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2016 Lab ToursDSC_5773
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/1/14 5:12)
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The Mechanical Engineering Department regularly hosts guided lab tours for high school students, first year students, incoming mechanical engineering students, or anyone interested in mechanical engineering. This year, we will be hosting tours on the following dates:
February 9, 2016 FULL
April 18, 2016 WAIT LIST
May 20, 2016
Come meet some of our current MECH students and get their perspective on the department and program as they show you around our facilities. See the cool gadgets our student teams are working on and learn about the many different areas in which a mechanical engineer can apply his or her knowledge. Get a look at the cutting-edge technology inside our labs and see the kinds of research mechanical engineers can do. It’s a great chance to find out what our department is all about and what you can do with a mechanical engineering degree from UBC!
For those interested, there will also be a half-hour long advising session held after the tour ...
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2016 Lab ToursDSC_5773
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/1/14 5:12)
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The Mechanical Engineering Department regularly hosts guided lab tours for high school students, first year students, incoming mechanical engineering students, or anyone interested in mechanical engineering. This year, we will be hosting tours on the following dates:
February 9, 2016
April 18, 2016
May 20, 2016
Come meet some of our current MECH students and get their perspective on the department and program as they show you around our facilities. See the cool gadgets our student teams are working on and learn about the many different areas in which a mechanical engineer can apply his or her knowledge. Get a look at the cutting-edge technology inside our labs and see the kinds of research mechanical engineers can do. It’s a great chance to find out what our department is all about and what you can do with a mechanical engineering degree from UBC!
For those interested, there will also be a half-hour long advising session held after the tour where participants ...
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?My Robocup Experience?: UBC Thunderbots on their trip to Hefei, ChinaThunderbots Robocup 2015
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2016/1/6 3:46)
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In July 2015, the UBC Thunderbots –a Mechanical Engineering student design team–traveled to Hefei, China to compete in the Robocup International Competition. The team is comprised of members from various disciplines and year levels, who work together to design and build autonomous soccer-playing robots. Mechanical Engineering student and Thunderbots team member Tiffany Tsu provides an account of the competition below.
My Robocup Experience – Hefei 2015
By Tiffany Tsu, 3rd year BASc MECH
This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel with UBC Thunderbots to Robocup 2015 in Hefei, China. I was extremely excited for this opportunity, as it was my first Robocup experience. During the months before Robocup, I was working on designing and manufacturing new shells for the robot. It was very rewarding to see all my hard work pay off during competition ? the new shells looked great and functioned very well during our matches. We played a total of four round ro ...
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Dengue-Fieber zuverlässig erkennen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 19:44)
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Tigermücken sind in Afrika und Asien heimisch. Sie breiten sich jedoch zunehmend auch im Mittelmeerraum aus?und mit ihnen das Virus des Dengue-Fiebers. Bislang gibt es keinen Antikörpertest, der dieses Virus zweifelsfrei erkennt. Forscher haben nun erstmals einen solchen Test entwickelt und schaffen eine Möglichkeit, Dengue kostengünstig und zuverlässig zu diagnostizieren.
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Werkzeuge für den Trinkwasserschutz
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 19:32)
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An die Qualität des Trinkwassers stellen wir hohe Anforderungen: Würden Krankheitserreger und Giftstoffe ins Leitungsnetz gelangen, könnten sie rasch viele Menschen infizieren und schädigen. Daher muss dieses Risiko gering gehalten werden. Experten haben Technologien für ein umfassendes Monitoring, Frühwarn- und Notfallmanagement-System entwickelt.
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Ferngelenkter Roboter untersucht Kofferbomben
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 18:03)
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Immer wieder werden an Flughäfen und Bahnhöfen herrenlose Gepäckstücke entdeckt. Ein Fall für die Sicherheitskräfte, die von mutmaßlichen Bomben ausgehen müssen. Es gilt, die potentielle Bedrohungslage schnell einzuschätzen, die möglichen Gefahren abzuwehren und Beweise für das Strafverfahren zu sichern. Ein ferngesteuertes Sensorensystem unterstützt die Polizei künftig bei ihren Einsätzen. Fraunhofer-Forscher entwickeln diese Sensor-Suite in Zusammenarbeit mit Industriepartnern und Kriminalämtern.
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Mit Antikörpern Tumore schnell erkennen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 18:02)
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Antikörper bekämpfen Viren und Bakterien. Sie heften sich auch an Krebszellen?in einer typischen, charakteristischen Weise. Fraunhofer-Wissenschaftler nutzen diese Eigenschaft, um Krebszellen in Gewebeproben nachzuweisen. Solche Schnelltests können Chirurgen bereits während der Operation anwenden?innerhalb weniger Minuten und ohne teures Gerät.
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Kosmische Gläser für die Weltraumforschung
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2016/1/4 18:01)
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Wie bildeten sich aus Gesteinspartikeln Asteroiden und Planeten? Dieser Frage
gehen Wissenschaftler der Universitäten Münster und Braunschweig in einem
Experiment nach. Fraunhofer-Forscher haben für den Versuch Kugeln aus
einem Spezialglas entwickelt. Sie bilden die Zusammensetzung der Gesteinspartikel
möglichst naturgetreu in kleinem Maßstab ab.
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Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis für effizientere Elektronik in Mobilfunknetzen
from Fraunhofer Presseinformationen
(2015/12/10 18:12)
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Professor Dr. Oliver Ambacher, Leiter des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Angewandte Festkörperphysik IAF, wurde auf den Innovation Days 2015 in Berlin mit dem Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis geehrt. Damit würdigte die Beckurts-Stiftung seinen Beitrag zur Entwicklung hocheffizienter Leistungsverstärker aus dem Halbleiter Galliumnitrid für moderne Mobilfunk-Basisstationen.
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December Alumnus Spotlight: Huan Dong, Class of?07
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2015/12/5 7:07)
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Huan Dong, Class of ?07, is currently a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He continually finds parallels between medicine and theater, and says that his theater training is helping him become a compassionate physician.
TDPS graduate. Kaiser Permanente Theater Program Educator. HIV Prevention teacher in Tanzania. Medical student. Not yet 30, Huan Dong has an impressive resume, and a career path that?s encompassed many disciplines and taken him to multiple countries. Through it all, his love of theater remains constant, as has his passion to find the career that best suits his talents.
Huan?s love of theater began in middle school and, despite his parents? reservations about pursuing theater in college, he continued to perform on stage and work backstage at UC Berkeley. He knew he wanted to double-major, and studying Theater and Performance Studies was an easy choice. The other major was harder to pin down. Says Huan, ?I have many different hobbie ...
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