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IROS2018 Best Paper Award Finalist
from Nakamura&Yamamoto Lab
(2018/10/5 9:37)
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Mr. Takuya Ohashi presented his work on VMocap in IROS2018 . His paper has been selected as a finalist of the best paper award.
Takuya Ohashi, Yosuke Ikegami, Kazuki Yamamoto, Wataru Takano and Yoshihiko Nakamura, ?Video Motion Capture from the Part Confidence Maps of Multi-Camera Images by Spatiotemporal Filtering Using the Human Skeletal Model,? in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018.
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Call for Applications: MDDC Awards for Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Student Design&Innovatio
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/28 6:49)
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The MDDC Medical Device Development Centre of British Columbia (?the MDDC?) is pleased to announce the renewed endowment of $10,000 to the MDDC Student Awards to encourage and recognize student innovators in technologies relating to medicine and health care, including medical devices, systems, software, apps and assistive technologies.
The three awards are:
Principal Award ($5,000)
Award of Distinction ($2,500)
Innovation Award ($2,500)
The competition is open to individuals or teams made up of undergraduate, graduate students including medical interns or residents, enrolled in engineering, technology, or medical related programs at BC post-secondary institutions.
Important dates:
Award applications deadline midnight Sunday March 17, 2019
Finalists will be notified on or before April 8th, 2019
Finalists will demonstrate their project/prototypes on April 27th 2019
Information related to applying and terms and conditions is available at www.mddc.org/awards
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Engineering Database Training Day?September 25, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/25 0:44)
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UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering
2360 East Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3
Please join us for a day of expert training on some of Elsevier?s most important Engineering and Science related databases. All training sessions will be held in Chemical and Biological Engineering building. Room details are listed as follows. RSVP: Please click the hyperlinks below to register. Light refreshments will be provided.
Time
Topic
Room
10:00am – 10:50am
Compendex (Ei Village)
CHBE 202
11:00am – 11:50am
Knovel
CHBE 202
11:00am – 11:50am
Compendex (Ei Village)
CHBE 204
2:00pm – 2:50pm
Knovel
CHBE 202
Compendex (Engineering Village) is the broadest and most complete Engineering literature database available. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 Engineering disciplines. Compende ...
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Call for Nominations: The 2019 Two-Year Worldwide IBM PhD Fellowship?Deadline: October 15, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/22 5:54)
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The IBM PhD Fellowship Program supports PhD students undertaking research in the following areas:
AI / Cognitive Computing
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Core Technologies
Data Science / Big Data / Analytics
Internet of things
Quantum Computing
Security
The fellowship provides a stipend for two academic years, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. Fellowship awardees are matched with an IBM mentor according to their technical interests and are encouraged to participate in an internship at least once while completing their studies.
Eligibility Criteria : Students should have three years remaining in their graduate program at the time of nomination. For example, nominees that are enrolled in a four year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer 2019 in order to benefit the most. Non-US Citizens who wish to participate in an internship in the US must obtain work authorization under the specifics of their visa. Students from US embargo ...
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Dr. Indira Samarasekera: Of Serendipity Steel and (Not Only Mechanical) Engineering?September 20, 20
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/20 7:41)
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Senior Scholars’ Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
OF SERENDIPITY, STEEL AND (NOT ONLY MECHANICAL) ENGINEERING
Indira Samarasekera , Metals and Materials Engineering; 12th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Alberta (2005-2015)
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Thursday, September 20, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow
Indira Samarasekera?s journey from the Island of Serendip, now known as Sri Lanka, to an exciting career of discovery and application in steel processing, was marked by moments of genuine serendipity. One of a dozen female engineers from the University of Ceylon in 1974, she spent two years doing materials research at the University of California. Following a Masters degree, she came to UBC and stumbled into an opportunity to do mathematical modelling of steel processing at a time when large-scale computing was just becoming a reality. Her research had a significant impact on the steel industry worldwide and was accompanied b ...
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Call for Nominations: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award?Deadline: September 26, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/20 2:07)
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) established the Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in computer science and engineering. The award is presented each June at the ACM Awards Banquet and is accompanied by a prize of $20,000 plus travel expenses to the banquet. All winning dissertations are published exclusively in print and electronic formats as part of the ACM Books Series, which includes distribution through the ACM Digital Library. Honorable Mention(s) may also be awarded, with a prize of $10,000 shared among recipients. Financial sponsorship of the award is provided by Google.
The nominated dissertation must have been successfully defended (not necessarily submitted) between October 2017 through (and including) September 2018. Only a PhD student?s supervisor may nominate a dissertation. Student’s thesis advisor should submit a draft of the nomination statement (200-300 words in lengt ...
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Call for Applications: Google PhD Fellowship?Deadline: November 9, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/20 0:58)
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Google PhD Fellowships support graduate students as they pursue their PhD in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas. The fellowship provides tuition, fees and a stipend for two years, with possible extension for a third year. Recipients are also matched with a Google Research Mentor.
Application deadline : 4:00pm Friday, 9 November 2018
Further information, including eligibility and application procedures: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/google-phd-fellowship
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Call for Applications: IODE War Memorial Scholarships?Deadline: October 1, 2018
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/18 1:30)
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The IODE War Memorial Scholarships support PhD scholars whose research makes important contributions to Canada and the world. Up to three scholarships of $20,000 for study in Canada or for study within the Commonwealth will be awarded for the 2019-2020 academic year. Applicants are judged on academic attainments and promise as well as personal character and career goals.
Eligibility : Applicants must be Canadian citizens, hold a first degree from a Canadian university, and be enrolled in at least the second year of their doctoral program.
Deadlines :
Letter of Intent by 01 October 2018
Complete application by 15 November 2018
Application Procedures : Please submit all correspondence and supporting documents on or before the specified deadline dates to the IODE War Memorial Officer. For current application forms and instructions, please visit: http://www.iode.ca/iode-war-memorial-scholarship-current-application.html .
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APSC Prof Named Fellow of Royal Society of CanadaOxlandCropped_FeatureOxlandCropped
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/14 7:59)
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Thomas Oxland , PEng, a professor in UBC’s Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics and co-director of the UBC Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canada?s highest honour for artists, scholars and scientists.
Recognized by the RSC for his ?seminal research work? in the field of musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, Oxland has played an instrumental role in advancing orthopaedic engineering at UBC and Vancouver General Hospital over the past two decades. In addition to serving as founding director of UBC and VGH’s former Division of Orthopaedic Engineering Research, which operated from 1997 to 2009, he was heavily involved in the establishment of both the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility and the International Collaboration for Repair Discoveries (ICORD) research centre, where he is a principal investigator and associate director of preclinical discovery research.
Oxland hold ...
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Could a DIY ultrasound be in your future? UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machineOLYM
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2018/9/14 7:45)
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Photo Credit: Clare Kiernan
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their patent-pending innovation?no bigger than a Band-Aid?is portable, wearable and can be powered by a smartphone.
Conventional ultrasound scanners use piezoelectric crystals to create images of the inside of the body and send them to a computer to create sonograms. Researchers replaced the piezoelectric crystals with tiny vibrating drums made of polymer resin, called polyCMUTs (polymer capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducers), which are cheaper to manufacture.
?Transducer drums have typically been made out of rigid silicon materials that require costly, environment-controlled manufacturing processes, and this has hampered their use in ultrasound,? said study lead author Carlos Gerardo, a PhD candidate in electrical and computer engineering at UBC. ?By ...
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