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Dr. Yusuf Altintas named first Canadian president of CIRP!dsc_1921
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/9/14 2:30)
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Dr. Altintas with a student in his Manufacturing Automation Lab.
MECH Professor Yusuf Altintas, has been named the first Canadian president of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).
CIRP takes its abbreviated name from the French acronym of C ollege I nternational pour la R echerche en P roductique (CIRP) and is an organization that aims to promote scientific research through co-operation, as well as address issues related to modern production science and technology.
Dr. Altintas will act as the president from September 2016 to August 2017. Presidents of CIRP are elected annually in order to ensure continuous improvement and to reflect the changing needs of manufacturing science and technology.
Professor Altintas was also recently awarded the ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award and the NSERC Strategic Research Network in Virtual Machining Grant.
Congratulations Dr. Altintas!
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Student Blog Post:?UBC AeroDesign Flies Heavy in SAE Aero Design West Regular Class?aerodesign-compe
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/9/8 4:22)
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By Siddhant Malik, UBC AeroDesign
The UBC AeroDesign Team (formerly known as The UBC Heavy Lift Team) was founded twenty-three years ago at UBC to learn the process of aircraft design and develop competitive radio-controlled airplanes for collegiate competitions.
The team recently competed at the SAE Aero Design West Competition from April 22nd ? 24th in Van Nuys, California. The mission: to lift as much payload as possible in a 10?x4?x4? compartment, while consuming only 1000 Watts of power and taking off within 200 feet. The team placed 11th overall in the Regular Class Division against 37 international teams and was very proud to receive a 3rd place award from SAE and Lockheed Martin for the design report.
The competition plane, named North Star, featured a rear cargo hatch for loading and unloading the payload within one minute to meet SAE?s requirement. The team members also integrated 3D printed components into the plane which provided a tremendous amount of design flex ...
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Electronics Goes Green 2016
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/9/6 9:00)
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(6.9.2016 - 9.9.2016) From September 6-9, 2016 Fraunhofer IZM is hosting the international conference Electronics Goes Green 2016 in Berlin, for the fifth time after the years 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. The conference is the most important event on microelectronics and the environment worldwide and will provide experts from science, industry and politics with a forum to discuss state-of-the-art technologies and current political trends with regard to microelectronics and its impact on the environment.
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Dr. Peter Cripton teaches kids about helmets and brain healthIMG_2204IMG_2207
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/8/31 9:50)
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Dr. Peter Cripton and Biomedical Engineering student (and MECH alumnus) Cameron Stuart shared important information on helmets and brain health with kids in the inaugural Brain Booster Summer Camp earlier this month. The Brain Booster camp is one of many programs offered by the West Coast Centre for Learning, a multi-disciplinary education facility that brings together education professionals (like Dr. Cripton) and brain training coaches from the scientific and academic community to provide “customiz[ed,] successful learning approaches for children, youth, adults and older adults with learning difficulties and memory challenges affecting personal choice and equal access to quality educational opportunities.” *
Dr. Cripton and Cameron are pictured below with the kids at the camp, who are all sporting some very safe and stylish helmets!
For more information on the camp and the Centre, visit westcoastcentreforlearning.com
Information on Dr. Cripton’s lab and hi ...
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UBC MECH researchers plumb the secrets of tissue paperGreen Phani Tissue Paper (Clare Kiernan)
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/8/31 9:28)
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UBC mechanical engineering researchers Srikanth Phani, Kui Pan and Sheldon Green.
Canada?s tissue manufacturers are now much closer to producing the perfect paper, thanks to new UBC research.
A team working with UBC mechanical engineering professors Sheldon Green and Srikanth Phani have created what is likely the first complete mathematical model of creping, the crinkling process that helps make tissue paper soft and resilient.
?The new model provides a significantly better understanding of the dynamics of the creping process, allowing manufacturers to tailor the process to a greater degree than before,? said Green. ?It?s the most accurate model of creping to date.?
During tissue manufacture, pulp is dried on a chemical-coated rotating drum until it?s 95 per cent dry. It?s then pushed off at very high speeds by a sharp creping blade, creating hundreds of microscopic folds that give tissue its softness, flexibility, tearing resistance and strength.
?With our model ...
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TDPS?s 2016/17 Season of Playhouse&Studio Productions
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2016/8/25 5:55)
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TDPS 2016/17 Season
Playhouse and Studio Productions
TDPS?s 2016/17 season, our 75th, explores ways that individuals fight against the odds, against seemingly insurmountable forces and powers greater than themselves, and manage to survive. In our Playhouse and Studio Productions this year, we delve into stories of conflict, and also of connection?with others, with causes, with the physical world.
Our fall productions investigate two different facets of war: Heart of Spain follows volunteers heading off to the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to fight against fascism, while Reentry: The Process of Resilience , a physical theater work devised by choreographer Joe Goode, features stories of student veterans resuming their lives and relationships upon returning to civilian life. This spring, the battle in Polaroid Stories is on city streets, as homeless youth who are fighting to survive turn to myth, poetry and profanity to find meaning in their lives. Our other two spring shows, ...
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Sailbot arrives in NFLD, prepares for trans-Atlantic crossing2016 7 16 UBC Sailbot Sponsorship Appre
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/8/22 15:47)
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Ada during her last evening in Vancouver
After three years of hard work, the UBC Sailbot team is almost ready to send their boat across the Atlantic, in what will be the first ever trans-Atlantic journey by an autonomous sailboat. Named Ada, after Ada Lovelace, the five-metre vessel was completely designed and built by UBC students in Vancouver, where she underwent extensive testing before being shipped to Newfoundland. She is currently parked at the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, where the team is finishing the last bits of work of her before she sets out on her own for Ireland.
“[The boat] makes all of its decisions on its own,” student Cody Smith told CBC News in Newfoundland, “There’s no control, there’s no [remote control], we don’t follow behind it. We just say, ‘You’re here and you need to go here,’ and she’ll do the rest. She’ll take care of all the sailing.”
Although the journey has been attemp ...
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Lauernde Gefahr am Meeresgrund
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/4 20:34)
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Mehr als 1,6 Millionen Tonnen Munition lagern vor unseren Küsten, ein Relikt aus den Weltkriegen. Das Netzwerk Munitect sucht nach Lösungen zur Detektion dieser Gefahrenstoffe in Nord- und Ostsee. Die Koordination übernimmt das Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD.
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Neue Institutsleitung berufen: Dr. Peter Knott und Prof. Dirk Heberling leiten gemeinsam das Fraunho
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/1 22:55)
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Am 1. August 2016 traten Dr.-Ing. Peter Knott und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Heberling als Doppelspitze die Institutsleitung des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR an. Sie übernehmen das Amt von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Ender, der das Institut seit 2003 erfolgreich führte und nun in den Ruhestand verabschiedet wurde.
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Mensch, wie geht es dir?
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/8/1 22:24)
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Maschinenübernehmen immer mehr Aufgaben. Idealerweise sollten sie auch in der Lage sein, den Menschen bei Fehlverhalten zu unterstützen. Voraussetzung dafür ist, dass die Maschine versteht, wie es dem Menschen geht, der sie bedient. Fraunhofer-Forscher haben ein Diagnose-Verfahren entwickelt, das Nutzerzustände in Echtzeit erkennt und den Maschinen mitteilt.
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