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MECH Alumni Bring Sustainable Carsharing Alternatives to UBCD80_1417
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/9/27 6:41)
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Veemos are coming to UBC! An enclosed, electric-assisted, human-powered bicycle that aims to replace automobiles on campus, Veemos are an innovative way to travel sustainably. VeloMetro is launching a Veemo pilot fleet on the UBC campus in fall of 2017.
Mechanical Engineering is proud to recognize two of VeloMetro?s founders as graduates.
Kody Baker, CEO and co-founder, completed his BASc in Mechanical Engineering in 2001. Kody is an experienced technology manager and entrepreneur with a strong vision for technology trends. With a broad range of deep experience in engineering, project management, and manufacturing within several cleantech and high-tech companies, he has brought products to market such as electric vehicles, biomass energy systems, and process control systems. Kody is also a certified professional engineer.
Jonathan Faille, CTO and co-founder received his MENG in Mechanical Engineering in 2012. His degree centered on mechatronics; the marriage of mechanical ...
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Take TDPS?s Social Media Survey and Enter to Win a $25 Amazon Giftcard
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/9/23 8:35)
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TDPS wants to hear your thoughts about social media. Take our Social Media Survey and enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card! This survey is designed to help us expand the reach of our social media accounts and make sure we’re engaging in ways that you would like to see. By taking it, you’ll help us better showcase the amazing work of our department, students, alumni, and faculty.
Click the link below to take the survey and be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card:
CLICK TO TAKE THE TDPS SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEY
But wait, there are two more ways to win!
Visit TDPS’s new Instagram account and like this post PLUS follow our Instagram page (must do both!)
Visit TDPS’s Facebook page and look for the post about the social media (photo of a parachuter) PLUS like our Facebook page (must do both!)
Rules:
All participants who complete the survey or like us on Facebook/Instagram by noon on September 29 will be entered to win. The winner of ...
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Student Group Funding Applications Now Open!
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/9/21 8:27)
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The Mechanical Engineering Department is now accepting student group funding applications. To download the application package, click here . The application deadline is October 10th at 11:59pm.
Please note that groups/teams must submit both an electronic and a hard copy to the MECH Student Services Office (CEME 2205). Late applications will not be accepted; however, hard copies will be accepted after the deadline so long as the electronic copies are sent to students@mech.ubc.ca on time.
To submit an application or if you have any questions, contact MECH Student Services at students@mech.ubc.ca .
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Glenn Jolly receives 2017 President?s Staff AwardJolly headshot
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2017/9/12 7:54)
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We are excited to announce that Glenn Jolly, Technician and Electronics Shop Supervisor, has been named a 2017 recipient of the President’s Staff Award!
This award recognizes the personal achievements and contributions that our staff make to UBC, and to the vision and goals of the university.
Glenn?s practical electronic and technical knowledge, and his every-day mentorship and advice to colleagues, undergraduate and graduate students alike, has had a transformative influence on the department.
Glenn is the unsung hero behind many undergraduate laboratories, graduate research projects, and in the delivery of outstanding education programs. His genuine passion for his work has created an outstanding learning experience of countless undergraduate student and graduate students in Mechanical Engineering.
Glenn regularly contributes to technical content in undergraduate curriculum and has had a hand in instrumentation aspects of most of the custom-built teaching lab apparatu ...
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On TDPS?S 2017-18 Playhouse + Studio Productions
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/9/7 2:56)
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Peter Glazer + Philip Kan Gotanda, TDPS Production Committee Co-Chairs
TDPS?s 2017-2018 season celebrates provocative theatricality, rich language, and unconventional storytelling. The Playhouse and Studio productions this year are works inspired by dreams, myths, and the elusive natures of love and humanity. Works that approach the theatrical idiom with energy and innovation. Works that open themselves to stylistic innovation, humor, and flights of fancy. Works that allow for a breadth of diversity and inclusion in casting. Works that will provide an expansive palette for our actors, designers, and technicians. These are works with big visions and big ideas.
In October, you will see Metamorphoses , by renowned playwright-director auteur Mary Zimmerman. This adaptation of Ovid?s classic myths, directed by TDPS?s own Christopher Herold (who has been interested in directing this piece for years), is an ensemble piece that features a large cast. The show? ...
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UC BERKELEY BRINGS OVID?S MYTHS TO MAGICAL LIFE IN MARY ZIMMERMAN?S?METAMORPHOSES?
from UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
(2017/9/1 5:52)
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Berkeley, CA – October 2017 – UC Berkeley?s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) opens its 2017-18 season with Mary Zimmerman?s Metamorphoses , a visually stunning rendering of Ovid?s mythical tales. Directed by TDPS lecturer and alumnus Christopher Herold, this poetic, modernized adaptation runs October 13-22 at Zellerbach Playhouse on the UC Berkeley Campus. Tickets are $13 to $20 and can be purchased online through the TDPS box office ( tdps.berkeley.edu/events/metamorphoses/ ) or at the door.
In Mary Zimmerman?s Tony Award nominated play, Metamorphoses , the classical tales of Ovid come to magical life in all their playful, passionate, savage, elemental glory . In a visually fantastic world ?set in and around a pool of water? the human and the divine collide, and such familiar figures as Poseidon, King Midas and Eurydice share universal stories of love, hope, death, betrayal and transformation. Beneath clouds and ...
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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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