Arbutus Medical makes a sterilizable Drill Cover system that allows the use of inexpensive hardware store drills in bone surgery. The Drill Cover has been used to treat more than 10,000 patients across 14 countries and has been listed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
?Surgical drills can cost up to $30,000 and are a significant investment for medical care providers in developing countries,? said Gheorghe. ?Our Drill Cover transforms an ordinary drill into one suitable for surgery, for a very low cost.?
Arbutus is one of six innovations recognized by Grand Challenges Canada for showing early promise for improving global health. It has previously received support from Coast Capital Savings Innovat ...
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UBC researchers develop painless and inexpensive microneedle to monitor drugsBS5964Stoeber lab micro
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/28 9:26)
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Dr. Stoeber with his microneedle patch. Photo credit: Martin Dee
Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Boris Stoeber, together with his PhD student Sahan Ranamukhaarachchi, researchers in UBC’s faculty of pharmaceutical sciences, and researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland, have created a microneedle drug monitoring system that could one day replace costly, invasive blood draws and improve patient comfort.
The new system consists of a small, thin patch that is pressed against a patient?s arm during medical treatment and measures drugs in their bloodstream painlessly without drawing any blood. The tiny needle-like projection, less than half a millimetre long, resembles a hollow cone and doesn?t pierce the skin like a standard hypodermic needle.
?Many groups are researching microneedle technology for painless vaccines and drug delivery,? said Ranamukhaarachchi, ?Using them to painlessly monitor drugs is a newer idea.?
Microneedles are designed to p ...
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Dr. Dana Grecov receives 2016 Peter Wall Research Award!Grecov8119
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/28 0:39)
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Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Dana Grecov on receiving a Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Wall Scholars Research Award for 2016!
Each year, the institute appoints up to twelve UBC scholars at various stages of their careers. They are individuals with excellent research records, who appreciate the possibilities of intellectual and interdisciplinary exchange with outstanding scholars in very different areas of research. This award is aimed at enhancing opportunities for scholars to have regular and meaningful exchange of ideas, serving as catalyst for new research advances and collaborations.
Dr. Grecov received her B.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University Politehnica in Bucharest and her Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. After a postdoctoral research fellow position at McGill University Montreal, she joined the University of British Columbia in 2005.
Her expertise is in biofluid mechanic ...
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UBC students win ASHRAE Design CompetitionASHRAE competition
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/27 3:54)
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A team of UBC MECH students, Samarth Joshi, Sylvia Odaya, Zander Brosky, Aubrey McNeil, Kathy Yang and Tammy Yu , won first place in this year’s American Association of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Design Calculations Competition, beating out 18 other teams from around the world.
The ASHRAE Design Calculations Competition is an international competition to prepare a complete Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system design for a complex building. Students are required to determine the heating and cooling loads of a building in a specific location–this year, Beijing China–and design the system used to heat, cool and ventilate the building. The submission package includes drawings, supporting calculations (by hand and with building modelling packages), and a report, all of which is evaluated by a panel of senior engineers for technical accuracy, innovation and presentation clarity.
The UBC team completed the design a ...
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UBC Engineering alumni develop software to create safe airspacesiris automation-rotatoriris automati
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/16 2:58)
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In October 2015, Mechanical Engineering alumnus James Howard (BASc ?15) and co-founder and CEO Alexander Harmsen (BASc ’15 Engineering Physics) launched their start up, Iris Automation, a company specializing in autonomous drone software that is going to revolutionize the drone industry and create immeasurable applications for creating safer skies in Canada and around the world.
Though they were in separate departments, the two started the UBC Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) design team years back when they discovered a common passion for robotics, artificial intelligence and aerospace applications that would drive them forward in their career aspirations. Both students boast impressive resumes: Howard was previously an engineer at Boeing, developing avionics systems for military drones, and was recently involved in building the first four satellites at Spire Global. In 2015, he won the National Mark Cuss Award for his contribution to robotics in Canada. Harmsen completed fli ...
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Dr. Elizabeth Croft inducted as CAE FellowCroft headshot
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/2 6:51)
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Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Elizabeth Croft has been inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of her distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession. The ceremony took place in Winnipeg, in conjunction with the Academy?s Annual General Meeting on June 27, 2016.
Election to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) is one of the highest professional honours accorded an engineer. Fellows have distinguished themselves in different sectors including business, academia and government and in different roles such as business management, executive management, technical and university faculty. Fellows of the CAE are nominated and elected by their peers (current CAE Fellows) to honorary fellowship in the Academy, in view of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession.
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Dr. Croft is an internationally respected figure in robotics, particularly rob ...
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Wie wir 2053 leben wollen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/7/2 0:36)
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Fraunhofer-Forscher haben im Projekt»Shaping Future« ein Vorgehensmodell entwickelt, mit dem Bürger ihre Ansprüche an Zukunftstechnologien beschreiben und mit Wissenschaftlern teilen können. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen: Die Menschen wünschen sich Technologien, die ihre geistige und körperliche Leistungskraft verbessern, die Privatsphäre schützen und Emotionen speichern und transportieren können.
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Prothesen für den Radsport optimal anpassen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/7/1 23:08)
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Im September 2016 treten körperlich beeinträchtigte Radsportler bei den Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro an. Um Bestleistungen zu erzielen, müssen die Prothesen der Radfahrer optimal ausgelegt sein. Bisher ist es schwierig, diese bestmöglich an den Bewegungsablauf beim Radfahren anzupassen. In einem neuen Bewegungslabor lassen sich die künstlichen Glieder mit Hilfe einer Testprothese schnell und präzise optimieren.
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Schnelltest identifiziert Krankheitserreger
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/7/1 17:34)
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Bakterien, Pilze oder Viren lassen sich heute in der Regel nur mit aufwendigen Labortests oder Tierversuchen sicher nachweisen. Die Lebensmittel- und Pharmaindustrie wünscht sich schnellere Tests, um ihre Produkte zu überprüfen. Fraunhofer-Forscher entwickeln deshalb einen Stick, der wie ein Schwangerschaftstest funktioniert und schnell ein Ergebnis liefert. Künftig sollen damit auch Allergene und Krankheitserreger im Blut nachgewiesen werden.
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IMechE President Visits UBC Mechanical EngineeringSAM_2941SAM_2940SAM_2944SAM_2946SAM_2948SAM_2954SA
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/7/1 9:09)
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On June 28, 2016, the Department of Mechanical Engineering received a visit from Jonathan Hilton, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). IMechE, the national Mechanical Engineering organization in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1847 by railway pioneer George Stephenson, and has over 110,000 members worldwide.
President Hilton’s background is in the automotive industry, notably in race car engineering and in regenerative energy harvesting, and thus he was particularly interested in seeing related activities at UBC. His visit started in the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory, where Prof. Yusuf Altintas showed examples of his award-winning research on high-speed, high-precision manufacturing techniques.
President Hilton and Prof. Altintas at the Manufacturing Automation Laboratory
President Hilton went on to see the high-performance engine research work at the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), hosted by graduate student Jeremy Rochussen.
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